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Thoughts from the last game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Running TA-3C 1) The AI seems to be grossly misjudging the number of troops needed to take a planet. I would have planets defenseless and at their mercy, only to fight off wave after wave of tiny invasions. The Iconians were notorious for this, usually mustering assault forces with double-digit numbers-- and, on one notable occasion, a grand total invasion force of FOUR guys. This gave a colossal advantage to the Korath, because spore-ships did not suffer from this difficulty. Is anyone

Reply to Does anyone know which races are "good" ethicly in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Iconian 90 [/quote] I still find this hard to believe.

Reply to advanced machines...... fall of man? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] So think about it. Is it really a good thing that by making the movies that you buy/rent cheaper, people litteraly go out of work? I think it's rather sad. Labor laws and workers needs are being replaced by customer satisfaction, and more profit. (I don't know if this is going on in the U.K. or anywhere else, but it is deffenitly happening here in the USA).[/quote] Yes, of course. I'm not sure about this particular instance, and I certainly favor strong labor laws,

Reply to Minor race ascension event in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Well, if you look here https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=164&aid=170595 you will see that in TA Ascension and Tech victory is no longer the same thing ... [/quote] Pretty sure that's not implemented yet.

Reply to Unbelieveable in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Very interesting co-in-ki-dink! Why don't I get a mega-event where Pirates are actually powerful. I mean I got pirates once or twice but they are 5 attack 12 armour frigates while I have about 40 attack frigates. I've always regarded pirates as a minor annoyance and even that because they manage to get one of my trade ships every once in a while. [/quote] That's the MINOR event pirates. The Mega-Event pirates sends thirty or so 300+ attack fleets in to wi

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] My biggest gripe with Gal Civ 2: *Micromanagement Can someone re-assure me with examples that TA addresses this problem? Please? [/quote] Still seems to bog down in the late game for me, sorry.

Reply to Dread Lords in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It would be nice if you could flag a non-campaign game as a Dread-Lords match, though....

Reply to Minor race ascension event in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Though I can't do a tech victory now due to the previously mentioned ascendancy of the Blade.[/quote] Are you sure? I would have SWORN I'd won tech victories after minor-race ascensions in the past...

Reply to Early Access to Advanced Techs by AI in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Techen, this is an old thread. The recent updates fixed this issue, there's no need for necromancy here.[/quote] This is NOT a fixed issue, if the minor races are not intended to obtain gross technological superiority. I just finished a game as the humans-- was going along fine, slowly winning the diplo-game. The best guns any major race had were gravity drivers. A minor race stole the Korath tech, I went to trade. It was like Christmas. I bought Hyperwarp

Reply to TA 3C - Korx start out totally Evil? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Terran Alliance: 50 Drengin Empire: 1 Altarian Resistance: 99 Arcean Empire: 50 Torian Confederation: 80 Yor Collective: 25 Dominion of Korx: 1 Drath Legion: 75 Iconian Refuge: 90 <font color

Reply to TA 3C Drath slow breeders and the econ crash in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In what little chance I've had to play the Drath, they didn't GROW their way out of the population. They got out of it through war profiteering, when the rest of the galaxy fell at each-other's throats.

Reply to Game Freeze in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, the turn button is (usually) disappearing with this error. I'll grab an .err next time it happens (it's usually fine in the early-mid game)

Game Freeze in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

For a while now, particularly last game, I've been experiencing some odd behavior where the game will just.... stop progressing from turn to turn. I can interact normally with the interface, but can only select ships through the ship list, not by clicking on them. Giving them orders will set new waypoints, but they won't move. Quicksaving and reloading solves the problem for a random period of time, usually about a turn or two. I must have reloaded thirty times last game-- obviously, unacceptabl

Reply to Avoiding the cash crash in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Interesting! I didn't realize you could ferry population with colony ships!

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 3C Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The Drengin and Korath are too much alike. I don't actually understand why they're both in the game, since the Drengin come off as a tamer version of the Korath. [/quote] While there might be something to be said for increasing their gameplay differentiation, the Drengin split is pretty clearly a reference to the classic Starcontrol II-- where the alien baddies, the Ur-Quan, were a single race that had split into two separate groups, the greenish Kzer-za who wanted to enslave the g

Reply to TOA V 0.92(b) 0.004 Pirates Mega Event in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I fully agree with you, it's completely broken-- at least for its level of frequency. It basically kills the influence path, and puts a 100 turn snooze button on military victory. I'd like to see it toned down somewhat to the point where defense is feasible-if-difficult-- as opposed to "OK, everything's gone, if you're lucky you may be able to make custom ships to take these things on at the top of your tech tree." Barring that, I'd like to see its frequency reduced. I don't mind it dis

Avoiding the cash crash in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Every game, I rush out early trying to expand, and I'm getting reasonably good at it. On a large map, I'm usually capturing the surrounding 6 or so planets, which is about what I need to stabilize myself with a foothold in the galaxy. The problem comes right around the end of my expansion phase, when I have to pay for colony maintainence, but don't yet have the population or trade to support it. I lose money hand over fist, and I'm forced to reduce my budget, raise taxes, and sell techs

Reply to Pirates in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Really? Because I could only clear them out with Massive, fully miniaturized ships that had 200 defense against their attacks and were firing weapons they weren't set to defend against. Maybe I need to go over the combat engine again. Either way, trying to save my starbases was a pretty futile, frantic gesture ("Quick! I'm buying constructors on all my planets. BUILD DEFENSES!") Drives me batty. I wonder, at about how many defensive modules can they actually protect themselves from th

Pirates in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, so what's the deal with the Pirate mega-event? It's come up in the last three games I've played. Every time, it wipes all the starbases, ships and unprotected freighters off the map-- and then they sit around spawn camping me for the next several years. Now, I'm a peaceful kinda guy, so this is usually massively in my favor, but it feels pretty stupid for these pirates to have vastly superior numbers and technology. It's basically a really strong cue to focus on a diplomatic or

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 3C Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Woah there. What's this about a terrorstar victory condition?

Reply to The way of the Krynn in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds great. When can we play 'em?

Reply to Pregen Racial Abilities inconsistencies in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think this is intentional-- but I would much prefer it if there were a "default" option. There are times I want a specific experience that challenges my biases (research first, productivity second, everything else a distant third), or I want to just pick-up-and-play without making a complicated series of cost-benefit decisions about the nature of my civilization before I start the game. I wouldn't want there to be no chance to customize, but I'd really like the alternative not to-- to just let

Reply to Beta 2A released of Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

As an art student, I was hoping you might be willing to comment on the changes to the ship textures. Is that an increase in map size, the addition of bump or normal maps-- or just a whole lot of work improving the existing textures?

Reply to Mega event in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'm curious about how the AI updates tackle researching &/or trading for the cure. And I'm kind of hoping that they'll now get ticked with you if you research it and hold on to it for months while you watch them dwindle away. It doesn't seem to. The plague hit at a time when I was doing 49% of research in an 8-player game, so I had it r

Reply to Anyone have some endgame tips? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm rather having this difficulty as well. I find I've won several hours before I officially "win"... it gets a little tedious after a while.