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Reply to Is there a way to see how far ships can move in a turn? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="3" id="2987671"]Purely out of curiosity, how would you make the grid not "ugly"? Apologies for hijacking the topic [/quote] I've turned the grid on now. We'll see if I get used to it. Looking at it, the main way to make it less ugly would be to make it darker. There's a sweet spot between visibility and obtrusiveness and at the moment I think it's more obtrusive than it needs to be. The edge of the se

Is it worth using espionage against the Dread Lords? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I usually sink four spies into researching the Dread Lord civilisation, but I've been wondering what benefit I get for it. I can't see their Civ on the stats screen so I don't get any of the useful information I do when I use espionage against other races. And I never seem to steal any of their technology. I guess at level 4 espionage I get to look at their planets in detail, but other than that, is there any point? Thanks.

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="67" id="2987434"]My own personal mod is largely like that (except that it does have colonizing minors), but I've never bothered to release it anywhere, especially since I think it overlaps too much with Tolmekian's and MarvinKosh's. [/quote] That would be brilliant, qrtxian! [quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="66" id="2987053"]Well that would be more along the lines of the mod I've been working on.[/quote] Really? &

A thought on modding races and balance. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I notice there have been some truly brilliant mods developed that, amongst other things, correct the imbalance between different Civs. Some thoughts follow, none of which are a criticism of the nods in question but rather an exploration of possibilities. I started thinking about the underlying assumption: Do the Civs NEED to be balanced? Is gameplay worse if some Civs are intrinsically weaker than others? Or is it better - in some ways at least? A clu

Reply to PROVING GROUNDS in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

With Achilles Heel you can just lose and do the alternate mission instead. Unfortunately there's a later, similar mission ("Apocalypse") where that's not an option. :/ Achilles Heel is part of the original Dread Lords campaign and some gameplay changes introduced in ToA (or maybe DA) make it harder than it was ever intended to be. Specifically "tie rule #1: if in last round of combat surviving ship(s) destroy each other, the strongest ship still survives". <

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

This is a very awesome mod. :) I was wondering: Is it possible to separate "Fix the stuff that's broken in ToA" into a separate mod from personal balance changes and improvements? Things like removing Ultimate and unique racial weapons, standardising the weapons costs across types, changing how starbases work etc. probably make for a better game but they also make for a much different game and it would be really nice to be able to just play an unbroken version of ToA

Is there a way to see how far ships can move in a turn? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I bought GalCiv2 a while back, and am no longer a newb, but still have a fair way to go to expert (I'm one and a half campaigns in). One thing I still find a bit awkward is ship movement. Is there a way to visually seehow far a ship can move in a turn without actually moving it? Similarly, is there a way to see how far an enemy ship can move on their turn? I'm dealing with Dread Lords and I REALLY need to be able to dance around just outside of their range. <