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Reply to WAR PARTY turns ANGELLICK and fogets there PAIN !? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

MM77 -- Bear in mind that culture-flipping only happens when they're (a) already unhappy, and (b) feel that they're better off with a neighbor. In other words, if you're seeing culture flips, you're not managing them well. As for your harping on "friends and family", as I've noted -- we're dealing with an empire of potentially trillions of people. Just because they're nominally in the same empire doesn't mean they give a damn about the others in their empire. When they flip, they ca

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Reply to Destabablization in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As far as I can tell, even at lower levels such as Normal the AI is pretty fervent about keeping morale up (e.g. frequently in the high 90s). You may be doing economic damage to them, 'tho, if you are forcing them to do any of the following: - lower their tax rate - use propaganda - build morale-boosting structures If they have some Morale resources, and access to the morale-building trade goods, you might be waiting quite some time to see that morale dropping. You sh

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Reply to Government Expenditure in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think it'll depend on your map and empire size. If LDiCesare's playing with tiny maps and rare planets, for instance, he'll have an easier time staying fully funded because the number of trade routes he's allowed will still be 10 max. The larger the map and the more colonies you have, the harder it'll be; long trade routes may bring more money, but will be harder to saturate with starbases and harder to protect.

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Reply to What is wrong with me--Normal Level in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As for freighter trade, I like to trade with a minor instead of a major. One, the minor is more likely to feel indebted to me, because I'll be responsible for a far greater part of its income than I could ever be for all but the weakest majors. Two, it's less likely to be a problem in terms of competing for planets, et al. Three, while the extra money makes it more of a potential threat, it's still far less of a threat than a major with more money to pump into, say, a hefty war fleet or a lar

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Reply to What is wrong with me--Normal Level in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Evil can work just dandy on Normal; it just depends on your neighbors, and *intelligently* choosing Evil. A big PQ, starship or production bonus may be worth it; a one-time savings of some BC may not be. And, obviously, it helps if the Yor and Drengin haven't been squashed. I've won on both sides of Good vs. Evil alliances. You'll also want to mess with everybody's heads, regardless of alignment. That is, while you want to have a good military relative to the others, one way of achieving th

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Reply to Successionist rebel scum! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Use improvements for cultural resistance and culture output. Keep warships in orbit. Build morale boosters. Long-term, this includes boosting PQ. Use propaganda. Use cultural starbases -- there's a lot of modules in that category, use 'em. Get the influence/morale resources. Lower taxes if you must to pump morale up. If they're overpopulated, load 'em up and send them elsewhere. Trade for any trade good which affects morale or influence. Those are the m

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Reply to Hanging Chads... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The summation's a bit different (for instance, order doesn't matter; it's more like sum (i=x to 100) of C(100,x) * p^x * (1-p)^(100-x) for x dissenters and p probability of voting against. Even allowing for 40 dissenters, though, with a 29% of dissent you'd expect to have 50 voting against only ~0.0008 % of the time if were a uniform die roll considering only morale.

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Reply to Suggestions 1.03 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It would be handy to have a screen available listing all active tributes/leases, perhaps sorted by time remaining. In the ship list, if there isn't already, it would be nice to have an indication of which ships are in orbit and which are in space (perhaps differentiate further: in space, with orders already?) Changing the color of the ship name would work.

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Reply to Need help guys in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Trade routes will help, combined with starbases with modules that boost trade income. If you have minors in your corner i.e. you're the most logical trading partner, see that they have trade, too; both sides benefit from a route. Perhaps other nations will be more likely to trade with you if you bribe them to go to war with just about everyone else, hm. So, for that matter, will trading with the AIs in the more usual sense. Technology's going to spread anyway regardless of whether or

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Reply to How do I build a Terror Star? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same answer as the last time this question popped up: Research "Terror Star". Browsing GCTech.TECH, we find that the Terror Star technology requires "Artificial Planets", which requires "Artificial Satellites", which requires "Large Scale Building", which requires both "Advanced Engineering" and "Tri-strontium Alloy". And so froth. Then, take a starbase and add four constructors for four more military modules (Terror Star-Shell, Terror Star-Bridge, Terror Star-Core, Terror St

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Reply to AI in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hm, I've seen the Yor and Drengin try to eviscerate each other when on their default Evil alignments -- it helped that they were next to each other, and that I'd early in the game bribed pretty much everybody to go to war with pretty much everybody else except for the Torian-Altarian alliance. (I was playing Good at the time, as I happened to be sandwiched between those two.)

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