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Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Assembly, fellow councilors, Maybe it would be good to clarify what exactly we are giving to the Gnolams (how do they benefit from Galactic bazaar) in return for the Diplomatic translator? Shouldn't we lower taxes to improve population growth? Are there still planets that er not being developed at the moment, such as Canopus II? Or did all of those planets reach their full potential until terraforming technologies become available? I would agree that it's no big loss i

Reply to [TA] Defense Ships vs Attack Ships in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

To add on that: Offense and defense are taken into account equally in military rating (offense + defense + HP/10). Not 100% sure whether HP is divided by 10 or 20, I believe it's 10. I always suspect that some AIs trade military techs which would explain why there's often a predominant weapon type.

Reply to [TA] Military Rating (Not Score) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I believe this is calculated as (total attack + total defense) + (total hitpoints / 10) Even ignoring the hitpoints piece, the Drath ships will have a combined attack of around 5000, whereas your total attack and defense add up to about 2320. I can't give you "the right number" of ships to have in a huge game as it will depend on your number of planets, the AIs' fleets, which ships you use, etc. Maybe helpful: your fleet should be sufficient to: - &

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Seeing that we have 5 identical votes so far, I would assume it's safe to move forward? Though indeed outside of technical issues, let's all try to keep actively involved people... a ballot vote takes only a couple of minutes ;)

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

All, That's worrisome news in the area of colonization! 27 planets under Thalan control... Let's hope that our Restaurant of Eternity will soon be up and running and boost our influence in those regions that we managed to colonize before the Thalans. I'm fine with both proposals from Minister Andimus; even if our economy is in better shape than before it will be good to get in the green so we can operate more freely and in the long term create room for fleet maintenance cos

Reply to Last two planets of Alterian resistance flip, Battleship remains Alterian. in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

As far as I remember this was never fixed, spies indeed never return to the pool, even not after a race has been conquered. However in that case I don't remember getting any such reports.

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

For me, any planet will be physically a lot bigger than the country I'm living in, so just about any planet will do ;)

Reply to New to GalCiv in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Don't forget that you can bribe other races into attacking the Thalans when they're still manageable in size ;)

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Fellow councilors, in the ballot below I've added my votes next to those of councilors qrtxian and mambaman, to facilitate determination of the voting outcome. Research Sub-Space Drive: 1, 1, 2 Xeno Engineering: 6, 8, 1 Space Weapons: 5, 4, 4 Interstellar Republic: </st

Reply to New to GalCiv in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Speaking of the governor screen, that's also where you can do mass-changes to which ships are being built. As an example: imagine you recently developed a bigger hull. With 1 click you can have all planets that are building a certain ship type, switch to your new ship type. That helps a great deal, rather than having to check dozens of planets individually.

Reply to The Kushana Coalition for Prosperity in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Agree (which is also the reason why I haven't posted anything here in a while). In fact it's good news that the party is not needed atm, as this means that the other councilors are voting sensibly ;) I think we'll need to come out of slumber once we have a military and there start to be some wars...

Reply to New to GalCiv in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Some answers to your questions; even though the game is over I hope they will be useful in your future games... On influence points: due to a quirk in the way trading works, the AI will find some value in anything up to 999 influence points at a time. However if you offer them 1000 or more in 1 go, they will see no value in those. Nothing keeps you from selling 999 IP, staying in the trade screen, selling 999 more, etc. Mind you, they probably only offer 100 - 200 bc for

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

It's unfortunate that often the evil choices are the most rewarding ones. However in the long run it's just as often worth to sacrifice a few of these short term gains to end up being neutral or good, and as a result of that having better relations with specific races. Or getting access to certain technologies, though there as well evil typically seems to be getting the best deal with their unique weapons...

Reply to New to GalCiv in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I've added my replies in blue, between your questions: Questions for you: How do you accrue IP? I never paid that much attention to them, but I seem to recall never having more than one at any given time. They accrue automatically based on your influence in each sector. At the start of a year you'll have zero, by the end of the year they should have grown. There are race-spe

Reply to New to GalCiv in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Some additional easy recommendations: 1) If you really feel you need to rush-buy a colony ship (as it would take ages to complete), don't buy it straight away but when it's already half built. That makes a huge difference in price. Always explore the cheapest rush-buying option (cheapest as in lowest total cost) 2) Don't build starports on every planet. In line with the recommendations above, in a small/medium galaxy I start building my homeworld and 2-3 other decent quality p

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Commander, fellow councilors, I will be brief. Regarding research my suggestion would be the following: 0. Complete Xeno industrial theory 1. Xeno engineering 2. Sub-space drive 3. Advanced computing 4. Space weapons Viceroy: congratulations on the successful conclusion of 2 of our foreign transactions! Excellent news as well on the economic front, glad to see we've managed to significantly reduce our deficits to a more manageable amount.

Reply to Event_Culture_1 'Demonstrations against cultural conquest' in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

If that's the case it's likely to happen more often when you've got high influence. I say "likely" because I've had plenty of influence victories though I can't recall having seen that event. My guess would be that this is the opposite of the random event "interest in foreign culture has grown" etc. and as such it should revert back to normal. <a id="ctl00__Content__LinkAuthor" class="Article_Author hand" title="Click author name for more options." onclick="Sd.Menus.showM

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="62" id="2820764"]... I have it happen with the Tech, Econ, and Manufacturing Capitals sometimes, too. Along those lines, get ready for further Super Project/Galactic Achievement suggestions by the staff. Perhaps being on the front line gives them an elevated sense of urgency.[/quote] By all means keep bringing them up, as you say we shouldn't forget to build them and rather sooner than later. I would even suggest bringing the stellar forge bac

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

My reason for not voting to build the stellar forge: I'd like to see the galactic bazaar get completed as soon as possible, before any other race manages to do so. I don't see much benefit in the additional ship benefits it brings right now, seeing that for now we're not building any military ships. The 10% economic benefit would only give us 1 additional bc, so negligible for now. I would vote for it after the galactic bazaar has been completed though.

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Development Construction of Stellar Forge on Fortuna FOR: TMS2224 Construction of Orbital Command Center on Fortuna (provisional) FOR: TMS2224 Construction of Gala

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Indeed, people should give a sign of life to confirm that they've read the report. No idea how long it takes most of us on average to check in... I think you should also decide the pace based on how soon you need our input. E.g. if you'd like our input so you can start the next quarter over the weekend, I'd say by all means go ahead and post the ballot as soon as you received confirmation from more than half of the council. At least I wouldn't like to be the blocking factor in case I'm l

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Your Highness, general assembly, Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us. My first concern is on our East and West borders. We should ensure that our furthest colonies will indeed form a barrier against the Drath and Thalan, a barrier which will not yield to foreign influences. Therefore, as soon as we have reliable data on how strong or weak our influence is on those planets, can this information be shared with the council? Based on that, we mig

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Regarding UP, I feel it's not worth the hassle. I feel confident that you'll cast a good vote, many of the UP issues are indeed no-brainers. Trade negotiation: - ideally we would come up with a wish list of technologies we want to acquire from the AIs, at least for a reasonable price - practically I think we can agree on some common principles (e.g. don't give away diplomatic techs, try to acquire technologies in this or that direction) Again, the hassle of having

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="45" id="2812679"]Or maybe he's against everything and we have no way of knowing. [/quote] Good one :)