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Reply to Capturing planets with influence in Strategies Stardock Forums

Destabalization is often countered by propaganda, I think culture flipping might be too. As for the whole why doesn't the new race flip one... I'd like to know that too.

Reply to Opening strats, and empire traits question., in Strategies Stardock Forums

I run into the same problem. Some people cope with it by trading for techs or whatnot. I cope by having spent all military resources on colony ships for almost the first half of the game. I colonize low and get alot of colonies with between 30 and 500 mil people. I also have started to trade alot to compensate for the fact that most of my economy is invested in long term returns (pop growth). Since everything dependsI'm slightly behind in the beginning and making a subsistence due to trade.

Reply to Ventran players, what Settings do you use? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I personally pick a gigantic galaxy with abundant planets and loose clusters. My games tend to take quite a bit of time because of that and I should probably consider making the clusters tighter or the planets less abundant, but that's not a high priority. I find the loose clusters allow me to leapfrog over AIs and grab systems on the other side of them as well. I am not sure if the abundant pick hurts or helps me in any way, I'll have to try the other extreame and see. As for scoreing do ei

Reply to Lots of questions about strategies in Strategies Stardock Forums

The best advice I can give to cover everything but the higher level strats is to have as many colonies as you can. Be willing to colonize slightly below the AI to get the future pop boost and to improve the range so you can leep past the AI to other planets. Never declair war unless you are already the most powerful civ. By this I mean that if there's this minor cramping your style in your territory don't try to take them out unless you can do so in one turn. Majors will generally ev

Reply to Why you should be able to build stargates in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The unit of spending in GalCiv is known as the bc... billion credits. Powering a stargate would not be out of the question in game, especially between two systems under your control. Allow us to assume that stargate travel time is equivalent to that of 1 sector/month, that's pretty bad, especially after various speed enhancements. There is a benefit though... that benefit would be that the ship in motion is not going through space and therefore unassailable. The reasoning behind this is that

Reply to Early economy booms in Strategies Stardock Forums

Okay, I'll try for more of a point for the galactic stock exchange. I'll also go for the trade bonus techs when they're cheap. I sometimes find it pacifying to swallow a few smaller techs when the one I really want is on the order of 30 turns. I'll also continue to try to avoid going to war until I have a healthy economy or tech base (or both). That would make breaking trade routes a late game thing like maintenence and various other things. Last game I broke a grand total of 8 of m

Reply to taking down enemy planets in Strategies Stardock Forums

When the attack fails there is NO resulting damage to anything but the population. I've been attacked alot and the AI uses every tactic they can afford to level the playing field (works about 1% of the time for them), I never recieve the ill effects unless they actually win. If you have a pop advantage just go with traditional warfare the whole way and fire out alot of combat transports. Also, if you're wondering what to research, the soldiering bonus techs can really pile up, I've se

Reply to Massive fleet direction in Strategies Stardock Forums

Hmm, I might have to end up doing that, but it's not really what I would ideally like to do. I'm going more for I've got 200 transports at 150 or so different locations. I'm lucky with some and they're in groups of up to 5, but that's it. It's quite time consuming to direct each ship, I'm looking for something simmilar to the military swap button that changes all ships of a class being built to another, except it directs all ships of a class to a certain point.

Massive fleet direction in Strategies Stardock Forums

Well, it's extreame late game here and I've got quite a few excaliburs running around wipeing the board and just running in combat transports like crazy. It occoured to me that my well of combat transports were running dry, so I decided to do a military swap from excal to combat transports for a single turn (all colonies either building constructors or (mostly) excal). Well, this is a great way to kick up the combat transports, and with 6000B pop it also ended up slightly raising moral

Reply to taking down enemy planets in Strategies Stardock Forums

I'm always wary about harming the planet so I generally go for traditional warfare. If it looks like I'll need help I'll go for information warfare (if it gives anything) and microsoldiers.

Reply to Introduce Yourself in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sean, going to college in houghton, michigan. For some reason the display for pq 12 planets looks familiar :P

Reply to Early economy booms in Strategies Stardock Forums

I don't have AP so I suppose pre-AP would be it.

Reply to Early economy booms in Strategies Stardock Forums

Will do, I'll see what that does... when I get back home and I can actually play.

Reply to Colonizing PQ 13 and 14 planets in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]And I think if your star isn't yellow, you get influence penalties.[/quote] Well, that's true, most stars have 0-2 influence naturally while yellows get like 15 or so. However, purple stars have loads of influence most of the time, and you'll notice the number of purples you have is listed along with the number of yellows on the star listing.

Early economy booms in Strategies Stardock Forums

If you've seen me post anywhere on here before you know I love my economy. I've searched for tips for improving it early in the game, but most of the advice seemed to apply to later game where maintenence would get to be a problem if you've built too much or if you've gone military crazy too early. I know I settle low, and that can hurt my econ, but I'm just curious what are good income levels about 2yrs into the game or if there are methods to improve that. After a while (when the galaxy is

Reply to Boarders in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For those that haven't played Civ3 or other games that deal with influence based borders, the beginning of the game is spent (this applies for AI as well) spreading yourself out as much as you can. When you settle a city you get a small blob of influence that spreads over time. As these blobs spread borders form, you generally aren't allowed across the borders of other civs and they aren't allowed across yours. In here, the spread would occour and eventually all of space (even deepspace) woul

Reply to What starting choices do you like? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I go federalist (+20 econ) and +30 econ everything else is up in there air, sometimes I do luck, sometimes production, I'll try speed next time if I can afford it.

Reply to Boarders in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What is your definition of "controlled space"? For now, Glaciv as the equivalent of cultural border: the influence. I think what is more key to this is the idea of trespassing. Borders would be set by the influence generally, but then having ships go through the controlled space would be a "nono". Atleast that's how Civ3 did it (which was referenced). The influence system is not set up to accomidate such things as tresspassing because first off, systems tend to drift into the influe

Reply to How does destabilization work? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, there are hard facts that show that it is working, either the tresury and spending drops in the case that they counter with propaganda, or you see star systems defect more and the pop growth slows down. I've gotta start doing this in some of my games where I've got a race that looks to be a bit more trouble to wipe out. Anything else like that which is mentioned earlier would just be eyecandy... though there's nothing wrong with that :D.

Reply to Beginner Tips? in Strategies Stardock Forums

I'm getting used to playing normal, maybe I'll raise my difficulty later when I start making more of cash earlier. Anyway, I never go for the speed pick, well, I might next game if I can spare the points from economy. Anyway, I have never had a problem with spending fixed at 100 until I'm sure I can safely buy grav accel without going too far into debt. I know I'll probably be paying for the rush buy until the game is over. I also tend to only colonize one planet per system initially until I

Reply to Excaliburs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I absolutely love them, I tend to colonize low and rely heavily on my economy. By the time I build my first dreadnought or death knight (which is usually my first attack ship) I've gotten atleast to 4D phasing or simmilarly up the research spire for Excal tech. In fact, I usually skip Overlord tech and just shoot for Excal anyway, not to mention the nice affects alot of the nessicary techs give along the way. It is pretty close to the top of the tree, but you can get there and have a large am

Reply to Where's my multimedia? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay, I've got everything working again. What I had to did was uninstall and install a clean copy (making sure the folders for instalation were the default update copy folder and registration folder pointed to main folder of instalation instead of inside stardock). After I archived (this time) and updated I had multimedia. I held back on updating the multimedia and I don't think I'll do that till I'm not on dialup :P. What have I learned from all this? I hate Dialup!

Reply to Strange Drengin Tactics? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I can verify that Transports will attack undefended starsystems as I generally don't guard mine. It's probably because I've been playing normal level, but I have yet to see the AI use any strategy in attacking (like transport groups). I may dump a defender per planet as I raise difficulty level to ward off annoyances, but at this time, I think a defender advantage of roughly 4x on highly populated planets is doing just fine. p.s. with regards to strategy used in attacking... I've been

Where's my multimedia? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I played a few games right after I installed, both normally and in windowed versions. The movies and music played fine and were fairly substantial eyecandy. Since I've upgraded to 1.13 and later to 1.20 I have yet to see any movie at all, not even the pre-movie that loads before the menu. When an event movie (like first battleship or first colonization) is supposed to occour I get a still image. The only sound I get out of the game are sound effects. I'm not really all that big on multimedi