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Reply to How many colonist to put in a colony ship and other colony/population questions in Strategies Stardock Forums

The above thread pretty much explains everything, however I usually put 100 into each colony ship so that I can cover useable planets as quickly as possible, the AIs are super amazing at colonizing planets, so speed is probably the first piority in open move. ~SDC~

Reply to How do I improve my diplomacy with other races? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Ive only tried up to bright level AIs, usually, if your military power is too low, no matter they are happy with you or not, they will try to rip you off with anything you have. And also, doing trade with them will also improve their thoughts towards you. Dont rush at the beginning, it doesnt matter that much. ~SDC~

Reply to How do I improve my diplomacy with other races? in Strategies Stardock Forums

what about research some diplomatic technology? That will always help. But if you just wanna give stuff to AIs to make them happy.....you have to give them really much. Ive tried give 30 BattleAxe at one time, and that only raise the relationship to Friendly. ~SDC~

Reply to Planet Specialization in Strategies Stardock Forums

i dont think maintenance is a big problem here. From my experience I've had almost all planets installed full load of social projects, however still raising quite a bit of money. The problem for me is to maintain military units. However when that happens I usually sell lower level ships to other AIs for money. ~SDC~

A terrible evil is growing in my strongest planet!!! What heck is that? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It seems Galciv always have a way to suprise me......just when I was half way to conquring the AIs, a message tells me that a terrible evil is growing on one of my planet, and it happen to be my best and strongest capital....now scienctist suggest me to abandon the colony....Can somebody please tell me whats this about? Thx ~SDC~

Reply to Great game - but i suck ass bigtime - any starting tips for a newbie? in Strategies Stardock Forums

There are many threads regarding open moves and planet building up strategies, I think it really depends on personal perference, if you like equally distributed system, you may want to build a good many social projects, if you like speicalty planets, you may want to concentrate on few high level planets. When sending off a colony ship, always know its destination planets quality, if it is a rather poor star, say 15-17, I find 100 million will be sufficent, otherwise you may suffer a morale d

Reply to Great game - but i suck ass bigtime - any starting tips for a newbie? in Strategies Stardock Forums

if you are a learner, I strongly suggest go for a cakewalk or simple game mode. Tweak the AI's intellgent to fool or beginner. and also remember the key in Galciv is planets,so in the early stage try to get as many yellow planets as you can. Dont forget your military power, otherwise you will find yourself being threantened(and for money) by AI constantly. ~SDC~

planet quality improvement... in Strategies Stardock Forums

I think there are two improvement structure, are there more than two? Ive seen an AIs's base with quality of 38! How is that possible? Why computer always have better planets? Thx in advance. ~SDC~

Reply to Early Game expansion in Strategies Stardock Forums

Sorry, I made a mistake, the metions turns to finish those project should be around 20. not 30~40, what was I thinking! ~SDC~

Reply to Early Game expansion in Strategies Stardock Forums

There is another way to gain colonies early in the game, here is what I do: Before begin the game, set the Reasearch bonus to 8 or 10, this will give you a very much boost on researching ability which comes in very handy later on. Upon begining the game, set the research project to Communication Theory, fly around while your project is underway, when it is finished, research Nano electronics, after that, research Stella Catography. With this project, you will be able to identify suitable pla

Reply to How can you tell which version you are running? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same here, I installed the bonus pack and there is no sign. I would like to confirm this before starting a new game. ~SDC~

Reply to Defending unowned planets in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

gosh,thats a much better way!! LOL ~SDC~

Reply to Loading citizens in a colony ship in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I believe this depending on your targeting planet's quality, say, if you have 30 thousands ppl on a colony ship with 50 morale colonizing a 15 type planet, you will get very low morale. I figured a way to balance this is aftering landing on the planet, immediately buy two quality improvment structure, then a entertainment centre, usually the morale will be around 60 after doing this. ~SDC~

A boost to planet quality? What the heck?!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have been playing this game for more than 8 hrs now and NOT ONCE, my plante gain the 35 quality boost, which many AI planets have more than one system has this bonus. Is this a way to balance the game play or is just my bad luck? Thx in advance. ~SDC~

Reply to Defending unowned planets in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To colonise an AI planet, you have to use a Transport or Combat transport to attack the planet system ~SDC~