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Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="140" id="3064128"]An observation from my latest playtest: Under certain conditions, AIPersonality 7 looks to be very competitive. That's the Korath, Drengin, and Yor default. Inspired by enoeraew37's complaint about the Korath, and qrtxian's latest AAR, I decided to test the Korath and Drengin using tight star clusters, abundant stars, and abundant habitables. Under those conditions, they can colonize enough planets and proceed

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Well, I notice that to some extent you've gone beyond just fixing the bugs of stock TOA, and are now modding the game to your states (e.g. colonizing minors). There's always the possibility that that's deterring people.

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2011 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for reminding me about this thread - looks like it's time to start the new year's.

Reply to The community of past, current and future GalCiv2 players. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've never played Metaverse and never will, but as far as the game itself, I still play all three expansions.

Reply to all opponents in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

No, that was me - the AAR I've been writing is about the first game I played with that mod, and while it needs tweaking (the minor-Yor were crushed, and the fact that I still haven't met the minor-Thalan by 2234 suggests they aren't doing so hot either) the idea is basically workable. But there's no way you're ever going to get a full set of genuine major races in the game.

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No.

Reply to The Kushana Initiative - Play By Council in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Before making any recommendations, I'd like a clarification: has a formal declaration of war been made against the Silicoid yet, or not?

Reply to Ultimate - does DA have the ToA AI problems? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They remain separate. DA will not have TA's AI problems whether you get it on its own or play it through Ultimate Edition.

Reply to Benefits of larger populations in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="9" id="3058132"]Everything appears fine to me, browser refresh?[/quote] They're back now.

Reply to Benefits of larger populations in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ah, that clears it up. I've never played anything faster then Normal. Unrelated note: What happened to the quote buttons?

Reply to Benefits of larger populations in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What tech speed is this? I don't play that way anyway, but no matter how much you micromanage I just don't see how it's possible to max out the tech tree when taking TA tech inflation into account, at least on the settings I use.

Reply to Benefits of larger populations in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="LTjim" reply="3" id="3058010"]I say "sadly" because I have never seen the AI react after completing research.[/quote] I've never seen the tech tree tapped out, or even anything close to it. However, I have seen one test game where an AI (the Yor, specifically) researched tech victory despite it being disabled, and after finishing it proceeded to return to research as normal.

Reply to Planetary Defense in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Curiously, I have almost never seen the AI build Planetary Defense structures in any version of the game, even though they regularly research it (of course, the tech provides a soldiering bonus just by itself). By way of contrast, as soon as I fixed the issue that was preventing the Arceans from researching Space Cannons, they make regular use of them, as do other civs that get traded the tech.

Reply to Benefits of larger populations in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The more people you have, the more tax-payers you have. So it definitely affects income. Not sure about manufacturing and research.

Reply to Yet another Terran AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Part 10: The Decline and Fall of the Drengin Empire The game resumed with simultaneous outbreaks of xenophilia... ...and disease. Once again

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

For the record, you don't need mega events to get pirates - there are a couple of "normal" events that spawn them, and then there are the pirates that pop up when a civilization is eliminated. Of course, none of that had happened yet.

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Incidentally, as far as that test game goes, during it I experienced what I can only assume to be a really strange bug, in the form of this unusual plea for help: For the record, I turned them down, but it wasn't something I'd ever seen before.

Reply to Yet another Terran AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Note to readers: I have been busy lately (as far as GalCiv 2 goes) with a series of test games. However, I should have a post up by the end of the week.

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

In my experience, the AI does research Alliances, just not particularly early on. In my most recent test everyone got it eventually.

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Update - my test experienced something of a setback when I realized that, as I was "playing" as a minor race, I wouldn't actually be able to trade the AI a Terror Star. I did, however, gift all 8 of them the techs required. Despite playing for three years, none of them built one. So I think we can safely conclude that the AI will not use Terror Stars.

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Well, I've seen the AI research Terror Star techs, and I've even seen them focus on it, but I've never seen one actually finish researching all five techs. However, this is at least partially a matter of how long their research times are, so I haven't seen anything thus far that conclusively shows me an AI cannot use Terror Stars. I've read claims that they won't build or use one even if they research all the techs, but I have no evidence for that. So I'm g

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

So you're confirming that the AI will not use Terror Stars? I'd seen reports of this, but I've never been completely certain as I haven't ever seen any AI finish research on all five techs. It might be a worthwhile experiment to try building one, then giving it to an AI to see what they do with it. In fact, I might try this myself.

Reply to Modding text files in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Jurremans" reply="5" id="3051636"] Apparently Mars already had intelligent life on it in my test-universe [/quote] Well, random events can happen on any planet except the first one you colonize. So if you leave the low-PQ planet in your home system for later (as you probably should), anything can happen.

Reply to Editing major and minor races in GCII Ultimate Edition in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Jurremans" reply="2" id="3051919"]I still look for a way to change the minor race names, hopefully someone else reading this will know how to do that.[/quote] You'll want to mod the RaceConfig file for that. The one you're most likely to use will be wherever your computer stores its program files, under Stardock Games/Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate Edition/Twilight/Data/English. For the record, in my experience it's actually AI 8 that's good for

Reply to Is there a concensus on settings that fix TA's eccentricities? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Aegix_Drakan" reply="15" id="3051997"]The second one you linked to...minor races that colonize scares me. It's hard enough competing with the major races over planets... I don't know if I want to download that one unless it can be turned off...[/quote] I can't speak with certainty about Tolmekian's mod, but I know my own mod for colonizing minors doesn't make them into too serious a threat. And his latest version 2.0 comes in a "no minors" variety, thou