LTjim

Reply to My first game and a 7x research tile in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I hope you saved at or near the start. Some folk would see the 7X tile as a chance to grab the civ and diplo techs early and then tech trade. That is, get advantageous deals, esp with Minors. Some would see it as a chance to go heavy into the eco and morale stuff, letting high taxes etc be feasible. Remember that you can get only N+1 tech gains per turn, where N equals the number of colonized planets. This could be limiting if you research some line and the

Reply to difference between toxic atmosphere reductor and advanced one? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I believe I once had the advanced colonization tech for some planet type but not the basic (captured or traded it or something). IIRC, it gave me 50% just as if I had only the basic one. I had to get the basic one to get the full 100%.

Reply to my military production is zip in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Also, your total spending slider is a factor. That is, a planet's military production (excluding asteroid stuff) is a multiplication of (your total spending), (percentage applied to military), and (the sum of your on-planet facilities). Thus, you could be spending very little and have the percentage slider 100% the way to military and get little or no military production. Also a factor is the state of planet habitability. If you cannot colonize the planet (say

Reply to Where to view trade goods? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One simple way is inferential. That is, the race you bought them from should no longer have it as an item you can trade for (because you already have it).

Reply to The Jagged Knife must die in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, but it's a boring win once one has done it a few times. As I said earlier, when I get JK now I just reload (or start a new game).

Reply to beginner assitance in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The game has been issued in three different versions: - Dread Lords (DL) - Dark Avatar (DA) - Twilight of the Arnor (TA or ToA) I played DL and still play DA. I have not purchased TA, so I could not help you if the game you are playing is TA where it differs from the earlier versions. It sounds like that is the case.

Reply to beginner assitance in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I presume this Q relates to ToA, rather than DL or DA.

Reply to The Jagged Knife must die in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. But I still do the every turn save option to be sure. That is, I can go back two turns or more, if I choose.

Reply to The Jagged Knife must die in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

After a few JKs, I long ago decided always just to reload the previous turn and move on. I still have never had Pirates of Peacekeepers, nor have I seen the Dread Lords since my last post in this thread.

Reply to Destroying a race's last planet looses all agents in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This problem has long been known. One poster who first chronicled it years ago said it was as though the spies became archaeologists studying the dead race. He documented that if one had an intel level lower than the maximum for the agents-turned-archaeologists when the race ended, then one would later in the game get messages that said the intel level on the extinct race had increased!

Reply to No alliance option avaliable under diplomatic screen in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You can check if they have the tech by seeing if you can sell/trade it to them. If it does not appear as an item you can sell/trade to them, they they do already have the tech.

Reply to What is your typical fleet composition? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Okay, then. I wonder if each armed transport "thought" the other was its escort. As for the freighter case, the absence of an AF may have allowed the AI's script to attempt an invasion. As I said, it has never happened to me, but I will keep watching for it.

Reply to Is ToA really broken? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I own DL and DA, and play DA often. I am disinclined to buy a game that requires me to somehow implement a third party mod to make it worthwhile. (For one thing, I am not very good at editing directories and all that stuff) The behavior of several AIs (e.g., the ones that build few or no structures on colonies) make the game not worth the time investment. Several players departed these boards when those flaws in TA became evident and there was no action taken to fix

Reply to What is your typical fleet composition? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Let's be sure we are saying the same thing. In the instances you cited, did the Yor use an unescorted (but armed) transport ONLY to attack/invade a planet with an armed defender in orbit?

Reply to What is your typical fleet composition? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The intent of planetary defenders (in my defensive style/strategy) is NOT to repel a fleet invasion. As I have said, the defenders are simply to prevent cheap, snap invasions by transports only. I feel that it is simply not cost effective -- if it is even possible -- to have adequate defenses in place at every planet, or even every border planet in the larger maps. Now, one can try the improvements that allow orbital fleet defense and greater hitpoints, but they never st

Reply to What is your typical fleet composition? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Although the AI does indeed sometimes put weapons on a transport, I can never recall an invasion of a planet by armed transports. Never. And I have been playing DA for years, and never lower than Tough, and usually on Suicidal. It may happen, but it has never happened to me. Instead, the AI will send transports at unguarded worlds, or will add an escort warship in a two ship TF, or simply embed the transport in a real fleet. The intent of the planet defen

Reply to Research TP costs by galaxy size and technology rate in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There have been posts (years ago) alluding to an undocumented research modifier (a "secret" bonus). IIRC, it applies only to Technologist at Suicidal. If you are looking into research quirks, you might investigate!

Reply to Setup Effects - the Disease Becomes a Decisive Event in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The game is winding down now, and both the Drengi and Altarians have been eliminated. The reduced population base and research base made the Disease event a heavy hit, and decisive as long as I had enough spies to keep them below the debt limit. At Suicidal, the AIs climbed back out of the hole in about 20 - 25 turns, but emerged with greatly reduced populations due to the low morale impacts. Many worlds went below 1B, and several went to 100M or lower. I did not

Reply to Setup Effects - the Disease Becomes a Decisive Event in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Game still in progress. I really missed my chance as I let several turns go by w/o doing anything. Now, every turn I check the intelligence report screen where one can see what each AI is researching, how much research is getting done, and how long until the thing being researched is done. So far, after another 5 turns or so, no research, no production, and population keeps going down on worlds with low morale. A couple worlds had high population and stable moral

Setup Effects - the Disease Becomes a Decisive Event in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In a current suicidal game (DA), I elected to try some different setup conditions. I chose: - gigantic galaxy (the biggest in DA) - max AIs and max minor races - RARE stars, clusters, abundant habitable planets The setup put me in a corner by myself. There was one other system there but, although I was a super adapter, there was only habitable one planet there (beside the two on the Home system). I managed to get a fourth out at the ne

Reply to How do you make logistics higher? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You also can gain planets without even being in a war. One way is by Influence flipping, another is by simple trading/buying, and a third is when one Empire surrenders to another. In the third case, an ally will generally give you its remaioning planets if it surrenders to an enemy. You may also get them when a non-ally surrenders to an enemy, but you have one or two treaties with the losing empire. You may also get them in other similar cases, such as being

Reply to Im losing bc every turn...... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

MarvinKosh is on target. I would note that stocking up on troop transports is a very good thing. I try to begin "harvesting" planets of population long before I end up in wars. If you have planets with a max population of, say 15B (or more), it is difficult to keep their morale at 100%, or even >70% for highest growth rates. I build transports and put them in orbit around those planets. Then, when the pop gets high enough to slow growth rate, I loa

Reply to Im losing bc every turn...... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Look over the threads on Economy. My guess is that you have built buildings and ships, and that now the maintenance costs are getting you. Helpful factors: green star mining bases (with bonus modules each can boost your economy by 39%), getting minor AIs to grant you economic treaties, researching Trade and then selling to it to every AI you can (they will send you freighters and BCs), selling techs to minor AIs, and researching the economic techs and buildings.

Reply to How do you make logistics higher? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You can attack a ship in orbit around a planet with any ship that has an attack factor. You cannot attack a world. You must invade it. To invade, you must research Planetary Invasion and then build ships with troop transport module(s) on them. Next, launch them and (just as in Colonizers) you get asked how many troops to load. Then you click on the invasion target just as if you were trying to attack the planet or land on one of yours. One cannot inva

Reply to How do you make logistics higher? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

MarvinKosh is correct, but I might add a couple bits. First, some races may start with larger (racial bonus) logistics value. Second, though one may build only ONE Logistics Center, one may CAPTURE others and gain +6 for each. The above two factors is why you will sometimes discover that an enemy AI has a larger fleet than you can assemble, despite the fact that you have maxed out the logistics research tree and built the bonus building. This is the same effect