Ellestar

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well maybe i'm too cynical but... [quote]The intent of the White Council is to band together a community of gamers who are interested to Galciv regularly and to contribute to improving the game while being useful members of this forum. The pre-requiste for a White Council member is basic commitment to the above purpose.[/quote] [quote]Welcome to the Council, Sergey. As I mentioned in my email to you just, I have no doubts as to your commitment to Galciv (I can't keep up wit

Reply to Newbie Question in Strategies Stardock Forums

I don't recommend +Morale at the start - it gives too insignificant bonus IMHO. I recommend Soil, Habitat, Entertainment Network, Banking Center, Manufacturing Center, Fusion Power Plant Don't forget Advanced Trade -> Galactic Stock Exchange Wonder. 3 freighters is also good. ~SDC~

Reply to Invitation to 1st Masochistic Challenge to 94 players in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Ellestar, I was going to post that the starting conditions seem to be the toughest possible setting IMO. It seems that you are getting some kind of perverse pleasure in seeing supporters of GOTM fall flat on their faces on their initial GOTM game.[/quote] Feel my wraith now! You don't suggested starting conditions and so on then i asked for this. So now you will be punished by DEATH! //Don't understand meaning of 2nd sentence. May you rephrase this? P.S. "Too easy t

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To IchiMaru Please post a link to your save, not to upload-view section. It shows me my files, not yours ~SDC~

Reply to GalCiv unplayable in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]so you should be fine if you just rename (or delete) all the .bik files[/quote] Left these 3 files: Menu_Open.bik, Menu_Starbase01.bik, Menu_Starbase02.bik. They are at the standart install (w/o Multimedia). W/o Menu_Open.bik game will not run AFAIK. ~SDC~

Reply to Social improvements strategy in Strategies Stardock Forums

I suggest counting building cost too: say, Upkeep+BuidingCost/20 If building can't pay for itself in 20 turns, it's not worth it. Also, you are not counting effect from morale. Neural Net? Info Net? Hm. Better to build RL/RC and maybe GRC. Cultural exchange, News Network, Embassy, Virtual reality - IMHO crap. I tried to do some tests here http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85148, if you are interested My build order for gigantic: Soil, Habit

Reply to I stink in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]When the colony ship rush is over, switch to 40-30-30 spending and go for the following goals: produce enough military to keep your rating high enough to avoid threats, get your social infrastructure up to snuff (soil enhancement and habitat improvements are musts, and banking centers are no maintenence so you may as well), keep up in the tech race, try to beat the other civs to galactic wonders and trade goods, and try to secure and harvest as many galactic resources as possible (particu

Reply to Galciv Game of the Month Challenge - no.1 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One problem here - Apolyton is on maintenance, and i can't download games. (I have a bad habit to do all in the last moment, and i didn't downoaded saves). So scores will be in monday. ~SDC~

Reply to Invitation to 1st Masochistic Challenge to 94 players in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think it could be a good thing to tell the yellow star density before you start the game. [/quote] Map: Medium, Scattered, Abudant - in starting conditions. Oops... Staffa already answered. -- By the way, thank Staffa for this starting conditions - he told that he'll play on any conditions i choose. These are most difficult IMHO. ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to 1st Masochistic Challenge - Everyone fights, noone quits! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Things going as i expected :p No winners for now. Well, it's a masochistic challenge, not a cakewalk one ;) ~SDC~

Reply to AI cheats rather plentifully in this game. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]If you feel this is the AI cheating then you could modify the tech tree file with notepad or another text editor (it's called GCTech.tech and it's in your data subdirectory) and change the entry for stellar cartography to have a cost of 1 and no prequisite - this will give you the exact same identical ability that the AI has. You will only have to research on your very first turn in order to possess it... it won't even affect your metaverse score.[/quote] Game data sent to metave

Reply to 1st Masochistic Challenge - Everyone fights, noone quits! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok i changed password there. ~SDC~

Reply to metaverse scores in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]How long after you submit a metaverse score until it shows up? [/quote] AFAIK immediately. [quote]And I presume you can just search for you alias to find your own score?[/quote] Just click on your nick. ~SDC~

Reply to Question on Star Bases in Strategies Stardock Forums

Official data about influence - Encyclopedia http://www.galciv.com/encyclopedia.asp -> How Sector Influence Works ~SDC~

Reply to Apolyton is 1st and controls 25% of the galaxy. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Heh. Battlecruiser operational. Shields up, weapons online. //StarCraft// ~SDC~

Reply to 1.04.59 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I was a pacifist with 50% weapons[/quote] Sounds cool! LOL ~SDC~

Reply to Masochistic 1.04 in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]My tiny rare masochistic is with 5 incredibles.[/quote] My too. ~SDC~

Apolyton is 1st and controls 25% of the galaxy. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Weee-haaaaaaa........ ~SDC~

Reply to How do you download patches? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You are using StarDock Central. So, click 'Software' tab. (Software-News-Discussion-...) Then, chose 'Drengin.net' tab and click on Galactic Civilizations. You'll see 'update' button. ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to Top 200 metaverse player looking to join an empire in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Space Wombat [quote]How can you possibly join an empire with all those little coloured balls? I mean, by the time you went to all those links and read all those posts, there's be no tine for gameplaying, now, would there?[/quote] Well Apoltyon is 1st again. Noone has a chance! Also, it's a good idea. I'll spend a saturday playing and sunday testing economy in 1.04. I think i need some more wins. ~SDC~

Reply to Maximum Populations? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's same for any PQ - 100.000 But population growth is capped at 200, also population don't grow with planetary morale less than 54. ~SDC~

Reply to Metaverse gone haywire? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Another 'improvement' :) Maybe devs testing recalculation of old scores with another algorytm? ~SDC~

Reply to 1st Masochistic Challenge - Everyone fights, noone quits! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't know HTML and other stuff AT ALL. So maybe someone else? ~SDC~

Reply to 1st Masochistic challenge - who's best? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well now he has a chance. Or maybe he's just chicken? ;p (Back to the Future I-III) By the way, "Have Fun! That's an order." and "Everyone fights..." is from Starship Troopers. ~SDC~

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sugestion: Then planet changes owner (or colonized), store it's starting population (after changing owner/colonization) somethere (say, it will be StartingPlanetaryPopulation). Then someone Invades a planet, remove from a list of possible techs to get all techs with a cost more than (Sum(CurrentPlanetaryPopulation-StartingPlanetaryPopulation)) for all planets in invaded system. ~SDC~