PQ1 planets becoming very good planets is weird. Doesn't really make much sense. This point depends entirely on the fictional technology you prefer. From some technological points of view, olives and apples are basically the same thing. But when your primary need is either fats or carbohydrates, apples and olives are very different fruits.
I haven't paid attention to which particular low PQs the AIs favor or ignore, but I can also confirm that the AIs colonize *some* very low PQ worlds. I suspect that the underlying gripe here is about the fact that the AIs are still way behind strong human players when it comes to building infrastructure. Things are much better in this regard than they were when GC2 first shipped, but IMO the AIs have gained much more strength in fleet design and use than they have with colonization and
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Skippio, thanks for the interesting email, but as far as I can tell the SN changes are not directly connected to the user name changes. I tried all manner of variations that seemed to keep SDC happy (always offering me the latest DA update), but I have had no luck getting the Metaverse to accept my game after processing the pre-win turn. I'm pretty sure there are *very* few folks in my situation (G.W. versus GW), so I'm goint to take this as a sign that I really needed to take a solid b
I want NotMoM2 (the still unnamed fantasy TBS) built before they make another big push for Galciv. For the next expansion (version?) of GalCiv, I want radically improved diplomacy, meaningful internal politics, and a heavily revamped starbase system (better management, more options for hits and defenses, and space tugs to move them around). (For starters ) <a href="http://altmeta2.thegal
Anyone familar with the guys that do the incredibly inane Sonic commercials? Thankfully, I've not noticed this series. IMO, advertising is an evil industry based on fables (at best) and/or lies (more likely) whose only purpose is to drive you to make rash, often needless spending decisions. Folks should never forget the roots of the word "branding." It's about burning marks of ownership onto livestock, and in the case of Madison Avenue & their
Trade is halved if you have more than 5,000 BC in your savings. Can we get some confirmation (Kryo? Mumble? Magnum?) of this nasty corrollary to the >20k penalty?
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Thanks for the reply Skippio. Either I'm brainfarting badly about which is SN I used to start the game or the workaround is not working for me. I unhappily believe the former is a more likely scenario, but am hoping that the support folks can straighten me out. As the line goes, "Patience, Grasshopper..."
For my homies in the US, are any of you feel for any of the next Presidential election? The mods don't really like us talking politics here. Officially, we're supposed to take that over to JoeUser or another general-purpose board. That said, I'm a former civics instructor and I must say that I almost wish we had the free speech limitations that enable places like Great Britain to keep campaigns boxed into very short seasons. Perpetual
This thread has lurked in the back of my mind. I miss my Legos and I really need to scrounge up a better video card so I can properly enjoy forgetting to finish a game because I'm busy getting all my ships to really look like bugs built them (I'm stuck in a Thalan rut).
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Thanks, Kryo. This is one of those occasions where I feel quite sheepish about how often I tell people to be patient...
AFAIK, the answer to both your questions is "no." I'd surely like to see something like #1 and maybe even #2, but in general I value having the autopilot moves happen after you end a turn. I usually play on the largest maps and it's pretty easy to forget a scuffle in a minor province. It can be handy to catch a few things going by on autopilot and divert them.
I think cyberj914 offers pretty good basic advice about starting with a relatively small sandbox game on a lower difficulty level. It's also traditional around here to tell new folks to Learn Your GC2 Economics! As you practice colonizing, developing worlds, and building fleets, keep a close eye on what these changes do to your budget. Setting anomalies to maximum and building an extra survey ship or two as soon as you can will probably yield several cash infusions as you expl
A while ago, I got a seemingly innocuous announcement that Stardock were updating their user name system to eliminate non-alphanumeric characters. I used to have periods in my name here. In fact, those periods were present when I started the huge-map Metaverse game that I *finally* finished last night. When the posting dialog popped up, my user name was locked in and the periods were still present, so my password did not match. I've replied to the name-change message from supp
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Formatting seems less important than order of appearance. How about just having "Metaverse" immediately follow "New Game?"
I suspect that the breaking of your sternum like a chicken breast and the use of the rib spreaders involved in major bypass surgery would be even more compelling. One of my most important college mentors had gotten the x-tupple bypass thing a few years before I met him. Our college was blessed by being in a generally warm climate and he did not hesitate to stay comfortable by shunning long pants and sleeves. This made it easy for him to point out how ama
Unfortunately, the rich keep us down by not allowing us the financial freedom to have only one parent working while the other raises the child. On the more-than-just-me front, it isn't only the rich keeping "us" down. It's many of "us" being unquestioning lovers of spending money. Advertising works in at least the general sense of spreading a sense of "needing something" whether it's from the grocery store, the mall, a telecom company, a car dealership,
I find "milking" to have a large eye-of-the-beholder aspect. I developed several tendencies that I've seen called milking (like preferring overwhelming military superiority so I can swat down interference in my non-military muddling). But I got that way long before I thought more than 8 seconds about scores. For all I know, I'm "milking" my game right now b/c I'm fixated on a diplo win but the AIs in my alliance are not being very quick about dispatching the remaining troublemakers (I g
Pretty please could we have separate sliders for spending to recruit spies (Economy page) and spending for intel on each rival empire (Foreign Policy page). Placed spies could boost the base rate of passive intel gathering and reserve spies could slow intel collection (acting as domestic counterintelligence).
Thanks for the thumbs-ups, gents. There's a lot of typing over at the Core about "milking" scores, etc., and I have an unpredictable weakness for propriety despite being a scruffy barbarian at heart.
I suspect several buildings being scoffed here are perfectly handy to some players, depending on their strategies, map settings, etc. (The same goes for starbase defences, which have often been really handy to me.) But I too have never once built an Orbital Fleet Manager, a Hyperion Shipyard, or several other improvements. It'd be really swell if we had a right-click menu in the build queue that would let us make items visible only on the All list, and a command when you're viewing the
Evil's surely right about the sprawl potential here, but I've loved me spaghetti since I was a wee sprat... If you and your wife are healthy and have no children, drop the insurance and put that money in savings. The fact that this is sound financial advice is exactly why this "medical savings account" crap is so wrong. Public health is as important as individual health and health care in the US should be treated the same as our other major publ
having them sitting around drinking Martini's and discussing Fall Fashion at the spaceport in my homeworld is serving no purpose Aside from the fact that recreation is its own purpose and a fine reason to be alive, keeping a core of spies at home means you have some options for when spies are placed on your worlds or you suddenly gain an unexpected enemy. <img src="http://altmeta2.thegalacticcore.c
I have to at least half-agree with the General here. The rub is that occasionally one person's "monumentally stupid lawsuits" are another person's sincere work for their idea of "justice." The problem is that the same system that enables a family to win medical costs and damages after, say, a child is injured through the gross negligence of a physician, manufacturer, or restaurant chain also means only very wealthy condos and apartments have diving boards at the swimming pool any more.
Standards Bearers, I should be close to finishing my first DA Metaverse game on one of those barbarous huge maps. I want to get the empire's opinion on whether I should post b/c there's some conflict between Standards, specifically Hedonism and Cheese-hating. That's an overly ornate way of backing into a fairly simple question: Should I post a game that I finished after save-gaming my way around the pirates mega event? I play the big maps b/c I really like them. I leav
The new Metaverse Council is dominated by folks from the big empires, but they seem very interested in "driving traffic" to the smaller ones. I think the idea is that more active empires means more Metaverse activity overall; some corrollary of The More The Merrier, I suspect. If smaller is better for you, there's also the option of starting your own.
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