Belanos

Reply to a few newby questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

i tried building a economy starbase and a military star base right off the bat but saw no noticable increase in ship production or income rate. That's because they have no effect on those areas. Economy starbases, after the first upgrade, will increase your overall production, it won't have any effect on your income. There are modules you can add that will increase your trade revenue but they do anything to your basic finances, only production. And milit

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6 BETA 1 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

As Frogboy said in the first line of his post, the suggestions will start coming in in the following betas. Which is when?

Reply to Small bug in DA Beta 1.6 1 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

That's not a 1.6 issue, I've seen that happen ever since Dread Lords. If you quit the game and restart it will be gone.

Reply to Low Class Planet in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

It depends on whether you're refering to Dark Avatar or Dread Lords. If it's DA, then definitely. A PQ 1 planet can become at least a PQ 12 once you have a the right terraforming techs. In DL they're rather limited. And keep in mind that if you don't take those planets, some AI race will.

Reply to Upgrading Core Designs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In fact it's impossible to overwrite a core ship, the game won't allow you to. You're required to give it a different name.

Reply to When will the rest of beta 1.6 be released? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'm also anxious to see what ideas they've incorporated into the patch from those two really long threads that they themselves started. There was a ton of ideas bouncing around and I'm really curious to see what they come up with out of that. There were a couple of things that came up a number of times in those threads, one of the biggest being a rework of starbase management, and I'd like to see just how much they've responded to the community.

Reply to When will the rest of beta 1.6 be released? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'm just waiting to see if there have been any changes to the tech trading. I'm not sure if I even want to play the game with things the way they are now. Besides, I've been busy with Oblivion lately. I haven't had any time to play any thing else. If I saw enough in the game tweaks to get me interested, I might be convinced to put it away for awhile.

When will the rest of beta 1.6 be released? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It was mentioned that game tweaks etc. would be released later, after the initial bug fixes that's already available. Is there any ETA on when these will be posted? I'm holding off on trying things out until I have those as well.

Reply to ai game play questions? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Belanos, you are just repeating arguments that have been made before in this thread. And which have been rendered irrelevant by the tests made so far. No offense. I don't generally read through the whole thread before I make a comment, I take a more spontaneous approach. If something comes along while I'm reading that interests me I'll mention something. I realized after reading all the posts that my statements were redundant and for that I apologiz

Reply to Super Abilities questions in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

There is currently a bug if you take Super Isolationist with a custom race, it will also limit your ships to 3, so only use it as the Yor. Hmm, I didn't know that. I was playing a custom race with the Super Isolationist trait and never even noticed. Has that been fixed in the 1.6 patch?

Reply to The races should not all be alike! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ahh, I see. I feel rather stupid now for responding to a post that was made over a year ago.

Reply to Confused with Modding in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Which is in your My Documents/My Games folder. If they're not there, just create them though they should be.

Reply to The races should not all be alike! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well this is strange, an active thread that one, except me, has posted in for almost a year. How did this get back on top?

Reply to The races should not all be alike! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

But broad generalities about things that most of us know are unfounded just makes you look silly to say the least. I haven't played Civ4 because it is the same as Civ3 which was the same as Civ2 which in my mind was the best of the series. Now you're the one spouting broad generalities. How can you say a game is just like the one before it if you've never even played it? Trust me, Civ 4 is much different than any of it's previou

Reply to do factories help a new planet in social production? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

When I colonize a new plant should I build a factory first? I always build a Market myself, then a Factory. I like to have my planets paying for themselves as quickly as possible in order to finance further expansion. Say this planet is only going to have banking and economical related buildings would you even build a star port? I build a starport on every planet I control myself. In fact I rush build it

Reply to ai game play questions? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Care to explain more how you can read the map without exploring? In the test they always make beeline for habitable planets and only for habitable planets. If you'll notice, the AIs tend to make Stellar Cartography one of their first techs. This allows them to see planets on the mini-map as well as stars. If there's a system with 5 planets around the star, there's a reasonably good chance that at least one of them will be habitable so they'll make

Reply to ai game play questions? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It also seemed to me in some of my games (not in the test) that AI used colonyships just for scouting. Yeah so? I do too, at least at the start of the game. I used to send my scouts out first until more experienced players pointed out that it makes more sense to send out colony ships directly. They're faster with the same if not greater sensor range, and if they discover a habitable planet they can colonize it right away without having to wait for anothe

Reply to ai game play questions? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

It also knows immediately when such planet gets colonized. Well that's certainly not true. There's been many times when I've colonized a planet only to see an AI ship come by a few turns later hoping to grab it for itself. Then it will hang around for a few turns more and finally go somewhere else.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6 BETA 1 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Will this new MOD also stack fleets? I've had games where fleets and fleets have attacked me and it's slowed down my framerate(no matter whether I have TNL and BM off or not). Geez guy, do some reading. It's the first item in the changes list!

Reply to Question About the Beta in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

What beta? All I see is a 159.078 on Stardock. Is there another place to get it instead, seeing as how IT is being a bunch of wet blankets? So what's wrong with a pre-holiday beta release anyway?

Reply to Question About the Beta in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Is there a readme posted with the changes that have been made?

Reply to Am I running the 1.6beta or another 1.5x build...? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

That link you provided to Frogboy's post isn't valid.

Reply to ai game play questions? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

i have seen the ai use the same colony ship to colonize an entire system i think it was three planets That's not possible. Once a colony is established, the colony ship is destroyed.

Reply to Ships can be created without hyperdrive component! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

and how will these drone move without any engine at all. Orbital defence platforms, they don't have to move anywhere.

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. This actually makes alot of sense really. It would seem logical that coordination of orbital fleets would occur at the same location that they take off from in the first place. Much like an airport's flight control facilities. A starport would already be equipped with a certain amount of communication, tracking gear in order to coordina