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Reply to The numbers are making my brain hurt! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, Spearthrower, there is at least one in this thread who agrees with you.

Reply to Rapid ship production exploit in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is very much an exploit as you can rush buy hundreds of thousands of BCs worth of upgrades for 2000 BC.

Reply to Glalaxy Settings in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like huge, tight clusters, everything occasional, slow tech. Yes, you do get big swaths of useless space.

Reply to very odd AI behaviour in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think Historic Friendship has to do with the backstory.

Reply to Engines and battle in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Are they beneficial in battle? No, they take up space that could be used by more weapons or shields. Hold on there, Warp, that's not the whole story. They do allow you to have more battles as you can have a battle for every move that your ship can make. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" al

Reply to Middle Ground between full and no tech trading in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Devalueing techs prices by how many races (include the minors in here) already know it might solve some of these issues. You won't make as big a profit from selling the tech to everyone (as is my current scheme - if I sell it to one, I may as well sell it to all or the AI will). This does does mean that the AIs (and you) will have an easier time staying at tech parity, though (whether this is good or bad depends on your viewpoint).

Reply to Starbase build radius bug? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

But in the next patch (or soon anyway) they are going to install a 3 starbase per sector restriction which the AI will also follow. Really? I'd hate this. Part of my strategy involves use of starbases all over my empire (often many more than 3 per sector). I guess I'll have to adapt...

Reply to The numbers are making my brain hurt! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think that GC3 should hide every number that is remotely possible to hide (obviously your bank account can't be) from the player.

Reply to Are all ship hulls created equal? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Many of the core designs can not be built from scrathc when you first unlock the techs.

Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Buy modified scouts and colony ships to grab more the galaxy early. Trade with the AI. Trade Techs. Build economic improvements and starbases.

Reply to Will Influence Area Visibility Be Fixed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

MM, it starts a game with this button set at the way it was when you last played. If you just finished a long game and had it on in the end game (like I usually do), then the next game you start will have it on.

Reply to Cultural starbases in your own territory? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They generate influence on their own/

AI scout wonkiness in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've been watching the AI scouting and it is kinda weird. I saw two races' scouts come through my territory. Rather than going start to star mapping the planets. They went in a train 4 long (both teams) about 10 parsecs apart. This just went in a more or less straight line through my territory. If (as has been alledged) the AI needs to scout before sending in colony ships and constructors, this seems really suboptimal.

Reply to Alien warships in my territory in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

And what is they didn't agree to it? Personally, I see this as analogous to the seas (especially in the Era of Colonization and Imperialism). The oceans are big and your authority ends where you actually put ships.

Why doesn't the AI research Xeno-Ethics in Research GalCiv2 Forums

I have yet to see a game where I wasn't the first and only to research this line of the tech tree. SInce it gives obvious advantages, why doesn't the AI give any weight to it (especially those that are strongly aligned)?

Reply to Alien warships in my territory in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What would you propose doing when their borders shift to encompass your worlds?

Does the AI know where "stuff" is? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

By this I mean do they actually need to scout to find habitable planets and resources?

Reply to Will Influence Area Visibility Be Fixed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, Brad. (And yes, EvilMuppet, that is exactly what I want)

Reply to Will Influence Area Visibility Be Fixed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Like I said, I sometimes have it on when I start a new map. This means that I have to throw out that map and start a new one. Very annoying.

Reply to Will Influence Area Visibility Be Fixed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Whether or not it is a bug or an intentional design feature, I'd like the option of having the fog cover the mini-map in influence mode. I've had to restart games because I accidentally had the button on at the start. I don't like knowing what the situation is till I explore the map.

Reply to Is it just me or can no one see this post? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's just you.

Reply to Random Events, Free Wins, and Hopeless Evil Civs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

To stop finding precursor ships you might choose to be a race/political party combo that doesn't have luck as they seem to be related.

Reply to Sensor Bug! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It is a bug I reported a while ago. Your technique is an even bigger exploit than the one I was doing (suicide scouts) as you can preemptively clear the fog everywhere fairly cheaply.

Reply to wheres the ship tactics? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The problem with tactical combat is that mnay people want it because they realize that it is an area of the AI that they can exploit to win when their strategic choices should have made them lose.

Reply to Lag/freeze when a ship is destroyed in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What operating system are you running? If it is XP and you only have 512 MB, you really are running into the RAM limit. I tried this on my 512 MB XP system and the RAM usage for a mid-game large map was about 98% and the hard drive was being hit in battles like yours. On my 1 GB sytem that is configured almost the same, it doesn't.