[quote]1) The game has a bug that will allow you to move a TS anywhere you like in one turn. Even from one side of an Immense galaxy to the other. It does, however, seem that most people are completely unaware of this.[/quote] What?!? How does the bug work? I don't use Terror Stars (I don't even play TOA much) but I'm simply stunned to hear of a bug that could do that.
A GalCiv III is planned (although it will likely be the end of the franchise) but not for quite some time.
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="3" id="2761336"]I have seen many of these type events. They never seem to mean much, though, because they (the AI's) always seem to act the same way as before. They'll still attack anyone that they seem to have the advantage over. [/quote] They can mean quite a lot in terms of diplomacy, though. In a DA game full of evil races, when the Altarians had this "ethical reversal" event, it shook things up a lot. I once lost a game as the Drengi
I figured out as much in a test I just did: by pushing my tax rate up to 100%, about half my planets did revolt and form a new civilization (which then did nothing). I don't see any way that this could unless you were deliberately trying to achieve it. What were your settings on DL when you saw it? I haven't ever had a revolution (or more accurately had AIs have one) in many, many games.
Hmm. I've heard of a mega event like that (plus the normal Fundamentalists event, which only hits the evil players), but what I'm thinking of is a non-random rebellion based off of low approval, as the descriptions for advanced governments and the manual hint is possible. The main reason this has come up is that in my current game, the Krynn have the angriest planets I've ever seen in 40-something games. Except where they've built morale structures, every world is at 35% approval, or
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[quote who="charon2112" reply="6" id="2761281"] Quoting feelotraveller, reply 5 Quoting charon2112, reply 4 yup, my retail manual has page numbers. All totaled it's 96 pages. Did you buy Ultimate Edition? or another Edition...? I bought the Ultimate Edition retail. Just counted the unnumbered pages and there's 52 (plus cover) in mine. I double checked mine and it defin
The delay is definitely waived between allies, but as far as I know not through any other means, no matter how high your diplomacy and influence. A war does end treaties and trade routes, but I have always had a great deal of difficulty getting AIs with one to go to war, except in an indirect manner by bribing one to attack the other's ally (or the Altarians if they're good). It seems that the bonus for shared treaties will almost always make AIs "friendly" towards each other,
I've read in a few places that it's possible, especially under advanced governments, for planets with extremely low approval to rebel and form a new civilization. I've never seen it happen, and while I've found references to it in the english.str file, I wonder if these might just be other "GalCiv 1 legacies" like some of the random events that are no longer in the game but are in the file. So my questions are: 1. Has anyone ever seen a rebellion like this occur? 2. Ho
[quote]Next time, I may give them a planet that will flip back before invading them.[/quote] This will not work as minor races are immune to cultural conquest.
I think the basic concept behind the "population is just citizens" thing is to explain why populations grow at such an unrealistically fast rate - it's not just new people being born, but non-citizens becoming citizens. So in a way high approval does mean your number of citizens grows (up to a point). Of course, this has some story holes of its own, but whatever. If an AI who's clearly losing refuses to make peace, often it means that they hate your civilization (which can be
There's no magic formula: On the diplomacy screen, there is an "attack" option for both you and the AI (not to be confused with the "declare war" option in DA onwards). Clicking on it for the AI will bring up all the races they'd be willing to go to war with, and you can select one or more to bribe them to attack. From here on, it's conducted like a normal trade; note that the AI will never agree to attack a race with a higher military ranking. You can also use your 'attac
[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="1" id="2755769"]Please. You should know by now that politicians see events through their own slightly off color and out of focus glasses. [/quote] Heh. Very true. It is worth noting that when you declare war to honor an alliance, the game treats you as the aggressor - it doesn't care why you declared war, only that you did, not the other race. This can be significant if you have treaties with the race you're declaring war
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Yes, it does come with a physical manual (or at least mine did).
I edited the raceconfig.xml files so that the minors no longer used AI Personality 5, which is responsible for their non-colonizing and general stupidity. I set them to AI personality 11, but I suspect any of the other personalities used by major races (7, 8 and 10) would also work. I also replaced the mysterious Root in the file with the Terrans' starting techs (again, this is DA) in case this was also related. For balance, I eliminated their 100% bonus to ec
I have now achieved consistent and repeatable success with a mod (DA) designed to get the minor races to colonize and behave more like major races, just without most of the advantages. While still very much minor races, several of them have now managed to colonize several planets and become at least a (ahem) minor challenge to defeat - which is more than they were before. There were two notable features of the 'new and improved' minors' behavior: 1. Each time I've played with
As long as you're still working on it, I'm fine.
[quote]However that doesn't help me much because it doesn't say where it was expecting to find the phrase. I suppose it should be in the english.str file.[/quote] No; it's in the GC2_Conversations.xml file.
OrionTG: This should be posted in the current "Ship Designs" thread: https://forums.galciv2.com/373125 .
[quote who="heft" reply="6" id="2739475"] i balance it with work capacity and keep morale 70+ I would tax to keep morale at only about 60%... I haven't had any problems with it that low. [/quote] Conversely, I try to keep in the 70s (I want my people to like me) and have never had a lot of trouble with the economy (this is on "Tough").
In the raceconfig files, civ type 4 is a major race and 3 is a minor. Civ type 5 appears to only be used by the Dread Lords and pirates. Does this mean that if I gave a civilization civ type 5, they would have the same special diplomatic properties as the Dread Lords do?
Actually, the third source of money is tourism income, which is based off your cultural influence. It's usually not worth a lot, but there is a random event that doubles tourism income. Economy buildings like market centers increase the amount of money you make from taxes; they don't generate it in and of themselves. Oh, and you can also extort it from the AI, but generally they won't give you much unless you're much more powerful (and of course, it hurts relations).<
[quote who="warglameplayer" reply="2" id="2678026"]Is there a range mod for the game? [/quote] Actually, I once read an AAR by someone who had modded range like that: https://forums.galciv2.com/330090 although I've never tried to replicate what he did myself.
Yes, only 1 (not counting Mars); it was one of my first games and I didn't realize how fast the AI colonized. I also did have some bad luck with my starting position - the stuff about the Arceans and Torians fencing me in was quite true. There'll be a map with my next post. I made a few other newbie mistakes here that will pop up in the story. As I said, I played this almost a year ago.
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True, although there might be some exceptions; for instance, were it not horrifically ugly, I might consider posting the most powerful ship design I ever created (in terms of attack/defense anyway). So there could be some cases where someone might post a functional design. Also, I like to work components into the design of a ship, so that could be another reason.
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There is a pinned "Show Off Your Ship Designs" thread, though it's mostly died off. I should note that it's mostly focused on aesthetically pleasing ship designs itself, as all you really need for a functional design is to slap some components on a hull.