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Weird stuff with ships and asteroids/planets in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Two things in DA: 1) When your space miner is on the same tile as one of your mining bases, you can't access the base to change assignment unless you move your miner off of the tile. I think others have seen this before. 2) I haven't seen others note this. Every now and then when I click on one of my planets, it shows a foreign trade ship along with my planet in the ship/fleet section at the bottom middle of the screen. I can click on my planet there to get to my planet s

Reply to Population and Morale in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

see that is just absurd to me... no population no matter how "entertained" could stand for that kind of universal tax rate, what good is the best entertainment in the universe if I have no money with which to buy it?! Maybe it's like the Romans and it's being given out for free. People would think, "Well, at least our taxes pay for this." If we had enough room in football stadiums, a lot of people wou

Reply to Hearts & Minds of Robots in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

but you need tech trading on to do this one. How would you turn tech trading off for a campaign mission? Or are you guys talking about playing this as a sandbox scenario? On the campaign, I had highest possible diplo, with all associated buildings, full trade routes with Yor, both econ and research treaties to and from Yor, and then finally a military at least 10 times the next AI (eventually, of course). Still, I had to finish everyone

Reply to Hearts & Minds of Robots in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Even though I had all trade route to the Yor, all treaties with them, and a 249% diplomacy bonus, I was still at friendly. Since I couldn't raise my relation anymore, I decided to attack the Korath, in the build up to the war, my military rating doubled, pushing it higher than the Yor rating. This pushed my relation to Close. So, my suggestion : Create a lot of ships. That didn't work

Reply to Hearts & Minds of Robots in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

My experience is that even if you get to "close", you won't be able to ally with them until you've wiped out the other civs. So, it's basically just a matter of keeping Yor alive and killing everyone else. The whole alliance issue is just for the sake of plot, I'd guess.

Reply to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I attempted to read this whole post and gave up some where at the top of page one, so forgive me if I leave something out. It is true that nothing is perfect and even if it’s perfect to me it’s not going to be to you. But the major question is "what are you expecting from this game?” I would personal love to see a lot of deferent features put in DL, such as more control over each planet (what it’s researching, its government, and better a

Reply to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It seems the debate here is whether DA is a perfect expansion, or not quite perfect. If the Iceman thinks it's well below perfect, then he's certainly out of the norm. Of course problems have been found, and that's why this forum is so great: how else can you see what everyone else has seen and take account of it, and also let the devs know what needs the most attention? To TOS: What in this world would you call perfect? No such thing. But things can be at the top of the heap, and

DA metaverse raceconfig problem in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Been trying to start my second DA metaverse game, this time as Yor. When I get to the point of choosing my race and configuring, I choose the 10 points alloted, then go on with random opponents. When I start the game, it says something like: "This race configuration is invalid. Use the clear button to restore the race configuration to default version. If you don't, this metaverse game will be invalid." When I go back and set up another game, this time hitting the "reset" bu

Reply to Foreign Starbases around my planets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I was lucky enough to snag a class 32 world this last game, and apparently the Drath, who I am supposedly friends with, have decided they want it, and have started sticking in Influence Starbases outside it. If you're playing right, your morale and population will be high enough that an influence base around your world won't really make any difference. If it's a problem, then you already have problems. I've never had a planet flipped by the AI, an

Reply to Radioactive planets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well I started a new game today and ended up with this same issue on a totally normal class 5ish planet. I build or buy a factory and the planet gains absolutely nothing from it. Is this a known issue of any sort? Sorry if this is known to you, but maybe you don't have radioactive planet tech at full. There are two radioactive planet techs, as there are two of the other uninhabitable planet techs. If you

Reply to What to Players want? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Um, I'd like it if you looked at your post title.

Reply to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

"Personally I think DA is worth about 7/10. This equates to a good product." Agree. But since I haven't played it yet, my review is worthless. Yeah, I'd agree. Your opinion is pretty worthless if you haven't played it yet.

Reply to The reasoning behind nerfing defense? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

IMO, the solution to this is not with the defense, but has a limit on which hull carry which weapon. Maybe Tiny/Small is limited to the first 1/3 of the weapon tree, Medium is limited to the first half, Large is limited to the first 2/3 and Huge has full access. Because, common, a fighter with Black Hole Generator, something doesn't add up I dont' think the idea is bad, but what you're suggesting would require some serious balancing. If a civ gets out i

Reply to 3 Things You Would Like Added Since DA Is Released in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

2) I would like a role playing element added, i.e. characters who work for you: dark lords, farm boys, princesses, over-confident smugglers, amusing robots, old and wise warriors. Please, no!!!!!! 1) Galactic Terrain that can have various effects on your ships. From slowing them down to speeding them up to incapitating shields or sensors. Let's have some strategy in how I want to and how the AI will explore/m

Reply to A question about Spy's in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Evil, your reply was certainly not "lost in translation" to me. Guess I'm still on your "hit list." Hit away, buddy. But you probably won't hit at me, because I'm not going to be grammatically "improper." To me, that's a wimpy stance. Sorry, but that's my opinion of this whole attitude. Hit those who can't English up? I know that's what you were moving away from in your apology, but why leave it open for those who "know" English? What's the point? Who is anyone to guess who is a

Reply to Mind Control Center prevents planets from defecting to your civ? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Neither have I What I have said is that it definitely doesn't do what it's *supposed* to do. Whether it somehow has some secondary effect that's completely the opposite of what it's supposed to do, that's what we're trying to find out. Sorry, Kryo. I thought I had read that from you. Maybe I was "influenced" by my own experience. I had influence techs the highest and 3 influence bases right around a 1 billion pop PQ4 AI planet at

Reply to Hows the new AI? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I think the AI has the same sensor limits as humans. So, a transport with 8 moves, which he can't "see," wouldn't register as a threat because it wouldn't register at all. We wouldn't want the AI to have more sensory ability than the player, would we? Perhaps the AI should put more stock in sensors, because that would help it immensely. But maybe Frogboy has played this all out and it doesn't work so well if the AI puts too much stock in sensors. Anyway, there needs to be a

Reply to Mind Control Center prevents planets from defecting to your civ? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Kryo has said the MCC is broken. It gives 100% econ bonus, but, he thinks, probably doesn't allow planets to flip.

Reply to General tips for someone who sucks? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Do a search on help for newbs. You'll find a lot of great advice. It's helped me in the past, and it even helps me now. Sorry, but I don't feel like taking the time to go through an elaborate explanation when that stuff has already been given in great detail by better players than me! Good luck, and stick with it! You'll catch on eventually.

Reply to A question about Spy's in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

On topic, good target's for spy's include galactic wonder's, the various capital's, and of course any revenue generating improvement's. Well, it depends. Often just putting a spy on one manufacturing square will do more than putting it on the manu cap. Same with research. You have to look at the stats before and after. As to those who are hijacking this thread, at the risk of drawing flame-fire, the internet, and hence forums, are n

Reply to how to make alliances in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In DA, to make alliances you also need to make sure that the opponet has alliances, based on what i've seen. May be wrong, though. No, I'm pretty sure this is not the case. @ Popcorn: thanks, that makes sense. It's interesting that it's often "good" races who are labled as "militaristic." Must be dependent upon how the AI thinks its chances will work best.

Reply to how to make alliances in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

First, you have to have "close" relations with the particular race. You can see what's affecting your relations with a race by going to "reports" in the "foreign relations" section. There will be +'s and -'s based upon things like "shared borders" (-), "ethical allignment" (+ or -), "militaristic" (I've always seen this as -, but does anyone know if it refers to YOU being militaristic or the foreign race being so?), "trading" (+), and "historic relationship" (+) or "historic animosity" (-). T

Reply to Technology Rate? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, I sympathize with Mystikmind, but I myself don't have patience. Though I always do play tech rate Random. Makes for a constant adjustment of strategy.

Reply to AI ships still attack protected traders in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Understandably a problem. I mean you could even create trade routes specifically to distract enemy ships to allow you to acieve some goal. Yep, that's where this particular cheese could melt into the fabric of our game!

Reply to AI ships still attack protected traders in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

in DA do u still have the ships u had in dl and the new ships in DA or r they all completely diferent Yes, the ships are still the same, though I'm not sure I'm meaning the same thing you are. The sizes and weapons are the same. @RogueIdea: AI fleets in DA will just follow the traders unless there's a closer target. There is nothi