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Reply to Why ever change goverment? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Improved government yields MUCH more higher max PRODUCTION, and less increase in tax income (and none to trade/lease/tribute..). So usually when you change you can observe improved rates for Mil/Soc/Res, but also drop in net income. The "solution" is to reduce spend rate. In my games it usually goes down from 100% in Empire to as low as 50-60% in Star Democracy (but maintenance costs are also a cause of the drop, they end up very high). If you take ZaH example above,

Reply to Well this is absurd... (invasion) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You should have *also* sped up to have Starfighters, or if possible use your Hero ship if it has gotten some attack bonus early (quite usual). But Ok, the game handles this in a simplistic way, but no big deal ...

Reply to Manual Update in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Server down or file removed ? Can't get it .. :notsure:

Reply to How to Beat Piracy 101 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Desert Fox, Do you really believe Atari and C64 disappeared because of piracy ?? Who was able to pirate the machines themselves ? ;) On PC platforms, piracy was MUCH more easy some years ago, yet it didn't kill anything... And dinosaurs, why did they disappear ? LOL

Reply to Invasion Option - Retreat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, and what if the defender could choose a "last minute retreat", creating a Col/transport ship with some of the pop he could save ? Another nice thing would be to make some InvTactics obsolete when the defender reaches certain tech. Currently you can't do much when being invaded, there is no way to "counter" the attacker.

Reply to War Party the best party to pick? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't like much the +50% HP ability, anyway what you need is to have ships 1 class above opponents, not "sturdier"ones of the same class. Federalists are nice because they allow you a good economics start, that help fund your research, then to build hi-tech ships that blast your foes ! LOL

Reply to Dreadnaughts killing my Avatars? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And alos, I've seen Dreads with more than 150hp relatively soon (say year 2200 on), Yours/Yors aren't so impressive ... :p

Reply to Dreadnaughts killing my Avatars? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Your AVATARS are A25/D16 ?? This means you have Weapons and Defense at +25%-30% approx ... That's VERY weak for this stage of game, you should have more than +60% ! But you say your Dreads are A34/D14, much more than your Avatar, and this imply Weapons >+200%, so I'm not sure of your figures... Didn't you look at a "parked" Dread in orbit over a system with additional "defense" bonus ? Or is your dread very recent and/or high level, and your Avatar old/low level ? Unclear... :notsur

Reply to I hate the I-league in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In my last game I thanked the I league : they were created out of a Drengin system, so I allied with them vs the Drengins. Then they dragged me into a war vs Arceans, it was a good idea cause it alloed me to conquer the Arceans ;). I finally broke the alliance to avoid being at war with Torians and Altarians, but then they went themselves to a looooong unconclusive war vs the Torians, who ranked #2 (I was 1st at that time). The I league was quite powerful at that time, they had Dreads with 1

Reply to Does AI trade techs with Minor Civs? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sure they do : look at your galciv.err (IIRC) log file in main GC folder, there are usually some lines indicating that AIs traded tech with minors (or get cash from them by bullying ;) )

Reply to Availability in the Netherlands Belgium etc. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Got it in France direct from Stardock, no customs either, good deal.. But you can also get the retail version with cheap postage (8 €) and no customs fees by buying an import in France, www.store4war.com has it :)

Reply to 1.03.54 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is the startup screen political party scrollbar issue (ie scroll bar doesn't work, only 6 parties selectable) fixed or planned to be fixed soon ?

Reply to Destabilization in practice? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In practice it doesn't give much result IMHO.. Last game I play I maxed out Destab on Drengin, after maybe 50 turns their morale had dropped from 68 to 54, big deal, but relations went from Warm to Cool ... It was a small galaxy, mid game, I put >100 bc/turn on this destab out of maybe 3-400 total revenue, and I was 1st in Economy (and tech too ;) ). Looks like a waste of resources... :(

Reply to Message Forum Feature Requests in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh I forgot the MOST important : EDIT feature !!!!!! :D LOL

Reply to Message Forum Feature Requests in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

* Name of last poster on a thread (in addition to author) in "main list" * Quoting * Better search features - by author/poster, search strings in object or text, search by date * Subscription to threads (to easily know when someonre replied to one of your - buried- post ;) )

Reply to 1.03: Notice on saved games in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, not wanting to start a flame war, but while I have no real problems using SDC (except too much frequent auto-updates and some connection problems ...), I fail to see why it is so needed to make incremental patches. A host of simplest solutions for incremental patches exist since ages, from brutish RTPatch to quite easy and transparent systems - such as those used for MMORPGs or Neverwinter. As for bandwidth SDC may save some server-side, but from my side I only get at most 20-25 k

Reply to Frogboy Request: Please put trade embargos back in the game and maybe a history summary in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Back ?? Why were they put out, they would be so useful - vs the Drengins mainly LOL !

Reply to 1.03 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Interesting, but right now I can't access SDC :( .. Server saturation ? :sniff!:

Reply to Big Shot's Party Pack in Mods Stardock Forums

I'll pass the new political parties for the time, as long as the "scroll bar bug" is not fixed. Another possible problem : regarding elections, does the game allow more than 5-6 parties ? I'm not sure the election graphics won't crash if there is 10+ parties competing ...

Reply to Stardock : Why do i have to pay tax?!?!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Stop insulting France, I received my game CD and it slipped under the customs office, I didn't pay any tax ! :) In fact here I only pay taxes on foreign orders when I buy several games and total price is > 100$, never was taxed for single 40-50$ games ...

Reply to Which Library Mod Causes the Game to Crash? in Mods Stardock Forums

Same for me, crashes whenever I try the pack of mods that was uploaded last week. Now I stay away from the mods, it's sad, but we need some way to at least *know* what mods make the game crash ! (:( Currently the game just CTD, and the debug.err file has log of the errors, but doesn't tell what event/tech/etc caused the crash ... :sniff!:

Reply to MOD library suggestion and or request. in Mods Stardock Forums

Well, Rusty, I use your mod from Axis of Weasel leading power ;) , you make good work ! I support your request, but I think that the prime thing needed is a mod tester/parser that will allow to get "safe", working mods... This weekend I've tried the batch of new mods that has been posted in the library : first the Political pack didn't work correctly, but it seems to be a GalCiv bug with the party scroll bar, but after some 100 turns my games regularly CTD without any clear message

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

Hey, an idea : make ALL tribute from a race STOP when you're at war with them ! :d That's realistic (I don't think Saddam paid its US debt these last weeks ;p ) , and it'll kill cheese tribute tactics (:( :D , when you've sold techs and then squeezed cash by threat...

Reply to Big Shot's Party Pack in Mods Stardock Forums

The scroll bar problem doesn't seem to be tied with the parties'id range... Looking at the debug.err file, here's what I have every time I run the game : Debug Message: MWinEditFields::Create - Unable to find scroll bar sizing graphic for PolPartyLB This line should mean there's some bug preventing the Political scroll bar from working, isn't it ? .. :notsure:

Reply to 1.02Z BETA in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Refreshed everything, check the settings, a 1.02 dated 4/21 shows up but Upgrade button doesn't appear ! :( Should be same problem than Norrin ...