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Reply to Civ Manager screen in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]increasingly inaccurately named trilogy? loved the reference. there was another one just today, on the tread about the terror stars, something about all the clocks saying 42. [/quote] Someone was talking about a tech victory bug. They had researched the tech, saw the clock flashed 42 and then nothing happened. Props on the demolition reference though, oddly enough I had just watched the movie this week. As for the OP, that seems to just be a bug

Reply to Passive diplomatic AI? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Let them go to war with someone and once they start getting crushed...then your phone won't stop ringing.

Reply to espionage upgrade! in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

300bc a week is fairly cheap in the long run lol. Don't forget the stealing of tech at Advanced levels when you have spies still placed. There is a benny. As for strats w/ spies, as Willthemailboy said, a wave of spies is important as the AI won't necessarily be stockpiling spies to combat 10 or so. They will chip away at them however, but as long as you can produce spies as fast or faster than them, it will sort out in the end. Spies also make for a great economy ki

Reply to TA cheats in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you type in the string via the Run program from your start menu, and type in exactly the same deal as you would if it was the shortcut you should be fine I think.... So the PC your playing on has restricted rights on it I take it? Couldn't you just create a shortcut somewhere you have rights to....even be it a thumb drive.

Reply to Do AI Use Terror Stars? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Aye, I saw the Torians just wandering aimlessly in theirs when I played. If you are going to be moving at 1ps/week, at least beeline to your destination, don't sightsee. I mean, damn, he wasn't anywhere near an inhabited system along the edge of the map...then it just stopped dead and never moved again.

Reply to Terror Stars = One Trick Pony? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If 5pcs/turn is still too slow, then a strat I would employ, build a fleet or 2 of fast constructors, I dont know how many constructors it takes for a complete terror star. When I spam influence sbs I built them all at once, 12 constructors. Once I get to the right location *poof* instant influence sb.[/quote] 1 constructor to start the TS, 5 to bring it to 100%, then a 10 week waiting period before it's online.

Reply to Suggestion for Star Bases in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In non-tactical zoom it'll let you know how many modules are available at the moment to place on, but anything that is an upgrade (mining node modules for example) won't be counted. This is in text right below the starbase. Sadly, that text, along with time remaining on autopilot doesn't exist in tactical zoom.

Reply to Unable to complete a tech victory in Twilight in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I hadn't even taken notice that custom races were even an option yet LOL. I think what happened in your game was that the Jagged Knife or I-League showed up mid game and already had the Tech Victory tech due to a bug. Since they are a minor race and unable to win that way, the Tech Victory option of winning was turned off.

Reply to Terror Stars = One Trick Pony? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

One question about fleeted ships and the wormhole anomaly. If 1 ship in the fleet has the survey module and hits a wormhole, does the entire fleet go with it? Put 5 seconds of thought into what I said and you'll know where I'm going with this.... As for removing the warmup time and just up the research time...Creativity could bypass the research time "penalty" whereas nothing can reduce the warmup time. TS are fine as they are, glass cannons....slow glass cannons.

Reply to Do AI Use Terror Stars? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've seen the AI make a TS, but I haven't yet see them use it beyond driving around the universe with it. I blame a lot of that on my beta testing being done on lower end difficulty settings though. Unfortunately, my current game had the UP vote to ban TS completely.

Reply to TA 3D - Korx have no Xeno Entertainment techs? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Due to their penalty in Loyalty, I figured this was intended as well. Not all races have Xeno Entertainment anymore anyway, so you'll have to remember what the other morale techs are for those races.

Reply to Engulfed in Twilight in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Pirates are just mobs, they kill anything that moves. There won't be anything akin to a racial AI for them. Thus also kills the "asteroid" question. Spying is the same. The invasion screen will be built off of what planetary improvements are there.

Reply to Invasions in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Perhaps the troops in GC are more through or careless of whom they kill? The "shoot anything that moves" philosophy really tends to make war easy.

Reply to TMI on the trade screen in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just had an after-thought, why just have a problem with ships...what about techs and trade goods? If you know what weapon techs they have you have an avenue to build w/o looking at their ships. Has anyone tried right-clicking on a planet in the trade window to see if you can get improvement intel there as well? It would only be consistent in the openness of the trade screen.

Reply to Capital Ship Docking Bays in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The should proceed to "within range" at their top rate of speed. As for your main topic, if you look around a bit, you'll see this topic is like beating a dead horse. Do a search for "carrier".

Reply to Game non-responsive after attacking orbiting ship in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm uncertain as to what's causing the freeze-up. In my last game (3c Drath) I took out 2 races w/o issue. Destroyed ships in space, orbiting planets, solo, in fleets...any mix and no issue. Now I have a pirate ship I cannot destroy w/o having this freeze-up.

Reply to Where can I find the editors for Twilight? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure if they are out yet since the game is still in beta. I'd figure that would be the last thing for them to worry about releasing.

Reply to Race Balancing Issues in TA in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The Drath have a horrid start with the -20% pop growth to overcome. Once they are up and running though, they rake in the dough more than the Korx from War Mongering....and they have the super ability to cause those wars.... Iconians need a real kick in the tail for econ as their buildings are maintenance hogs. Their ships however are fairly formidable. Torians, you can't keep a happy frog-person down. Damn buggers get a 50% morale building (1 per planet). Not out of the ga

Reply to TMI on the trade screen in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If something is available to purchase, wouldn't you want to know what it has? I do see where your coming from though. I'm not sure how you would take both your concerns and my first comment and meld the two.

Reply to Race Balancing Issues in TA in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]On a separate note, did anyone who played the Yor notice they don't have a way to upgrade mining starbases or economy starbases (besides trade)?[/quote] It's a known issue. I think the devs were talking about making the techs for those starbase modules separate, or at least include them in the other race's tech of equal value. Those module came from the [B]stock[/B] manufacturing/econ tech line which the Yor don't have now.

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

[quote]guess I'm just a little frustrated that some of the oversights (not necessarily bugs, but just things that aren't quite right) are still not corrected: Fleet defense components are all still lumped together under the Terran Alliance tech that provides a similar component, Efficiency Research 2 still not tradeable, and several starbase components still don't have an icon (battle stations in particular), even though some such as the repair component were fixed. I just picked up the beta l

Reply to Military Strength Computed Wrong? (TA) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Any ships w/in range of the military sb when the sb has weapon/defense increasing modules will up the power rating of those ships. They probably also had a large qty of crappy ships while you had a lower number of superior ships. A pile of crappy ships still adds up.

Reply to ToA Beta Update? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think they haven't been going live until a bit in the afternoon EST. I forget if it's been on SDC when I get home at 6pm EST.

Reply to Terror Star Suggestion in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]How about... Extreme Home System Makeover[/quote] /snort

Reply to three questions that I am loosing sleep over in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Because you declared me for a Rebel Scum, I refuse to answer any of your questions. Iztok[/quote] On the bright side, you win the war after blowing up two of his Dea....er Terror Stars.