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Reply to The clicky thing on planets in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Well, concerning the clicky-thing ... I experienced that too, and I think this happens when you have an unimproved but improvable tile (terraforming). After placing a building, the cursor jumps to that tile and all you can select is the upgrade-tile option. To solve that: Immediately queue up the upgrade, then everything works as normal. Do not forget to put that upgrade thing back in the queue, though. On your second question: Being a male, I am not very interested in you going "Ma

Reply to Planetary invasions - reality check in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Star Wars is fiction? Heretic! Light the torches, let's get him! And yes, we did read your view of the level of abstraction and a lot of people in here realize that one ship is a symbol for a lot of ships. In fact, maybe you did not read that there already had been another poster, who said that. Nevertheless converting energy to matter is not very efficient, because you would need an insane amount of matter to store that energy. Remember: A spoon full of water converted into pure e

Reply to i'm trying in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

What has that to do with Strategies? Apart from not knowing the nature of your problem, I ask you to post in the proper forum.

Reply to Planetary invasions - reality check in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

To the OP: 10 million cubic metres does not require you to build a cubicle with a side-length of 10 kilometres, only around 2 kilometres. Modern day industrial sectors are more or less of that size. (The cited Death Star could hold around 8000 cubic metres. Effectively, if the Death Star contained around 100.000 troops, they must have been quite lonely. Maybe the situation was like in the Australien outback, were it can take you days to reach your neighbour. <img src="smiles/Wink.gif" border

Reply to Espionage cost rise in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Rasori, thanks for the information. That is good news. Peace Phoenix, sorry, but you are wrong. Since you play on painful, let us assume, that your economy is about two times as strong as the AI economy, for example. You have four enemies and I assume the following formula for spy costs: S = A + B*X, meaning a linear acceleration. With A = 100, B = 100 and a monthly spending of 100 or 200 for you over 100 turns, you will get the following outcome: You spend 20.000 buck

Reply to Any reason to keep morale > 65% in peace times? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

As far as I know, yes.

Reply to Creating a Trade Federation w/the Yor Collection (I'm having hell doing it) in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

One of the few disadvantages evil races have, is that they tend to be ganged up on. Remember the Drengins you defeated? Everyone ganging up on them? Guess where that came from ... So I would say it is usefull to be a neutral or good race if you want trade to be your mainstay. BTW: Which game lasts longer, medium or large maps? (Your post is not clear, here.)

Reply to Espionage cost rise in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I see the reason for the cost increase, but this increase should be linked to something else, e.g. the empire size or the size of the population. That would be fair and would make spy wars feasible. When the espionage system leads to a narrowing of the options, like it does now, it should be changed. Now, once you are number 1, you have to roll over the opposition. Hmm, great, how interesting. If you asked my, DA has introduced a feature that makes the game less multifaceted. A

Reply to Espionage cost rise in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

But the thing is, that when I tolerate them, they start gathering intel and finally steal techs. Ok, see that as a balancing feature. But the leading power is thus unable to gather intel about the other races. I basically approve the current system, but the spy costs should not rise. That way, the others could still gang up on one party but that party would be able to cope with the spies by spending the necessary amount of money. My starships don't get more expensive, the more

Reply to Custome Race Design Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

There are free points to be spent even when choosing a pre-defined race. But there are less points to be spent. Compare the points for a pre-defined race with that of a custom race ... there should be a significant difference, initially.

Reply to bug? i can see all my opponents in the foreign rel. screen in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Greenman, as far as I understood what you wrote, you are changing the parties like you were changing the parties for a human player. That is not necessary. All the things you can change can be affected on the screen where you choose your opponents. Your back-and-forth-maneuver is not necessary, but I might be wrong, since I never bother with setting the parties of my opponents. Notger.

Reply to Espionage cost rise in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Does the counter-espionage center nullify already existing agents? Not as far as I know, but I might be wrong.

Espionage cost rise in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

In my current game, I constantly get the message of new spies planted and even though being with +2000 in the green, I cannot produce spies fast enough to get rid of the enemy spies. Furthermore, four AI players can produce much more spies than I can, even if spend the same amount they do, summed up. This is because the spy costs rise with the number of spies you have trained, instead of the number of spies active, what I would understand. Can you tell me, wether there is a cap on the r

Reply to ESPIONAGE REQUEST in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Or Super Breeder. In my eyes, there is no ability as strong as Super Breeder.

Reply to Noob Guide in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Let's take a typical fleet with 100 attack and 150 hit points, no defenses and three ships in the fleet. A typical battle would go like that: Pre-Battle: 100 / 150 vs. 100 / 150 (attack / hitpoints, only half of the attack hits) After first round: 66.6 / 100 vs. 66.6 / 100 After second round: 66.6 / 66.6 vs. 66.6 / 66.6 After third round: 33.3 / 33.3 vs. 33.3 / 33.3 After fourth round: 33.3 / 16.7 vs. 33.3 / 16.7 After fifth round: 33.3 / 1 vs. 0 / 0, if you have the

Reply to Noob Guide in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Well, now it gets interesting. A super-warrior with insanely weapon-heavy ships would not lose his ship in a one-on-one if he destroys the other one with the first salvo, right?

Reply to Any reason to keep morale > 65% in peace times? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Izto, that is why I wrote 21%-minimum. That meant that every planet should have at least 21%. I wanted to write it Matlab-code-like, but that would have been more confusing than what I wrote.

Reply to Noob Guide in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Cargo hulls with loads of weapons could be used like torpedos: One shot that has to destroy the opponent. So as long as you inflict more damage than he is able to take, you will at least destroy him. In DA, there is the rule that the ship with the stronger design survives the battle if both kill each other in the same turn. Could that mean that cargo hulls with loads of weapons can actually win in battle?

Reply to Any reason to keep morale > 65% in peace times? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So for a SuperBreeder race, it is either 100% or 21%-minimum, is it? Interesting ... I usually like to be loved by my evil minions, but hey, we all know how the love of masochistic and sadistic freaks looks like and I do not want to be gimped, like in Pulp Fiction.

Reply to Noob Guide in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[B]ColIndy[/B]: Since no one seems to have answered your questions, I will say a few words. In the beginning, techs that improve your economy are great (Xeno Economics, the Morale boosting techs and the Medicine techs (more people = more money)). Next in line are techs that give you some basic military to improve your military rating, followed by basic miniaturization techs. From then on, it is your choice of how you want to play. I hope that helped.

Reply to Detailed Suicidal AAR for DA in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Purge, I yesterday tried to adapt some of your ways to a medium sized galaxy on the tough level. (Yes, I know, pityful. But that is my playing strenght, right now.) I already did very much better than on my first try on that level (after playing normal for some time) and even won a war, but when conquering the Yors six planets (I had five), my economy came to a halt. I played with the Korath enhanced with some economic bonuses. So here are my questions: 1. How do you av

Reply to Multiple Manufacturing Capitals in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The point is, you have to decide which planet is to be the capital. Where is the sense in having five capitals in one nation? And the man.cap. only gives ´+33% production, if I remember correctly.

Reply to Upgrading all ships of a certain type? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

David Lessnau and DinkyCat, thank you for your answers. They were exactly what I was looking for. I remembered upgrading all ships at once earlier but after the break and after buying DA, I just couldn't figure it out, anymore. Again, thanks.

Upgrading all ships of a certain type? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Some thing I can't figure out is the upgrading process of ships. 1. Is there a short-cut to evoke the upgrade-menu? 2. When in the shipyard, I click on a design and say upgrade. Ok, that is fine. I chose the new components and all that and when finished, I click on save. It warns me, that I should not use the same name for the new design. a) I chose a new name. b) I chose the old name. Either way, I do not get the option to upgrade all ships of that old type to the

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Frogboy, I totally agree with you. I nearly never play online and Metaverse is as online as I need it. Your AI is very clever and I do not miss a human opponent. Keep up the good work, you are really delivering something very special.