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Athlon 850, 256 Mb Ram, GeForce TI500, 70gb drive and some other nick nacks.
ing. The last beta was quite fun.
Back for some testing. Greetings to Ambassador Solitair.
*SMACK* :D ~SDC~
Mr. Lucky Good point.. I'll have to look in to it a bit more. I guess I never used it as much is because my morale is usualy in 60%-70% range... ;)
I never spend money on propaganda. Costs to much IMHO. Build some social projets that will add to your planet morale or even better your empire morale. ~SDC~
Moding utility is going to be released in near future. It will allow you to change pretty much anything in the game. ~SDC~
Go in to your galciv\data\UP_issues folder and open any of the *.issue files with notpead... It's as easy as that to make new ones :) ~SDC~
taxes... higher your taxes the longer it is going to take your population to grow... Test it yourself, leave the tax rate at default 33% and see if that makes a difference. ~SDC~
Oh and I forgot to mention that more democratic your goverment gets the harder it will be to keep morale over 50%. When playing late game on gigantic maps my tax rate was aroung 11% and sometimes a bit lower to help me get elected. ~SDC~
BTW.. try to build morale boosting social projets... When I play I pay special attention to morale. I usualy build +morale social projets on all the planets. Especialy in the beginning Entertainment NEtwork is the second or even first thing I build... ~SDC~
You get a DVD box with a CDcd and no printed manual (PDF manual) ~SDC~
gah.. I should start reading the posts more carefully ;p ~SDC~
1. You have to research Alliance tech 2. The Empire you want to allie with has to have "Close" relationships with you 3. That Empire has to have Alliance tech also Once all this is the case you will see Alliance in your diplomacy screen. :) ~SDC~
Here is my strategy when sending out colony ships when playing large maps: Most of the colony ships I send out have around 20 mil. people on them. These ships are for colonizing 15-16 class planets Every once in a while I send out a colony ship with around 100 mil. These ships are for colonizing any 17+ planets which I than use to crank out some more colony ships. ~SDC~
I have heard this from others... Kakupacal you used Archive & Install option right? That seems to download the files and archives them before they are installed. I have just downloaded the game (Install without archive) and once it is done I can archive the game in SDC. I also checked the archive zip and the files in it were exactly the same as on the harddrive, meaning they don't need to be expanded.
Alternative aproach: First increase your budget spending to 100%, set your military production to 80%, social to 0%, research to 20%. You can play with these values a bit and set military to 60% and research to 40% or do M60% S20% R20% and so on. This way you will be cranking out colony ships en masse, but your treasury will go down slowly, so make sure you don't go in to red. Once you get close down to around 100 even out lower the budget spending so that you are maybe loosing a few bu
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Yin, I guess I misundrestod you the first time. I agree that such auto-offer would be helpful. Good sugestion :) ~SDC~
You are set and ready to go. I am running GC on Athlon 850 256mb of ram and it's running smooth as a butter. ~SDC~
You can upgrade your Starbase with a repair module which will add 1 hp to any dameged ship in the sector every turn I think. You can also research repair, and advanced forms of it, which will allow your ships to repair on their own. Higher the tech faster the repair. ~SDC~
Yes, once in the game go to the options screen and turn off "auto-turn" option. ~SDC~
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Uhmm.. The only thing with auto-offer would be that the computer might want to give away things you don't want to part with. I rarely trade Military tech with other Empires and when I do I make sure I am ahead of them even if I give them that specific tech. I do agree that auto-offer would be helpful when you are first staring out (or just don't want to bother with it), but speaking from experiance after playing a coupple of games you get a rough undestanding of how much to offer (given
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Usualy the text in the middle of the screen will change colour from yellow to green. Green meaning they will accept your offer. If you are not strong in diplomacy or if the Empire you are talking with are stronger in diplomacy than you you will have to give them quite a bit more than they will give you. Getting them to declare war, especialy on someone who they like or trade with can be costly. As a general tip I would say diplomacy techs and bonuses are quite important in this game. Ei
I don't know... yesterday I finished my first game on Large galaxy with all AI set to Bright. Now I am trying to scale up to inteligent, but from what I can see that AI level means business... Granted some random events can put you back a bit but I thought recession is galaxy wide, so all Empires are effected not just you. I rarely put all my eggs in the military bag. You have to be able to fend off an attack, make sure to follow the military graph and stay competitive. I find that str
LOL ~SDC~