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[quote]Sorry, but I have to ask: You're not using Dread Lords or 'Negative Balance' are you? I'm not going to try to compete with BS tactics like those.[/quote]I'm sure he's not using Dread Lords because he did eventually come to agree with Kryo's (and my) opinion that Dread Lord AI's were not suitable for Metaverse play and essentially issued an edict that Dread Lord opponents were not to be used by Kzinti Empire members. As far as Negative Balance I suppose that could be discussed b

Reply to [TA] Econ Starbase Manufacturing Modules appear to do nothing in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]384%! I feel violated.[/quote]This is by no means the best, in fact as far as uber research planets go this one is fairly ordinary, it's just a screenshot I've happened to keep around. I think the record was somewhere around 20K RP's per turn for a single planet, although that's as much a function of how many research resources you have to mine as well as the precise planet location as well as bonus tiles among other factors. [quote]No research co-ordinator (+25% = eq

Reply to [TA] Econ Starbase Manufacturing Modules appear to do nothing in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="jecjackal" reply="2" id="2848462"]The bonus is listed in the "Details" Page of the planet. I see my 48% manufacturing bonus. I just wish this was in some way displayed upon the "Summery" page.[/quote]It is displayed in the number of shields generated although in some cases it might not be all that apparent. Here's an old set of screenshot from DL, it should be pretty much the same in TA. </

Reply to [TA] Military Rating (Not Score) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Ok I did try building a mil starbase and found the ship asst modules. However, I can only get +1 def assist. Didn't you say you could get +9 def? I couldn't find them in the tech tree.[/quote] B esides the tech requirements that SS mentions many modules also require other modules to be placed before they can be placed. Many of these are obvious like you can't pl

Reply to Optimal number of farms/moralbuildings in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Quaternus" reply="3" id="2844882"]I'll add here that I discovered the absolute maximum population for a single planet. It is 100 billion.[/quote]While that's most definitely true, these days it's of little practical use. Your Member Number and profile indicate that you've been around these forums as long as I have so perhaps you remember when it was actually possible to achieve populations of 100B per planet but that was in the days of DL v1.2 prior to substantial ner

Reply to Optimal number of farms/moralbuildings in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The bottom line. If you can use a tile to increase population by 56 % its worth it, otherwise its not. Does anyone else have a different opinion?[/quote]Seems logical, however it's not a very practical calculation that one can make primarily because one can't simply use just one tile to increase population it usually requires some combination of farms *and* morale buildings. However I do think you're on the right track. The way that I look at the problem is to determine

Reply to Galaxy Setup - the Key to a Good Game in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I just went to check and it resets to normal[/quote]Yeah I'm not sure this really qualifies as a bug but it has existed since the introduction of DA. If you start a new game (i.e. non-metaverse) your previous Tech speed selection is remembered and retained but if it's a metaverse game it's always reset to normal. I can see how you might take that to mean that you can't set tech speed above normal but as you now know that's not the case. Stuff like that happens all the time. Jus

Reply to [TA] Military Rating (Not Score) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I believe this is calculated as (total attack + total defense) + (total hitpoints / 10)[/quote]This is as good a baseline as any and it is what we've always been told but the reality of it is somewhat different as discovered by Soul Sole. The thing is that your military rating is depreciated by the number of (armed) ships that you have and so if you have large numbers of low value ships your military rating will be less than if you have a fewer number of ships that have the same total

Reply to Galaxy Setup - the Key to a Good Game in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I always go for max score which in DA means: Gigantic Galaxy No victories except total conquest Do not disable Tech Trading Do not enable Blind Exploration Allow Mega Events and Super Abilities Abundant Habital Planets Abundant Number of Planets Abundant Number of Stars Scattered Star Density (The above settings usually result in about 750 total planets) Abundant Anomalies (Anomalies are useful) Ra

Reply to Placement of Economic capital in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I figured that the economic capital does not at all effect the other existing economic instllements such as stock markets. It only givs a bonus of 50 % more tax. So to get the most effect it should be placed on the planet with the highest population, right?[/quote]Yep. [quote]I also tend to think that you need the economic boost from the economic capital in the beginning of the game and hence I alway places it on earth and then try to grow the population to an economical feasib

Reply to Base Growth per race in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

As far as Base Growth rate per race, I do have two new data points that seem to bolster Soul Sole's concern that it may be random. In b oth of these cases I was playing the Altarians, the same race that gave me 7% last time, but this time I got two different results on two different starts. In one case I got 128M of growth from a pop of 250M with the 40% pop growth ability selected. This implies a base growth rate of 128/(250*1.4*8)=0.0457. In a different game ag

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[quote who="jacklv" reply="30" id="2836668"]I never considered it cheating. I was just another way to reach max score. That is what the MV is all about. Those who do either can't or won't play to top it.[/quote]Both Kryo and KzintiPatriarch made it clear that *they* considered it cheating. The fact that a troll doesn't consider it cheating is not surprising. Go back under your bridge.

Reply to Can't create or reply to PM's or posts in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

The PM system does now seem to be working, the crisis seems to be over. What happened anyway, did all the code writing pigeons escape?

Can't create or reply to PM's or posts in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Something was really funky earlier and I couldn't post or reply to posts. Same with PM's couldn't compose new PM's or reply to old PM's. Still can't as of a few minutes ago. When replying to a PM the previous text disappeared while entering any new text but when the PM was sent the old text reappeared but no no text was sent. This affected me but did not apparently affect others on the same forum (GalCiv2). Also the default font was messed up and the spellchecker didn'

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[quote][quote]Just wanted to make a single point by itself. SirPleb, consider the possibility of passing 10 trillion population by, say...October 1st of Year Zero.[/quote]Holy Smoke! If I could do that I'm almost certain I could pass 2M score. Wow.[/quote]One thing is for sure and that is that Sole Soul knows more about GalCiv2 scoring than Brad and Cari put together. Of this there is no doubt.

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[quote]As I don't play Metaverse, the current topic is less useful personally for me then the original. Also, a personal pet peeve of mine is the way how so many forum threads are started on identical topics.[/quote]Certainly understandable and valid points, but then as you say ... [quote] On the other hand, with the search feature utterly useless, I suppose it's the only way new players will get a lot of useful information without having to manually search the forums.[/quote]And even

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[quote]No offense intended, but there's probably more than a few threads on Metaverse score-maximizing techniques already on the forum. Why start a new one?[/quote]Also no offense intend but this is just where the conversation naturally seemed to wander. There's really not all that many active folks around these days so it just seems best to let things be a little more free form and not get all that hung up about staying rigidly "on topic". [quote]Can we get back to the original topic

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[quote]I used ctrl-n until I got a map which had a +300% research tile on the home planet and which had one visible colonizeable planet outside the home system.[/quote]Actually to get the kind of research needed to do everything as soon as possible a +700% research tile is pretty much required. [quote]Score at Dec 22 of year one was 592,900, with military production just ramping up, having started to arrive at the SB array at about 1 year + 8 months.[/quote]I had just assumed that wha

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[quote]Yup, quite so. I don't know of any way to spend/grow while bankrupt in TA.[/quote]Actually I do think there are a couple of holes still in TA in this regard although I'm by no means positive that this is the case. I also prefer to avoid using such techniques mainly because I believe that there are ways to do just as well if not better without relying on them but I don't look askance at those that do take advantage of them precisely because that since you can do just as well without the

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[quote]I'm using ToA 2.03. I don't know what advantages this may be giving me vs. DA or DL since I haven't played those versions. It does have one disadvantage. The MCC economy boost which I've read about has been fixed in this version of the game, so no early doubling of income. Without that overwhelming reason to align with evil I think the best benefits come from a neutral alignment and that's what I chose.[/quote]There may have been some other things fixed in TA as well. I'm pretty sure a

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[quote]I'm in the milking phase of a game which I hope will demonstrate the power of maximizing pop growth by passing 2M in score. Remains to be seen whether it will do so. If it does I'll do a detailed writeup of the approach. Score at Dec 22 of year one was 592,900, with military production just ramping up, having started to arrive at the SB array at about 1 year + 8 months.[/quote]Sole Soul is the true expert on max score but it seems you should have a chance at 2M. Based on year 0 score a

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[quote]From the numbers you give it's doubtful, but could the "wormhole causes pop boom" event have been occurring at the time?[/quote]No. This is still rather early in year 0 and as far as I know random events aren't enabled until Oct 7th (or is it Oct 1st, I forget which) of year 1. Actually (again AFAIK) I was the first person to discover (and use) this fact.

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I definitely didn't have any Fertility clinics and I'm definitely sure about my pop growth ability being 70% (plus possibly another 5% to 10% due to found anomalies). The only real unknown in the equation is base growth. Actually since Pop*BG*1.7*8=Growth and since in all three datapoints that I noted (250M, 500M and 1B) my growth pretty much equaled my current pop (i.e. Pop=Growth) that implies that my base growth, BG=1/(1.7*8)=7.3%. Since I assume that 7% is the max that w

Reply to Can't move homeworld in DA and TA? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The AI empires have not seemed to get another capital colony building anytime I conquer that planet of theirs, even though a new planet visually changes to be the capital. What happens to that building once I conquer or flip it. That is, do I now have two such bonus structures? Anyone know? I cannot check myself until tonight.[/quote]In DL what happened is that during the turn that you captured an AI's homeplanet the civilization capital building would definitely still be on the captur

Reply to Can't move homeworld in DA and TA? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The speed nerfage is really a subjective thing. Some hate it, some are neutral on it, some actually like it. Although I agree it didn't do much good at its intended purpose. Really hurt the AI more then the player.[/quote]Actually it's intended purpose was to try and stop player "blitzkrieg" tactics against the AI. At the time it was Brad's concern that a player could be significantly behind an AI in weapons and defense technology yet simply by having fleets of very fast ships could to