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Reply to An addition to ship building - power plants in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This already is sort of implemented in the free space number of each ship size. Smaller ships can support only so many power-hungry weapons compared to larger ones.

Reply to Tech Tree Worry - Developers Please Clarify in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

To prevent people from just going straight through the tree, maybe link the starting tech cost of the main tech (I.E. Plasma Cannons) to the other techs researched under Lasers. The more of the Laser weapon mods you research, the lower the starting price is for plasma cannons, as you are getting a much better understanding of the physics of Lasers and are coming up with wa

Reply to Tweak to elections. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Given that most people rarely if ever lose an election, it's unlikely that your first idea would have a noticeable effect. Your other ideas are interesting, though. I like the idea of random events changing the political structure of your race and possibly the others as well--an event that favors certain political parties and disadvantages others, perhaps?

Reply to Looks like a nice game, but.... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It's probably futile to point this out, but this has been discussed a billion times. A search would turn up arguments for both. Might not convince anybody, but at least you'd see the developers' rationale. My $.02? It's fine without it. You can argue until the heat death of the universe whether it would have been better with multiplayer, but some games just aren't suited for it---at least not ideally. And had they implemented it poorly, everyone would have dinged them for it. Mi

Reply to Dark Avatar screenshot of the days.. in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Precisely. WIth this you could make cuddly Drengin if you wanted. You can't mess with the originals but you can creative an identical derivative. Excellent.

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think the black hole weapons are black holes compressed in a projectile. They're just equipment that generates a black hole on impact.

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

So basically you'd shoot a cable across the void and send vibrations down it once it hit. (A plain rod would be better, but that just wouldn't work.) Sound like a mass driver variant either way--bit like the nanoripper.

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ah, X-Com. Thanks to the joys of DOS emulation (shudder), new users can still discover the awesomness of those games. Anyway, quick sanity/definition check: if we had a weapon that summoned mass between an enemy ship and us, would the weapon really be a sonic weapon? Or would it be something else that was analogically similar?

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If it is possible to generate enough power to create Mini black holes, why would it be that much more difficult to create a weapon that would use a type of Seismic shockwave to rip a ship apart? It's not so much a question of enough power as enough mass to transmit a shockwave. Ships would need to be surrounded by sufficiently dense mass to

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

So...to summarize the thread, energy travels in waves and still no sound in space. Great.

Reply to I want an aircraft carrier!!!!! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Don't worry that the majority of people want carriers!!! You will never see them--stardock does not listen to their fans!!!! Remember all those that wanted the cloaking device(didn't happen)---multiplayer(don't see it)---support for rookie modders(nope). There will be those that bash this post--including those that are officially with stardock(moderators etc.)---but prove

Reply to Wow... I mean... wow. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One of my guilty pleasures is to go to Amazon or another place with user reviews and select the lowest ratings for an item. It's often entertaining, and you can learn a lot about something by seeing the people who don't like it and why.

Reply to A thought about fighter balance. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Interesting. I like that idea. I know that the cost of late stage defenses often make me think twice about using them, so I think that would be a step in the right direction. It would probably make fighter-on-fighter combat more interesting, too. On a related note, it's interesting to contemplate what modules that convert free space to HP would do for combat. It's not like it matters, but in real life this is true as well. It's generally easier to make more effective weapons th

Reply to Carriers - I know the debate has raged before... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Er...the statistics you cited disprove your point. Note that the thrust on each F-15 engine is about 24000 pounds. Since the F-15 has two engines, and the F-16 has just one... Also, from globalsecurity.org: "It was the first U.S. operational aircraft whose engines' thrust exceeded the plane's loaded weight, permitting it to accelerate even while in a vertical climb."

Reply to B5 Hull Choices in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The first one looks crisper, IMHO. It gets my vote.

Reply to Carriers - I know the debate has raged before... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

the f-16 is the fastest and only aircraft that go from the ground straight up to its celling You must be thinking of the F-15. That fighter has a better than 1 to 1 thrust to weight ratio, so it can fly up. I don't think F-16s can do that. (Side note: the F-16 has been described as a "multi-role fighter," which is as good a name as anything for m

Reply to Interesting AI Strategy in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

That's actually not a bad idea. Presumably those worlds would have abysmal morale, so Information Warfare might be effective for once. Has anyone tried this to see if that's the case?

Reply to Carriers - I know the debate has raged before... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

with the exception of two fighters in the usa aircraft all usa aircraft are in reallity fighter/bombers the two exception is the f-16 and the f-18 oh and of course the ones that have a b in their number/name ie the disegnation of an f-15 is really fb-15 same with all the other fighters including the warthog as you stated its job is close support for land troops including k

Reply to Slightly faster research in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Don't we already have this? If you want a planet to direct all of its efforts to a specific task, use the focus buttons on the planet screen (near the top, next to the manufacturing readouts).

Reply to New must-have features coming to KHSM after DA... in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Rock on.

Reply to Are Defenses Worth Their Expense? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Depends on your play style. If you like small, cheap ships, then probably not. If you like large battleships, then they're worth it and more. They're expensive, but being able to tear through entire fleets singlehandedly makes up for it.

Reply to That's not a good economy. This is a good economy! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I'm seeing it too. I thought I was just me, though. Weird.

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Wow. I'm confused now: is this thread for real?

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. The problem with lasers et al isn't that they wouldn't work militarily; the issue is whether they can match or exceed more conventional weaponry at with reasonable energy expenditure. The reason modern militarys fire projectiles instead of lasers is that they're currently the most effective way to store energy and deliver it to a target. It may not always be that way, though: Intr

Reply to Psuedo Minor Races in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Wow, great idea. I've seen major races do this before, but I never thought of cultivating them as a de facto minor race. Thanks for the tip. Civilization bonsai.