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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Huh, I seem to have edited my last post at the exact moment you posted. Now I can't go back, take what I put in out, and post it here. Anyhow, I added stuff about how social spending 'should' be calculated. I don't want more micromanagement. The coefficient thing I posted above means no micromanagement and no illogical waste. As for what is meant by 'wages', that's all just apologetics and fan fiction. There's no real gameplay explanation. [Message Edited]

Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For the apologists - isn't the maintenance costs of most social projects the equivalent of "wages, property taxes", and all the rest? I don't see why there's such rabid support among a couple of the posters here for this element of the economic model. It has nothing to do with obsession for perfection or realism - it's just one of the few holes in the game design. The game calculates spending from the bottom up, right? The social slider represents the percentage of production

Reply to Am I cheating? Am I taking advantage of an AI loophole? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Easiest way to tell from turn to turn is to leave the Production map filter on. It's fun watching whole empires 'disappear' into tiny colored dots while they're bankrupt and their production stops cold.

Reply to Why do we have a Stardock server app loading when we boot our computers?! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'd just disable it. The only crap I have running in the background is my firewall, and I like to keep it that way.

Reply to AP question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There will be logistics research targets that will increase your Logistics level (and presumably decrease the costs of additional starbases). So the strategies aren't so much eradicated as slightly complicated.

Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I for one think the people who see this in a positive light are deluding themselves. The waste here has nothing to do with an 'obsession' with efficiency, it's plainly illogical, and an aspect of the design I also disagree with. The only benefit is, if you don't care anymore, it makes managing the empire simple. If you do care, then it's almost like MOO3 because then micromanagement is forced onto you, going from planet to planet to buy production to save the thousands of BCs (in

Reply to Bug Reports for Altarian Prophecy Beta 3 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I feel pretty stupid. Checked the 'governor ignores GNN' (which I had never understood what that meant anyhow) and saw that it was off. Turned it on and I'm no longer prompted every time something in the queue is done. Can't believe I've been playing all this time and never knew what that option meant.

Reply to Tell me something about the AP-Editor! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

However, the pre-packaged scenarios DO work. Just not ones I try to create. Are there very specific things one must or must not do in the scenario editor to get the file to work? When I load a pre-made scenario, it has all the correct information. I changed the Twilight of Humanity one to start with Stellar Cartography, and all of a sudden, that scenario no longer works. I re-load it in the scenario editor, and it, too, is now all wiped out.

Reply to Tell me something about the AP-Editor! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I created a scenario with the eight empires split up into four teams of two, and with the player starting with Stellar Cartography. I saved this to the Scenario folder so that I could load it in game. I loaded it in game setup, and it still goes to the Race Setup even though, if you're using custom rules, it really should be bypassed. Once it was done generating the universe, I did not have Stellar Cartography. Once I found the Altarians, they were not on my team (there was no green li

Reply to Tell me something about the AP-Editor! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The random events will be a pain if someone goes through any trouble to carefully balance a scenario or make a campaign based on fiction built around this universe. Minors randomly popping up - and rule changes by the UP for that matter - can probably go all in the same bin as random events as far as things that would be best turned off when our storytelling demands it.

Reply to Report thread for Typos, Bad Grammar, Etc in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you customize the race names, those customized names are not used in the Foreign Policy - Report screen. The spelling and grammar errors I mentioned in the first beta thread are still in: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?id=127925&BID=GF&page=2#130112

Reply to Beta Issue - Expensive Starbases now! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For those of you who play this game very well, how do these costs affect the use of starbases along trade routes? Unlike before, there is definitely some serious thought needed before setting up a chain of trading bases - as in never recouperating the cost. [Message Edited]

Reply to Tell me something about the AP-Editor! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Besides being able to turn off minors, another thing that will be vital for player-made scenarios and campaigns will be the ability to turn off random events. These are extremely unbalancing or can ruin the entire premise of a scenario - i.e., the Drengin getting the alignment-change event (as they did in my last game). Doesn't matter now since the scenario editor doesn't work, but something to keep in mind for the future.

Reply to Bug Reports for Altarian Prophecy Beta 3 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Text from email: The Arceans had the 'leader assassination' event and got their ton of corvettes. However, none of them move to attack (even vulnerable constructors). Also - I get a prompt for every planet that builds any social project, even if there are additional items in the queue. For example, a bit later than this, I add the Stadium and Planetary Defenses to the governor's list. A few turns later, most of my planets finish the new project - and I have to click "next" on

Reply to AP Beta Update Today\Tonight? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My nipples explode with delight. Minors turn-offable? Excellent.

Reply to Tell me something about the AP-Editor! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There are settings for Minors, however, that can limit their impact. You can allow or disallow both 'aggressive colonizing' and their ability to actually invade (!).

Reply to AP Feature Discussion Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There is nothing in there now that affects logistics. It may tech, maybe a new resource (cyan torus? tetrahedron? tesseract?) - probably won't know until the next major beta. I'd guessed in another thread that the current rate of 250 credits * number of existing starbases might drop to 200, 150, whatever, for each "Level" of logistics (as you notice on the Starbase build screen, you're at Logistics level 0). I've built 40 starbases, and it gets something expensive pretty damn

Reply to Altarian Prophecy Beta 2 Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Other nitpicks: Setup, Modify Race Abilities screen: 1) Luck - homonym, use "role" instead of "roll" 2) Speed - possessive, use "empire's" instead of "empires" 3) Trade - typo, use "amount" instead of "about" 4) Trade Routes - typo, missing "e" in "route" Overview - Remove the "s" that's concatenated onto the end of the race's name here. The first "it's" is possessive, so no apostrophe would be needed if you're going to use that word in

Reply to Altarian Prophecy Beta 2 Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Frostblade - Did you have something like 3 or 6 votes against from a specific political party? I've gotten that error as well, and I think maybe the 100 senate votes are divided up among some set of parties, and any votes counted from the other parties go over the 100 maximum (4294967293 is three short of 2^32) If you're taking reports of issues with the Scenarios: 1) Good and Evil - has the same alignment settings as every other scenario, but the teams don't suit them. Evil Dr

Reply to AP Feature Discussion Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

http://www.duodecimal.net/images/AP_GCS_1.gif http://www.duodecimal.net/images/AP_GCS_2.gif Those two images show what the settings for the 10 scenarios are. The items after each race are alignment, intelligence, and team (where Humans are always on team 1). I just finished rebooting from a crash that happened when I tried loading a custom scenario; will be doing mroe testing in a bit. Note that, in the Good versus Evil scenario, the alignment settings do not go

Reply to Starbase idea - use diminishing returns in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Umm... one other thing I just noticed. May be a bug, but I don't think I'm seeing maintenance costs for these starbases. This test was in a tiny universe, I'm having trouble loading the Gigantic game I have going (probably need to reboot).

Reply to Starbase idea - use diminishing returns in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The way things work in the Beta, each starbase costs S*X credits to build, where S is the number of starbases you currently own and X is 250 at Logistics Level 0. There is nothing else in the current beta that mentions Logistics - no techs - just this one "level" indicator on the cost of building a starbase pop-up. So, the first starbase is free, the second costs 250, the third 500, and the twelvth 2750. With the 3-parsec 'navigation space' limit, the maximum number

Reply to Invalid Chunk Data in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you perform a truffle shuffle?

Reply to Altarian Prophecy beta Available to Drengin.net users in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same here. So, next beta still on for tomorrow? [Message Edited] [Message Edited]

Reply to Altarian Prophecy beta Available to Drengin.net users in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, if they wait long enough for my drengin.net subscription to expire, like it sounds like yours is about to ("almost one year ago"), I'll probably have to wait until there's more than AP to download before I plunk down another $25 to re-subscribe. In the mean time, I'm getting myself used to Tiny games - which I never played before - while waiting for the save patch.