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Not very significant indeed. Thefirst tier only gets +10%, right? Anyhow, +25% shouldn't be the only thing explaning such a devastating lead. :)
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You're never too far behind to catch up. Get them to declare war on eachother and be ready to invade whoever is losing for a free tech, territorial expansion and having common enemies with the winning party. You can severely limit the winnings party's gains by invading after he clears orbiting defenders but before his own transports lands. being smart can offset impressive power differences. On Cripling, the AI doesn't get very significant bonusses if I recall correctly (i
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Congrats on the win! Sounds like you need to up the ante and play on a higher difficulty. :D Managing gigantic empires can indeed bog down in micromanage. Once my empire starts to grow past a few dozen planets, I give up on micromanaging planet contruction and instead fill up all the tiles with the queue as soon as I get the planets. That way I can just skim the report looking for planets whose queues are empty. Somewhat less efficient, but it´s a bit more fun. ;)
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I have no idea what's going on and I can only speculate: Maybe you've accidentally triggered some scenario-game. I don't know how and don't know which scenario would apply. Something inside the code conbined really weird and screwed up, giving you a very unique galaxy for a unique experience... But to be honest, I'm just pulling these explanations out of my... hat, so...Looks like a fun, but shortish game though! ;)
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Planetary improvement advice also depends on your game-situation. Keeping morale a bit higher than usual by building a single morale building on every planet is useful, even if it is to allow you to build one population increasing structure... but not always!Just think about what you need and build that. If you need more specific advice I'd recommend asking a more specific question (fill in some of the wildly differing and very important circumstances, such as "early game" "large galaxy w
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Nice work! It's a shame to see the Korx go, although they were never your favorite. ;)
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Nobody forces you to ask for planets... If you find a particular tactic to be a cheesy exploit, simply don't use it! I only accept planets when negotiating when I feel it's a realistic and reasonable demand.
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You let them be friends? Are ye daft!? All kidding aside, letting the AI set up friendly relations is unwise in almost all circumstances. Whenever you have contacted AI, try to get them to war one another unless it is very inconvenient for YOU if they do. If they fight eachother, they will waste precious resources not fighting you and are also less likely to attack you, which gives you more time and space to dictate events. As Julius Ceasar said "Divide and Conquer". Now, if t
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If the XXXXX (Drenin, Korath, whatever) are about to attack you...
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The AI isn't terribly effective at invading, this is the only reason this strategy may work, On the very highest level, getting ahead in the colony rush is... challenging. Expanding through colonization when under attack is generally not feasible because all planets have been colonized already by the time the transports arrive (at least in my experience). The only time I crapped my pants due to succesful AI invasions, was in a DA game that involved the Korath. Their sporeships were much m
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Qrtxian is right. The AI will pretty much only considerss: whether it hates you forever and ever (peace is impossible), your respective military strength (very important), whether it has other wars and considers your war low priority (increases chance of peace). This leads to situations where the AI may be losing the groundwar (this is in fact likely, the AI is not effective at taking planets in large maps, a skilled human player with a puny fleet can win wars against titanic opponents t
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[quote who="moshi" reply="26" id="3386989"] there's this: http://morth.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File761.pdf it's pretty large document, but you can look at the amount of fatal accidents involving three-wheelers which are very common in inner cities, but very rare on national highways is low, while the amount of trucks is high. i am not saying that traffic in an Indian cities is safe. but from my personal experience, while i never had an
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Would you please back your claim up with some statistics? Again, from first person experience, Indian cities are NOT safe when it comes to traffic, even when the inevitable gridlock occurs...
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[quote who="moshi" reply="21" id="3386982"] Quoting DrJBHL, reply 19http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html i don't think this study fits here. no matter whether your car has a HUD, or a navigation assistant, or a dashboard (most cars have one nowadays), no matter whether local authorities put up traffic signs or if there are more people on the road as usual; there's a lot of visual and audio information the br
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First of all: Yay for the Brits pre-empting Google Glass with a road-ban. Research has shown time and again that driving while carrying out a conversation, be it handheld, handsfree, vocal or through texting is very, very dangerous. Humans should not be doing anything else while driving, period, but carrying on a conversation is one of the worst things you can do. Warning: wall of text! Many people underestimate just how bad humans are at multitasking. When it comes to multita
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[quote who="oliverpc" reply="43" id="3381515"] is the twite of the arnor the most recent version???? [/quote] Yes, Twilight of the Arnor is the most recent version, and no we haven't had any galciv3 news since. Still waiting for it though. ;)
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[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="21" id="3385606"] Before you folks get too into this topic, remember that the original post was made all the way back in March 2006. GalCiv2 was released about a month before this thread was made. This thread could very well be the first documented case of this "having too much money" problem.[/quote] Yes, I noticed, but the thread-resurrecter seemed oblivious to the 20k mark, so I figured might aswell sneak information on the 10k mark in aswell.
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That, of course, fixed it. A shame about my 700% bonus tile. ;)
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I have found somewhat of a minor bug with the Yor: They lack the prerequisite tech for their manufacturing collectives. I just fired up an obscene immense game for testing and landed a 700% manubonus tile on my HW, only to find out I can't build any factories (the techs are greyed out). This is going to be a bit of a challenge. Interestingly, when I pick the Yor with a custom race, I can select the required tech and therefore can research and build the yor collectives... <
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Is it always the same race? Have you played the campaign? Campaign-affiliations can sometimes "carry over" into multiplayer by accident. You can clear a certain cache to fix the problem, but I've never experienced it (don't play campaign) and therefore don't know where you should look (try the above suggestion first).
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AI has an ascension crystal. What are my possible courses of action?
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As some have said before: you really aren't in any trouble if the AI ascends in 400 turns and you don't want to go to war. 400 turns is an awful long time (over 8 game years), during which a LOT will happen, including most likely wars started by other AIs to kill the ascension starbases. Ascension is really a worthless victory path. Anyone strong enough to defend an ascension victory, could (even if holding all 5 crystals, reducing the time to 200 turns) more easily wipe out a
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The 20k mark is well-documented. Another, less intrusive mark is the 10k mark, which affects your trade income (halving what your traders bring in, moneywise). Basically, having a cashpile of 10k or over will lead to a reduction in trade-income, having a cashpile of 20k or more will add a reduction in tax income as well.
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What's this all about with the upgrade of my social queue?
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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="17" id="3365975"] "Quoting Maiden666, reply 15" Another thing is that you're comparing only the base output of these buildings. Yes, because that is the only way to make a fair assessment. You don't have the bonuses from resources at the start, and you're not even guaranteed to have them later. Also, we're talking about labs and factories here. Stuff you want to use all the time, not just under specific circumstances. If more advanced v
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Korx and then go Neutral. Still a terran-like experience, but without the weird diplo-bonus and an excuse to go all evil on your ethical choices until you research Xeno Ethics. Their trade allows you to befriend civilizations relatively early (or they'll hate you for being evil), but must somehow be balanced with a good colonization rush ánd getting XenoEthics relatively soon... If you want to really change the way you need to play: go Yor or Thalan.
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To answer the pirate question: if you can't build ships strong enough to beat them, stop building ships at all and concentrate on building up your planets and "teching up". You'll eventually reach a level of technology where your ships cán beat the pirates in combat, or, more insidiously, you may develop transports with very fast engines and conquer the now undefended planets of the AI who also suffer from the pirate supremacy! (Or you can just go for a Tech Victory.) &
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