No, I don't think so. I've certainly never seen them, and I remember somebody requesting that they turn up, which suggests that no, they don't. They will, however, be present if you play the 'Dread Lords on Parade' scenario (obviously).
The idea wouldn't be hard to implement, These words are guaranteed to strike terror in the ears of any software developer... That said, I agree with your idea. Add a carrier module, then all Tiny (or maybe small) ships would travel to the speed and range of the ship with the carrier module, while they are in the same fleet. You would
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Not true. I often run my military at 0% (when I have a fleet that is plenty big enough anyway) and I still churn out ships from planets that have completed their social projects.
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ya but at that time you could just buy 1. Not necessarily. It depends how well you manage your economy. And I hate paying over the odds for stuff.
Although it's important to develop your research and improvements, you really shouldn't neglect the military and military techs. Build ships without engines, sensors or range just to boost your military rating enough to make the AI find itself an easier target. I rarely pay tribute to anyone. They'll just use it to build more ships and then come and ask again
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An alternative would be that the basic colony hub would provide the industrial capacity equivilant to your highest level factory that you have researched. That way, the first Industrial sector would be much quicker to build.
Raywind's idea could be expanded to be simply: updgrade all components on this ship to their current, highest-tech equivalents. That would be nice. But it might run into problems when you get to the components that have greater power, but a slightly larger size (e.g. the top Laser -> first Plasma)
All starbases have some influence, but nothing that's going to flip a planet, or prevent a planet from flipping. Influence starbases increase the base level of influence (from zero) within their area of effect (which is the same size as the area for military and economic starbases). Outside this area, the starbase has no effect whatsoever. You do not need a base level of influence in an area to have an effect. To test this, place an influence starbase in the middle of nowhe
6. Actually, Diplomatic Translators are very useful, and I try to build them every game And no, the computers shouldn't concentrate on killing the player at all costs, or at least not until the very top difficulty levels (where the computer already cheats). I hate it when games cheat on you like that.
Random all the way. Sure, you might not always have technically the toughest challenge, but you have to adapt to each game rather than just settling into a rut. All victory conditions on (I like to keep my options open) Tough difficulty Blind exploration Tech trading and Minors on I switch races regularly to add variety So... I really have no such thing as a 'standard' setup.
That's some real twisted logic there. I don't want tactical combat because if there is tactical combat I'd want to use it. What? Personally I play EVERY battle in tactical mode in RTW (even my massive army vs. a gang of rebel peasents). I do this not because I have to but because it is just so enjoyable. If you want to autocalc every battle then fine. But don't have a go at me if I want to actually control those ships I spend ages designing. Gal Civ II is current
Sorry for DP...
The campaign AI of the Total War games is worse than the campaign AI in Gal Civ though... Besides, isn't there a mod for RTW that actually includes an AI that is better than the standard version? I think all this proves is that the Total War guys suck at AI In Gal Civ II, the empire build up stuff is better than that in Total War. But the battles are worse. Even if the
The devs know. They're rushing out another update to fix the problem, which should be out soon. Until then, stick with smaller galaxies. I think there might be an interim patch somewhere as well that should at least stop the game crashing (by aborting the save).
I know the devs aren't going to include tactical combat in Gal Civ II (adding an entirely new game mode is far more than I would expect from a mere update, or even an expansion pack). But that doesn't mean it isn't a good idea, or that it wouldn't make the game better. Yes, obviously the AI 'might not be able to handle it'. There's tons of things the AI can't do as well as a human, such as, say, the game as it already exists. I can beat the AI (as long as it isn't cheating) reasonably
1. Yes, I'd love to have this, though it'll never happen in GCII. Praying for GCIII but I expect the fanboys will rant until it's taken out. If they really care, they can be boring and use the autocalc. 2. This would be nice with tactical combat, but obviously it's pointless without it. I would definately love to have more control over the development of weapons though. 3. Er... no. The different races should have different styles. In fact, I'd say the opposite and ask for
What difficulty level are you playing at?
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Any Galactic Wonders/Trade goods are not affected by bonus tiles.
And bonus tiles...
All they need is to announce the measure that is coming up in the 'The UP is meeting next week' dialogue. Then, you can buy some influence points off other civs if it's something you really care about. Maybe, if you have enough espionage, it should tell you which way that Civ is going to vote on the issue as well...
conquering settled planets of evil races, especially ones with capitals (to obtain the planetary bonuses these guys got from their evil ethical choices) Now THAT is a sneaky tactic...
Why only five? Up it to the full compliment. More AI=harder. It isn't that hard to win on tough though. I've only lost one game so far, and that was because I switched to a tech victory path too early, and got swallowed up just a few turns from victory...
They are supposed to treat the player in the same way that they treat another AI. AI can form alliances with each other, so I assume they can ally with the player as well. But the AI don't ally with each other particularly often, so I guess the same is true with the humans. It also seems likely that the human would offer the alliance before the computer got around to it. I often have them perfectly willing to form an alliance for free, and occasionally I can pursuade them t
I've never seen the Torians do well, not in the late game. They expand quickly at the beginning, but in my experience they seem to fall behind on tech and then get swamped by more advanced civs (often me, but not always). The Drengi do seem to be too evil for their own good though. Although I think that depends a lot on what the player is doing. I find that the civs that survive tend to be the ones with the same alignment as me (counting Good and Neutral as a single alignment). This i
There's a cap. After a certain point, every tile on the surface will be used up!