Maiden666

Reply to My First GCII game... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, that´s a great story and nice you keep the power of the Yor high! I think it´s quite a good choice if you can´t conquer the galaxy militarily, and you got alot of allies, to then persue a Tech victory. Esp when playing in a large galaxy, because there the other option, the Influence Vic, is by far harder to do. Actually, in DL the Yor have an immense racial bonus of 25% in miniaturization, and I think they have the Ion Drive also right from

Reply to All ships show out of range in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, That all ships were outta range happened quite often in some of my games. The only solution I had was re-loading the turn, or even more backwards. Question: Where there any of your ships left who still would've been moved around by the autopilot? If yes, then here´s the reason why the game can´t process anymore - the autopilot would try to move your ships into an area within your range - just with that bug there is no place on the whole map which is

Reply to terror star bug in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Hello, Although your descriptions are a bit vague, I have seen such behaviour before. I guess it does have something to do with your Alliance/Team-status. Question: Does the pop-up give you the option to procede with your action (and thus declare war) or is no selection possible. Could you post the specific text here? I´ve got such a message in one of my games, too - but AFAIK I could procede and take the war.... Have you tried to declare war on all affected race

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GmOOnii" reply="3799" id="2483189"]@ Maiden666, Have you been to my Empire thread and read about my Empire from War Hammer 40k. I found the cap to the Life Support just like the Sensors. I just need to write up the infomation with the screen shot. [/quote] Yes, I have. Was a funny read. Nice pics - good work! btw, I was just joking with your motto hehe.... Yes, there is cap. Usually the range of a ship is shown a

Reply to Tech inflation is a disaster in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GooglyBoogly" reply="3" id="2482351"]creativity also now reequires you to be diong some research (not too sure what they mean by 'some'). It does mean that creativity will never trigger while research is at 0% [/quote] However, it would helpful if we could know what the minimum threshold is. If e.g. 1% would be able to triggered it then I might dismiss all 100% slider dettings entirely (except if on Research..) I think I've seen Creativity to hand me some long

Reply to STICKY: Metaverse Help! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi all. Got some problem here with using a custom race @ the MV in TA. Pop-up tells me that my raceconfig is invalid, and that I should go back and clear that character and re-edit it. Well, that character is made in-gamed (no ARC), and after re-editing that pop-up still shows. I´ve deleted all raceconfig-files related to that race, and started from scratch, but didn´t help either. In DL/ DA don´t have these problems.... EDIT: The game

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Iztok, thx for taking yourself time to reply. Let´s for the sake of shortness just concentrate on the one main thing I can´t "see" yet, and this would be how the game behaves when you have 1/99/0 slider-settings and NO social queue. In an all-fac strat there will be lots of planets which will be outbuilt by time and there is nothing to set into queue. In my testings I did not outbuilt any planets, I just left queue empty - however I think this will not

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I take that as a yes, although the wiki doesn´t say specifically "all" Soc-->Mil. But how is it then that the Mil pts will increase with focus? In your 1/99/0 example a planets with a productional output of 24 will show 0/23/0 without any focus or production. If I then put a ship into built then numbers will change to this: 23/11/0. Then if I focus on Mil: 24/10/0. Question 1 is: Why does "focus" transfer 1 pt? Because, there are 11 Soc pts, according the Wi

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GmOOnii" reply="3788" id="2479614"] I have new motto No Mercy! No Respite! [/quote] Would you like to sign-up to the Darkside then? because No mercy = Chaos[e digicons]}:)[/e] Mercy = Order (.....hmmm, I can´t find any 'Angel'-smiley.... maybe this?) [e digicons]:sheep:[/e] [The Divine Lord's herd]

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, I´m having some trouble, too. When I want to upload a new avatar it tells me to reduce size to 48*48px but in fact my current Avatar is bigger than that....strange

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Are the Social pts entirely converted into Military pts once the Soc queue is emtpy - or will there be points left? I´ve just run some tests, but I come to the conclusion that the number of Social pts is false-shown when the Social queue is emtpy. For example, I had 18 Social pts that halfed to 8 pts after I focused on Mil - but added only 1 Mil pt.

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="jacklv" reply="8" id="2480942"] Maiden...either all X work in DL/DA. ..... The grand strategy...warfighting vs. diplomacy...dictates the all X tactic I chose, even though I have used all fac with a diplo strategy. [/quote] What precisely do you mean by "all X tactic"? Like changing the tactic from this to that and else?

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="LTjim" reply="7" id="2480750"] There's several ways to look at this. [/quote] Excactly, that´s why this game is getting more intersting the more you play. There are so many different ways to reach a goal that I´m afraid I´ll have overlooked half of them. [you'll be surprised to what obvious stuff all I overlook [e digicons];P[/e] ] That´s why I ask, because basically I come to the same goals but through totall

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

What is just bothering me is the 99 set into social, as well as the 40% to research. One way or another there is a huge loss of potential there, and there should be a better approach. Not that I am saying there is, just that I´d look for one. I understand that the 99 social have the great effect to get new planets producing rather quickly, and once the queue is empty alot of Social power goes to Military. However still some points remain on social which won´t be used. Ques

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Basically I don´t feel comfortably with the idea that my racial bonuses only apply to 20% of my complete output. This is somehow inefficient if you count together Mil+Soc+Res points. But I can see the disadvantage of All fac vs. All lab now, because, following your example the research will be upped to 26 with a 40% racial bonus - well and that´s still not really much to make for a good research, at least compared to the 80 in Soc, which will still finish Planeta

Reply to All Factories (EA) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I have a question, why putting racial bonuses in Tech when slider setting is 1/99/0? I´d rather put all racial bonuses in Social Prod for a max effect, you can get +70% by choosing Industrialists + 50% Social bonus, and it´s just 1 point more then Technologist + Research. Unless I calculate something wrong that will yield a higher focused research output, as well as a much more higher Mil+Soc production. Anyway, I am just curious, because I usually don´t go f

Reply to Core ships and designing similar ones. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi all! WeReWolf & dirani, the core ships are not stronger than what you can design. That there are more parts shown in the Shipyard is a bug. If you double-click on a built ship and open the "Ships details" pop-up you´ll notice that the components are reduced to what is possible. It´s tricky, but the others have right, the core-design ships are rather useless. btw, in some campaigns you´ll start with a small Scout Ship, and you´ll also get ships th

Reply to noob ship design help in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="zorro45" reply="2" id="2477485"] While I'm thinking about it is their anyway I can rename and add a description of a ship I made? The only way I can do this is to upgrade a ship and hope I remember all the right parts. [/quote] Simply uncheck "remove all functionally parts when upgrading ship-design" in options and you can rename the ship through upgrading it without having to remember all the parts. I usually implement these parts in the sh

Reply to Metaverse down? Can't connect! in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

the MV is unplugged again. not even the profiles show up anymore

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="903" id="2475716"] The one major thing I can take credit for is discovering the scoring potential of the gigantic-ZYWs, rather accidentally in fact. [/quote] Actually that was a pretty funny thing, really sad I missed these times. Way back this thread was really competetive, and not only for ZYWs, but what you discovered seemed to hand the MV players a new + efficient way to storm the rankings up. Well, let´s not undere

Reply to Galactic Civilizations story so far and the fate of the Yor in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Pretty good, yes, POWER to the Yor! I always felt they are something very special, so totally different from all the other stock races. However, what always questioned me is if the Yor do consciously know that their artificial intelligence "Spark of Life" does descend from the Dread Lords - and if that could possibly play a role in their existance. In ToA they are incredibly strong in the beginning, but wouldn´t they also be eligible for some "Way of the Dread Lords" strong end-

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[IMG]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1401/agtsmith43kzywtiny.png[/IMG] finally broke 40k on tiny´s.... I hope I can adapt this to the Gigantic maps as well, but first I´ll try this in ToA.

Reply to N00b, need help! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="kimbanga" reply="9" id="2475205"] I think your tactic is the only way to go against the DL. In the first map of the campaign i start against bot the DL and the Korath.... But i will remember to attack quick when thei have better planets [/quote] Well, I´m assuming you play the TA campaigns, as in DL there are no Korath. Actually in these campaigns the DL are way easier in the beginning than in DL, and there appear also a lot of 1ATT tiny D

Reply to N00b, need help! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you are fighting against the Dread Lords (in GalCiv2 DL), then you have to be fast - fast in taking over their planet. That´s the best you can do. There´s usually no way of defeating them once their homeworld is built-up and they produe +200 ATT ships. Because the Dread Lords starts with the whole Techtree already rersearched (like in the 'Battle of the Gods'-Szenario) and the only thing that keeps them from getting a good start is that their planets only have like ~0.1% p

Reply to Upgraded Ships More Powerful Than My Technology in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The auto-ship designer always adds stuff to ones ships that are either not researched or are beyond the hull-points. But usually when those ships are built they don´t have any extra equipment with them.... or let´s say it like that by giving you an example that happens all the time in my games: A Star Fury appears auto-designed with a Plasma Weapon, that should give the ship ATT+2 - but when I build it it has only +1 because my research is still within Lasers. Alth