Would someone please be so kind as to elaborate what this "break of .raceconfigxml" exactly is? [quote who="MabusAltarn" reply="1598" id="3614060"] Unfortunately, setting cost to zero is bugged. The minimum cost you can assign is 5. [/quote] You can easily set it to 0. It works. Except in the vanilla game because there the history techs are labelled "ImpossibleTech" and are cancelled out during the creation of the tree. But in the CU they're labelle
[quote who="starkers" reply="13" id="3613814"] I've encountered a few sites that pop up a message to turn off my ad blocker, but there's no way on Earth that's going to happen and I simply exit the site forthwith.[/quote] check out https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions under misc there is a list that might help you in this instance. some other lists are ok, too, just that they, naturally, slow the loading time of the browser. [quote who="psy
It's illogical that if you're asked for a name for an astrological object, that this name is applied to a bunch of other objects as well. What do you think is the function of a name in the first place? To be able to distuingish stuff! The way it's done is also quite inconsequent in regard of the other already set planetary homesystems, where planetnames differ from their starname. Ok, it's just one line, so the game should decide if that's ment for the star or the planet -
I see, on 1024*768 that screen looks quite reasonable, just that this rez is antique by nowadays standards. It seems like that the size of this box has been adjusted in the first place in order to fit into the smallest resolution the game allows. as you can see, the borders to all sides of the box are equal whereas, on bigger resolutions, you'll get more space above/below - esp. because, on 1024*768 the lis
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[quote who="Spinorial" reply="1585" id="3613293"] InvasionOptionsWnd: In the Invasion Options screen, restricted the tactics selection panel to its default 1024x768 size. As Maiden pointed out, the vanilla version creates a lot of non-functional separation. My solution isn't quite what Maiden was suggesting, but given that text can't be scaled with resolution and the associated images are of such low resolution, there was little to be gained in allowing the panel to scale up
[quote who="MabusAltarn" reply="1582" id="3613069"] Here's the Word document. Feel free to do some aerial maneuvers. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc36z32nk4xkzj6/GC2%20Community%20Edition%20Guide.docx?dl=0 [/quote] Well I'm using OpenOffice, but opening that file won't let me save into the original .docx format, and all other formats will break all hyperlinks, their names... and some other stuff Nevertheless, I found no other stuff to change exept anyth
on p.35 it states "a ship can only have ONE special ability" --> untrue. This is in no way limited and once the game unfolds, there are alot of intelligent designs holding multiple special abilites. p.45 an add. method would be to leave the U.P. p.49 multiple typos "Raiting" --> Rating. p.57 is entirely empty p.63 "Breaking an Alliance can only be achieved by going to war with your ally". Not at all. You can easily terminate it in the diplomacy scre
Yesterday I went over it, but this is more like a Beginners Guide, whereas most players are oldtimers. Most will skip this... but I remember some inconsistencies, let's see if I can find them again.,,, What would be more important is to setup a README.txt that is plain-visible, and that gives important install-notes before starting the game. Nothing big in text - because the bigger it gets the less likely it is that it will be read in the first place [e digicons]:O[/e] Su
Some AIs downright ignore defenses while others research them in correlation of what weapons are used for ships on the actual map. So you can have different experiences, varying from game to game. The value of defense mods have been approx. doubled. This makes them borderline OP at the beginning of a game, but their usefulness sinks incredibly when logistics/fleetsize begins to mount. [quote who="MabusAltarn" reply="108" id=
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1571" id="3612693"] @Maiden666: If you don't mind, I'd like to use your new icon for the Zero-G Amusement in Autumn Twilight. Probably the icons for the political parties, too. Though I'm not 100% certain yet, if I will add the new parties. [/quote] Sure feel free to use them as you like. All of it is SD stuff anyway, just cut, mirrored, recolored etc [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1571" id="3612693"] Unless somebody find
No, it doesn't. You see, the game actually uses 2 folder: one for the installation itself, and a second for "personal"/constantly-changing data. The place of these folders might change in accordance with your OS. On my rig, you'll find the personalized folder under User/MyDocuments/MyGames/GC2TwilightArnor There you need to delete ALL *.raceconfigxml-files.
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1567" id="3612627"] I'm not sure, if I follow this logic. Trade income isn't that big a deal. Therefore, we should increase the amount of our trade income we have to spend in order to protect our trade routes. Which results in us making even less money from trade than before. [/quote] I consider more the broader spectrum. Even a low-planetcount empire may make 1000bcs taxes per turn, 100 bcs tourism income & 50 bcs trade. (on that i
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="103" id="3612645"] Did you previously play as the Thalan on this computer? That would have left a .raceconfigxml in the My Docs-folder, which is overwriting the new values. It's the only explanation I have for this. The Thalan definitely have a Logistics of 12 now. I've checked the files. [/quote] Ofc. But I suspect that this error will happen in alot of games since not many know to delete these files or do clear/save on any stockrace.</
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1563" id="3612597"] Okay, how about the following for the UP proposals? Welfare01: Instead of 5% for 2 years, it charges 10%. Welfare02: Instead of 2% for 3 years, it charges 5%. Welfare03: Instead of 7% for 1 year, it charges 15%. StarbaseTax01 and 02: Instead of 5bc, 3bc, or 1bc per week, the options are 10bc, 7bc, or 5bc. StarTax01 and 02: Instead of 10bc, 5bc, or 2bc per week, the options are 20bc, 15bc, or 10bc. Warfa
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1562" id="3612585"] What do you mean? Their racial bonus is 30% (originally 10%). Germ Warfare currently adds 10%. That's 30% more than they originally had, which is equalled out by the fact, that their tech tree is missing the Planetary Defense techs. The rest of their Invasion tree is identical to the Drengin one. I hardly call that centered around Soldiering. [/quote] Well, for one the SporeWeapons-boost & the 100% soldiering-boost fo
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="97" id="3612563"] There still are defensive modules. They are unlocked by Shields III, ECM III, Duranthium III, Superior Force Fields, PD Combo III, and Ultimate Adamantium. [/quote] Sorry, so I stand corrected. Still, they've been nerfed considerably, and I can understand why a Thalan player not getting any SB defense mods w/o researching into defense, as previously they got Singularity Armour which now is attack...
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1560" id="3612561"] The Korath already have a pretty big racial MP-bonus. Their tech tree is also set to increase this bonus even more, so I don't think that the Korath need yet another boost. They also didn't seem to have any problems building new ships when I was observing them.As for the Loyalty-bonus, I get your concern. However, I don't think it will help the Korath that much. The Loyalty-ability never seemed that effective compared to the p
[quote who="DMF" reply="94" id="3612513"] BUT Is it true that there are NO defensive modules for starbases? I've pushed through large chunks of both the Thalan and Altarian trees, and in no case (Mining, Eco, Military) can I apply a module with a starbase defense factor. Whaaat?? [/quote] This was the result of some extensive thinking on how to find a good way to balance starbase weaponry... because: - The AI prioritizes to
The Range-Ability displays "sct" as bonus-units - that should be %. Would it be possible to swap the political parties of Drengin/Korath? Thing is that Drengin need soldiering more than Korath do, whereas Korath need loyalty more for their sporeworlds. Drengin also get some military ships for free while Korath have to build all of them so the +MP will help them. On the invasion-screen: would it be possible to adjust the dimensions of the window to the right (which is displayin
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1556" id="3612445"] Agreed. How about a cost of 20 points? Or would 15 be better? [/quote] 20 sounds good [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1556" id="3612445"] How about increasing the bonus to +30%? Or adding a +10% bonus to Social Production? [/quote] If it were up to me I'd give them InterestRates, somewhere in the range of 2%-5%. Otherwise I'd increase the economics-ability a bit. After all, you pick this to get
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1551" id="3612387"] That's odd. I just did the same test, but got different results. Apparently, the bonus only gets applied to the basevalue. However, that still doesn't explain why we've got different results. [/quote] Well, I think my test was gimped as I was using the vanilla game where the basicrangemod gives+0.4 range, we halfed that for the CU to prevent the AI from sending Constructors to resources that are on the
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1543" id="3612255"] Here are the updated files and the new changelog. I changed the farms to provide proper food production again, as well as tweaked several other improvements and techs. [/quote] are these links up-to-date? because the RaceConfig.xml still contains the -30 diplo penatly of the Yor. There's also no new parties although the changelog mention them...
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1548" id="3612299"] Yeah. I was considering to remove the Speed-bonus. Though that would make the party less unique. At least the Pop-Growth-bonus should be reduced to compensate. Maybe down to +10%? [/quote] Good [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1548" id="3612299"] True. However, the customisation-option gives the same bonus and costs 30 points currently. There certainly is a bit of a disconnect between the power of the bonus an
^ that's a brilliant idea [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] I already have some symbols present (from my personal mod) which were derived from some of the old symbols, if you find one appealing take it. Back then I've tried (unsuccessfully) to create new ones - basic problem was that they looked rather differently in their style than the existing ones.... http://www.xup.in/dl,35315760/PoliticalParties.7z/ <p
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