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Hmm... I guess the group of players that don't use, or like military starbases are merely very vocal...
*Sigh* Can't the devs get the Dread Lords right. I want a good fight...
From my experience, you didn't need for both races to both have alliance tech for Dread Lords. I first noticed that this changed during Dark Avatar beta. You now do need to for both races to have the "alliance" tech to form an alliance. I hope this helps.
I remember seeing something like that before. The last one I got, I made a screen shot and saved it, but when I went back to full screen mode, It was fixed. I don't think you can save this bug.
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Hmmm... So there are some others who use military starbases, just not many. No I do not use them. I play on gigantic maps and I think they are a complete waste. ... I don't play gigantic maps often. I prefer the smaller maps where the game can be finished quickly. I'm however am playing a gigantic map right now. Its been a long time since I last did so, before I got good with military starbases. I can see why its difficult to u
Do you use military starbases? Why or why not? I've been around these forums for a while, and when ever the topic about military starbases show up, its always seems to be about how they are not useful, and a waste of time and resources to build. I find that odd, because I can use them quite well. There is a lot of room for me to improve, but I consider them worth the resources to build. The reason why I'm asking is, I want to know if there are others who can use them. I want to
Nevermind, looks like it's one of those mega events that I guess I should probably turn off for now ha ha. The only thing that's aggrivating was I didn't even have Planetary Invasion, so it wasn't like I could stop it. Ah well, there's always the next game. You don't need planetary invasion to prevent an influence victory, you only need to declare war. You can't win by influence if you are currently in a war. In one of the games I played in DA
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They do provide defensive and hit point bonuses though. Those last the rest of the game.
Thanks for the help Kryo.
Thanks for the update! I'll be starting up a new game later tonight.
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In the perfect universe that Stardock imagines where people actually build military starbases, I can see evil shining. I use military starbases. I find them quite useful as they provide attack bonuses to my tiny ships without actually increasing their costs. It only costs me a small amount of bc to improve military starbases. Once improved, all of my tiny ships are that much more powerful, with no increased price of production for them. <div cla
They're... beatiful... Sniff. It would be nice to have a pretty background to look at while trying to become absolute ruler of the galaxy. Just make sure that they don't interfere with our ability to play the game. I don't want to be worrying about trying to find my ships with that kinds of background.
... You must care about this as much as I do, or be really bored Ok, so I'm bored now. To amuse myself, I'll be argueing in favor of keeping the system as is. Feel free to try to defeat my arguements, it might help improve the system. Solution #1:Cut all defense module values to 1/3 of their current cost. So what. Now not only will defenses be smaller, but they will also be cheaper too. Sign me up! I'll
Whew, you finally made it to the end of this post (almost). What a trooper. You must care about this as much as I do, or be really bored Oww... my head. Please don't create such large posts in the future. Break them up into smaller pieces if need be. Ouch... I'll be back once I sort my thoughts...
Meh... So long as the limit is greater than 3, I'm fine. I play as Yor, and I use defensive strategies that make use of their super ability that restricts other races ships speed to a max of 3. If this Mega event reduces speeds to 3 or less, I would have problems. It would at that point, nerf my super ability.
The closest you're going to get to choke points is Military starbases, and strategic positioning of your worlds. The area of effect for Military starbases are quite large, they can nearly cover every parsec in a whole sector, and the effects of multiple Military starbases over lapping stack. Strategic positioning of your worlds means such things as, being the only race with worlds in a sector, fortifying sectors nearest to your enemies, preventing the enemy from having worlds on two dif
To the loud minority, rtfm!! (Read the frickin manual) Page 12 of the GalCiv 2 manual (Dark Avatar) Mega Events (Dark Avatar): When enabled, mega events are allowed. These are events that are intentially designed to destabilize the game. These mega events were designed to make the game more difficult and more interesting by 'destabilizing' the game. Stop and think... Would the option of having Mega events exist if they were a walk in
Have you checked to see if the Dread Lords picked fights with the Pirates!? In a game I played in the DA beta, the pirate event happened just before the Dread Lord event. I was surprised to find out that the Dread Lords and pirates were actually fighting each other. Thats significant because, there would be a chance that any sector that the Dread Lords have moved around in is likely to be clean of pirates, and 'might' provide a safer sector to send your ships to build up your fleets to deal with
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There are techs that improve a planets PQ. The class 1s ussually have 5 (sometimes 6) improveable tiles per tech level. The techs are: -Soil enhancement -Habitat improvement -Terraforming
For me, I want to see several of them turned up considerably. The Dread Lords should spawn with some HUGE fleets, rather than just being a free planet. I'd like to see groups like the Jagged Knife be considerably more active once they pop up. In very brief terms, I want mega events to genuinely turn the game on its ear, as I believe they were intended to do. Anything to add some challenge to the late game mop-up is a good thing in my book. <div class="Ar
I'm curious as to its max population. Was it 2.5B or much lower? Perhaps. I've had planets like what Feud had myself. When the PQ is upgraded, the game shows the additional tiles, but the game doesn't reconize that the planets PQ has been improved. Its annoying, because the planet doesn't increase the point my population should grow to. Unfortunately the AI doesn't seem to have figured this out, but I trust that'll get
Sadly, the AI always seem to fall short in this category. Not only do they not react, but they also can't build an effective influence starbase. Its really sad when I can spam influence in a galaxy where I set things up in such a way so there would be a fight.
and my power supply already runs hot alot. perhaps I should upgrade that? its already 5 years old I think. would I need a new case to get a bigger power supply? Right now the one I have is a 350W. Make this a top priority! If you are concerned about the power supply, you might want to have it looked at. If its a problem, you should have it replaced. Its cheaper to replace a power supply now, than it is to replace a whole computer later, because
Try to max out social spending. With 50% production, its very easy to get zero points produced per turn. If that doesn't work, try to buy a few factories to increase possible production.