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Reply to We CAN actually buy mercenaries in GalCiv2! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Been using this tactic since galciv1. Even give the enemy the transport upgrade tech so they make me better transports. You will find that the same certain races stock pile them every game. Unfortunately one of the changes, in one of the upgrades, was to make them very expensive, at the higher levels, anyway. I even experimented with upgrading my foreign purchased transports with weapons that could get through the planets defences. Purchase, upgrade, attack. Send the freedom fighter

Reply to Hyperion Shrinker gives you less space? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This is news to me to.

Reply to A few noob questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

For metaverse games. Games started by clicking the metaverse button instead of the new game button. The scores can be saved at this site. At the end of the game you are ask if you want to post your score to the metaverse. Do so and it is recorded in the meta. Click "Metaverse" on the top left menu on this page to see. You cannot win an influence game if at war. So keep yourself in a constant state of war near the end when trying to win militarily. Trick... If you are far a

Reply to Latest Review Round-Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Cannot help but think, reading the review, that Starforces link "misjudgement" has been a windfall of good press and publicity for Stardock.

Reply to Unfair - In AI Favor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I always attack transports 1st, fleeted or not. There the only thing that can take a planet and really hurt you. I avoid direct attaks on purely military fleets unless I need to in order to protect my own assets. Never really noticed the AI's pattern as my goal is to take the enemy planets as quickly as possible without fighting every fleet in his armada.

Reply to AI "surrenders" to another CIV and the reaction of anyone with reason in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think the AI is quite good at picking whom it surrenders to. Pick the worst possible option for you and that 9/10 times is whom it surrenders to. Which is why it is so frustrating. I always pick my fights with the strongest AI first. If you fight a weaker opponent they will inevitably surrender to the strongest. All your doing is making your enemy super power stronger. I

Reply to Idea! Have Rally Points Sort Ships into Fleets based on class. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Good, bad, anything?

Idea! Have Rally Points Sort Ships into Fleets based on class. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Here is my idea. Have a "Fleet by Class" Rally point option. I like to keep my transports and my Military ships in separate fleets. In rally point management it would be great if the game would have a "Fleet by Class" option along with current "Normal" and "Fleet" options. Sort the constructors, transports and military automatically into there own separate fleets within the same Rally Point. Save a lot of time sorting when you want them separate.

Reply to Much too peaceful galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My theory is the new Galactic Aggressor response is responsible for less wars. If your to aggressive all the AI's declare war on you. Makes me think twice before I go to war unprovoked. The AI's are showing the same concern. My last game the Yor triggered an aggressor response and all the AI's including me jumped on them until they surrendered. I now use alliance strategy's to to get me into wars and avoid the Aggressor response and it seems to work.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Afternoon Da Moose. How goes the hunt?

Reply to Is this a bug? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

My bet would be a bug as Marcanthonas suggested, the AI isn't initiating properly for some reason. Not one ship other then what they were given at the beginning is not normal at any level. It has been described by others as well.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Afternoon Moose. Does anyone else notice that posts they make here sometimes disappear?

Reply to The UI and You in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I'd like to see ship specific rally points assignment in the goveners screen. example: All planets building constructors send them to rally 218 All planets building fighter mk5 send them to rally 219 or All transports head to rally to 220 Instead just the option for all ships head to 220 you could select a specific ship design to head to a rally point that meets a need. The rally point system is miles better now

Reply to AI Kicking my butt! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well I always give in to demands for cheese. There usually quite reasonable when you consider you have zero military at that point and as they like to point out, they could crush you like a bug. Not bragging, just saying, of course. Sure they like to rub it in, but they often move up there relations with you a notch after the concession. Afterwards I make sure I have an extra trade route or two with the aggressor. Making you more valuable to them. When you go to the race r

Reply to So...will there be a recalc soon? in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Agree, my new version scores are so much lower then the 1st I'm headed the wrong direction in the verse. Still some people playing the old version posting the huge scores I noticed.

Reply to Can you leave an empire? in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah , it's so intuitive I'm surprised you asked. To leave you click the the "Join Empire button" on your empire main page. As if that would not be the obvious correct move. This brings up your characters with the option to leave the empire button beside the character. Only took me 15 minutes to figure out.

Reply to Does resource mining unbalance the game? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'd like to see how the game would play without them as well. I find the initial constructor build phase very time consuming and not very exciting. I'd rather be building a military fleet for action. I don't really have a balance problem with them, just a time to build them problem. I'm getting off topic but I wish instead of having to build 30 constructors to build 1 starbase you only needed 1 constructor and then built the rest of the base the same way you build up a planet, through

Reply to Question.. if you put troop mods on your large ships in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What i was doing in the earlier version was buying the alien transports. Which depleted the planets of defenders. Then upgraded them to Combat transports that could get through the enemy planet defences. Attacking the next turn. Destroying an entire race with their own transports in two turns with not even sending a warship to their part of the galaxy. Oh, for the good old days.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

You bet your welcome to join Breaon. We have no conditions to join other then we play for fun. No worries about how much you can contribute. We are more then happy to help you out with any questions you may have about the game. Most of us also belong to the Galactic Core. You will find lots good information and good people there. www.thegalacticcore.com Welcome aboard. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Congrats.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmidd

Reply to You know you've played too much GalCiv when... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

When the Robot man says, "a few more turn's won't hurt", but by the look in your wife's eye's you know robot man is horribly wrong.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Woot! I have taken the first few turns with the update. What I have seen so far is s-o-o-o great! Especially appreciated so far: The destination points and paths for your ships onscreen so you can se

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

My wife has taken to standing over me around midnight to watch me turn off the game. The robot guy keeps saying a few more turns won't hurt, but by look in wife's eyes, I think the robot guy is sadly mistaken.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hey Peace as the resident math wiz. What's your opion on the new scoring formula? How do you see it effecting game play? Warning: The Moose is on the loose all weekend. Hide your buns.

Reply to "never will be completed" problem. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I don't know if this really helps you but I always click the the specialize in production button in the planets screen on a new planet. It goes from "never" to 38 years for the 1st factory. Better then never. I just think the population is to low to register any production for a few turns.

Reply to Proof that Stardock is planning more sequels in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Frogboy, when do you figure you'll be turning over the keys to your rocket car over to Miborovsky? 2015? . If you keep creating the worlds to play in, all keep playing in them.