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Reply to New Player Questions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Asterisk means it's undefended. ~SDC~

Reply to Some general noob question. yes ive read the manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'sok. We all had subtly different responses. I'm sure he'll get something from all of us. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Possible BUG in company purchase agreements: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Astarach makes a good point. That was what was in my mind when I said you could only drop it as if they didn't have that amount of money. Basically, instead of scoring on cash reserves, you score on assets - debits. ~SDC~

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So I'm wondering if Gamerankings will update the review if the final score changes. ~SDC~

Reply to Some general noob question. yes ive read the manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1. Your spending balance and spending amount sliders are tilted towards Tech and full, respectively? This isn't a problem I've seen...I usually stay ahead in the tech race fairly handily. 2. The actual tech picklist (i.e. the research tab) has detailed effects listed. After you've achieved the tech, the "archive" button on the same tab will display it. 3. Only that when you get 25% more, you'll actually see an effect. Pet peeve of mine, too. In the mid-late game, it make

Reply to Grrr...Early Space Monsters in Strategies Stardock Forums

You sure that works? I've been told that the slow module will never slow things down to 0. ~SDC~

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad: not trying to defend Richard--he's being a pompous ass, pardon my Drengin, and you certainly didn't deserve a 2 star AI. I'm just having a hard time seeing how a (supposedly) broke race can get a couple of Constructors in a few turns, even via leasing them--it'd need a down payment, and I'm wondering if it got that down payment via the bug in question. I'll hush, though...I'm just glad you found the bug. ~SDC~

Reply to Attack/Defense starting bonuses worthless? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I dunno if I'd say "quite useful". The +10% attack bonus adds 1 point to a dreadnaught. It doesn't add (or contribute) a point to -anything- until the dreadnaught. I realize the +10% attack bonus isn't terribly expensive, but the +20% and +30% ones doesn't kick in until battlecruiser, at which time they also add 1 point. The possible exception to this is if the "half of defense" bonus is added in previous to the percentage calculation, at which point a battleaxe will see the +20/+30% bonuses

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad: well, part of it is obviously a difference in terminology here. What's Tribute and what's Leasing? Regardless, my original point stands. You flipped a sign, and had a way for a race to mint free money, whether it was via "tribute" or "leasing" doesn't matter. Moreover, the AI's evaluation routines apparently used the same calculation, and -knew- they were getting free money. I'm asking if it's at all possible it was exploiting that, hence being able to buy stuff in short orde

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad: actually, just occured to me. Leases were bugged. The AI apparently knew this (re: your statement in OH NO that it was accepted trades because they were good for it). Doesn't that mean the Vor might have been leasing Constructors or even money from other races left and right, confident that they were getting a larger treasury for doing so? Seems that if you leased money for money, that'd benefit both sides...would the AI have been "smart" enough to offer this kind of deal if it calcula

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad: OK, cool. Would've just been awful if after all this, turned out it was a bug. :( ~SDC~

Reply to Alliances? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hm. OK. I guess I haven't had a game go on long enough to get more than 5 or 6 routes yet (I mostly play small maps). I really don't like the fact that you can only ally with close races. There's such a thing as an alliance of convenience. I wouldn't call us "close" with UK, for a real world example. There should be such a concept as a military alliance with whoever it is that will benefit you. ~SDC~

Reply to Vedrics anti-dumpster suggestion list version 1.00 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Now, you see? That's an issue, IMO. :) ~SDC~

Reply to New Review: Adrenaline Vault gives GalCiv only 3.5/5 ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You know, Leader just made a good point regarding the Vor's constructors. He'd just demanded their entire treasury (i.e. a N for 1 month tribute) Did it credit it back to them double? That would explain where they got the cash to crank them out. If that's the case then, well, it is a rather unfortunate and major 1.0 bug, and that would explain where the accusation of cheating came from. ~SDC~

Reply to Can't find myself on the Metaverse in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

(note that I'm looking at "Player Name", which corresponds with the Metaverse alias) ~SDC~

Reply to Can't find myself on the Metaverse in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Your alias is "Klaus Breuer", according to your popup details. Load a near-the-end autosave, finish the game again, and resubmit with that as the alias. ~SDC~

Reply to OH NO! I finally figured it out!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

-shrug- If it always works, then it's simple. Doesn't make it -wrong-. I wasn't trying to make a value judgment on it, aside from saying that it was perhaps a little too much of a sure thing. ~SDC~

Reply to Alliances? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How does one get Close? I've tried massive tributes and never had it happen, even with like-aligned races. ~SDC~

Reply to Ironically the Avault review is netting new puchases in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad: out of curiosity, what qualifies as a "tough event" for those purposes? I played a Tiny game on Cakewalk, and -never- had a random event come up, even the planetfall ones. Not that I play on Cakewalk very often (or ever will again :) but that was a little bit of a bummer...you miss a lot of game flavor without the morality choices. ~SDC~

Reply to +15% PQ trait had an interesting effect on a culture push game I played. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ah, thanks, mindlar. Thought SE was a +1, not a +10%. Appreciate the correction. ~SDC~

Reply to Show all button on trade screen is supposed to do what? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Doesn't it suck when you get a pet issue and nobody knows (and the ones who do aren't telling?) I'm pretty sure at this point it does nothing. I bugged it, as I'm sure Olaf has already. ~SDC~

Reply to OH NO! I finally figured it out!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, well, that tactic was kinda simple to begin with. I'm glad to see it go, though I hope I can still get -some- cash off of them. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Simple one line responce to help developers know. Where did you hear about GaCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

c.s.i.p.g.s ~SDC~

Reply to Vedrics anti-dumpster suggestion list version 1.00 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh, I'm quite aware that the AI could use the tactic, too. Again, right now there's a huge tech advantage, particularly for defenders (who get an attack bonus of a percentage of their high defense). It's just that when I group 5 corvettes and a couple of battleships, having them -all- die against one orbiting BattleAxe just isn't right, and that's fairly typical. ~SDC~

Reply to Vedrics anti-dumpster suggestion list version 1.00 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm with Vedric on the stack thing. I don't want a hugely complicated mechanic, but the way things are now, there's zero advantage to stacking whatsoever. Really, it should be something along the lines of all attacking ships do damage to the defender, whereas the defender picks or autopicks one ship to defend and do damage against. The defender's defense modifier could be rolled once and applied to all ships, or rolled once for each attacker. Not sure which would be more fair. If that weigh