If you don't like 4 x games why you bought one of the biggest 4 x games at the marked!?!?! 

Why are you angry about a game from a genre you don't like because its a 4x game you don't like. 

What do you thought it is before you buy it? !

As my usual game type is Excessive/Ludicrous maps with about half the recommended number of players (I like to have space to grow initially), I went into the GovernmentDefs XML file and tripled the given max colony rates. For my games it still gives me some impetus to improve my government, but it is not so overly restrictive that I can't do anything expansion-wise for X turns until I get a new government tech. I realize that not everyone is confident enough to mess with the XML however, so I would like for the max number of colonies to flex based on map size. I have no idea how hard that would be to code though.

Sorry admiralWillyWilber/all, some strange aberration in my normally good native English. I have absolutely no problems with micromanagement, love it in fact. Exploration treaty is way fun too.

EasyWin. Thank you for GovernmentDefs.xml. Definitely have trouble w xml, way too freestyling for us in general from way before GalCiv. Also, tho' it makes no real diff except in the GalCiv crippleware take on multiplayer, have the stance that w mods/xml tweaks everybody is playing a different game. For example, take out colony limits and the play is very different.

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v3.1 opt-in, no mods, Crusade, Intrigue, normal/default settings/difficulty.

Gave Intrigue another chance and, again, was, effectively, destroyed by turn 127 because of colony restrictions.

The neighboring Krynn who are never ever mollified by trade and diplomacy from a pragmatic let alone a sometimes benevolent civ simply swamped us with wave after wave after wave of attacks.

According to the strength readout on the diplomacy screen my civ was roughly equiv to the other A.I.'s, at 194 roughly twenty ahead, not much. Except for the Krynn who were at the incredible strength of 794 !!!!

This simply unplayably NUTS !!!

How would I remove the colony limits from the game ? I play on really big maps and it looks like the limits aren't compatible with this.

Thank you in advance.

I can play without the intrigue Expansion but I wanted to try the new government approach for a more interesting game. How is the AI at handling the new intrigue ?? Does it adjust its play if you remove the colony restrictions ?

Has Stardock stopped updating their game ?? This would be a huge disappointment.

JJ

Ops2048, you can mod the number of colonies for each government fairly easily or you can download Horemvore's community patch mod from Steam's forums. It contains other fixes that make the game more enjoyable and adjusts the number of colonies to better match the map sizes.

Hi,

The game isn't broken at all though a good start certainly helps a lot..

In the opening, you just have to more or less ignore discontent and obviously  not choose a government with elections - so Imperial rather than Colonial at the very start.

Later you can choose a better government and also ameliorate discontent in other ways. If you're malevolent and up to the conquest stage, then using the "eager" ideology can make a big difference if you take plenty of planets. If you're more peaceful you can work through the Governance tree (or if you're an evil race like the Drengin it's called Intimidation) until you get to "Easy to Please" which makes a huge difference. Earlier in the tree, you can also build an entertainment capital  on a suitable planet after you've researched "Xeno Entertainment" aka "Fighting Pits" and surround it with buildings that give a morale bonus thus giving all your planets a boost. 

There are also other several other mechanisms including mercenaries who boost morale on a specific planet and I believe celebrities (though I never use them myself).  

Cheers,

Jon

I can certainly vouch for the AI fleets and ships being harder to beat LOL. I just met a Xindi fleet (Airmaster's civ) with over 200 strength in kinetics and 60 defense for all types of weapons and we are still fighting with medium sized hulls, they maximized their logistics points now if they could just use commanders properly it would be awesome. They even built a starbase to extend their range to reach my territory, that was a novel experience. With the slowdown in tech the mod brings it really is giving me a challenge.

Hi,

I understand that you only need a couple of planets or even one really good one to get what you need but doesn't this depend on which race you play. With Terrans, Earth starts with 11 tiles and with the Krynn, Kryseth has just 8 (and the ones in the home system are even smaller).   Of course you can terraform but this takes tech and time.

Also, isn't the one of the main points of claiming planets in the opening to get ideology and with very few you may not get those potentially significant bonuses. (If I had to choose just two levels I guess I'd go down the malevolent tree to improve the home world's production).  

Cheers,

Jon

Dear Horemvore,

Do I need changes to use with GRM ? *How* to do that ? I have the feeling that would make the game super excellent.

Horem, could you be prevailed upon to release a version that works with GRM ? If the fix is not simple .

I have GOG version so GRM makes the game wonderful since I lack races otherwise. Now to add Horemvores patch would be the best of all universes.

Gauntlet mentioned that one might have to change race ability points. But I would not know how to do that and would require instructions. I have edited very little so far and lack experience with such.

Is there an external link (as with the patch) to download extra races to use with Horems patch ? I did not see one.

So right now I have 3.04 + all dlc and GRM. Just need to add Horems patch and I'm home free.

thank you

JJ

You can delete, GC3GlobalDefs.xml, AbilityDefs.xml and StarSystemDefs.xml from Horems Community Patch for it to work with GRM. However, you lose the Star Trek themed start systems, Rush cost reduction, Upgrade cost reduction and AI upgrade time (I reduced these to make the AI Fleets more competitive not to make it easier for the player like many beleive, although this is a by product) and of course the 3 new abilities and ability fixes introduced with HCP.  All minor stuff really, allthough the upgrade costs complement other changes made to make the AI more competitive (I quite like seeing the massive jumps in the ship power graph for a mix of civs, means they are spending that hard earned Tourism income wisely!! Oh yeah AI use tourism to the extreme in HCP  

thank you  Horemvore !

Should look like :-

    <UpgradeToConstructorPenalty>0.1</UpgradeToConstructorPenalty>
    <UpgradeToTransportPenalty>0.5</UpgradeToTransportPenalty>
    <UpgradeToTradePenalty>0.1</UpgradeToTradePenalty>
    <UpgradeToColonyPenalty>2.0</UpgradeToColonyPenalty>
    <UpgradeToCarrierPenalty>0.5</UpgradeToCarrierPenalty>
    <UpgradeDoubleAttackPenalty>0.01</UpgradeDoubleAttackPenalty>
    <UpgradeDoubleDefensePenalty>0.01</UpgradeDoubleDefensePenalty>
    <UpgradeDiscountFactor>0.9</UpgradeDiscountFactor>
    <UpgradeCostFloorFactor>0.1</UpgradeCostFloorFactor>

And:

    <NumTurnsToUpgradeDesignsAI>1</NumTurnsToUpgradeDesignsAI>

Thank for pointing out the intrigue issue, just forgot to import new file into the rar, also missed a text file and an xml out will probably do a hot fix.