Double click on the star that has the transports. Somewhere in the bottom right, you should see some icons for your transports. Double click one of them. Move the slider to raise or lower the number of troops you want on it. Click launch to launch the transport.
Basically you can only use terrorstars either directly against inhabited stars or indirectly against an enemy empire's sector. To use the terror star directly, just most your terror star into a star as if you're attacking another ship. The end result is the star goes boom. To use the terror star indirectly, just sit it somewhere in an enemy empires sector. Sometimes you might need 2 or 3, but what happens, is that the stars in that sector go into revolt and eventually
Noticed a teeny tiny bug with the metaverse. I'm apparently ranked #25, but I dont have the top 25 medal. Seems to be only given to the top 24 or something. Like I said...very small bug SeanB
Well, just wait until the computer steps up to battle transports. I've seen the DEF on those things as high as 30, so they'll put you in a world of hurt if you dont bring enough hardware against them. Anytime the computer invaded me, it generally had me dead to rights, and I've had several planets fall to them before. So they're not that inept. And its certainly nowhere near as bad as another *cough*Moo3*cough* game. (although they have a patch coming out around noon PDT to correct
I wondered about that myself because it seems whenever I tried it that way, it was counter-productive, so as a result I rarely take the +50 luck path
The problem you have is if the planets PQ quality gets knocked down to say 10 or something like that....the planet is basically screwed since the best you're going to be able to beef it up is to maybe about 13...14 if you're lucky. Your only option at that point is to eat the maintenance tax for the sub-prime colony conditions or jettison the colony.
If you're entering your email address along with the CD key, then what is happening is that you're catching that email protection from the site. You only have a couple choices here: 1) Go back to the original owner and have him switch the email address attached to the CD-key to your email address of your chosing 2) Ask the owner for the password to the GalCiv account he uses and then change your profile information over that way Unfortunately, while the purchase is
Well, if its anything like the deathstar, the terrorstar's power can be revealed at this link: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ds/#power Enjoy SeanB
Best way to defend a starbase (asside from sticking a bunch of +DEF modules on it) is to stick a bunch of high Def ships (pref battlehammers) on it. If you use +ATT ships, pray you have sensors and then attack the ships as they get close
The only people I'd give them away to are the minor civs. My personal feeling is that I want the speed advantage that other majors will not enjoy. This is related to why I'll never trade Trisortium Steel or Diplo Translators. I need those advantages over the AI when I deal with them in the future. So that's where I stand
Your morale essentially goes down the tubes if you go into the red. If you take your balance too far down, sooner or later you're going to have everyone of your planets rebelling against you. That is unless you don't get owned by the AI first.
[quote]Tech victory is for those who can maintain their ownlittle corner of the galaxy, but cant do much else.[/quote] Actually tech victory is also for a couple other situations: 1) You get lucky enough to conquer a planet belonging to a race that has FF -or- 2) You get caught in an ugly quagmire situation where you're not going to be able to end the war quickly or anytime soon Believe me, I had one game on Crippling where I needed the tech victor
As a point in my experiment if you observe my last two games, I apparently outscored myself on the same sized map but slightly lower difficulty. I find this kind of odd so I might run a couple experiments. I'll run one more, this time attempting a military conquest, and one more attempting a culture victory to see what happens. In reference to the last two, I might run it off the same saved game and try to time the wins so that they happen roughly the same year, that way I can get a decent id
[quote]Well...until Frogboy gives some input...I'm gonna place my bets that the AI will surrender to which ever race is in overall 1st place.[/quote] I've not seen this pattern myself. I know when I beat the daylights out of the Yor, they said they will surrender to the Acreans just to spite me. Funny thing was I was pretty much allies with the Acreans anyway. Took the alliance victory. Won the latest round. SeanB
Here's a haiku and tell me if this has happened to you before Drengin extorts me I tell them to go to hell Bang Bang ouch I'm dead [Message Edited]
A haiku for you A bug has struck me I call CariElf for Help She helps and Bug's dead SeanB
These days, the only times I get hit for tribute are 1: If I make a really bad call on a spending decision (ie I collapse my economy because I rushed something I had no business rushing) 2: I start too close to a major (which if I dont switch to a rush for phasers, I'm in trouble) This especially bad on the high levels because they can be... "impatient" 3: Bad start position (ie there's no way I'm going to keep up with AI growth, military bar over takes...culture
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[quote]SirBruce: Ultimately, the development team decides what is an important bug or not since we are, after all, the ones who have to address it. The tech issue we have determined needs to be looked at but it is not a top priority issue. You are free to disagree. But for good or ill, since we do the coding, the final decision rests with us. [/quote] Being in the government contract industry, I do see how the resource thing comes into play. You have only so many resource hours to acco
[quote]I recently made Diplomat, now I have to work up to Ambassador status... (not to rub it in forceinfinity, I'm sorry you got demoted, I must have missed the thread that brought that about.) [/quote] No need to apologize....it was my own dumb fault. While I dont think it was the brutal honesty stuff that got me, it was the extra junk I tacked on to the posts that would come across as a swipe that got me. I figure next time, I'll just bring facts and check my emotions/ego at the do
My understanding is that you pick up these titles if you're seen as being a positive member in the forums, generally helpful to the newbies and the like. For examples, one of the people in this forum ended up being given the Diplomat title for alot of the things he's done. I hope this makes a little more sense.
Peter hit the nail on the head there. I hit the jackpot once when the "a new planet has formed" issue. This occured on a tiny map, and something like this was HUGE since as we all know, planets are at a premium on that map. I had just enough to pull it out, since everyone was voting for themselves. That extra little edge made the difference for me. SeanB
Vridian-- No offense was taken. The smiley in reply #5 should've set your mind at ease there. I pride myself on having a decent reputation, and I dont like being labled as destructive or a troller because while I can tend to be abrasive at times, I do care about this game. So that's why I started this dialogue. And with this being in the open, its public domain anyhow...so no worries :-) SeanB
The only oscillating warfare I'm aware of (and this is a bit of cheese) is to stack a huge force around a target civlization. They tell you to back off...you ignore them. They declare war. You smash them. You sue for peace and extort them. You leave your ships there, they start another fight...repeat as necessary. Is that osciolating warfare (I already know its cheese)
I will pay the tribute to buy time if I know I'm about to bring a signficant force online. I remember having to do it once or twice. By the time I was expecting a third demand attempt, it never came because my forces came online, and my military was enough to give them pause, do the extortion thing can help you out in a pinch. Not sure about the absurd numbers myself. Maybe I've just got lucky and that the demands they made weren't to egregious. SeanB
Well, that does, it. I thought I've seen it all. Now this is becoming a family affair. First time I've seen this in any game I've been involved with. :-) PS- Dont ever try jogging in Sacramento when its 100+ degrees with an Air Quality near 150. I'm finding out the hardway that its not good for your lungs :-/ (this was your public service announcment from the force of infinity....now back to your regular programming)
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