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Reply to Starbase nanolathing refinery bug? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Not really - Nanolating refinery doesn't seem includede in the basic package or bonus pack. Are you using one of the available mods? If so, which one?

Reply to Trade Starbases - Can get +50% Immediately, but no more later? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Perhaps its a little oversight - or perhaps it's just realism (a starbase can only have so much focus on trading... ) As trading technology advances, there are improvements to the number of trade routes or improvements to income for each traderoute per turn (+10%). The trade modules aren't exactly too powerful either - they only give a boost when the mini-freighter is within the same sector as the trading station. You're welcome to add additional modules if you want

Reply to another company as good as this one,, or close anyway in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]my link wont work sry try www.ron.heavengames.com [/quote] Another method: Right click on the link, and select "Copy Link Location" (or similar). Paste the url in the new browser window, and select ",1747,0,all" right next to the link. Append it to the url and load the page. You'll get there quite easily. Edit: Can't do a direct link either, even by using the tag. [Message Edited] [Message Edited]

Reply to Offensive colonizing, and a morale question. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]First off, i was wondering if anyone has tried the somewhat obvious, but insidious and AI exploiting strategy of colonizing PQ 1-4 planets and giving them to enemies they want to improve relations with while weakening at the same time... does this work? I've experimented a little... have yet to have an AI refuse my gift of a PQ 1 planet... if you did this consistently would it mess up their economy?[/quote] That doesn't work anymore. The AI destroys such worthless colonies.

Reply to Nice neighbours, those Drengins! :D in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]All of the AI will sometimes begin a conversation just to say hello. As you know, the AI sometimes initiates tech trades. Well, if it tries to do this, and you don't have any tech to trade, the alien in question merely says hello. [/quote] Not quite - the string in question is hard coded into the GalCiv executable file. Not only is it hard coded, but it is hard coded in a specific location next to the string "CryForHelp_%d". As a result, it is definatly a default state

Reply to Nice neighbours, those Drengins! :D in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I had the Yor say that to me. Appearently, my reply was "Your cause is doomed. "

Reply to Why is it soo long to wait for a turn later on?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Gigantic does cause some delay on the slower computers. Even if you don't encounter the delay, it's also very tedious in some cases if you have to manage a large quanitiy of ships. Perhaps you should tone down the size by at least one level... (i.e. Large or smaller) [Message Edited]

Reply to Transport question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I agree there needs to be some more element of suspense in ground battles (Me tending toward the excitement of military conquest)[/quote] The suspense seems quite good with GalCiv. You have an onimous "x vs y" thingy at the top that keeps changing until you hit the spacebar. In this, a battle can flip from being victorius or being a defeat - a perfect suspense especially when it becomes a close call down to 1 infantry. Putting in extra suspence doesn't really help -

Reply to Computer Declaring War (bug?) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've sighted this too, but actually noticed it when I attacked one of the opponent's ships. It looks like that the "at war" flag doesn't get cleared properly, and finds its way back into the actual relation.

Reply to Suggestion: seperating difficulty to three parts in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The amount of times I've seen games ruined by trying to please all customers simultaneously! Customers want different things and you can't make them all happy, you just have to do the best job you can with the resources you have and hope that enough people like the job to buy the game.[/quote] That is true, but there is a way to please all customers without disrupting quality. The trick is to divide the target audience into three groups: Impulsive buyers, regular customers, and

Reply to Inexpensive Terror Stars? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'd like to, but I can't seem to reproduce the problem anymore. Strange thing is, there's no mention of this bug being fixed in the changelog. This is especially wired, since I have sighted it recently as well. It has been previously reported here in the 1.02 era: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=41464 [Message Edited]

Reply to Problem with Terror Stars in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You can only attack enemy star systems with a Terror star. Even if you don't want to directly attack systems, there are other nasty tactics that can be performed with other add-on modules. Thus, the terror-star isn't a complete waste if you never destroy a star.

Reply to Suggestion: seperating difficulty to three parts in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Balance! It would be a nightmare to score games for the Metaverse if you added in this complexity. Paul. [/quote] Actually, there is already a balance issue which rates five AI players around Sub-Normal to Normal higher than a Single Incredable AI. In one way, this is correct - there is less worry about doing an all-against-one. In another way, it's incorrect - the AI is much more powerful than you, and can tear you to shreads. If you want a simple method to sta

Reply to Does the AI have all strategies/algorithms etc. on Intelligent? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, and that seems to be annoying a few people. It doesn't matter too much, but the economy difference between Intellegent and Genius is 5%, and between that point, the AI suddenly decides to use "Nasty" tactics. There are requests to allow division of resource bonus and AI intellegence, but so far, no progress has been reported.

Reply to Whatabout a pre-warp scenario? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I would agree, but there's a slight problem... The hyper-drive technology kind-of got leaked before you actually build your first colony ship. As you know, this spoils an attempt to make a playable pre-warp scenario for a significant amount of time.

Reply to Clarification on Speed and Range of ships? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

By default, the range is the number of sectors away from the nearest colony or starbase. There are bonuses to range available as you research technologies. The speed is the amount of additional parsecs/turn a ship can move compeared to the base amount.

Reply to You may call me mad... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How well does a Gigantic Map work? :) Seriously, the actual metric requires a Medium Map - not too small to be excessivly cramped, while not too large to bog down the computer... Also, the medium map is a good balance between tactics and expansion - meaning that it should be one of the more common map sizes.

Reply to Spying: question from a newbie in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Putting money into Espionage allows you to gain intellengence information about an enemy empire, such as the amount of funds they have, or their current racial bonuses. At the highest level, intel is maxed out but does not give information about troop positions. However, investing further gives a chance to steal technology. Putting money into Destabilization reduces the morale of the affected planets. While it might not do much damage, a little adjustment in morale can mean the loss

Reply to Where do the cost of building things show up? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's shown in the same miniwindow containing the beautiful spinning icon. Same with the military stuff. The only time you make a large lump sum is if you do a rush build from one of four manufacturers.

Reply to Expansion will fix... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]* You can already repair ships in just a few turns (put it in orbit), you misunderstand the game.[/quote] Not quite - it still seems to take a couple of turns too many. My statement includes the fact that the designated defender is always the one with the highest Att+Def, even when the ship with that highest value has only 1% hitpoint left.

Inexpensive Terror Stars? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Question: There is a bug in GalCiv where Starbases can move if an enemy starbase has in interdiction beam. Has anybody tested to see if regular starbases can blow up starsystems, or is that feature explicitly limited to terror stars? I'd be interested to see if a minor bug could boil over to a major game balance issue.

Reply to Small bug in 1.0.5.071 (and may be before) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The skull never disappears, its by design.[/quote] It is possible for a planet to culture flip twice - one in one direction, and back in the other direction when an empire responds with a few cultural palaces. As a result, most people find this to be counter-intuitive, and therefore consider it a bug. It's probably better to have a small chance (although fractional compared to the cultural damage) for that skull to disappear and have the system's culture revert to norm

Reply to Help?! -newbie; I can't keep my approval rating up or afford ships : ( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]For the first part of the game I'm able to keep approval high by keeping the taxes low enough. [/quote] Don't. Your citizens grow accustomed to the tax-free lifestyle, and become quite upset when you need to bring the taxes up in cases of emergancy. [Message Edited]

Reply to Does the pictured size of a planet have any significance? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No. It's just pretty graphics. People will find their way around the reduced amount of space on smaller planets, usually by stacking buildings one-atop-another, or by tunnelling underground.

Reply to Minor Forum bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's not exactly adding 's - its adding 's, which is invalid. Probably an attempt to block unterminated HTML tags... Such as the bold tag in the previous paragraph. Given the status of this forum, I'm considering to volunteer re-writing it from scratch. [Message Edited]