IztokBitenc

Reply to Best Race to Win vs. Suicidal in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]What race has the best chance of winning by any means necessary vs. suicidal difficulty on larger map sizes?[/quote] IMO Super Breeder, because: - your pop grows so fast there's no money crunch in the colonizig phase of the game (you simply never run out of money, just don't build everywhere immediately); - at the end of the colonization phase you easily can have more pop as the rest of AIs together, so you can start invading their mostly below-100M planets (which will

Reply to Bonus Tiles in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]I'd just like the ability to be able to play completely without them, largely to be on as supremely even footing with the AI as possible.[/quote] For that you'd also need to turn off galactic resources. IMO if something is unballancing, then it is having two more military resources than other players have. BR, Iztok

Reply to Does noone use the Korath? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Korath seem quite rare in the Metaverse rankings. Does this have a reason?[/quote] The reason on my side is Korath are too easy. Since AIs can't defend their planets properly, the victoy is just a matter of removing defenders from planets and "sporing" them. Repeat that enough times and you win. :( BR, Iztok

Reply to Ideal population in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]> Giving up 1 tile requires 1 stockmarket left on planet at higher pop. > Giving up 2 tiles requires 5 stockmarkets left on planet at higher pop. > Giving up 3 tiles requires 9 stockmarkets left on planet at higher pop. > Giving up 4 tiles requires 13 stockmarkets left on planet at higher pop. > Giving up 5 tiles requires 17 stockmarkets left on planet at higher pop. Hope this helps someone.[/quote] Definitely. Great work, Mumble! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :

Reply to Ideal population in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]and was finding it maddening that the wiki said tax was 20% lower in DA, or had a constant of 24, or had a constant of 20, all in the same section![/quote] The current version of DA (1.8) has about 40% lower tax output as DL has. The output in DA was nerfed [B]twice[/B], first with original DA, then with ver. 1.61, each time by about 20%. But planets over 25B have the output even lower, the constant of 20 seems to be the right one for them. BR, Iztok

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Wyndstar, how did you get that great 0yr score? I'm still trying to figure it out.[/quote] That's exacly what I asked him. He answered he had luck with habitable planets, and he also had MCC in May. Early enough to almost double his econ score. BR, Iztok

Reply to Starcraft 2 "Hell, its about time." in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]I thought the single player campaign was atrocious and boring. Sure the story was pretty decent, but every mission was fought the same. It was pretty much you vs. an AI who already had a base. Since you got damn-near all the techs by the halfway point of each campaign anyway, it was just 'build carriers/battlecruisers/guardians, attack-move'. Honestly, they couldn't have made more boring missions if they TRIED. I ended up cheating through half of them because they were th

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Commissioner of the MVL... Iztok Bitenc and Wyndstar have not responded.[/quote] Awww, I don't think I'm the right person for such a job. I lack background info on the MVL, and my stomach flopped when I've read I'm nominated. Please please exclude me from that nomination! BR, Iztok

Reply to Change to Forum Format in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Where are you seeing the medals on a white background?[/quote] My IE-6 works that way. Firefox is OK. BR, Iztok

Reply to The most cost efficient form of trade income in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]335 turn route[/quote] Do you realize most games are over before the minifreighter returns to its home planet? Also, in 6 and a half game years there are many events that will simply cancel the trade route: Pirates, Peace keepers, assasination, "war has expanded", ... Income from trade is simply to risky money to rely on it building an extensive network of trade-supporting starbases, and lose all the investment due to a random event. :( Unaugmented trade in my games u

Reply to Forums are Back Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Just testing "enters".

Reply to Forums are Back Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! - Firefox gives proper size of the text window. - "Enters" work only at the first post. When I refresh the page, they're gone again. - Editing my post works, but isn't visible at the submit. I need to refresh the page to see edited post. BR, Iztok

Reply to Forums are Back Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! I'm not able to edit my post. I can make corrections, not they're but saved. "Enters" obviously do work. BR, Iztok

Reply to Forums are Back Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! Text window for reply is at my IE-6 2,5 lines high and 20 characters wide. BR, Iztok

Reply to WTF Over?!? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]normally, the Krynn ship would be left a smoking ruin, as it has no defense against beams...right?[/quote] Wrong. It has sqrt(82)=9 defenses in beams and is a single ship! That combat is probably a combo of two DA cobat oddities mentioned on [link="https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_combat"]the wiki[/link]: [BR] - the "corollary" (beating the high off-type defenses with low-power weapons), and [BR] - tie rule #2, where in 50 turns there's no clear winner, so ships with lower f

Reply to 1-hp rule in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]if ships mutually destroy each other then so be it[/quote] Signed, many months ago. BR, Iztok

Reply to Transcendence victor[y|ies]; Plot token quests; exploration research in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Very New Player here. On the first game that I played for more than a couple of turns, I ended up as the most powerful race (humans), aligned Good, in a galaxy with other Good races. I eventually chose the Click the Turn Button Victory option . . . otherwise known as Technological Victory. None of the other three races seemed to be bothered by our impending apotheosis. They just let it happen. So it was a little anticlimactic. Also disappointingly unspecific. [/quote] What you

Reply to Ideal population in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]You can run 40% morale and only lower taxes just before election, and the people vote as if you had been doing that the whole time.[/quote] It was not intended so. Quite some time ago Brad wrote this will not be possible, but obviously when they coded the game, they forgot to implement it. BR, Iztok

Reply to Offense vs Defense in Design in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]it's a design flaw that I think I'll mod away by increasing the end-game defenses to 15. [/quote] I'm affraid that under DA combat rules this will not help much, because (suicidal) AIs' FLEET attack will remain in range of several thousands points, while the defenses on a single ship will increase up to 1000. You'll still lose about three huge ships per combat round. There's nothing wrong with the defenses. The DA combat system is flawed. But the worst thing is AI's p

Reply to Offense vs Defense in Design in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]This answer is not only simple, but also wrong. ...[/quote] Not wrong, just incomplete. I forget to add: in late game it's mostly bad idea to use fleets in combat (Not valid for Super Warrior). [quote]Scenario A: ... Scenario B: ...[/quote] You forget the Scenario C, that's clearly stated on GalCiv wiki: "When the firepower of the fleet becomes too great for the defenses, the rule of the day becomes all-attack single suicidal ship (firepower several hundr

Reply to Relative scores of different victory types in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Each turn your population is taken, then multiplied by the difficulty level to the 1.1 power[/quote] So here's that "to the 1.x power" I had in memory for scoring for different difficulty levels. Good to know my memory isn't [B]completely [/B]rusty, but [B]just [/B]rusty. :D BR, Iztok

Reply to Relative scores of different victory types in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]Currently the ratios are: > Tech 1.0 > Alliance 1.5 > Culture 1.75 > Military 2.5 Now can anyone validate these ratios? [/quote] Validating them shouldn't be a problem. Run a game with cheats on, limit AI to one planet in distant corner, generate enough ships to get overwhelming military, cheat all techs but final tech for tech victory, get the needed 75%+ influence and wait 10 turns, save game, and: 1) invade the last AI to get mil victo

Reply to Question on what this Event is in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]I've seen this event quite a bit. [/quote] AFAIK there are TWO events of that type - the slow one you've mentioned, and the fast one, where the AI gets increases in [B]every[/B] field [B]each[/B] turn. Needles to say, if you're not in an already-won position, the fast one needs to be dealt with yesterday. BR, Iztok

Reply to Offense vs Defense in Design in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]A slightly less than 75% fleet offense will still work. You can get it down to 60% of total fleet attack and still have a reliable chance of success if you have reasonable weapons and logistics of your own, and can expect to reduce enemy fleet attack power sufficient to become invincible before they take out too many of your own ships.[/quote] Yes, but even when I had 150% of defenses, against races with Luck I sometimes LOST a ship. When I've been montoring those battle round

Reply to Offense vs Defense in Design in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! [quote]I've been studying Iztok's monumental paper in the WIKI on ship design,[/quote] I shouldn't be credited for just about everything on wiki. ;) I've only contributed the "Further analysis of weapons" part. AFAIK PeskyFly added those leading dotted statements there lately. The rest of that "monumental" :D page is not my work. BR, Iztok