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Reply to Another week another journal entry in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

The dread lords are made of pure energy aren't they. Or is the red lightening stuff just some sort of high tech suit.

Reply to Rethinking cultural influence in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

If you look at history, the main cases of cultural influence bieng used to influence an area to rebel against it's masters have resulted in the establishment of protectorate regimes under the influence of the civilization rather than directly ruled by it. Therefore the main purpose of cultural influence should be to drive a wedge between the homeworld and the worlds on ideological and moral ground, with the aim of causing a protectorate to break away. Therefore a

Reply to Evolve beyond Good and Evil in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

So we'd have Good vs Evil Warlike vs peaceloving Democratic vs totalitarian. Trouble is that in a totalitarian good society would actually be rather democratic, mainly beacause a good ruler doesn't like to oppress people and generally behave like a tyrant. In a pure good society the distinctions of ruler and subject are indeed irrelevant, conflict between different classes would not exist beacause all act for the good of all. However it's prob

Reply to Anarchy Tiles in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

Exactly, remember that a rebellion is not the same as a planetery invasion, the lines are not as clear cut, it's not necceserily rebels vs army and police, quite often sections of the army and the police are rebels, remember the most dangerous rebels from the perspective of the goverment are not unarmed rioting mobs but the army and police that have sided with the rebels. Anarchy is the most nasty of the three dissent titles they are...... Unhapp

Reply to Evolve beyond Good and Evil in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Unless Lawful is descibed as how likely you are to honor an agreement you have made with another civilization. But then that would be best described as trustworthiness.

Reply to E3: Beta 2 screenshots in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Just the Yor are subtler, more cunning and a little more lighthearted than the regular killing machines.

Reply to Evolve beyond Good and Evil in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

The trouble is that every civilizations rulers belong to the Lawful side of whatever moral alignment they belong to beacause as rulers they are the Law. You cannot be a "Chaotic Evil" leader of a civilization, it's not possible, your role forces you to become Lawful.

Reply to The story of Galactic Civilizations II in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Okay they probably mainly just use Organic lifeforms as fuel in their generators. The Nanites extracts useful minerals from non-organic compounds that the Yor have consumed and then slowly construct and repair the internal workings of the Yor as they have been programmed to do (by some electronic version of the genetic code perhaps?), Organic lifeforms are simply burnt, the heat energy powers the electricity generator in the Yor's body and then the Nanites see what

Reply to Evolve beyond Good and Evil in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I think that there should only be two main factors deciding civ alignment, given that every civilization in the game would be best described as Lawfull and the Democratic/Autocratic thing would be best handled by current political system. The titles assigned to civilizations. Pure Good- Angelic Pure Good and Warlike- Angelic Crusader Pure Good and Pacifistic- Angelic Perfectionist. Good- Saintly Good and Warlike- Saintly Crusader<BR

Reply to The story of Galactic Civilizations II in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Do the Yor consume organic lifeforms for fuel. Ie do Yor eat and have generators that process organic matter into energy by combining it with oxygen (ie by burning it). I guess if that were true the Yor would have to expel ash (defecate) and produce smoke (breath out), ie Your breath in air, breath out smoke. I guess they probably also have closed systems populated by robot nanites (equivilant blood cells) as well as wires and such running alongside them. Yor p

Reply to Wormholes, stargates, and AI in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Isn't that how the stargates worked? Folding the space-time plane so a man-made wormhole could be created. Alternatively the the stargates may have worked by "hacking" the laws of physics and effectively rewriting them for a limited period of time sort of like "the distance between the Arcean homeworld and the Altarian homeworld is 300 lightyears, no it's 300 kilometres beacause I'm rewriting the rules that govern the universe". The immense cost of energy could come down to the need t

Reply to Ghost ships from long dead races?? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Possibly they should introduce a concept of "nuetral ships" that are governed only by moral alignment. They would be "hirable" and for a number of credits by ships of the correct moral alignment. So for instance with the downfall of the Torians to the Drengin it makes sense that they would naturally align themselves to another good civilization. If a civilization is of identical moral alignment to the ship then hiring nuetrals should be cheap to hire.

Reply to Beta 2: Documentation in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Perhaps a concept of fleeing should be introduced, so if a ship has strong defenses but no weapons is attacked by a ship that is slower than it then it should have the ability to escape if it has survived enough rounds. Maybe a weak ship that has no chance of decides it has virtually no chance of defeating it's attacker should flee by default as long as it is faster, armed or unarmed, halving it's attack (as it can only shoot a few shots at it's persuing enemy) but

Reply to Black Planets in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Are you sure that isn't a mini-black hole come to eat your system for lunch

Reply to Campaign Construction in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I think that their should be several paths of interlocking scenarios played in order and allowing players the choice of several alternate story lines. Possibly there should even be alignment bonus story lines, so evil gets X additional scenarios and good gets Y additional story lines. I also think that you should be able to play the campaign as any of the major, races and each should have it's own chain of scenarios which may interlock with the chain of sc

Reply to Campaign Construction in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I think that their should be several paths of interlocking scenarios played in order and allowing players the choice of several alternate story lines. Possibly there should even be alignment bonus story lines, so evil gets X additional scenarios and good gets Y additional story lines. I also think that you should be able to play the campaign as any of the major, races and each should have it's own chain of scenarios which may interlock with the chain of sc

Reply to Is it possible to complete a game in BETA? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Frankly I don't think the beta is completable at the moment, since the tech tree doesn't work and there appears to be no way to create combat ships.

Reply to Simple "puppet states" system? in Diplomacy GalCiv2 Forums

How about going further, and making cultural domination turn civs into sattelites rather than gobbling up their world. Much more realistic. Plus a sattelite/puppet state should take on the moral alignment of it's master and possibly you should be able to protectorate a civ of opposing alignment. The powers of a protectorate/puppets master 1.A two way exchange of visual range and the ability to see inside one anothers planets (note this shou

Reply to Alignment in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Minor races do have alignment AzraelCC.

Cultural assimilation and Planetery Alignment in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

In think it's silly the way that planets magically converted to another empire beacause of culture in Galciv I and would like to see culture working more subtly in Galactic Civ II, culture shouldn't be an alternative form of conquest, it should instead allow you to influence civilizations policies and outlook from the inside. Planets that are assimilated by another culture should not defect directly to the civilization doing the assimilating, instead their c

Reply to Sign up here for the Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've already pre-ordered, of course I'm in

Reply to Idea: satelite empires in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

e where the civ evolved and "grew up" so the homeworld is very much the cultural "where the heart lies" of every civilization, plus it is the political heart also. I'll carry on about cultural assimilation in another thread......

Anarchy Tiles in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

In Galciv II if approval rating gets to low on a planet then tiles should gradually fall into anarchy as goverment control breaks down and the citizens riot, anarchy tiles produce nothing and halve the production of neigboring tiles which are forced to divert resources to law enforcement in order to contain the unrest. Rapidly anarchy tiles, if morale in the planet is low enough should snowball out into the neigboring tiles which would then fall into anarchy themsel

Reply to Tiles and Quality in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I thought that was what governers were for? You give your governer a single priority and he/she would carry out the micromanagement details.

Reply to Ground Combat? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

are to retreating into orbit and giving the whole thing up, for now. I reckon their should be a number of tactics available when defending as well as attacking planets.