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Reply to Still want Multiplayer? OK...! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

To Clarify: If you want to build the very best decks possible you will have to spend a decent amount of money yes. But those that have such decks generally play them only in tournaments (and only in those that let you use all the cards in the game at that - there are plenty of tourney formats that impose a level playing field in terms of cards). however, rare-less decks can compete with all but the very best decks in the game, so the divide is not as big as in many card-based games.</

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Reply to Still want Multiplayer? OK...! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm an ex-gal civ player who currently plays a lot of StarChamber, and have for over a year. Gal Civ is an awesome single player game, and I enjoyed it very much. I still fire it up when I feel like a bit of single payer challenge. But in the end, however good the gal civ AI is (and its one of the best i've ever seen), it cant beat playng a human :) From what I remember, many peoples gripes against MP online games were: 1. Impolite, immature idiots who will call you a

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Reply to Galciv II Difficulty problem in 1.31 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

note after a few restarts the debug.err shows: Debug Message: Creating Civs Debug Message: Drengin Empire: Intellence -> 15 Debug Message: Altarian Republic: Intellence -> 15 Debug Message: Torian Confederation: Intellence -> 15 Debug Message: Yor Collective: Intellence -> 15 Debug Message: Creating Civs... Done even though the first few set intelligence to 80 as noted above. so somehow the intelligences have indeed ended up being very low.

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Reply to Noob question.Combat Viewer in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

theres a few options in the options screen to control when the combat viewer appears, you can choose to have it show only when both sides are fleets, or when either of the sides are fleets. dont think you can have it come on for 1-on-1 battles, but youd have to check the options screen and congrats on your first victory <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/BigSmile.gif" borde

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Reply to Any tips for a newbie? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hiya! heres a few hopefully useful points. 1. I tend to work on military and technology fairly evenly, and on culture only later on in a game if I think I can nab some planets with it. I usually lag a bit behind in tech early to grab more planets, then catch up later. 2. for weapons you are probably best focussing on one - even if the AI has matching defenses, the added damage of being further along one particular branch will cancel most of the advantage you would get reasearch

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Reply to What elements in Galciv2 are useless (or almost useless)? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I agree with a lot of that. Disagree to some extent with the invasion tactics - I do use the ones you mentioned, though admittedly not as often as the others. I think trade is well worth it, maybe not so much for the money, but for keeping good relations with civs you dont want war with early. econ starbases - would never bother with the trade modules, but the factory modules can be dead useful (depending on distribution of planets). my top useless in-game elemen

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Reply to ganging on the #1 civ in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

well, I had a game where the drengin were quite powerful (#1 military), and they attacked the torians. A few turns later I got a message from either the iconians or the altarians (I forget which) saying the drengins attack was unprovoked and they were planning to do something about it, and that I was welcome to join in. Next turn, the altarians and the iconians both declared war on the drengin (though they weren't actually allies). Needless to say, the drengin didnt last long, especia

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Reply to What was the name of that game...? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

sounds a lot like starflight - I played that on the megadrive but there was a dos version too. you could stun and capture the critters, and sell them, right? and suns were going nova and you had to find out why... is that the game?

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Reply to Let slip the rodents of war in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

hehee, they've never done that with me but I wish they would! I think the difference is probably that people who play on galaxies with many planets dont see minors do much, because they dont expand and so get left behind. People who play galaxies with few planets see the minors become powerful on occasion because they start with a nice planet and as all races will only have a few planets, they dont get left behind.

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