Rishara

Reply to Questions on trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I find on maso you can still exploit the Alexians for money, just not the Carinoids for some reason.

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I won't be able to play any more til the weekend, but I have nothing to do all weekend (err besides cleaning and grocery shopping and laundry and other horrid household chores) so I'll have plenty of time to get some good gaming in.

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Welcome Dancer. Hopy you enjoy it here and stick around for the long haul! :)

Reply to Beginner's Strategy Question: Fundamentalists rule the universe? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Andi, it sounds like your first game was rather unusual really. Like Ray said, you can use autosave and restore back to before the undesirable random events. Don't give up on the game just because of that one bad experience.

Reply to Beginner's Strategy Question: Fundamentalists rule the universe? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This reviewer sounds like he's airing his sour grapes because he didn't know how to play the game. It is absolutely possible to win by means other than war. In fact, if I don't turn off culture victory, I'll always win by that means without even trying. Alliance victory is also quite easy. As for the AI magically getting 2 ships, did he see if the AI had more than 1 planet in the system? Of course in that case they could produce two ships in one turn. I've never seen them get more than one

Reply to Stealing Tech in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I play maso, so there always seems to be one bastard AI that has a million more techs than me. I can usually stay above the rest. I'll have to play with it some more and see what happens...

Reply to Stealing Tech in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Oh well, I didn't know if you had to do something specific. I've always spent money on espionage but never gotten tech from it.

Stealing Tech in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi, I've seen people reference 'stealing' tech from the aliens. How do you go about doing this? (besides invading a planet and getting something for that) Just curious. :)

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

God, does this ****** empire hopping piss anyone else off? What's the point?

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I really don't have much time to play during the week. I'll try to get a couple good games in over the weekend. I noticed that culture flipping seems far far easier in the latest version. i don't know what they did, but I was flipping planets without even trying. It was kinda weird. I don't mind it when the AIs go after the TGs, since they're way more willing to sell them to you! :)

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay, maybe 2... I don't think we have any 60,000 pt crankers, do we? I can't stand gigantic games, so you won't ever see me doing that...

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay guys, we're within one good game of both 2nd and 3rd place empires. Alas, I must go to bed and cannot play any more this evening, but come on, someone else submit some games. :D

Reply to One of my frustrations with GalCiv... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You do not have to go to war to win the game. I rarely ever go to war, and I rarely have to use the 'cheese tactics' you mention. Sure, I bump up my diplo skills quite a bit, but it works.

Reply to One of my frustrations with GalCiv... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You can always use the 'gift them 1 influence point every few turns' trick to keep them off your back. The only thing is that you have to *really* pay attention to the relations screen. If it gets to hostile, you know you're in trouble. I usually also always get trade routes to the ones who hate me the most ASAP. That will improve relations quite a bit. Plus, the alignments really do make a difference. When I play my evil games, all the good races hate me no matter what I do. I don't noti

Reply to :sniff!: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How many women do we have around here? Maybe we *should* create our own empire. My score isn't shabby. :)

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I sure didn't vote for the current war-mongerer, that's for sure, and I sure won't vote for him in the re-election either. Unfortunately, I think a female president would be subject to chauvanism here too. :(

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just a word on DNS stuff. Whenver there's a DNS change, it can take a while for it to propagate to all the servers on the internet. That's why some people won't have problems and others will. It can sometimes to 2-3 days.

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think we'd see alot LESS war-mongering if women were in charge of things.

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just wish that more women didn't think it was weird to play strategy games. :) Though, I work in an almost all-male environment, so at least I have others to talk about games to. (programmer)

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I always get shocked as hell when the AI offers me one of the battleship, dreadnought, etc techs for something I feel is 'minor'. Happens occasionally though. Otherwise, I can usually get them from a minor fairly easily. I just get too bored with the game to play out gigantic maps. I don't really like anything above large, though I haven't tried a large maso yet.

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wow, a job where you can play galciv... That'd be cool. Do you generally go for alliance victories? I suppose I could end my games faster if I did that. And damnit, I'm a woman too.

Reply to Cotal's gone berserk! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, my only thought was that she has no life--no offense Cotal. If I play a gigantic game it takes me a week to finish it.

Reply to Bug report for 1.10.072 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I seem to have the same missing excalibur problem that's been reported. However, it doesn't appear to be related to the bonus pack? I still have AMMs (which someone else mentioned they didn't have any more either). I didn't really notice because I rarely play the game that far out anyway, but the last game I played I did.

Reply to OT: PBEM Role Playing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, I've never seen it done actually, besides the GM taking over when the player is slacking. Kind of an interesting idea, but I think it would be hard to implement correctly, since posting styles vary so greatly. I'm currently playing a small maso. I was getting eaten alive by Torian influence until the Fundamentalists showed up and took their closest planet. :) Now I should be fine. I'll just move my way up to large. I've never liked the maps above large on any level (they

Reply to OT: PBEM Role Playing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sorry, I told Mexel I would lurk for the time being. I'll try to join it in a bit, but I got swamped at work and other real life crap. I even went over a week without a galciv game! But ha, I won a damn maso game last night. Everyone is right, tiny/rare/maso is pretty easy. (I was trying to play on a large map the last time I attempted it) I've got a vacation in a couple weeks, and then I'll see where I am time wise after that and where the game is. I actually can't post