Yes. Some computer players are better than others. Each one has its own AI. That's just teasing. In what order would you rank their fighting ability?
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Next oldest to Vulcan. 64 at last count - and still counting 66 and still having fun. Weyr. I guess that's 3rd to Vulcan now.
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The only reason to decommission is if you want to strip the planet of improvements because you're about to lose the planet. If you're upgrading a building within the same type you get full credit for the previously built building. If you're upgrading to a building of a different type you still get some credit for the money spent on the previous building.
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As far as posting pics, see the sticky. WWW Link
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Is there any consolidated source of strategy information? As you've already found the answer is no. Why is it so hard to find in-depth strategy advice? The reason is that it's so hard to write up.
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I'm 54 years old. I had assumed in the late 60's and early seventies that I would be dead by the year 2000. If I had known I was going to last this long I would have taken much better care of my body. A word to the wise. When you're young you feel invulnerable. When you're old you feel every indiscretion of your youth. You've been warned.
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You never know for sure what's lucky and what's not. Clearly, a precursor mine (700% manu bonus) on your home planet is lucky. However, just because you don't get one doesn't mean you don't have a good starting position. The planet just on the other side of the fog might be a purple star PQ32, or you might get a string of 2500bc anomalies or many other lucky occurances. The point I'm making is you could sit there and hit ctrl-n until you get a precusor mine on your home planet but if yo
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Every time you conquer a captial, tech capital, construction captital, or economy capital they seem to go and get a NEW one.. so you might end up with a TON of them.... No. As long as the race has any planets left, when you conquer their current capital they transfer their civilization capital to another planet and you're left with an initial colony
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I agree Er. Thanks, I think.
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Mine is a cloaking device. A cloaking device would be fun to use. I'm not so sure how much fun it would be to have used on you. The functionality I most desire would be the ability to control the building and upgrading of farms, so that I could essentially select the pop cap for any planet to be any integral number of Billions.
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The effect you're describing occurs only if and while there is a discontinuity in the tech tree. That is you have entertainment networks as your top morale building. You then aquire Virtual Reality Centers by trade or conquest, doesn't matter which. As long as you don't have the intervening techs your entertainment centers won't upgrade to VRC's. If you happened to conquer a planet that had a Zero G Sports Arena it would correctly upgrade to the VRC. If you got all of the intervening techs then
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You better hope she doesnt decide to read this thread or boy are you in for it!! Not really as I had to do most of the work getting the house ready for inspection. Also, she has a good sense of humor plus I'm not the kind of guy that deludes himself into believing that he's the boss. We've been watching a 6 dvd set of 40 episode's of Rumpole
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'll have to think about it. Should have something for you by January. Let's see, September to January would be only four months. Probably Feburary might be better. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Ga
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Good morning Diplos. Hope you are all looking forward to the weekend. Be sure and hide the Honey-Do jar where it can't be found. On this note, my mother is coming for the weekend, but I got the schedule messed up and had told my wife that she wasn't coming until mid-october. I discovered my error last Sunday night when I last spoke with my mom. <b
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Actually it isn't the game that's doing this, it's DirectX. You need to go to your start menu, click run and enter "dxdiag". This brings up the DirectX Diagnostic tool. Under the More Help tab at the bottom of the list is an Override button, click this. This brings up the Override DirectDraw Refresh Rate box. In this box there are two buttons, Default (this will be selected) and Override Value. You need to click Override Value and enter the refresh rate (in Hz) that you want. You need to be a bi
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I attack to my timetable not the AI's. If the AI's not ready for war, tough, not my problem, its Brad's. I usually try to take the strongest AI out by war at the end of yr 2225 - start of yr 2226. Success makes me the galactic superpower, usually by 2227 if not earlier. I like the attitude. I guess I'll have to give this a try. You must spen
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How are you avoiding war that long? When someone asks for money to not kill you, pay them. Actually, you only need to pay credible requests. Ignore those from weak empires or those on the other side of the galaxy. Even so, that long, is a relative term. You can't really put them off for very long so you need to get down your weapons, speed and hull te
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There's loads of strategies for this level, but don't most (all?) of them rely on attacking the AI early before it's fully ready? If by this you mean do I attack the AI that's just declared war on me, then the answer is yes. Like Kblore mentioned I like to have medium hulls, reasonable miniaturization and speed, and, a decent weapon, but I take what
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It seems to be a matter of preference based on the player's style. The geeks among us could better quantify the income difference between 80% tax with lower population versus 40% tax with higher population. Income is based on the square root of the population. To make up for cutting the tax rate in half you would have multiply the population by 4. Wit
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No tech trading, very slow tech speed, gigantic map with lots of habitable planets (although this last bit probably doesn't matter that much and may be harder at other settings.) I play no tech trading, slow tech (not very slow), gigantic, scattered stars or loose clusters, and abundant all. This results in a galaxy of about 500 planets. Dense cluster
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Now processors have clockspeeds that are 500 times higher and about a million times more powerful. So let's calculate how much more complex Galactic Civilizations II is compared to chess. Hmm, about a million times. You must be a geezer like I am. I used to play Reach For the Stars on an Apple IIe with an 8 bit 1 Mhz 6502 processor with 64K of ram wi
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So then all of you are going to give up asking for anything you want in the game as well? I can only speak for myself, but once the rational arguments have been made and rejected, Yes. Once the conversation devolves into: <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Te
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They don't break any rules, so hopeless as they may be, they can stay. The topic itself may not break any rules, but it's starting to become apparent, to me at least, that the intent of these posts and multiple threads is just to annoy people. As earlier suggested some form of combining or sticky where folks who want can rant to their heart
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Actually, I don't think that getting AI and human ship speed more evenly matched is really going to change that much. I also don't think it matters if this accomplished by having a slowdown effect or by just having the AI build faster ships. In either method I think the net effect would be for the AI to set ship destinations exactly as being done currently, they'll just get there relatively sooner. I've seen many instances where I've just conquered a planet and don't have a ship in orbi
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