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Reply to Bug report thread v1.11.078 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This isn't new to 1.11, but... The AI doesn't recognize it when the player takes over a ship or planet. For example, the Yor and I are both fighting the Torians. Yor has dreadnoughts en route to Torian home world. I invade and take over Torian homeworld. Three turns later when Yor dreadnoughts arrive, they go ahead and attack planet that is now mine, which starts a war between me and Yor (even though relations were "Friendly"). The same thing can happen when you buy/trade for a ship fro

Reply to WOW..... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Is it possible this guys real name is malenfrant [/quote] No it isn't, at least not according to his profile. "Reid Malenfant" is a main character in a series of books; really I'm just displaying my (presumably) shared geekish love of those books, not trying to criticize the guy. :)

Reply to WOW..... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm a big fan of the Stephen Baxter "Manifold" books too. FYI, you spelled "Malenfant" wrong ;) Welcome to GalCiv!

Reply to Planet Stripping Revisited in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I also believe it is scortched-earth. I believe the AI looks at all planets under threat of flipping and makes a determination based on planet quality. If the planet is among the lower PQ planets the AI has left, it resigns itself to the loss and eliminates all the improvements as a final snub. I have had times where a system with multiple planets flips, and the highest PQ planet still has everything, but the lower one has been stripped. Also, I've had the AI down to two systems, and almost alwa

Reply to What are the minor races....? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have no idea if these are all spelled right, but here are the ones I can name off the top of my head: Venge (terrorists, will bio-attack random planets until wiped out) Calor (also terrorists I think) Debinians Paladians Sanderians Alexians (always at start, culture flip easy) Carinoids (always at start, almost never flip) Scottilingas I-League (actualy have influence) Fundamentalists (hate evil) There are more, but most of them don't have

Reply to Maso money question. in Strategies Stardock Forums

I only tried this once so I may be misremembering, but I believe if you set the AIs to different levels so that you just barely qualify for Maso level (3 Incredible 2 Genius), then the AI routine that governs the minor races will sometimes still allow cash trades for tech. I think you can also still tech whore to the 2 Genius AIs, but they get wiped out by the Incredible AIs even faster if you do.