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Reply to A Couple of Quick Questions in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

Thanks. That was quick.

A Couple of Quick Questions in Sins Diplomacy Sins Forums

New to Sins Diplomacy or Sins in general. I am loving it so far. A couple of quick questions: 1) I know that to build a ship you need to have the required number of military research buildings at that moment. How about passive bonuses? Do I need to have the required number of civic research buildings to get some passive bonus from a tech at that moment? I am thinking researching the tech and scrapping the research building to save on logistics slots (I have few planets). 2) When you press

Is the precursor Ranger way too powerful? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I just finished a game as Drengin. 3 tough opponents (Altarian, Arcean, Iconian) and 2 minor races (Paulos and Jagged Knife). I fought against Iconian for a long time while Altarian got really powerful economically and technologically (Arcean was a non-factor). Finally when I finished the Iconian, the Altarian had caught up with me militarily. Initially, I was winning my battles against her but since she was economically and technologically superior she started surpassing me militarily as wel

Civilization / Planet Screen Suggestion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I thought of this while playing Arnor on an Immense Galaxy in my last game. I was having a hard time locating my specialty square (+100% Manu., %300 Research, etc.) planets in the Civilization / Planet List screen. Wouldn't it be very useful to have little icons of specialties right next to the planet names in that list? Then you can quickly find and go to your 300% bonus planet. I think this would save a lot of time in big galaxies.

Reply to United Planets Constructive Suggestions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Very good ideas. One can also look at how the council stuff works in Alpha Centauri and MOO3 and get ideas.

Reply to Reoccuring anomolies in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I totally agree. I always wondered why anomalies wouldn't regenerate.

Reply to Prison UP Addendum in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I also want to have more control on UP addendums as well. Being able to set certain things (like the planet in this case) is nice. One thing that also annoys me is when you get the addendum you don't know what it's gonna be ahead of time so you're voting it blind since the screen is frozen until you vote. It would be nice if you could go back to the game screen and weigh your status and options before you vote.

Reply to Prison UP Addendum in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I see. So how often breakouts happen? Do you usually want this addendum for yourself or not?

Prison UP Addendum in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This addendum seems positive to me by reading the description (50% production bonus to the housing planet). However, I noticed all races vote for others. Surely, there must be something bad about this that I'm missing. What am I missing?

Reply to overpowered races? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In almost all of my games, Yor usually wins the game or is my most powerful opponent. I too noticed that Drath doesn't do very well in general.

Reply to Ship Naming Strategy: What do you do? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I name them something like 0-9-0 0-12-4 meaning it has 9 missile attack, 12 missile defense and 4 mass driver defense. I may throw in a few extra letters at the end if the ship is fast or has sensors etc.

Ship Designer Improvement in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but I always find myself doing math while designing ships. The designer show space used / total space like 18/124. It'd be nice if it also showed space available so I don't have to subtract 18 from 124 to find out how many shields (7 space each) would fit. Even better it could show how many of those items you can fit when you select an item to add. Oh also unrelated to this, are they gonna fix the bug where UP Council still shows dead

Reply to What weapons do you use? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I remember reading a post(s) by somebody demonstrating how beam weapons are superior (giving you the best bang for buck) to the other two types. Is that still true today (v1.2)?

Reply to Ancient Artifact in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hmmm... Ok I see. It's not going to be pretty cos that pretty much means I'm gonna fight both Thalans and Iconians (which are #1). They are ally. I just allied with Thalans. Now all I need to do is to somehow make Iconians ally with me.

Ancient Artifact in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In my game, I got message saying Thalans found an ancient artifact of immense power and if I don't destroy them soon they will get powerful and enslave me. Should I take this message seriously and attack them? We're at peace (close) and they have Iconian allies which are strongest (There are only three of us). Or is this message one of those messages that don't mean anything in practice? What does it actually mean?

Long Time Bug/Annoyance in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One kinda small thing that bugs me since Gal Civ 1 is how the civilization bonuses are displayed. Everything has a % sign whether it makes sense or not. Economics: +25% (Makes sense) Logistics: +9% (Doesn't make sense) Trade Routes: +3% (Doesn't make sense) Can we label them correctly? It would be also very nice if you could put a short description or tooltip to show what it meant. That is when you say Trade R

Reply to Can't stand "buy it now" mechanics in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Valid points.

Where is sector info? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I can't find the sector information feature. There used to be a button at the top center of the screen that showed the influences (in numbers) of each race for that sector in GC1. Was this removed or moved? Maybe I'm missing something.

I will never pre-order again in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Needless to say I'm very frustrated. I usually have a cardinal rule. I never pre-order because if a delay (like this) happens you're stuck with your pre-order and have to wait a few days while everybody else can go and buy the game from another store the day it is out. Well, lured by the extra goodies (and to support the developers) I decided to pre-order from a Gamestop retail store. Big mistake! Yesterday, I was told they didn't have the g

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Quick Video Demo in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

I have to say I'm very impressed. It's hard to wait for another week. By the way, I was pronouncing Drengin wrong too like most everyone else. I didn't think it'd be pronounced Drenjin. I guess I assumed aliens wouldn't have names with Gs with English pronounciation. Oh well, wrong assumption.

Reply to Ethical Alignments in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

what's the point in doing horrible things it gets you no more than if you did good? Umm what about game balance?

Ethical Alignments in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was reading the ethical alignment section in the manual and I came up with this question. in GC1 at least, evil choices within the game always gave you the most and good choices gave you the least. Therefore for balance, good civilization bonuses should be better than evil civilization bonuses (or selecting evil alignment after the xeno project should be more expensive than choosing good alignment). Do you think good bonuses are better than evil bonu

Reply to In your first game you will play as humans?? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I will play humans first and unmodified.

Reply to Please Upload Manual in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I second that. If possible that is.

Reply to What will your race be like? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Maybe kinda weird but I usually play with stock races. I try to deal with inherent strengths/weaknesses and make do with what I'm given. Some might call it boring but that's me. I'll probably try some custom race games though.