And, when appropriate, sell your techs to the AIs for large amounts of money. ~SDC~
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If they're literally getting zero in battle and killing no-one, that's a bug. Basic attack score is 1. ~SDC~
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[quote]Someone thought that chaotic was better than pure [/quote] An old Dungeons & Dragons player, perhaps? In D&D, chaotic evil was always presented as being just slightly more evil than ordinary run-of-the-mill evil. ~SDC~
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The Next Level of Succession Gaming - Masochistic - GalCiv Standard
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Finally got round to looking at this. Quite interesting. I even learned a new exploit, ship luring. Must try that out if I'm ever in a hopeless situation. ~SDC~
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[quote]The problem is that on my side of the trade board, there was nothing [/quote] That means the AI is giving you a free gift. ~SDC~
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The logistics and the mean Alexians are in 1.19 as well, only we don't get the extra trading partners. Having tried a one-on-one game with an Incredible AI, I'm inclined to agree that the more there are, the easier it is. ~SDC~
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I was paying about 6000 per starbase by the end of my game, a culture bomb special... Fortunately, I was pretty rich. ~SDC~
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Additional information: The failure to submit wasn't itself a bug; I lacked a functioning internet connection at the time. After a few tries, I managed to get the autosaved version to work by conquering the last planet instead of destroying it. ~SDC~
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Auto-survey now stops working while there are still anomalies left. If you try to build a terror star while in debt, you get an inappropriate message about a maximum of 0 modules. When I completed the game and tried to submit, it failed and gave me no message that it had failed. I reloaded the endgamesave - it didn't work. I got a completely messed up galaxy. I loaded my last autosave, and it seemed to work, but when I terror starred the final alien planet, it crashed on 'next turn'. Do
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If you're in debt, you can no longer build any starbases. It says that it costs zero credits, and you don't have enough money. Bug or intentional? ~SDC~
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Are you sure you didn't bankrupt yourself, which would have forced you to stop spending? ~SDC~
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Do you mean one per planet, or overall? I was under the impression it was possible to buy one and build one on the same planet in the same turn. You can't buy if you would have completed the improvement in one turn anyway, so sometimes you have to set social spending temporarily to zero. ~SDC~
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According to a net search I just did, Bruce Boxleitner plays the voice of Alan Bradley in Tron 2.0. This is probably just a coincidence. ~SDC~
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[quote]is there any way to get rid of that wretched skull?[/quote] Destroying the planet with a Terror Star usually does the trick. ~SDC~
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1, if you can trade for Dreadnaught tech (tends to be outrageously expensive). AMMs tend to be a better strategy than Avatars - they're much cheaper anyway. Otherwise, 2. A bribe of some money over a hundred turns can be a good alternative to a planet. If that fails, resort to 3. I'm currently in a bit of a hopeless game myself. Medium galaxy, and I only got one star, and various powerful people are demanding my planets and have combat transports floating around the earth. It makes
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You can usually tell who's run by the war party by their higher hit points. ~SDC~
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I usually have enough time for DT at Maso - possibly depending on the map size. I tend to research Nano-Metal Composition and then switch to 100% social and build Manufacturing Capital first and DT second (without even having build soil enhancement). You may also be able to trade N-MC for some good techs. I allow myself to go a few hundred in debt while doing this. In the midgame, you can often find a fairly expensive tech that none of the AIs have, research it (100% research for a while) th
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At the moment, you build a terror star on one turn, and it's not until next turn that it can fire, so the AI has time to declare war on you and destroy the base if he wants to - it's not like I ever defend them. I interpret his failure to take action as a fatalistic acceptance of the inevitability of death. It could be fixed, but unless they also make the AI better at culture war and military strategy, it won't add much to the difficulty of the endgame - it'll just make it take longer.
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Because being rude about someone else's stories would be unforgivable, so the ratings are largely meaningless. And because hardly anyone reads those things anyway, I imagine. Even so, speaking as the person who wrote the majority of that story, your kind words are appreciated. I submitted a story to a science-fiction magazine today. If it gets published, they'll pay me three pounds. That's less than I earned for pretending to work in an office while I wrote it in the first place. It
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If your military is strong, you can go to war and then sue for peace, if you don't mind losing whatever trade you have going with the Yor. It sounds like your problem is one of ethics. I advise you to pick between the following two guiding principles: (a) Killing billions of aliens is Wrong (b) It's only a game Once you've decided which one you're going for, there will be no more ethical dilemmas, just practical ones. ~SDC~
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The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread)
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[quote]I don't know of a symbol that's more evil than a pentagram! [/quote] I heard that a pentagram is only truly evil with twin points in the ascendant. You'll never summon a demon with it that way up. Congratulations to Ginata for breaking the million point barrier! Metaverse scientists have long theorised that if a single player's score exceeded a million points, they would gain infinite mass, travel backwards in time, and collapse into a black hole. This theory has now bee
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[quote]Morale is a big factor [/quote] I don't think morale directly affects tax income, though it can affect population growth which will improve tax income in the long run. ~SDC~
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Profits will not go up 5%. What should happen is that it will go up by 5% of the base tax income (which is less than the total tax income if you have any other economic % bonuses). Then there's the capping effect, which means that beyond a certain level (related to planet quality) new people and new economic bonuses only make a very small difference. Stadiums are still worth building because of the significant morale bonus. ~SDC~
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Yeah, I took ages to work that out. Boy, did I feel stupid. As stupid as I feel every time I trade for the Diplomacy tech and then forget to upgrade my government type. ~SDC~
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The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread)
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[quote]What is this? The FotR? Or the Jedi Republic?[/quote] >:( It is an inversion of my motto, 'In winning, we lose' - the title of one of my old stories (http://fotr.galciv.org/story2.htm). Incidentally, when the Jedi reached the position of number one empire, they split up and never recovered. In winning, they lost. In losing, we won. The Fellowhip has remained at the top for so long precisely because we don't care too much about 'winning'. If we did, we'd have lost interest as
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