LTjim

LTjim

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Reply to Recommendations for New PC System? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I recommend you browse the newegg site. I agree with a two core system, as quads seem not to be much help until high performance demands. There is some performance spread with price there, but any Wolfdale would be 2.5 GHrz or better. There is some performance gain with increases in speed, helped some by the fact that the internal cache size also increases at some speeds. On memory, I'd suggest matching the memory speed to the CPU FSB figure. So, maybe D

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Reply to Xeno Ethics and Minor races in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Is that TA or DA? Both? I play DA. Per the wiki: - Akilians - neutral - Andians - neutral - Carinoids - neutral - Dark Yor - evil - Jessuins - neutral - Paulos - neutral - Snathi - evil - Scottinglas - neutral So, if the wiki holds true and especially if the minors do not include the Snathi and Dark Yor, it might be that giving the minors the ethics research might be worthwhile if one also were neutral

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Xeno Ethics and Minor races in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If one gives/trades Xeno Ethics to Minor races, do they choose an alignment? If one were playing in a galaxy with a lot of minor races (and maybe fewer major races), this could be a useful tactic. That is, if Minor races all go to some default alignment, then giving/trading them all Xeno Ethics and Trade might actually make building that alignment Temple worth the trouble!

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Reply to Xeno Ethics in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't know about TA, but one gets access to the small boost of Harmony Crystals when choosing Ethics. Also, the sooner one gets to the level after that, the sooner one gets the empire-wide ship building bonues (ASC?) and the No Mercy Invasion facility, both of which are valuable in early wars.

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Reply to New patch v2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm trying not to whine about it, but is there a math basis for your 1/3 number? I ask because that figure seems dramatically inconsistent with my own experience. It got so bad that in some games I build the MCC when I get money desperate, then give it to an enemy I'm at war with, then flip a bunch more planets, then take back the planet for money again. Rinse and repeat. I've even gone so far as to use mass drivers in the invasion over and over until the

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Reply to Starship bonus in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, the presence of big bonuses on the Starship Bonus world may not be all that important if one has a huge economy. That is, folk have posted that the bonuses stay with the ship through upgrades. Sooooo, I think one can use that planet with the Starship Bonus to build nothing but large/huge hulled warships with one cheap gun and one piece of defense, then upgrade. Work backwards from what can be built in one turn or simply rush buy. Thu

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Reply to New patch v2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The description in DA is that it provides the 100% econ gain and also FLIPS planets (and I guess fields) at first opportunity. In actual play, the MCC provides the advertised 100% econ gain, but it STOPS flipping. Oh, I've had one or two fields and maybe one planet flip anyway, but that's it. So, stats-wise, it's ~0%. If making the MCC work as advertised would be too unbalancing, fine. I just wish that either: 1) Make work as advertised, 100% econ + f

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Unaligned Bug? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I encountered a strange bug (?) last night playing DA. I inadvertently researched Ethics w/o 10,000 BCs (had 9,712) and, to my surprise, found that Evil was the 10,000 BC choice. The Evil choices made during the smallish Colony Rush I managed at Suicidal apparently were more than offset by all the treaties I had managed after running the diplo tree. To get out of the screen, I chose Neutral (the 0 BC choice), then quit, and re-loaded from a previous save just before.

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Reply to Avoiding war in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

By far, the best way to delay wars and also to take advantage of a superior diplomacy rating is to get the AIs all tied up in multiple wars amongst themselves. There are actually multiple reasons for this, and you probably want those wars to begin before the end of the colony rush (second phase). It slows their research some, they have to rush buy defenders, it may open up previously-taken resource anomalies for you to grab, and it also (and I've not seen anyone comment on t

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Reply to Influence borders in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Go to the wikia, mouse onto Main Categories, click on Category Index, then click on Influence. That should take you here: https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Influence From that page, toggle "Influence Equations". That should get you to the page I mentioned.

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Reply to Influence borders in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Here: https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Influence_Equations (I cannot seem to get the link right. The last part "underlined Equations" does not show up, but is what you need to get to the page) It takes you to a bar chart that looks something like: Population (billions) - 0 - 3 - 5 - 7 - 9 - 12-16-19-23-26-30- ? Planetary Influence -- 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 -10-11-12 The

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Reply to Spin Control Center + Military starbases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Mumblefratz - I have tried the Psionic Beam. The daggone thing is expensive to produce and srill requires considerable research down that tree. Last Suicidal game I had gotten three Psionic Beam cargo hulls with over 100 AF each into SCC orbit and the AIs still declared war on me before I could get more there. I will have to try other experiments. I have not, for example, gone on an early war offensive with small Psionic Beamers. That could be fun!&nbsp

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Reply to Korx and very slow tech FTW in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

You must be talking about TA. I do not recall being able to control the number of non-standard planets in DA. There have been several threads lately by us relative newcomers on the difficulty of winning at Suicidal, though the "old hands" have their ways. If I get desperate for any kind of win at Suicidal, what I might do is select the fastest research rate game choice, get a 7x research tile on my homeworld, max all research racial choices, limit myself to the firs

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Reply to Spin Control Center + Military starbases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have so far had a tough time both getting to SCC and researching high AF weapons for ships before the AIs have declared war on me. Getting a couple mil base multipliers to combine with the SCC might mean I could get the effect earlier in the weapons tree. I read that thread - Thanx! And I cannot imagine putting that time into some of the endeavors described. Still, on my combining Q, if - 5 ships in orbit around SCC planet with 10 AF each - i

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Reply to Korx and very slow tech FTW in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. For example, the Yor start with ion engines. Between them and the other race or races that can colonize non-standard worlds, they will colonize the map and grow large tax-paying populations, much-much-much larger than yours. Another possibility on my list to try is the slowest research rate with a very high research race starting from a 7x research planet. Just maybe one could get ahead of them that way, but they will still flood the map while you research.</p

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