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Reply to galciv has been pirated:( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

seeing as many people don't have the game, isn't it quite positive to narrow it down to all the people that have it currently?

leaders in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are there leaders in the game? I'm not talking about generic leaders, but like ones that rise above as being truely a great influencer, military leader, etc. (like our history's great leaders). Perhaps they rise up and provide the empire various benefits until they die. I haven't read the manual fully yet, so I dunno if it's there or not.

Reply to Can't wait to see a review! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

They managed to give starfleet command 3 a high rating and that game was fairly hard to control and got repetitive when you learned how to play. Half-way through the single player games, I got seriously bored and couldn't stand multiplayer. I also didn't like the portrayal that the Defiant was a weak ship - that's absurd considered it was developed to take on the Borg. In any case, the game was about a 65-70 but they managed to give 80 or higher.

Reply to what about a civ that has a government that does not use money? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, in such a model, the only limitations to your empire would be people people and materials really. It's hard to tell what bonuses and negatives such a government would receive, but let's take the Federation for example - they probably don't trade a whole lot with other species if they are outside the federation. I think transports cover the supply and demand of materials to all allied colonies in the federation. The federation just gives what it can to outside governments for free or

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I also like the idea of creating an alliance with an indepedant organization with its own cause (in this case, it would be a terrorist group). I've said a lot about this in other threads.

Reply to Independant groups in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

actually the independant groups was a suggestion of mine as well (it generalized into that)

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The best way to implement terroism is to have a new user interface for it. In a way it's like spying, so it should be integrated into that. You could have technologies to improve it, but it should be a fundamental thing that your empire can do.

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That's the thing. It's no different a US citizen trying to get into the palastine border and trying to blend in with palastinian society - it's just training (time) and money. It's not a technology.

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

and this intelligence is pretty well known to us now. Ask anyone on this board to 'think up' what you could do in this situation and after a day they would have tons. Now, how much would it cost to pay an average citizen to in 2003 to thinkup terrorist tactics? Not that much. In fact, nothing needs to be invented at all - all we need is the resources to do it.

Reply to what about a civ that has a government that does not use money? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, what about a government that as reached a point of self-enlightenment that money is not needed in order for government, military, exploration, resource management and whatever else to be accomplished productively?

what about a civ that has a government that does not use money? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

what about a civ that has a government that does not use money?

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I meant an american plane instead of planet - sorry for the typo.

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Jythier, your logic is flawed. Unlike diplomacy and trade, terrorism is even more fundamental. Diplomancy requires new research because the aliens you are dealing with are not the behaviours and attitudes you would expect from working with humans. Likewise, trade and economics don't follow the same models as capitalism does today. In fact, civilizations might not even require money at all like the Federation. These things really do need to be invented and improved upon. However, th

Reply to biological weapons in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have no idea. There are tons of biological weapons you can think up really and maybe the game has a bunch. If you could select from different ones, then perhaps each one could be good, evil or neutral. However, I think any good empire wouldn't resort to these tactics as it lacks honor - and usually good and honorable go hand-in-hand.

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Oh, and in C&C: Generals, you can play the GLA which *is* a terrorist group. They even ram trucks into buildings and deploy nuclear weapons - even toxic gases on civilizians. If that can pass, I'm sure helping out a disgruntle terrorist group with no where near the visual violence would not be accepted or even frowned upon.

Reply to biological weapons in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

neat. I was actually thinking about launching a cloaked probe into the planet's atmosphere equiped with primitive sensors to detect large volumes of life. This probe could be used as the delivery agent and unless the colony can detect cloaked objects, the biologic weapon would be deployed and you never had to lose a single ship or person in the process =) I guess the delivery agent doesn't have to be cloaked, but if you could cloak it, that would obviously improve your success rate wi

biological weapons in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is it possible to deliver biological weapons to colonies, perhaps even infecting pregant individuals to kill off their unborn children (thus forcing the empire to come up with a cure, fix bio-agent effects and possibly send new colonies to replenish the numbers)?

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

no, what i mean is we have terrorism in 2003 and we've probably had it since there were the 'invention' of two fueding, neighboring cities back before 0AD. So, you shouldn't have to research it - it just doesn't make sense. As for 24th century, I think I read that somewhere in 'about the game' article and also read the 2178 too. I assumed they gave the warp drive to species in 2178 and then waited several hundred years in order for them to get better with the technology. Anyway, th

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It would be birth of the federation 2

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It wouldn't really be a technology since I would hope that 24th century humans know about and could execute terrorism if they really wanted to considering it's been around for centuries.

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, that's just it - if you are evil or want to be evil, you choose them and influence them to do your work while at the same time achieving their own goals, serving both interests. A good empire would obviously decline their offer and might even take them out before an evil empire decides to accept (so it doesn't become a problem). You can also have other organizations. For instance, what if a group of scientists want to experiment on prolonging the average longspan. Now h

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, you could masquarade it somewhat. "A small race of humunoids that believed their gods betrayed them to their rightful place as a major power. They seek 'justice' and funding to fuel their cause in abolishing galatic superpowers." Or whatever. It wouldn't be a 'terrorism' tab either. I'd create a new section for relationships with independant organizations (properly somewhere in the normal 'races' tab as a child-interface). Anyway, new organizations would to

Reply to terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh, and you could have the opposite of terrorists, like funding independant science groups or other groups with worthy causes which would give you other gains and make you more good instead of evil. This way, any empire can fund independant organizations (which is a higher-level abstraction than just terrorists).

terrorism in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

is there or can there be an option for terrorism? Like, basically factions might present themselves (citizens from your own empire or perhaps someone else), but need to be funded. You could then choose to sponser these groups and can instruct them to do various things (kind of like group of activities like spying, terrorisms with bombs and biological weapons, pirating and that kind of thing). This would make you more evil and cost money per turn, but as a bonus, these actions won't d

Reply to Random event ideas here... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

you find an abandonned shuttle. you can choose to search it and you can find good things/bad things. a) the shuttle is rigged to explode b) pilot from an ancient race (salvage parts for money, gain new tech) stuff like that.