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Reply to Best starting configuration for an epic, but still not for a painfully detailed game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I set planets and habitable planets to "occasional"; this keeps things from getting to cluttered, even on the larger maps.

Reply to Why shouldn't Starbases attack enemy ships in their areas? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It also doesn't make any sense that the starbase can't fire it's ship-support weapons in it's own defense. I always just pretend the "military" modules are command, control, communications and intellienge facilities; it makes much more sense than the starbase firing lasers at ships five lightyears away, and would probabally have more an effect on space battles than a few extra weapons, anyway.

Reply to Issues and Suggestions in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

4) Custom ship designs are great but there needs to be a better way of managing custom designs. When I get to a point in a game where I need a custom ship, I create one. I can't see the ones I've created before if I haven't reached the same tech level. If I created a ship as a different race, I can't see those either. I end up reusing ship names and overwriting my old designs simply because I'm lazy at naming ships. Yeah, It would be

Strategic Reserves in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is kind of a nitpick, since it's something that's hard for even a human general to do, but I feel like the computer needs to be better about keeping up a strategic reserve to deal with the possiblity of a two-front war. The latest war in my current campaign is a good eaxmple, though it's happened before: I'm playing on "tough". There's a tense situation on my border with the Arceans. We have both built up large fleets, and it's uncle

Reply to Do not download the second Beta 1.1!!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah. Exactly. Dude. Beta. Though I've found it pretty stable, personally.

Reply to Relative Values of Racial Bonuses in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Diplomacy: Diplomacy is nearly useless if you turn off tech trading. I often use it early in the game, to make money by selling tech, or to keep up technologically without actually doing any research of my own. Technology is the best 'currency' in the game; it will buy you much more than actual money at much less cost, without being as risky as selling the computer ships. So, with tech trading on, Diplomacy is so useful it borders on an exploit.

Reply to Random Exploration: Not So Random? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I hadn't thought to mention it, but now that you bring it up, that's happened to me, and it's really annoying.

Reply to Random Exploration: Not So Random? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I hadn't thought to mention it, but now that you bring it up, that's happened to me, and it's really annoying.

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In the ship editor, ctrl-Z should undo! I keep hitting it when I make a mistake in the ship editor, and it's always frustrating when ti doesn't work and I have to select the component and remove it.

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

ctrl-Z should undo! I keep hitting it when I make a mistake in the ship editor, and it's always frustrating when ti doesn't work and I have to select the component and remove it.

Reply to A difficulty I'm having with influence... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Having played a heavily cultural strategy before and after the 1.1 Beta, I can tell you that deffections happen much more often in the new patch.

Reply to AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI in "The Godfather" does learn. If I kill too many of a familys members they declare war on my family and come bombing my stores and rackets. The AI in Gal Civ 2 learns, too, in that sense. I've got fleets of missile/chaff ships hovering near the Drengin border guarding my influencer starbases. Gradually, I get to watch the Drengin's missile boats being replaced by beam/chaff ships. It warms the heart.

Reply to AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Only the Terrans and Drengin have the fully upgraded AI in the beta - other races have the new APIs, but not the algorithms to use them to their fullest potential yet, I believe. The Drengin in my current game certainly didn't make any stupid mistakes (other than going to war with everyone else because I asked them nicely). That would help explain it. If I get time for another game before the real 1.1 comes out, maybe I'll set up a th

Reply to AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm playing on intelligent. What I THINK is happening is that early in the game I tend to focus more on mobile than static defenders. The computer see that I have undeffended planets, and sends transports, but doesn't think that I may have fighters zooming around. So it loses all it's transports. Later in the game, when my deffenses are more through, I see swarms of fighters, instead, which is good.

Reply to STICKY: Glitch Report v1.1 BETA in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Debug Message: Version v1.1 BETA-1 last updated on: Fri Mar 24 19:54:46 2006 Debug Message: Could not find a TGN Serial No. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 3/27/2006, 07:33:21 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: BEATRIX Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) Languages: English (R

Reply to AI in 4X games in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

"Smart AI" is kind of an oxymoron. As a long-time veteran of strategy games, I can reasonably expect to take a game out of it's box, intall it, and be able to kick the computer's butt tactially in anything like an equal battle. But some AIs are better than others, and Gal Civ II is better than average for it's generation. I actually thing the tactical AI in Civ IV is better - I've seen the computer recognize and exploit my weaknesses rather

AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Seriously, in two games, both the Torains and the Arceans have declared war, and come after me with nothing but a half dozen or so unescorted troop transports. Something is very, very wrong with the new Military AI for at least those two races.

Reply to STICKY: Glitch Report v1.1 BETA in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Not an error, but upgrading a custom freighter design removes the trade module (leaving the ship with 0 spaces full) without removing the trade ability! I guess it' not too cheesy to be able to make super-freighters, but it might extend to other designs, I haven't checked yet.

Reply to Your all time favorite video/computer game is... [what]? in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Best RPGs: Fallout Morrowind (looking forward to Oblivion!) Deus Ex Best Grand Strategic/4x: Civ II and IV Gal Civ I and II MOO2 Best Operational Level Strategic: Korsun Pocket Conflict: Middle East Best Tactial: Steel Panthers MBT TacOps and Silent Storm, at least until you start running into PanzerKleins Best action: Pirates Fate and also Deus Ex again, I suppose, though I would ha