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Reply to The Bonfire of the BC's in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I find myself sadly agreeing.

Reply to The Bonfire of the BC's in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Good insight and normally good advice, but I am already at suicidal, and I was trying to emulate Mumblefratz's game where he plays to make the highest score possible. I did decide that playing that way was just to grueling in the end.

Reply to The Bonfire of the BC's in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Whoa! How do you bring in 2 million BC's? When I play huge universes, control 349 out 0f 350 planets, have population maxed out at 15 to 16 per planet, have the tax rate at 79%, and have every conceivable tile covered with a stock market I think I am still only at about 350,000 BC's a turn. What's the secret?

Reply to Optimal number of opponents in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Knightshifter, I think a number of variables come into play, including which version of the game you are playing. For myself I like huge or larger maps, and I stick in 9 opponents and 8 minor races, the most possible. The advantage is that you get many more tech trading opportunities, and the opportunity for the most unique techs (if playing TA) this way and if you play your cards right you can keep them all battlng each other the entire game. So on big maps, I'd say load up as m

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

Well shucks, thanks for the positive feedback! It's always appreciated [e digicons]:|[/e] I just want to say thanks to Mumblefratz for his direct, and indirect (via the TOE site), assistance in learning me up on how to not just win, but win with a decent point total. Frankly, it's a lot more work than I want to do to go build a starbase array with 17,000 ships in it, but I've been using all the rest of his advice as much as possible. The one thing I know I do differently from

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

So, learning my lesson, I finished a new MV huge mumbler game this weekend, and made absolutely sure it was an MV game this time. Finished with a score of 497k! Now it's time to move on up to gigantic suicidal mumblers like the rest of you. Thanks for all the pointers on how not to waste a great score for your team by unknowingly dinking around in sandbox mode. Hey, Neilo, what's a guy gotta do to make senator around here? [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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

Good advice Dystopic, but unfortunately I am playing with surrender turned off. Is there any other way to check mid-game whether you are in sandbox or MV?

Reply to Upload Image Button (for Avatar) Does Not Work in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I had the same problem, but the fix for me was to disable the pop-up blocker for the web site.

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

Neilo, Thanks for the complete guide to figuring this out. It was, indeed, user error and I found the game in the sandbox folder. Good karma to you. Thanks jacklv for the support. I'll just go do this again and make sure I am in MV this time.

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

Thanks guys. I guess I'll just reload and do it again. Perhaps I can beat my last score.

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

Gentlemen, I need your assistance. I have spent the last week playing a huge mumbler and I just finished with a reasonable score of 455k for the ToE. However, I did not get an option to post this score to the metaverse at the game conclusion. I am pretty sure I started this game as a metaverse game, but then again perhaps I didn't as I am not getting the option to upload this score. This is pretty depressing, to see a week just go poof and disappear. Is there anyway to get this score

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

Welcome Random! Thanks Adder!

Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Oops, nevermind. I saw the first post as Jan 2008. I forgot it was 2009 and missed the entire arc of the rise and fall of the Olympian Gods. Bummer.

Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to Core Detonation: who uses it? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, and yes, you still lose the transport when using information warfare and you have more colonists than you started out the battle with. The reason why is that the transport is used to build the initial colony tile. SO you ALWAYS lose the transport...it gets transformed into your colony main city.

Reply to Core Detonation: who uses it? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

A lot of the Iconian techs aren't tradeable, and the Torians are the guys who colonize a jillion planets and then never build any improvements on half of them.....at least in my games.

Reply to Core Detonation: who uses it? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Core Detonation: Never Gas Warfare: Never Information Warfare: Almost always Mass Drivers: Never Mini-Soldiers: Love 'em, except I never have them in TA. Tidal Disruption: Occasionally Traditional Warfare: A lot My main attack is always informational unless the morale is above 80%. But there's a specific reason for this. I've been playing the Drathan's for the last month and they

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

[quote who="Neilo" reply="4" id="2026925"] We have the throne room private thread for Toe members only, with loads of good game tips and stratagies....one must prove his worth in the arena of galactic domination first though to gain access...but i'm sure that wont be a hassle! Welcome again mate and enjoy your games...down the Kzinti!!! [/quote] Gentlemen, Lieutenant Count Alejandro Montoya reporting back from his first suicide mission with a spa

Reply to The Bonfire of the BC's in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, I can definitely spend myself under the threshold every week. I've got a gussied up uber-dreadnought I'm building on several industrailized planets I can force buy every week. It's just gotten to that point of the game where I control everything, the AI is down to a few planets, and what once was fun has become a chore as I have to buy ships every round....I guess this is why you like the colony rush so much, Sole Soul? I agree with you...the race in the beginning to grab the best positio

Reply to Asteroid Mines in ToA in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I used to enjoy blowing the AI's asteroid mines to smithereens....until I realized it was better to have them switch allegiance to my glorious empire instead. I haven't yet seen the AI attack an asteroid mine and I've been playing on suicidal for a few weeks, so it's probably a rare event in general.

Reply to Curious Morale Resource Issue in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Wait....I hardly ever fiddle with my sliders in the endgame....you're saying that it is sometimes necessary to do so to force a change?

The Bonfire of the BC's in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Well folks, I never thought I would say this about GalCiv but I have too much cash. In fact, for the first two months of playing I couldn't imagine having too much cash flow; I was so chronically short of cash so often I would horse trade my Thalan grandmothers' dirty spicules for a bent BC. Now I've landed on the other side of the fence. I'm currently taking in 70,000 BCs a week and I have nothing to spend it on. I've upgraded ships as much as feasible, the AI won't sell me any plane

Curious Morale Resource Issue in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Gentlemen, I've just taken over two brand new morale resources and thrown constructors at them until I got the mining bonuses to +39. Yet doing so did not affect the approval rate upon my planets....it was 74% before on my worst planet, it is still 74% now. I waited a round to see if things needed a round to pass in order to improve. No improvement. This is disappinting for two reasons. The first is that I hoped to raise my base approval across all my planets so I could comf

Reply to Asteroid Mines in ToA in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm liking the direction of this post. Willy & GD, I think you are on to something with the "set one planet to spam tiny miners". What I think would make this work particularly well, which Willy obliquely mentions, is the fact you can set the miner to "auto" and just let them do their thing. I had forgotten about this and trying to manage miners and trying to determine how far an asteroid is up the development cycle was alienating me. I'd love to have all the production points of tho

Reply to Military Prowess Calculation in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Mumblefratz, thanks for being so unbelievably helpful! I wish the search function worked so I could do a better job of finding this stuff myself. Since it doesn't though, one last teeny question regarding ending the game and checking the score every Dec 22. I assume when you do this you elect NOT to report the score to the metaverse until you have the score you like? Thinking about this made me realize that there is probably some protection built into the MV reporting engine that prev