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Reply to Well shoot, I thought those fleet warp modules will defend my other ships. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Does the warp-bubble ship have at least one weapon in addition to the defenses? I've never had the tactical screen target anything other than the warp-bubble baitship as long as it was armed; but one time I forgot and left off the laser and then my fleet got wiped.

Reply to Buying Miners (What Do You Think Of It)?????????? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I like buying out miners. It means I get production bonuses, and it deprives the AIs of those same bonuses; seems like a win-win that's worth some cash to gain a fairly meaningful long-term benefit . I just sail 'em back to my own space before turning 'em loose.

All-factories mechanics and ideological purity in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So, I'm playing my first all-factories game, on Painful with the Krynn. Actually, I'm only sort of playing all factories. In my last few games I've played a sort of bastard all-facs, where I only build factories except on the bonus squares, and also keep the sliders at, like, 60% research, which is, I believe, completely goofy from an all-facs-strategy perspective, which relies on the efficiency of production keeping the ol' sliders heavy on soci

Reply to Challenging to Tough and Thalans in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

It's still on Tough. The Krynn are on the ropes; it's a gigantic map so it just takes forever, but I'm eating them up steadily; they just couldn't compete militarily with my large ships with strong missile defenses. The Thalan have a great endgame with those factory matrices and everyone else's industry techs to max out resource mines.

Reply to Is there a Free Lunch? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

So, a cheap lunch!

Is there a Free Lunch? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

So, I assume the answer is 'no', but thought I'd ask. There are tons of ways to bump production; asteroid mines and economic starbases come to mind. But, I assume you have to pay for that production -- right? All the shields from whatever source drop into the pot, bcs get deducted, and stuff gets made? Just askin'

Reply to Challenging to Tough and Thalans in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks! My retry with the Thalans is turing out very exciting; it's down to me vs the Krynn, with the Korx left with 10% of the map or so. The Krynn have 60%, roughly, so it's going to be a good endgame, though they're on the wrong end of the attack/defense tactical missles/drivers/beams game, so I think I'm going to put 'em down.

Reply to Challenging to Tough and Thalans in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

TOA -- sorry, I forgot to specify. Weirdo tech tree and all.

Challenging to Tough and Thalans in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So, I was just mopping the floor with the AIs on Challenging; both as Drath and Terrans; and it's time to move to Tough games. And, impressed by the Big Pink Blob of Death in previous outings, I decided to play Thalan. It's not going well; my first try I was a bit stuck in a corner and the Terrans went wild and by the time I really got going they owned half the map, rather more because than in spite of my attempts to embroil them in conflicts. I'm on the

Reply to Turn Order/Boundaries/Tracking in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'll have to check on the 'team' setting. I've had an alliance early in the game every time I've played so far, one I didn't seek, once with the bloody Dreghin. Go figure.

Reply to Turn Order/Boundaries/Tracking in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Do you start the game off with one alliance? I seem to have, or acquired it early anyhow, in recent games.

Turn Order/Boundaries/Tracking in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've been playing for a month off-and-on, and I'm getting a handle on economic theory, military affairs, and even diplomacy, though I don't know where some of those alliances have come from. What I don't have a handle on at all is the turn / movement system. Who moves first in a turn? How do you know another week is about to begin -- it's the greenlit turn button, right? But how can I track whether I've moved everything? I'm sure I&#39

Reply to Index Of Tricks in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm interested in feedback on a trick I've been trying; only on my third game, up to challenging difficulty. I try to lead the AIs into specific weapons lines. If someone develops Laser early -- it's usually lasers -- I trade for it, then trade/sell/gift it to the rest of the civs; and I keep doing that to keep all of them going with the lasers. Meanwhile I'm researching mass-drivers and shields. It's been a lifesaver so far; I'm fightin

Reply to Why keep Influence Starbases in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I look at the report, though, and don't see any maintenance cost associated with the starbase. So why destroy it?