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Reply to General Gameplay suggestion in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree. This game lacks good encyclopedia (galapedia?!) with links to it from all over the game.

Request for cheat mode and no player mode in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What I think would be cool is to have a cheat mode, similar to civilization II, where you can reveal map and look at all planets, see building orders and so on. This would hugely help to lean the game, by seeing how AI is playing. And we would immediately see if it is cheating (a lot of us still can not believe that AI is not cheating). Of cause, if you go to the cheat mode, the score is invalid. Another suggestion is to make AI play for human as well (of cause the cheat mode should be

Reply to Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Arturus, excellent answer! It is interesting that population growth is quadratic with respect to current population. I would say this is somewhat unrealistic, but the rules are the rules… However, this formula still can not explain if morale bonus and planet quality are different things. Do you (or anyone else) know how morale is calculated? And where do you get this information? Are you a developer? MxM

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

bump. Stick it please

Reply to Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well… There is a chance that I am “totally not getting this concept”, and this is why I wrote the initial post. However your explanations are exactly how I understand this. The maximum is the planet quality, and the rate of population increase is the moral. But when you increase the maximum, you do increase the rate as well. So the question is if there is a difference of how I increase the rate, directly through the morale, or indirectly through the maximum increase/planet quality. And

Reply to Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I agree that 10% quality is better than 10% of morale. But what I am trying to understand is the following: BOTH planet quality and morale lead to the population increase, that means that they both lead for production tax and science increase. There might be some exchange rate like 1% of quality is as if you have 2% of moral increase. The question is if the proportion of population increase/production increase/science output increase/tax increase is different for quality

Reply to My observation on how the influence works. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Asharak, Yes I know that article, but it is not clear anough, plus it has an error (or the design has been changed) that the self influence should be multiplied by 5. It also does not mention how exactly star bases work

Reply to Grid Display when Ships are Clicked in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think it is the range, that is the sectors where your ship can travel. It is not how far you can travel in one turn. Plus the range depends in which sectors you have your stars. From another hand if you click on the star base, you also can see the same thing, but star base can not move, and I am not sure what the brightened grid represents for this case.

Reply to Is it just me or are the governments obviously imbalanced? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Good point! It does show imbalance, either in goverments or in the abilities prices. MxM

Reply to It isnt a United States Ship, so why does all my ships have the USS prefix? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It isn’t? With the rate US conquers the world today, by the year 2178, it will be the only country … (Just a joke, do not take seriously :) )

My observation on how the influence works. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have started a new game (so that it is easy to see what is going on), build a star base with foreign relation center (influence +10%) and news network( influence +10%). Here is what I noticed: 1) If there are no influence improvement projects, then the influence in the sector is star influence multiplied by 8 (not by 5), plus effect of the neighbors 2) The influence in the neighbor sector, where there are no player’s owned stars is just a sum of the star influences around that sec

Reply to How does the influence works? (again) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks for the reply. Belive it or not, I have posted that message after I have read the Brad's article (BTW, the link is not working). And yes, I know how to see the influence in the sector, but I can not exactly understand how to calculate it. Can anyone clear this out?

Reply to Is there any influence of stacking on combat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So, when one stack attack another, which unit goes first for the attacker and which for the defender? And what happens next?

Reply to Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are you saying that 10% quality increase is much better than 10% moral increase? It could be, but my question is if they are different at all. It is quite possible that 10% quality increase is equivelent to 20% of moral increase, but are there differences? They both increase population and as a result increase the production and taxes.

Reply to Propaganda---please read and help! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In the planet view, click on "details"

Is there any influence of stacking on combat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If one stack of ships attacks another, then how is combat calculated?

changing the game resolution? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In readme file you can find mentioning different resolutions which you can use to play the game. But how can one to choose them?

Is there any difference between planet quality and morale? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you build quality improvement building then it will increase morale and this leads to the population increase. But the same effect is achieved when you build building which improves moral directly. Is there any difference between those, or it is exactly the same thing, just measured and described differently?

Reply to Morale is broken in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

/Quote Finally, I'd like to see a pop cap or more elegantly, a morale cap. Let me set a morale level and if a planet drops below that, don't grow the pop (or just grow it very slowly). /Quote I have suggested exactly the same, in my opinion, this would solve all the problems.

Reply to What are the original aliments for the races? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks!

How does the influence works? (again) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I still can not understand how the influence is calculated. 1) Say you have a sector with 3 stars. Each star has influence 10, but only 2 stars are populated, does it mean that you got 20 influences from stars and not 30? 2) If I build in the above example improvement on one of the planets, does it improve influence of this star only or of the total result for the sector? 3) Which value is used in order to calculate influence of one sector onto another? a) just a s

What are the original aliments for the races? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I can not remember them, and suspect that some of the story line develops only with original aliments.

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And I really think that this kind of information should be available through ingame help, similar to civopedia in civ games

Reply to Updated Tech Tree For Download Now in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Recommendation: Make 3 or 4 pages of printable chart. That is 4 files, each can be printed and easily read on a single page, then the complete chart can be composed by connecting all these pages.

Pre-requisite sorting in research. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Can someone explain what pre-requisite sorting means in research window? Pre-requisite to what?