Dewwar

Reply to Ship Moving Strangness in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Space sets the current ship's movement remaining to zero. It only works on the first ship if you have multiple ones selected. -Dewar

Reply to How many just say NO? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Late Double Post -Dewar

Reply to How many just say NO? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I believe that if you don't agree to the EULA the publisher is required to give you a refund even if the store you bought it from won't. -Dewar

Reply to structure upgrade speedbumps in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Not that I disagree with what you're asking for, but here's another suggestion as well. Don't use tactics that destroy buildings on a computer planet you plan on using. I'll gladly send 5 billion soldiers to their death rather than 2 billion if it means I don't have to use tidal disruption. -Dewar

Reply to May have pinpointed "missing core ships" problem in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The problem is that I have had the missile boat available on more than one occasion. This might be because I play Yor with their built in miniturization bonus *shrug* -Dewar

Reply to Getting my ass handed to me in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Until you change your government type to Republic, a morale of 41% is the same as a 99%. If you can't keep it at 100% then 41% is just as good. Being at 100% will double your population growth. Feel free to crank up your taxes or delay building entertainment centers and spend that money on things that will give you an immediate b

Reply to Trade Goods Bugs? in Trade GalCiv2 Forums

The race that owns the trade good has the building on their planet (either cause they built it first, or because they took the planet over.) The owner basically trades the rights to use the item to other races, rather than the building itself. The owner can sell those rights to however many different races he wants, but those races can't sell the rights to someone else. So there isn't any reason to decommission the building because the AI tr

Reply to Favorite race abilities? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Kirby are you setting your allocation bar to 100%? Also, you should be using that 5k BC's you start with to buy colony ships. I never have too much trrouble with the AI out producing me except in the very begining. I think the AI must cheat a bit in the begining or something because yeah it's just insane out of the gate, but then

Reply to How to win without a millitary? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Here's a few options 1) Do whatever you can to ally with the people immediately around you, and then ask them to go to war with everyone else. This works especially well if you're all the same alignment. Make sure to keep them at war with everyone else as much as possible, since if one of the other civilizations declares war on your ally you pretty much have to join in (breaking an alliance could very easily get you in a world of hurt later.

Reply to Game crashes on startup AFTER update, but not before in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you alt-tab a lot, you should play in windowed mode with the resolution set the same as your desktop rather than playing in full screen mode. If you are already doing that, I'm not sure what else to do. -Dewar

Reply to Suggestion: Add a "ship engine" component to the game in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Seems way over complicated. I like the suggestion to giving ships with a higher speed a defensive bonus however. Perhaps for every 1 point difference there is a 2% bonus or something similar. Everyone already stacks their ships with engines. I'd venture to say that engines is the most research

Reply to Unique techs/coponents? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You won't want to name the tech "ImpossibleTech" because then you'll screwup your starship building (you'll be able to build Corvettes, Rangers, Pirate Ships, and Starbases.) Any other name will do fine. Theoretically, once you can turn tech trade off, you could make one special tech for each race, give it to them as a starting tech, and then each race could have its own unique techs branching off from that. -Dewar

Reply to Economic Capitol in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I would build in the following order. Colony Factory Starbase Factory Farm Entertainment Farm Entertainment x2 Farm Entertainment Farm Entertainment x2 Trade x9 Econ Capital Then, once upgrades were finished, I'd think about building over the starport and factories with either more entertainment (if needed) or more trade centers. I also like to have an or

Reply to Precursor Corvette random event? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

100 corvettes + 2 or 3 stacked military starbases = ungodly pain and suffering. -Dewar

Reply to Newbie question regarding researching techs for new ships in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You might need to do some research in minaturization in order to make those ships show up. -Dewar

Reply to Question: Ship Design vs. Core Ships in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Miniturization techs aren't included in the "Other Techs Required" section. Try researching a few levels in that if you aren't getting the ships when you expect to. -Dewar

Reply to What determines what custom ships are available? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As another post mentioned, minaturization is a factor. Also, you need to be playing the same ship type (Human vs Yor vs Torian) and you need to be in the same type of game (Metaverse vs Single Player.) If worse comes to worse, you can open up the XML files for that ship and see what else might be required. I often forget that I need to upgrade engines or life support personally -Dewar.

Reply to Game crashing every 10 turns or so, help in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Flickering is usualy a symptom of video card overheat. See if there's any way for you to check your GPU temperature (NVidia has tools to do this, not sure about ATI) -Dewar

Reply to Cannot build "any" ships in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think you'd be best off if you could send a debug.err report and a save file to Stardock Support. I don't think there's much any of us can do here. -Dewar

Reply to Tweakin' the Tech Tree in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

There is no scripted list, and the AI adapts to tech changes by itself. (So if you were to up the bonus given by basic logistics, the computer would put a higher priority on researching it.) I would assume that it would adapt to new techs by itself as well. -Dewar

Reply to How many good races have you seen? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Torians go good most of the time for me. Iconians, Drath, and Arceans have all gone good for me at least once. Heck, I've even had the Dengrin go good once due to a special event. That was hillarious. They messaged me up just to wish me a nice day and a happy, long life. Cuddly Dengrin... -Dewar

Reply to Alignment Scenarios: Being 'Good' gets the shaft? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

They could use somehting more than the terraforming bonus, since it's a bonus you can get if you get the galactic achivement orbital terraformer Yeah, but the neutral bonus doesn't require you to even research those techs at all, which is nice because the last one in the chain is fairly expensive.<br

Reply to Alignment Scenarios: Being 'Good' gets the shaft? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Evil Races are really just the Korx and the Drengin. (? Others? Brain Freeze again O_O ) Yor as well -Dewar

Reply to Fleet combat in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Not really. If there's two enormous capital ships packed with weapons and two tiny fighters shooting at me, I'd rather kill the big boys first while I have the power left to do it. Ask any navy officer. Do you go after the enemy's capital ships or the little escorts first? The thing is that t

Reply to Gameplay Example: Computer AI in transition in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I'd agree with the change in logistics. The jump to medium ships is a huge bonus right now. A fleet of medium ships can currently take out a fleet of small ships of the same tech level and logistics points. I'll be interested to see how the change goes. -Dewar