Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I like my game examples/AAR's with as little story as possible. I'm more interested in what happened in the game and what you did about it. Throw in some little roleplaying if you'd like, but focus on the game itself.
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I wonder how long a 9-man Gigantic multiplayer match would take.
The Forever War: Joe Haldeman Armor: John Steakley Starship Troopers: Robert Heinlein Foundation series: Issac Asimov All of these were mentioned before but they should be read. Starhammer, a rather rare book since its out of print, is also worth a look at.
In relation to this question: What are the population caps for a particular world?
Civs in my games have a tendency to surrender before i can amass a giant fleet of transports to attack their final, insignificant world amidst blood and glory...
That's the reason Crtl-N exists, as you pointed out. I can see how other players would enjoy having the challenge of using the first map generated, especially when surrounded by other civs. Flavor.
Diplomacy is my game, it allows me to focus on building my infrastructure early game without a lot of messy tech then getting up to speed by trading with the AI's.
The idea here is to give a bit more immersion to the game. When the AI colonizes a planet, they should then proceed to select from a number of names from their respective race's native language (unique name sets for each race). Any other way of planets changing ownership wouldn't have this effect. This would definitely add some character to a race's region of space.
GalCiv2 Forums
In GalCiv1 the Dreadlords, among other super-powerful races, would show up randomly. I believe they said they're going to add that into GalCiv2 at a later date. However, play through the Campaign if you want to see them now as it is story driven and deals with the Dreadlords.
I've placed my GalCiv 2 box right on my comp desk since I bought it, just a glance away It doesn't quite look like the one in the picture as it has a much more pleasing deep red glow in the amidst of starry blackness. It also has two small black ships in the distance, as opposed to the one in the picture. Don't believe it is a CE version and I rather like GCII's box just fine.
I've placed my GalCiv 2 box right on my comp desk since I bought it, just a glance away It doesn't quite look like the one in the picture as it has a much more pleasing deep red glow in the amidst of starry blackness. It also has two small black ships in the distance, as opposed to the one in the picture. Don't believe it is a CE version and I rather like GCII's box just fine.
I haven't played in awhile either, I'm about to start again. I hope I have better luck than you ;p
Small point of interest: CNN has advertised Politcal Machine on one of their news spots.
Stardock Forums
I would SO like to party on a nuclear armed US aircraft carrier LOL
Green rock anomalies explored by research vessels release space sharks.
The Drengin, although having all their worlds destroyed, would still exist. They would just be a broken race with no center.
I wonder why that when an alien planet flips to you, the entire planet's population magically becomes human.
In regards to Alpha Centuri being a binary type star system; it has been said that binary star systems are just as, or even more so, likely to have earth-like planets. [Message Edited]
One of the devs typed up an indepth break down of the history of the galaxy. Try looking back a lot of pages.
I would love to have a better invasion screen. The desolate brown rock crap just doesn't cut it. 150 billion souls being slaughtered on brown rocks. That's not epic, that's boring!! Maybe gigantic sky cities burning in the distance, or ships landing on the planet while said planet is ablaze. Or, even better, have it be random with a different one everytime! Please, please do something about this! [Message Edited] [Message Edited]
Espionage is great. Just set it on max for 2-3 turns and you don't seem to do it ever again for that civ. Free techs too.
I've seen incred dificulty AIs colonize sub 15 pq planets. I was wondering why the hell that star was orange. This wasn't from the UP issue.
[quote]I still love Stardock and would have all their children if only my body were built for such an honor[/quote] :sniff!:
Stardock Forums
I like the concept, maybe later.