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WTF is a space truck? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah from these screenshots here http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/837/837041/imgs_1.html Is it a freighter/constructor with a silly name or a whole new class of ship?

Reply to GalCiv II and the rest are for adults? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Future Geek in the making, almost brings a tear to the eye Remember, once you walk down the dark path, forever will it rule your destiny.

Reply to Next button doesn*t show up in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had something likat happen a couple of times in 1.1x Found that if I went to the save game screen and back out, then I got my button back, temporarily anyway. Hasn't happened since 1.2 Everytime it happens to me, thats exactly what I do. I have seen this happen in 1.2 and 1.3, it usually happens when I'm looking at an enemy fleet just when the

Reply to ship cost in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ship cost = Build Time and maintenance cost.

Reply to Rapid expansion in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I put at least a 1 farm, 1 entertainment and market on every planet above class 7. Also in the begining of the game when colonizing I pretty much put my taxes at 0 to get a 100% approval so my guys can mate quickly. So basically every planet I get has the potential to have around 11B people and that gives me more then enough money to eventually go up to 100% production. You do have to go 1 or 2 turns with 20-30% production when you start raising taxes but as long as the approval is around %80

Reply to Weapons in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

One advice I can give you is never make a ship with a 1 attack rating, always go for at least a 2. Defence works is effective vs other weapon types by the square route of the defence. EX. Shields 2 gives a 2 defence on beams but a 1 defence mass drivers and missles. So if the enemy has a 2 defence rating in anything and your ship only has a 1 attack value it won't be very effective. Now early in the game I usually research up to LaserIV or V or e

Reply to Downloaded Beta by mistake in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You can redownload the game and install it as many times as you like.

Reply to Ship Naming Strategy: What do you do? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

hmmm, where do you look to see the ships level? When you click a ship you can see it's level by either double clicking to get the description or look at the very top of the command window and you will see a little bar saying level. You can also go to the sort ship/Planet and turn on the "Sort by Level", this allows me to pick my hero shi

Reply to patch 1.3 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's pretty stable for me however I did notice a bug when it came to fleet pictures. If you have more then 1 fleet in the same tile, you usually see small thumbnails of the ships at the bottom of the screen. However after the 1.3 patch, those little pics are now big black squares. Not really a big thing but it does make it hard to choose the fleet you wanted.

Reply to Ship Naming Strategy: What do you do? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have 2 naming convetions. Class name (ship design name) - This is usually random Mythical/legendary/cool sound class names. Ex. Excalibur for a warship and Corpurnicus for Science Vessels ect... I also put in the description the date of fabrication and class Ex. Excalibur Commisioned 2231. Ship of the Line I don't go into any of the details of the ship (weapons or loadout since thats already done for you). I only name individual ship

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but some day -- some day we won't be doing updates to the game anymore. And with that in mind, it seems to me that the things that should really take priority are the kinds of things only we can do (i.e. C++ code changes). That is how we've been approaching things anyway. Things that people can tweak to their heart's content on their

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

If you are playing a Metaverse game you can't use any Mods, so we are dependent on Stardock to fix them. True but I don't play Metaverse games and I'm sure there are alot of users that don't . It would be nice to just list the correct values (I'm looking at you droid Sentry II and III) so that I can make the appropriate changes and fixes to

Reply to Does the AI recognize bonus tiles? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Remember that the AI destroys improvements if it thinks the player is going to conquer it. It also adapts it's build strategy depending on what's going on (I.E. if it's loosing a war it gets rid the more expensive buildings and builds more factories).

Reply to saves compatiblility with 1.3 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'm guessing the update will come out probably around 4-6 pm eastern time. So you got at least 3 hours to finish up the game you are playing.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Considering how easy the Tech Tree is to mod (or any of the xml files really) why doesn't someone release a techtree mod that fixes those imbalances? Heck I would edit my own techtree to make the game better if someone gave me some balanced vaiables on what I should set those weapons/defences to.

Dyson Spheres in Dark Avatar? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well I heard that in DA you will be researching techs to be able to colonize other types of planets. I was wondering if there could be an ultimate tech to planet colonization that allows the race to make Dyson Spheres. That way you can colonize Stars (suns) and they would be like lvl15-20 planets. Having not played DA I don't know how the colonization techs work but i think it would be great to have Dyson Sphere as the very last uber Tech in that branch.

Reply to Needs more Depth in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just want more cloak and dagger stuff to do, more backstabbing, more AI standing by moral ethics (like more protection for minor races). One thing that bothers me is that good friends will go to war because one side is already getting completely destroyed so the other powerful force in the galaxy comes in to mop up (instead of protect their friend even if it's a minor race). Also does anyone know if there's another way to declare war other then moving into enemy ships?

Reply to Needs more Depth in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think the thing that makes it so limiting is the fact that most of my games end way before 2240 (even with tech trading off). The main reason for this is the fact that once the AI allies itself with something, they never break it off or cancel alliances. If there was more dynamics to alliances (trying to keep your allies pleased with money for example). Right now I just Ally with those who are friendly with me and eventually it turns into me and 3 other civs fighting the rest of the galaxy.

Reply to How does the game determine which ship in the fleet gets attacked? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It always seems to me that the AI attacks the ship that posses the biggest threat and that can kill quickest. Like in the begining when i put 1 beam attack on my fighters and a stinger on my heavy fighters. It always goes after the heavy fighters first.

Reply to Who Wants a Carrier Poll to Settle This in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The way i would see carriers working is as a module you can purchase. Then lets say 3 tiny fighters can fit in one module and it won't effect your logistics of the fleet plus the fighters would move just as the carrier regardless of whether they have an engine. That way we can star destroyer like capitol ships that unleash tie fighter like ships that have no engines but instead are all weapons (I use that strategy for starbase and planatary defence since my fighters don't need to intercept but

Sound Question in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Ok I was going through the sound folder replacing sounds with beefier Bridge Commander sounds, when I noticed there are 3 sounds for various defences (IE battle_armor_deflect, battle_armor_deflect2, battle_armor_deflect3). So my question is are these sounds played randomly on hit or do they correspond to success/partial success/failure of the defence?