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Reply to Two Questions! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1 - I havn't found a way to reset the color schemes yet. 2 - I'm usually between 10b and 20b. On decent planets, I always build one farm, one entertainment system. Here are some things you can do to try keeping your people happy: + Build a mining starbase on a Morale Resource. Try for more than one. Upgrade them. + Research the Xeno Entertainment line of techs for their innate Morale bonus. + On heavily overpopulated planets, build 2 Entertainment Centers to every F

Reply to Fun with data tables in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Nice work. I can't believe you did it by hand!

Reply to Campaign - Dread Lords... omg in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Much much h8 for the dreadlords. My strategy revolved around first strike with large attack power fleets. Its not pretty, but it works.

Reply to Major Memory Leaks in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

As the game runs, its naturally going to consome more memory (more ships, planets, things happening). However, I've yet to experience any sort of lag or slowdowns thus far. Can you provide us with some basic computer specs (processor, memory, video card, video card driver version) so that we can make sure its not a hardware issue?

Reply to What do the combat viewing options do? Which makes combat look coolest? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Top Down 1 or 2, 2x speed. If i'm fairly sure of the outcome, I just skip to the end

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Update ============================ Updated the list as of post 58. Reorganized and recategorized a bit.

Reply to Inconsistent Behavior in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI has also come up with some really rather ridiculous trade offers, such as wanting to trade their Mass Drivers tech for my Xeno Ethics... when I've been researching Phasors. They could at LEAST have thrown in some money or influence into the bargain! This happens all the time. I tend to trade for more expensive techs (Harpoon 3 vs Basic

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I had some fun ones today. This one happened twice, both games with me playing the Yor. The Terrans out of the blue offered me a peace treaty, even though we were not at war. The odd thing was, the peace treaty only appeared on my side of the screen, not on both sides. In both instances, the terrans declared war on me within a few weeks. The end game statistics for one game listed the Thalan as having their most powerful ship be a ship I had designed at the very end of t

Reply to Am I dumber than a Sack of hammers? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

How do you enable collectors edition content? https://www.galciv2.com/CollectorsEdition/

Reply to Is there an easy way to set ALL planets' rally point at ONCE? (To the same rally poing) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Go to the civilization manager screen, governors tab. Select the 'colony rally points'. select a rally point from the "ships going to" column and then from the "should now go to" column. Note that 'None' is a valid selection.

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I would like to see a better system in place for tracking what one can do during each turn. At this point after the latest patch (1D) I am having a hard time finding all of my ships, starbases, and planets - unless I want to search and scroll through ALL of them with the ships/planets info window - which frankly has too many ways to sort stuff and not enough of a list to s

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

- Defeated AI players (major, not minor) still have "influence" scores. I've noticed this as well. If you view the UP screen, it shows all the races with their influence scoers, even races that are no longer in the game.

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

- When you create a metaverse character, it should automatically set that character as the 'Default' without having to click on the Default button. Setting it as default lets the forum use your badges when you post, perhaps other things. Forcing people to figure out that they have to click that button on their own is a bit much. Also, the button looked greyed out when I first saw it, leading me to believe it could not be pressed. After I selected it, it lit up.

Reply to How to get badges into forum signature? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

you need to go to the "Edit your Metaverse Characters"-Page and then click on "Default" once @ the character whose stats you want to show up here. The Default-Button should then be highlighted and the icons appear then. I followed these steps, and my icons show up now in all the posts I have ever made. <TABLE cellpadding=8 wid

Reply to What just happened to my economy in Economics Stardock Forums

Your social and military production is not supposed to require money if it is building nothing (according to the manual). However, only military production seems to be acting in this manner. Social production is still drawing the full amount from your treasury even if you're not building any planetary improvements. I havn't found a difinitive response from a developer saying 'its a bug', or 'its a design decision' yet, but I havn't really been looking that hard.

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

That sticky explicitly asks for small tweaks that can be implemented and tested in under an hour. I went through my list, found half a dozen that fit the bill, and posted them. Now granted, most of the suggestions people have in that thread don't fit the requirements. I'm amused by the number of requests for things people seem to think are simple, but in actuality would take over 10 man-hours to implement, let alone test. Pulling these lengthly suggesions from that list i

Reply to BUG: Military Startbase does not provide defence bonus to the ships. in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

To clarify, if a ship has at least 1 attack, they'll gain starbase assist damage from all 3 damage types. If a ship has at least 1 defense, they'll gain starbase assist defense for all 3 damage types. Can you game this by having a fleet with one ship with 1 armor and the rest without defense? Seems like it would work To my knowledg

Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

My new favorite trick.. 1attack/defense tiny ships with good engines. Use them as cheap planetary defense against transports, and send them out to snipe nearby frieghters. Slap a fully upgraded military starbase in problem areas, and boom! little ship turns into quite a killer.

Reply to Do I just suck at this game in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You've got to abuse minors. I've sent one a planet once to get all their techs and money, only to conquer the planet back and take their main world. That would probably work with major civs, but it's a bit more dangerous. That's just... fantastic I'm go

Reply to This is what is slowing me down in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I can't stand using the standard transports to invade unless its my only option. Make nice with your neighbors until you have advanced troop mods, then smash them with 10000+ troop invasions!

Reply to Bugs, Annoyances, and Suggestions in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

When the popup for the random event regarding the "solar slammers" shows up, the text at the bottom is cut off. The text should be in a scrollable text field. Have you tried scrolling down?

Reply to a few questions in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

1) No, you retain your progress on the old tech. If you switch back to the old tech at some point, you will pick up where you left off. 2) You gain the mining bonus accross your entire civ.

Reply to Bug : scouts vision stays after death in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I've noticed this odd behavior with destroyed ships, as well as conquored planets. I want to say i've seen it with starbases as well, but i'm not 100%.

Reply to Bug: Max Deficit and Allied gifts. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm pretty sure that's a bug they'll want to be fixing. The hard cap of -2000 is useful, as sometimes you just get stuck in a rut and it takes a lot of work to get your income positive again. You have to be above zero to buy anything, and they do allow you to go below zero during said spending.. but I never imagined going below more than a thousand through an instant buy. That's just... broken

Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I find myself ignoring defense totally a lot, and just piling on more guns. As long as you keep your logistics up, and make sure you always get the first attack, you'll wipe out the enemy without them ever firing a shot. Its the only way I was able to handle the dreadlords. Another thing to take into account is ship hitpoints. If you have a ship with 10 hitpoints, 18 attack, and 0 defense, all it takes is a weeny 10 attack ship to get lucky and take it out. However, if you have 6