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Reply to Very annoying. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Within the first couple weeks after release it was mentioned by the devs that if you're going to be alt-tabbing alot, it's best to simply run the game in windowed mode.

Reply to AI is CHEATING COMPLETELY! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Most techs are relatively easy to get if you dedicate yourself to getting it. However, in doing so you sacrifice your progress other areas of research and colony development. It's a tradeoff.

Reply to population vs production/research in Research GalCiv2 Forums

The population of a world does not affect industry except insomuch as it produces tax revenue with which to fund said industry. In general, however, population and industry are totally separate. The population of a world is capped by the amount of food that it produces, but also by a hard limit that is based on the quality of a planet. The formula for this hard limit is as follows: 0.02 * (PQ + 1) ^ 3 As such, a PQ10

Reply to 800x600 HELP! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think the minimum is 1024x768, but you could try manually altering the prefs.ini file in your "My Documents/My Games/GalCiv2" directory. . . No guarantee that it'll work, though. . .

Reply to Buy Project and Buy Ship in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Weird. AFAIK you cannot buy more than one project on a single planet per turn. Subsequent turns should be no problem, though. When you buy a ship it should appear the next turn. Just don't switch the shipyard production until then.

Reply to The altarian empire are they really good in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I find that they generally do decently, though no more or less so than other civs. They do annoy me more than others, though. I usually play Terrans, so their little speach about how Terrans are almost like them so its a matter of course that I be conquered kinda irks me.

Finally had my first Metaverse game in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Huge galaxy, common habitable planets, tight star clusters, normal research, and everything else set to occasional. I allowed all types of victory. Five AI's: Yor, Drengin, Altarian, Torian, Thalan. Skill level set to "Tough". I played the Terrans with a Federalist government and throughout the game chose to follow a neutral ethical path. As the game started I noted that starting positions weren't all that bad, so I didn't hit ctrl-n e

Reply to Quesion regarding the shipyard and ship creation in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Aside from looking at the raw file, no, there isn't.

Reply to Horrific Memory Leak in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You shouldn't have to reboot to play a game... memory leaks are an unfortunate and aweful side effect of using C++ to code something Bah. . . Memory leaks occur just as easily in garbage collected languages, too. In C++ you have to remember to deallocate memory. In garbage collected languages you have to

Reply to Dominion..of INFLUENCE!!!! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds like the invasion bug. . . Every-so-often an invasion will result in a trillion people suddenly appearing on the newly conquered world. This produces a monstrous amount of influence which often envelopes a large portion of the map. The next turn the population gets truncated down and a couple turns after that the influence dies down, too. Saving and reloading also fixes this problem. It's probably fixed in the upcoming 1.1 patch.<

Reply to Creating Random Number of Planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

5 is the maximum. In my game settings I have planets set to "Uncommon", and stars have a decent spread of from 0 to 5 planets.

Reply to AI Surrender in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, once my victory is inevitable, I usually just let peace happen and take the rest with influence -- either influence conquest or influence victory. By then I have so much military power that anyone left alive is too bloody scared of me to get angry at my influence enveloping their worlds.

Reply to Unused Social Spending routed to military spending (or back to treasury if nothing is being used) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

later on 90% of the time a planet is not building, so you will get an OBSCENE amount of money if its done like this. If I'm not building any social projects on any of my planets I drop the social spending slider down to 0% anyway, so there's no difference there. The only time I raise it is when I get

Reply to Minor bug: Can't Launch 'People Movers' Empty in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Not a bug, but a design decision.

Reply to Do some planets have a max population unrelated to Food Prod and Approval? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, there's a hard limit based on the planet's quality rating. Here's a link from the wiki: Link

Reply to Taking over enemy planets + production clarification in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Usually the AI builds embassies when it thinks that another civ's influence is getting to be too strong, and the planet is in danger of being enveloped.

Reply to Transport Bug/Exploit in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, I somehow didn't notice the part about the planet being defended. In that case it is both a bug exploit and a gameplay quirk exploit.

Reply to couple questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No to both, unfortunately.

Reply to Question: Ship Design vs. Core Ships in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The core ships are honestly not all that useful -- especially since the AI designs its own ships, anyway. New core ships appear intermittently, usually only after major technologies have been researched. Even then, there's not all that useful. If you want to conitnually have upgraded ships (or ships that really do suit your needs), you'll have to design them yourself.

Reply to GalCiv2 and Linux in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Linux would be cool, but as others said: it would probably be quite a huge undertaking to convert. Most games that are portable to Linux were originally designed to be portable in the first place or are extremely modular.

Reply to Transport Bug/Exploit in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's not a bug, though it definitely is an exploit. There really should be penalties for doing such things, such as condemnation by the rest of the United Planets and perhaps a slip in ethical alignment towards the evil end (not much of an issue if you're evil anyway, but it's in-character).

Reply to Where are the save files? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ah, well. . . the forum's a bit buggy.

Reply to So yeah...im getting owned and... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I personally don't see any point playing on any difficulty above cakewalk. the bonus points you get as you increase difficulty is not enough compared to the increased difficulty. Its like on Freespace 2, the points you get per kill and mission is based on your difficulty level, but i have learnt that the bon

Reply to Where are the save files? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They're in the My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2 directory.

Reply to An explanation please....... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You could try and conquer them with influence. Build influence bases around his planets, one at a time. With no enemies, it should be too hard to build the number of constructors necessary. Either he'll get pissed off at you and break the alliance, or he'll do nothing as his planets start rebelling.