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Reply to When invading a planet, all non-terraformed tiles become unavailable! in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What was your chosen alignment (I assume you had Xeno Ethics by then)? I encounter a bug when playing as neutral where invading or colonizing a really low-class planet (like 1,2,3, maybe 4) results in a rather large number of auto-terraformed tiles. Class 1s become Class 11s if I have 2 levels of terraforming tech, etc. Surely that's not an intended feature? Not that I would complain, but it would seem to be counter-intuitive, and it doesn't look like non-neutral AIs got the same bon

Reply to DA decommission & building upgradebug in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had this problem in 2a on a very consistent basis (and sent in a bug report w/save). Not had any trouble in 2b, though.

Reply to Minor Race gripes in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I recall using the mining-starbase-purchase technique quite a bit in GC1, and it was a cheese the way I used it. I've really only played the beta of DA rather than stock DL, and I've never had any success buying a mining starbase or planet. Sometimes I can get planets in a peace treaty deal if I've really handed them their respective hinderparts on a platter (once I got the Torian homeworld which shattered their influence), never tried that with mining starbases (if I wanted them, and

Reply to Wrong speed for new ships in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've encountered a similar behavior each time I get a speed upgrade tech (impulse 1, warp 1, hyperwarp 1), and I believe the same is true of the grav accelerator trade good. In short, the bonuses are not applied on the first turn, perhaps because the evaluation of maximum moves for ships is evaluated before tech points are applied and tech(s) gained. I can put together save games to demonstrate the behavior, if desired. All in all the one-turn-without-bonus is not that big a deal (for

Reply to Peacekeeper mega event as of Beta 2 in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

My most recent game was a Gigantic Tough I won by influence victory, and this event happened pretty near the end (I had 65% or so of the map). Since my influence covered so much of the map it was pretty overkill in my favor (there were no shots fired the whole game except between minors and majors). The Peacekeeper design seems to use the highest existing tech; the ones in my game had something like 500 beam attack, 150 mass driver, 0 defense across the board, and 29 speed. My highest

Planet/Ship sidebar UI suggestion in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If it's not too much trouble, I'd very much appreciate it if the planet/ship sidebar's filter and position stayed the same unless I changed it myself. If I'm missing an already existing feature that will help, please let me know. Also, if this is a holdover from Dread Lords and not up for change in the expansion (or at least not proper discussion in the beta forum), that's fine. Examples/explanations: - I commonly use the mode:planet/filter:unowned/sort:class options to find

Reply to Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Something along these lines has already been discussed, most recently in the "Yor Super Ability has to change" thread IIRC Yes, I noticed that at the tail end of that thread, though it seemed more in terms of references to MOO stargates and other such implementations rather than a discussion of specifically how the concept would fit into DA. In

Proposal for dealing with engine speed issues in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

(my apologies if I'm starting a new thread where I should have added to an existing thread; this seemed like a sufficiently distinct track of discussion) Just finished my first beta DA game. Very stable, quite fun. Some bugs and the obvious incomplete stuff, but quite good for a beta. Thank you devs! Anyway, onto the main reason for my post: I think I have an idea for dealing with the "engine cheese" problem. It's been mentioned before in a few forms but I thought I'd go a