Ellestar

Ellestar

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Reply to Trade goods in Strategies Stardock Forums

Empire wide bonuses (starting + government + techs + trade goods + wonders + resource mining) Domestic Policy -> Stats ~SDC~

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

10 sectors away from nearest enemy sectors ;)(so no military at the start), 1 minor civ traded with me for money - so good starting economy, paid for wars between comps (it's game with 1.03.057) I thought that's only way to survive. Maybe i was right, but i'll try closer respawn at this time. Most important thing is to stay far away from most powerful civs... Good strategy gamer must go to fight only then he already won or something like that (San Tzu's Art of War) <BR

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Reply to Suggestions 1.03 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have a good article about game balance (author - Zileas, gosu StarCraft player, designer of StrifeShadow RTS, site - shambler.net). It may help. At least it's best i ever see. It seems that Blizzard used some of that advices. LONG POST Lecture 8: Play Balance Game balance, in the broadest sense, is derived from two major axioms of game design. The first is that players should have options and choices -- a game without choices is usually not really a game... choices a

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Reply to Unfair Scoring Change in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

More important IMHO to think that players will do after one or antoher change than to think that is going on now. Also, i have a good article (author - Zileas, shambler.net) about game balance. It may help. Hm better to post it in suggestions tread. ~SDC~

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Reply to Experienced player please give some advice in Strategies Stardock Forums

post ¹4 (better read everything) http://www.galciv.com/browser/msgboard.asp?BoardID=GF&id=53207&cmd=showall#53931 Also try this http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83833&pagenumber=1 http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82594 but i think better to build 1) Soil Enrichment Habitat Improvement Entertainment Network Banking (only on planets with better than average production) 2) Fusion Plan

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Reply to Metaverse annoying! :-( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As Far As I Know At least i saw it many times on many forums - it's don't support TCP/IP or something like that. But i may be wrong - i'm from Russia so i don't have AOL :) 99% that it's not sending scores because of AOL. ~SDC~

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's here ¹35 http://www.galciv.com/browser/msgboard.asp?BoardID=GF&id=52458&cmd=showall It's fun to play 2 times with almost 1 tactics, but on 3rd... I'll try to change it somewhat to get better results... But overall i don't know how i can win if i will be near comps (perhaps i'll win vs 1 comp near me if it will have bad respawn, and others will be far enough). ~SDC~

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Reply to possible AI bugs re: constructors in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I also saw this with Ecomony resource. Comp found Military resource 1 sector below and constructor moved to Economy resouce square (i think it waited for another constructors below him, it seems this feature was implemented with 5bc/turn starbase upkeep), and on next turn changed direction and moved to Military resource. Maybe it will be better to change AI scripts so comp grabs resource with at least 1 constructor no matter what. ~SDC~

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well am a Munchkin and so i am a fanatic of the rules, so i become mad then someone playing not under the rules. If you think that it's fair, than perhaps it's fair to me too. But current situation tells me that i never can win in *fair fight* vs Incredible AI. This is mostly a gameplay issue - game doesn't allow to win in a *fair* way. That's why i wanted to see a reply about it. But i don't want to play on Intelligent difficulty - well i feel that i can play better than comp. So, mayb

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thankfully i played only Civ I and Civ III PQ39*4=156bc you got 163 this is possible, i got same numbers PQ23*9.78=225bc is impossible (9,78 is impossible) under game rules ~SDC~

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm respecting Frogboy, but how you don't understand? It's not +40% ot economy or money or etc. It simply means that you need 2,5 more maxed out PLANETS than comp on Incredible to reach same tax level. This is best computer bonus to economy i ever seen in TBS. I don't understand why to give to comp that high bonuses on Incredible - it's just ridiculous. In any other game you can, with proper management, get better enconomy. Here it's just impossible as long as you have

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was really interested how comp gets more taxes from 5 sectors than i from 52 planets. Well, with this level of cheating... Say, in SMAC comp gets like *2 bonuses. Here it gets easily *2,5 more than you ever can get from a planet with ANY bonuses. ~SDC~

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Reply to AI cheating in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is of couse on Incredible. First, espionage shows that comp has +205% Econ bonus But this is really not important. Then taxes from planet reach 2*PQ of planet, they are start to take penalties. And it's almost impossible to get from a planet more than 4*PQ taxes. There, comp somehow gets 9.78*PQ. This is impossible no matter that bonus he has. So, it's not only gains huge bonuses, GAME RULES DONT AFFECT COMPUTER PLAYERS! ~SDC~

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Reply to capturing a planet with influence in 1.3 in Strategies Stardock Forums

6 party palaces + 1 planet of any quality in one sector and 9 enemy sectors are yours Better to have 2-3 Influence Resources also Treshold was like 5000 IMHO, at least if you want to capture FAST. Don't sure about 1.03, it seems more than in 1.02, in 1.02 it was 4 Party Palaces. ~SDC~

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