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Reply to Zero Score - Now What? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Why can't they fix the AI instead of flicking the on/off switch?[/quote] Because it takes more work, and they have limited resources. A small request is much more likely to be listened to than a general request to "fix AI diplomacy." I did a couple tests today. You can definitely use influence to top off a deal. However, the value of the influence seems to be not proportional to the amount--it's a step function as far as I can tell. In one sample deal, 1000 IP w

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Reply to Zero Score - Now What? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The AI also does not value them when I need them the most, trying to supplement a weak tech to buy a stronger one. No amount seems to matter.[/quote] Really? An undocumented change in 1.12 I guess. Certainly in 1.11 I used them this way all the time.

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Reply to Combat Simulator in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's this: Round 1: Attacker picks a random number between zero and its attack score. Defender picks a random number between zero and its defense score. damage to defender = attacker random number minus defender random number Round 2: the defender and attacker switch roles and it plays out just like round 1. Iterate until one ship hits zero HP. If a ships defense is greater than its attack, then half its defense value is added to its atta

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Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A quick addendum to Theoden's excellent advice: when dealing with starbases (and almost everything in this game) the actual distance doesn't matter, just the separation in sectors. So you get the same effect from your starbase right on the border as you would have gotten if you'd placed it in the middle of the sector. In general, the effect of culture starbases is strong enough that it can be worthwhile to put the starbase in a sector adjacent to that of the planet you want to flip. Put

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Reply to Zero Score - Now What? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've triggered it on large maso maps. While we have Stardock's attention, I'd like to say that I'd really like them to reconsider their policy of having the minors give cash in maso. With minors giving cash, the early game becomes a game of "find the Alexians." With the fast tech pace of maso, the minors are extremely bankruptable, sometimes on the first trade you have after encountering them. [quote]Now how is a bargain hunter like me supposed to pass that up[/quote]

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Reply to Research anomolies... in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote] and fewer the AI's grab because they never, ever, ever build additional surveyors[/quote] Also, in many cases, they let the survey ships get blown up in wars, and they never replace them. [quote]I had one ubertech game...[/quote] I've never seen anyone, ever, defend Stardock on this.

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Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Welcome to the Fellowship! Theoden, I haven't played enough 1.12 to really have an opinion. The UP thing is annoying though. I'm halfway through my second game on 1.12. The research pick is really working nicely! Almost all of it is free production--I wasn't in the mood to test rigorously but it's at least 2/3. But it requires more slider micromanagement early on for me--I'd memorized the costs of all the early game techs, and now those costs don't apply anymore. [Mes

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Reply to Bug Report for v1.12.079 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

When you right click on multiple ships in the diplomacy screen to see where they are, then left click on one of them to trade it, it often selects a bunch of ships you don't want as well. It's minor but rather annoying. It's been this way since 1.10 but it never annoyed me enough to actually report it until now. [Message Edited]

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Reply to Bug Report for v1.12.079 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've noticed that this is erratic as well, but I've never tested it in a systematic way. Morale bonuses are kind of complicated. For example, you need to have social improvements in morale for the bonus to actually do anything. But exactly what the relationship is between the two has never been fully explained, and probably changes from patch to patch. So I'd be hesitant to say that "it's not working." I've definitely had situations where I built a morale trade good and it improved my m

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Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Tonight, I'm going to try a game with points mainly in research, since throughout the game, I typically spend far more money on research than on anything else. Someone posted a while ago saying that they did a test which indicated that your starting research bonus is free production--if that's true, I think a research/diplo combination will be quite strong!

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Reply to SOS!!! SOS!!! URGENT CALL TO ALL UNAFFILIATED PLAYERS!!! SOS!!!! SOS!!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Something to keep in mind when choosing an empire is that in addition to the overall "theme" of the empire, each empire seems to differ in the attitude of its members toward the game, and the types of topics discussed. The Fellowship, for example, has much more strategy and gameplay discussion than most other empires. Special Forces has much more story-writing. And so on. Check out the empire threads before making a decision--though of course you shouldn't feel that once you've joined a

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Reply to V1.12 Starbase issue in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There's no way to turn it off. Are you sure you're actually getting any benefit from all those extra starbases? Production on a planet is heavily penalized when it exceeds 10xPQ. I would think you would run into that cap well before you reach ten starbases, let alone twenty.

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Reply to Maso strategy with no military. in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]I have a variety of saved positions from my fiasco.[/quote] I'm game. Here's my email. [email protected] I'd say that following a rigid plan probably dooms you in some situations where the map just doesn't favor you. The best plan can only give you a good chance of winning on most maps--sometimes the positions will be such that a completely different strategy is better. And with some start positions you're just doomed from the start.

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Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In our galaxy, at least, most stars are in a plane. It's a "thick" plane, though, so we do see stars in every direction--but there are far more stars in the plane than than any other direction. (The "milky way" in the sky is that plane, and consists of zillions of stars, so far away that you can't see them all properly.) However, there are LOTS of galaxies for which this rule doesn't hold. The way I've always envisioned things in Galciv is that the map doesn't show every star. It only s

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Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Someone posted something a long while back about how the photon mines mod improved the AI's performance by making it defend its planets properly. Have any of you tried this? This got me thinking about whether it would be possible to cover up other deficiencies in AI performance through mods. Unfortunately we're pretty limited in what we can do with those mods so I didn't have many bright ideas, but I was wondering if anyone else might be more clever than I was. One idea (not or

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