no, no, no. :-) Planetary Defenses ONLY effect ground troops, NOT ships in orbit. However, ships in orbit always get a bonus to their attack value, I think it's like a 60% bonus.
once you've seen a planet once, then you can always see what's in orbit for the rest of the game, it no longer even needs to be within sensor range. . .
What I meant was: Banking Center is normally 20% econ, so I would expect that if the empire wide bonus was 50%, and my base taxes on the planet were 100, I should only get 70% increase (50%+20%). But it looks like your results show that I would get (50% + 20%*(1+50%)) = 80% The same thing happens with planet quality, if you have a planet with base PQ of 20, then get a +20% and another +20%, you would expect it to be a straight 40% bonus, making your PQ 28 (20*(1+40%)), but ins
Ellestar: I think I read the tables right, but correct me if I'm wrong. . . did it show that that the building econ modifiers (stock market, banking center, etc) give their bonus AFTER calculating the empire wide bonus?? In other words, if you base population taxes on a planet were 100, the actual bonus to your population taxes was 50% (so now you're at 150 taxes), then building a banking center would give you 180 taxes instead of just 170? That would be awesome! That would mean that
Since the military rating is messed up, the computer thinks it has a big advantage over you and tries to bully/attack you. In order to prevent this, build up a bunch of star fighters early on and you'll see your military rating skyrocket. The AI's will usually leave you alone at that point, but don't take any chances. Bribe the two most powerful AI's into going to war with eachother by trading one of your trade goods to them in exchange for them attacking the other computer player. That will
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I think the problem is that the AI is just too one-dimensional. They play virtually the same way every time, and the way to beat the AI when it plays it's style is to do just what you described. If the AI changed it's strategy, then it would require the player to also adjust. But it doesn't and so when the player figures out the AI's strategy and what beats it, the player can do it every time and not worry about the AI changing strategy. Now, I do think that the AI in GalCiv is MUCH
For the social projects, they ONLY effect ground invasions, and don't effect ships in any way. You can only invade the entire star system, not individual planets, so the bonuses all apply to the star system defence. However, I don't know if all the bonuses add up (for example, if there are three planets in the star system, and all three have omega defence, is it a 150% increase in ground troops, or does just one of them count??)
All of these ONLY effect ground combat, and don't effect ships in any way. And yes, they all stack. However, I never build any because I think their upkeep cost is way too high to bother with.
To Z aH: In my last post, I said "good math" to Ellestar, but I was thinking about your math, sorry. The praise should have gone to you. The bonus's are definatly hard to figure out, probably because they've been tweeked so much by the dev's, that they don't even know what they do. :) But Ellestar's math is definately wrong because it is very possible to have more than the "maximum of 2 free shields for 1 bc spent." It is very clear to see that for Research, and it can also be seen
Good math Ellestar! However, it's not the same when it comes to research, or at least it doesn't show the same on the planetary summary screen. "FreeMilitaryProduction=BaseMilitaryProduction*FreeMilitaryBonus FreeMilitaryProduction=15*66,67%=10" For research, I think that it shows: FreeResearch=AmountSpentOnResearch*FreeResearchbonus FreeResearch=amountspent*.6667*totalbonus So if the amountspent equaled 15, and bonus was 600% then: FreeRe
Well. . . I decided to "test" this also. I restarted a bunch of games and tried the different starting parties and bonuses. All I checked was the starting tax incomes from the different class planets, at 33%. I didn't actually play into any of the games to see how much of a bonus shows up later on in the game. Anyways. . . No Econ bonuses: Class 16 - 8BC Class 17 - 8BC Class 18 - 10BC Class 19 - 10BC Class 20 - 12BC Federalists (+20%), no other econ bonus:
Actually, the fast access has been around for a long time - I remember seeing it in the pictures of the game even before I bought it - there's a screenshot in one of the gameplay examples from Brad in the encyclopedia. . .
Starbases also help to increase your influence in the sectors that surround them (and more so if you build culture increasing modules on them). And yes, Starbases are cumulative in their benefits, but only up to a certain point. I think that currently, with version 1.03, your total production on any planet can only go up to 3x the planets quality before any bonus's start to lose effect. So if the planet quality was 20, and you added up the military, social, and research of the planet, they
yes that problem was fixed
I think the starship bonus's on a planet only effect the attack and defense of the ships it produces, NOT the hitpoints. . . right?
It will also print out just fine with Windows Imaging
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I thought Rangers didn't have any maintainance? I need to go back and check that. . .
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Kavorkian, are you playing on tiny-medium maps? I play on mostly medium maps, and I agree fully, there is no way to skip building ships until you get to BH's, the AI will slaughter you if you do. But on larger galaxies, it's the best way to go.
Are those facilities supposed to enhance the hitpoints of the ships created there? I don't notice any difference in my game. Ships created on a planet with Advanced Quality Control and Shipyards has same HP's as ships created on another planet without those enhancements??
I finally figured out that the good/neutral/evil choices change your alignment by a different amout each time, depending on what the bonus/penalty you get for each choice. So if the penalty is only say -4% research (bonus/penalties are random), your alignment won't change by very much. Some events are more drastic than others, and some events always only give +1 alignment for the good choice no matter what (usually the ones that don't have a penalty for good). So sometimes if I know the good
I have the same problem as vynd (# 272 and #286). Everytime I exit the game, my system locks up. Also happens if I try to alt-tab. Only started with the 1.03 versions. Athlon 1800, GeForce 4 video, 128MB RAM