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Reply to Transfering population between colony ships and a planet in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

//Oh, and that first colony ship, it had like 505 million pop but a few years after it created a colony, I checked and the colony had way less that 500 million, so where did all the rest of the people go? // Check morale on planet - if it has less than 40 morale, you 'lose' population (this part of population becomes too poor to pay taxes). So, try to colonize good PQ planet with something like 505 pop at the start of the game or reduce taxes (better to have 100 morale at t

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

I think we can launch several games. I want to start a masochistic one maybe in this friday. ~SDC~

Reply to factions and starting bonuses in Strategies Stardock Forums

That's my IMHO +2 Speed is maybe most powerful - too many reports about winning with it on masochistic. Morale is almost useless - Entertainment Network gives same bonus as gives +200 to empire morale. Economy gives half of it's bonus to taxes from population. So, +20 economy gives you +10% taxes. Note that you also get revenue from PQ (just set taxes to 0%, and you'll see it), revenue from PQ don't increasing by Econ bonus. +Production bonus gives only capaci

Reply to EMPIRES UPDATE: Goodbye to All That in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

//The Apolyton and Imperium Galactica Empires seem handicapped by the very nature of their members. Apolytonians are currently all too busy modding Galciv, to find time to actually play Galciv.// Well, at least i gathering data about GalCiv economy, and also participated in starting of the 1st GalCiv tournament. And what YOU did for the GalCiv community? ~SDC~

Reply to Frustrated with well, lack, of diplomacy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just pay this civilization once for declaration of war to another race. It will cost like 30-45 bc for 100 turns (for larger galaxies) or trade goods for smaller ones. ~SDC~

Reply to Will Trade AI Ever be Worked On? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oops... Econ resource gives +34% to income Revenue=FreeRevenue+TaxRate*PopulationTax*(1+EconB onusFromBuildings)*(1+EmpireBonus/2)*GovernmentModifier Where EmpireBonus - sum of starting bonuses to econ, wonders, techs and econ resources (so it's Economy bonus in stats). ~SDC~

Reply to Will Trade AI Ever be Worked On? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

IMHO Economy Military Research Morale Influence Maxed Econ resource gives +34% to EmpireBonus Revenue=FreeRevenue+TaxRate*PopulationTax*(1+EconB onusFromBuildings)*(1+EmpireBonus/2)*GovernmentModifier Maxed Morale resource gives +19 to planetary morale (data from patch 1.02.042) - only 35% of Entertainment Network bonus (+54 Morale). It gives +5% tax rate if taxes was 50%, so +10% increase for (TaxRate*PopulationTax). Maxed Research res

Reply to Trade Goods Another Undocumented Feature in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Valamir Just be more polite to new players. ~SDC~

Reply to Any empires out there in Strategies Stardock Forums

Join Apolyton http://www.galciv.com/metaverse/empires.asp?id=63 - community of turn-based strategy gamers. This is our site http://apolyton.net/ And our GalCiv forums - General http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=174 and Strategy http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=188 ~SDC~

How do you think, for what there are Encyclopedia in turn-based strategy games? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

IMHO it must give useful and correct information. GalCiv developers think that it must mislead players so it will be harder to win (because AI definately not using it). It's an intresting opinion. I know that we live with a democracy government and everyone may have it's own opinion. But i still think that Encyclopedia may be incomplete (which is bad anyway), but at least there mustn't be HORRIBLY INCORRECT information. ~SDC~

Reply to Newbie question in Strategies Stardock Forums

Most balanced map size is large IMHO. But at the start maybe better to play Medium. ~SDC~

Reply to economic bonuses still do not pay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok i posted tables on Aployton http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85148 Data about Taxes, Population and Morale must be correct now. Also i got some interesting results with research, but they are uncomplete for now. ~SDC~

Reply to How I scored 23k step by step in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Staffa Also, if you'll play tournament, save every several turns (just before clicking 'end of turn') and name saves like [turn][somethingother] - say 1begin, 23lalala,.. - we need a saves of a good players. ~SDC~

Reply to How I scored 23k step by step in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

//Now, if you were able to milk your people faster, I applaud your 'turn effeciency' But I was not trying to be turn effecient, I was being time effecient, I wanted to spend as little time doing this as I could, so where you might track down every little thing you could do each turn to help grow your pop. I just hit end turn a lot// I like 'turn efficiency' more. It's ingame efficiency. Time efficiency is a metagame efficiency. I like it too. But ingame efficienc

Reply to Trade Goods Another Undocumented Feature in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Valamir Are you insane? ~SDC~

Reply to How I scored 23k step by step in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Staffa //Anyway, with this setting I have literally grabbed over half of a gigantic galaxy before being blocked by the computer.// Half a galaxy on initial colonizing phase on Gigantic/Tight Clusters??? Well with that good start... Mmm what number of Ctrl-Ns? My game was 5th (so 4 Ctrl-N). I played from 54 planets and w/o +2 Speed. --- I'll start a challenge soon and we'll see who is better. Or you can participate in 1st Galciv Tournament - i'm goin

Reply to Trade Goods Another Undocumented Feature in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

http://webpages.charter.net/trevorpowdrell/ You need 'Quick Reference(pdf)' for what you want, but tech tree also will be useful. ~SDC~

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

Perhaps 14 June. But i think that 2 weeks (and 2 weekends) is more than enough. So maybe 27 May? ~SDC~

Reply to Comments on the Metaverse scoring system in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok it makes sense from this point of view. It's better than pop cap. ~SDC~

Reply to How I scored 23k step by step in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

//Your comments lead me to believe you think otherwise.// I don't think overthise. 1) I think that i am a better Munchkin than you because i can increase my score faster. This is good - i like my Munckin skills. 2) By my ethical standards, it's fair too. 3) For now i feel cheated because: 3a) I got Military win in Jan94 on Gigantic/Masochistic/Tight Clusters/Abudant patch 1.02.042 and got only 2754 points for that. 3b) Now it's much more efficient to play on cri

Reply to Comments on the Metaverse scoring system in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1) 1 trillion is enough for win. 4+ trilions is a result of a win. So cap 1 trillion is good because really you don't need to have more population to win a game. 2) //If I understand it correctly your just taking the best possible result of all possible decending order combinations?// Yes. It will be correct in any case. ~SDC~

Reply to Comments on the Metaverse scoring system in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Coffeedragon Hm? Staffa told //Fix. Several have been suggested, --you could simply sort the scores from highest to lowest -- and stop calculating the score when the next game would lower the overall score.// So it's not important when you submitted any game. But this will not work good anyway. ~SDC~

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

AAR - After-Action Report. Just write a story about how you played this game. ~SDC~

Reply to MetaVerse??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Also don't forget to save before a win. If you don't see a score, try to send it again several times (better to reconnect to inet, close all other programs/services etc.) ~SDC~

Reply to How I scored 23k step by step in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To Staffa //For my, my pop growth was a fairly consitent 90 billion per month. So to go from 5trillion to 23 trillion it took about 250 turns. Though from 19 trillion to 23 trillion, most everything was done and most turns only took a couple seconds.// Hm i was able to colonize every PQ10 planet on Gigantic/Tight Clusters/Abudant in 2.5 years :p All planets had 3500+ population and 54+ morale at that moment by the way. Won with ~5.5 trillions and 7.99 trillions