Solitair

Solitair

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Reply to Loosing economy in later stages of game. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Forget about the rates and focus on the actual numbers! Look at the top left numbers. When changing from government type to another the tax collected will greatly increase (check the number). Your spending will also greatly increase (check your military, social, research and maintenance numbers). You then need to rebalance your collection and spending RATES to keep you in profit. When you do this you should see that the new numbers are still higher than the old numbers. The reason

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Reply to Beta 1Y seems much harder in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OK, just won my first medium galaxy with the new build. Took a bit of doing though. Decided that I couldn't beat the computer players in the colonisation race and so focussed on transports. Built lots of these and sent them to every newly conquered AI planet (only 3 enemies races were near me). Because the AI purchased the colony ships (thanks for revelaing that Brad ;) ) it couldn't afford to purchase defenders! Once I had transport ships discovered I switched to Cruiser research. The f

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Reply to Beta 1Y seems much harder in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad, crippling yourself long term in order to planet grab short term is a perfectly acceptable strategy. The human player just needs to be able to know when to make use of this, and the AI has to know how to get out of this problem later. Possibly by selling improvements or even trading some of these easily grabbed planets to another player for much needed cash? An AI that grabbed as many planets as possible and then sold a few to pay it's debts would be very dangerous. Imagine op

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Reply to Some ideas... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Nazghul, your Tech ideas are certainly interesting. I would be all for the suggestions on 'style' of civilation (military, tech, etc). The idea of not removing other tech trees but just increasing the cost is very interesting. This would led to games where research victories could be achieved well before every tech was researched as many techs were within certain styles. I do like this. Your ship suggestions have already been ruled out (at least for this release) as the game is str

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Reply to Can't research Cultural Trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On That note is there any chance of a bug list on the forum? Maybe even under the download page. Something that gets updated on a daily of weekly basis, listing the bugs found, whether fixed or not. It would greatly help in bug reporting. Paul.

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Reply to Weapons - loadouts and priorities in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

all these suggestion would require some form of tactical combat and the AI would need to be very good at this. I do like rock-scissors-paper type ideas, where certain ships are better against other ships, but this requires lots more AI programming and careful balancing (especially with no fleets). Perhaps these sorts of advances can be added in later releases? Paul.

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Reply to How does a starship battle works? Suggestion in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad, avoiding mega fleets is good, but there needs to be some way for a player to defeat that level 6 avatar. Throwing individual ships at it is not going to work! Maybe not allowing fleets, but increasing the attack value of each subsequent attacking vessel in the same turn? 1st attacking ship is normal, second is at level +1, third is at level +2, etc... This could achieve the same effect and be fairly easy to program. It may not even require a change to the AI. I li

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Reply to Balance in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Unfortunately, with the current planet grabbing rush, you either grab as many planets as you can at the start or die. Hence the strategy of upping spending and military allows you to compete at higher difficulty levels. Sorry Alex, I suppose we should have kept these strategies for a strategy guide ;) . $12.99 strategy guide by Alex and Paul. How to get top scores in the Metaverse! Paul.

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Reply to Defensive Ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Alex, I agree with you. I like difficult either or decisions. Especially if I'm forced by circumstances to make different decisions in different games. It makes for much higher replayability. Jack, The reason (gamewise) only a defensive ship would get defensive bonuses is to allow for non war mongering races to have a defensive strategy which doesn't involve having to build offensive ships. You want the best defense, it's a bit strange if the best defensive ship required

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Reply to colony ship and transoprt ship balance in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Gherardo, I would certainly agree with everything in your list. Another way of controlling the 'put my hat' tactic would be to allow orbital bombardment. This should be able to destroy small colonies. If a large enough fleet bombards a small colony it may even occur in 1 turn without the owner being sure of who did it (as he would have lost sensor views). Paul.

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Reply to Trade Route Debate in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

turbosr, with the current situation where you can build everything on every planet, every planet will eventually become a trading planet. Therefore a merchant victory would not be possible against a larger military empire. Other ideas are very interesting, but need to rethink the method of economic victory. This requires some method for a smaller empire to focus on economy and win which a larger nation forcussing on military cannot do, or cannot just switch to once they are the lar

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Reply to The Minor Races and implementation in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad, to answer your question (a) because the american population would not accept an unprovoked war. Especially 50 unprovoked wars. Major social unrest and senate activity. (b) because many of those minors have american citizens. Could America attack Ireland without civil war? Localised unrest. (c) because other major powers WILL join the war. Even without a specific defense pack. (d) complete diplomatic isolation and trade embargo. Economy would be in

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Reply to Balance in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Javascout, when you start a game you do immediately change you economic settings don't you? you have 1000 credits, use them! Increase spending to 100% and then focus heavily on military spending. This will allow you to throw out colony ships every 2-4 turns (per planet). Once you have colonised every planet change production to focus on research and social. Head for Battleships and then set ALL planets to manufacture these. Do remember to reduce spending when you run out of credits, <

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