Hi! I purchase a factory on my main planet and pump out colony ships on both worlds until I have some 200bc left. There's a problem. Starting 5000BCs should be used to ramp-up your empire, and cover the "hole" you'll dig with new colonies, not to outright buy stuff. The goal should be to build stuff, not buy. On Earth you buy only
Hi! big ships lag the game big time, especially if there's a fleet, and I have several very large ships that I'm currently using. They also have a lot of jewelry on them. I have worse comp than you (bare almost 1 GB RAM), and have to play in "icon" mode (zoom out until everything changes to icons) to get a decent performance. I can play huge gal
Hi! Uninstall the game, reboot, install it again. BR, Iztok
Hi! I mean if you have advance espionage on your opponents. Do you steal their Research? I do, but rarely. I have advanced espionage on 6 races, and all have some tech I don't have. However the "steal" rate is slow - I got a tech per 20-40 turns. Still good for a slowest-tech no-tech-trade game. BR, Iztok
Hi! The AI concentrate far more on weapons than defence, It seems that maxing out the weapon branch is far more important than defences to the AI. This is for masochistic and suicidal. Yeah, I know. All AIs prefer offensive techs to defensive. My point was they got huge tech lead in maso+ games. However given proper stimulation AI g
Hi! Why? Play on a the lower level. When all the AI s are intelligent they don't get bonuses. Crippling is too easy to win. Masoichistic with those insane bonuses is too much work to be fun. I'm asking for something between those two settings. BR, Iztok
Hi! how easy it is to get maxed out defenses. In the time it takes you to research Aeron missile defenses, the enemy is only up to Photon torpedos, most likely Erm, not in games with AI on masochistic and above. There YOU have Photon torpedos, and they Aeron PD <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmid
Hi! > put the game in background ... Very easy to do for me, as Galciv2 crashes when I alt-tab (probably due more to my comp than to GC2). Try to run game in window mode. It hasn't EVER crashed on my comp because of alt-tab. To run it in window more, open properies for the shortcut that runs your GalCiv2, and add after the galciv.e
Hi! I like my games to last as long as possible against the most difficult opponents... Too bad there aren't many real strategy players around anymore, everything has to be fast and with great graphics and stuff, where are the good old days where players really took their time for a game, like playing one game that takes you half a year to complete. <
Hi! It seems there is a hardcoded limit on how far ships, or atleast, how far my freighter mark 3 with 14 sectors supply range can travel. Erm, I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. There's a default range for any ship without life support modules. It depends on the galaxy size - the larger, the greater range. The better life support tech en
Hi! Any chance the bonuses for AI on masochistic and obscene decreasing? Please? BR, Iztok
Hi! If you are building a farm during your turn and that farm requires 30 production to complete and your planet makes 50 production, are you saying that the extra 20 will not be wasted now? Correct. Do try it by yourself. 1) Build a building to 90%. Check the treasury in the lower left corner. Change spendings/taxes to get income 0. Press
Hi! it's September 2229 That's ~240 turns! How did you managed to survive with only 3 planets? Humans and Iconians never were a challenge in my games, but Torians? Were they the farthest away? In my games when they went to war, they literarily flooded the
Hi! hard to understand the effects of trade goods Trade goods you can sell to other civs. Don't do that with Diplomatic Translators and Aphrodisiacs though, or they'll all get the bonus in diplomacy and growth boost only you currently have. BR, Iztok
Hi! The game says for creativity "making groundbreaking discoveries traditionaly unavalable". So this is either getting techs from other morality alignments, or "random" techs like ultradrive, ultrasensors etc. That's the best explanation I can think of. BR, Iztok
Hi! I have 93 billion on the planet... I'm making less money than when I had 20 billion and a load of stock markets The math here is quite simple. You get money from square root of pop. sqrt(100) billion pop is 10. sqrt(20) billion pop is 4,47. 10/4.47=2.27 So a planet with 100B pop is generating 2.27 times more
Hi! You're capped at 200 million a week natural growth Not correct. The cap is 150 million + bonus growth. So if your race has 50% bonus from Aphrodisiacs, and 10% natural bonus, you'll get 150+150*0.6=240 million new pop. Obtaining Aphrodisiacs helps big time with invasions. I usually grow more pop than I can export from my average c
Hi! I shouldn't have to spend 8 moves clearing away 9 scrap ships from a planet when I can spend one move in space! What I do in such occasions is I disband a fleet, and attack with each ship individually. At the end of the turn I merge them back together. BR, Iztok
Hi! Conquering Drengin soldiering bonuses, soldiering tech, Tir-Quan and planetary defenses is rough on your population... Yeah, makes using mass drivers with first two invading transports almost a must. Well, finished approval branch and Aphrodisiacs hel
Hi! how the creativity bonus works. Asked many times, AFAIK answered never. BR, Iztok
Hi! In 1.11 it works, but it gives new tiles only on colonized planets. Conquered ones still got only increase in PQ number. BR, Iztok
Hi! One Planet Challenge IIRC one player has tried a similar scenario. He hasn't built colonizers, but he used troops for invasion. So he still expanded, and won. IMO your success would depend on how much planets you'd give to AIs. In a tiny universe with rare everything you might got a chance, as all AIs will start with their home p
Hi! I dont understand how to win in masochistic... Masochistic level is currently far to big jump in difficulty from crippling to be fun. It's hard work and it's turtling around and is not choosing your own course of the game for most of the play time, and is vulturing the spoils of wars of others, until you manage to grab enough planets and
Hi! Why is it saying "1 week" and then sometimes not finishing in a week. The time_to_finish, displayed in planet window, is not updated correctly. The most accurate value you'll get in planets/flets list (first button from the left). There you'll also find the price for anything in production. Just click on the item, and a small pop-up window w
Hi! I don't think either of these option is ideal. ... field small or tiny all-attack ships. My thought was much more radical: both are crap. Your idea with "horde" is plausible, however the universe in my case is huge with occasional
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