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Reply to Weapon RP costs analysis in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, second chart updated to be RP/(size*sizemod); hit refresh to see the changes. Including such size info shows Gun-9 to come down and be more in line with the other weapons. Gun-4 and Gun-5 are still out there on price/performance. It might be possible to bring them into a more competetive role by removing several redundant 'sleightly smaller/cheaper' versions of the same damage level. Beam-6 (Subspace Blaster) also remains as an anomaly. Considering it's cost and placement in the tech tre

Reply to Weapon RP costs analysis in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What do you think of the actual gameplay? Unless you can tell me how this is having a negative effect upon the game experience, I don't see what the problem is. That's why there's a warning at the top of this thread about charts and math. Here's a quote from above that refers to gameplay: <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center b

Weapon RP costs analysis in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This chart shows the total research points invested to get to the technology required for each damage level of weapon. Ignoring the weapon size differences for a moment, there are a some oddities to notice. The research cost for guns is extrordinarily high; to purchase a Damage-4 Spike driver costs 33,575 RP; that is twice the research cost of a Damage-4 Phaser-IV (16,725 RP). By the time I research Guns-5 (Spike Drive

Oh reeealy? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

...An then the Drengin up and decided to declare war on me. That ape face musta woke up on the wrong side of the bed that mornin', cause I had an answer ready...

Reply to Customizing Planet Names? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

CustomPlanets.xml only works for starting homeworlds. Stars.txt only names the stars, and all planets end up being numerical. At present, I don't think that it's possible to mod solar systems other than the homeworlds.

Reply to Please improve the governors stardock !! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Aren't they the ones responsible for auto-upgrading your structures? I liked the governers in GalCiv-1 a lot better. I also like the waypoint and shipyard controls in GalCiv-2; excellent invention! Is it possible to have both?

Reply to What was the name of that game...? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hey thanks for the link! Off to find the Snathi homeworld, now that we have the coordinates Moo2 had tak combat - gc2 does not. there was definitely more variety with weapons and planetary defences with moo2 And if i was coldly cynical and really nasty most of the b

Reply to The Wild Weasel in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In case anyone else didn't: TargetValue = Attack / (HitPoints + Defense) Attack:1 / (hitpoints:6 + defense:0) = 1/(6+0) = 1/6 = 0.1667

Reply to Meatverse in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was hoping for some culinary poetry.

What was the name of that game...? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Long before Homeworld, in the dinosaur days of DOS, there was a fun little space game that had a mothership. You'de go around building up your ship, and you could land on various planets to collect ten different kinds of resources. And the planets had little critters running around, and lightning storms, and volcanic activity... What was that game!?

Reply to How does the game determine which ship in the fleet gets attacked? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

That is essentially correct, but the AI also weighs the enemy's hit points and defenses against it's attack. A tiny hull fighter has 6 hp, so a 1-beam attack with no defenses scores 1/(6+0)=0.1667 for targetting. A small hull (10hp) stinger scores 2/(10+0)=0.200. The largest number gets targetted, which is why they attack your heavy stinger fighters before your light beam fighters. You can use this to your advantage, if you have developed a good defensive system. Instead of spending all

Reply to The game is too easy in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If the game is too easy, then just turn up the difficulty setting until you try everything you can do and still lose. Try maximum difficulty. Then back it down until you can win a game.

Reply to The Wild Weasel in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

For instance, escourting a couple medium Attack-4 frigates with a large Attack-9/Defense-5 destroyer. And it's a less expensive alternative to upgrading older model ships.

The Wild Weasel in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

AI picks it's target as the highest Target = Attack / (Defense+HitPoints), so I tried a new design scenario: Build a Wild Weasel to protect a fleet of fighters. If we have a tiny with 1 attack, that's 1/(6+0) = 1/6 = 0.1667. In order to protect a wing of these babies, I'll need to present a more appealing--but heavily protected--target. For instance, a medium with attack-4 can have up to defense-7 and still come in as a better target. 4/(16+7) = 4/23 = 0.1739. And sure enough, during combat

Reply to Graphic Anomaly in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just ran into it again; saving, exiting the game, and then reloading makes it go away.

Reply to Working on "a different balance" mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Look in TechTypes.xml; each technology that is alignment-specific has the tag Evil (or good or neutral) Anything in GC2Types.xml that requires one of those technologies will be alignment specific.

Reply to Metaverse scoring in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Or should I create a new identíty and post only 5 games each 100 000 point and vola I'm 3th again. Most of my games have been in the 10,000 ~ 30,000 range. How do you score 100,000 points in a game?

Reply to STICKY: SHOW OFF your cool ship designs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A new ship class, the Planetary Assault Ship. Towards the end of the game, both the Drengin and the Terrans were building tough defenders. Missile attacks around 21-25 each. So to take em down, I invested heavily in anti-missile tech, and eventually had this beauty: The BB Invincible (Missile-40, Anti-Missile-40, Speed-25). Add some small-hull Advanced Troop Transports, and roast until golden brown. <img src="http://home.comcas

Reply to Carrier Ships and Auto-Ship Naming for next v1.3 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I like the idea of carriers, but as its said before, at the moment there is no point in introducing them, simply because the way that the combatsystem work. The way things are currently, tiny hull ships are too slow to keep up with larger vessels. By the end of most of my games, my fleet speed is typically two or three engines per ship.

Reply to Have two suggestions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Some links to threads in this forum: Carriers - I know the debate has raged before Carrier ships and auto-ship naming for next v1.3 Idea for carriers Carriers And those are just the ones in the last month or so.

Reply to "We can't travel that far" Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had this some time back, and it was because I had a planet sending ships to a waypoint. When I started building ships at that planet that were faster, but with less range, then the message started popping up every turn. It would be useful if that window stated exactly which ship the message came from.

Reply to v1.2 Tri-Strontium Armor and Tri-Strontium Armor II Identical in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Railgun Mk V and Railgun Mk VI both have the same tech requirement, and are identical in cost, damage and sizemod.

Reply to Editing savegames? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You could set your research spending to zero. Or go through your planets and demolish all research buildings. Or upgrade them to something more useful.