After I have medium hulls, I upgrade my flagship to a fighting vessel. By then, it has likely picked up several levels of experience from the anomalies, and so it has extra hit points.
liveload: Stealth technology at it's best Recently I've been naming combat vessels for their primary armament, with their name being the letter of the weapon. Laser ships: PE Lucinda-401, a laser patrol escourt PF Lazerous-405, a laser patrol frigate DD Lucifer-405, a laser destroyer The numbers just let me know how fast/far they can go, so I can fleet them
Next up, shipyard clusters.
It called for the fastest colonizers in the galaxy, and then I was going to eat all their frontier worlds. But building fleets from the scattered shipyards was too slow. And assembling one fleet from such far away places took forever. "Next time," The haggard old commander slurred to the bartender, "I'm gonna have me a cluster of shipyards. They'll assemble a fleet to be reckoned wif!"
I am using a ViewSonic N3250W widescreen TV/Monitor, and GalCiv2 runs fine for me in 1360x768. Try the options->video from the main game screen.
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At some point in the game, you will have enough money. The financial struggle will be over, and you will be swimming in cash. You will be able to buy anything you want. Increasing the tax income will only make that happen sooner, reducing the value of money.
Maybe it could have a list of items on one side, and then generate a list of Key->Value boxes for the other side, based on what's in the xml file. Sorta like the Registry Editor. That way there would only be one program.
The Habitat Improvement/Terraforming techs also take a lot of time in the queue.
Yes, I have an automated way; MS Access can extract tables from xml, and then I can do a query on the tables, and convert it to html, and voila: DisplayName Size SizeMod DisplayName Size SizeMod DisplayName Size SizeMod Armor Plating 10 20 Droid Sentries 3 2 HD Spike Driver II 4 4 Titanium Armor 6 4 Droid Sentries II 4 2 HD Spike Driver III 3 4 Titanium Armor II 5 4 Dro
I used to rush-build a lab, but the last version of GC2 changed morale somewhat. In order to boost my homeworld population growth to max (100% morale), I rush-build a morale center.
Constructor's journey To the Empire's farthest base Oops no slot for you
Yeppers, them build queues are gonna take a looooong time...
Greetings from our world to yours, we come in peace. To demonstrate our good intentions, and to bring our nations together, we have brought some gifts. We will teach your people how to make better use of your land. No charge, 'cause we're friends. Of course, it may take them a while to develop that hunk of land...
A GC2 version of "Flattop"
Oh dear - just came back to this post to see my images aren't displaying - How do I post an image up? First upload the image to your image server. Whoever you get internet from will give you some space with your account. Then either use the 'Image' button at the top of the add/edit comment box (easiest), or paste the address into an image link, which
Why would I want to engage multiple vessels at once? If I concentrate all firepower on one ship, I will take it out sooner, reducing the enemy's firepower. If I split my shots between several targets, it will take longer, and they will do more damage to me.
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How much did you pay to make an alliance? To win them, I paid all my best techs, except for soldiering techs and cultural encroachement techs. Because those two techs are my most devestating weapons, and therefore the ones I fear most.
Is it on purpose, or just a ghost in the machine?
As soon as I finished researching Stock Exchange, the Drengin ambassador comes to me with an offer. "We are not proud to admit it, but our scientists have yet to make a breakthrough in that dept." He offers me Advanced Trade in exchange for Stock Exchange, and I accept. But Advanced Trade pops right back up into his list of things he can sell me, even though Stock Exchange disappeared from mine. Perhaps his courier went "missing"? It's an interesting politic
Ummm... your size mods are off somewhat... at least last time I checked, which is literally 20 seconds ago... For example, the size/sizemod of Titanium Armor is size 6/ size mod 4, not size mod 10 Maybe we have different versions of GC2Types.xml? Here is a cut and paste from my "...\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Data" folder (brackets edited):<p
Yep, I got that lesson about number of ships also. I had a fleet with Missile-20, they had Missile-16, and we were under my military starbase's attack and defense bonuses. So I engaged without further thought, and watched them murder my two new frigates. What I hadn't noticed until combat was they had four small hulls vs my two medium hulls. The list in the middle of the battle window was dominated by enemy fire. I felt like I wasn't getting a word in edgewise!
Ok, after going back and starting a new game, and looking closer at the two screens... In the above screen, the selected ship's parenthetical notation exactly matches the weeks remaining. I went through the list, and they all matched. In the shipyard, the notation matches the number of ships in each class. Had me all <img src="http://images.stardock.co
That screen indicates how long (in weeks) it would take to build any of those particular ships on that world with the current production level. This screen, reached by clicking on the shipyards button, displays a count of the vessels currently in my fleet. If I choose "Obs
At that point in the game, my fleet consisted of only a flagship, and about four fighters.