Yes... You're right. I must say that this is the only game I've had no second thoughts of buying it. Even though after customs this pretty much became the most expensive game I've ever bought.. But I don't regret at all. Best money I've ever spent. If every game company had support and staff like stardock, earth would be a much happier place to live in :) ~SDC~
Hmm... Would be intresting to get the "official" side of this thing... I for one would like to be able to play it on multiple machines, because I'm no very often home and can't play on my home machine and play on my laptop. But when I'm home I like to play on a nice big screen... So far I have done this. I wonder what's stardocks' official opinion.. ~SDC~
Yep... I've got it installed both on my laptop and my home machine... Works like a charm (including stardock and updates). ~SDC~
Yes, the game examples are nice... But mostly just a good read. Not very good for learning things. More like Galactic Civilizations fan fiction :) ~SDC~
Okay... First pick one of the lower difficulty levels first.. Get a political party that gives you either economy or morale bonus and pick modifiers so that your morale and economy gets beefed up. Put spending to 100%, adjust taxes so that you keep around 90-100% morale at the beginning. Crank up the military spending to 100% (or 80% and research at 20%). Nevermind the social at the beginning.. Now you should be able to get a colony ship in 2-3 turns. Technologies you s
The game has ended... Finally... 9030 points.. We have now moved to 6th place :) And yes, yes... I know... This is _not_ a competition :) Seems like somebody has promoted me to Senator... Thx. Although I'm not sure why that's a good thing :) ~SDC~
Thanx.. I've got another gigantic game going on now with all intelligent ai's.. Seems to be going ok so far. The friggin Drengins are giving me a hard time though.. We'll see. People at work just seem to think I should have some work done... Damn. Can never seem to finish more than a few turns without some collegue interrupting me :) ~SDC~
It would be nice to be able to have buttons (or hotkeys) for going through all your vessels and planets. Like "next" and "prev" planet/starship buttons. That way it would be easier to go through all your planets and see what's going on around them. ~SDC~
Ok.. I figured that might be the case. Actually the last game I played did have that two hour mop up period also. So I do know what you mean. It is a bit tedious to get those last few techs. But I actually would have lost the game if the Arcean empire had had the guts to attack me. They would have wiped the galactic floor with my ass but they were propably too concerned about losing the trade income.. But yes, you are basically right. Towards the end some games do get a bit dull. ~SDC~
I'm not quite sure about the scoring system.. But my technology victory on gigantic gave me a nice score. Although I think that the fact that it was a gigantic universe gives more score than the victory type itself. Population is a key factor, or so I have understood from other posts. ~SDC~
Well.. Looking at your metaverse score table, might I suggest you try something a bit challenging than "normal" ?!? Upping the AI difficulty really puts some meat in the game. ~SDC~
Wheew... Finally got the game wrapped up. Already finished it last night but metaverse was down and couldn't submit my score. Got it submitted this morning. Score 7095, I'm happy :) Didn't affect our place in the empire rankings though. ~SDC~
Oomph... I've been playing the game all day know. Got a game on gigantic universe with all bright AI's going on. Should be a tech victory anytime soon now.. Should earn me some points :) ~SDC~
SupremeBanan here.. Just joined.. Representing the fine country of Finland :) Any other finnish people in the empire ? ~SDC~
Stardock Forums
The espionage system could be beefed up a bit.. Technology stealing etc. that forceinfinity suggested sounds good. ~SDC~
Oh man... I can't keep up with these updates, not that I'm complaining :) Hey Frogboy... Go get some sleep man, you've earned it. We don't want our favorite developer dropping dead on us :) ~SDC~
Hmm... Don't know if this is a bug or a feature. But I just updated and loaded a saved game and had my approval rating at 100 %. I upped my tax rate to 80 % and still have 70% approval rating... No I get loads of cash from taxes and my production is maxed out and everythings going greate... What gives, have you nerfed the game a bit too much :) Oh, and I'm playing with all AIs set to Bright, so it shouldn't be because of the difficulty being too easy.. ~SDC~
Ok.. Thanks, that's all I needed to know... For now :) ~SDC~
Yes.. I know that the _resources_ affect my empire, but do the upgrades that I build on my starbases affect my empire ? I know that on some of the upgrades it says quite clearly on the description that it affects the planets in the same sector, but do some of the mining etc. upgrades affect larger areas ? Like the cultural upgrades, they affect neighboring sectors also. ~SDC~
Dragonmack, you said that build starbases on technology resources and max out the mining bonuses.. Do the mines built on starbases have any affect if there are no planets in that sector ? Are the starbase mining bonuses only affective in the sector the base is in, or do they affect your whole empire ? ~SDC~
Just noticed.. It would be nice to see the trade routes on the main sector map also.. Now it's sometimes pretty difficult to try and see if a trade route passes some sector if it is really close to its edges. Also... Does the economic upgrades for starbases only affect the sector it is in or do they also affect the neighboring sectors ? ~SDC~
Oh yeah... And that "find planet by name" - thingy.. Sounds sweet. I too have a lot of trouble finding those damn planets. ~SDC~
More different filters for the minimap.. Like show traderoutes etc. Had some other in mind also, but I forget.. Too much GalCiv this weekend, not enough sleep.. Must sleep.. ~SDC~
This happens pretty much every time: If a civilization has less than 100 bc:s money (which is the default amount when asking for tribute or trying to sell something) and you try to use the slider to change the amount to less than 100, the game crashes.. This is in the diplomacy screen. ~SDC~
On the ship list it would be nice to see on which planet the ship is. And also group the ships by their home planet. Oh, and the rally points for planets suggested earlier: sounds good to me :) But as it is, this is the most addictive game I have played in a _long_ while, even though I still suck at it, but I'm getting better every day :).. Beats the hell out of civilization and MOO3, keep up the good work.. ~SDC~