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Reply to Anomalies in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've noticed this, I assumed it was some kind of cheese elimination.

Reply to Stupid Random Events... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That is not the only "Stupid Random Event", I've lost count of the number of times I've seen the "All uninhabited planets in the xxxx system improved by yy PQ points" when the xxxx system has no uninhabited planets to improve. That is just the most obvious, other daft events include banning Terror Stars when their development is still a long way off, I'm sure all players have noticed similar doh! events. It can't be that hard for the program to check to see if a random event is logical

Reply to Score maxing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Finally never 'finish' a game before 2190. It cuts your score in half (or there abouts.)[/quote] I've always wondered about this, all the Civ type games seem to penalize early wins. Why? If I've played a faultless game and managed to win before the AI players have even built up I really think I should get double the score, not half. A possible ateration to the scoring would be for the program to wait until all the useful stars are colonized, then see what percentage

Reply to cheat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I save the game at the start, sometimes I'll return to that and re-play the map in a diffent way, the game is completely different but the starting checksums would of course be the same. So if I submitted the scores of both to the MV either the 2nd would be ignored or it would replace the 1st. Either is a bit cheesy if you've fairly played both games, but quite proper if you're trying to fiddle the scores. So is there any way around this problem, the only one I can think of is

Reply to cheat? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is there anything to stop someone from as suggested above saving a few goes before the end then repeatedly finishing the game and submitting a slightly different end-of-game several times for the same game? I make no accusations as I can't be bothered to submit any games, but I've noticed in this forum some people commenting on how some players seem to play an astonishing number of games - coincidence? - We'll never know ;p

Reply to Intra system migration in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think it may be possible to use transports to shift population around.[/quote] You can use transports on multi-planet systems to even out the population (load and unload, maybe several times, and the populations will tend towards parity) but not to distribute preferentialy. Ideally there would be intra-system transports which would automatically distribute people from overcrowded planets to less crowded ones. In RL overcrowded populations move to more att

Reply to Intra system migration in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I have seen AI systems with half the pop on the lowest PQ planet [/quote] It seems that when it comes to loading colony ships AI stands for "Actually Idiotic" as it always seems to load up 50% population which always leads to the situation you described - Come on guys fix this stupidity.

Reply to %#$@&! pirates in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]will this be declaring war on that minor race[/quote] You have a problem with this? It won't affect your moral rating if that was your concern.

Reply to Sensors As A Starting Ability in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]sheet of paper[/quote] Pah, old technology. BTW I've often thought it would be very useful and brain-numbingly simple to program a integrated persistant text scratch pad into the game, then you wouldn't have to fart about with bits of paper. It could even automatically make notes of start and duration of trade deals etc.

Reply to Sensors As A Starting Ability in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Sometimes I go even further. I don't play, and say 'I have won'. I then pat myself on the back.[/quote] Quite right, some of us are so good, it's a foregone conclusion before we start ;)

Reply to Space Sharks are becoming an endangered species in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Put one three sqares away and you're on a winner.[/quote] Yeah, I realized that after I posted the message, but felt it was too trivial to go back and alter. Sometimes it's almost as if the Sharks have minds of their own as they flatly refuse to follow the lure, but mostly they are pretty complient, if you can keep one wandering around for long enough the can get stupidly powerful, I once tried herding the 3 zoo escapees until they were as strong as they could get,

Reply to Space Sharks are becoming an endangered species in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]They're slow and anyone can outrun them. [/quote] Does that also apply to Space Sharks? Anyway use stealth and cunning (or a scout 2 squares away) to lure them to the AIs starbases.

Reply to Mileva Einstein responsible for E=MC squared? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]No that was not after. He first published 3 months before Einstein did in 1905. The problem is that he did so in a mathematical review, not a physics review[/quote] Fair enough, I must say I felt a bit guilty about the tone of my earlier message, but hell it was Friday afternoon & I was bored! The points made by others that the interpretation of the theory rather than the formulation was the greater acheivment are almost certainly true. But there is still a valid poi

Reply to Mileva Einstein responsible for E=MC squared? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]E = mc2 was discovered by Mathematician Poincare[/quote] Cor, is your name Stalin by any chance, this is the sort of revisionist rewriting of history from partisan attitudes normally associated with the former CCCP. While Jules Henri Poincaré was most certainly a great universalist mathematician, he is probably best known for his work on Newtons 3 body problem, diophantine equations and of course the Poincaré Conjecture. He certainly did some work on the Sp

Reply to A suggestion for production in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ember All this has been thrashed out in the "Wasting money when not building anything?" Thread http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=132094 I suggest you read that one then if you come up with a better solution than any of the ones there, please suggest it. However don't expect much on this until the next major revision. Regards. [Message Edited]

Reply to Wasting money when not building anything? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Where on earth do you live?[/quote] Earth? that crappy little backward class 17ish (and dropping) planet, not me guv. Seriously though I still think the best all round solution is to give the governors the option to balance their budget as they see fit, this as has been stated allows a degree of micro-management, but at the discretion of the player rather than a function of the game dynamics. What we have at the moment is the pretty much worst of all possible so

Reply to Are you a Goggle Wacker? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]antidisestablishmentarianist singularity[/quote] Of course if you publish one that works on the internet, that page itself may get indexed by Google and you have just destroyed its uniqueness. Antidisestablishment and its derivatives are however excellent words to kick off with

Reply to Miss spelled word on front page in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Hey, we can just go on and on with this...[/quote] OK, no problem... One could be very picky indeed, almost every message in this thread contains some errors in spelling or grammer (this one included). Nobody seems to have noticed "lastest" which to the best of my knowledge does not exist. And that proper nouns, new paragraphs etc. should start with capitals. On "spelled", that is the American spelling, the International/British spelling is "spelt" not "spelled

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

[quote]After all, we create whole galaxies in mere few minutes. All you have to do is hit Control+N[/quote] I wonder how many times that was done before we got into the state we are in now? ;) [quote]God = the laws of physics. Anything beyond that is wishful thikning[/quote] Which pre-supposes the existance of God, something which by definition cannot be proven, the whole point of God/religion is that its existance or otherwise is dependant on the faith of the individu

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

[quote]To submit time to the scientific "surgeons knife" is like trying to submit god to the knife.[/quote] There is so much I could say to that, but it would only degenerate into a slanging match, so let's agree to differ on that one! [quote]the nature of time is theological in nature.[/quote] How? This would only be the case if you accept the creationist world view. Which frankly is more full of holes that a planet made of swiss cheese. Have a happy Easter

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

[quote]It's easier to make time the 0th or 1st dimension, so you can tack on additional space dimensions without this difficulty.[/quote] er??, I don't want to appear rude, but do you have the faintest idea what you are talking about? 4 Dimensions: Space-Time 3 Dimensions: Space 2 Dimensions: A Plane 1 Dimension: A Line 0 Dimensions: A Point (of zero size) Another way of looking at it: Dimensions 1 to 3: Width, depth & height Dimension 4:

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

In this game universe instant transmission of matter is plainly possible, after all there are the wormhole anomalies dotted about. What would interesting as a possible option is that these anomalies should be persistant, and once a survey ship has been through, any ship should be able to use the wormhole (with a very small chance of loosing the ship).

Reply to Individual Production Sliders? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]About maintenance costs: Have you tried to park lots of Antimatter missile in orbit of your planets? You end up with a high military power for a small maintenace[/quote] AMMs are cheap fun for all the family, but that fails to address the production problem, also AMMs are not a lot of good when you want to invade, however a load of AMMs followed by a hoard of transports and some defenders to keep the aquisitions works a treat. Also the defensive value of AMMs is close to

Reply to Individual Production Sliders? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]why not build them the first time[/quote] Simple - Cash Flow I try to avoid conflict (hey, just like RL) so there is no point in wasting the maintenance overhead. My best few planets however always have all the military stuff. But should a major conflagration erupt, I can quickly switch over to full high quality military production. It really shocks the alien scum when a few goes after they declared war thinking I just had a few weak ships, I suddenly have a ma

Reply to Individual Production Sliders? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Why can't you accept to loose social spending instead of affecting to improvement that you don't want (which as nearly the same effect than loosing social spending)?[/quote] It's not quite the same, with a load of part finished buildings I can go from non-shipbuilding (+5% Ship Quality) to fully shipyarded (+105% SQ) in 4 or 5 months. Anyway once everything is almost built I put them over to no production, but I agree fully with Waldorf2000: [quote]It's still a great game