TheQuack

TheQuack

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Reply to The Sentinels of Skowbo in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

BRAAAAAAAAK! Oh, wait, I'm a duck, not a chicken. 'Ere, now, matey, don't hog the mike! Give it here for a sec, let's see how this sounds. ##################################################################################### WE ARE THE SENTINELS OF SKOWBO. FOR MILLENIA, WE HAVE STUDIED PURITY IN ALL ITS FORMS. PURITY OF FORM. PURITY OF FUNCTION. PURITY OF THOUGHT. PURITY OF ACTION. OUR WORK IS NOW COMPLETE. WE HAVE ACHIEVED PURITY. WE ARE TH

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Reply to The Sentinels of Skowbo in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ahh, what a lovely walk through the world-wide web... la, di da, di da... ooh, what's this place? ZZZZZZZZZZZZAP (initiate forced flashback reprogramming sequence) SENTINELS! SKOWBO! SWAMP! TEMPLE! PURPLE DUCK! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! (cough) G'day, Roy, wot's doin? Where do the special people hang out nowadays?

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Reply to Cheat vs Cheese in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]After the moose heads stopped working I had to think of something else.[/quote] Oh my God! He's using a Drengin skin to eat people under false pretences! (takes a deep breath) CHEEEEEESE! :SURPRISED:

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Reply to Cheat vs Cheese in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've done several of the things mentioned here (such as ctrl-N). One other thing I'd do on tiny maps is save/load when colonizing planets to get a good/evil event. Not to get a specific event (e.g. a PQ one), just to get any one so I could define my morality. I thought of it as turning up the frequency of random events, so that if I wanted to play ultra-good or evil, I could actually get there. So I didn't really consider it cheese. Of course, others might disagree. :) [Message Ed

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I still wanted to think about the empire-wide funding split, since I'm assuming the AI chooses its percentages based on the empire-wide situation. Hell, the percentages now don't reflect the actual spending. If the AI requests an empire-wide spending allocation of, say, 40/40/20, and actually gets what it wants, it could play even better than now. One other thing about waste - I've heard the argument that "you're paying those people's wages - if they're just sitting around, you sti

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was playing with an idea like that a while ago - (sales pitch on) http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=66132#68130 (mainly posts number 9 and 12 there, not the first one) (sales pitch off) Have a look at the maths there - is that the sort of thing you're thinking about?

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Reply to New poll in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Star Control 2 is one of my favourite games EVER - definitely the most memorable! (One word - FRUNGY! ;p ) If you're thinking of making a pure strategy game, or just doing a graphical update of an old game, my vote could go either way. But, since you said you're talking about a full-blown sequel... go StarCon2!!! (We are talking about 2, right? Not SC1 or 3?) Btw, for the folks out there who haven't played it, there's a fan-made port that works on modern computers at:

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]the separate governer sliders would make the game more efficinet as you have pointed out, but could you image a whole planet packed with people only building ships and having no other industry and doing no research? Maybe in a imperial government, but not in a deomcracy where people have free choice.[/quote] Well, the way I figure it, there's always other invisible jobs on every planet (farms, schools, etc), emperors just don't have to worry about them. The only jobs we have to a

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]That's what you think![/quote] Hmm... an economic simulator would be nice for testing potential gov't treasurers and finance ministers... but I'd rather take a game home, thank you very much. LOL Btw, I just thought of another thing for the list: 5 - AI implications. The AI must be able to use the same system as the player (or, perhaps, a slightly different one for efficiency's sake). It shouldn't have any advantage or disadvantage over human players

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]1 - Get an overview of all three current spending levels (BC funding set by the empire sliders, BCs requested by planets, and BCs spent at the end of the day) at a single glance. Programming issue - When you move ANY slider, the totals should change to reflect the action.[/quote] Agreed, but I was also referring to values that are set indirectly on other screens - right now, some other financial values are also shown on the screen with the sliders (e.g. maint). Both of o

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, all the maths does go on behind the scenes, but users should be able to have an idea of what's going on at least - e.g. they should be able to figure out "to get planet X spending more on ships, I need to increase my military funding, OR tell planet Y to stop building ships". The computer should work out all the numbers they need to know. IMHO, in any good system for spending, users should be able to: 1 - Get an overview of all three current spending levels (BC funding se

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I like the ideas of putting wasted spending into research, or "investing", but I think that's only half the problem. If you want to put a few shipyard planets at 100% military spending and the rest at 0, the only way to do this would be to set the sliders to 100% military. However, with this approach, it's hard to see what the real spending levels are across the empire. The empire-wide sliders should let you set spending levels across the empire AS A WHOLE, and reset those spending

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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

(What? We're still waiting on MM? Where is that numpty? We're on in a few secs, what are we supposed to do?) (cough) HI! MM77 Here, this place is KICKING ON!!! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: Join US in DIVIEN WORSHIP! NOW!!! OR ELSE!!! >:( >:( >:( :D LOL Now, we'll RELAX and here some of this station's GREATEST HITS!!! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: (click) (And we're off, phew... do you think the mugs bought

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Reply to G.R.O.S.S. communication thread. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Who the heck is this guy? Spymaster, huh? Sounds familiar... (whispers) What? He's that sneaky little paparazzo who took those photos of me when I was - I'LL KILL HIM! >:( Seriously - um, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, and definitely glad things have improved enough for you to pop in. I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I wish you all the best. Take care, matey.

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Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This was a pet peeve of mine a while ago - I tossed around a few ideas to make it better (without putting sliders on every planet, that is), but I haven't thought about it for ages - I might have another look. [quote]I always build constructors when I'm not building anything else. Even with logistics, this is still a good strategy because the modules don't cost extra (except for the terror star, as always). So you grab the nearest resources, beef up their defenses, load as many mining m

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