Ray the Wanderer

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Steve: Yeah. :) Well, I thought of a way to freshen things up for my Galciv gaming. I've been playing unmodded for a very long time now. With the new Mods functionalities in 1.l2, I think I will go download lots of mods and play them. ~SDC~

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't remember ever choosing Uncreative in Moo2. I liked picking the "Too ugly to be diplomatic" racial pick though. I find I could do without diplomacy without much problems. That would be quite difficult in Maso Galciv. Actually, I thought of playing Galciv with one or more of these house rules - No diplomacy, No starbases, No military. As I said before, these three areas are the most exploitable. ~SDC~

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh yeah, I've volunteered the Fellowship's help to Ralegh if he decides to update the Galciv strat guide. One of our members, Gibbie99 is one of the co-authors together with Ralegh. ~SDC~

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm waiting for the patch to fix the bugs in 1.12 before I play another game. Overall, I don't think 1.12 really changed things that much to motivate me to play more Galciv. ~SDC~

Reply to Need help with Maso? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I've included the count for the first constructor to build the initial starbase, Wombie. If you have an existing starbase, then it would be one less constructor. ~SDC~

Reply to Need help with Maso? in Strategies Stardock Forums

You need 6 constructors for one Party Palace and 5 constructors for one Terror Star. AIs will demand cultural starbases from humans if the starbase is built in a sector that they own. However, they will make absolutely no fuss about a Terror Star that is built right next to their systems, even if the TS stays there for a number of turns. Not sure whether it is intentional or a bug but you are allowed to pay the 5,000bcs cost for a TS even if your treasury is negative. So if you

Reply to ANZACs calling ralegh and jeff de silva in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]the evil empire has aussies in it too.[/quote] So does the Fellowship. :) I thought the point about Theme empires is that we no longer talk about nationality. ~SDC~

Reply to ANZAC Imperium in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You need 50,000 pts (personal profile) to hit Rear Admiral, Lava. ~SDC~

Reply to ANZACs calling ralegh and jeff de silva in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Nah... It's English for sure. Check out the empire icon. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Beginners guide in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

celtic frost, Have you downloaded the strat guide in the downloads page? It's slightly dated but I believe it's still very helpful. ~SDC~

Reply to Need help with Maso? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Yeah, welcome back to the forum, Ralegh. Is it time to update that strat guide of yours? :) Us folks in the Fellowship would be more than willing to help you. Comments on your post: Since some minors buy techs for cash now, it is not really necessary to set 2 majors to Genius to get dough but yes, that would be the easiest setting (but for lesser points). The alternative to the Party Palace Rush would be the Terror Star Rush. Researching all techs to Terror Stars a

Reply to ANZAC Imperium in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It seems Ralegh is back on the forum. Used the English Rose as his empire icon too. I'm guessing cause his name is Rose. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Where is ver 1.12? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you do a "Check for Application Updates" under Tools? ~SDC~

Reply to ANZAC Imperium in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thoroughly enjoyable spectacle. I must say that Wilko and Flatley both had nerves of steel. ~SDC~

Reply to New ai behaviour in 1.12? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

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Reply to New ai behaviour in 1.12? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[SPOLIER] [quote][SmartAI_Warning] Look human, perhaps you are mistaking my generalship for some sort of weak video game or something. But we are most definitely keeping a close eye on your military build up. [SmartAI_Attack] I think we're better off dealing with you before you deal with us...[/quote] It would seem that the second message deals with detecting military buildup. From what we read in the gameplay examples, AIs which fail their check will send out a warning to

Reply to New ai behaviour in 1.12? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[SPOILER WARNING] Looked through the English.str for 1.12. Some new messages. [quote][NewConcern_1] We have significant debt. Taking on more is not an option. [NewConcern_2] Their military power is just too strong. Forget it. [NewConcern_3] Uh, no, we're not going to trade ships with you when you have so many transports full of troops near us.[/quote] 1 tackles the problem of AI buying themselves into bankruptcy. I sold Alexians some tech for 20 turns and when

Reply to Serial dilemma's in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Arcanumn, You can either go to Stardock Central/Tools/Register Products and click Lookup Serial Number at the bottom or go to stardock.com and click the support tab to enter your email address. Either ways, Stardock will send you back your serial via email. Your serial number is also in your savegames if you had any left. ~SDC~

Reply to Where is all my money going? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Atram, I've looked at your savegame. The reason for your debt is due to a higher monthly expenditure as compared to your income. Once your treasury drops below -500bcs, the economy goes into shutdown mode. This means that all your resources are channelled into cash to restore your treasury above that level. That is why you see yourself getting a big surplus in your accounts. Once the empire treasury returns to >-500bcs, you need to change your spending slider to make sure that

Reply to Hooray!!!!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Welcome back, Yellow Sign. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Make the minors what they were before 1.11 or make it possible to turn them off! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, they are still juicy cannon fodder to me, except they came in bigger sizes now. :) Sell them techs and suck them clean or trade for techs. Wait for them to build economic and manufacturing capitals. Then send them a couple of techs and they will charge your enemy, handing you the keys to their juicy systems when they leave. ~SDC~

Reply to Where is all my money going? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm... you want to send me your savegame? I can troubleshoot better with it. Send the (savegamename).sav and the (savegamename) folder in Galciv/data/savegames to [email protected] in a zip file ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to Why buy the premium expansion rather than getting Drengin net??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I wonder when the decision to increase the upgrade price was made. ;) Get the Drengin.net upgrade, people. It's a real no-brainer as noted by others above. ~SDC~

Reply to Attention Matthew Downie in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just in case anyone is interested, I've managed to get in touch with Matthew. He tells me that he would be returning to our forums soon. For those who are interested to read the rest of Matthew's elven poet story, check out the War of the Worlds website. The link is in the "Galciv Fiction Site" sticky thread above. ~SDC~

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Knowing that AI diplomacy (including tribute demands) kicks in after every load, I think there is a lot of motivation to play through the early game for Maso in one sitting, especially if you have a tough start. ~SDC~