They do defend well, if you letting them get that close to you so early, you need to be a tad more agressive maybe? Or if you know your gonna lose the planet in a few turns, rush build your own transport, fill it, and the second you are invaded, invade it back. I too had your problems, until i realised i couldnt sit idly by when im at war not expecting to be invaded, that early star fighters slaughter transports, and having one battle ax will normally buy you enough time and incur enoug
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One of those little things you build Starbases on, gives you a morale bonus to planets in the sector, kinda like the +5% tech ones and +5% econ ones you get when you make starbases on them. That said they ARE rare. On a side note, has anyone ever seen the lifeforce Resource? and what does it do? ~SDC~
Well seems to be the same strength, and in my current game it came much much later, and it was hard, but i overcame them. It was a fun little side quest ;) MUCH better than having it pop up whilst my best ship is a defender, as it did in 2 previous game. I love these events so long as im able to deal with them, i like them to be hard..just not "Oh crap, Good game and resign" hard ;) ~SDC~
Seems fine to me, i can trade techs evenly with Civs who like me, with those who dont..well i have to offer more, normally a little bit of money with them. As for trading tech to minor Civs for money, i still do this, but no way in hell can i depend on it anymore, im having to focus on Trade routes and their efficiency and planetary econ imporvements now. Its harder..but feels much more fun, difficult and un cheesy :D ~SDC~
Having them depend on you is the best way, establish trade route with the ones you want to..umm suck up to :P once there econ is about 15-20% dependant on you they will do anything you ask..inculding ally with you if you have that tech Remember that Good civs will never get on with Evil ones. ~SDC~
Thanks I have all the buildings a upgrades, and Propoganda on full, but im still hovering about 30%, luckily i have just decided to go for a military win, i made about 30 combat transports to help me invade..next turn my average planet moral is 92% up from 34% Surely this is a bit overkill? ~SDC~
Yup, gotta hand it to Stardock, their support has clearly made a lot of us very happy. Im glad i dont have to try to play Moo3 now, and have to sift through one of the most agressive forums i have ever come across! ~SDC~
I agree Vogar, i play on "Bright" level, and have have played 8 lost 6 :P i *LOVE* how intelligently the AI invade my system, half the time i think they lure me to their homeworld, only for me to realise i have no defense and im going to lose half my empire. Ground combat is excellent, if your willing to spend the money, you can totally destoy a 10Bn army with one 10 times smaller :) Im enjoying being handed my ass..makes such a change from Moo3 :D ~SDC~
Well imo, once your defending ships have gone, you deserve to lose the planet :P Next time think more about defense :) Besides, it wouldnt be much fun if the AI could hardly ever successfully invade a planet ~SDC~
Your definitely refreshing SD fifth? Goto the options and enable Alpha/Beta releases, thats on by default on mine. I cant even offer to put the patch up on mt FTP, as when i archieve it, it does the whole game ~SDC~
Thanks for the tip on where to find the history, no wonder i cant find a readme.txt hehe. My saved games are working fine. So i guess its a backwards compatible patch ~SDC~
After installing the 1Mb file mine now shows as Version 1.01a 30 ~SDC~
grrr wish i could edit. I mean look at the installed version, then next to it, it should show a newer available version, click on it, then install. ~SDC~
In Stardock, check the main Gal civ bar, the one you used to download it, should show a new version in "available" its about 1mb ~SDC~
84Mb? Mine was about 1Mb, and it simply patched Galciv.exe Cant see a readme, or anyway to tell if it worked successfuly though. ~SDC~
Hmm installed it, and updated, but still have no readme file. Where di you get the list of changes? cheers ~SDC~
Whoot downloading it now 980K file not bad :D ~SDC~
Yes, check out all the reviews floating around the net. All are giving it at least 85% plaus and most have it highly recommended. I also concur, it is an excellent game, with excellent support and looks to have a bright future :) ~SDC~
Wow! no need for the hostility Dearmad. I have maxed out the tech tree right now, and i have the problem i described. And Brad already said at the hardest AI level the AI does get several "Cheats" to help it along ;) As i said before, i have all the techs and buildings and wonders and trade goods to increase my moral bonus. I now have nearly 70% bonus. I have over 50 Planets, all under 40 moral, all have massive amounts of propaganda supporting them, and still they keep defecti
Nope no readme.txt I have just found other threads saying the same thing. Guess i will have to wait until the CD i ordered gets here. ~SDC~
EAsily said Rhett =) Cept in my games they come early. IE my only agressive ship is the star fighter with 3 attack. And my best defense is the BattleAX and some defenders. Pretty impossible to stop them. ~SDC~
What readme? I installed Via Stardock, and have no readme.txt or any other documentation!! Anywhere online i can read these? ~SDC~
Yup I have my tax level at 5% and a civ moral bonus of 60% and im still cripped by moral. Unless of course i make a coleny ship for each of my 40 worlds every 3 turns and disband half my population. ~SDC~
Your not the only one wampyre. My civ has nearly +60% to Moral, and not one of my planets is above 40% moral. The idea of shipping them off planets and disbanding the transport is very lame..i shouldn't have to do this for 30 planets every 3 turns. That said, this and some over the game killer events are the only negatives i can find about gal-civ. Fix these and ill be a happy bunny ~SDC~
Yup, I have lost 2 games to the damed Draginol, both times they appeared about the time i researched the BattleAX. Wasn't fun to watch my empire destroyed in a handful of turns. ~SDC~