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Reply to Observations on the latest Beta and a bug report in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The minors are an exploit imo. Their behavior and trading is downright weird. They need some serious tweaking. They should be flippable as they once were. After all, in a real universe they would be the most likely to succumb to culture. They should have penalties applied that would apply to real minor civs but still allowed to expand somewhat. They are currently trading whores for everyone and cannon fodder for agressive players.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]What happens if you run into a race of dog people?[/quote] Hmmm....Empire of the Tines

Reply to Terraforming is not feasible in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Mars is too light to hold an Earth temperature atmosphere for any apperciable length of time[/quote] I don't doubt that you are correct, the problem is one of filling a leaking container. However, I read somewhere that if you could instantly pump the moon up to 1 eartn atmosphere, it would remain breathable for about 2000 years, (I didn't do the math). That's long enough to be useful in people years, but in cosmic terms it is a moment. I don't recall the number for Mars but I bel

Reply to Terraforming is not feasible in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

You could theoretically overcome all the limitations with time and tech but those limitations certainly apply to any planet that would be logically terraformed by a civilization less than 3 on the K scale. A type 3 civilization could choose planets based on desired location and make it any way they wanted it, but why waste the energy, just move a more suitable planet where you want it to be. :) In the foreseeable future (probably thousands of years) the primary requirement for terrafor

Reply to THE CASE FOR THE ROBOTS AND THE MINORS. in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The square-cube law says otherwise.[/quote] Good point, being tiny and buglike would be the more effective way, but immense strength relative to size would be helpful. Then, I have never read that the Drath are immensely strong just dragonlike. :)

Reply to THE CASE FOR THE ROBOTS AND THE MINORS. in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Heavy Gravity could also be a problem. It is not reasonable to assume that the entire population of robots would have the strength to survive on a HG planet. They would probably have a more finite top end strength than humans. You could make a case for the huge dragonlike Drath being okay for HG worlds

Reply to TA, the tech tree and the new races. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]My other question though holds a great deal of relevance still, what will be introduced into DA 2.0 from TA, if anything at all?[/quote] It does seem that some of the new things from TA could be patched into DA. That is probably your only hope. I doubt you will ever see the toggle you want

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 4b in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Question: Would it be difficult to add in a slider for the ship maintenance at the beginning of the game where you select research speed galaxy size ect? I had enjoyed the last betas economy a great deal, and my friends that played it did as well. I understand the new maintenance costs make it more challenging but some of us love just having a mass of ships in a nice quiet corner of the galaxy map [/quote] It would seem logical to tie maintenance to difficulty level. Zero m

Reply to TA, the tech tree and the new races. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I love it. I had become bored with DL and DA and hadn't played in a couple of months. TA has reinvigorated me for the game. I have had success playing with all the new trees and my greatest fear is that the future tweaks will change the game too much. Late tweaks to previous releases were not always good imo and reduced my enjoyment in some cases

Reply to When Did the Game Start Cheating? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I mentioned I'd played this and previous iterations of GalCiv for years [/quote] Yet you are playing at beginner level. There is nothing wrong with that but if you are doing it as a relaxing distraction, you should be able to overcome the event at that level. If that is your best level there is also nothing wrong with that but anyone who tops out at beginner after several years should turn off the mega events. To be honest, If I anticipate a tough game I will turn them o

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor Beta 4b in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Lowering costs 1% doesn't seem like much.[/quote] It is not really a percentage. The maintenance was reduced by 1 bc per ship per turn. Actually, a nice reduction

Reply to Weapons? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I kind of agree with the slowing down of tech. While I have not played a game with really slow tech it sounds intriguing. The only fly in the ointment with the new TA beta is that new economy techs are critical to surviving. They would need to either change the economy for slow tech games or make the econ techs much cheaper. I guess what I would really like to see is a very slow weapons tech option with the rest unchanged. The idea of huge hulls bristling with particle beam w

Reply to They've done it again! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It would be nice to have some ability to tell a civ to remove the SBs in my territory or else; as it is, I have no ability to explain to them why I'm about to nuke them back into the stone age. [/quote] You do in a way. You can demand that they gift you the base and declare war if they don't. Not much different from what they do. They may tell you to pound sand but you might tell them the same if the shoe was on the other foot. If you want to stop short of war, you could embargo

Reply to Ship Design - Doe you bother? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Could it be that Stardock misjudged the popularity of this aspect of the game? [/quote] I doubt it. Even if well over 50% care nothing for ship designing the minority percentage is probably large enough to justify the feature. I could be wrong, but I suspect the responses to this thread are not representative of the overall popularity of the feature.

Reply to They've done it again! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't noticed that much influence sb spamming by the majors but yes on the minors. In my games the majors seldom build influence bases in my territory but the sure build a bunch of econ sb. Are you building influence bases in their space? I don't and they seem to reciprocate.

Reply to Thalan Influence Defeat by...Who?! in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]This victory condition should be disabled for the Terrans, when playing against the Thalans. [/quote] Man!, the first building available to the Thalans is for influence. There should be no problem holding off the Terrans or anyone else from culture bombing. Also you should check your mini-map it should give you ample warning of a culture victory. When you see over 75% of the map turn blue you must declare war (they can't win a culture victory if anyone is at war with the

Reply to Ship Maintence on ships with no weapons in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]that still doesn't mean the fast colonizer is worthless[/quote] No doubt about it. Nothing ticks me off worse than losing the race for a 20+ planet or a resource mine. Getting there first is cheap at almost any price

Reply to Ship Maintence on ships with no weapons in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Unfortunately, the above is not necessarily really true.[/quote] Interesting, I had never paid a lot of attention to the increased maintenance due to the short life of the ships. There may be a sweet point with more speed that will cost less than the basic. For instance, the ion ship is no change for colony and 8 vs 7 for a builder. The cost jumps dramatically with the impulse drive.

Reply to Alpha Centauri For GC2: TA in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I'd love to be able to re-create "natural dislikes" between factions...Gaians/Morgans...University/Believers...Spartans/Peacekeepers...if that's even possible.[/quote] Too bad we can't ajust the agressiveness slider individually between races. It seems as though that would be doable.

Reply to Ship Maintence on ships with no weapons in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Definitely needs some tweeking. It is managable but it requires too much game tweeking to maximize income. It is difficult to play around with abilities, politics and some of the races because of income concerns. Economy is obviously less a problem for the Terrans in the early game when it is easy to get in deep financial do-do Ships like freighters and constructors should not have maintenance because they are probably privately owned. Colonizers would also conceivably be private enterp

Reply to Does the current TA beta still have economic problems? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Difficult at times but managable at my difficulty level. The ship maintenance has been the hardest thing to get used to, but with some planning it becomes easier.

Reply to Ship Design - Doe you bother? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

let the system place compontents?? Life without symmetry is hollow. I could never allow the system to place a component and it be placed in a way that no sentient species would choose. :) I also stay in strategic mode most of the time but I know how the ships look. I get a big kick out of the ship designing but it is almost like a separate thing from the game playing.

Reply to Observations on the latest Beta and a bug report in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Well, federalists doesn't give you starting cash. Yes, 0 is less than 100. On the other hand, Federalists will effect how much money you make. You make 20% more from taxes, which will matter more the higher tax rate you support.[/quote] I understand that the federalist effect will be greater later in the game but the tourism income has become serious enough to make me wonder if the federalist effect would ever catch up with the tourism generated by the pacifist effect. I

Reply to Ummm, Sure Mr. Kona! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]AIs can talk and trade WITHOUT having UT[/quote] I have wondered about that. I suppose that they can trade with you since you have the tech but perhaps not with the other races that do not. I wonder if anyone has ever tried never researching UT? Would the AI ever research it themselves and offer it to you? I have met other races that have either researched the tech or got it from someone else. Playing with tech trading turned off makes talking to the AI less im

Reply to Observations on the latest Beta and a bug report in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I picked Economics on Master and choose Federalist for my government, so I was expecting an economy to come together sooner in the game. [/quote] I have found that the federalists kill your tourism income compared to some other politics. Try pacifist, it makes a huge difference for me. The differnce in starting income is like less tha 100bc with federalists and up to 190bc with pacifists