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Reply to Possible BUG in company purchase agreements: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How about a reduction in score based on the amount of loans you still owe? So if I still have to pay X for Y months, my score becomes (Score - (X*Y)) or some variant of this.

Reply to +15% PQ trait had an interesting effect on a culture push game I played. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The speed bonus trait is great. I love it. It's up there along with the PQ bonus IMO. In some ways it's better than PQ and any other bonus. One really nice thing is that unlike most bonuses out there, the speed bonus isn't % based so you get the benefits immediately, and it just so happens that you get the benefits during the most critical phase of the game - the colonization phase. The sheer number of systems you can colonize is staggering. On a large map I started on one end, and

Reply to Government stats in Strategies Stardock Forums

I haven't done this myself, but I've heard that since you know when elections are coming up, you can lower taxes to raise morale before elections so that you'll have a better chance of winning em. You might want to try propaganda as well. I just had a rather cheesy thought. Would it be possible to change your gov't to 'Imperial' right before elections, effectively allowing you to prevent elections from being held, then switching back to a Democracy after election month...? Not very d

Reply to can terror stars be stopped by interdiction beams? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Damn... Guess I can't make 'black hole' starbases (a fleet of -1 speed bases) to completely halt enemy ship movement. As an additional note about terror stars and speed, those things will not be affected by the new and improved speed ability. My terror stars could only move one square per turn :( So much for my plan of using a fleet of 4 terror stars 'armed' to the teeth with party palaces...

Reply to Brad - Please come clean in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Doh crap. I thought the game rounded bonuses up :( There goes my plan to take advantage of class 13 planets (:(

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It would be nice if there were some way to see what kind of bonuses/penalties a planet has. For example, one of the events allows the player to get a +ship construction bonus (by this I mean the bonus to quality and not rate). But because events aren't listed, I have no in-game method of checking to see which planet has that bonus. It also becomes quite a bit of a hassle to find out what planets have what bonuses because I have to go into the details screen, check what facilities have

Reply to Brad - Please come clean in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Dearmad, you might wanna make an exception to that Also with the +15% PQ trait, class 14 planets become class 16, and class 13 planets (I think) become class 15. Not a bad deal if you ask me.

Reply to the AI DOES cheat in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Game mechanics: The only game mechanic which I've found I really have to keep in mind and understand is "How many credits is X worth?". Practically everything you do in the game is somehow related to credits, so the more you have, can generate, the better. Scouting: I've played on large maps since day 1, and haven't really seen the need to scout. The reason being because I have a crapload of colonizers being churned out. They double up as scout ships. Plus the occasional 'hunks of

Reply to Ability choices in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was like Ironhawk here except now that the Speed trait's been tweaked, I'm becoming partial to that ability. With +2 extra movement, +1 range, 100% spending, 100% military production, I can colonize everything in sight without breaking a sweat. Every planet I colonize makes me stronger, and my opponents weaker :D It'll also come in handy at Genius level where the AI can make better use of planets than you can. Gov't is Federalists of course. I tend to devote 100% to a sing

Reply to Is it just me or are the governments obviously imbalanced? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

With your example, the way I look at it is the War Party bonus is useful only when you're at war, which at least in my case is very rarely. On the other hand, the Technologist bonus comes in handy throughout the game regardless of the victory condition you're aiming for. Bonus vs Penalty: Even with my luck, I've never lost control of the senate for more than 2 turns, so I'm not sure the potential penalties outweigh the bonuses.

Reply to Seems like the AI mostly picks WAR party, anyone else notice different? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well I've seen messages popping up now and then about the Torian ruler losing/regaining the senate majority, so yes, they can lose elections. Torians, or the Chaotic Good ones at least, belong to the War Party it seems.

Reply to Opening Strategy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I prefer 100% spending, 100% military production. Colonizers get cranked out generally in about 3-4 turns. The pace can be maintained for a significant amount of time (about 2 years or so I believe), with very little economic penalty. When I use the +speed trait, even though the AI knows where the yellow planets are, I can see where their colonizers are headed, and beat em to their destination :D I loved leaving the Torians with only 1 star system to colonize LOL ~SDC~

How do you design your race? What's your playstyle? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm just interested in finding out what race set-up people find most effective, and hopefully improving my own design. Here's the set-up I tend to favor now: Political Party - Federalists +20% Econ Ability 1 - +15% planet quality for 9 points. Makes my good planets better, allows me to colonize class 14 planets as class 16 right off the bat, and strengthens my econ. Ability 2 - +25% research for 1 point (creativity trait). Tech is always good, and it's IMO the best

What GalCiv quotes/events made you laugh? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Potentially very spoilerish, so don't read if you want to discover all the events by yourself. - Engineers developing wormhole generators simply by watching re-runs of Deep Space Nine - Drengin saying "I hope you brought chocolates today". Just seemed very un-Drenginish. - The reference to Microsoft's incompetence in one of the comp tech descriptions - The capturing pets using capture balls (?) event. I loved the evil option. "No way. I've got 80 out of 127 of em" (or so

Reply to Beyond Human in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well when I got the Final Frontier tech, I just had to click end turn, and the victory screen started. By the way, have you researched all the other techs in the game? I'm not sure if it has an effect, but when I had completed the Final Frontier tech, I had also finished researching all the other techs as well...

Reply to Running out of money! The treasury is always loosing cash. Please Help in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you perhaps purchase those colony ships from a company other than Mitrosoft? If so, then you might be paying 10+ credits per turn per ship, which is what's sending you into the red.

Reply to Torians gave me ships but I don't see them??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Do you know where the Torian systems are? Whenever alien races gift you ships, they're usually found near whatever planets those ships happened to be around. Also if you bring up the ship panel or whatever it's called, you can find a complete list of ships under your command. Double clicking on one of em should allow you to focus on the ship.

Reply to Trade good issues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Doh. Are you serious about purchased trade goods having no effect? Crap >:( I think that's Tri-strontium steel, and I believe the effect was it would improve the HP of your ships by about 10%

Reply to Got my a$$ handed to me! But I won? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you buy any chance research the Final Frontier tech? That one leads to a cut scene with a shiny person.

Reply to TIPS: The Very Early Game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

(I play on large maps, tight clusters, common by the way) In my case I go with 100% military spending for colony ships and constructors to claim as much land as I can. Then it's 100% research (unless the tech is easy to research), universal translators (for tech trades and banking centers), followed by basic environment control (for habitat improvement), followed by the techs that lead up to the Galactic Stock Exchange wonder (which also includes Economic Exchange Centers). Once that

Reply to How much sleep are you losing because of GalCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I usually sleep at 9 when able, but these days I've been sleeping at midnight-ish. Still get up early in the morning though so that I can squeeze in an extra turn or two :D ~SDC~

Reply to Why should I remain in the United Planets (?)? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I second arne. Thanks for the tip. Will do as you've suggested :)

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Very very small request, but when I choose to play a female leader of humanity I'd appreciate it if I would no longer be called 'him', 'Lord', 'Emperor', etc. When a planet is colonized, it seems as though a lot of times I'll get the same events in a row. For example, when I colonize planet A, I run into under water domes. The same happens when I colonize planet B next month. It just seems like too much of a coincidence, and jars me out of the game experience because such a coinciden

Why should I remain in the United Planets (?)? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Maybe this is just a case of 'the grass is greener on the other side', but I feel that half the time all the decisions just screw me over. I really do not want to share my tech or income with my greedy, evil, bloodthirsty Drengin neighbors when the only abilities keeping me afloat are my tech/econ advantages. If I leave the UP I don't have to obey any of their directives right? Why shouldn't I leave?

Is it just me, or does Evil always defeat Good without player intervention? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've found that in the games I've played so far, the Evil empires are pretty much guaranteed to win even though they may start out slow if I choose not to (or can not) intervene. I'm finding that the main reasons are because they're willing to ruthlessly extract tribute from races, and they have excellent combat bonuses. Also if the AI also make decisions when events take place, chances are they'll have very high bonuses in several attributes. Is this just me or has anybody else notic