Todd_Hawks

Todd_Hawks

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

I think it is clear without doubt that the techs are getting traded excessively and that it takes out much of the fun because they all have the same techs and specialization is minimal (not to mention that it's pointless to try to build up a tech lead... you can't research more than all the others combined). Whether this is due to the strange random tech offer or due to simple cheating (1 tech vs. 1 tech trades without checking the value or

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Reply to GalCiv2 Spend Rates in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You aren't wrong and I agee that it doesn't make any sense to not have all of the sliders go from 0 to 100%. It's been that way since GalCiv and it never made sense. Look at it as focusing the work. If you put research to 100% then all your efforts are pooled into research. As soon as you want to do other stuff, you have to draw from research and put it there. Whatever that "effort" consists of... evidently not money. Nor workforce (higher p

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Reply to BUG: Military and Social manufacturing bonus bugs in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Not to mention all the other mathematical stuff that doesn't work: Moral calculation (and the difference when hovering over the values), population growth modifiers, research from economic starbases etc etc.... It's like almost nothing is working as it should.

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Reply to What's wrong with the AI in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

There are two different settings: The one for each individual AI and the overall difficulty setting. They influence each other (i.e. cranking up one will automatically adjust the other). If you set the overall difficulty to "Though", then all individual AIs are set to "Intelligent" and that's the setting where they are equal.

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Reply to Can't determine the logic in Social vs. Military Production in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That's what I feared.... that the AI and everything else has been tweaked to work *with* the bug and now they can't easily fix it without possibly screwing it up. If they really decide it's too much hassle they should at least take out the social balance bonus so people don't get deceived by their illusionary huge advantage. I have to say though that it's really, really, really weak to leave tha

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Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

The manual is wrong on sooooo many things... it's best only to use it to get the general idea, not the actual numbers. And it will get worse with increasing number of updates. I assume the roll is from 0 to max as well, btw., but I don't have hard evidence either (apart from the fact that you can kill a 1-def ship with a 1-att ship)

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Reply to The first release update! in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Thanks, I appreciate it. Still, (at least) two serious bugs remain: Civ-wide Social Bonus doesn't have any effect and the corresponding Research Bonus is increasing research half of what it should be. I can't imagine that's such a hard bug to fix?

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Reply to BUG: AI Starbase special ability! ;) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I had this, too, but I just assumed that the 3 parsec rule only applies to starbases of one race. Don't know if that's true, but considering you could prevent others from building star bases just by plopping down a few yourself, I think it makes sense. Didn't try to put my own star base within 3 parsec of one of another race, though. If that doesn't work, then it is a bug indeed.

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Reply to AI Balance> Unfair AI-to-AI Tech Trade in Trade GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure about this. It's one of the few games where I trust the devs when they say AIs don't cheat (and this would be cheating), in fact I think I once heard a long time ago that the AI doesn't even know who is a human player and who is another AI player. That said, they sure have a lot of techs a lot of the time, but I didn't find any indicator that they were trading them for a lesser price. It just "feels" ok to me. In short games it's hard to gauge anyway since some of the other rac

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

Yeah, it's a known problem, but the devs haven't said anything about it yet. Same as with the social production bonus not being applied and the research production bonus being half of what it should be. (Yes, I am going to repeat that until I get a "it's fixed in the next update".)

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Reply to BUG: Military and Social manufacturing bonus bugs in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I still can not find why bonus for the social production is not added. It's a known bug, even though the devs until now haven't acknowledged it. I sure hope they fix it soon (+ the one that research bonus is only half as much as it should be)... Do you hear, devs? <img src="http://image

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