Code Monkey

Reply to AI Seems to be Unobservant and has ADD in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, I'm not sure how I want the AI to behave. Is it better if it behaves realistically and hands over the SB because you can just take it? Or is it actually providing a game challenge by being obstinate? I had a similar situation with a resource SB and Yor. I had just finished beating their asses soundly a few months before and realised that I forgot to take that resource before I made peace, "So give it to me, I'll even pay you some good money for it along with some techs..." <br

Reply to AI defends its planets *very* poorly. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Za H, that's a good way of putting it. The AI seems to run about like a horde of rioters shooting your SBs and freighters, but when you come marching into their sectors with a stack of dreads, they'll still be over in your territory trying largely ineffective guerilla tactics while your prepare to move a whole armored column right into the middle of town square.

Reply to Am I the Only One. . . .??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Um, to all the people saying how this works best on SDC, why coudn't SDC just use the intergrated IE browser for a genuine web based software package? It doesn't pull you out of using SDC if you for some reason like using that as your forum/newsreader and it lets these forums enter the 21st century.

Reply to Does anyone use the Library stuff... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Dave, that sounds good, but it's not the case at all, or have you somehow missed the posts about how particular mods actually crash the game or flat out don't work without you making some data file changes yourself? They are supposed to be doing what you describe sometime this week but currently all being in the library is indicative of is that a Stardock emp scanned it for viruses and put it up.

Reply to Just finished my third game. Please nerf this in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Posted by pdifolco : > Hey, an idea : make ALL tribute from a race STOP when > you're at war with them ! That's not an idea, that's a suggestion (that's not going to happen) that's been argued since the beta and is still being argued. Brad believes (and I agree) that being able to cancel tribute with war lends itself to more cheesey tactics than having it continue. Think of it as tribute is handled by some sort of Galactic Bank escrow system which doesn't see a differ

Reply to How do I get my ships repaired? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Um, it does repair quickly when in orbit, no cheese involved.

Reply to 1.02Z BETA in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"Hold on a second here. Does Frogboy = Brad Wardell?" Yes, it's in his profile if you want to check for yourself :)

Reply to Bug Report Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"I said 'Hell No' and everything went back to normal." Well, almost, it happened again when the Torians tried to invade the Yor, an evil little genie popped up on my shoulder and made me stop them :D After a CTD for unknown reasons later on the magic ability to control the Torians' war mongering seems to have disappeared.

Reply to Bug Report Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just had an interesting one I'll call the "identity crisis". I was in a massive war with the Altarians and Torians and we had all essentially managed to bomb our civs back into the stoneage so I made peace arrangements with both civs. During the auto-move portion of the following turn I got the dialogue for a Torian Combat Transport that had been set on an auto-route to invade my planet: Invasion of the _Terran Alliance's_ Kwilas system will be seen as an act of war. Do you w

Reply to Just finished my third game. Please nerf this in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"I don't think people who have only played 3 games on Fool AI levels should be making global comments about what should or shouldn't be nerfed in the game." Well, his first issue is a genuine bug in the game. Money doesn't just appear from ghost civilizations. The second complaint will be dealt with very shortly as it is a failing in the AI. The bit about breaking treaties is a misunderstanding of the game mechanics: there is no time involved in a peace/attack treaty.

Reply to cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't think they're *nerfing* anything about human-AI deals. They are trying to, one, get the AI to trade with other AIs more aggressively and, two, get it to stop going for every deal you offer it if it's going to drive them into bankruptcy. That's not a nerf, that's just improving the AI.

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Posted by Phaedyme: > My understanding is that the post was aimed at people > who use clearly unbalanced mods (such as, say, a > random event that boosts all your PQs by some ungodly > amount) or use trainers to boost their scores. Define where clearly imbalanced starts then? ;) For instance, let's say I design an event which has a chance to increase all your planets +1%, that's not "clearly imbalanced", right? Now, let's say I write the same event

Reply to Lets debate adding Multiplayer to GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Posted by mysticleopard: > As a gamer, I am going to be honest, 4X mutliplayer > games blow. It might as well just be 1X, exterminate. > And if I want a game where I kill my opponents, I'll > just fire up an FPS or an RTS. Well, I do think you've got to give competitve 4X games the 2nd X because there is also an eXploration phase. Other than that, I agree completely about that assessment of the genre for competitive play. Cooperative play against the AIs is more fun,

Reply to cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, but then I've not seen any evidence of much AI-AI dealing before T15, either. Sorry, but I've had no problems of the sort you describe so whatever issue is going on is your playstyle, your diplomatic ability, or alignment issues, not some deliberate "cheat" of the AI.

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Posted by Star Pilot: > It's our game. If having an event that gives you +50 > Planet Quality makes it more fun for you, go ahead. > I don't care, as it doesn't affect my game. But all > this talk about 'fair/unfair' Metaverse scorings is > just marshmellows burning in the fire. For the most part I agree with you and have said in other threads how the top spots will be dominated by the cheese mongers - they just keep twiddling and twiddling way beyond anything tha

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"Are all the ones in the library approved?" Nope, and therein lies the problem. Right now you can submit anything you like and it immediately shows up for download. Brad has said he plans to split the library into official/approved and unofficial/not-approved sections which will hopefully clear up some of the confusion. Maybe then he can take the time while he's at it to actually clarify what is metaverse acceptable and what isn't.

Reply to cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thongor, I would guess your playstyle has more to do with this than any "cheat" in the AI. I often try the diplomatic approach - high dip ability, peaceful behavior - and I find the exact opposite of you, AIs will make deals with me that they would never make with one another because of their relation status.

Reply to Convincing the AI to defend with battlehammers in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, before dreads, I typically garrison each planet with 2 BHammers & 2 BAxes. I haven't seen the AI punch through this yet - they're both cheap enough that I can replace anything that gets destroyed and I'm never *that* far behind any of the AIs that come a knockin'. Plus, since they're also good on offense, they work well for smacking any transports or lighter ships on my turn before ducking back into orbit :) Of coure, if the AI started using BHammers more, that would really make pl

Reply to Lets debate adding Multiplayer to GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"Monkey: Why are you so hyped?" Because for some reason I am unable to ignore these threads and I've seen the exact same set of threads for every single *dedicated* singleplayer game ever made in the past seven years. If there was something new to discuss, my grumpiness over the issue might be less, but there isn't. Whether or not MP should have been in this game initially is a potential subject for discussion, whether it should be added given both the logistics and the developer's inte

Reply to Am I the Only One. . . .??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have to go with the "This forum softare blows" crowd here. I'm a big fan of vBulletin myself for what it can do. It's not bad, the game gods knows I've seen far worse software used by game companies, but other than that it's graphically pretty and lets Brad insert company proprietary widgets like our Metaverse icons, it has nothing going for it.

Reply to Lets debate adding Multiplayer to GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My pondering for the day: Why is it that when I can remember Brad stating very clearly a year ago (or maybe even longer) that there would be NO multiplayer ever for the game, do people who apparently consider it an important game feature then buy the game? Moreso, when the company CEO & lead designer for the game says that he never had any intention of putting MP into it and never will, do people make statements like "I'd just be happy with a hotseat option"? If you want m

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Posted by vernmeister2u: > My suggestions were both fair and equitable to all players. > Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it unfair. Just because you do like it doesn't make it fair, either. I think I made my argument about why it's objectively unfair in my mind, so I won't bother repeating it. > The method which I would most support, the one that truly relies > on playing skill would be no mods, period, for metaverse scoring > submissions. You

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think I already made in the first few posts in this thread: clear guidelines from the game creators themselves. Brad has mentioned that sometime this week the library will be split into official and unofficial mods, but other than some very vagued up descriptions of truly outlandish mods, he still hasn't bothered to clarify what is allowed and what is not. My personal feeling is that if it's not an official mod and it changes anything other than the cosmetics of the game (graphics and

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"While I appreciate your response, I wish you could express it in a more constructive manner. I disagree that it's "lame". It's simple, it' fair, and it's equitable. If you'll recall, the concern was managing what's fair for submitting scores to the Metaverse, not ensuring the quality of mods submitted to the web site." Sorry if you thought that wasn't constructive, but the "everybody has access to it" is the same sort of stuff that has athletes feeling the need for steroids, or why in

Reply to NOTICE: Metaverse Data - Cheaters beware. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"I think the guideline to fairness could be very simple. If it's posted in the official library, it's okay. Everyone has access to use it or not. A simple guideline, fair and equitable." Since there's no actual checking of what gets hosted here, that's a pretty lame method of deciding. By your logic if someone posts an event tomorrow that gives you a chance to double the PQ of all your planets, hey, that's fine because we could all download the obviously broken mod.