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Prelude: The early hyperdrive era By the time the Arcean probe was detected in 2117, the millennia-long struggle between various Terran nation-states was finally at end. No war had occurred for several decades, and while not yet fully united, the various great powers ( link to a list of significant Terran political entities) had grown into a global meta-civilization. The discovery of the probe near the system’s asteroid belt wou

Reply to Planatary Invasions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A legion is 1 million soldiers.

Reply to Planatary Invasions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="devxx" reply="4" id="2719825"] no such thing as a crappy planet guess it's all relative. at higher difficulty settings maybe good planets are scarce so you want to hang on to anything you can get whereas down where us newbies play, PQ9's and 10's are a dime a dozen. i have the techs, i just don't want to spend the time and money to improve them when there's a PQ9 right next door... a couple more questions about solderi

Reply to Planatary Invasions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1. Your soldiers comprise the new population of the planet after you invade it. The game (rather unrealistically) represents planetary invasions as involving the complete annihilation of the previous inhabitants, at least as long as you don't use Information Warfare. One transport remains after an invasion for every 1000 legions ("troops" as most call them) that survive; all others are lost. From what you've said, it sounds as if less then 1000 legions survived and all your trans

Reply to Upgraded ships bought from other races keeping original names if design is my own. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Um, I might be misunderstanding this, but why would you name your troop transport design after an Iconian fighter? Or have you been buying multiple Iconian fighters? At any rate, you can rename ships by clicking on the button in the top right corner of the control panel when a ship is selected.

Reply to Where is Alora? And Ghella? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

How? I found that too and am rather curious about it.

Reply to The Campaigns in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As far as I know the reason for this bug has never been discovered, unlike the one on "Apocalypse", and so there's no known 'fix'. If you want to beat the mission, play it on the original Dread Lords. If you just want to get the final mission ending, open the GC2scenario file and read the "Victory" message.

Reply to CTD occurs when starting custom scenario created with TOA editor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="4" id="2715395"]Just curious, why are running the game at 1024 x 768 when your native resolution is 1680 x 1050? Not only is it well below the res you should be running, it is also a different aspect ratio. That has been known to cause problems - sometimes major and random problems - with many video drivers. You should set the game to run at 1680 x 1050. You will find it a more pleasing resolution for the game, and it might even fix some of

Reply to CTD occurs when starting custom scenario created with TOA editor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

An update: As this was done with the Ultimate Edition, I tried loading the scenarios from DA. This did not produce a CTD, but something is still wrong, as the scenario's diplomatic settings aren't working. For instance, the one in the debug file above ("Mano y Roboto") was a Terran/Yor one-on-one duel. When starting the scenario, I should be at war with the Yor, but I wasn't. The same holds for other scenarios I tested on DA. Again, scenarios created through editing the xml di

Reply to Does this game's quality just deteriorate over time? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, I own them all - but because of the bugs and certain other reasons, I play DA more often. Don't get me wrong, TOA is still a great game, but does have flaws that make it less enjoyable.

Reply to How do I get back default settings? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It's a lot more complicated with separate Tech trees for each race but to the best of my knowledge Twilight has the fewest bugs and has reasonable gameplay. My problem is that I really haven't played Twilight myself and so my knowledge of it is limited. Between Dread Lords and Dark Avatar I would probably have to go with Dread Lords. There was a huge nerfage of ship speed done in Dark Avatar based on the mistaken assumption that ship speed was being exploited to overrun the

Reply to Where to save custom improvements in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Similiar question - where do you save a custom scenario? I've experienced CTDs every time I try to start a scenario created with the TOA editor and I wonder if there may be a connection. I created a few custom scenarios for the original DL by directly editing the xml and saved them as a mod - do I do the same thing?

Reply to Galactic Wars in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry to all readers for the lack of posts - I thought the AAR forums had finally given up the ghost and stopped writing this. Since there may be some life in the forum yet, I'll have the next few posts up soon (and this time, I mean it).

Reply to Does this game's quality just deteriorate over time? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It's a huge shame, because GalCiv II is an awesome game that feels like it was never really finished. For a while, the dev team did an admirable job of post-release support, but unfortunately the patches stopped before some of the nastier bugs were taken care of (late-game memory issues, races randomly deciding not to expand, broken diplomacy, etc).[/quote] Change "GalCiv II" to TOA and your statement matches my experience. I've almost never experienced bugs with DA or the orig

Reply to How do you cope with the Fog of War? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Zarnick" reply="5" id="2693328"] Sensors on starbases usually do a lot for me. I put sensors on my space miners then position them when they are not building on asteroids; and I have sensors on constructors which wait near my resources ready to make optimal starbase-weapons upgrades. [/quote] I put sensors on my freighters. Typically, I'll already have high-level sensors by the time I have one of the "advanced" trade techs researched

Reply to force ai to use max cpu in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="IztokBitenc" reply="2" id="2705646"]Hi! IIRC with the MAxCPU set, AIs (re)design ships more often, not only once a year. BR, Iztok [/quote] I always play with this setting enabled, but on one instance I forgot. The AIs still redesigned their ships more than once a year, although they didn't upgrade existing ships to the new designs that I saw.

Reply to Galaxy Setup - the Key to a Good Game in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My favorite setting is to put habitable planets to "occasional", enable blind exploration and mega events, and set everything else to random. I never know what to expect in games like this, and it forces me to think on my feet. There can be occasional ugly results, like 9 AIs on a tiny galaxy, but even those can lead to some of my most epic games. Basically, the less I know about my galaxy before I play it, the better.

Reply to Redemption, Resurrection, Retribution in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, General - when's the next update?

Reply to About the races in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There is no book, but I suspect there's still a massive amount of unpublished backstory. Maybe if the Elemental novel does well we'll see a book for GalCiv III if/when it comes out.

Reply to Apocalypse in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There are many, many threads discussing this scenario, as well as a few of the other more difficult campaign missions. Unfortunately I haven't actually played the campaigns much, so I can't provide information on how to beat this mission, and the forum search feature is pretty awful... so you might just have to look for those threads randomly. Some general anti-Dread Lord advice from my experience fighting them in sandbox mode: If you focus on intercepting their transports, the DLs wo

Reply to Twilight editor manuals, FAQs, or Wiki? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Agreed, especially for the scenario editor, which has caused a CTD every time I try it.

Reply to Why are the evil AIs so weak? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

To update this post, now that I've played several DA games I can say that the evil races are not weak at all. The Drengin have been a power in every game they've been in and I've just had my first experience with successful Korath. The Yor still seem to do poorly, though. Their miniaturization bonus lets them build fairly impressive ships, but they never seem to develop the economic base to build many of them. In contrast, the Drengin in my current game have literally hundreds of ships - seve

Reply to The mysterious arnors. in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

This thread ( https://forums.galciv2.com/127754 ) contains just about all the published backstory on the Arnor.

Reply to Cutting down on total number of ships / military sizes? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I would like to say that in my games, I generally feel there aren't enough ships to be 'realistic'. Except for certain AIs like the Torians who favor small and tiny hulls, I have almost never encountered a race with more then about 200 individual ships, even in full-tech games. I'm curious about your settings; what game is this (DA, TOA, original GalCivII) and what's the difficulty level?

Reply to The Saga of the Exiles in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Excellent post, mambaman! Despite what you have said in the past, your battle scenes are thrilling, and this was no exception. Good to see the war against the Torians taking a turn for the better for once. Out of curiosity, how far ahead of events in the story is your game? You mentioned before that that the Drengin were favoring you against the Torians, and here we learn that they're donating ships. Is this a "true" AAR written after the game, or are events still ongoing? BTW