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Reply to Social production and combat calculator bug in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

But enough about the U.S. government....

Reply to Colonize planets in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

The problem with terraforming class 0 planets is, we sort of had that already in Galciv1. You'd enhance a class-14 planet, and after sinking a lot of money into it, you'd get a semi-useless planet still. I'd say just leave it to the random events to make them useful.

Reply to Economy Tip/Rant: Military / Social wasted allocation handled differently in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't see what's the big deal with all that stuff being auto-queued when all you have to do is X them out of the queue. As for diverting social production to research, though, I'm already kind of exploiting "Focus research" now, by taking my uber-manufacturing planet and focusing on research. I can get more research out of it that way than if I just did 100% research spending. That's given me an early tech lead more than once.

Reply to Economy Tip/Rant: Military / Social wasted allocation handled differently in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I personally don't have any problem with the zig-zagging treasury when you research an upgrade, IF you put social (and military) spending back into the treasury when it isn't building anything (no matter what the reason). You can always X out the upgrades if you don't want them.

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

1) Fix the Social timetables. If you're producing X bc of social per turn, and you have Y bc invested in said improvement, and the improvement takes Z bc to produce, then tell us it takes ceiling((Z-Y)/X) turns to produce. Very easy. 2) Tell us how much bc each Social improvement costs, like you do with military. 3) Research Academies shouldn't cost a blasted friggin 200bc to upgrade from a Research Center, only t

Reply to Economy Tip/Rant: Military / Social wasted allocation handled differently in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I disagree, I do NOT want to micromanage, and I don't want the AI to be able to micromanage either. It might be a win/win, because there's probably no way the developer wants to code that AI, either. I have a big issue with Civ4 because it's just so slooooow. You have to micromanage to play your best game. I don't want to play another 2 hours just to see if my strategy is going to work. In a turn-based game, if I can micromanage, I will. I

Reply to Starbases - too important in game - option to turn off in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I do like the idea of multiple constructor modules on a ship, though.

Reply to Starbases - too important in game - option to turn off in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Starbases are supposed to be important. There may be some tweaks here-and-there I'd like, but overall I like them as they are.

Reply to Who here likes the new ethic system? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Are there really that many random ethical events? After every planet's been colonized, I mean.

Reply to Economy Tip/Rant: Military / Social wasted allocation handled differently in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This sounds more like a documentation problem than a bug. It may be that colonizing 50 colonies was strategically a bad idea. One of the reasons for the poor/inaccurate documentation, though, is the implementation itself keeps changing. Kinda hard to document something that's changing, because now you have to sync up the documentation AND the software. All-in-all, that's not the kind of problem I expect to see in a released product.

Reply to Tech/Building timetables are sometimes wrong? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I get all 3 of those problems all the freakin' time, and it ticks me off. I always adjust my research slider till I get "1 week to complete", and then I add 10% just to adjust to this stupid bug. And even then, sometimes next turn it'll be 99% researched (but no cigar). You NEED to be able to trust those timetables. Sometimes that tech being re

Reply to Who here likes the new ethic system? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like the new ethics system, although neutral might be a bit too powerful. At least, on paper.

Reply to Bug: Max Deficit and Allied gifts. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well if it's a design decision then doggone, I'm going to use it. It's time to roll out the small-hulled one-sensor POS ships, and upgrade them all to 250bc mega-laser hulks. It's not an exploit if it's not a bug. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/s

Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Rather than upgrade the extra colony ships, I find alternative uses for them. One thing they can do is ferry population around; particularly, to those newly-conquered planets that only have 100 million population. They also serve as a deterrent for enemy transports. If a colony ship is in orbit, that stops a transport just as much as a Defender.

Reply to Neutrality Learning Centers? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Looks like in patch X they're still not working.

Reply to Apocalypse in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So I finished this scenario (and the next one). The hardest part of Apocalypse was shoring up my economy. I colonized the heck out of the galaxy, even grabbing those 4 planets right next to the Drengin & Yor and two planets north of the Drath/Korx. In the campaign I always take +50 Military so I can crank out those colony ships by hand at the beginning. Much much cheaper than purchasing them, but still, I was running -700bc every turn

Reply to FLEETS WITH NO MOVEMENT POINTS AT START OF NEW TURN in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've seen that bug too, but it's not the worst one: I had a combat bug where I was gaining movement after a combat! I had this pirate fleet running around killing everything in sight--by the time it was done, killing EVERYTHING in one turn, it had 65 movement! I reloaded.

Reply to POLL: Are you playing more GC2 or CIV4? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A. Galciv2 is buggier, but Civ4 is just so slooooow. I don't want to take vacation just to play Civ4.

Reply to No Starbase Bonuses? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure what upper right box you're talking about (I'm going to find out, though), but in my experience, I have mined yellow resources and gotten a morale boost the turn after. I think it gets lumped in with "civ-wide bonuses" in the approval tooltip. And I have found the effect noticeable when I have a couple yellows mined.

Reply to What to do with poor planets? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It doesn't need a farm, because the PQ limits the pop growth anyway. I do a factory, a starport, and an ent. ctr.. That way it'll contribute research or constructors, depending on my needs. And, it contributes approval. They tend to have very high morale. They can also be troop farms--I feel much better loading troops from planets that have maxed out, anyway.

Reply to Apocalypse in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

The opening screen says if you wait too long, the DL will be unstoppable. Is that true? If you tread water and boom your economy, will bad things happen? Or do you pretty much need to rush them like the other 2 missions? thx!

Reply to Adding Weapons to Cargo Hulls in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think the fleet idea will work (they said the AI will target max weapons/min HP first), but the freighter-killers might, especially in the campaign. The only problem is, the weapons are bigger on cargo hulls. I usually just forget it and go with a small hull. Might as well at least stand up to other freighter-killers.

Apocalypse in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm just starting Apocalypse on the campaign. Any tips from people who've already done it? thx!

Reply to CivFanatics threads on GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't like CivIII and CivIV that much, because it's so slooooooooow. I can play an entire AOE3 game in 30 mins. In the CivIV modern era, that's one turn.

Reply to The first sales figures are in! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I had my copy of Rise of Nations on my old computer for a couple years, then I upgraded computers. I had lost/thrown away my CD key since then. Microsoft was more than willing to replace my serial key for a "nominal fee" of $10. Jerks.