Keith LaMothe

Reply to Population Troubles in Strategies Stardock Forums

The 30% spending means you're using 30% of your production capacity (not spending 30% of your income). Research and production bonuses are somewhat complicated. My understanding is this: If it's a research bonus from a starbase on a research resource: 2/3rds of the bonus is given to you as "free" production (you don't have to pay for it as normal), you have to pay for the other 1/3rd. If it's a starbase production bonus or a production/research bonus from a planetary improvemen

Reply to Hello in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm, a penguin... I don't know whether to suggest hiding the beer, or to make Linux jokes ;) Either way, welcome :)

Reply to Galactic Appeal on Community Projects to all Galcivers in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'll help with any actual web pages you need put together, though I have considerably more confidence in my ability to put together a page that works than a page that looks good ;) I've also picked up a good bit of "strategy" while playing the game, but that's mostly listening to other people's strategies and hacking them into my playing style. Either way I'll help with #3 to the extent that I can.

Reply to Moo3''''''''''''''''s v Galciv Price comparison in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Of course, that is a good point: if you get MoO3 from Amazon you can get a rebate for slightly more than the price of the game. You can get free shipping too if you buy 5-6 more dollars worth of stuff (get a book, reading's good for you ;) ). MoO3 ain't perfect by a long shot, but it's a very impressive game and if you're at all interested in 4X's (likely if you're on GalCiv's forum) the game is *certainly* worth the low, low price of free. Whether it's worth the time to p

Reply to NO RESOURCES - Help in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I tend not to lease at all. I win the colony ship race by picking +2 speed ;)

Reply to Yor Humilated in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've played about 5-6 games, the Yor are always a minor power (sometimes even eliminated before I can get in contact with them). Maybe some computers just don't like the Yor, right Christopher? :)

Reply to Torian Brick Wall...what would you do? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Tech victory: a viable option even if they're ahead, as the computer can't win by tech (at least until the expansion pack). In previous versions you could even wait until an AI got Final Frontier and then simply acquire it from them (possibly by taking a few planets) and win. As it is you can still get Beyond Human from them, most likely... but Tech Victory is usually as easy as securing your position and hitting turn a lot. Cultural victory: very easy if you know the location of al

Reply to In the game, can you create wormholes/suns like the tech advances say? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The artificial sattelite, planet, star, galaxy and wormhole techs are essentially just to make tech victory take longer and to mock the player who wants to make those things ;) If you want something approximating artificial wormholes, just build a ton of speed-enhancing star bases in one sector (preferably the one with your main trade route planet) and use it as a catapult.

Reply to Moo3''''''''''''''''s v Galciv Price comparison in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The data patch and the code patch have no compatibility problems regardless of whatever the disclaimer said. I installed the game, installed the data patch, then installed the code patch (a few hours later after it was released), and played... no problems (the game didn't crash even with 3 solid days of play on a really old machine, that's even more stable than GalCiv for me, and rather impressive for something written in C++). GalCiv is a nice 4x space strategy game (reminiscent of a

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Bobo is more wise and humble than most non-apes. You're welcome in the White Council, we would benefit from that... me think Saruman maybe not mess up so bad if Bobo give him advice ;)

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'd say the Ogre would be worse, as this thread at least has some good purpose... the Ogre would probably just get a number of arrows in it.

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Bobo, as usual, speak wisdom. Me only here to let CariElf know she's appreciated, not to do silly thing like seek affection or fight over her. So, once again: Thank you for everything, Cari (and Brad and the rest of the team). Galciv is a great game and I'm thoroughly impressed with your efforts to make it even better, and you're the best tech support I've ever known :) (btw, Me think help text would help more if Bobo wrote it, but maybe Bobo too busy. No bad, help text good

Reply to Moo3''''''''''''''''s v Galciv Price comparison in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I got MOO3 from Amazon with the intention of sending in the rebate, but there wasn't anything in the package to mail in for the rebate, perhaps I misunderstood (I'll look into it) ... in any case I've only played it after the code patch and I find it an extremely interesting game, and I applaud that it runs rather well on the 266 MHz machine I have here at home (my "real" computer is at the dorm). Organizing task forces and fighting with them is great fun. I still remember my sense of

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you need web-work done I have some small skill in the art of web programming (HTML/CSS, javascript, servlets/JSPs, and PHPs mostly) ... I'm probably going to be fairly busy most of the summer, though. Sorry I haven't been around more, I'm just trying to finish a game of MOO3 (with code patch) ... it's fairly fun, even my first time playing, but it takes so long to play on the really slow computer I'm on right now.

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

*enthusiastic applause* Wonderful, Christopher, wonderful :) It gives me a hankering to go read the book again... As for further answers, well... ask the Elves! ... hmm, but there's only one around that I've seen...

Reply to A new way to manage empire spending sliders in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sounds cool to me... the "nothing" = "spend all the cash with no return" is probably the most annoying thing in Galciv right now (the game still rocks, but this "feature" makes me go grrr...) I would adore the ability to have it so that any planets that still have things in their governor build queue would do x% social spending and the other planets would use that x% elsewhere.

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

"white", I believe.

Reply to Had someone income from trade more than 80.000/turn? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think by "catapult" he means a sector stuffed with starbases with the speed enhancers (stellar wake, inverse tractor beam, etc).

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

But what self-respecting G.R.O.S.S member would conceal his/her evilness? ;)

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh sheesh, post a poem, get booted upstairs to VP. And I was just trying to be nice ;)

Reply to The White Council Invitation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I see we have our new icon *thumbs up* :)

Reply to Surrender issues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

They surrender to each other to make a final stab at the true enemy, The One On The Other Side Of The Screen ;) All the surrenders I've seen have been to other AIs, but that's probably at least partly due to my not trying very hard to make friends with them.

Reply to Tired the AI is cheating threads in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There's a regrettable amount of drama going on about this, but I think most of us understand the real point: People have seen the AI do things that would not be possible for the player (ie get Space Militarization before anyone had Battle Armor), and they would like the matter investigated. If it's a bug they would like it fixed. If not, they would like to understand why the AI is behaving in such a manner (even if it's just something perfectly normal that they didn't notice at first). No nee

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Oh, and by the way, I love the poems and stuff. They're very clever.[/quote] I don't usually go for rhyme, so that one took me a while... I'm glad you enjoyed it though, and that we can brighten your day :)

Reply to T h e - C a r i E l f - f a n c l u b in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

*lol* shockwaves go through the thread... Well, since the others are waxing poetic... (note: I'm quite tired, so this may be even more silly than usual) At the menu main thou machine is froze, Rather captivated by a nasty bug, Remaining in a permanent doze, Till thou at last pulls the plug. Thou computer on yonder turn doth crash, Within thou head is a thudding dull, And into the keyboard thou fists do bash, For the problem seems so intractable.