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Reply to Ship Design - Doe you bother? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I never really spend alot of time in the design phase, I normally just pick a template, place the guns, and move on. Like so many others I also play from a far out zoom most of the time, so as long as my designs are not as bruteforce as the computers, then I am happy. I have also disabled the cinematic fleet combats, because frankly I hate that bit of the game...The grafics are just to annoying. The day when we get some more grafical battles, that has ships ge

Reply to Thoughts and analysis on TA as of beta 4 in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] The Thalans have apparently decided to try and kill me with embassies. A sneaky plan on their part. Best line ever... [/quote] Who knows. Maybe if the old, mega-tourism income from on of the previous betas were still there, then those embassies would serve as economy buildings. But I guess the AI is just obsessed that it must build something, anything.

Reply to Dread Lords Campaign - Mission "Exploitation" in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] After spending a week, on and off, on the Dread Lords campaign I was finally able to beat the Apocalypse level. In all honesty, &%$@ that mission. The key is the build lots and lots of small fighters with speed ratings of 6 or more. I gave up on building starbases and went around picking off Dread Lord troop transports while evading the enemy. Make sure you build a custom survey ship that can match the speed of the fighters, as well. When you see the Dread Lo

Reply to Humanity at its Worst in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Despite these human tragedies, and on a larger scale, organized crime, religious wars, the energy crisis, all that stuff... I'm an optimist. The power of the human mind is incredible. Understanding that while the universe tends to entropy, the Earth tends to equilibrium is a very strong guiding force. Yeah, you can focus on the bad things. And that will depress you. How about focusing on the good things? We eradicated Smallpox in 1979. A dis

Reply to My Greatest Comeback Win Ever! in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Thou hast too much free time on thy hands! __________________________________________ The military starbase paralysis-attack idea was innovative. Just for flavor, I tried that in my last game(Yor, Huge, Rare-all, Masochistic) in a war with the Arceans, and was surprised at how the Warp Field Disruptors and Interdiction Beams didn't fire immediately. Then I realized that Warp Field Disruptors and Interdiction beams are classified as [I]some kind of weapon[/I], and not a passive bonus

Reply to Spygate in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Many times, I've had the Mega-Spy mega-event which rains spies on all planets in the galaxy. Yet nothing happened at all to me because my Counter-Espionage Centers blocked them all off. With CECs on all your worlds, you are invincible against spies.

Reply to Anyone reakon it'd be cool to have ship killers(build limit of 1) added?? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You can't build an ultimate 'Super Project' invincible ship killer voluntarily. Even if you can build an invincible all-killing ship, nothing stops you from building more of them, and eventually some freak Peacekeepers will show up and revoke your invincibility. But if you(or an AI) do get the Precursor Ranger early in the game when ships are still primitive small/medium hulls, you do get a one-shot 'ship killer'. A true 'Super Project' ship would be an extremely fast and reusa

Reply to Pulsating Joy Happy Driving System in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ahh... I see you're inspecting an Altarian(or Korx, or Altarian-style) ship. Blackhole Eruptor - "Guest leaves happily and quickly signal handshake" :LOL: Can't forget that one. The Terran/Arcean ships always have the name of the company which manufactured the components and specifications/model of the components. Altarians/Korx always have absolute nonsense-crap like this. Thalan/Yor/Krynn have some robotic or serious sounding descriptions. Drengin/Korath ships have

Reply to Terraforming is not feasible in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

700 years? I don't know... tech has progressed much faster over the last 2 centuries for some reason. Just over 100 years ago, flying was a ridiculous dream, and space travel even more. Cars were some sort of gimmick, and electricity was a new concept. Who knows how things will be in, say, 2118? Or 2225? In fact, until the last ~12000 years, I don't suppose we've made much progress at all(for nearly 2000000 preceding years). I'm not quite convinced, however, if we'll be able to

Reply to Dread Lords - bug or combat mechanic? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The Dread Lords are actually quite easy to beat. First off, don't leave home without a 25% Luck bonus. Then, if they use tiny hulls, you use small hulls(or larger) with 6-[I]24[/I] attack. If they use small hulls, you use medium(or better) hulls with 11-[I]44[/I] attack. If they use medium hulls, you use large(or better) hulls with 28-[I]112[/I] attack. If they use large hulls, you use huge hulls with 58-[I]232[/I] attack. If they use huge

Reply to Iconian AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

The Mass Driver bombardment doesn't wreck the planet if the invasion fails. It just kills off lots of population. Stardock made it like this so that people couldn't go around bombing planets into hell with empty transports, but they activated this exploit in the process. I don't care too much about saving transports. If I do need another one, I used the stored production in captured starports to build another transport and drive on. I finished my first ever Masochistic game

Reply to Iconian AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

I'm surprised that you used Troop Transport [I]fleets[/I] for your invasions. Wave Invasion is much better. Send 1 or 2 transports to the high-pop target world and bombard it with Mass Drivers. 500 troops would do the trick for a 6-billion world, 1000 troops for a 9-12 billion world, and 1500-2000 troops for a 16 billion world, with variations depending on soldiering abilities. The initial Mass Driver attack must be made to purposely fail. If it succeeds, the planet ta

Reply to Can we tone down the unique tech trading some? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] I also play without it. It usually avoids to combat ships with multiple weapon/defense techs. Imagine, the US would trade their(as I think) expensive and quite useless stealth tech to an (as always) "temp-ally-foe" in exchange for say some needed diplomacy skills, lol. The russians would party, having access to that tech, as they already possess stealth detection tech. [/quote] The Russians do not have stealth-detection tech. Whe

Reply to Arcean Slowpokes in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] In my last Arcaean game I had a bunch of small, poorly located planets with nothing but Cathedrals on them. They could just sit there, generating a bit of tax income and research . . . and making my soldiers cut through the opposition with contemptuous ease. [/quote] 8 of these 'Cathedrals of Valor' could beat a Tir-Quan Training center. 8x2 = 16. TQ = 15. But the Arceans would still not be the toughest, most resilient race again

Reply to Planet Liberation in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In the DL campaign, the Terrans liberate the planet Tiniath from the Drengin in order to convince the Torians into an alliance. But they don't liberate it in the sense that the Torians get the planet back. Instead, they rescue the Torian leader, abandon the planet, and flee from the Dread Lords.

Reply to Ship Design - Doe you bother? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I design a base cargo hull 'utility chassis' template for each ship style, and bolt on the necessary modules to that chassis template whenever I need a constructor/miner/transport/surveyor. For miniaturized utility ships, I simply take a tiny hull and bolt on the required module. For warships, I create 1 heavy fighter template, 1 frigate template, and 1 dreadnought template on each ship style and then bolt on weaponry etc. whenever I design a warship. I always make sur

Reply to Ship Maintence on ships with no weapons in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think Freighters should have maintenance, but [I]Mini-Freighters[/I](operating on established trade routes) should not have maintenance. That means the longer you keep freighters hanging around, the longer your break-even time will be once they begin trading. Similarly, unarmed Constructors, Surveyors and Miners should have a negligible, very slight maintenance(capped at 10bc). Warships(ships with weapons, defenses, troop modules, fleet modules) in space should pay maintenance as it i

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What the hell is a 'Pulse Cannon'? Or a 'Seeker Missile'. Never heard of a missile with only 1 attack. I guess it has to be quite small space-wise to compete with the Stinger(which, incidentally, was invented by the Yor :HOT: ).

Reply to Ship Naming Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Here's my naming: Small & Tiny ships - Any one/two word name or a callsign to designate a squadron(if present). Medium ships: Something-Class DD* DDG - Frigate(1 engine, 1 support, heavy defensive general purpose warship) DDN - Cruiser(2-3 engine, 1 support, heavy defensive fast warship) DDX - Hunter-Killer(3-4 engines, 1 support, survey module possible, rest weapons) Large ships: Something-Class BB* BBG - Similar to Frigate

Reply to Hydrogen Cars in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] WWW Link An alternative idea so we can stop argueing about hydrogen. [/quote] Compressed air is just another way of storing electricity. We get energy from the sun. This energy... : [B][I][/B] Was stored for thousands of years in dead plants to make fossil fuels. This fossil fuel can be: 1. Directly burnt as in existing Internal Combustion Engines or Gas T

Reply to Approval and Influence Bonus Tiles in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The most useful building to build on a 100% Approval 'Mystic Spring' tile is the Counter-Espionage Center. It blocks spies off the planet it's built on and saves you those ridiculous nullifying costs, and gives you a 20% Morale bonus for free. The best thing to build on a 100% Influence 'Ruins' tile is of course the Stock Market. It's real use is it's 25% Economic bonus, but it's extra 5% Influence bonus will get doubled anyway. The best things for spreading influence aren't embassies,

Reply to Population Growth and Morale in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] How are population growth bonuses due to morale applied? Are they based on your civilization's overall morale, or are they applied to each planet based on that planet's morale? Also, does the super breeder ability work the same way? [/quote] Planet-based, due to planetary approval. 0-20% - 10% of population 'quits' your government each week, i.e, stops paying taxes. 21-29% - Population

Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I designed a ship in my current sandbox game, which is the first ship I'd like to post on the forums. It's the first ship I've designed to look completely unrelated to it's base hull. It does not use KHSM(making it fully metaverse-legal), and in fact uses only 5 extras. It's a Terran medium hull which represents what I imagine us humans to actually make space warships look like when we eventually have to militarize space(against aliens or against ourselves) - water-based ships. Although I actual

Reply to And now for something completely different ... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Part of it was that I had incredible luck with bonus tiles - one planet had two 700% research tiles, and another planet had one 300% and one 700% manufacturing tile. Was it luck? Or perhaps bonus tiles are more concentrated when there are so few planets. [/quote] Absolutely not. I play Rare-everything Huge maps regularly and do not get extra bonus tiles. I've only once seen a Precursor Mine and a

Reply to Ship maintenance is killing me, where is all the new money again? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] One thing I haven't looked into was, do freighters cost ship maintenance? I'm just wondering if the mini-freighters are pouring more money down the drain then what they can bring in. Yes, at least in DA freighters cost more than they brought in for the first 1-3 years depending on the map setting. This was something I initially complained about in DA, then I gave up and just stopped using freighters. Remember in addition to