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thongor

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Reply to The Gal Civ formula (and why it needs to be addressed) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My formula's a little different, but I play on smaller maps... --Rush for trade goods --Sell the goods to economically break the AIs --Finish them off when I get to dreadnoughts Very easy to do. It works because the AIs seem to place a great economic value on trade goods, but they never race to get them. I can win the game on "Intelligent" without building a single starbase.

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Reply to Is the AI really that smart? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Miguel Going to war to attack an unguarded transport is not impressive; do you initiate wars for that reason? It would have been better to let you and the Torians weaken each other first, and then get involved. What would be impressive is if the Torians saw your transports and bribed the Arcaens to go to war against you.

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Reply to Should Stardock be serving crackers, or reducing my cheese intake? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The fundamental problem causing this problem is the limitation that prevents ships from different AIs to occupy the same square on the map. Therefore, it is possible for a non-military ship to isolate systems and regions of the galaxy unless the AI is prepare to declare war. If two races are not at war, then ships from their races should be able to move freely past each other on the same squares without obstruction. Depending on the how the game was designed, this may not be a

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Reply to Trade goods/wonders - AI cheats? Capturing? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"The only problem here is that human-AI diplomatic trades can be very difficult to pull off while AI-AI trades are often too easy. Take a look at this message from "debug.err" in my latest game..." I complained about that after my first few days of playing. It qualifies as an AI cheat, in my opinion.

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Reply to Two-page tech tree updated in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

huh. They fit on one page for my printer, which was kind of the whole point. Check the margins on your printer setup and make sure that are the problem. I use Microsoft Photo Editor to print these and select the "fit to page" option (or whatever its called) that automatically sizes these to the page. Otherwise, they would be too small. How are you printing them?

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Two-page tech tree updated in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The two-page tech tree has been cleaned up somewhat. The font is a little larger and some of the techs have been rearranged on the pages to make it easier to visually determine prereqs. Also, any techs for Trade Goods, Wonders or Achievements have been noted. I'll still be modifying this but I thought I'd upload this improved version. Page 1: http://www.astrosdaily.com/gc/gctechtree1.gif Page 2: http://www.astrosdaily.com/gc/gctechtree2.gif

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Frogboy, I also used Control-N quite a bit until I got comfortable with the tech tree and my strategy. However, it is so easy to win rushing to trade goods that I now actually use Control-N to give myself a worse position just to see if the strategy still works (it does). Regarding the 0%/100% strategy for sliders, I think it does make the game too easy and I wouldn't mind seeing some limits on these based on your government type (a la Civ). Your max for any slid

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Reply to The range limit again. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There must be something here because so many complain about it. I haven't seen it, but then again I play small maps. Everyone is in range of everyone else. It might be a cheat, or it might be a bug. If you still have a saved game of right when the AI colony was started, maybe the developers could figure out what happened.

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ellestar, any level about "Intelligent" is not intended to be a fair fight. If you want a fair fight, play "Intelligent". I, for one, would be extremely interested in hearing of any AI cheating you find on this level

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ellestar has been trolling "the AI is cheating" for quite some time. And it always seems that it is "cheating" on levels where the developers have specifically said the AI gets bonuses. Ellestar, if you find any cheating on "Intelligent" level, please document it and let everyone know.

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Reply to Year 1 Strategy - Tiny Map, good start in Strategies Stardock Forums

Ever since I began using this strategy, I have been able to build every trade good and wonder. Once you get the first 4 goods (Translators, Aphrodisian & the two with Nano-Metals), everything is downhill from there on. Once you get to frigates, it's just a matter of deciding whether you want to win militarily or play simGalaxy. I even used Control-N to come up with the worst possible scenario I could find (class 17, corner sector, 1 habitable star in sector) and it still worked. I did h

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Reply to Please help a new player with opening strategies... in Strategies Stardock Forums

I disagree. On Small & Tiny maps, I trounce the AI on "Intelligent" without rush-buying a single ship. You should think long and hard before rush-buying because it is so much more expensive. I rush-study to Diplomacy, change my government and change to 100% social spending for Diplomatic Translators. In the meantime, my survey ship is exploring the galaxy and making contact with the other races. If I happen to be in the center of the galaxy, I will purchase a scout ship (fairly

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Reply to Stardock? UI fixes? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On the domestic policy screen. Here's an example from a random saved game. After going to the Domestic Policy screen, this is some of the information I see: Social slider: 55%. Social spending: 185 BC. Westerfield II will finish their Neural Net in 19 turns. Now, this is what happens when I try to adjust the sliders ** Click the up arrow one time on the social slider. Social slider: 57%. Social spending: 185 BC. Neural Net: 19 turns.

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Reply to 1.03A.057 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Every game is different, and I don't see scores as an indication of progress. I am just going to submit game after game of me exploiting the AI with trade goods until they fix it! :D

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Reply to How much do you get for the trade goods? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

They offer way too much. I think I once got 5 early techs and 20BC/20 turns from 1 Civ just for Diplomatic Translators. The others gave me 40+BC/20 turns. Trade Goods are the easiest way to beat the AI, especially on the smaller maps. If they value trade goods so much, it would be nice if they rushed after them.

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Reply to Stardock? UI fixes? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

argh! please please please have the planet list update automatically when you move the sliders. click up. refresh refresh click up. refresh refresh click up. refresh refresh oops! click down. refresh refresh. aahhh.

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Reply to OT: Dixie Chicks Situation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, the point is that it is silly to choose what music you enjoy based upon the political views of the artist. Do you guys have any idea of how many movies and TV shows you'd have to skip if you wanted to be logical and consistent with this approach? What if Frogboy came out and said he was against the war in Iraq and that we were wrong to invade? Would you protest and stop playing GalCiv? If so, then you are an idiot. Sorry, but no apologies are forthcoming for that opinion.<b

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