Welcome thagee, hope the information contained in this thread proves useful to u. Only 2 rules really, have fun and the weapon of choice, the Doom Ray.  

I'm more of a missle man personally, although I'm sure I can be Doom Ray converted (it does make an awesome sound when it fires!).

Thanx for the welcome Meglo! Go the Orcas!

Oh and I have found the hints & tips to be very handy!

Hey Mega if you do get a chance to post some more hints and tips, could you give us a couple focusing on the financial side of things - how to get a fat and happy economy ticking over as fast as possible?

Hey Mega if you do get a chance to post some more hints and tips, could you give us a couple focusing on the financial side of things - how to get a fat and happy economy ticking over as fast as possible?

Ok, tip 21 to follow.  

Hope it helps u with yr economy.  

Meglobob's tip of the day:-

No. 21

Making money...

So the first tech u researched was impulse drive, the second tech to research is sensors, to give u loads of $$$.

Sensors gives u the survey module. So once researched, design and build fast survey ships. I usually use my homeworld, with the rest of my new colonys still pumping out colony ships. A good rule of thumb is to build 1 extra survey ship per galaxy size, besides yr starting flagship. So 1 survey ship on tiny to 6 on gigantic. Those survey ships then grab as many anomalies as possible, giving u plenty of 2,500 BC's and other cash boosts. Yr economy will fly along. Of course only useful if anomalies r set to abundant.

As a bonus yr survey ships have a 7 parsec sensor range, so they explore the galaxy very quickly for u as well.

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It did, thanx Meglo, I am hoping that 1.4 helps out with the financial hiccoughs that can happen early game. Should make the game a little less frustrating over-all. Just finishing up my first Gigantic Maso level game, should post tommorrow - Stupid U.P voted to change all governments to Imperial for 2 years...Grrrr!

Will kick off my first 1.4 sometime next week.

Stupid U.P voted to change all governments to Imperial for 2 years...Grrrr!

That's one of the best events on a larger map !!

Just leave the UP, and go back to federal or whatever. You lose trade, but gain the econ and influence bonuses. (and they can't get it either)

On a gigantic map, trade is a joke so it's really a no brainer... (check out your economy page, I can garantee that the bonuses you get will out weight the loss of trade.)

Will kick off my first 1.4 sometime next week.

1.4 sounds a whole lot better than 1.31 which I disliked, so I need to summon the willpower to finish my gigantic 1.31 game, then I can have fun with 1.4, hopefully it will go some way to being as good as 1.2.

That's one of the best events on a larger map !! Just leave the UP, and go back to federal or whatever. You lose trade, but gain the econ and influence bonuses. (and they can't get it either) On a gigantic map, trade is a joke so it's really a no brainer... (check out your economy page, I can garantee that the bonuses you get will out weight the loss of trade.)

That's a good one, gallagher118. U will gain a huge economic advantage over the AI's, if they r stuck with imperial and u have democracy. Alot of UP and random events can give u a considerable edge if used correctly. The MegaEvents in DA will be interesting...

Now that gigantic 1.31 game...where was I...oh yes a huge galactic war with the Drengin...

Thanks again for the advice guys, that is in fact exactly what I ended up doing, and subsequently have recently posted a recent win taking me to 132nd in the verse, placing me 1 position higher than u Meglo, so brother if there was any motivation to finish that game, I have just given u another one, kick my a$$!

Gonna start a 1.4 on the next diff level above Maso tonight, to see if I can start making the push into the top 100.

With a 4 month old daughter a top 100 is best I can aspire 2 with time considerations, unlike psycho's like gallagher, Mr top 25!

Go the Orca's!

Actually there seem to be quite a few top 25 er's in the Orca's!

Woo Hoo, just noticed I am now a Senator for the Orca's...what are my Senately duties? Do I have to attract more voters? Do we hold council from time to time? We will go on a quest to drop the Diplomats into Mount Doom? Will we have to side with Green Peace in an effort to stop 'experimental space whaling'?

Woo Hoo, just noticed I am now a Senator for the Orca's...what are my Senately duties? Do I have to attract more voters? Do we hold council from time to time? We will go on a quest to drop the Diplomats into Mount Doom? Will we have to side with Green Peace in an effort to stop 'experimental space whaling'?

  There whatever u want them to be.   On getting enough points to be a senator.

Thanks again for the advice guys, that is in fact exactly what I ended up doing, and subsequently have recently posted a recent win taking me to 132nd in the verse, placing me 1 position higher than u Meglo, so brother if there was any motivation to finish that game, I have just given u another one, kick my a$$!

Yes, started playing it again, nearly wiped the floor with the Drengin, captured the Doom Ray off them  , just the Thalans and Iconians after that...

Hopefully should shoot me back into the top 100.

I hope you guys don't mind if I share my recent problems with GalCiv2 and whinge a bit. On Monday, I finished off my most recent game with my primary character, and tried to post it to the Metaverse. It didn't work. For some reason, that game had been reclassed as 'normal'. It was one of my most enjoyable games, and my highest score to date, but I can't get credit for it or keep a record of it on the Metaverse. Last night, I was finishing off my most recent game with my secondary character. I got to 9 weeks of an Influence Victory to go, hit Turn -- the Thalans apparently declared war on me, and the game froze. I say apparently because my trade routes were ended and the relations table shows us at war, but I don't know what happened, because the game refuses to start my turn. I can access all the screens, at least I think so, but the turn button is just gone. I presume that the game was trying to hit me with the Vengeance event yet again, and overloaded itself. Mega-events will be optional in Dark Avatar; I wish they were optional now. I would never use them. Anyway, I will go back to a previous save and try and play on from that point. I doubt it will work, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got cheat flagged for loading a previous game.

I'm pretty sure you don't get cheat flagged for going back and loading a previous save to complete a game, although only having it done once or twice, I am pretty sure a few of the games I have posted to the 'verse haven't accrued any type of 'cheat flag'.

As for the problems you are having with the game, what version are you running? Have you upgraded to the 1.4X, it seems like a pretty good version of the game, I prefer the way it plays now, the adjustments certainly make the game more enjoyable!

Should only be a few more days and I will post my First Obscene victory in a Gigantic uni for the Orcas! I notice we still have a significant lead over the diplo's

Gee out.

Do u start this game pre 1.4x then upgrade to 1.4x?

This can cause those types of problems. Always complete yr games before upgrading or start new ones when upgraded.

Thanks for the replies guys. I was still running it in V1.31, and haven't upgraded to V1.4 yet. I waited a week to see if they introduced a new version of the patch. Also, my game with my second character uploaded fine, and didn't get cheat-flagged. I didn't actually think it would, but everything else was going wrong.

Something I had been thinking of mentioning: while I haven't lost my enthusiasm for the game, I had lost a bit for continuing with my primary character. I started using the second character, and for some reason that renewed my enthusiasm for continuing to advance my main character. I now have another reason: when I submitted just my third game for my second character, his score actually went DOWN. His THIRD game! Obviously I might as well continue playing for medals, as my points barely move either of my characters in the rankings.

Ras try stepping up the difficulty of the games you play. I normally only set one or two races at the higher CPU difficulty setting and leave teh others low, so that they become mop-up canon fodder for me once I have nailed the big guys (I usually choose the Iconians and the Drengin as my major bad guys and the rest I normally leave at around 'bright' or 'intelligent'. This is probably why my scores aren't quite the 90000 that most people playing Gigantic Obscene games are getting, but I can normaly get through a game a week and my ego doesn't suffer from all getting constantly defeated!

Stepping up the difficulty and beating the PC I find is very rewarding, and indeed it has helped me keep my interest!

P.s. Meglo - posted another win today, and am now sitting on the door step of the top 100 (was hoping I would slip into the 100 d'oh!) U better finish that game man!

Any of you Orca's downloaded a copy of DA yet?

I just managed to d/l mine this morning but had to rush off to work so will have a look at it this eve. Haven't posted a win in a while - struggling with Obscene difficulty at the moment.

Orca's thread seems quiet, are people posting at the Orca's site forum? Or are people becoming flat out leading up to the x-mas period?

I don't know how you Americans deal with only 2 weeks holidays a year (those of you who work) that's crazy, I think I would become homicidal if I had to deal with that kind of scenario...

Personally won't be getting DA for a long while. I don't care to be an alpha tester.

It annoys me to no end that they're doing a huge expansion, when the basic AI still has so many simple shortcomings. (which Brad finally admitted to the one of planetary management. Which he said will be completely rewritten for DA. What about GC2 ?

Is it so hard to use fleets to protect resource bases ?

Is it so hard to use speed ?

Is it so hard to research a different weapon ?

Is it so hard to redesign ships when I attack you ?


Worse, I don't want to be a beta tester for the 1st 6 drops of DA after the "beta" is done. Seriuosly read the journals. They're not even close to having a product and they've started beta. That's called alpha testing.

PS. I think I'm done with these forums for awhile. DA bug reports, crashs etc will probably continue to dominate the site and I'm tired of seeing it.

There's still interesting stuff around if you look -- although I admit that I find a lot of the DA beta stuff interesting, so that doesn't help you much, gallagher.

thagee, a late thanks for trying to give me tips to make the game more fun. I haven't checked this thread in a while. If it matters, I played some games on Painful level a while ago and found it a bit too much effort in the beginning phases. Tough is the right level for me. Plus, I have been having a lot of fun playing as the Korx and otherwise changing my routine.

Checking the alt-meta listing, I noticed that Sibuna recently got to fifty posted games and became our first Vice Admiral and "50 games won" medal holder. Congratulations.

Yep Congrats Sibuna, and congrats to you ras for your Rear Admiral status! Can't wait to get meself some bling...think I am another 2 games off some more rank status.

I will probably be stepping down galaxy size and difficulty all one notch in an effort to crank up the inhabitable planets and try and pump up my score some more. I have finally cracked the top 100, and intend to now try and get into the top 50...

Hey Gallagher - sorry to hear your feelings about DA, as I have only just managed to complete another gig game, which had been tying up my time, I haven't had a chance to check DA properly yet, but that will start this eve. It looks pretty darn cool however, although I'll give u my verdict in a few days time. I would probably tend to agree with you though re: sorting things out in GC2 before DA, but I would assume the dev's will probably update the code for both as they nut things out. I'm not a programmer so I don't really know much about how all that works.

Anyway, good to see the Orca's still top. Does anyone know if you can post DA games to the metaverse?

My duel doom ray fighters can survive.

Join the alekrons!

How do you join anyway?

Thanks, thagee. Sorry to have to burst your bubble, but you only reach the Fleet Captain rank after posting 25 games. Also, I was just reading a thread by someone else asking about DA and the Metaverse, and you cannot post games, at least not yet.

As I write, the Orcas have notched up 6 million points. That's amazing. We also have the second, third and fourth ranked characters. I think we are in quite good shape to hold off the Diplomats and the Hegemony.