GalCiv2 ForumsIn the interview linked on the main site page it is acknowledged that this is an issue and it is promised that Galciv 2.0 will rebalance super abilities.
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Will Minor Races ever be able to do some amount of colonization? I've seen minor races do quite a bit of colonization as it is. In a few rare cases, I've actually seen them get as large as some of the smaller major races.
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Sorry to sound sour, but will you also be able to made AIs handle those unique techs? Handle it well? You're not giving the game one or two new techs and corresponding items, but several dozens if them, each requiring its own (substantial?) AI's chunk of code. Not necessary. As far research goes, the current system, which simply uses a priority rating for each tech, would work perfectly fine with the new trees. Even the improvements and compon
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You have to have your own ship designs saved as templates. If you don't have any, that would be why the button is all grayed out.
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What I think would work pretty well, is if the results from ethical dilemmas depended on the natural alignment of the race. So an evil race like the Drengin would get similar results to what we have now. A good race would get bounuses from picking the good choices, basically the reverse of what things are now. Neutral races would gain a less bonus from neutral choices, than the other two from their natural alignments, but would also have little or no penalty for the go
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Well, I did read up on the game before buying it, and Wikipedia mentions the way the economy works. Even so, I probably would have seen the deficit I was getting, and dealt with it in precisely the same way I normally do anyway. Lack of money in these games is lack of money, however you are forced to spend it.
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It all depends on how well the game is organised and backed up with a good tutorial/manual. I find most games are at least playable first up but there are generally a few things you want to know and cannot find out without help from a forum or other outside support, Galciv is one of those. A game like Civilisation 4 on the other hand, gives you such a nice manual that it leaves you wanting for nothing which is the way it should be. On the other extreme end of the scale
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So, knowing that i've tried to get as many worlds with 3+ billion as quickly as possible. 3+billion is a rough estimate of when a planet can support itself, assuming it's not too built up. Somewhere, somehow, in many games i will hit a point where i just can't afford everything i'm trying to achieve anymore, don't have anything left to trade, the AI has no money to offer where i can trade and i get stuck. If you're playing near your limit, this should probably alw
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Actually, I like it. It's different, and involved a different way of thinking, thus providing a different challenge. I think it boring if all strategy games do things the same. The Galciv economy is quite different, but it is entire workable, if you just forget about how it works in all the other games.
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my bigest problem with Galciv is always money. I always run a deficit for the entire early to late part in the game. I jack up the tax rate if I must. I start turning a profit only when the trade tech starts going around. A couple of trade route's later, things start looking up. I also tend to get a lot of economic treaties from minor civs. I'll trade them tech for eco treaties, and that always helps a lot, plus they can only have one such t
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In this case, if someone buys the game used then we haven't gotten a cent from them. Okay, I've been mostly defending Stardock, but here's where I take offense. Yes you have made money from it, from the original purchase. Don't like that? Well, tough. Just about everything exists in a second hand market. You could make the same argument for anything, just about. And indirectly, you do make money on it. There are still quite
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I wouldn't call this a cloaking device, but still a good idea. It would make ship sensors far more useful.
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I welcome a good debate with reason and thought about whether God exists or not. I have gone on for dozens of pages on a particularly vigorous one in another forum. This is not one of those. The basic premise is because you assume we can become infinitely intelligent, something which is scientifically unknown and, at least for now, unknowable, God must not exist. So you have a single assumption and are not willing to hear anything else. So why post here at al
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That's a pretty cool take as well. . .
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Glad you like them. And it doesn't really matter. It's not a contest. The important thing is that you enjoy what you make. Feel free to steal any ideas here, by the way. As Formis has been busy of late, it will probably be a bit until this mod is released anyway.
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The way I think it should work is, you have cloaking devices and cloak detectors. Cloak detectors would be under the sensor tree. Regular sensors would help detect cloaked ships, but only detectors of the same or higher level as the cloaks would be 100% effective. In addition, cloaking devices would get exponentially bigger and more expensive the bigger the ship, making larger cloaked ships impractical. Cloak detectors would be the opposite, being of a set, and very large siz
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Stardock said "Fu@k you, we don't care about you" to anyone who doesn't have their gaming computer connected to the internet. I agree with smartwings, I don't want to be forced to install another program just to make the game updateable. Granted, I've never had any problems updating either GalCiv or GalCiv II/DA...until now. I'm in the Army and deployed in Iraq and the only internet access I get is at an internet cafe where I don't even have access to the desk
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ok here is a question for all of you. if god was alone when he made everything. then who was he talking to when he said lets make man in our image. That has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread. Please stay on topic. you can pronounce anything you want to but that doesn't make me a lier. because i have had this knowledge from the day of my birth. In an intelligent d
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4. Time is not something you can maniupulate as it does not truely exist only though are perception does it exist. It is foolishness to see it as metal which can be manipulated. All your other points are good, but now you're getting into a fierce scientific debate. No one really knows what time is, so you can't make a definitive statement about something we just don't know for sure. The FACT is that time, or at least what we perceive as time DOES chang
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What is causing the mass of a particle to increase? time compression? Or it could be the other way around. Perhaps in this context, the question is even meaningless. We just know that both happen. (Yes, experiments involving atomic clocks and planes flying around the earth have proven that there is a small time difference caused even by getting up and walking to the other side of the room. Actually, just the motion of the solar system makes o
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You should be build up the planet, but very slowly. There may be another factor here.
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Sometimes I don't research those techs at all. I trade for them. Not always a good solution, but most of the planets from other races planted in my territory flip over to me before too long anyway.
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I do not know why it is impossible to travel faster than light? just because we don't know how it could be done yet, does not mean it is impossible. It is impossible according to known physics. Particle acceleration experiments have proven that mass does indeed increase as predicted the closer you get to light speed. It would seem to verify that mass would reach infinity at light speed requiring an infinite amount of energy to accelerate further. <
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I'm pretty sure you must have DL in order to use DA. It's not stand alone. If you already own DL, you can only get DA by itself online, otherwise, get the Gold edition.
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Keep in mind too, the space-time warping of a black hole, if such a thing exists. (some scientists now say that what are believed to be black holes may simply be worm holes and black holes may not exist at all.) funny thing about light is it's velocity. Velocity for most stuff in the universe is relative to somthing else but not light. so if you traveled at the speed of light and then shone a torch out front, the light would simply pool up in the torch would i
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