No and yes, in that order: a ship cannot level up mid-battle, but it can gain more than one level after a battle ends, though I don't know the exact details on how experience works.
Depending on the circumstances, you might be able to actually trade the new owners for that homeworld.
[quote who="Fair_Play" reply="5" id="3010062"]I'm playing ToA but I don't see any option for number of extreme planets anywhere [/quote] Bottom left on the "Galaxy Settings" rows.
Another impressive station, Scoutdog!
Commander, councilors. I must first say that it is quite good that we have managed to regain communications. I was growing concerned. Moving on, I will first address the three requests from Commander Mekoides. While I would be interested to see the exact location of Fondor in the sector, I am currently prepared to support the construction of our Manufacturing Capital there. If it is located too far into our core space (as opposed to being on the borders where
Oh, I've seen the AI switch weapons occasionally. One DA game had everyone using either missiles or beams, and using defenses against them as a result - which gave the Krynn a big advantage when they suddenly started using mass drivers, even though it set them back. In the TOA game I'm writing an AAR for, both the Korx and the Altarians had low-tech mass drivers, but when I traded them Laser V, they switched to that and subsequent beam weapons - and then the Altarians started going <e
Good lord, I completely forgot about posting last time. Hopefully this will revive some now.
I have returned! Part 3: The outbreak of war Not too surprisingly, it was the Torians that started the game's first war, attacking the minor-Yor. The Drengin weren't far behind, starting the first of at least three wars they would fight with the Altarians - who still had no military at all. <img src="http://i1230.
Or, if you're playing with a mod that lets them colonize, just leave their worst planet alone - no need to give them one of yours. I actually can't take advantage of this event on TOA, as I have the "no tech brokering" option on all the time, and the game counts the techs the minor stole as qualifying for that. It's still pretty significant, though, as it can cause the minor to become quite powerful if the race they stole from was advanced enough. A game on TOA without
[quote who="Fair_Play" reply="2" id="3006310"]Should I set them to peace loving?[/quote] As far as I know, all that does is make them less likely to go to war with other races. I don't think it affects the AI's research behavior at all - civilizations I've set to peaceful still develop large militaries.
[quote who="Leto2626" reply="8" id="3005916"]Funny thing is, in my last game (on immense map), a minor race stole like all techs from the biggest race in the galaxy (no not me at the time:p), a little bit odd![/quote] That's a random event, though - it has nothing to do with actual espionage.
I don't see the particular appeal of outright fanfiction for a game, but there are many AARs written in fictionalized form. The few "actual" fanfics anyone has written can also be found in that section.
Inspired by the recent bump of Croc411's naval-style ships , I decided to post some old designs (from DA) of mine I tried to do a naval style on. They're old and have some design flaws (visually, that is), but I still kind of like them. even if they aren't nearly up to the level of most of what's in the thread. These are more Terran ships - I've been doing some designs for the Iconians I really ought to upload, but th
[quote who="dnzrx" reply="2" id="3002794"]I did put in points into Luck, but only for the enhanced combat abilities it grant.[/quote] I'm almost certain that Lucky Rangers are indeed tied in some way towards Luck. I mentioned collecting six of them in one game in this thread - and sure enough, my Torians had very high Luck - 1 actual point, a bonus from being Universalists, and maybe a tech too.
Well, basically, the issue is that the priority system for choosing dialogue is screwed up.There's four types of dialogue - specific speaker to specific listener, generic speaker to specific listener, specific speaker to generic listener, and generic speaker to generic listener. The problem is with the last to - generic-to-generic gets prioritized over specific-to-generic, meaning that dialogue like this: <span class=
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Personally, I'd advocate sticking it out. If you somehow manage to win this, it will be a memorable experience - comebacks always seem to make the greatest stories. Even if you die horribly at the hands of the AI, it still ought to be a memorable experience.
Actually, the most likely reason is "none of the above". The two reasons the AI tends to do this are: They're genuinely scared of you and want to stop you from getting stronger, or They're much more powerful then you and are using this as an excuse - this does happen, and from the sound of it it happened in this case.
Modding the dialogue is quite easy - you'll need to use the GC2_Conversations xml file. I've never tried to write new dialogue, but there's a fair amount that doesn't appear in the game due to bugs that I've managed to mod back in. It's not hard.
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I've finally encountered some strong Drath - in fact, they and their friend the Krynn are likely to defeat me. They both declared war after I attacked a minor race version of the Drath (long story) and are out for blood - two peace attempts resulted in war being declared again on the next turn. Both of their standard ships are better then mine, and as soon as they get Planetary Invasion, I'll likely be in a lot of trouble. I'm playing as the Drengin, against 9 AIs, with th
How did the Korath get 500-power fleets "early" in the game?
[quote who="mambaman" reply="7" id="2997824"]Surely this is only a temporary mega event?[/quote] Apparently not - or at least I was never informed when it ended.
Oh yeah, I see this all the time, although not often with these particular races - usually, it's the Altarians, Drath, Korx, and Yor. It actually can have a pretty big impact on the game, given how much alignment affects diplomacy. The Drath had this happen to them in the Terran game I'm currently writing an AAR for, which has basically sealed their fate, as the only surviving evil race despises them and the Torians - the most powerful race in the game - are right next to them. <
[quote who="VicTree" reply="4" id="2998032"]Also, could the attack strength of the peacekeepers and the dreadlord megaevents be increased to pose more of a challenge?[/quote] Mega events cannot be modded except for the text and images. Frankly, if they could be, I'd say that would actually be the best way to mod in the Borg - in my opinion, they and most other hostile super-races from fiction make much more sense as a random menace then as a playable civilization.
Doing this is beyond the capacity of modding for this game, I think.
Part 2 (continued) Galactic rankings as the new year began, as the media saw them anyway: By this point. Carinoids II was my only planet that had not been mostly developed. I made use of the extra space to begin construction of some wonders and trade goods, but I needed to continue colonizing if the Terrans were to stay i