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Reply to Has the research bug been fixed, or planned to fix? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Is this perchance related to why I get economic meltdown every game?[/quote] I think other changes, made to slow down the colony rush, are responsible for your economic problems, not the tech inflation. Try leaving tiles unbuilt on until your population grows enough to support them. Exploit econ resources. For worlds with no manufacturing or research bonuses, turn them into cash cows by building lots of trade centers/stock exchanges and building up the population (more

Reply to Current State of TA worth the purchase? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I kinda like the retro-scifi, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", look of the video on the ground combat screen.

Reply to "Flipping" other races in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Also: is there a 'combat view screen'? I think I read that but I cant find it[/quote] I believe that appears only when one fleet attacks another.

Reply to Da Winning game blues in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I've gotten into that situation a couple of times. In both cases I decided to end the game quickly through a diplomatic victory. In one case I had to gift the Alliance tech to one race and then wait until I could talk to them again.

Reply to now building nothing in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I have also noticed that the Civilization Manager screen that lists all colonies does not auto refresh. I have to go out and then back into for a current update.[/quote] It's not quite that bad. If you just go to another tab (like Timeline) and then back to the colony list, it will refresh.

Reply to Citizens to colonize in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The colonists you put on the ship are subtracted from the population of the home world, so you don't want to do this on a world with a low population.

Reply to Citizens to colonize in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I always fill up my colony ships. It helps the colony to become productive (in terms of income) if it starts from a larger base population. The tech tree question is a lot harder to answer, as it depends on what size galaxy you're playing, whether there are a lot of habitable planets, etc. There are some interesting posts in the strategy forums on this.

Reply to Missing turn button in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This has been extensively discussed in other threads. Do you have ships on auto attack or auto survey? The problem seems to be that these ships get stuck. In most cases it seems that hitting the space bar (to tell these ships to skip the rest of their moves) gets the game going again.

Reply to Defender disappears from ship list in TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

OK, when I clicked the turn button the Defender M2 appeared. What happened is that I had just traded techs, and one of the techs I traded made the Defender M1 automatically upgrade to the M2. What was so confusing was that after the trade, the Defender M1 dropped off the ship list, and the planets showed (in the Civ Manager colony list) as building nothing. IMHO the M1 should still have showed on the ship list and those planets should have still shown as building it, until the turn button was

Defender disappears from ship list in TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In my current TA game, I had 4 planets building Defender M1s, with several others having already built them. I just noticed that all 4 planets now report they are building nothing, and that the Defender M1 no longer shows up on the list of ships to build (no model of Defender at all is on the list). Star Fury and Phoenix are still available, but no Defender. Has anyone else seen this? I could send in a saved game, but I'm not sure how many turns ago this happened. It mig

Reply to REALLY Irritating Issue Upgrading Starbases in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, I've seen it several times. And I agree it's gotten worse in TA. In addition, I've had situations where I disband the fleet, move a single constructor onto the resource, get the prompt, select an improvement, then nothing happens. If I move the constructor back to where it started and try it again, same thing. But if I move the constructor to where it's moving onto the resource from a different direction, it works. Strange. It doesn't happen often, but it's annoying when it does.

Reply to Good VS Evil in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In DL (and I think DA, but I'm not as sure about it), evil races had a harder time maintaining good morale, and had a higher chance of getting hit by the event where a number of planets revolt. In TA it seems like it might be different. I just completed a TA game as the Drengin, and had no difficulty maintaining high morale.

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Its a Drengin super ability "Super Dominators". Its an advantage/curse for the Drengin.[/quote] Ah, thanks for the explanation. At this point in my game it's a curse - it means lots of extra mouse clicks to get rid of them.

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm playing as the Drengin for the first time in ages (at least since DL), and I find that every time I declare war on somebody, a bunch of "super-dominator corvettes" magically appear on my doorstep, for free. Is this intended? Does it happen with other races (like the Korath)?

Reply to TA - Research Cost just Doubled for every Technology in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Please see the "steep increase in cost of technologies" thread in this forum.

Reply to Bug with Council event "Transports" in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've never had this vote go any way other than no armament, so I can't chip in on how it works. I'd like to clarify the problem, though. Were the transports the base model, or were they custom ships you'd designed with a troop transport module?

Reply to Trade route starbase placement in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Freighters do make more money the farther away they are from the home planet in DL and DA, but in Twilight of the Arnor that feature is broken. In TA (until it's fixed) the freighter earns the same amount per turn no matter where it is. This significantly decreases the value of trade.

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

The Altarian fleet support modules Righteous Justice (aids defense) and Righteous Might (aids offense) cannot both be placed on the same ship. When you place one on a hull in the shipyard, the other disappears off the available modules list. Since this is the first time I've tried any of the fleet support modules, I don't know if the other races' work the same way. I'm just pointing it out in case others find it confusing.

Reply to Disapearing Turn Button in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I had a ton of fleets set to auto-attack when it started happening.[/quote] Maybe it's related, then. I've never had the disappearing turn button problem, but I never use auto-attack/auto-explore.

Reply to Disapearing Turn Button in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Do any of you who are having this disappearing turn button problem have ships set on auto-explore? It occurred to me as I was reading another thread about auto-explore ships getting stuck, that that might explain why hitting the space bar might get you going again.

Reply to Espionage broken in TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I've been finding agents pretty much a waste of time.[/quote] I'm not using them much either. One interesting idea I saw over in the strategy forums was to place agents on morale improvements on a planet you're about to invade, to make the information warfare tactic more effective. By lowering the morale with your agent(s), you get more people to join you during the invasion.

Reply to Espionage broken in TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]it took me forever to figure out how to set a starport rally point[/quote] I too would prefer to see a more comprehensive manual or help system, but for the specific instance of the rally points, aren't they covered in the tutorial videos?

Reply to steep increase in the cost of technologies in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I certainly hope you do not view my comments as flames.[/quote] No, I wasn't referring to you. Meanwhile, comparing my current game (as Altarian, with a considerable research bonus) to my last game (as Yor, with no research bonus), I'm seeing much more inflation, so perhaps it is related to the ability point research bonus. Very early in the game I saw Trade go from 103 to 110 (note that in this case it did not double as some have reported), and over a longer period of

Reply to steep increase in the cost of technologies in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Haoh, I don't consider the game broken, I'm continuing to play it. And I do not care for those posting intemperate comments here. I would prefer to see the flames against Stardock stopped, and this thread devoted to attempts to isolate the cause of what we're seeing. My answer to almost all of your questions is yes. Some of us have been playing this game since the OS/2 days. This is the first time in all of those years that I've seen research costs increase like this. As I

Reply to steep increase in the cost of technologies in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I definitely saw it in games played as Torian (1) and Human (2 games). In all 3 of those games I had devoted points to enhanced research ability. In my latest game as the Yor, with no ability points for research, the tech inflation was either much less or was missing. Since the tech tree was so different, though, I can't swear that it wasn't there. The techs I noticed the largest inflation on as Human aren't available to the Yor.