Thanks. I do that very thing. On my medium maps (TA Human vs. all abundant, 9 majors, 8 minors) I normally start buying planets on Mar 1 of year 0. As well, on that first trade, I buy every one of the AIs miners. Get them searching, and if they find a resource, upgrade them to constructors. The upgrade costs about 170bc, so it's affordable. By the end of year 0, I have every planet, minus 3 for each AI. I've already built a spin control by then, and have ships in orbit. As well, I have m
[quote who="Snarkotamus" reply="9" id="2059948"]Snork! Hey, I've found a great swindle refinement! Negotiate until you get the "not crucial to our civ, but It'll cost you" line, then start up a 2nd negotiation right away. I usually get a whole string of techs that I can trade, like the starbase fortification line, and Clean Up before I let the poor AI have some peace. I trade one tech at a time, and never get the "useless preceding techs" line. [/quote] Can you expand
Finally did it!!! Got a +200K score on an all abundant, medium map. [e digicons]:w00t:[/e] Almost had it in 3yrs. I was sitting at 197K on Dec 22. Ended it on May 22 of year 4. Betcha I can do it in 3 with some luck. I didn't get a single economic event. One of those in year 2 would of helped a lot. <
I work in the IT department at a hospital here in Toronto. It's unlikely people will stop getting sick, checking in, or checking out. So I think I'm safe, but you never know. Canada itself is better off than most other countries, though. Something to do with the banks being heavily regulated. At least that's what they tell us. Still it's definately gloomy.
Thanks for the info. I was working under some false assumptions. One thing though, it seems I can't get a treaty with anyone until year 2. The AI just says it's too early to enter into treaties before then. Hope I'm not missing something there as well.
Thanks KP. I'll try an all factory in my next game. Though with ToA's decreased focus, increased weapons research cost, and the extra techs you need to reach the "sweet" techs, I'm not sure it can be done in a year. Middle of year 1 might be though, and that's faster than the influence approach. Nothing to it but to try, eh. Didn't know you could bully the minors into giving up their planet. That is definately going into my next game. Still confused about tiny vs huge ships fo
[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="22" id="1996208"] Congrat on your latest score Ferrel! Did you find the Swindle tactics to be helpful? Sentient species taste better...[/quote] Thanks KP. Yes, the swindle was useful. I had to modify it a bit for TA 2.02. I used an all lab strategy and I didn't declare war on the whole map. That turned out to be unnecessary. Since the MCC will now flip a rebelling planet immediately, I researched all the i
I'm well into my huge all-abundant map. I'm playing Human in ToA. Using my diplomacy I bought about 100 planets in year 0. At Xeno Ethics I went evil, and built the MCC. The MCC doesn't do what it does in DA. Instead, it works as advertised. As soon as an AI planet gets the 'rebel' icon, the next turn it defects to you. This is devasting to the AI. I researched all the influence techs, and captured some influence resources and presto. Scores of planets defected on each turn, which gav
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="14" id="1983256"] Quoting Ferrel, reply 12 Yah, huge is next. Immense! Immense! Immense! Then again, it might swallow you whole. [/quote] My God, it's full of stars!
Last night I submitted my 1st game from my new PC. It's my typical map. Medium, all abundant, 9 opponents, 8 minors. Wanted to compare this against the same setup I use to play on my old PC. Ferrel is very happy. The score came out to 140K, and put me into 1st place in the Altmeta Galactic Military category. BTW. Sentient species really do taste better.
Ta da! I now have a new gaming PC. Finally got the motherboard on monday. Stayed up waaaay too late. Putting the hardware together wasn't a problem. Booted up right away. Getting XP Pro installed turned out to be a bit of a trick. I have SP1 (old) disk. The PC blue screened when it tried to boot from it? No PCI-Express driver for my video card! Had to create a "slipstream" disk image to burn a bootable disk with SP2 integrated. I found several good sites on the internet that
[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="8" id="1962563"]I set a new ZYW record today. If anybody wants the write-up of this strategy also, let me know.[/quote] I would definately like to see your write up. I've only ever did one; in one of the MVL rounds. I may try one more game on my old PC. I've received most of my new PC, but UPS says the motherboard and power supply would be delivered until Monday. [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e]
I use a swindle with the Humans, concentrating on diplomacy. You buy the galaxy, and never fire a shot. (Not until they have no chance, anyway) I didn't invent this, but I've sure mastered it on a suicidal, all abundant, medium map vs 9 opponents and 8 minors. It'll be interesting to see if I can do it on a larger map. Looking forward to reading your strat, KP.
Can wait to start a game like that KP. I submitted my last game on my old computer last night. Several craashes but i got it gone. Hopefully I'll have the new system up and running by the end of this weekend.
Congratulations everyone. Way ta go, Runners. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] I don't have a PC that I can run GalCivII on anymore, but I should be OK for the next round. My 5yr old gaming PC is very sick. Overheating, random freeze ups, etc. Time for a new one. Ordered one from Newegg on Friday. Got some great Black Friday deals, even here in Canada. Assembly is required though. After that I'm finally going to be able to play larger maps than medium. [e digicons]\o/[/e] &
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="4" id="1955233"]The point I was attempting to make is that Newegg has a Canadian site now.[/quote] Thanks. I'll check that out. [quote who="Sole Soul" reply="4" id="1955233"]Also, I just facepalmed when I saw it's only got a 9500GT in it. Half the stream processors of the 9600GT, running at barely over half the memory clock rate, on a bus half the width, with GDDR2 as opposed to GDDR3 memory. The core clock is also a bit slower.[/quote
Thanks SS. 600.00 CAD is about right, and I do have some wiggle room for unknowns. I found this system http://www.visionman.com/widowpc-custom-barebones-pdc-e5200-25ghz-2gb-ddr2800-9500gt-512mb-physx-card-reader-58-p-7734.html It seems ideal for my needs. I'm looking at reviews on the components and it seems a good quality system. Just don't know anything about Visionman. If I price these parts out separtely at a local Toronto store, I can't do better. I
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="22" id="1954334"] Quoting Ferrel, reply 21So, any recommendations for a new one? Budget? Also, for what it's worth-ATI or Nvidia preference, if either?[/quote] $500.00 USD. For motherboard, processor, memory, and video card. I have no perference regarding ATI or Nvidia. Has anyone had any experience dealing with Visionman barebones systems?
Crap, crap, crap, and, ah... crap. My home PC has crashed and burned. It was only 5 yrs old (lol), and yes, I have a backup. So, any recommendations for a new one? I'm thinking a barebones system, built around an Intel E5200 processor, with a good Gigabyte or ASUS mobo. I don't play FPS or RTS games. Really just GalCiv II and CivIV, plus some internet tower defense games.
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