Matt Piermarini

Reply to GALCIV: First Official Update Released! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I too was not seeing the 1.01a.030 update (only had 1.0.129). I noticed that my SDC program was only at release 2 and I saw others had release 4. I don't know why SDC was not updating itself, so I just reinstalled SDC from the "stardockcentralrc1.exe" file. Note, I did NOT uninstall SDC before I reinstalled. Once I reinstalled, the first thing SDC did was download an update and asked me to restart SDC I now have release 4. Now I see the 1.01a.030 update. It did keep all my settings ( I had

Reply to Ship combat Q. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If the only benefit of grouping ships into a fleet is for movement, then when I attack as a fleet, the computer should simulate each ship in the fleet attacking individually. It kinda sucks that I have to break apart the fleet to attack, then regroup to move on to my next target. ~SDC~

Ship combat Q. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In my 1st game (on easy) one of the other races got 38 precursor corvette class ships from some stash they found. Now I'm thinking to myself, is 38 a lot of ships? In CIV, 38 tanks would be pretty good. In MOO*2*, 38 ships would get squashed. So, I built 40 corvettes, put them in a fleet, and attacked the precursor ships. It appears I can attack on every move (I think they have 5,or so), so my fleet attacks 5 times, I destroy 4-5 ships, then the turn ends. They attack me 38 times, and my fl