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Reply to So I just watched Stargate.... in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Bite your tounges!!! SG-1 is better than Atlantis. SG-1 did lose something in the last two years, ever since Frasier died I've been alittle pissed. However, SG-1's decline is slowing, I suspect that by the middle of this season it will have re-established the goodness. As for Battlestar Galactica.... It can't compare to SG-1, maybe Atlantis... maybe. I didn't like the Orion blowing up so early. It would have been much better had they just said there was irreperable dam

Reply to Why announce Dark Avatar before patch 1.3 ??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

That thousands of systems thing, yeah... Pretty sure that if you put the number of stars to abundant and have the largest galaxy you can get a max of like 1000 systems, not to shabby. Especially if you consider that each of those systems can have up to five worlds, thats alot of planets.

Reply to Favorite victory strategy? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well, generally I try to grab the best worlds I can early on. Grabbing the best planet in the system and moving on to the next. And if the planets in a system are crappy (like below an 8) I skip it entirely, unless its so isolated I can't grab it culturally later. Then, when the other races start moving in on the empty worlds in my territory I switch gears and grab up those I left behind earlier. After that I focus on the infrastructure. I know that If I have a decent soldiering

Reply to Question? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1. Don't just make peace, make them regret going to war, then offer peace. 2. Mini-Soldiers are the way to go. 3. Yeah, thats a pain.

Reply to AI gifted ships not moving in 1.2 beta2 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What kinda ships were they? If they are scouts or flagships, then they are probably sitting their because they have nothing to explore or survey. They (the AI) do that every time.

Reply to Mods - Besides TV Show (We all love StarTrek, Babylon 5, StarWars, and Stargate...but...) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Starcraft would be kinda cool. Not enough races for a TC though. How about StarFox? I had alot of fun playing StarFox 64, there were alot of different ships on that. Hmm..... How about a Mod were all the races are turned into the Minor races? Like a battle of the little people. Or a Mod where each race got its own style.

Reply to Going broke in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thats happened to me before too. Except my computer had it's OS reinstalled due to some corruption problems, or some such nonsense, so no .err file. I've also had a planets population turn into a positive number of similar size, but, unlike the money thing, that fixed itself.

Reply to Orbital Fleet manager to the rescue in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

To the contrary, I had a HUGE fleet of ships. I'm talkin' dozens of ships. And they were all pretty decent ships, when compared to the others I had faced. I attacked the Drengin, who had four worlds, and even though they had no armor/sheild/pd, they wiped the floor with my fleets. Barely conquered them. I admit I had some Star Furys and Defenders in their, but only a few. Because they could put three or four ships with between 4 and 7 attack together I couldn't pound them one by one like u

Reply to Scene's skip on volume change in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Atleast you can see the movies..... Mine skip, like a scratched record. And ANY voice recording skips alot, like in the tutorials.

Reply to What techs go with what ships? in Research GalCiv2 Forums

I'm pretty sure the default ships are only available for the races with the Terran style anyway. That or my Custom Race (used Torian design) didn't get to use any beyond the defender and star fury because it was a Custom Race.

Reply to Most Bizzare Bug I've seen yet in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've run into a similarly bizzare error. I conquered a Korx world, and instead of the population being reduced to 350 million, it went to something like 13943849183 Trillion. The ip jumped to 500 and my influence spread across the whole galaxy. Planets half-way across the galaxy were ready to flip, three weeks later, everything fixed itself. I probably would have gotten an influence victory if I wasn't at war with the Korx.

Reply to A few questions on strange behavior in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Its at Normal. I used to do it at Beginner, but once I got the hang of things I turned it up to normal. Obviously I need to turn it up alittle. But it doesn't explain the mysterious appearance of the Precurser ship months after the event occured. I find it hard to believe I just couldn't see it. I have all of their worlds under surveilence, I have several Influence Starbases around the meager worlds they still have, PLUS Advanced Espionage. Try and explain that one.

Reply to A few questions on strange behavior in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Lets get this thing on the Recent Posts list!!

A few questions on strange behavior in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Okay, so I've played a few games, and noticed a few things. First, I'd like to mention that I too have noticed all the comp players researching the same weapon techs. In my current game the Torians are at war with the Drengin and the Arceans (or was it the Terrans? it doesn't matter). However, not once have I seen either attempt to invade a Torian world. I HAVE seen however several Torian transports make their way to Arcean space, but they stopped and are floating in one of my syst

Reply to FIX NEUTRALITY RESEARCH BASES in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

NLC ?? Neutral Research Base?? What are these strange things you speak of?

Reply to Drengin AI building only ships without weapons in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I played the missions at cakewalk level and didn't even see this, so I don't think the difficulty issue.

Reply to Why does the AI like embassies so damn much? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

They only time I ran into excessive use of embassys was on a minor race world that had been under the shadow of my empire for years. I didn't bother to invade it because of a large population and high approval, so Info warfare tactics would have been useless, and I didn't want to damage the lvl 15 planet. Eventually it ran out of food and the approval dropped to under 50%, so when I invaded I found atleast 6 embassys, maybe seven. Besides that I find no more than two or three on fri

Reply to Reducing population??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My problem isn't to many people, its to many worlds. Its difficult to manage so many planets and remember what planets need what help and so forth. It would be great if you could just annihilate/abandon a planet.

Reply to AI vs. AI in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That would totally own!

Reply to Allowing colony ships into your territory in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yet another suggestion for 1.2 perhaps? I ignore planets that are below 7, since at that point they are still usefull for building smaller ships, like fighters, and exerting your influence across the galaxy. When the ai comes in to take the crappy worlds I just build an embassy on the world I have in the system and wait for it to rebel. Its especially working against the Torians in the m

Reply to Strategy in 1.1 / Suggestions for 1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As to suggestions for 1.2, I think it would make sense that if you have an Advanced Espionage (which means that you know more about this civ than its highest ranking memebers) that you should have a noticeable bonus in influence on that race. You HAVE bribed high-ranked officials, shouldn't that give you some say? Another thing, I think that you should gain the ships and starbases of a civ when you conquer it. Lastly, If conquering a capital world doesn't give you the civ immediatel

Reply to AI-Controlled Created Races in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I'm hoping for this aswell. I'd like to know how the Computer implements The Endoran Coalition (my custom race).

Reply to Supergates in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

As to the AI difficulties, they could always talk to Blizzard. They used Waygates in WC III and the AI used those to its considerable advantage. Of course those were permanent and only existed if preplaced during map construction.

Reply to A Stargate Total Conversion Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I want He'taks myself. Especially Anubis and Apophis' flagships. The prommie would be pretty awesome aswell. P.S. Its not just you. Thats why at Gateworld they are reffered to as toilet-class ships.

Reply to No saves at all? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I had a different problem with my saves. I'm not sure, but it may be that I had to many save files. I had tried to save a file, and it said "File Saved" or "Save Successfull" or whatever it says. But when I went to load it up the next day it wasn't there!!!!!!!!