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Reply to Beta 2b -- Yor can't culture flip planets! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]True, but maybe that's also intentional, since it's already one of the most powerful Super Abilities in the game. Building the full range of influence upgrades gives the Yor a huge strategic advantage in ship speed. I'm not sure the AI knows how to take full advantage of Super Isolationist fleet movement, but the player sure can.[/quote] Eh, I'd rank it as one of the lower ones, actually... in terms of the player. For the AI? Sure, it really helps counter the weakness the AI has,

Reply to Beta 2b -- Yor can't culture flip planets! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Isn't the counterbalance that they're very hard to flip with influence? They can't use that as a way to gain planets, but they also won't lose many planets that way either. If they don't have to sink much money into countering influence pressure, they can spend it on other things. It does steer them along a certain strategic path, but it would make sense that not every race would be able to get an influence win. An evil/scary race like the Korath could get an influence win just b

Reply to [TA Beta1] "...But I don't *want* your crappy tech..." in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I agree that some techs shouldn't be tradeable. None of the techs you get in the beginning should, nor should any tech that heavily depends on the race's physiology, like the Dregnin/Korath's research techs and probably a good portion of the Yor's tech tree... As for Overwrites, I said before that each race should get their own version of a tech when they trade for it. Makes it easier to balance races on their own merits.

Reply to Post your TA suggestions here in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'd like to see more Trade Goods, especially ones that are unique to races. I'd like to see the Galactic Guide Book be a trade good, if nothing else. Some randomization in what tiles will be able to be Teraform-able on planets. Some have more tiles, some have less. Or at least more consistent final-PQ numbers for lower class planets. Right now, fully teraformed class 4 worlds end up with more tiles than fully teraformed Class 5, 6,

Reply to Torian Morale Balance Issue- Temple of Memories vs Healing Pools in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Temple of Memories definately needs some kind of boost, as it is currently just a vastly weaker Healing Pool. I like the suggestion that each temple provide a civ-wide boost to Morale of a few percent, but making them 25% or so would work, too - at least then they don't become obsolete when Healing Pools are researched, which is especially annoying because Temples don't auto-upgrade to Healing Pools. [/quote] I'd kinda like it to become a

Reply to Orbital planetary surveillance in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]This idea would work even better if those tiles you get by terraforming would also have a chance to be speccial bonus tiles ...[/quote] If nothing else comes out of this thread, that would be an awesome idea, imho. Of course, being able to survey planets before actually colonizing them is an awesome idea too. I really don't think it would change the game that much, though.

Reply to Beta 2B of Twilight arrives in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] And here I was hoping that you guys would make the changes needed for the Yor to have no morale period. What I mean is, they wouldn't be affected by yellow resources and such. Oh well, I'll check it out later. Whitout morale one could raise taxes to maximun. That would be... unbalanced. And if they had no taxes there would have to be a whole new idea

Reply to Torians, Torians, Torians... in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] And lastly, the Torian's start-of-game Galactic Achievement, the water transport one, really should probably be a Super Project; there's not much point in it being a Galactic Achievement if only the Torians can build it anyway (not to mention can build it so early no one else has a chance even if they could build it). Wouldn't it have to be a galactic achievement? Otherwise everyone who traded for the tech could bui

Reply to Espionage without harming those spied upon in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Just a small note, it was stated that it is planned in the 2.0 patch to be able to assign agents to a Civ instead of planetary improvements. Such agents can't be nullified (or retrieved, for that matter), but only gather information.

Reply to TA Beta - Fleet component stacking in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Also, Stellar defense modules desperately need a sizemod... they're currently a no brainer on medium or larger ships, since they only take five space and give you, at worst, a 20% bonus to attack.[/quote] I think that was probably intended, honestly.

Reply to TA beta 2a -- The Yor still need morale??? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Concerning invasions the yor maybe don't have advanced tech modules but they have a whole line of specialized techs for improving their soldiering that are unique to the yor (killer drones or something like that) it kind of compensates in a way. Anyway didn't have any problems for invading, your soldiers have a tedancy to be quite expendable with all those low moral worlds to empty [/quote] Except they also don't have any of the more powerful invasion tactics either (Core Deton

Reply to TA Beta - Fleet component stacking in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]1) Special component limitations on some of the new pieces of equipment limit the extent to which carriers can be made using things like the tulon weapon focus and xalax defense component. Those two components can't be on the same ship at the same time, which severely limits the effectiveness of carrier type ships. Even if they have the space to mount more components, they are unable to. The same goes for the two types of stellar defense modules. The Terrans have access to stellar defense

Reply to TA beta 2a -- The Yor still need morale??? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The Collectives were also supposed to produce based on the Population on the planet, I believe. And perhaps their unique research center, too. I do remember reading something about "splitting population between research and production" in relation to the Yor. But, I don't ever actually remember reading that the didn't [i]need[/i] morale... just that they didn't have any morale improvements/tech. Big difference there. In GalCiv 2 maintaining a high Morale means having a greater Population Growth.

Reply to Beta 2a Bugs in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Korath: Slaveling Imagination Labs don't upgrade to Xeno Labs.[/quote] I actually think the Korath are supposed to get the same Research Structures the Drengin get, so I wouldn't expect this to be true anytime soon. At least not without them changing how the upgrade target of structures is declared is changed

Reply to Racial techs - hard to recognize? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Finally, I'll repeat a request that right-clicking only show information, and not act as a selection in both tech views. Pretty Please? I don't want my currently researching tech to be reset, just because I'm trying to find info on a different part of the tree. It should work the same way it does for trading techs in the diplomacy/contact screen.... right-click for info, left click for selection. [/quote] I'll throw my vote in for that. As for the info from the summ

Reply to YOR : Technology BUG in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]-The base stalk takes 0 weeks to build even on a world with no Industry upgrades.[/quote] This is also true of the new Harvester for the Torians. Could be intentional, as both races kinda have the "strength in numbers" vibe going.

Reply to Food bonus tiles in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I loved that in TA there was no initial farm to build, so I hope I'm not mistaken in thinking this is what happens for all races...[/quote] All but Yor and Torians now.

Reply to spying doesn't work in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Problem fixed for 2a. Which is .... where? [/quote] Scheduled to be released today, I believe.

Reply to Various Manufacturing Korath Buildings in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The only problem I've noticed so far is that the AI makes very poor use of bonus buildings. It loves manufacturing bonus buildings, and will put them in place without actually building up the base at all. I am always taking over low quality planets which have no factories, but do have a generator. The Korath planets are really bad, because they have so many buildings that will give bonuses. They do also like to build a pain amplification center when they have no labs, or maybe 1.[/quote]<

Reply to Tactics of tourism (too much of the good stuff) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Actually, the open up trade resolution should stay. But the Tourism mega event should definately go.[/quote] Eh, Mega Events are supposed to be major ways to shake up the gameplay. I'd say let it stay. Of course, you can always scale it down to 5x tourism and that would still be a major change...

Reply to Techtree Racial Symbols in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I also noticed something similar. The tooltips for the small icons below each tech (showing their benefits e.g. speed +10) seems to get "stuck" if you quickly switch to one tech branch to another via the scroll list near the top. What I mean by this, is that the old tooltips will still display in place of the new ones. I think it was fixed just by panning the tech tree around a bit.[/quote] I've seen something similar, in that the tooltips won't display unless you drag t

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 2 Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Too bad the Yor didn't make it into the beta Oh well, still two new races to check out. The Yor certainly do look interesting from the XML peeking I just did... can't wait for them to be enabled.

Reply to Random Bugs in the New Beta in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I'll also add can't reassign asteroid mines to a different planet. This is while playing the tourney map, haven't tried it in sandbox.[/quote] I had the same problem, but oddly, it eventually went away... *shrugs

Reply to Can't place spies in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I haven't downloaded the newest beta yet, but didn't the devs say that they were changing espionage to target other races generically, instead of individual planets? Maybe that's what you're seeing?[/quote] That was scheduled to be in the 2.0 update of DA.

Reply to TA Beta 2 A Making today or pushed to tomorrow???? UPDATED TODAY!!! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Let's see if the 'Server Gods' are easilly fooled.[/quote] Never mess with the Server Gods, for they are quite wrathful [quote]As you are probably figuring, all of the races are going to be somewhat more powerful than they were in Dark Avatar.[/quote] Nothing wrong with that! [quote]I bet the new condition has something to do with terror stars. I hop