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Reply to Metaverse Questions -- Help? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have a feeling that was a mistake, re: using your Stardock nick vs. Metaverse nick. I wouldn't be shocked to find it changing eventually (since it's just a display issue). Right now, though, it's useless. Anyways, when you submit to the metaverse, use the metaverse name, not the Stardock nick. The email addy should be the one on your Stardock account, though I doubt it actually matches it. To add someone to your empire (i.e. invite only), you have to snag their player ID...the sma

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Reply to Wanted: Best solution for "wasted" resources issue (Slider allocations to non "active" projects" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, that's not what he was saying, I don't think. Let's say your income is 100bc, and you have two planets. Planet A is using 20bc, and planet B is using 80bc, out of which, 40bc is social. Ignoring all other factors, under normal circumstances, you'd have a balanced budget with nothing going to the treasury. There'd be 100bc in, x for mil, and y for social, where x + y = 100bc out. With Rom's suggestion, if you don't have a social project on B, 40bc won't be spent. Thus, you'd hav

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Reply to Culture victory bugged? HELP! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The influence routine relies on data from previous turns. The save function doesn't (and apparently -can't-) save all the data it relies upon. Therefore, when you save and reload, your influence calculation will take some number of turns to return to approximately where it was, and may not completely rebound. It's a somewhat significant flaw in the system, IMO. ~SDC~

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Reply to FAQ: SDCentral registration and other issues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just to consolidate comments made elsewhere: Suggestions: 1) Search. Please, for the love of God, Search. 2) Edit/delete comment (time limit fine) 3) Seperate hotkey for "Check for Updates" than the "refresh page" key used by the embedded web browser (i.e. F5), so you don't have focus problems. Right now, F5 does different things depending on the last place you clicked, and it's not obvious which pane that is. 4) More intuitive handling of the section. It co

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How're people doing with tech leasing? Still too powerful? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So, played a bit with this strategy, post-Brad's patch. I think it's still too powerful, at least at Normal level. The problem isn't so much that the AI is valuing tech too high (it seems to offer fair prices) it's that it can't say no! The AI would consistently buy any tech for the exact same price any other race would (modulo diplomacy difference), no matter how much money it had in the treasury or what its current expenses were. It makes it a pretty simple manner to keep leases bouncing o

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Reply to Gameplay: Random events Q&A in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You just have a zoo. It's a bonus to something or the other, and sets a flag that may cause another random event later, similar to the prison. You don't get a separate building, or any notice on the planet screen. If you look at the UP screen under foreign policy, it'll have it there though. No vote to keep it going, either...it's a limited-time bonus. ~SDC~

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Reply to Tribute Information Suggestion in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh, you can lease the hell out of your techs. I generally have 5+ tributes going from any one race near the beginning of the game (with research up high, and 20 month terms). I can keep a steady stream of income until the race goes bankrupt. It's not a bad strategy in and of itself, because broke races don't buy many ships. One thing I'm not sure of is what happens to the tribute when they run out of money (i.e. get to -500). I haven't set up the scenario to see if they default on t

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

I wish the game made the economy boost from other governments explicit. As it is, I'm not sure it's worth it to go to republic. As for the penalties, that's counterintuitive to me. I'd think you'd end up getting the bonuses of the party that won, instead. Presumably, that would be penalty enough because your strategy would be built around your bonuses, not theirs. As it is, it's like double-punishment. ~SDC~

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Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Had cultural victory not kick in twice on a Tiny map. First time, all but one square was blue. "12 mts" displayed, but never resolved as a win. Second time, all squares were blue, and remained that way for several years more time. First game was Tiny, Tight Clusters, all Fool. Second game was Tiny, Tight Clusters, all Normal. ~SDC~

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Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1) Confirmed that the Trade skill isn't adding its route, per my bug above. 2) When hitting pass (space) on a ship, all its movement points are taken away. Ship should just be taken out of TAB queue, but points shouldn't be removed--too easy to pass by mistake, not realizing it's highlighted, particularly because Space is effectively the "autopilot move now" key. ~SDC~

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