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Reply to need help on some questions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It sounds like you need some basic coverage on Planetary Economics. First and foremost, you have to look at your Taxes and Governmental Spending sliders. These govern the amount of money your empire takes in and subsequently pays out. The money which is spent via Governmental Spending is split up among your planets to produce production points (mil/soc/res). So, to control spending at the highest level, move the Gov.Spending slider around until your Net Income is positive (this will solve is

Reply to +4 attack bonus in-system? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

But I never built any :) I was so focused on military that my planets didnt get much more than soil enrichment/habitat improvements. Which ones are the defense improvements?

Reply to ships level in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ship level improves the stats of your ships. Unsure by how much, but I know it does. Fought a long war in my last game and the ships with high levels (3 and 4) were much better than thier new counterparts. I didn't stop to see what the exact bonus was tho, sry.

+4 attack bonus in-system? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So, I was playing last night and noticed that both my ships and my enemy's got a +4 to thier attack rating when they were in a system. Move them into space and it went away. This goes for both attack and defense ships, too. Does anyone know the cause of that? Was it some tech I researched and just kind of overlooked?

Reply to Ability choices in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I almost always make heavy econ picks. Since it bumps up your basic income, it is effectively the same as picking +soc/mil/res, depending on how you set the sliders. As far as I have seen, everything is run by money, except for Influence.

Reply to Are there any plans for tutorial? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You really think so? MOO3 was a game that was too complex and needed a solid tutorial, but GalCiv seems pretty intuitive to me. I grasped the game pretty well from the get go and a little experimentation provided much needed experience. What sort of stuff are you having trouble with?

Reply to Are early game blitzes possible? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Agreed, mindlar. That strategy (especially when combined with the ColonyShips-as-Transports tactic I mentioned above) is effective all the way up thru Medium sized Galaxies.

Reply to Are early game blitzes possible? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I played around some more with early attacks last night and its not feasible to research both Transports and Attack craft. On top of the fact that Attack craft are far outclassed by thier defensive counterparts (woe to you if your enemy has even a single battleaxe). That aside tho, I have found a workaround to the hideously slow transport problem: use colony ships. Use a colony ship to set up a forward base near the system you wish to attack. Ferry additional troops via more Colony S

Reply to begining speed ability -- +1 ship move -- does it work?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You shouldn't need to get Impulse Drives to realize the benefit of something you spent 4-8pts for.

Reply to is it possable... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

When I've tried to colonize AI systems and vice-versa, it has failed. It seems that only one empire can live in a system.

Reply to Are early game blitzes possible? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OneInTen, as I've continually said, it's fine if its hard to fight a war. But the facts as they are being laid out indicate that fighting early wars is, for all practical purposes, impossible against non-trivial opponents.

Reply to Where do I spend money to counter enemy destabilization? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I havent experienced this aspect of the game yet, but I believe to counter destabilization you need to spend money on propaganda. Go into the planet screen and click Details. You should see a Propaganda slider there.

Reply to Are early game blitzes possible? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Strength in Numbers: Yes, but keep in mind that galciv makes you outlay almost 3x in offense. Not to mention all the transports you will need. Military Picks: This could conceivably work. I dont recall the levels offhand, but if you could get 50%+ to attack then a starfighter might pose a moderate threat to say a Defender. And stil there is the problem of Transport speed and the fact that you have to research them. Although.... I think you can somewhat alleviate Transport sp

Are early game blitzes possible? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm a very agressive player and in many other empire building games a sound strategy is an extremely early game blitz on a close neighbor. All thier space and resources are freed up for you to develop without having to slog thru a huge war. Now, I don't expect these sorts of wars to be easy, you understand, but in galciv i've been finding this strategy almost impossible. Here are my reasons: 1) Transports are hideously slow at this point (and the racial speed bonus doesnt see

Reply to Running out of money! The treasury is always loosing cash. Please Help in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It sounds like you arent setting your governmental spending properly. Go into your Domestic Policy screen and lower your spending until it is less than your taxes. You should see the Net Income indicator on the right side switch to a positive number. One thing to note about galciv economics tho: money which is allocated to a planet is spent *whether or not* you have a project assigned. So if you spending settings allow you to produce 5 shields on a given planet, you are paying for $

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

The safest and simplest solution to this problem is just to have the money drop back into your treasury. Or better yet just not have it be applied at all if there is no soc/mil project on that planet. Distributing the points into other projects in-system or across an empire will make having a very heavily built up planet less valuable. And having any kind of "buy back" scheme is a waste of time, since players will just circumvent it to gain an advantage.

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't remove the resource icon off the starmap when a starbase is built on top of it. While it is handy to know that that resource is now being mined, its more useful, tactically to know that the resource is there, rather than having to remember "oh yeah, there was a resource in that sector"

Reply to Multiple wonders bug, 1.01A in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Aren't you supposed to be able to license the trade good to as many races as you want? I thought that was the power of it. As for multiple races building the same wonder/trade good, the only instance I've seen of that was with minor races getting tri-strontium or something. This didnt seem to effect any of the major races, which I was assumed was by design given that minor races dont count towards the UP or victory conditions.

Reply to Earth, A class 49 planet! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

22 billion people on a single planet!! If I ever was faced with invading a planet like that, I'd shell out the bucks for a mass driver or tidal surge attack. Speaking of, has anyone tried those out yet? What are the exact effects?

Reply to Any way to bypass opening cutscenes? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Great, thanks all! I will rename the bik files and see how it goes.

Any way to bypass opening cutscenes? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is there any way to bypass the opening cutscenes when you launch GalCiv? I mean, they were cool the first time thru, but now all I do is clickclickclick until they are finally over and I can play the game. Same thing for the opening cutscene of a new game. Is there like a command line option or something to disable them? Anything? -Hawk

Reply to begining speed ability -- +1 ship move -- does it work?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

+1 speed at the start of the game (assuming it actually worked) would be fantastically powerful. The benefit isn't so great with survey/colony ships or whatnot, but the benefit is incredible with Transports. Effectively you will be able to fight wars twice as fast. -Hawk