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How do you create a new political party? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I know someone posted the directions before. How do you do it?

Reply to Excess Colony Ships - What to do? in Strategies Stardock Forums

sell the ship (colonists and all) to another civ as slaves.

Reply to WAR! huh, yeah, what's it good for? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I was on Challenging and made sure to forklift upgrade my military whenever significant advances in military technology became available. Another thing that helped was selling my obsolete spacecraft to particularly aggressive minors in unreachable areas. It's amazing how destabilizing 40 battleaxes can be when they suddenly appear in the Drengin backyard.

Reply to The Perfect RTS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I'd have to say that the best RTS ever made is still Total Annihilation. Too bad about Cavedog though.

Reply to You want cheese? ill give you cheese... in Strategies Stardock Forums

well, if the ai ever decides to do the same to you, you can just leave the UP and blow the living bejesus out of them, right?

Reply to Military Power = Sum of Attack Points (Defense is Irrelevant, Cheese For Everyone) in Strategies Stardock Forums

I hardly see how this is unrealistic. Stockpiles of offensive weapons make for very powerful deterrants to war.

WAR! huh, yeah, what's it good for? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Apologies to the late Edwin Starr. Anyone win without ever firing a shot? I just did on a medium map with the Pacifists and a cultural victory.

Reply to What does Good Pay? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I just finished a game where I had all the civs set to Pure Good while I was consistantly taking the evil option regardless of the cost/benefit (some of them really don't buy you much for taking the evil path). What I found is that the "pure good" drengins are still warlike as hell. They're just a lot more self-righteous about it and tend to drag the rest of the universe into war against you with them.

Reply to What does Good Pay? in Strategies Stardock Forums

yup. I've noticed that my influence goes down pretty remarkably when I go the evil path. Also, not getting hyperwarp on a gigantic map is a pisser.

Reply to Scouts - A new level of cheese in Strategies Stardock Forums

I understand that this is a bug, but a partial justification for this is that vehicles are particularly vulnerable during their launch phase from orbit.

Reply to Sharky's Day - Make Money Fast (spoiler) in Strategies Stardock Forums

I don't see this as particularly abusive in an unrealistic sense. We do this kind of crap all the time as a nation. We practically strongarmed the Japanese into buying up the bad loans we gave folks like Citibank and Goldman Sachs during the "Mexican Loan Bailout". I hardly see how this is much different.

Reply to Interesting Late Game Tactic - Ship Catapults in Strategies Stardock Forums

I think they did nerf this in the latest patch. I can't get my constructors to get the movement bonus either. I suppose that was to prevent folks from "teleporting" Terror Stars into the heart of enemy territory by bringing them in in pieces.

Reply to I just traded for Frictionless Clothing but it doesn't show up! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

that would suck. The Scottlingas have Diplomatic Translators and aren't willing to trade for anything less than my left testical.

Reply to Defensive Ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That BHammer is useful for far longer than any other ship in the game. Even well after Battleships have been obsoletized by Overlords and such, the Bhammer makes a perfect garrison ship. In the midgame when mobility is a concern, a LOT can be bought by just using starbase catapults. You can add a HUGE amount of MP's with Stellar Wake and Inverse Tractor beams if you stack the starbases in a sector. The incremental difference in MP's between the Bhammer and the Bship then is statistic

Reply to I just traded for Frictionless Clothing but it doesn't show up! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Can you attain trade goods by conquering the owner civilization?

Reply to "recession" ruined my game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Does anyone know if sabotage can induce a recession? This might partially explain why folks are dealing with prolonged ones.

Reply to Minimal Defense in Strategies Stardock Forums

combine this with the "starbase catapult" and you don't need a huge force.

Reply to Conquering occupied planets? in Strategies Stardock Forums

transports

Reply to Poor starting positions in Strategies Stardock Forums

JD, Use the starbase "catapult" technique and you won't really need the added movement points in the frigates. I've played games with my Battlehammers arriving in hostile sectors with 12 movement points left over.

Reply to Morales and Taxes in Strategies Stardock Forums

Who is the Morales guy? Sounds like a second baseman from Texas.

Reply to GalCiv: Bug: "You are falling behind technologically" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ron, You are Human. You're supposed to be more clever than birdbrains, space apes, washing machines, and antisocial bikers with facial tattoos. LOL

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

is that what happened to the Industrialists too?

Reply to "recession" ruined my game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Now you know how the Japanese feel. ;p

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1) Eliminate stuff from the build queue you can't build. If you've built Frictionless Clothing at one system, why does it appear as possible in another? 2) Show Trade Routes on the main map. This makes planning where to put starbase improvements on Gigantic Maps easier to place. 3) Online Tech Tree. It should shade in the ones you have already completed. As it is, it's pretty darned confusing. 4) Scrollable archive of messages. As it is, I'm sitting at my console

Reply to "recession" ruined my game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Follow the Bush Doctrine. I've used it in a number of games and it works like a champ. Be in a constant state of war and extort the AI players for money to "end the senseless violence". This is worth at least a couple thousand bc every couple turns. ;)