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Reply to Adepta Sororitas - An Active Metaverse Empire Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Just to note "good and rightous" people, good and evil is but one's opinion. The only people who consider themselves as evil are those who know what they do is wrong, yet do it anyway. Back on the Terran's planet there are those of various religious bent that beleive the other is evil, only due to their actions against them. All however, consider themselves as the bastions of good in their world. Who is right, who is wrong? I, a Kzin warrior not by blood, but

Reply to How can I utilize my spies in an optimum advantage at the beginning of the game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Will covered you're Qs, but I'll still add in my 2bc. Getting Low intel level with each race is very nice, so getting that asap is IMHO a good idea. For anyone wanting to try and flip planets, this is enough to see the influence ratio number (need 4.0 to begin the flipping chance) for a planet. The ability in 2.0 to have passive spies just for intel and then active spies for sabotage is nice. As Will said, you can toss all your spies into passive spying until some ne

Reply to How do I attack a raider? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Also, DL doesn't have an option in the diplomacy screen to declare war. Period. One last thing-can you invade one of their planets?[/quote] Which then makes sense as to his lack of that option. Moving on... Try and find a planet of their's w/o any ships in orbit. If you cannot create a war via attacking a ship in space, you may not be able to vs one in orbit either, thus thwarting any ground invasion attempt.

Reply to Questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ah ok, Wasn't sure if that got ported back in the 2.0 changes or not. Haven't touched DA really since the TA beta lol.

Reply to When an Empire dies .... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Nope, money and spies still don't change hands upon the destruction of a race in TA.

Reply to Questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

2) Under TA (and perhaps the option got ported back to DA for 2.01?) the computer will makes ships every time you get new weapons/armor/hulls/miniturization etc. The old templates under DL (and DA if above isn't true) are opened up whenever their pre-reqs are learned. If they bother you enough, you could just click at the top of that column on the "User" or "Custom" button to just show ships you've designed. 3) As howserdowser said, small ships don't have too

Reply to When an Empire dies .... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I sure seem to remember (this is DA) invading and finding Industrial Sectors and high level Research facilities.[/quote] DA would be the reason. The destruction of buildings that which you do not have the tech for is something that was put in for TA.

Reply to How do I attack a raider? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hrm, so even if you'd slap nothing but engines on a ship (preferably as small as possible for cost) you still cannot reach the speeds of the raider? I'd ignore that Sentry and Auto-Attack in your attempts to stop it, they obviously aren't working, or require you to be at War with the race. You may still be able to, with enough tiny ships, be able to hedge him out and surround him. It would take some work and time though... What race owns that raider anyway? A

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Not related to this: does anyone else have the impression that the number of non-military metaverse submissions has fallen to almost zero, in particular on smaller galaxy sizes? Looking at the Altmeta it certainly feels that way...[/quote] Well, if the people that are still playing gc2 and on the MV are playing for points, there really wouldn't be another option now would there? The MVL was nice in that it would force people to mix it up.

Reply to How do I attack a raider? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

What version of the game are you playing? Sorry if this is an uber-dumb/insulting question, but are you sure your attacking ships have weapons? To isolate that raider, how about making 8 tiny ships w/o any weapons and surround the raider. He would have to go thru a ship (attack it) just to move then. That will make sure you go to war with that race, or at least contain him from further damage.

Reply to Rock and hard place in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

There is another + you get after X amount of years w/o being at war with them...Historic Friendship or such. Just click the years by a few more times...Checking the relations tab every so often.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]By the way, laptops don't have 10k rpm HDDs, nor are there any 10k rpm SATA HDDs (not 100% on this, but close enough). Standard is 7200; standard for laptops is 5400 to theoretically make the battery last longer.[/quote] My bad, the 10k was for my computer. You're right, they only had 5400 for her.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]As for the running-out-of-space problem, why not get her an external drive, or an internal drive and slap it in an external enclosure? Also, what's her RAM?[/quote] SHHHHH. I got plenty of room on my PC (80GB main drive, 200GB secondary drive for storage), so I'm in no hurry about storage space overall. The quicker she runs out of HD though, the sooner she'll want a new laptop lol. RAM...I think she's at something horrid like 512. Back then we were on

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I think the main thing that will help push along her OK on this will be when she runs out of HD space. I've already had to take all of the original pictures off her computer and replace some of them with reduced resolution versions (taking a 2.5mb picture and reducing to 1024x768 nets around a 170kb file) and any fresh off the camera go to my computer for editing and sorting. She has nearly 14% of her 80GB drive left now...and only loosing room to M$ patches and iTunes. She'

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]also, Dell? really? i would've thought you nerdy enough to build your own PC.[/quote] Nah, I've never really put the effort forth into picking out all the stuff I'd need. I would also be replacing my wife's laptop, and that's completely alien to me. I've at least gotten my arms into a std case and done some work in them. Overall, I'm ok with dropping around 3k on the two computers. No monitors needed since I'm not getting rid of my 2 19" widescreens wh

Reply to Question about being "Good" in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

That is correct, but the OP asked if there is anything discouraging him from acting against what would be considered as 'good'. The ONLY thing limiting him is his own conscience. You can be a ruthless ruler and still run the flag of Good. Just remind yourself, Good or Evil is just a matter of opinion and view. The USA may beleive they are Good, but plenty of other countries beleive them to be Evil. People who view themselves as Evil know that what they do is wr

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Anybody know a good place to compare video cards? I was looking on www.gpureview.com right now, trying to figure out which card I'd like in a desktop computer that I may get once things pick up here at work and I know my job is stabilized. Right now I'm looking to go thru Dell and I'm looking at the nVidia Geforce GTX 280 (1024MB) and the nVidia Geforce 9800 GT (512MB). The one guy I work with said that the GTX 280 actually preformed lower than the 9800 GT, but for the lif

Reply to Question about being "Good" in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Nothing at all stopping you. You can backstab allies, you can ambush freighters or even set up fleets right next to planets to 1 week exterminate another Good race w/o penalty to your ethics.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Disturbing is an opinion. Rosie O'Donnel is what I'd consider a disturbing V-day avatar. Now, an evicerated cheerleader w/ her heart exposed...art.

Reply to Bug? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="1" id="2055760"]You'll need to have a colony outside of the blast radius, assuming I'm remembering the mission correctly.[/quote] Aye, you are. Up "north" is a system that isn't colonized yet. Send a colony ship up there for an alpha site.

Reply to How does tech stealing work? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Is there any reason to have even one spy set on an empire passively once the highest intel level is reached?[/quote] Newp. Once you hit a level you like, pull those passive spies out. Especially since you cannot attain higher levels than the number of passive spies set. That is, under no number of years can you hit Medium while only having 1 passive spy placed. Jonnan001, that would do great for your chances for tech stealing, however I cringe at what

Reply to 10 things GalCiv II 2.0 needs still in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="heft" reply="16" id="2055541"]I would like to see an easier way to decomission a fleet of ships...simultaneously rather than one at a time. Also, it would be great if several ships could be selected and launched from a planet simultaneously.[/quote] If you knew their names, you could knock them off via the maintenance/loan screen.

Reply to How does tech stealing work? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Perhaps I've simply been unlucky.[/quote] Nope, it's because passive spies and the intel level itself doesn't give you tech steal chances. ONLY having spies on the ground will get it to do the random roll for tech steal.

Reply to Do you really want Steam to be your only option? Are you sure? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]This is a big concern I have about Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2: are they only going to be available in digital form from some blizzard app, or are they going to publish them on Steam or Impulse or Direct2Drive or GameTap?[/quote] Get Blizzard games into Impulse and you can have my first born!! [quote]It's horrible business sense to give your competitor a slice of your profits.[/quote] But at least more people would see you're game and thus have the possability to b

Reply to How does tech stealing work? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I never did get that answered fully. As Jonnan001 said though, under the DA/TA spy system, you need to have at least 1 spy on the planet in order to steal techs from that race. If intel levels give any bonuses, or if number of spies has anything to do with it.... I can't give a thumbs up or down on it from personal experiance. Tech stealing was actually the last thing I had on my list of things to learn about espionage. Soon I may try to finish my spy costs though, a