charon2112

charon2112

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Reply to TA Tech Costs: Different Civ, Same Tech, Different Cost? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="4" id="2607082"] Quoting charon2112, reply 1I have noticed that after very few turns in the early game, the AI civs will suddenly have a bunch of techs that would impossible to research normally. Which techs might these be?[/quote] Things that they shouldn't have in the very early game, like advanced weapons techs, or planetary invasion techs...in the same time that it takes me to research four or five very basic techs, the

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Reply to TA Tech Costs: Different Civ, Same Tech, Different Cost? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I play 'tough' right now, and I always have tech brokering off. [quote who="Sole Soul" reply="2" id="2607032"]There are a few techs that have slightly varied costs depending on the civilization, but I'm not aware of any differences of the magnitude that your experience suggests (aside from NLCs for Torians). It may have more to do with TA's tech-count inflation...at certain points, inflation rises from 1x/2x for non-weapon/weapon to 1.4x/2x, then to 2.1x/4.5x, and

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Reply to What would you like to see in Galactic Civilizations 3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In GalCiv 3, I would like to see: -complete visibility in my influence area. -the AI have to build scouts and explore the galaxy, i can't stand the AI immediately bee-lining for good planets and resources in four different directions on an immense map. -three or four additional races. -more diplomatic options, like the ability to ask for an enemies surrender, or demand the AI withdraw their ships. -an option to turn off espionage.

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Reply to I wish there was a way to turn off espionage in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="2" id="2605136"]The espionage problem charon2112 describes seems to be a play style thing. It almost never happens to me because I tend to stick to the middle of the power-ranking pack on very large maps until well into the game. By the time I'm strong enough to start attracting heavy espionage attention from the AIs, they've burned most of their assets amongst themselves and I have a fat stack of reserve spies to zap the occasional intruder.[/quote] &nb

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I wish there was a way to turn off espionage in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sometimes it really kills the game for me. Right now I'm playing a good game as the Yor, and every turn or two, one or more spies pops up on my planets. I have about 12 of them on various planets and they're popping up faster than I can create new agents to nullify them, even at 100% spy production. Maybe in Galciv III or an update for Galciv II, we can get an option in the game setup screen to turn off espionage.

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Reply to Please answer a question about the High Resolution Graphics Mod V2.0 for Twilight of the Arnor in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="5" id="2599303"]I believe the 2.0 one comes in a .zip file. Is it not extracting the .zip at all, or is it the .exe that isn't working? I need to grab it anyways, but I won't be able to till after work this evening. Then maybe I can see what that version is doing. I'm also on Win7 64 so any problem may repeat itself. I know the DA one installs itself in the wrong location and I had to manually copy the mod to the right directory, but it still had all the dialogue

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Reply to Please answer a question about the High Resolution Graphics Mod V2.0 for Twilight of the Arnor in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DethAdder" reply="2" id="2598944"]I just recently grabbed and installed the DA version and though the comments on the site claimed it had viruses I haven't found any and it's working fine. I know both Logic Sequence and the guys that run Imod and have never had a virus issue with anything from/through them. Could be a false positive with AVG, but you could try to PM Stefan at Imod to have him look into your concerns for peace of mind.[/quote] PM'ing Stefan i

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Reply to Mega Event? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

just quick save regularly, if the event happens, load the previous save and it probably won't happen again. I do this for the dread lords mega event, which I hate.

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Reply to Nothing has changed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is interesting, because this hasn't been my experience playing at all. I play ToA, and tough difficulty. The AI regularly builds a huge military and very aggressively comes after me and defends their planets. They amass large fleets and defend their transport ships. So...weird. I don't know what to tell you. [quote quoting="post"] So I've finally come around to buying the complete edition of GalCiv 2.

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Reply to Does the computer play by different rules? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks. I didn't know about that test. Very informative. Why can't the devs make the AI have to search just like a player. It's really unfair and unbalanced. [quote who="LTjim" reply="17" id="2414858"]charon2112 - The AI does know where every planet and resource anomaly is from the start. There have been many threads on this, with several players recounting their playtesting of it. At one point, a player found a juicy plane

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