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Has anyone ever had the Dread Lords show up early in their game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I ask because I've just noticed that, in the 7 times I've seen them between DA and TOA, they've never appeared before the beginning of year 6 at the earliest. I've been trying to figure out what possible influences there are on mega events, and I'm wondering if this is just a coincidence or not.

Reply to Challenging to Tough and Thalans in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Is this TOA or DA?

Reply to Economy and Research treaties in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="5" id="2944595"]Is it worse to cancel a treaty that you gave/sold than it is to attack someone who gave/sold a treaty to you? [/quote] To the best of my knowledge, you can't cancel a treaty except by going to war with your treaty partner, which results in a big diplomatic penalty with every other race for the aggressor (" - - They don't trust us", or something like that). So the only way to really break a treaty is to provoke the race yo

Reply to The suicidal Arceans; or, the perils of misplaced AI aggression in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, the Arceans at least had enough sense to know when they were beaten. I finally resumed this game and they surrendered to me after 2-3 more months, just as I put Arcea itself under attack. Of course, it was just two months after that before the Thalan-Yor Axis finally attacked my allies, and that's to say nothing of the local Dread Lords... But at least the Longest War In GalCiv History is over. The Arceans, incidentally, had "Intelligent/Tough" AI, like everyone els

Reply to Absurdly Events in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My personal favorite and least favorite mega events, with favorite events not necessarily being "fun" as much as balanced and disruptive (like mega events should be): Least favorites: The Mega Pirates, for two reasons. Besides the obvious "really annoying reset button" aspect, the fact is that a player who knows how to exploit the pirates can turn this event into a giant "I Win" moment. The AI can't really adjust to the pirates and wi

Reply to StargateCivilizations Final Wars Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="foxthree" reply="47" id="2941915"]Im at 80% I could still use some help the DA version is done just looking for a place to upload it to.[/quote] What's wrong with I-Mod?

Reply to I Hereby Pronounce this Forum DEAD. in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Honestly, have some patience. There's still a couple ongoing AARs - they just take a long time between updates.

Reply to Absurdly Events in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

But there was just one fleet, right? In that case, believe it or not, they were the normal pirates - the Mega Pirates show up with hundreds of fleets. The guys you ran into were apparently just some really powerful pirates.

Reply to Kushana Initiative Planning and Discussion in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

So, uh, when's the next report?

Reply to Absurdly Events in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Klaatoo" reply="5" id="2939921"]Not a balls-breaker if they treat all civs as enemies. In my game, they trashed all of my fleets and starbases, moved to the edge of my territory...and stayed there! Meanwhile, my enemies were pouring over my now defenseless borders and although my planets could've resisted several attempts at occupation, the writing was on the wall, so I started a new game. I've had pirates appear in subsequent games varying in strength from push

Reply to spore ships :( in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I've never had any real problems with spore ships, for one simple reason: the Korath never, ever, ever escort them. This makes them infinitely more vulnerable then transports, and as long as I have even a slight edge in speed and sensors, I can shoot the things down all day long. The only time I've ever lost a planet to spore ships was when the Korath completely controlled local space and I had no way of intercepting it.

Reply to Absurdly Events in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Klaatoo" reply="1" id="2939370"]I also don't permit the "God-mode" where one civ finds some Precursor artifact that allows them to become ruler of the universe if noone can stop them...sorry...get to be god the hard way....earn it![/quote] It should be noted there's a couple of different flavors of the Precursor Artifact event, only one of which is a mega event - you can recognize it by the fact that it gets a short cinematic (ship flying over a desert) while the "

Reply to Why the hell are the Thalans so powerful? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

On TOA, prior to my modding the tech trees, the game was typically dominated by either the Terrans, Torians, or Thalans, with the Altarians also colonizing on a large scale but usually having little-to-no military - though they were sometimes the source of a "waking the sleeping giant" situation. Following my mods, things have gotten more even: The "Big Guys" are now almost always some combination of the Terrans, Drengin, Altarians, Torians, Yor, or Thalans. The Thalans have al

Reply to Missing out on all the late game fun in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="dapyro6969" reply="7" id="2937892"]AI personality 10 is bugged, which AI uses that one?[/quote] Torians and Iconians. The former are hit worse, as they colonize more planets and the bug is basically a failure to develop the later planets they colonize. I switched the Torians to 8 and the Iconians to 11 (8 is generally more of a "bully", so I use that one for races that tend to be aggressive anyway).

Reply to Missing out on all the late game fun in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="dapyro6969" reply="5" id="2937873"]Thalan [/quote] What the...? The Thalan are one of the routine "big guys" in my games, even after a lot of modding to balance out the tech trees. (See here for more on that). The Drengin failure to expand, on the other hand, is a known bug that affects all AIs operating under AI Personality 7, which also includes the Yor and Korath. The only real way to get around it is to switch the

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

Bumping so that this can be more widely seen - I'm using my own mod, but any of these seem to make the game far more interesting and balanced.

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

Bumping so that this can be more widely seen - I'm using my own mod, but any of these seem to make the game far more interesting and balanced.

Reply to Several Questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

These are interesting food for thought, but not even TOA really provides us with enough day-to-day information about each civilization. To my knowledge, the only 4X game with fluff that detailed is Sword of the Stars. Still, my own personal opinions, leaving out question #1 as I intend to give it more thought: [quote]2. Which faction would cause the most civilian and environmental damage?[/quote] The Korath are genocidal maniacs, so it's safe to say they'd cause the mo

Reply to Dread Lords mega event is still bugged (TOA) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Bafflingly, I've just had the Dread Lords pop up on an extreme planet with no problems whatsoever. In fact, they're building up fine. It looks like the cause of the bug is a bit more mysterious then I thought.

Reply to Missing out on all the late game fun in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Also, another way to prolong alliance victories that I found by accident: disable Tech Brokering and trade for Alliances from the first AI to get it. This means you'll have to wait until your AI friends also research Alliances in order to form them, rather then just being able to give it away. This can make the diplomatic game a lot more interesting, as AIs will not stay at "Close" relations perpetually - you might have to work on them again when they do get it. I'd p

Reply to Missing out on all the late game fun in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

On the subject of alliances, I've found evidence to suggest that the AI may be unwilling to form alliances with other AI races until a certain time point. While I have never had anything to positively confirm this, I've seen the good AIs form alliances at the beginning of game year 7 again and again, so I increasingly suspect that may have something to do with it. I've had games in TOA go on for quite a while. It wou

Reply to Custom map in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

If you don't create enough unclaimed planets for them, you may have a limited number of minor races. How many did you pick on the opening screen? The fact that it's always the Snathi is probably a coincidence.

Reply to The suicidal Arceans; or, the perils of misplaced AI aggression in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The error here is that the reason the Arceans are in this mess in the first place is that they kept making the same mistake - attacking the Altarians - over and over again. Like I said, it fits slightly with the Arceans' backstory, but it's still stupid on their part. In addition, they should be trying to make peace with somebody. Fighting every major race in the galaxy at once is just insane.

Still possible for AIs to make peace with the Dread Lords in TOA 2.02 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Title is fairly self-explanatory. The Dread Lords made an appearance in my game today, but to my disappointment, they were right next to Earth, meaning that they were likely to be wiped out before doing anything. I tried to get the Terrans to make peace with them until things could get interesting, and surprisingly, the Terrans agreed. While this is good (sort of, they're building up fast) from a "fun" perspective, I was under the impression this bug had been fixed by now - it should not

The suicidal Arceans; or, the perils of misplaced AI aggression in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

So I'm playing a game on TOA where I've been at war with the Arceans, on and off, for four game years, and it's become clear they're doomed. I really would rather just sit back and wait for them to be wiped out by the other guys - there's much bigger problems out there - but the constant declarations of war have given them the "They hate us" condition and we're permanently at war. I even tried offering all my techs for peace - but nothing. The thing is, though,