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Reply to Two embarassing newbie questions.. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

#1 Put them in the same square. Then look to the far right middle where you see a little grid with all the ships. There's a green diamond to the right. Click it. Now they are grouped. click the yellow one to ungroup. #2 They can be built anywhere but on a star or anomoly (til its been explored). So yes, they are great to build at home too, specially with those production and trade modules. To get it to plant, look in the little window in the lower right of the main screen. You'll see a

Reply to starbases constructed on resources in Strategies Stardock Forums

"Fully loaded production starbase is surrounded by three (offensive, defensive, and trade) ancillary starbases" You know all these affects stack right? There's really no need to specialize a starbase. ~SDC~

Reply to No Warning Sticker in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes put an alarm clock in. Have me be able to set a specific time, or a set number of hours and minutes. And make it blair some music at me like those dang Drengin and make the screen do funny things or something. Not just a little popup that I'll just close and keep playing. ~SDC~

Reply to Brad - You better come clean right now! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ohhhhhhh, I get it now. He's an android! Now I definitely want the source code! ~SDC~

Reply to Trade Monopoly.... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"so i can assume tt trade is a 2-way path...it benefits both me n my trade parnters...but is it possible to make sure i profit more than any of my trade parnters?? n so the trade route shown in the domestic trade screen is the trade route i ordered...but there's still extra income frm the civ tt use their own freighter to iniate trade wif mi??" Please try to use some semblance of proper grammar, punctuation and English. If your question is: Is there anyway for me to get more fr

Reply to Turn Times Problem/Question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you have all the patches, maybe try a reinstall and repatch. Also make sure you close down anything else running in the background. ~SDC~

Reply to Commands/Shortcuts you dont know about but should . . . in Strategies Stardock Forums

Hey! Stop hijacking my thread! Shoo shoo! ~SDC~

Reply to Turn Times Problem/Question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Uh no it aint. But you need to provide some more details. Specifically your computer setup and game setup. ~SDC~

Reply to 1.01a "Patch" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad, As far as lowering taxes to win . . . and I know people will hate me for this . . . Why not have the voting based on average approval rating since the last election. So far in the 5 games I have played, I've never lost an election because I just lower taxes the turn before. Using the average scheme would actual force players to keep the people happy for more than one turn. ~SDC~

Reply to Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You are totally not getting this concept. You're trying to compare apples to oranges, and it wont work. PQ affects maximums, Morale affects currents. PQ really only matters to morale when you either have a really crappy planet You could have a class 50 planet, but if your morale is at 1%, you wont be producing jack. Likewise, you could get 100% Morale on a class 15 planet, and still not be producing jack. ~SDC~

Brad - You better come clean right now! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Admit it Brad, you've mastered human cloning. That's the only logical solution to how you can be on the boards or the chat room at all hours, work on code, sleep, and still see your family. I know you have the secret Brad, so spill it! I want the source code for your cloning machine! I need a clone to go to school and another to go work, leaving me to play GalCiv all day. Now this isn't a threat, just a 'suggestion'. ;)

Reply to starbases constructed on resources in Strategies Stardock Forums

heck yeah! those resources cover your whole civilization. Now go send some more constructors, and put on more mining modules . ~SDC~

Reply to How Do You Ally With Friendly Powers in GalCiv? in Strategies Stardock Forums

You gotta be in close relationships with them. Not warm, or friendly. ~SDC~

Reply to Great game - but i suck ass bigtime - any starting tips for a newbie? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Just remember you dont have to set all of theAI's to the same INT level. Try playing with good morale, set the 2 evil AI's to fools, and the goods to subnormal.

Reply to Starbases rule, infrastructure drools. in Strategies Stardock Forums

Point taken. Counterpoint. What about morale? or economy? or research? And dont say resources. What if you dont have access to any? These are key infrastructure buildings. Heck, some infrastructure has NO maintanence. And I always build the production boosting infrastructure, I dont care about the cost to maintain it when I can crank out a constructor every other turn, or build wonders in under 10 turns. :) Starbases and infrastructure both have their place,

Commands/Shortcuts you dont know about but should . . . in Strategies Stardock Forums

Like the title said, I'm looking for commands or shortcuts you may have found that weren't in the users guide. My favorite is the Ctrl-N This is used at the beginning of a game if you dont like the galazy layout and your placement. All it does is recreate the galaxy, and relocate you, but keeps all of the previous settings. Great if you get stuck in the corner with no way to expand! Any others out there? ~SDC~

Reply to Starbases in Sectors in Strategies Stardock Forums

It only applies to units who start in that sector, but not to freshly built units. I actually tested this. Stacking affects also apply, to what limit, I dont know. ~SDC~

Reply to Show all button on trade screen is supposed to do what? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It shows all the trade routes you're involved in, not just the ones that you iniated.

Reply to Minor Races - Can You Turn Them Off Before Game? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yer better off with them in the long run. Just trade with em, and once you get a tech advantage, attack to maim, not kill, sue for peace and take all their tech.

Reply to Two Starbase Questions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Absolutely, in fact, you should do this back home with those factory modules. Build two or three starbases in a single sector with a few decent planets, deck em out with production modules and enjoy!

Reply to How many colonist to put in a colony ship and other colony/population questions in Strategies Stardock Forums

In the early game, I typically buy 5 colony ships. So I try to put about 200 on each. So by the time the 5th is built, Earth will still have 200-400 people. Systems under 100 seem to grow horrbly slow.

Reply to Ground combat cheat? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Yeah. this is definitely a bug. But I do like the idea of planetary bombardment. Right now we have two extremes. No bombardment or using a terror star for total destruction. It'd be cool to bombard a planet back to the 20th century. :D

Reply to The AI is cheating on its ship range... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The AI could have chosen the range increase and speed increase for its chosen starting abilities. The AI could have gone straight for the range increasing techs. The AI could have found anomolies that increase range. The AI could be cheating. Or it could just be a bug.

Reply to Auto-scout? How? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is a definite must! *bump*

Reply to My friggin CD key doesn't work and tech support won't help me! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

lower case "L" is a number one