[quote]How can anybody start with a class 45 planet ?[/quote] The AP map editor can create planets of any arbitrary base class. I know first hand that Gal Civ can deal with planets as high as class 1328. I'm planning to creating a scenerio where every major race starts with a class 300 planet, just to see what kind of insanity results. ~SDC~
[quote]Trade routes 'expire'... Humm strange, very strange. Doesn't sound right to me[/quote] They shouldn't. This is a bug, and has been reported before. The duration of the route is simply how long it should take for the route to run from one planet to another and back (assuming no speed increasing starbases). ~SDC~ [Message Edited]
[quote]and you buy old sets from garage sales to get more houses and hotels.[/quote] Incidentally, not having enough houses and hotels in the game box was intentional. You're not supposed to be able to build up every property. ~SDC~
[quote]A question, why is the trade route limit capped at 10, when it is theoretically possible to get more, by begin good. choosing, the trade route ability, and UP issues relating to trade routes? [/quote] It was a gameplay issue, IIRC. If you run this in a different direction it does still have a use. UP Issues that create trade routes won't appear after the Terrans have 10 trade routes, so if you rush for the trade techs and get no more than one UPIssue on the way, you can
Political parties are limited to 18, and have to be sequential. If there are any gaps, things break. Starbase Mods: the limit is defined by the module number of the BOOKEND module, and once again again they have to be sequential in order. Gaps make the later moduless unbuildable. There is no known absolute maximum. Improvements: no known limit, but after a certain point the array will start to overwrite other data. There are not currently enough improvements, even with all
[quote]Also the 'team' option makes the ai look very very artificial and dumb. There's no way an intelligent player wouldn't share all his techs with his teammate.[/quote] Actually, I can see one reason: if you need bonuses from Wonders and don't want your ally to get them first. For the most part, though, you have a point. [quote]I still have to understand how I can restart a mission which I have failed. [/quote] It automatically restarts the failed mission, but you
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[quote]How do you set a races alignment back to it's intended alignment after you have played a game where you have changed it? I haven't seen a default option or a button anywhere to set it back to it's default.[/quote] Deleting the prefs.ini file will set all races to Pure Good in AP or to their defaults in GC. In AP, to get the default alignments, make a scenerio in the editor that doesn't change anything. The scenerio editor uses the races' proper alignments as defaults in
[quote]I never considered modding yet but now since I was a bit annoyed that the AI would still spend money into research, that nothing is left, I tried to make new techs... Tried? No, it worked at once! With the same savegame! Made some techs and they started reserching them just like I wanted them to do![/quote] This usually only works with an existing game if they have a lower number than any already existing techs, and techs lower than 700 should probably be considered off-li
[quote]Do you still have the save game and the mods so that I could try reproducing it from the save game?[/quote] I still have the mods, but I do not have the save game anymore. Didn't think to copy it before trying to reproduce the crash. ~SDC~
[quote] it's clearly just not working, at least at Masochistic.[/quote] At Maso the AI does get a boost to Loyalty (something around +60%, I think) that makes cultural domination slower. At Normal difficulty, a three hundred point difference in influence is more than enough to start defections, it just takes some time. ~SDC~
[quote]This application has failed to start because d3d9.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.[/quote] That is part of DirectX9, not GalCiv. ~SDC~
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[quote]Does Stardock Central use the archive bit? I created a zip file from the folder to copy it to my game computer (I don't play on this one). Can this confuse Stardock Central? [/quote] Shouldn't make a difference. And incidentally, if you have access to a CD writer (or a network connection between the two computers), the preferred method of transferring Stardock programs to another computer is to archive the host computer's copies, burn the SDC installer and the archive to
There aren't any. This appears to be a server fluke. (B.U.G.S was supposedly updated, and it's dead. Never came out of beta.) ~SDC~
[quote]1. A new independent race appears in sector that I have like 1800 influence. It has like 5. I goes on happily as if there is nothing going on for many turns until it is killed by one of the AIs. Why doesnt it revolt?[/quote] All minor races have a high starting Loyalty (possibly except some of the 'associate' races, the minors designed to be capable of winning the game). Otherwise new minors appearing in the middle of a race's territory would often culture flip three turns after
GalCiv is really not something that would work well as a multiplayer game, except possibly via some variant of PB(e)M, which is the route Stars! took. ~SDC~
[quote]I was playing the campaign, and I reached mission three. I had enough for the day so, without finishing the first turn, I quit. Now, when I try to resume the campaign it continues from a point about 10 tunrs before the end of mission 2.[/quote] 'Reset' the campeign to EndGameSave. That should load the scenerio after the one you just finished. ~SDC~
[quote]Again, the old system is flawed, but this new system makes a cultural attack either impossible, or so expensive that no one in their right mind would do it. This eliminates one method of attacking an opponent, and takes away options from the player. I'm not sure this is a good solution either. I had thirteen party palaces adjacent to a sector and was unable to even have the influence change me to me, let alone flip a planet. Considering the costs of starbases and modules, clearly this typ
To use custom maps and scenerios you need to increase the galaxy size past Gigantic. Next will be Random, then Custom. The 'Rule' button will only activate when using Custom maps, IIRC, and is used to load scenerios. Most scenerios are simply adjustments to some of the games formulas, although a few do include other changes like bans against certain technologies (or starting with them). ~SDC~
[quote]Also the Yor may surrender to any empire (yours included) still alive even if only one is attacking. [/quote] And, in fact, there doesn't even have to be anything happening. Races may occasionally surrender out of the blue if they simply think they have no chance to win. In a recent game of mine, the Yor surrendered to the Arceans after they got surrounded by me and the Torians, even though the Torians were allied, I was Friendly, and we both were trading heavily with t
[quote]Save game: This definitely needs work. When I try to save a game nothing happens. My save game does not appear in the list of saved games and I cannot use load game from within a scenario to load a game.[/quote] Campeign games have to be loaded from within the campeign dialogs, using the 'reset' button. This is also probably the answer to the person that doesn't see the autosaves, although there could be another issue involved. To answer another related question, loadin
[quote]Extract C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\gcx.zip 0 (odzip error code 1)[/quote] This might be a problem with ODZip.dll. Reinstalling the SDC might fix that. [quote]Extract: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\Base\AppData\AltProph_CampaignBtn.png_ 0 (file not found)[/quote] This one means a file didn't finish downloading. Simply trying the installation again after a few minutes is usually all that is needed to fix it. In fact, you should probably
[quote]Also since I thought AP was an add-on, it is in it's own seperate folder and not with Gal/Civ does that mean you do not need Gal/Civ to play AP and it is a stand alone game?[/quote] Yes and no. If you copy over all the data, gfx, etc. files from GalCiv, it could (theoretically) run without a GC install. AP does not update things like (base install) techs and ships, though, so the game is subject to behave in unpredictable ways if any new abilities are added, or other da
[quote]I believe that instead of changing the math of the program the AI should have been beefed up..[/quote] Except that the math of the program is the AI, at least as far as this thread is concerned. 1+1 always equals 2. You add enough 1s together and they make a large number, even though with half the things involved here an number of items one at a time over an a long period of time is literally worthless compared to the whole quantity at once. And incide
[quote]But when you get bonus speed, then the Mines would be able to move, won't they?[/quote] They don't seem to be able to in any of the games I've played. They can launch, but don't move at all from there. Probably all 0 Speed ships are caught by the Starbase immobility code, or something of the like. Speed boni are kinda quirky anyway (+x% speed is exactly what it states, +x%, if chosen as a racial pick; +x% speed is +x/10 moves when recieved from an achievment or wonder)
[quote]I'm just griping that the multiplying effect hasn't been fixed in all this time.[/quote] It's wasn't really a bug, per se, and it has been fixed in the most recent AP beta. Whether it will filter down to GalCiv or not is a different question, but I'd be somewhat surprised if it didn't. ~SDC~