Valakov

Reply to Hyperion Shipyard in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Agree with the poster above - as soon as i have the miniturazation to support it, i go with four engines - sacrificing weapons and defense to obtain the various movment plateau's. Remember, ships have finite HP, even late game AI ships will for the most part fall quickly enough vs say 45ish or above attack rating on your own ships, and moreso if you have chosen your weapon tech appropriately vs thier defense. The ability to get from point A to point B, or to attack and defeat multipl

Reply to The UI and You in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Second the motion for a new govener, Planet creating x type ship sends them to y type rally point. Especially on larger maps, you end up changing out what a planet is building (specifically population management when building transports) and as oft as not, you change the ship being built but not what rally it is going to. <br/

Reply to Ideas for Galciv 1.2 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Give created ships a Carry Over tag - only those created hulls with this option checked will actually show up in the next game., the rest auto-delete. This way save games will use less memmory, load easier and you wont have a massive amount of xxxattack/defense/move ships of the same hull type appear that you probably wont use every time you upgrade a tech. Patch up the missing/bugged stuff, the galactic econ wonder, subspace ahnilalator, repair module (does repair really do much anyh

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Value changes seem to do nothing, along with removing the root tech line.. unsure where else to go from there to be honest, although a dev hint would be nice!

Reply to I HATE autofocus in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

there are quite a few threads (made one myself a few weeks ago) about this, but no mention of a future change, no, its not game breaking, but if you added up all that time re-aquiring the next ship you acctually wanted to move, instead of the next ship in the UI's list of ships to move, it would mean ALOT of time saved over the course of a game, especially on gigantic maps.

Reply to United Planets in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Hopefully, there will be more often and more robust UP issues with whatever expansion comes out, the O.P.'s original idea is decent, but to take it further id like to see at least better pricing for voting points, and mayhap a way to threaten/bribe other races for thier vote as well (given that when you are weak, they might do it to you as well) Add to that the ability to see what is being voted for a few weeks before the vote comes up and you have another layer to the game.

Reply to The game is too easy to win! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Tech line victory needs some form of control on it yes - probably once you start the deeper knowledge research, an immidiate call to arms from the other races would be in order, or at least from those races that share a boarder with you. Alliance victory is another ball of wax, at times it does seem to easy to pull off, however on other games ive found it nigh on impossible even when neutral aligned. as a side note, i also wonder why, at least in a good 90% of the games ive

Reply to Life as a Yor in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

When it comes to the soldiers, think of Robert Heinlein's (sp on his name mostlike) Starship Trooper - sure, you can reap the benifits of being a citezen of a higher form of government, as long as you serve your term in the military.

Reply to *Unofficial* Test Build to address 1.1 Memory/Save Game/Crash issues in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Much obliged for the reply Cari - going to load up a ship builder scenerio and delete some of the old ship config's just to see if it helps while watchin hockey! (boo@ redwings early exit)

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

boo, no other ideas on how to work this?

Reply to *Unofficial* Test Build to address 1.1 Memory/Save Game/Crash issues in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As an add on to the above - is there a way via code to signify custom ships as "base designs" - therefore only loading those designs that you created in the current game + those designs with the "base design" tag? Edit- also, does the number of hardpoints (that the right term? just woke up after watching too much hockey last night - attachment points) make a significant differance in memory usage? would there be a way to add to the ship designer a "turn off hardpoints" for

Reply to *Unofficial* Test Build to address 1.1 Memory/Save Game/Crash issues in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

just out of idle curiosity, is part of the problem caused by the saved game trying to find ALL of the usable ships, old weapon/defense/speed configs that you have from previous games that could be built in the current game? - i "try" to delete old ships, but they have a tendancy after a few games to just spontaneously multiply.

Reply to crash when trying to load a saved game. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

bleh, just got the same error DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for PirateShip. *** Debug Message: Found existing ship type with class name: Ranger *DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for Starbase. *** and yet, there are no pirates in my game, or for that matter lucky rangers

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks much, didnt think to look there - holler if anything comes of it

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

dont suppose anyone has a saved beta copy of the game from when the minors did colonize?(seem to remember someone from Stardock mentioning they had to tone the minor's down at some point) if not, going to continue to blunder on - btw, where are these minorinvade/minor colonize tags at out of idle curiosity? looking and not finding.

Reply to Cloaking the Ships/Fleets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

cloaking for planets - no, would be just a bit too over powered. cloaking for ships? sure - but make the cloaks themselves take up a huge chunk of space, gives automatic first strike (even after they, if they, fix combat) and then a cool down of a few turns or a minimum innitial distance from enemy ships before they work again on the main map. the key being.. the space and cost the cloaking device takes up on a ship must be = or > a serious amount of weapons/engines/defense

Reply to Wishlist for 1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Remove the "go to next ship" feature, or make it optional! Add and upgrade button to the ship information screen (so you can upgrade ships w/o breaking up a fleet) Fix combat by creating individual ship innitiatives that are modified by speed, size and a random factor.

Reply to Turning off "go to next ship" in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

more i play, the more i hate the go to next ship auto focus

Reply to How to upgrade ships in fleets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

its been said before, but just adding an "upgrade" button to the ship information screen would go a long way, click's would be manage fleet, information, upgrade, voila. if space is an issue.. well how many folks really use auto attack anyhow?

Reply to Class 28 planet with plenty of farms and 100% approval stagnating population in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Find a planet with a decent population, or expendable one - build a colony ship and ferry over a bunch.. might kick start it

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

finally back from work, what i did see in the race.cfg files were a few lines that the major races do not have, but dont know what they do. .........political party 0 and the interesting one Tech Root Tech as for the comment about them being able to colonize = being major races, sure.. but think of it more like the United Nations.. there is the "security council" and everyone else... technically everyone else gets a vote but the major nations for the most part cre

Reply to new govener needed in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

old post that never saw the light of page one.

Reply to Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

forums not posting - odd

Unlocking Minor races inablility to colonize? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

there a way to allow the minor races the ability to colonize? dont really care about joining UP - just think it would add a bit of fllavor having a few renegades out there - even though some of them have pre-set ablilities that are rather painful (econ +100 etc)

planet construction / complete terraforming possible? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

first off, im by no means a modder - but an old idea from a game that was compared to Galciv os/2 when it came out had a very interesting option - being able to at the end of the terraforming tech tree to take those class 0 worlds and make them habitable - just looking around some of the files, this doesnt "look" possible.. but see the beginning sentance of my post. any thoughts? (obligitory si fi referance.. KHAAAAAAAAN!)