marketanalyst: Can i send you the .doc file to convert to pdf? I already added some stuff (including the page numbers of course!) Robert: THanks for the analysis. You are quite right, I forgot about the grid thing. The actual distance in a diagonal is longer (why do you think monitors are measured on the diagonal?) but grid-wise it's the same. Anyway more comments anyone?
Please. The completely revamped scoring mech has nothing to do with this? I suspect the empires will have to reshuffle. Sadly I don't see GROSS as #1 without Staffa. Pontius our hero is keeping us alive however.
If the race is close (not friendly) you should get the alliance option. Also I have successfully allied with the TOrians while being pure evil, even when they didn't have the alliance tech. I think there are alot of myths behind alliances (not like i have all the answers either!) Maybe it depends on the version?
The web site is supposed to be www.donotcall.gov. I can't even get on it. Oh, my two biggest callers: SBC (phone people) and the symphony. They are also exempt of course (since I am already a customer...) Sigh. Hate telemarketers. they call every day at 10am. *every* day.
Another question: RayChua mentioned that the AI will demand culture SBs in their sector. If they no longer have the most cultural influence in that sector, can they still demand your SB? Reverant Leader: Actually when you think about it, the way to get the most trade money out of a sector is to have the route diagonal from one corner of the sector to the far-opposite corner. That said, it's mostly impossible to do. You are better off looking for really good planets to trade
Thanks for all the tips guys, keep them coming! I wish there were more 'ground-breaking' things in there, but i feel most things have been talked to death already. Speaking of the guide, when I say 'rare planets', anyone know a rough average ratio of good planets : total planets? Ie Rare: 10% Common: 50% Abundant: 70% And what about different strategies? I just put the obvious (next paragraph). I've never really played around with this option, i
Is it just me or is 13000 for a 'simple/gigantic' level game nuts? Used to be worth, what, 500 or 1000? Whatever. Go for it, Black Smoke!
Hey all. Rob Dejournett here. Thanks to Ray Chua's tip I changed my nick. Cool :) Go Threadzilla go! In other news, ralegh and I finished version 1.0 of the strategy guide. Contains a few viruses to make players generally more evil and GROSS like (just kidding). This was a lot of work so hopefully people will like it. We submitted it to the Orion sector, it should get posted within a day or so. I'll let you all know the URL. [Message Edited]
Try giving them a tech a turn for a while. I've been able to ally with Torians with me as pure evil. Alterians are more difficult in this position. Steady amounts of bribes seems to help.
Thanks, will try this next game. The guide is out, hurrah hurrah.
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Update. We're done with version 1.0. Ralegh and I have done alot of work on this, it's now 37 pages and includes lots of tech trees and charts/pictures. I'm pretty happy with the effort so far. I am trying to pursuade Robert Huntington (Orion Sector guy) to make an HTML version. Anyway he will post it there and send me/us the link. Whew (off to drink a beer...)
Staffa and you maso people, a question. What is your typical planet build queue? It seems that in Staffa's games his economy really had a positive cash flow. I usually build the bare minimum but only get half of my required cash from taxation, the rest from trade and tech deals. I am considering the idea of removing all planet +production buildings to see if that would help generate more cash (since %67 of the production bonus counts as revenue). Comments? Oh PS Staffa I ad
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Update. Ralegh has done alot of work adding content to the strategy guide. I've been mostly formatting. Anyway we are about at the point where I/we can't think of anything else to put in it. So bottom line expect a downloadable version sometime this week. Rob
Uhmm Seph email me [email protected] and i'll send you the latest version of the strategy guide. It's not complete yet but almost. It has alot of stuff that should help. Also read the updated manual (look at the main galciv web page) there are lots of tips in there.
Hi all, guess i stepped into some sheep manure looking at all the baah posts :) Got two games submitted (finally)this weekend, totally drawfing my old score. Lost two more games due to a reinstall. I'm not crying over it though :) Strategy guide is still coming, we should be ready for 1.0 by the end of the week. Anyway live long and prosper GROSSers.
Maybe you have too many people, and morale sank. You could produce more morale structures. If you want, send the game to me, i love a challenge :) [email protected]
Thanks T-man, didn't realize Strategy First was the official support here. I'll maintain that the Metaverse the #1 player problem that people have...it's just too complicated, IMO. Anyway that won't change so no crying over spilled milk.
Well I *finally* got my submissions to go through. Here's what I went through. I reinstalled norton internet security, it was acting loopy and i thought it might be the culprit. I then uninstalled and reinstalled GalCiv. Guess what, none of my save games would load, despite it being identical versions (AFAIK). I finally played a new game and just finished and submitted it. I suggest everyone who is having problems to delete galciv and reinstall. Grumble, still not happy at the total lack o
I was drinking some Canadian brew with a picture of a duck on the back. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyway party tonight, I'll bring MGD or Fat Tire or Shiner Bock. Even though i hate on principle megabrews MGD ain't that bad. Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me...
Sigh. Same old ANZAC tactics. Failed tactics from a falling empire. Lame lame lame :) But I do love the picture of GROSS et al. Too bad we can't post that somewhere.
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I think the AI routine for each race is hand coded, so no I don't think this is a trivial request. If they could just add *one* race that would be cool. I think 5 is a nice balanace. Maybe they can use the same AI routines but different faces for 2 races, thus expanding to ten in total. Probably not what frogboy and co want though.
That's exactly what I would say. :) Played another game with +2 speed; this is just so unbalancing, I've got some 9 planets to everyone else's 3. Looks like I will dominate again without firing a shot. I may drop to +1 speed since this is too easy (and boring). Unfortunately since 1.05 i can no long submit games, i dunno why. I have a 8500 point bomb ready to submit, too. Oh well. In other news the Strategy Guide goes well. We may incorporate it into the regular GalCiv manual. <
Tried again last night, still couldn't do it. Still got the 'comfirmation' dialog. Why would it give the dialog but not post the score? Help anyone? This really sucks.
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Kudus to Robert! New version coming soon. We also need someone to make a HTML version from the Word version. Any takers?? Rob
Yeah I have no firewall that i know of. My personal firewall is disabled. It worked before 1.05. Ideas?