Jeff Graw

Jeff Graw

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Reply to Micromanagement? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The best designed 4X of all time was MoO 1, and it had very little micro. What little micro existed was very easily controlled. Planetary management was brilliant -- the slider system wasn't any less deep than having a build queue, but infinitely faster and didn't even need it's own screen. Micro heavy games tend to be light on strategy, and heavy on memorization and repitition. Galciv 2 was no different, and it got to the point where I could win any game without saving at the hig

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Reply to What is the point of fast-buying 200 crystal? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]You can buy 100 crystal and build a capital ship that has the ability to colonize.Sure you could; and that's a perfectly viable plan. But if you want to build anything but a colony capship for your first capship, or if you want to buy a different ability for it at level 1, it's colony frigate buying time.Also, a number of the competitive 1v1 players like having a colony frigate anyway if they're playing TEC or Advent so that they can capture neutral extractors.[/quote] [quote]Yo

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Your camera sucks. Fix it! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I just bought Sins, and I'm already disapointed. The camera system is an excercise in frustration and it constantly ruining th game for me. The free camera never does what it's supposed to -- right clicking on something only works one third of the time, the other two thirds of the time it either does nothing, centers on something completely different, zooms out to the solar system, or focuses on some area of empty space. Also, whenever you zoom out the camera decides to focus on something else,

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Reply to Neutral too powerful? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The big thing that everyone forgets in the good-evil-neutral arguments is the diplomacy aspect, which is actually quite an advantage for neutral. See: Good: Good - great relations Neutral - indifferent relations Evil - hostile relations Neutral: Good - indifferent relations Neutral - great relations Evil - indifferent relations Evil: Good - hostile relations Neutral - indifferent relations Evil - great relations<b

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Reply to Neutral Learning - do you? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Don't forget that neutral is also the best diplomatically. Evil races piss off good races and vise-versa. Neutral races have far less enemies. This is *very* important if you have a diplomacy centered play style.

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Reply to Size matters in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I never did manage to win this size game at Suicidal, though I intend to go back and try again some time. Thats funny, my three metaverse scores have been tiny galaxy suicidal wins, and I consider you to be a much better player than I. Goes to show you how different play styles work better on different map sizes. IMHO, the key to wining suicidal

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Reply to Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Eh. Anything to do with nerfing engines, making them bigger, more expensive, or limiting the number of engines allowed has a fundamental problem: These strategies are more effective at combating blitzing with bigger maps than smaller maps. I think that having transports wait one turn is a *far* better solution that works across all map sizes equally.

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Reply to Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

don't you think the average player would completely obliterate any opposition in the area that could be perceived as a threat before moving said transports? If they can do that, then don't you think they deserve the planet? Also, if there is a problem in that area it can be solved by having the AI put more engines on their ships.

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Reply to Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

So basically all you have done is give the AI a single turn to repel a dozen invasion transports. I grant you, giving the AI that single turn is more than it has now, but I dare to say, it will not do the AI much good. I disagree. If you can launch those dozen troop transports and defend them for one turn then I think you probably had enough

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Reply to Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The biggest gripe seems to be blitz invasions, and not so much fast warships, as the AI "does not have a chance to respond to potential threats". Want an easy remedy? Have planetary invasions require full movement points (yes, you would have to park your transports next to the enemy planet for invasion the next turn). It would not matter how fast they got there if they had

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Reply to Gal Civ 2: GameSpy PC TBS of the Year in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Masters of Orion isn't dead. At least you can play a multiplayer game with it on a LAN. You can't to jack with GalCivII. Granted it's a nice singleplayer game, but its multiplayer ability rates zero. I agree that Galciv hasn't dethroned MOO, but for reasons other than the lack of multiplayer (reasons such as far better tech trees). I think that

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Reply to Starbase Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

huh? i'm confused, did you mean that the good's 'starbase' defences never become obselete?? What super modified version are you playing anyway???? He's talking about ship defenses.

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Reply to Starbase Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Neutral is the way to go. You make less enemies when you're nuetral. You also get the NLC, the best research center in the game. The costs of buying things outright is lower, and Evil's free starbase bonus isn't that good because you don't need to pay any extra money to fully upgrade an economic starbase, and econ starbases are 10 times more usefull than influence or military starbases.

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Reply to colony wars in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Heh, you obviously have very little knowledge about console games. For example, at this point in time, you just cant build a PC with the capabilities the PS3 has. The PS3 is truly an amazing piece of work. And to top it off, it only costs $500. Even if you could manage to build a PC similiar to the PC3, it would cost you literally thousands of dollars. <br

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Reply to Starbase Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Nothing beats a good research advantage, because research is the key to everything. The great thing about Galciv 2 is that military, diplomacy, or economy could also be the "key to everything", depends on your playing style. For my style, diplomacy is the key, followed by economy, followed by military. Research isn't that important because I can

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An idea to balance star base defense in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Currently, at late game star base defenses are really weak, so weak that it's not even worth arming them, and what's the fun in that? Therefore, I would like to propose for DA (if it's not too late) a relatively simple feature to balance the star bases. What if for every generic module that added, the star base gained 1 HP? And for any defensive or offensive module, the star base gained 2 HP? In this way a fully upgraded star base would be far harder to destroy, and star bases

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Reply to Starbase Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Star bases can sometimes hold their own early in the game, but late game it's pointless to arm them. A note about using constructors. Set a waypoint where you want to build a star base (small arrow button on the far left), and then set your constructor producing planets to relocate constructors to that waypoint (little circle-like button next to planet icon on the bottom middle part of the interface). This method is a lot more effective than creating fleets and sending them out. I like

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