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

I figured if anyone would know it would be you. [e classic];)[/e] Thanks. 3% is the same as DL which implies you wouldn't reach the max growth cap until you've reached a pop of 2.5B (75M/0.03). However I'm pretty sure in one DA game I had going where I was playing the Altarians I was getting a growth of about 1B per turn as long as I had a bit over 1B in pop which implies a 7% base growth (75M/0.07=1071). In that game I took no pop growth racia

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

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="7" id="2833101"]It was too easy to exploit. The ability to move your capital was removed in DA, but the UI bits related to doing so were not. Perhaps you could make note of this in the topic about things to tweak for the eventual patch.[/quote]As far as exploits go this is about as minor as you can get. I'd be far more interested in fixing DA so that you couldn't buy buildings, upgrade ships and still get positive social or military production out o

Base Growth per race in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Based on the wiki article, https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Population in DA "base growth varies with the race, but is between 4% and 7%". The first question is, is this correct? Secondly does anyone know the base population growth values for the various races including the Custom race?

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

[quote who="SirPleb" reply="1" id="2832032"]I've only played TA. I have not seen anything which would allow me to move my homeworld. How was it done in DL?[/quote]When viewing a planets Colony Management screen clicking on the "Details" button takes you to the Planet Details screen. At the bottom right of the Planet Details screen there are 4 buttons above the "Done" button which are: the Governor button, the Set as Homeworld button, the Rename Planet button and the Destroy Colony button

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

Apparently in DA and TA you can't move your homeworld to another colony like you can in DL, or am I missing something?

Reply to AI personalities in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Quaternus" reply="2" id="2823007"]Do you know anything about AIs 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, or anything 12 or higher? [/quote]I've heard that AI personality 12 is the same as AI personality 3, both give you DreadLord AI functionality but other than that I have no idea other than changing AI personality outside of what is allowed "in game" is considered cheating for purposes of Metaverse play.

Reply to AI personalities in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Note that changing AI Personality so as to play against DreadLord AI is considered cheating for Metaverse play because it is not an option selectable from within game and because each DreadLord AI receives 20K BC's *per turn* and it's a simple matter to swindle 160K BC's from them each and every turn beginning March 1st of year 0. Of course for non-Metaverse play you're free to play with whatever options you wish but in general the legitimately selectable options for AI personali

Reply to Answers to questions about the Metaverse in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The Ctrl-N difficulty reset bug appears when you reload a saved game and then do a Ctrl-N on it. It's possible there are other rarer circumstances that might cause it, but that's the only one that I've seen that consistently has that effect.[/quote]Yeah. If you ctrl-n a reloaded saved game that will mess up every time. Also this is perhaps somewhat of a holdover from my DL experience, however due to that experience I always keep a close watch on my initial income and I've mos

Reply to Answers to questions about the Metaverse in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Ctrl-N works just fine with Metaverse games. However there is one thing you need to be careful of and that is that randomly and for no apparent reason your difficulty level could be reset to cakewalk and if you're not looking you might not even notice it until later in the game when the AI's don't really bother to colonize or otherwise show any signs of life. There's an easy way to avoid this and it's simply to pay attention to your initial income. The exact value will be

Reply to How old are you? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Mumble, Chuck, both of you, knock it OFF[/quote]And who made you the arbiter of proper decorum? Chuck started it with his unnecessary quotation and comment of a reply I made almost a month ago and 12 replies prior to his response. It was Chuck that went out of his way to engage me but then I'm supposed to be the mature one to let it slide? Well I'm sorry, due to previous history with Chuck, I don't care to let it slide and my comments have simply been in response to his re

Reply to How old are you? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] if life ever reached a point where cat food was the only food source, odds are I would find it tasteful and satisfying while you would starve to death. I need not have millions to fall back on to live a decent life. Steak and wine are not necessities to me. I could have 10 million in the bank right now and still go to burger king and order a #1 with large fries and a coke. I would come how to white rice, beans and $1.59 per lbs fried chicken and I would be just fine with my 27 inch no

Reply to How old are you? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The last thing this world needs is another sour senior citizen for us younger people to have to deal with on the streets.[/quote]First off, I'm far more likely to have to deal with *you* on the streets than it is the other way around. Secondly your comments do not exist in a vacuum. They accumulate with other comments you've made in other threads to make a consistent whole. You can take your "joke" and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Unlike you, I don't guess

Reply to How old are you? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote][quote]Anyway I'm 58 and ready to retire.[/quote]Not happening fast enough I see. [/quote]By ready to retire I mean I've reached financial independence and could afford to retire if for some reason I absolutely had to. However given that at this point I'm saving close to $100K of *after tax* dollars per year which essentially converts to an extra $4,000 of yearly post-retirement income (assuming a not too unreasonable 4% return on my high grade corporate bonds), I find it difficul

Reply to tech tree question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds like you're trying to build one of the predefined ship. This is a bad idea mainly because the predefined ships are not really all that useful. Your problem is that besides needing the particular weapons and defense tech required by the predefined ships you also need to have the correct engine tech, life support and of course hull. Also there can be certain levels of miniaturization that you need for the predefined componenets to actually fit on the hull. If you're missing

Reply to How to use in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

To play the metaverse you first need to create a character, which I see that you've already done. You can create up to 3 different metaverse characters per user id. When you start a metaverse game you're given the choice as to which character to use to play the game. Starting a metaverse game is pretty much the same as starting a regular game except that instead of pressing the "New Game" button from the main menu you instead press the "Metaverse" button. However unlike a

Reply to Economic Problems in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Would it help if I just charged in with colony ships in the beginning and took as many planets as I could and my tax rate steadily grows?[/quote]It probably would help but there's no single answer to your problem. You probably need to colonize better as well as be a little more indirect in your first few encounters with the AI. Clearly as you move up in difficulty you are going to find that the AI gets stronger and it's harder for the human player to keep up. When that happens

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II news! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I think they should get ToA up to DA status, then work on DA.[/quote]I'm not specifying the order in which things should be done. I'm merely requesting that DA and DL receive their fair share of bug fixes and not be totally ignored. Certainly I assume that ToA as the "latest" version will undoubtedly receive the most attention, however I still maintain that DA and DL are legitimate game play choices that should not be totally superseded by the mere existence of ToA.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II news! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I was a serious speed junkie and balked hard at the 'nerfing.' But eventually I had more than a few games where the snail's-pace movement on Gigantic maps actually added fun[/quote]I'm not looking for a dramatic change of character. DA is what it is and the speed nerfage is a part of that. However I was hopeful that there could be some amount of "accomodation" for gigantic galaxy games where I have literally thousands of ships chugging across the galaxy at 5 parsecs/turn. The

Reply to Karma - what is it good for? in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Hey GW, long time no see! [quote]p.s. The global karma math might still have a teeny bug in it. My totals at GC2 and Elemental match, but I'm somehow 1 point lower at joeuser.[/quote]I see what you mean but it appears that you're a special case as I checked out a random thread there and the four folks or so that had any karma at all had the same both "here" and "there". BTW love the new "posted from" information. However one issue with the new "universal" karma is that

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II news! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]For those wondering about a future Galactic Civilizations III, right now, our plans for now will be to continue supporting the existing Galactic Civilizations II -- no GalCiv III is in the works right now. [/quote]This is excellent news. I feel there are plenty of things that need to be fixed in GalCiv2 before giving up on it which is what in effect would happen when and if there is a GalCiv3. In particular I'd like to see work done on all three versions of the game, DL and DA,

Reply to Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The forums are on a cluster of 3 servers. The other sites are on their own servers/clusters depending on the traffic the site gets and how it was developed.[/quote]Here's a picture of Bara trying to debug the forums.

Reply to Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It should be resolved in a bit, we're updating the machine with the encryption patch now. Bara[/quote]Cool. Just for information purposes, assuming that's it's not some super secret proprietary information, how many different servers are required to support all of Stardock's forum/blog sites including orphans like the GC2 Metaverse as well as the GalCiv 1 site?

Reply to Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

Still can't reply to this or *any* thread via Impulsedriven.net blogs. This is with both IE7 and FF 3.6.10. AFAIK this just started happening with this latest update. Replying from not the last page of a multi-page thread simply hangs. Replying from the last page of a thread gives the following error. [quote]Your comment was not submitted successfully. Bad Auth Please try again.[/quote] To test merely go to <a href="http://gunslinger.impuls

Reply to Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

More strangeness. To avoid the link to the forum from which you post all you need to do is to reply via your blog at JU or I assume Impulsedriven except for some reason I can't actually seem to reply to this thread via my Impulsedriven blog, it gives me a "Bad Auth" error. I'm posting this from the Impulsedriven forums (as opposed to from my Impulsedriven blog) so we'll see if that works. I assume it will. So the question is should there be a link inserted for people t

Reply to Forum Update - October 5, 2010 - Many Changes/Tweaks in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm ... Note my reply #93 does not show a link to the forum from which I posted. It seems there are "secret" forums that allow you to remain anonymous. Curiouser and Curiouser.