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Reply to TV shows (and responses) in Political Machine PolMach Forums

And since I can't edit again, the question I was trying to ask is, why is there a maximum set if you already have a minimum set?

Reply to TV shows (and responses) in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Right-I'm talking about the choices that require an intelligence minimum of 5, maximum of 10, in addition to a charisma minimum of 5, maximum of 10. Take an average candidate with 5 or 6 charisma, give him a speech writer, now he's at 15/16 charisma and is no longer in the valid range for those "balanced" choices, regardless of his intelligence. Unless it's base charisma, but it wouldn't appear to be done that way. At any rate, getting said issues to appear, not to menti

TV shows (and responses) in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Why is there a maximum charisma (or intelligence, but charisma is more relevant) for some responses? I can see why there's a minimum, but by hiring a speech writer, you increase your charisma (which is non-zero for most candidates) by 10, which brings it to more than the maximum of 10 that dictates the availability of a specific response. I mean, it's not like your candidate is suddenly -too- charismatic to be able to think of the response in question, are they?

Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="7" id="1883247"] I guess I don't understand your point. If my ships already have warp drive 2 installed, why would I want warp drive 1? Makes no sense for a spy to steal it.[/quote] Impulse I, Warp I, and Hyperwarp I each have passive boosts to speed (of 1 each). If you cram 30 engines in your ships, it won't make much difference, but if you run low or no-engine designs, particularly with tiny/small hulls where you don't have -room-

Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="5" id="1883199"]A couple of quick thoughts I think there should be a way to nulify a passive spy, or a least protect against them (e.g.the hunter-seeker algorithym in SMAC) Tech stealing. I understand it's random, but there is no sense in a spy stealing laser I if you already have laser II (for example). There should be a built in check that prevents a spy from stealing an "obsolete" tech. My two cents[/quote] Tech score hel

Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

@p22 1) The AI should (presumably) not drop as many spies on your planets anymore, as they don't have to simply to gain intelligence on you (that'd be in the civ spying screen). 2) Play a race that gets CE tech and build them, ffs. THEN nullify the spy. And the 20% morale bonus isn't -bad-, either.

Reply to How do you feel about Ability Bonuses? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Uranium - 235" reply="2" id="1883007"]I'm hearing that Loyalty is worthless, as it's broken - confirm/deny?[/quote] I believe it's only broken in DL, but I'm not positive. I've been using speed +2 for ages. I always get morale +10, as it's only one point. If I have extra points, I'm likely to get it +15 or +20. Typically I'll get luck +25 for another one point. The rest is dependent on what race I'm playing, and how many customization points

Reply to All Fac Builds in ToA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The difference in all-x builds from DA to TA is about the difference from DL to DA...maybe a bit more. Focus still consumes 25% of what's funded, but only gives 20% of what's funded (or 80% of what focused production used to be) to the focused type. Although that's the primary difference, it's also worth noting that 1) factories and labs in general provide less production and 2) more to the point the maintenance is somewhat drastically increased-which is essentially what happe

Reply to Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

I have autoupdates set to notify & ask, and it hasn't had any activity in at least ten days. Went to softwarepatch and got WInstaller 4.5 (just in case I didn't have it already; last one I remember was 3.xx). Only entries in \Drengin.net are GCII and TPM. And, yeah...still doesn't work. Tried safe mode, just because. Installer complains that the installer service can't be accessed, and says this might happen in safe mode. Tried manua

Reply to Analyze my game . . . in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="MarkWarren" reply="11" id="1881897"]You can basically do what you want by now. If you're really anxious to make sure that you *do* *not* lose, perform surgical strikes at the other races' research planets so they don't end up researching it (though I think I've read somewhere that the AI doesn't bother?), but all in all, everyone is going to drop dead around you.[/quote] There's a glitch in the code-it's supposed to be high priority, but the AI can't find it because it nav

Reply to Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

Ah, the joys of 768kbit internet. Though I suppose I'm fortunate it's not 56k. Installer downloaded from Filefront does the same exact thing. Once, I'm willing to accept a corrupt file. Twice, I'm willing to accept a corrupt source. Three times... I guess it's support time, then.

Reply to Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="6" id="1881235"]SoaSE demo was appearing for me in Impulse. Hit the options, Show Demos on your install just to be sure. [/quote] Yes-tried that. It just auto-saves the file-in fact, in Impulse, it opens FF to do so, which seems odd to me. Virtually the same thing happens in SDC, except that the file download appears to be handled within SDC itself. Got it redownloaded and the same error is still occurri

Reply to Analyze my game . . . in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I don't recall having the ships actually disappear-but something funky is supposed to happen because it sets all your abilities to zero (including logistics-so you can't have fleets until you fix it). You might try saving, exiting, and reloading (try saving it as a -different- game, though).

Reply to Analyze my game . . . in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

That's the Plague. Go into your tech tree and research Plague Cure (it'll be at the bottom), then sell it to the AIs that aren't murdering you for gazillions of cash. Or was it Disease?

Reply to Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

My kingdom for a working edit button. I may be wrong on the SDC comment-it doesn't appear to work -now-...but I remember it working in the past.

Reply to Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="1" id="1880638"]Redownload would probably be your best bet. What else have you tried? [/quote] What would you suggest? Tried disabling AVG and S&D, and that doesn't help. As a note, in case it isn't obvious enough from the screenshot-that progress bar is at 0%. It's doing this as it's beginning the install. And yes, I have the latest .net (3.5), if that's relevant. Redownloadin

Demo - Error (won't install) in Technical Sins Forums

[IMG]http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4206/demoinstallerrorvn3.th.jpg[/IMG] & [IMG]http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7669/demoerrornv3.th.jpg[/IMG] Corrupt installer? Redownload? Thoughts? Running AVG, Spybot S&D, and Comodo here, but turned off Comodo's Defense+ to no effect and doubt either

Reply to GCII 2.0 - Of Starbases and Ships in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

My apologies for the length of this post. [quote who="BoogieBac" reply="13" id="1879824"]So, the rundown... DL gets...the shaft DA gets...Espionage Tweaks TA gets...Espionage, Planetary Governors, Starbase Managers, External Shipyard, new Galaxy Setup options, Negotiation tweaks, new ship style, and more! Which, IMHO, is better than... DL gets...Starbase Manager DA gets...Espionage Tweaks, SB Manager TA gets...Espionage Tweaks, SB M

Reply to Expansions + GC2:DL Campaign in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1) You can play the DL campaign from DA and you will have access to improvement-level spies (as opposed to DL's civ-level spying). So, yes. 2) I don't recall seeing any asteroid belts in the DL campaign, even when run from DA-and it would very much surprise me to see them, as the terrain for each mission is essentially predetermined (with the possible exception of bonus tiles on a per-planet basis). So, no.

Reply to Planet Revolt Bug (DL)? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

"well over twice" You ARE aware that you need a 4:1 ratio of your influence to theirs for it to flip, correct? Also, are you positive that the planet(s) in question do not have a re-education center on them? I remember an influence bug regarding save/load, but I'm not sure if that applies in this case, nor have I played DL in long enough that I wouldn't trust my memory on it either.

Reply to Terrans and super abilities in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not going to argue with you, Willy. *gives you a rowboat instead* The AoE isn't meaningless, but you are correct that I neglected to mention that the influence is much, much less at the edge of the AoE than it is at or near the center. Unfortunately, I have no one to blame that oversight on.

Reply to Starbases, trade and influence in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As a note, trade is +x% (in this case +10%), which is one reason why so many of us consider it so useless, as income from trade is quite minimal to begin with.

Reply to Thread Necromancy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="19" id="1263138"]*casts Turn Undead* [/quote] oshi- It's a good thing I'm not wearing my Evil Druid armor. ...something tells me I may have just gone too far.

Reply to Terrans and super abilities in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="6" id="1876441"]I can confirm that, influence bases DO work over sector borders. It's based solely on distance from the planet, not the sector border or the area of effect ring.[/quote] Right AND wrong. Multitasking today, Willy? Sector borders are irrelevant; as with all starbases distance is the concern (and the diagonal distance is essentially determined by the area of effect ring-although it is important to note that, as with all

Reply to Terror Stars - Useful??? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Apologies-didn't see the first post, as it created a new page and FF didn't show the new page for some odd reason-so I posted it again...and the edit button is still dead for me.