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Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well it is a little more complicated than what I said, but that part explains your lowered score best. I know there is an Excel spreadsheet somewhere with the fomulaes to calculate score but I don't remember in which tread I have read about it. I think the total of each block is divided by the square root of the number of games within that block. So if you play much more, you will run into another kind of problem. ;) Incidently, the score shown within the empire page and the score in

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think that something like an average score[/quote] Games are group by blocks of 30 days from your last submission. The first block gets full score, the second loose 5%, the 3rd loose 10%, and so on. If you submit 20 games in a month than stop playing for a month, you can expect your score to go down when you next submit a game. If you submit a couple of games every month, your score should go up every month, or at least remain stable. ~SDC~

Reply to missing tribute exploit in 1.13? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]But if you stomp the civ, who are you paying the tribute to[/quote] You are paying the tribute to the United Planets. Leaving the paid tribute out only leads to abuse. By the same logic, to continue getting paid after wiping out a civ would lead to abuse and is best left like it is. ~SDC~

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Ten gigantic Maso's in twelve days[/quote] I was going for 12 in 12 but I had to shovel snow twice. Darn winter! ;p ~SDC~

Reply to missing tribute exploit in 1.13? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just tested it and a paid tribute does indeeed disappear if your tributee is eliminated. That is too easily abusable, it should be like it was before. That is a paid tribute should run it's course even if the tributee disappears. ~SDC~

Reply to Bug Reports for 1.13 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I have yet to see any evidence that the "Creative" ability works[/quote] This ability definatly lowers the morality requirements to research alignment techs. Try it out, with creativity, you can research Xeno-Intimidation at 35% morality instead of 30. [quote]In particular the turns left for the current tech. It's wrong![/quote] This is caused by the game not calculating your "free" research. It is true even after playing a couple of turns and then changing your

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My weirdest game so far, so I thought I'd share it with you. Sorry, no pictures, my camera is broken. The setting was a gigantic size galaxy of tightly clustered stars of rare habitability. I wanted an easy game on this boxing day so I took the populist party with an extra 50 in diplomacy and military production, with the extra 2 points going into creativity and luck. Earth was a PQ 19 sitting in the most lower right sector. The system held nothing else of value and I was tempt

Reply to missing tribute exploit in 1.13? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I knew about the not getting paid part, which makes sense, but my experience so far indicates you still have to pay your tribute after you kill a civ, which would also make sense. However, I did not check on that carefully since version 1.13, maybe I should have a look. ~SDC~

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Moving ships around got pretty annoying after a while[/quote] Which ships are you moving around? I used to scout in details, using scouts, colony ships and freighters. Since moving to gigantic maps, I thought there must be a less tedious way. Now I research stellar cartography early and send freighters directly to star clusters with an habitable star. I do my best to build the Eye of the universe and once I have built it, I send one sensor drone per stripes of 3 sectors and just

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm waiting to see what happens if Charis gets unleashed on the Metaverse[/quote] Yeah, we need his maths skills to make sense of all the formulaes and numbers. ;) ~SDC~

Reply to The Fellowship Halls (Fellowship of the Ring Empire Thread) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]alliance victory takes a 20 - 25% mpts score hit compared to military victory[/quote] Ric, that would depend on the map size. A gigantic maso alliance victory can probably net 53-57k mpts which is more like a 10% drop. ~SDC~

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well we made it to 7th place, with a very small lead on the pirates. Can we keep that position until the new year? Merry Christmas everybody! :D ~SDC~

Reply to help for a french men in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Theoden, Babelfish is not much better than you, it should read "as a frenchwoman, please". Your french sentence should be written like this "en francais, s'il vous plait" ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to The TEN Dimensions of the Metaverse Coming... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I would like to see an Ironman Challenge.[/quote] I concur with Sirian, this would be things somewhat spicy. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Restarts in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]whereas in Civ III on diety level you need a virtually perfect starting position[/quote] That is so wrong, as in any other 4x games, a good start makes the game easier but a bad start doesn't make a win impossible. I used to restart if Earth was lower than PQ 18 but I stopped after getting a very lucky game. It was a gigantic/rae maso, Earth was PQ 16 in a corner and with only 1 planet within reach, even after the first range extension. I was curious to see how bad

Reply to Special Forces OpCentre in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, [/quote] Hey, no wonder nobody ever saw him ;) ~SDC~

Reply to Victory conditions, score and gameplay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]For research, it was how much of a tech lead [/quote] This is to make a tech victory while turtled up in a corner less attractive than being out there in the middle of the action. There is already a mechanism to grant more points if you are the first to research a tech, this would penalize you if you live off the AI research by playing the trading game. Some mechanism to reduce the value of each techs as time elapse would be nice too. The earlier the tech victory happens, the mos

Reply to switching technology research in Strategies Stardock Forums

Leftover research is wasted. When you are tight for cash, it is a good idea to try and set the slider for optimum research. Later on in the game (when you are filty rich ;) ), you can just set a percentage and forget about the waste. ~SDC~

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Zed, I think it would actually show 0 Mvpts on the summary screen. I am not sure, never got one. Maybe you should load the end game save and submit again, I have had this kind of trouble in more than a few occasions. What I do is, I submit, alt-tab to windows, loadup explorer and move to the metaverse page. Then I wait for a couple of minutes, it could take a while for your game to come through. By the way, I have once accumulated about 70k gold for a terrorstar alpha strike on a gigant

Reply to Travel to Realms Beyond Your Ordinary Gaming Experience in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah! Back in 9th place, within reach of 8th. :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: But who will be in 7th place by the endof the week is nybody's guest. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Bug Reports for 1.13 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is it normal for the AI to build improvements they don't have the tech for yet? In my current game, an Alexian world flipped to me and it had a stadium already built even though I am the only empire with the knowledge of extravaganza. I made a save game at that point in case it is needed to investigate. ~SDC~

Reply to Victory conditions, score and gameplay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]scoring based on the gap between player and AI is a poor mechanism[/quote] I think you misunderstand me, or rather I explain myself poorly. I am more interested in measuring how well you perform for your given victory type than I am in the gap between the player and the AI. The only place this gap should matter is when you get an alliance victory, which is quite easy to obtain as soon as the alliance tech is known. Of course there should be other factors as well, like how many tu

Reply to Victory conditions, score and gameplay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I see a fatal flaw in all of his "100%/50%" scoring proposals[/quote] This proposal concerns only cultural victory. It takes skills to own 90% of the galaxy without eliminating a race or 2. You would also have to consider how alien wars are going and take a more hands-on approach to maximize score. [quote]Stardock must accurately identify what is vs what is not a challenge to the players[/quote] The way I understand it, there are already some measures of how you

Reply to help for a french men in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]C'est quoi "opu"[/quote] Organisation des planètes unies je suppose. ~SDC~

Reply to Bug Report for v1.12.079 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That would be on the stats page. ~SDC~