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Reply to The Great Galactic Diplomates (Korath@ToA@Obscene@Medium) in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[b]Year4[/b] UP brought another stupid event: Freighters are protected now. Who cares...I'm the only one with any left anyway. Here's a screenie of April 2230: The Terrans are long gone, all minors taken over, the wars still raging ...and me in the akward situation that I will win an Influence victory in under 10 weeks. [img]http://www.euphorion.org/galciv/kor7.jpg[/img] A month later or so the economic boom is over. And I Prepare for my next victim: the Torians.<b

Reply to The Great Galactic Diplomates (Korath@ToA@Obscene@Medium) in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[b]Year3[/b] UP decision was to give Constructers 5 min speed. I always like that :) Latest here I completly abandoned (or at least delayed) my game-plan. My military at the beginning of Year3 was a joke compared to the others. The only bright sight was that ALL of them used solely Missiles at this point. So I hastily researched Missile-defense techs and stuffed my inadequate ships with those. The insane income (net-income soon went up to ~5k per week) allowed me to achieve

Reply to The Great Galactic Diplomates (Korath@ToA@Obscene@Medium) in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[b]Year2[/b] First I did my usual stuff: pushing for some tradegoods. I got what I always want to have: Eys of the Universe + Harmony Crystals + even managed to get Diplo Translators. Terrans got Restaurant of eternity very soon though...no chance for me to get this, even though I like to have that too. Situation was meanwhile looking gravely on the military-side and I was -as expected-already hated by the Torians, Altarians and Terrans. In November some exceptional event struck....S

The Great Galactic Diplomates (Korath@ToA@Obscene@Medium) in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Somewhere in space a Petunia said "Not again". Somewhere else in the universe - or maybe in a different universe alltogether - at the exact same time a Korath said "Not again!" too. [i]Yes, the Korath Emperor knew that feeling all too well. A Higher Power somehow is dumping them on a planet, takes away all previous knowledge about technology, culture and all possessions. Then they are supposed to struggle for domination of the galaxy they are in. And ev

Reply to no 700% tile bonus anymore in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

In my usual medium maps there always seem to be exactly 1 of each. not sure if it's more or less in larger/smaller maps, but in every single game, also the 4 ones I started in ToA, I had 1 of each.

Reply to Why are there (barely) AARs for Maso/Obsc/Suic? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

LOL, I wrote that one ;P edit: (or maybe I completely missed your intended "joke"...and you already knew. )

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Does anyone know if there is somewhere a decent table with all the stats of the weapons etc for ToA? There are things on wiki and elsewhere for the DL/DA,but I haven't been able to find anything for ToA so far.

Why are there (barely) AARs for Maso/Obsc/Suic? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

As the title says, why are there barely AARs for the highest 3 difficulties, let alone for Suicidal/Obsc.? I admit, while some of the other AARs are well-written and everything, I'd really love to see how others are playing/winning their games at the top-difficulties. I just wanted to write another one for my current game at Obscene-difficulty, but in the end I think people are more interested in well written stories than in reports about "tough struggles". And as nobody

Reply to Nelp me with early game economic problems in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

play with abundant anomalies and a galaxy that is not too densely populated. You would need to be extremly unlucky to go bancrupt with that as there are usually enough 1000/500 bc anomalies to be found (coupled with those that give bonusses to econ and morale)

Reply to Index Of Tricks in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]AI is being stubborn in a trade? Sweeten the deal with a planet or two. Make sure they're underdeveloped and sitting right next to your biggest influence generators. Two or three turns later you get the planet back and can do it all over again![/quote] Thanks for that one :) Playing a Obscene-game as Korath atm and I got a cluster of planets around my starting position and part of that were 2 class 4-planets. I had only colonized 1 ...and let an AI colonize the other

Reply to quick questions about all X strategy in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

well, I still do use all-factories, mainly because of the "tight economy". So I only have to pay the maintenance once instead of twice for buildings that only run at 50% or so. But all factories means much slower research these days compared to DA

Reply to Index Of Tricks in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

and another one: when your flagship flies from anomaly to anomaly watch every turn to what anomaly it will fly next. If it is a "Civilization Graveyard" switch research to something insanly expensive fly the ship manually to that anomaly ...and with some luck it's a 25%-research-database-anomaly. Afterwards you can switch back to your normal research. Of course, you can use it also for your current research, but if it's something relatively cheap it's quite a waste. Th

Reply to Index Of Tricks in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

My heart bleeds a lil bit to give away one of my most evil tactics, but so be it. If there's a race you are not at war with but which has ressource starbases you absolutely MUST have yourself (and I usually want them all...) there are 2 ways: declare war and take them by force - or if that's not possible (eg because the race is currently simply too powerful for that...): - Bribe another race to declare war on them (ideally they are at war with somebody else already anyway..

Reply to Thalan empire in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I probably lost my love for the Thalans somewhat (they my absolute favourite during DA) but still they were doing pretty good when I did 3 games with them on ToA. For what it's worth, here's how I handled them: 1 super-production planet (usually homeworld) where I early only build a fleet of Colony-ships then Constructors to grab as many ressources as possible and then try to build as many Tradegood/GAs there as possible. I usually tried to get Harmony Crystals (helps a ton

Reply to So, why is this terrible AI behavior still not fixed after 2 expansions? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

well, there are probably some players that could do without that, but for me that's prett much the only reason why I even dare to start games at Obscene/Suicidal. I find that with all the bonusses the AI gets at those levels the AIs tend to build really sick ships. Esp. at Suicidal the miniaturization-bonus coupled with the insane research capabilities lets the AIs build ships that sometimes are able to destroy whole fleets of my ships. If not the AI would be rather stupid in the reg

Reply to Jagged Knife incident in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

the Jagged Knife event is a reoccuring discussion. But it's nothing that came into the game with ToA, been in the game at least also during DA. As for game breaker...well Mega events are supposed to be that. And as for "needs to be removed"...hell, no. If you are the one that lags behind in tech (as one probably will be when one is playing at the highest 2-3 difficulties) and is military in a disadvantage compared to the AI...this even also can be one great advantage that allows

Reply to Twilight 1.96 Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]+ FIXED: Bug where if an empty string was read from the registry, the function would still return true, which would make it impossible to submit games to the metaverse.[/quote] I had this in my last game - couldn't transmit the result to the Metaverse. Does it mean, that if I had it once I'm likely to have the same problem again in my current game? I don't start suicidal level games any day as they tend to take up quite a lot of my time. But if I can be certain that I can't trans

Reply to every (?) ToA 1.95 game crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

oh I see...thanks.

Reply to every (?) ToA 1.95 game crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

omg...as a line jumped into my face whenI wante to make another reply I think I found the solution...even though it's one I dislike: Debug Message: Failed to create ship gfx from model: 4, 4, 4, 5, UD_Tha_Troop_c1, S8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 and of course...as soon as I change the production queue to something else the game doesn't crash. And when I look at shipyard...there is no picture for that ship. It's simply a tiny hull+troop-module+2 extras for looks and giggles. I design

Reply to every (?) ToA 1.95 game crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[SmartException] LastEx=GC2TWILIGHTOFTHEARNOR.EXE File=C:\PROGRA~1\Stardock\SMARTE~1\GC2TWILIGHTOFTHEARNOR.EXE_1214941662.CRA LastEx2=D:\spiele\Galciv2 DA\Twilight\GC2TwilightOfTheArnor.exe CrashAddr=4edfba Stardock SmartException Logging Information https://www.stardock.com/products/smartexception ----------------------------------------------- OS version : Windows XP Service Pack 2 - (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254) Video card : RADEON X800 GTO

every (?) ToA 1.95 game crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

a little background: the version before 1.92( or was it 1.93?) ran fine..except for the stupid spy-crash. I played a game at 1.92 and after a while it simply crashed during the turn-calculations. Ok...1.95 was just out...so I updated to 1.95. Now...excactly the same issue. I dont have the save games from the previous games anymore, but I think it was also after about 1.5 years into teh game, now the crash occured in May of the 2nd year. Not sure if that's just coincidence or not...but it'

Reply to quick question: Thalan-MCC? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Pfffff...... thanks for the reply anyway

quick question: Thalan-MCC? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe it's because I tend to play at slow/very slow research and my games are usually over before I have researched all/most, but where in the tech tree do I find the MCC for evil Thalans?

Reply to Fundamentalists!? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

what does that event do? Never had it as far as I can tell and I always play evil.

Reply to Thalans@ToA @Masochistic@MediumMap in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Let's finish this quickly... The red swarm destroyed quite a lot of my mining starbases. That was the only problem it caused and that only because of the bug in Thalan tech tree. Once I started mass-producing new ships that were designed to beat the Drengin they soon found themselve without any ships. I conquered some planets, some flipped to me...and when they had 2 planets left...they surrendered. The end. I'm 99% certain that I started this as a Metaverse game...yet