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Reply to NEW (UNOFFICIAL) Strategy Guide Posted in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You should add something about speed modifying starbases and their role in trade enhancement: Keep them between wealthy planets but in the same vertical or horizontal row of sectors. Builds trade centers when you have a large military spending capacity. More Advanced Trade Optimization: (For trade routes spanning multiple sectors only) You might notice that starbases with speed bonuses do apply to mini-freighters. To get the most out of your trade, yo

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

Maybe you should talk to your Canadian counsins as well. They are sneaky bastards and you just might find yourself in 4th.

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

He. I had that colony, too. Unlike Gandalf which was alway productive PQ 24 to start! Ended up 35 with all PQ improvements and The Terraformer. Bellatrix was shitty ass planet that was 14 before I built the Terraformer. I'm sure that had something to do with it. I think the real answer is that I was going to join anyways. We're not doing so bad sitting at 2nd with only 20 members. A bit more recruiting and we'll take 1st easy . And yes tech victories give poor score

Reply to Corvette technology: more useless than the 'leave U.P.' button? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

when used skillfully, corvettes are excellent weapons they have decent attack power which allows them to take out most starbases, attack trade routes, take out colony ships, chase down constructors and freighters, etc. and since they are so cheap to make and maintain, it doesn't hurt to have a lot of them. If I have the tech, I never really stop making them. If I am frigate rushing an AI and I have the corvette technology, I'll have corvettes near to destroy the colony ships pa

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

damn scoring has no rhyme or reason probably some reasoning behind it, but it beats the hell out of me anyways joining the council now, this past game, Gandalf and Sauron star systems were right next to each other. I guess it's just luck.

Reply to Is this a typical thing to happen in a game? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Funny, I always get it. And they are always battlecruisers, so relatively simple.

Reply to Why is it so good to be bad and so bad to be good? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Certainly pick your allies well. Don't pick the Yors.

Reply to Things I Think GC Could Improve Upon in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Beginning Stuff 1. Tutorial are necessary but look around the forum for a helpful fellow player. 2. Nice concise organization, I like it. The "good" interface looks really nice. Graphics I just have to say that the current demand for better graphics, better visuals is plain stupidity. If any one remembers all the old games, old classics. They are still good, not because of graphics or visuals, but rather the concept and their originality. You can take the sa

Reply to Mass purchasing of shipyard-type buildings vs "Shipyard worlds" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Maybe that's because I play on higher difficulties and with my style where it's necessary to be an excellent war machine, I usually dominate in military power. If you are playing a peaceful style then build one colony per fifteen colonies where you crank out the units, save your construction cost for something else more productive in the other fourteen.

Reply to Mass purchasing of shipyard-type buildings vs "Shipyard worlds" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I always set aside a few, a very small number of colonies dedicated to simple transports, constructors, scouts, sensors, etc. The vast majority I build shipyards etc. because when you do go to war, you really need to turn on the ship production. and the ships that pop out are high quality, so yeah for me the I follow rule #1 with a few systems as exceptions, (the ones in the corner of the map on large or larger. Oh, yeah and my style doesn't really allow me to build ma

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

The best way to go is to own half the galaxy until you reach really high tech + population levels, slowly culturally assimulate everyone and win then a military victory in the end yeah, I played that maso pretty skillfully, but there was no way I would have scored a high score, I owned about 1/2 the star-systems but still wasn't producing nearly enough to keep up with the other civs and I forgot about that feeling of repeated redundancy.

Reply to Can Fast Wins get a High Metaverse Score? in Strategies Stardock Forums

Unfortuantely not. No your score never drops. So score wise, it always pays to hit turn.

Reply to Some major empire alignments revealed! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wait! Aren't the White Council suppose to be pure good! .. oh yeah there was that Saruman bit... never mind!

Reply to King of the Losers in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Good way to start. Population growth by the way is from having high moral >54% Keep moral at 100% until you have the map colonized. Also don't colonize planets with PQ (planet quality) less than 15 and always colonized the planets with highest PQ The Encyclopedia (button up top) has a few excellent tips. The GalCiv Guide (downloads page) has a few more. For specific help look around on this forum or on the GC strategies forum.

Reply to 1000 onth development? in Strategies Stardock Forums

are you below -500 bc in treasury?

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

ha! my maso alliance victory only scored 4500 and Brad is thinking that the longer you play the more replayability you get from a game, unfortuantely I only get that sickening feeling of tedious boredom.

Reply to Several starbases in one sector? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Anyone know the exact influence a starbase gives?? I'm trying figure out the best way to influence bomb a sector.

Reply to what happened to that Serg guy? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

KseAli now I believe, someone on the White Council confirm this, or maybe Sergey will confirm it himself

Maso Rushing Tips in Strategies Stardock Forums

Anyone have some of that!?? I think I'm screwing something up. Playing on the smaller maps - have been getting best results on tiny Government: Federalists or Populists Picks: speed+1, pop growth +30, soldiering +10 75% military 25% tech until all systems are colonized - not colonizing additional planets in system unless 18 or better then 100% tech to diplomacy after that I tech to deflectors that I can often trade can for impulse drive<b

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

Damn someone has to help me with my rushing skills. Maybe I'm screwing up my rush, but i've never gotten even close to the results from my second attempt at it. I figure as soon as I win a maso game on 1.05, I'll join some empire.

Reply to Trading for influence points? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

must have cost you an arm and a leg they rarely trade those to you

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

Anyone can join!??? Is that right?

Reply to My ideal scoring system! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh wow. 15-20 trillion??? I haven't even reached 7 trillion and I thought I was being cheap. The 1 trillion number was from an old game that I did not submit. In a military conquest attempt on gigantic ver. 1.03, on painful, I've finished with under 1 trillion in pop, with about 200 billion still in transports - no teching up the entire tree - just as fast as I could, like most of the games I play The game turned out to be a cultural victory because my war ma

Reply to Unused money to garbage: why? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yep, you should find yourself destroying a whole bunch of social projects when taking over some AI planets. Lots of research buildings, moral, buildings are just junk because their upkeep costs is so high. Others you might as well keep because although they were really expensive have low enough upkeep to justify their existence. I think I find myself destroying cheaper buildings with same or higher upkeep costs when I find them. Entertainment Network when I find Harm

Reply to another company as good as this one,, or close anyway in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

actually, if they only made a second set of resources, resources necessary for only one unit. the strategic resources in Civ3 was a brilliant idea. You can't imagine how many wars have erupted over bickering over strategic resources, but yeah from the sound of the game, it isn't exactly a game with a lot of replayability. I guess I should say, someone would have to really convince me. [Message Edited]