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Reply to Zones of Control in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Defense in depth. That's the only way to do it. You simply cannot control the borders in space, certainly in 3 dimensions the size is huge. Granted this is 2D, but the same concept applies. Strategically you have to layer the defense and/or keep it moving to support regions as opposed to locations. Right down to the planetary level. Intelligence as far as enemy movement is concerned is more important, if you see them on sensors far enough ahead, you can focus your resou

Reply to More detailed planets ? Planet habitability below 12 ? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Dyson sphere's are just huge though. Would be cool to see, they have them in Space Empires IV, and it takes enormous resources to put them into existance. Funny to see on a GalCiv map though.

Reply to Minimap in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No same for E-Tiggers, only ours are electronic.

Reply to Trying to update from 1.01 to 1.01a... freaking nightmare in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It worked for me. Retail version. Installed and updated yesterday evening. Nothing odd, no changes to the default settings. I didn't notice any way to determine file size though. And no way to abort it once it started. However, the downloads were quick (ADSL).

Reply to Minimap in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In that case, I am an idiot and rest my case.

Reply to Could a minimap of some sort be on the main Planet Screen? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That kind of sucks having to do that... I like the ambiance of naming the stars on a thematic system and directional isn't one of those.

Minimap in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Anyone asked for a rectangle to show the current view in the minimap? Especially when I get wormholed to a different part of the map, I have to look for systems I recognize to get an idea of where I am and where I want to be.

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Heh, I just remembered that there is a printer that handles 17x11 paper... not bad...

Reply to More detailed planets ? Planet habitability below 12 ? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One bastard problem with this idea is that with the computer knowing where all the planets are, they will benefit much more greatly than the player. It may not show by much each game, but in the long run they will. And I would think that in a larger map it would be worse. Maybe just me.

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm, thanks LordtheRon. Trying it out with Photoshop and guides, can't get a nice size though for print out... oh well, keeping on trying though. Thanks again for the tree and the help

Reply to Starship combat question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Probably in stack order as shown in the stack ship list. But I can't be sure.

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just remembered another thing. When listening to my own playlist, it is kind of annoying when some events occur that they supercede the playlist for their own music and then go back. Would prefer an all or nothing. Either all the game's music, or all mine. Thanks continued.

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh, one other thing that I noticed as a sort of graphical aside. The cursor is the standard windows cursor... it is just kind of dull. It would be kind of cool if the cursor also changed based on your alignment. Thanks for all the continued work, it's great!!!

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Maybe it is just me, but I would like the option to only see the next available choices in the tech tree, NOT the full tree. I just played my first game and it was fun trying to pick and choose the right stuff for what I wanted to do. I don't want a road map in the game, it makes no real sense to give the whole thing away. It's like Edison inventing electricity because it will allow him to create superconductors down the research path... On the other hand having an ide

Reply to BROKEN: TRIBUTE in TRADE. v1.01a via sdcentral in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't understand the big deal about ships that are too far away from the race's planets. They still operate. They still provide information on the region. Am I missing something that makes them a seriously bad deal? Certainly for defensive purposes they are lousy, but informationally they are handy to get a handle on the regional situation aren't they? Of course mass numbers wouldn't be. And I really wouldn't want to lose the leasing option of X

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I haven't figured out how to break it up into printable pages yet, not in any easy way.

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How about a way to lock an economy slider? So modifying military won't change the locked research slider, just the social slider.

Reply to EB Canada says April 7. WHAT!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What was the $damage$ from there DrixPower?

Reply to EB Canada says April 7. WHAT!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cool! Thanks for the newsflash!!!!!

Reply to Space Empires IV vs. Galactic Civ in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Depends upon what you like. In my opinion SEIV is a very good game, huge tech tree, customization of ships like mad. Racial config, tactical turn based combat, or strategic. Problem is that the only real way to win the game is to wipe everyone else out. My experience only. As soon as you reach a certain power level, races that have been your ally just turn on you. So while it is good in many ways (can't beat having the Vorlons or Imperial Star Destroyers as your race ships)

Reply to Holy Cow, 2 games, 4 metaverse points - Metaverse thought in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If it was just a high score board that would make sense, but as the AI can also learn from the strategies used it makes sense to take from the best. Granted that could still occur with your suggestion in effect.

Reply to EB Canada says April 7. WHAT!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hey Kornalius, I was being more ironic than accusatory. It is quite probably that is the way they do it. Although they might keep a local distribution centre for canadian shipments. -- The depression continues... addicted before my first fix of GalCiv.

Reply to Gamespy Review is up in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The reviewer also fails to take into account the full potential of the Metaverse's ability to take successful human strategies and incorporate them into the AI, thus providing a greater chance for "rich layers of strategy I can imagine if only there were other humans behind the alien faces on the screen."

Reply to EB Canada says April 7. WHAT!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Funny because I thought the distributor was located in Montreal...

Reply to The Metaverse Map beta in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Makes me curious as to what would/should happen when an empire gets big enough that it overlaps another. Which brings to mind the following thought. Can the computer play just other computers? I'm not talking about for retail versions etc. It just occured that with the Metaverse and the AI being able to use tactics from submitted games, what would happen if an AI using tactics from one metaverse score were used against another? Sort of a multiplayer by proxy. Maybe it's just me