So, forward into the Dark Ages, then?  ;p

Whoops, my mistake, meant to type a date further into the future, lol.

I think 1012 was in the high middle ages. The dark ages came much later, around the 1300s.

Just add a zero in somewhere.  10120?  10012?  10102?  It's all good.

I would have thought that you could build a second super project if you lsot the first. But i honestly never tried that...

Anyway. If you can launch such an attack deep into enemy territory, defend that planet surrounded by enemy worlds and still keep your invasion going you would have won the war without that too.

sorry if this has already been gone over, but in 2.0 it seems like the AI still isn't expanding properly on "bright" and "intelligent" difficulty levels. the Yor are the worst offenders, and I generally see at least a few of their planets with shipyards full of unlaunched colony ships. the arceans also take the turtling strategy to the point of being non-competitive in every game, they simply cannot compete against other races with 5-7 planets. the Drengin and the Korath are also not expanding much either on intelligent, and usually colonize 7-10 planets and then call it quits, even if there are pq 9+ planets right next door. the races that do expand properly/aggressively (the Terrans, Krynn, Thalan, Altarian, and Drath, from what I've seen) have been dominating every game, which has gotten pretty old.

I assumed he meant 1012 years after the founding of planet Stardock.  Most planets measure time based on local years, don't they?

Thank you so much Brad! Very welcome these updates!

I just enhanced the colonization behavior for some of the AIs to be better about expanding. Drengin, Yor, etc.

awesome, thank you. where else can a forum posting lead to direct resolution of an in-game issue by a developer? stardock just continues to impress.

Thanks.

Yea, just got done playing a very long, all day game.  Made some minor tweaks along the way to the AI.

Any news on when we can put our greedy little hands on your latest tweaks? "This week" (Nov 11) apparently didn't work. I'm thinking about nice GC2 gaming for the weekend, so it would be good to know. Thanks!

man, that guy should get a real job - does he do anything but play and mod this game!

(Duck the inevitable thrown tomatoes - {G}) - Jonnan

Brad, could you change the morale formula to allow planets with more than 20 b population?

Currently even class 20 worlds can hardly support more than 25 billion people. Morale improvements simply don't help after that amount.

Cool! Just last night I thought "why does such a great game have a crap feature like this orbital fleet manager thing"? I mean, either you waste a precious tile on an improvement that you might not need even once in the entire game, or you risk a couple of enemy transporters slipping in and inviding your planet, while your powerful fleets are waiting just one tile away (or, of course, you let your ships be killed one by one). The first option is just plain stupid, the second is frustrating, so the whole concept kind of sucks. The Fleet Command center will be a great improvement there, I´m really looking forward to get my hands on it!

I´d still prefer, though, to either have all ships in an orbit defend it´s planet as a fleet by default (which is most realistic), or to enable the player to put fleets in orbits (which reduces micromanagement a bit). Another option I´d like would be to have a tech that enables fleet-planet-defense in itself, without any projekts to be build. If you ever integrate this, the Fleet Command Center could give another bonus - like, for example, give planet-defending-fleets a logistics bonus which normal fleets don´t have.

Hello

I just down load the v2.01.  I had no problems downloading it.

Thank you  Stardock and all others that help.

Happy Turkey Day everyone

How many games do I have to play to get my Custom Medal? Does anyone know?

Mmm Seek knowledge we must Mmm

The fleet defense project sounds good, but it really won't help the AI.  Most of my games I rather them have OFM's so that I can wipe them out in 1 attack as opposed to 6-10.

As it is now, at least not having an ofm meant their cannon fodder ships were at least somewhat effective in slowing me down...

The real problem as someone above said, is that the AI still builds hords of crappy ships, and leaves them orbit.  What is the purpose of crappy ships?  The AI should build the most expensive/effective ships it can, because 1 good ship is worth hundreds of crappy ones.  When is that update going to happen?

I also would like to see the morale formula tweaked to allow much higher population levels.  For instance, the Thalan's Hyperion Matrix essentially ruins a planet if it is built on a farm tile - why can't a planet have 42 billion people living on it?

Besides the obvious, I mean.

I would really like to be able to have super-populated planets if I so chose.  You would have to keep an eye out for the Torians and Krynn though.

Also, it would be cool if you added in a 'food' race ability.  Civs such as the Drath are supposed to be lower in population, but they really aren't.  Maybe if a food ability was added, then you could give them a negative bonus so that there really are less of them.

Spot on. Nice one.

I guess that statement confuses me?

I could see having other arguments regarding where to draw the line, maybe a large planet allowing for a larger population or 'x million per usable tile' and if you go above *that* is when the morale penalty cuts in, but if I'm going to play a game that has any internal logic at all, I'm perfectly content with there being a limit on the requirements that the population has a size limit - <G>.

Jonnan

Hi There fellas,

I just bought GC2 Ultimate Edition (I'm in the UK). Never played it before but read lots about it so I thought i;d give it a go, i'm a big Civ fan so this sounds great.

Only problem is I can't register my copy on Impulse and so receive the updates. I've checked a couple-a forums and i'm gathering that it's being worked on, and also that i should post here to politely remind Brad (hey, Brad) that us European types are still waiting to be able to update.

Community for this game seems good so hopefully it won't be too long before its sorted. Any situation updates would be appreciated.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to our American Cousins.

James

Hello All,

I bought GC2 ultimate edition in Singapore and can't register on impulse. I'm new to this game and have never played the campaigns before, which is why I can't wait to get the 2.0 update, as it allows the original campaign to be played under the Twilight of Arnor. I hope GC2:UE will be added to impulse soon.

Eugene