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Reply to Would you recommend Elemental? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Recommending things is a good way to wind up as a tool for guerrilla marketers, exploited without pay, so I have a policy of not recommending things unless I get a cut.

Reply to What is the Diplomatic Capital Concept There for, Other Than for Exploiting the AI? in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Being "stuck" with large quantites of DC isn't necessarily a disadvantage in the game. If you have a pile of the stuff, people don't attack you, which lets you dispense with a large military. Additionally, accumulation isn't really a problem: Resources which are abundant are already devalued in trading, so inflation keeps the DC pileup under control anyway: You have to pay more DC for something if DC has become inflated in the world. Sure, it might be useless in one ver

Reply to The coming 1.1 patch in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Silicor" reply="52" id="2822067"]Best melee system I've seen is Warmachine. It has a roll 2d6 roll + combat stat opposing the the defenders defense stat. If hit, damage opposes opponents armor value. This system has one fixed value and one random value with a fairly small range of values. You have to insure you have ways to handle very nimble opponents and heavily armored opponents.[/quote]That seems similar to the systems from the Dominions games, except t

Reply to It's nice to see Pirates being held accountable. in Life, the Universe and Everything Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="177" id="2822762"]It's strange, sitting here, not breaking the law. I'm perfectly happy and not missing anything...[/quote]I do not think it is possible to NOT break the law. For one, do you know what the law even is? Is a complete text of all of the laws available anywhere? No? Then how can you be so certain you have not broken one? Secondly, breaking the law is actually necessary for society to function. Did you know that the field manual for infiltrated spie

Reply to Tactical Combat discussion continuation in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

I argue against the entire "Winner Takes All" concept because in practice, it produces several noteworthy distortions to strategy mechanics, none of which are realistic or necessarily positive. 1. Games are prone to dragging on anyway because an attacker cannot attempt an attack unless he is absolutely certain of overwhelming advantage. This means that you will get a Trench War where two sides face off against each other in a staredown, neither side having sufficient advantage to win

Reply to Twilight--No Box--False Advertising in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]About four weeks ago, Sins of a Solar Empire permanently damaged my monitor, and Stardock refused to admit that the game could have anything to do with it.[/quote] Wait, what? It permanently damaged your MONITOR? How is that physically possible? I've written programs designed to intentionally attempt to damage computer parts before, but fry the monitor? How? This, I want to know. Because I want one of those.

Reply to How do I build a military starbase array? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think this neatly illustrates the fact that the Metaverse scoring is simply irreversibly broken, as it gives the highest scores for completely meaningless nonsense. I personally believe that scores should count only two things: Time, and map size. The highest score is won by the fastest victory on the largest map. Period. Everything else means nothing and is purely a masturbatory exercise.

Reply to Deathstar = useless ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Bah. I hate surprises. Don't believe in spoilers, there's no such thing. It is always better to go into anything fully informed.

Reply to Deathstar = useless ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Heh, what does it say? That's probably the ONLY time you'd EVER want to use one, really, if there's an end game message. Otherwise, I can't imagine a single circumstance under which I would want to use a Terror Star. The hideous expense of researching a technology that has absolutely no worthwhile application to anything else, so that you can create an item which similarly has no useful value that serves only to destroy your own real estate, seems rather dubious. Combined with the fact that the

Reply to Starbase Repair Module in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Starbases can receive "damage" if you have done something which upgrades their max hull points, and they have gained those points yet.

Reply to Missing techs? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There seems to be a lot of weapon techs that are missing also. It's rather jarring going from quantum torps to Nightmare torps, which seems to have replaced BHE. There's kind of a HUGE power gap between them.

Reply to Bugs in Latest Version in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I dunno if it's SUPPOSED to be this way, but I find it extremely jarring that the weapons technology goes from phasers straight suddenly to doom rays...and that's it. I mean, one moment you're zapping away with strength 4(?) phasers, and suddenly the next thing on the menu is DOOM RAYS at strength 20-ish? What's the deal with that? What happened to all the other weapons?

Reply to Good-Natured Auto-Design Gripes in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I've never bothered with installing life support on my ships previously. Is this now critically important? I've never had a need to reach anything that couldn't be reached normally via the range given by colonies and bases. Anything so far out that it can't be reached is normally too far out for me to care about.

Reply to Question(s) about intricacies of fleet to fleet combat in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Don't fleet noncombatants. If noncombatants are not in a fleet, several things happen: 1. They do not participate in the fighting at all, meaning if your attack goes pear-shaped (or even if you win), they neither lose move, nor are at any risk for destruction. 2. If attacked, the attackers will fight your battlefleet before they can attack your noncombatants. Should you fail to defeat the attacking force, the enemy must still destroy each noncombatant ship one at a time, paying one

Reply to I fail @ military in DA-- could use some pointers! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]A sticky trap might also work - cover an area with overlapping military starbases with nothing but the -1 and -2 enemy speed modules.[/quote] Stickytraps work well in combination with the "wall of cruft". Not only will your enemy's ships be reduced to a single move, but it means their fleets can only kill ONE little piece of crap at a time....and you can replace them faster than he can shoot them down, so for every worthless POS he shoots down, 2 more take their place. [

Reply to AI offers zero in trade for.. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This is probably done to discourage certain races from immediately selling their starting tech for a profit.

Reply to Question(s) about intricacies of fleet to fleet combat in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

The target chosen to be attacked is normally, IIRC, the ship with the highest weapon to hitpoint ratio, with some adjustment for defense. However, I don't think that it evaluates the defense based on effectiveness by type, so if the other ships had high-defense, but of the WRONG type, they would have been evaluated as lower in crunchiness and thus disfavored. You should have used missiles.

Reply to Comparison to Sword of the Stars? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]super warrior (more hp attack)[/quote] I thought the bonus of Super Warrior was first strike ala original DL, so you can vaporize your opponents in the opening shot and they will thus never get to shoot back.

Reply to Ships locked at 5 PC/WK speed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I doubt it. I've never had this event, but it sounds horrifically painful. Does it affect the speed boost granted by military bases?

Reply to Lack of Multiplayer in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Turn-based epic wargames fail at multiplayer, anyway. How many people, exactly, can you find to sit through an 80 hour campaign, most of which will be spent waiting for the other player to move? The way GalCiv's turns work is completely incompatible with a multiplayer format. There is no hope of retrofitting MP into this game format.

Reply to What is the second best way to deal with Dread Lord events in DA? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Bury them in an avalanche of crap. If you have no chance at all of taking on even a single Dread Lord ship in combat, and they *DO* have ship, just surround it in unarmed, engineless hulls flung into position by military space catapults. Every time he is forced to kill one just to leave dock, it costs him a move. As long as you can replace them faster than he can kill them (they cost next to nothing to make), he can do nothing.

Reply to Who's spies are these? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Assume the AI knows everything anyway. After all, it already runs your game. Regardless of whether the AI does or does not "cheat" for its information, it will never be conclusively proven. Just assume the AI has complete omniscience over everything in the game, and that any behaviors to the contrary are nothing more than misdirection aimed at hiding the fact that it knows everything. It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.

Reply to I fail @ military in DA-- could use some pointers! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

If the enemy fleet is vastly more powerful than yours is, turn out massive numbers of the cheapest pieces of crap you can: No engine, no weapons, cheapest hull. Don't fleet them. Just hurl them into the path of the enemy in a giant carpet. Weaponless hulls cost no maintenance. You can start building these anytime and just build an enormous wall with them. Killing them costs any ship or fleet a move. AI ships practically never have more than a few moves. Sacrificing these hulks that cost next to

Reply to Capital Ships vs. Fighter Swarms? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

The breakpoint between large vs. small varies widely depending on a great number of factors. The MAIN important thing about large ships is not specifically their combat power, but their greater capacity for ENGINES! Like the game says, "Honor, courage, bravery, integrity, none of these things matter if you cannot get to the battle!". Thus, size matters not. You should always build the best ship you can in the shortest time you can that can still get to the battle. Building tiny fighters

Reply to Thalan players, how's the latest tech tree? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I am at a loss to understand why there is this specific hardcoded lock on ALL weapons technology, PERIOD, no matter how utterly valueless the technology is, to the point where the AI will not even sell you a completely worthless technology for an item that you already have a better one of. Even if you were absolutely convinced that weapons technology was THE end-all-be-all, surely you would not reject such a foolishly lopsided trade as giving someone NOTHING for SOMETHING. Instead, the AI will f