Not trying to sound demeaning or anything, but if the world is owned by another race, are you sure you're using a transport and not a colony ship to invade it? I've made that mistake before, and it took me a while to realize it. Another thought would be, do you have an alliance with the race you're trying to use the transport on?
Just some initial thoughts, though others will come soon with much better ones I'm sure. Try and see what defensive branch the drengin are going after, and change your weapon research to counter it. Also, research shields and such to try and decrease the effects of their beam weapons. In my previous games, the AI will "usually" follow one weapon type for both offensive and defensive. For instance, most times if I see their ships are using beam weapons, I'll notice they've also researched and
Forgive me for jumping in here, but thought I'd add my opinion to this. I however will say I haven't tested my opinion, this is just what "I think" I noticed from my own games. The Mass Driver invasion tactic, does kill off planetary improvements, but those are only calculated after the invasion, and if the invasion succeeds. So as long as you are able to properly defend against the invasion forces, and hold onto the planet, your structures won't be destroyed. If they do successful
Here's a link to a download from the Library section. It's a list of ships and their requirements. You can look it over, and see just which techs are needed to unlock the various ships. I created something similar to this, but in in excel format. Seeing as how I've never uploaded mine to anywhere though, this should work for you, just as well. Hope it helps. http://library.galciv2.com/index.aspx?m=150
Maybe I'm reading the original post wrong, but I see a statement for a theoretical max on a ship, but not the stats on the ships in question. So I'm just curious, what are the stats for the ships you've come across which are impossible? [Edit] Opps, now I saw it just as I was closing the window. Well, that answered my question. lol
I understand your point, but I disagree with some of your conclusions on cheat codes. Firstly, most of the "cheat codes" are more or less debug codes, which allow for a much simplier method of testing the game, and/or mods. As a modder, surely you can understand that sometimes, things come up in the mod, that aren't intended. Having the debug codes allow you to go in and recreate the area you think might be a problem, and quickly test and retest until you've fixed it, rather than playing a sc
I've only been playing the game for a little over a week myself. I first found the problem in the middle of a game, and since I had done a few tweaks to the ini file the first time, I thought it might have something to do with it, so I set things back to normal and tried again. Eventually, a fresh install later, and I noticed is happening again in the game. From that point on (I never tried to see if the ships would pop out correctly or not at this point) I would simply fire things up, and I
I am actually, partially in the same boat as you. I noticed a similar behavior, occurring whenever I would download v1.2.009 beta from their servers. For whatever reasoning, everything is fine in v1.11 but once I upgrade, there are 13 ships which essentially become invisible whenever I go to a shipyard to view their models. Strangely, at least for me, I've noticed this effects the ship designs for: Combat Transport, Cruiser, Destroyer, Dreadnought, Excalibur, Fire Hawk, Missle Boat,
https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=274&AID=105107#917259 #1 and #2 states the minimum resolution being 1024 x 768. It also further states that those are the minimum for both the X and Y coordinates, so basically, even if you're using something which overall might be above 1024 x 768 resolution, you may need to make sure that tne numbers are that or higher. This might be why you're having trouble running it at 1280 x 720.
Hmm, maybe this is trying to point out the obvious, but have you tried the Demo for the game? If you haven't, it might be a good place to start, just to see how you like the overall feel.
Adding race photos should be quite simple, from what I can tell, the photo may need to be .PNG extension, other than that, just place it within your mods folder. To clarify, look in your game options to see where your mod folder is located (usually within my documents/games/galciv2) and then inside the mod folder will essentially be folders like what you will find within your actual game directory. One of which will be Portraits. Just put the file in there, and you'll be able to select it as
Hmm, I usually have no trouble at all going to war in the early stages of the game, and I play on a lesser difficulty. I'm fairly new to the game, only been playing it for maybe a week, but the last few games, I had races going to war with me before I even researched my first military tech. I usually start off, focusing on diplomacy and trading. When doing the initial colonize planet rush at the beginning of the game, I lately have been choosing the "evil" options, for the increased bonuses,
It might also have something to do with your browser options. I know sometimes having certain security features set too high, can cause this effect. That said, I wouldn't recommend lowering them any, unless you knew what you were doing, especially when it comes to payment info. I just ordered the game last night using Credit Card method, and had no problems at all. If you have a credit card, I'd suggest attempting that method and see if it's any different for you.
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