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Reply to How do you make alliances? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

What victory conditions are you playing with?

Reply to Free upgrades and Money? Treasury is broken? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

No, its a hardcap to the treasury, put there intentionally to keep a new player from upgrading a lot of ships early on and finding him/herself with -10k in debt that they will never get out of. There was an earlier thread on this, it is a design feature.

Reply to Stop AI Civs trading tech with each other... can we do this? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

My first couple of games were played on "Painful" with 9 opponents (but not the dregin ). About 30 turns into the game the "share techs" UP council decision came up. They decided to share 2 "unique" techs with everyone. Well, what happened then was a storm of tech for me. I got about 20 free techs, because you get all the prereq's as well. Suddenly I realized just how the AI was trading tech, and res

Reply to Cheesy Fleet Movement Tactic in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

See my collorary post for the "Pony Express" . It DOES need to be altered, because it will be game breaking ;(

More Cheesy Fleet tactics: A collorary in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is a collorary with my previous post. It seems that ship move points are also replenished when a ship is added to the fleet, but only allows movement in one case. The fleet must have an autopilot destination farther than its range. The fleet must add one ship at 0/x, where X is the number of moves, so no more moves remaining. After adding the ship to the fleet, the fleet will then move the number of move points toward its destination that the added ship has

Reply to GalCiv2 crashes intermitently in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Oh, and you might try turning down the background stars and nebulae as well.

Reply to GalCiv2 crashes intermitently in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I had this problem too, especially on save/reload, alt-tab, and sometimes on the ship design screen. I tried 2 things, either of which may or may not help you. 1. Update your sound drivers. I did this in combo with #2, so you may want to try both. 2. If your graphics software can set anti-aliasing, set it to MATCH the anti-aliasing seting in the galciv graphics option screen. Don't run with it application controlled. Set it to 4x or something, which is the default for

Reply to Anomalies are now invisible in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I have not had luck with the autosurvey option and disappearing anomalies. Mine vanished early on, and autosurvey has not worked since. I currently have huge chunks of the map visible for many turns, but again autosurvey picks up nothing. Is the spawn rate very low on these things, even if they are vanishing?

Cheesy Fleet Movement Tactic in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A little bit of cheese for you using fleets. This is not a bug, but it may not really make a difference either. 1. Form a fleet. Faster ships are better. 2. move the fleet until it has 1/x moves remaining, i.e. one move left. 3. disband one ship. 4 Fleet now has a full allotment of movement points. 5. repeat until destination is gained or fleet has one ship left. Pardon if this has already been noticed, I suck with search features. This kind of thi

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

Slightly different ship naming process would make my life MUCH easier. As someone who upgrades ships regularly, I have to constantly rename them. Since I have not figured out a way to edit a shipname without erasing the whole thing (if there is even a way), renaming each one after each upgrade is a pita. Plus, I really hate adding some obsolete ship to a new ultra modern stack, which encourages me to rename them, which is a pita, etc. Currently, default ship naming convention in th

Reply to Why on why Can't I Edit Existing Ship Designs??? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Select the ship you want to upgrade, and click the upgrade tab at the bottom left of the screen. It's right next to "New" and "Obsolete". The only ones you can't upgrade are core ships. Then, click on the component you want to remove. Click "remove" in the display window. Then put the new part on. Click save. To upgrade your existing ships to your new design, get the ship by itself, select it, and choose upgrade from the options. this will pull up the upgrade scree

Kudo's Post!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, even with the varied graphical bugs, I want to give a big "Thank You!" to Stardock for making a space strategy game that is the best I've seen to date. Love the ship design! Planets!! Someone finally used Ascendancy's underappreciated tile construction method for plants. Reminds me of M.U.L.E as well <img src="smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmidd

Reply to Morale bonus calculations: are bonus tiles working? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Aha. Ty much for the reply

Reply to Changes to Weapons and Armor in Modding Stardock Forums

Actually, there is initiative. Whoever attacks first, fires first. Missles, cannons or lazers. Sorry if you were talking about something else, but if I want to win a nearly even battle, i have to attack first.

Morale bonus calculations: are bonus tiles working? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, on the capial planet, the situation is: 21.6 billion population (overpop, i know) Class 10 planet (starting) Displayed Morale : 24%, Tooltip Delve morale: 18% (-67% from population, -56% from taxes, +31% from buildings, +11% from native ability) The following buildings are on planet: Civilization Capital +25% and 10 million population food cap Stock Market +10% Multimedia Center +30% (and its on a 100% approval bonus spe

Morale Calculations, summary vs. tooltip in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, on the capial planet, the situation is: 21.6 billion population (overpop, i know) Class 10 planet (starting) Displayed Morale : 24%, Tooltip Delve morale: 18% (-67% from population, -56% from taxes, +31% from buildings, +11% from native ability) The following buildings are on planet: Civilization Capital +25% and 10 million population food cap Stock Market +10% Multimedia Center +30% (and its on a 100% approval bonus

BUG: CTD on Launch in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

OK, after download and installation, have an issue involving the Movie files. I have downloaded the full setup twice. The first time, earlier today, i had downloaded all but the movies and tutorial packs. Game started and ran fine. Current versions of DirectX 9.0c and Nvidia Drivers (feb 7, 2006 updated). However, upon installation of movie files game will begin to load, monitor switched to black screen with game cursor, then will ctd back to the desktop without any error messages. Removal