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Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The plethora of SS's is nice. Especially when you're dealing with the map. You could probably skip the Diplomacy screen SS's and just summarize the transaction in a me/them format. If you spend time making detailed ship models, show them off. If they're just functional parts bolted to a hull, the condensed highlight version is fine. I much prefer a play-by-play AAR to the story based ones. I want to learn new strategies and se

Reply to The Altarian Incident in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The Alterian super ability forces races of a similar alignment to go to war with anyone who attacks them. My suggestion is if you're in the same game as the Altarians, pick Evil or Neutral. Having said that it's pretty misleading giving you the option of saying "no", it should really just pop up with "the alterians were attacked and have convinced your military to come to their aid" or something.

Reply to offense/defense in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Short answer: Yes!!! Long answer: The defence trees are much, much quicker to research than offence, and the defences themselves are extremely cheap and take up very little hull space. A general rule of thumb I use is pack just enough offence to get over the AIs defence and then pack the rest of the ship with defence. For example if the AI I was fighting against was building ships with 12 missile attack and 4 defence, I'd try and get about 5 offence and the rest anti missi

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

And is it really anti-social? Gaming is a unifying activity for me and my friends. LAN parties, voice chat while playing multiplayer games, and talking about gaming with friends when not necessarily in front of a TV or monitor. It can be antisocial, but it doesn't have to be. The choice is with the individual. I totally agree with this. Many of my oldest and best friendships have been forged over th

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Final thoughts: The main reason I won was because of the poor AI planet defending skills - the Drengin had better ships than me and more of them, yet I was able to win because of the way they defended their planets. Something needs to be done to either make the AI fleet it's ships or build orbital fleet managers on every world. I think my suggestion of making the orbital fleet manager an upgrade of the starport would really help because the AI would not have to use an extra tile th

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The final stats: Military: Population: (note the massive advantage you get from super breeder, I was always top in this category, and I had a significant economic, influence and troop advantage over my rivals because of this. This is why I believe super breeder, when used right is th

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Now the finale part.... And so it continued. I couldn't fight the Korath fleets directly, but I was still able to take out the Korx, I sent one of my spare troopships to the nearest Korx world and captured it. The Korx were clearly on the back foot, but I needed to focus on researching missile defence techs to fight the Korath rather than producing troop ships so I decided to sue th

Reply to How do you guys deal with a superpower? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

One great example of cultural conquest is Vietnam. Although the Americans withdrew from Saigon after the Vietnam war, going there now you see McDonalds, Coke and just about every other American franchise possible, most shops even accept American Dollars and have prices listed in both $US and vietnamese Dong.

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Isn't the whole point of science to constantly question things. The theory of Evolution has been improved and modified thousands of times since Darwin first conceived the idea, as has the theory of Relativity and just about any other scientific theory. Anyhoo I'm still undecided about games, on the one hand they're addictive and distracting, but on the other hand they're a great escape when things are going bad. I know people say it's better to deal with issues head on rather than

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It's Feb 2231 and the galaxy is poised on a knife edge. Two distinct forces have emerged from the Chaos. The Neutral Alliance, and the Axis of Evil. The Neutral Alliance Headed by the Tenacious Wargazmatonians. While they don't have the strongest military by any means, they're by far the best fighters and can out think any opponent they're presented with. Their only motivati

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The Wargazmatron 03: 1 Warp II engine, 3 Plasma cannons and a buttload of Kanvium II armor. It was the ship that would counter the Korx hordes. I started upgrading my obselete ships immediately. Then it was time for revenge... The Korx had met their match - the Wargazmatron 03s wer

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah same... Now the conclusion..... My only solution was to come up with a ship that could defeat the Korx fleets, which meant something to counter mass drivers. If I could defeat the Korx fleets and convince the Yor to leave me alone (or distract them) then I would be in good shape, because taking over the Korx worlds would strengthen me to the point where I was practically unbeatable. Firstly I was going to try and distract the Yor. I bribed the Thala

Reply to How copy protection creates pirates in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I'll happily admit that I'm one of the biggest pirates of all. I didn't used to be but false promises, companies releasing buggy and unfinished games, suspiciously over generous reviews and downright lying about minimum requirements have meant that it's just too much of a risk to buy software without playing it first any more. Generally I'll download a game, and if it keeps my interest for more than a couple of weeks and runs smoothly on my system I'll buy it. I'm happy to pa

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean I'll refer to them as light scouts in the next part just for you!

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The missing screenshot from the last part: While my homeworlds were busy upgrading their buildings, my Drengin planets, who were already fairly built up were churning out ships and troop ships as fast as they could. It was time to put the final nail in the Drengin coffin. Although los

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

I call it the Wargazmatron... The first capital ship of the mighty Wargazmatonian empire 1 warp engine 5 Laser cannons 3 point defence units It was to be the final undoing of the devious Thalan empire, and would disuade the Drengin and the Korx from even thinking of attacking again. But it was going to take a while for these things to get off the production

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

and now the continuation.... I had to get the AIs off my back. The Korx and the Thalans still weren't talking to me, and it would have cost every tech I had and more to get the Drengin to stop attacking. To make matters worse they'd just made peace with the Krynn so they were 100% focused on annihilating me from the Galaxy. Fortunately I was able to convince the Yor not to attack me, for the small price of 'extreme colonisation' which would be of extreme uselessness t

Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I think the orbital fleet manager should be an upgrade for the starport, rather than a stand alone building. The main problem with this building is the way the AI works. The way the AI defends its planets is by putting many ships in orbit around the planet rather than by putting fleets around the star system like a human player would. The AI in its current state NEEDS this building or it becomes useless at defending planets since you can just take out one ship at a time

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for your comments guys The game is finished and I've got lots of screenshots to sort through... I'll post the next part soon. I've got to say this is the first game I've played where I didn't build a single colony ship - I think it was one of the most fun games I played. I won't reveal the result but there were a few glaring mistakes I made. I think the main one being - if

Reply to Doing well in this game seems to depend too much on pure luck. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

As far as I have seen, you only get +3 tiles no matter what planet you get. +1 for soil enhancement, +1 for habitat improvement, and +1 for terraforming. PQ 12 planets become PQ 15, PQ 7 planets become PQ 10 planets, etc. I tried a game last night by just colonizing whatever was available, ended up with mostly class 8 planets. My economy crashed after the first 100 turns, even though I had a few planets devoted entirely to stock markets. <

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Then the Korx attacked... There was not much I could do, they refused to negotiate, I would have to continue fighting the Drengin and hope that the Korx weren't going to be that big of a thorn in my side. Attacking the first Drengin planet proved difficult, Not only were losses heavy taking out their defending ships, some of which had 18 attack on a single light hull, but their gro

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

anyhoo, back to the story. I needed good ships, and fast. I switched to 100% research so I could get some weapon, engine and defensive techs, but none of that was going to matter if I didn't have the economy to support it - The Drath worlds I'd recently acquired had put me in the red again so the first thing I researched was the government tree, up to Star Democracy. Then I grabbed Xeno Ethics and picked neutral. (Generally speaking I think Neutral gives you a better instant boost, wit

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Actually I picked random everything, with 7 oppopnents... It just happened to give me a fairly rare planet/star setup. I love picking random everything because every game is different, you never know what you're going to get. Also I never ctrl-N even when it looks bad, some of the best games I've had have come from the most awkward starts. I guess that's why I play on crippling because I think it's the hardest difficulty where you can actually win from any start. Homeworld was still p

Reply to The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It was time to attack. My meager fleet of three fighters should be just enough to take out their defence, enabling me to grab their homeworld. By this time I'd got up to tidal disruptors as well, so their homeworld was all but guaranteed. The invasion went far better than expected. I was able to take out the defender of their homeworld while only losing one fighter, then I managed to conquer it

The Bloodbath.... a tale of war and conquest. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Greetings, this is my first AAR. I hope you guys enjoy it. I've put strategy tips in brackets, feel free to skip over it if you already know the game inside out. I decided to try out a custom race I believe to be extremely powerful. Basically they're Torians on speed Super: Super Breeder. +20 Morale (3 points) +30 Economics (4 points) +20 speed (8 points) Political p