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Reply to Why Are There No Planet Classes Below 4 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

When we are takling about PQ, anyone toticed little big with terroaforming and loading saved games. When you terraform a tile (soil, habitat, terraform), planet class goes up. But after you load a saved game, planet class is back to original. Now, I wouldn't be bother with this bug much, exepmt if ruined some of my plans I have for class 5 world, that became class 7 world due to terraforming. I got farm and everything and start growing. But after I load the

Reply to Why Are There No Planet Classes Below 4 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think only PQ planets less then 4 are either those preplaced for some races (like Altarian Wisp), or are the former victims of invasion tactics like mass drivers.

Reply to The UI and You in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Well yes, while I personally have no problem with some extra growth you get from >75% approval, the whole idea that having 100% approval, instead of 99%, would somehow double your growth is very weird. And encourages high micromanagement to best optimize cities. After every party elections I really feel like dictator, with more then 90% votes beeing for me.

Reply to Dread Lord Campaign is Not Fun in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

What makes DL add defenses to their ships? In my last Apolcalypse attempt (at Painful), they got shields fairly early. I only defeated around 2 of their ships without shields (they even haven't yet took any of the worlds). Then they got 34 defense in shields, making most of my ships useless. Even while I upgraded all my ships to missile and had some starbase support (+1 missle and mass driver attack), it wasn't enough to do any damage with my fleet of tiny ships (it's still effec

Reply to Play at any resolution.... except mine. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well I guess whole interface was based with 1024x768 as minimum. That's why you get everything cluttered if you force lower resolution.

Reply to Modding is a waste of time in V1.1 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The point is to have an option, since some mods would for flabvor purposes require techs that are useful only for one side. Currently, something similar already exists, but it's ethics based.

Reply to The UI and You in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Here is the thing if implemented would make my life easier. Since 100% approval colonies give monsterous +100% growth rate I try to keep all growing colonies at that rate. That needs a lot of micromanaging of tax slider evey few turns. So it could be a great if you could set taxes to "keep 100% approval", with option to exclude some colonies from this equation (making it keep all colonies exempt those selected to 100% aproval). This would greatly reduce micr

Reply to Modding is a waste of time in V1.1 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Still, it makes sense to be able to flag some things as unstolable/untradable.

Reply to 700% Manufacturing Bonus,Precursor Mine...On My Homeworld. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I think it's bad for gameplay that homewolrd and other planets in homeworld solar system have random bonuses. That unbalances things a lot. Not to mention what happens when DL get access to this in Apocalypse on their home planets. Homeworlds should have preplaced bonuses. So you know, if you are Iconian that, for example, that your homeworls has one 100% research tile and the other planet one 100% manuf. tile... P.S. Or if not that, a

Reply to Multiple Economic Starbases in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I don't like stacking rules. It enocourages starbase spamming and lots of micromanagement. It would give much better gameplay if it would not stack (then players would puit bases in such way to minimize overlaping).

Reply to The last three Beam techs are broken in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

There are several other defender and weapon technologies that give inferior equipment. They should be really checked for next patch.

Reply to Campaign question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think as everybody saiys that allies are dummer at lower difficulty. At Apocalypse at normal difficulty AI allies pulled off to destroy Yor and Dregin completly and Toarians conquered DL, all themselfs. WIth me just waitig with single world and reseraching tech like crazy and gifting to allies. Now when I tried same at painfull, it was uttrer disaster. So I think that allies are not dummer at lower difficulties, only enemy AIs.

Reply to Forum Software is some sort of abstract hellscape. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I also noticed that edits are not real time. Often, when I need to edit thread more then once (very often consideing those ugly HTML tags), after I start second edit, the changes from first edit are not there. It usually results in completly messing my posts. Also, recent edits sometimes don't appear in posts immediately after edit.

Reply to Forum Software is some sort of abstract hellscape. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Also an option for threads to automaticly get watched after posting in them.

Reply to Forum Software is some sort of abstract hellscape. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The only thing I don't like is that links you get in email notification don't bump directly to last post you haven't seen before in the thread. They just bring you to the thread, when you manually need to serach and find last post you read. That's my main gripe.

Reply to Surrendering: What is the rationale??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

demolish all planetary improvements This should probably lead to military coup and then surrender.

Reply to Surrendering: What is the rationale??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't understand why don't those other civs refuse that if they are your friends, since they know that it would lead to future blodshead. Surrender to someone else only makes sesne, if that other civ is either powerful, but neutral with you, or if not so powerful, but wary or hostile towards you. Your friends should not accept surrender from your enemies.

Reply to Campaign question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

To complete Achilees Heel you need to take out DL. There is no other way around. Exempt if you give up and play backup mission against Yor (no DL around).

Reply to Surrendering: What is the rationale??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Or better yet, if other civ would refuse surrender if that means automatic hostility toward your civ.

Reply to Racial/government bonuses question... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Makes me wonder why all game data is not updated. Especially those leftovers pointing to industry and research bonuses. So misleading.

Reply to Dread Lord Campaign is Not Fun in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

At last, at Apocalipse, there is access to all 3 types of weapons... No wonder they wanted to get Teth so badly...

Reply to Campaign question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This is 5th, mission, not Sige. There is no Yor around.

Reply to Campaign question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

And no, there is no point going for defense tech against DL, ever. Their damage is just too great: one hit one kill, regardless what you have. That's why tiny ships are the best, you minimize the damage they deal.

Reply to Campaign question in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The thing I noticed that campaign plays just random. On one run they'll use no defense and later switch to missles defense. On another run, they switch to shield, when game is basicly over (yes, that unwinnable). On 3rd run, they'll swtich to some other defense, etc... So try several times, until AI doesn't make shield ships. Then use turtling. Starbase with beam boosts, bunch of tiny ships. Defend, then move forward after you get all solidering (3000pop inva

Reply to AI Designs battleships with no weapons in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

all you have to do to get around the 0 weapon defenders is put a weapon or two on transports and then armor them as high as you can Why armor them at all, one laser is enough to kill anything that has no weapons, regardless of its other statistics? And it surely won't help against armed opponents due to that 1 hit point they have.