I actually just found this: https://forums.galciv2.com/170646 If you read the posts, it seems like it is possible to put an extreme planet (or several) in a race's home system. However, it apparently isn't possible to use one for a race's homeworld.
[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="22" id="2837734"]So I finished up my first game with the mod. It was a lot more fun than usual. Everyone was hobbled by the galactic speed restriction event. The Terrans ended up owning about half the galaxy, but their military was only so awesome because of three military resources. Once I discovered all the military resources I sent my fleets to knock them out and build my own starbases on those resources. In the end the Terrans los
Use the "Free Cam" viewing option. It's directly after "Cinematic" if you cycle through all the options.
I'm not sure you can mod the effects of the governments. However, I would try modding the various techs (Interstellar Republic, etc.).
This, the Mithrilar - class superdreadnought, was my favorite out of a set of Iconian hull templates I made to replace the defaults. I've never actually used it in-game. Any Babylon 5 fans might recognize the design, as it was loosely inspired by the Vorlon planet-killer (actually the other reason I've never used it in-game: I want it to be... shall we say, suitably well-armed). </
So, just to make it clear, your question is "How do I win?" It has nothing to do with Metaverse empires, correct?
[quote]Or, they should get the shield technologies with less research time than others. Perhaps they should get a ship-sized version of the Arnorian planet shield in the end. I think Iconians and Thalans should have different techs though, with the Iconian defenses referring to Precursor technology and Thalan defenses referring to extra dimensions.[/quote] I felt the Iconians and Thalans should have the same actual components with different flavor text in the tech description. Seems s
[quote who="Maiden666" reply="48" id="2835849"]really sad that this story has never been finished. was my favourite over here [/quote] It was a good one, all right. Off-topic note, why exactly are you so fond of the Yor anyway (as expressed in other posts)? I suspect that's why you liked this one so much.
Interesting idea here. I think the Iconians and Thalans should both have extra-powerful but more expensive defenses. The backstory reasons would be different, but the same components probably would work for both. Terrans should have a special type of shields, since canonically they were the first race to develop them.
[quote]I wonder who would win Star trek vs Galactic civlizations 2? I like who vs who threads for some reason.[/quote] A thread like that would belong in the off-topic section, FYI. At least I think that's the policy.
Here's one trick I like to use: buying out the minors. I generally prefer not to conquer minor races as it adds up fast to a "Our reputation for conquering others" diplomatic penalty, not to mention that I often grab their treaties (every little bit helps) and that's an even bigger penalty. But especially in the expansions, the minors are always all snapped up eventually by the AI. So what I do is this. I wait until a minor is on the ropes against the AI - usually, this i
[quote who="Veedot" reply="3" id="2834984"]Maiden666, what is Tech Inflation? I had never heard this term before. [/quote] Tech inflation is the term coined to describe how the costs of technologies double over time in Twilight. It affects weapons and other military techs the worst.
Soon is apparently defined as three weeks. The AAR has now been relaunched here as the imaginatively named "Drengin AAR". Then again, they aren't that imaginative a species.
The basics: Drengin AAR played on Unlimited Power scenario, fictionalized. My view of the Drengin is a little idiosyncratic, but I've thought a lot about just what could make a society like that. There's a lot of backstory that won't be making it in here. Settings: My race: <img src="http://s1230.p
As discussion seems to have closed, councilors, I've drafted the ballot. Only two proposed technologies are up for discussion this time. I've also added a vote for authorization to trade for Trade Centers from the Drath; this is a traditional yes/no vote. Research <span style="font-size: x-small; text-decoration: un
Will there be another post? Incidentally, 4nana, no I was not joking. I had honestly never heard of engineering notation before that.
You can easily make cosmetic warp nacelles with some of the extras, then just make your actual engines "invisible" by shrinking them and turning them to face "inside" the ship. I actually have a game going as a civilization inspired by Trek's Federation. Most of my ships are just "in the style of" the series, but this one was loosely inspired by the Miranda- class. With more effort I could have probably gotten something that looked like the real deal. Here it
[quote]The was a precursor race in Star trek called Iconians but they were extinct for 200,000 years.[/quote] Every time I see that episode (or one of the others featuring the Trek Iconians) it just comes across strange now. Particularly since I pronounce Iconians with a hard O (i-con-ians, not i-cone-ians). [quote]Torian Confederation=Romulan Star Empire[/quote] What. Seriously, what similarity is here other then that they both have green ships? Some o
[quote who="wrax" reply="5" id="2831579"]I bet I saw somewhere trick for playing Dread Lords! ok, got it https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Cheats_and_keyboard_shortcuts "To play as dread lords: creat a new civilization called dread lords, leader lord dread, portrait the guy with the hood on, the sign is the fire ball, the planet amalda. save the civilization and load another, then load the dread lords again, and it should be a "major" race with racial abilities and the d
[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="19" id="2834515"] No offense intended, but there's probably more than a few threads on Metaverse score-maximizing techniques already on the forum. Why start a new one?Also no offense intend but this is just where the conversation naturally seemed to wander. There's really not all that many active folks around these days so it just seems best to let things be a little more free form and not get all that hung up about staying rigidly "on topic". <
No offense intended, but there's probably more than a few threads on Metaverse score-maximizing techniques already on the forum. Why start a new one? Can we get back to the original topic? I'm curious about the remaining stock races' growth rates (mentioned in SS's first post).
From the numbers you give it's doubtful, but could the "wormhole causes pop boom" event have been occurring at the time?
I've said this before, but it should be remarked that the Dread Lords campaign was designed to be played on the original Dread Lords. I haven't played the later campaigns that much, but AFAIK none of them pit you against massive DL numbers the way "Apocalypse" and "Achilles Heel" do. The old combat system made those missions a lot easier (but still very very hard!). In fact, the way the new combat system made fighting the DLs much harder (especially when combined with TO
[quote]The problem with the game is the there are great gaping holes of problems and it's the tiny inconsequential problems that get fixed. To me the biggest issue with DA is the major speed nerfage that accomplished nothing in regard to it's intended purpose and instead resulted in merely being a major player annoyance. At least that's my opinion.[/quote] The speed nerfage is really a subjective thing. Some hate it, some are neutral on it, some actually like it. Although I agree it d
[quote]3. Madridia class[/quote] What is this ? Most of the others aren't so hard to do. In order to get an exact, or at least nearly exact version, you probably do need Kryo's Hull Mod, but it's not that hard to make a passable version with just the normal ship designer. As far as making races goes, it's pretty self-explanatory. Some modding will be needed to get the race images and logos from the series.
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