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Reply to 4 Trillion population in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you play as the Drengin, you have death furnaces for that sort of thing

Reply to Pirates ahoy!!!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Pirates aren't that bad. Just treat them like dreadlords and destroy them with large fleets of small defenseless ships. It might be possible to nerf the pirates by editing the GC2Ships.xml file if you want to try that though.

Reply to "Free" production?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Unfortunately you get charged for absolutely everything except that ten percent bonus from the moon.

Reply to Does anyone bother with tiny hulls? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I love tiny hulls in the campaign. A fleet of six tinies, I believe, is the best way to destroy a deadlord ship before it can shoot back. At least until they build that ship with a shield rating of thirteen...

Reply to A few custom ship designs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Wow, I love your style! Every time I see screenshots like this, it reminds me how narrowminded I've been.

Reply to "Un"-obsolete ships? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

This is just a guess, but I think the only way to get the design back is to edit the save file. But don't worry over the core ships -- you can always design better yourself.

Reply to No 'cloaking' tech? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

There was a cloaked ship in the old OS/2 galciv game but it turns out it was not fun at all. So it was tried and discarded long ago.

Reply to How does one invade with more than a single transport??? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Yeah, transports are great at population control. You can even tranfer population between worlds with them. They are great things to build in times of peace along with constructors as long as you sit them outside of a planet's orbit (so that the population can regenerate).

Reply to How to contact Brad in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Ooh! IB, what fun. One thing about the IB, though, is that grades and work are not necessarily related. And the extended essay is, in my opinion, the greatest timesink with the smallest returns. You can utterly fail it and still get the diploma with a ToK essay written the morning it is to be mailed off. With that said, I hope you get the two or three bonus points you deserve if you make a dedicated effort. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/g

Reply to Is modding going to be as simple as I think it is? in Modding Stardock Forums

Actually I believe the number of races is hardcoded, as well as the number of ship styles. You can change anything, but adding additional styles and races is not supported at the moment, if I remember correctly. I think they are trying to change that though.

Reply to Borders in GalCiv2? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

While the lines are not anything like borders to begin with, there are a couple of united planets issues that can be passed which change things. For example, starbases outside of your sphere of influence could be hit with a tax.

Reply to So what are YOU doing to pass the time till release? in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

BigMcLargeHuge, you are my hero. My best was seventeen hours and nowadays I can only seem to get eleven. I've rediscovered my love of reading and Final Fantasy VII. Also, watching the tutorials helps. The only video/image/song/sound files I have not played from the preload are the three that have names telling me they are campaign spoilers.

Reply to race alignments in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If I've been reading correctly, alignments can be changed and are not defined in terms of buildings and technologies until you research an ethical technology in which you choose good, neutral or evil. Before that there is just an ethical score out of a hundred which affects the AI behaviour.

Reply to Terror Star? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I think the rationale was something like it was not practical to spend enough time to work out game balance issues and AI treatment.

Reply to GalCiv ship scales in Game Talk Stardock Forums

As I understand it, the smallest craft you can build are more like corvettes than snub fighters. They are designed to function on their own for long periods of time and a handful of people will live inside the smallest ship.

Reply to Does Idle production eat credits? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I think there is the option to focus spending on individual worlds. You can focus on military, social or research. It is not very efficient but it improves one field at the the cost of the other two.

Reply to How do you play the tutorials? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The spacebar also seems to pause bink video, in line with media player convention.

Reply to Spying to steal techs? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Does this tech stealing even work with weapons, making it easier than ever to surprise the enemy with attacks against which she has no defence? If the answer to that is "yes," is it possible for the most advanced technology in that line to be stolen before inferior prerequisites? 'casue that would be awesome. The spies would have the budget for the coolest gadgets.

Reply to Gamer looking for a great empire to join. in Game Talk Stardock Forums

This one is also awaiting an empire with an interesting name and logo. And by interesting this one means battletech-esque.

Reply to Colonial Fleet looking for survivors in Colonies Stardock Forums

I think I'm going to hold out for a House Davion or something of that nature At least until I finish the campaign.

Reply to What difficulty will your first game be? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I plan to play against three sub-normal AI on a medium map as the Arceans my first game. My only ambition is to not be the first to go

Reply to Is the United Planets in GalCivII???? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I actually find Lord Doom's english very easy to understand, although slightly phonetic. This debate is refreshing to read compared to some of what I've read on this other board. Link

Reply to Running on an older PC in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I could be wrong, but that 600MHz processer might be the biggest problem. I would not be surprised if turns took longer than they should. The game would probably work, but you'd want to stay away from large galaxies, limit the number of opponents and play against lower difficulty levels of AI.

Reply to In your first game you will play as humans?? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I've always been most interested in the Arceans, so I plan to lead them into my first sandbox game. After that race will probably be chosen based upon which bonus best suits researching my way to military superiority.

Reply to Food and Morale buildings in Strategies Stardock Forums

Now that is amazing But isn't the population supposed to represent the number of productive citizens (taxpayers) and not mouths to feed? Perhaps for every person who pays taxes there are a few hundred who can't spare the credits.