Herodias

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

well, I quickly finished the game I had first submitted as an Influence victory by conquering evrybody. First I had planned upon prolonging the game for another year in order to max out pop/inc/military, but seeing that moving all those ships around at turn-end (to gather at a point for military-starbase-boost) took several minutes per turn I couldn't get myself to do it. Started my first game at suicidal-level now, and maybe it's because I really got a crappy start (my usual Thalan

Reply to Kill-Death Ratios in GCII in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I always install giant soundblasters in the stratosphere right before an invasion so they can all hear Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" on the whole planet with a noise level of at least 200 dB. They therefor shi** themselves and run like cowards, making it easier for my evil troops to hunt 'em down. Herodias, Tyranny of Evil

For the Glory of Evil! in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

This is my 2nd attempt for an AAR (even though it's going to be written as I progress in the game...unless it should bore me again, which it doesn't look like after the 1st year) It's in a medium Galaxy, Common planets (I was somewhat unlucky with positioning and the star systems in my surrounding, but regardless I feel like the difference to "abundant" is quite big...), fast research against 4 real AIs (Drengin, Korath, Arceans + my old custom-favourite, the Amatons. Which are superbreeders

Reply to Why are the AIs so terribly passive in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

right right...I guess I got what I asked for. Started my first game at suicidal with Drengin, Korath, Arceans and my old favourite custom superbreeding "Amatons". And after the first year I'm slightly shocked, the Drengin pump out about 4 times the research of everybody else and I'm being 2nd worst because I was extremly unlucky in teh colonization phase (there were only 3 planets to be gotten for me...but 1 of them was extraordinary (class 34 <img src="http://images.stardock.

Reply to E-V-I-L weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hmmm, maybe its just me, but I love esp. the Psyonic Beam. It usually gives me a lasting military advantage. Admittedly my games so far are rather short, but in those games those weapons last long enough. Once the AIs managed to get something similiar/better they had no chance to win the game anymore. I usually research first to a 2-dmg-missile and then go asap for the Psyonic beam+Medium ships.

Reply to Why are the AIs so terribly passive in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

but Arceans can be nasty too. Pff, had the Arceans also in my most recent game, they were as stupid as the Korx, just military much less sophisticated then them - they were already extinct once I got to the Korx. The Yor in had a few times in my previous games and beside being annoying due to the speed limit, they were just as sucky. Didn't have Drengin or Korath in my higher-difficulty games yet, so I may assign them manually nex

Reply to Medal Questions in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

And what do you get the "race"-medal for? like you got "Yor". When or how do you get such one?

Reply to Why are the AIs so terribly passive in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Com'on I don't expect an Einstein at work there... But when I park unguarded and undefended ships directly beside an AI-planet with which I'm at war...it should launch one of its ships, kill my 14bn troopers and send it back into orbit if it wants so. If it had any greater strategy, where it just cannot afford to lose the 3 or 4 movement-points for that turn, ok...but as it is it had those ships in orbit and never moved them an inch away. just waited for me to shot 'em down 1-b

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Sir, your orders have been (almost) followed! another galaxy secured for his evilrulness. I crushed all the pre-space-faring races. The Arceans doubted the power of evilness - and got served. The Korx, assumably a brother in evilness, dared to declare WAR on me for the minor reason that I parked some glory troops around their planets. The fools. Well, they are no more. The rest decided to accept the way of evilnessölayed out for them - and were put to slavery - for now.

Why are the AIs so terribly passive in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Something I don't understand at all about AI-behaviour: Why does the AI think it's best to keep 90%+ of its fleets in orbit around its planets - especially when they don't even have a fleet manager or other defense-supporting-buildings on it? That's something taht makes me shake my head everytime. Like in my last game the Korx were really doing well, their ships had a quality that almost matched mine (or if they would have had the Large scale buildings as well, probably exc

Reply to All-tech and all-industry--should it remain in game? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I use it, but I don't like it. I'd prefer the global economy slider-settings to be changed (as mentioned above), so you could adjust research and production both individually from 0-100%. if that were implemented I'd then add a "penatly" for focussing production, like if you wanted to focus on research on a world 50% of your production capacity would get taken away but only 25% added to research. or some such. Would make the gameply much more realistic imo. Bu

Reply to Why do I suck at this game? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

You missed to give us the probably most important info: what difficulty are you playing on? On the very low dificulties you should be on top of everything all the time. On the medium difficulties you may fall a bit behind if you don't know the game well yet. On the highest difficulties you will almost be guaranteed to fall behind massively - at least at the start. So, in case you play on a difficulty of "tough" or above, I suggest to first turn the difficulty down quite

How to get a (minor) race to declare war on you? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I admit, they are right when calling me a warmonger, they are right when they say I have a tendency to conquer others, but still I hate being shown the truth. So: how do you get a minor race to declare war on you? With the main races its not so tough: park a few warships/troopers around their planets, build a few influence starbases and demand gifts and stuff. But all that doesn't seem to be working with the minors. and after taking out a few minor races I hav

Reply to bug (?) with Econ Capitals in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you had one in the que and... {...} ...took over a planet with one in the que, the first one built is kept, the other is canceled. If that's how it is supposed to work then it's all fine and I just stumbled upon it by chance and just never had this case before.

Reply to Colony Module + Troop Module in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

ya, I agree. At lower dificulties it may not matter (too) much, but at the higher ones speed is everything imo. So, the extra 1-2 turns per colony ship may well mean lots of less colonies for you which you are going to miss later on. Like Piznit I prefer to build a specialied "Ferry" ship (I usually have a normal troop module on it + as much engines as possible) at the earliest oppoortunity (usually when the hot colonization phase is over) and ferry people around. Those shi

bug (?) with Econ Capitals in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not 100% sure wether this is a problem only with the newest version (1.6x), but I never experienced this before: If you build your Econ capital on a world and then conquer a world which also just has the Econ Capital in the build-queue, the 2nd one disappears once the first one gets finished. (Can happen quite easily when you conquer a minor civ early) Haven't tried this with the Manu/Tech Capitals, but might be the same there. Now, as I said, I'm not sure wether t

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Whaddaya mean "already"? It's been numerous days without a coup or at least an attempt to take our leaders life or position already! I'm sure his evirulness may get disappointed with us if we continue tobe "nice folks"... And beside that, my army of spies sent distrubing reports to me....there are rumours of his evirulness being somehow entagled with some "Do-Gooders"-empire. If those rumours are found to be true, we ought to assassinate him or/and that empire at once

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

So, WTH is going wrong here? Why didn't we show all those alien-lovers, do-gooders, influence-victory-achievers, treaty-followers and other weak empires their boundaries yet? We should have been well in the Top10 by now, that we should! And what about our emperor? he seems weak and we can't put up with weaklings, now can we? I say we should attempt to murder him (or worse) and then pick a stronger, more evil, emperor! Viva la revolucion!

Reply to DA Crash at end of turn in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just wantes to add here quickly that I experience thism too after patching to 1.61. Before I never had any issues with the game and now it crashed every now and then at the end of the turn. Nothing extremly bad, just a few lost turns when it happens, still annoying and for me it seems as if this must be related to the most recent patch since it started doing that right after patching. May post the needed info if this gets any worse, just wanted to add to this thread since the "symptoms

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Since I recently discovered that I can also be openly pure evil and don't have to hide behind pretended neutralism...I guess I can also join this empire. Maybe sometime I may still pretend to be neutral, but that's for me just the most evil form of pure evil - tricking the others civs to believe you are sort of a "nice guy" - just to show 'em how wrong they were. But beside that I just love to blow things up (I still want my Doom Star!) and best way to do that is with some dece

Reply to I don't get it! I don't know what I am doing wrong! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ppl say there isn't a concrete strat. I beg to differ. There must be SOMETHING of a concrete strat for the beginning of the game. But the people are right regardles as millertime wrote, you don't give any really detailed information, so it's quite a guesswork. Here are some advises, you could follow to get a game where you have hardly no chanc

Reply to Studying the AI to learn their strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

aha, thanks Iztok. I'm a little astonished that I then can chain-produce troopers on my worlds in 3-4 turns in some cases and still not decrease its population. I just somewhere read that the pop gros at x% (but talks were about the growth rate when creating a colony) so I assumed it would be the same for the whole time. Ah well, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups But then again, so far I

Reply to Studying the AI to learn their strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, maybe it's only me, but I still don't see after reading so many threads about it why farms are that bad. Taking the above formula You get an 22.5% income increase for adding a 3-food-farm to a 6bn-world. (without extra modifiers, taking a 49% tax rate (but different amounts don't change the relations): 20*sqrt(6)*0.49=24.0 <> 20*sqrt(9)*0.49=29.4)) in my book thats a pretty decent income-increase. You would need teh topc econ-building to equal that. Researching th

Reply to How can I thug the other civs? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

depends on the level you play on I guess. It worked quite well during my first games (at normal or so, maybe even at tough) when I was military dominating. They sometimes handed over a few bc, but it never was really worth it. You can't even really use that to push them into declaring war on you. But then, whenever they try to get mony from me I automatically reject that as well, so it's only fair I'd guess. In the end I can't really remember that an AI declar

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6 Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I got a question: Can you download the 1.6 patch and then still continue/finish a (metaverse) game that was started with the current version?