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Reply to If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="186" id="3111733"] Quoting MarvinKosh, reply 185Yes, you get a dialogue asking for assistance, if you don't then your alliance (with the race being warred upon) is off. Been a while since I saw it though. I've never seen this - if one of my allies declares war on the other, I can stay completely out of it (although if the victim is Super Organizer I still get asked for help). Maybe things worked this way in GalCiv I?[/quote] It

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="334" id="3111181"]The idea behind giving farms a small morale bonus was to make them useful prior to planets reaching full population, and to help ease the morale crush on high pop planets. Lately, I've been wondering if I should get rid of it. Would solve the problem of the AI putting farms up on morale bonus tiles. Any thoughts on the issue?[/quote] Get rid of it. It only means trouble for the AI. [quote who="Tolmekian" reply="334" id="31111

Reply to Major Races and other questions (New Modder) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="windclan" reply="15" id="3109329"]Wait, does the tech requirement need to be written the same way as the TechID or the same as it is in-game?[/quote] It needs to be the TechID. The ID is unique for each tech, while the display name can be different for each race.

Reply to Major Races and other questions (New Modder) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="windclan" reply="13" id="3108993"]Run into a rough spot I can't figure out. Trying to add a new group of techs to the Terran tree. I managed to get the 3 techs grouped together easily enough but upon trying to add the planetary improvement and it's upgraded versions I found that for some reason only the first, weakest version was showing up. The other two techs in the group gave the proper bonus but no improvement was given.[/quote] Just to be clear: You added three t

Reply to Tell us about your current games! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="50" id="3107995"] Sounds great! I love the Yor. From lore standpoint, the yoy are probably my favorite race![/quote] I love their lore, too! The main reason for me, however, is their isolationism. It just fits my personality. The only difference is, that the Yor do it, because they hate other "people", while I do it, because other people scare me to death. [e digicons]8C[/e] [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e]

Reply to Tell us about your current games! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="48" id="3107961"]@Gaunathor thats ok mate, as long as others are enjoying reading about everyone's games too!![/quote] Glad to hear that. I'm currently preparing for a re-installation of my system, so modding is on hold. After that is done, and the research part of my mod is back on track, I'm going to do an exhaustive (immense size, all abundant, tight clusters) test game. AI vs AI tests are fine for quickly tweaking the research pattern for the AI.

Reply to Major Races and other questions (New Modder) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="windclan" reply="8" id="3107851"]Even if new races aren't in the selection list they would still be in the load list when choosing to create a custom race or opponent though right? I don't really NEED to be able to play as the new races, just having them as possible opponents is enough...[/quote] I never used custom races, but that would be my guess. [quote who="windclan" reply="8" id="3107851"]Though I imagine it wouldn't be too tough to switch out one

Reply to Tell us about your current games! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Finally got around to reading this thread. Quite interesting what you guys have going here. Too bad, that I have nothing to contribute. Haven't played a proper game in month. Been too busy, working on my mod. [quote who="qrtxian" reply="34" id="3094314"]Come to think of it, "continuous" games like this are pretty much how I play all the time, although I don't always try to be particularly peaceful.[/quote] Now, that's a surprise. I didn't expect to find someone

Reply to Major Races and other questions (New Modder) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="windclan" reply="4" id="3107212"]So, if I were to give say the Snathi a new tech tree that is ONLY for the Snathi everything would work properly? I assume that trading the Minors for those unique techs would be safe since they would have already researched them?[/quote] Depends on the techs. If it is something nobody else has, it's fine. But you still have to make sure, that some of the generic techs don't suddenly disappear. [quote who="windclan" reply="4"

Reply to Major Races and other questions (New Modder) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The number of minor races is pretty much unlimited. The number of major races can't be changed, as far as I know. I never tried that myself, however, so don't take my word for it. It is definitely possible to give each minor it's own tech tree. You just need to change the line from MinorRace_TechTree to the name of your new tech tree. The minors have, however, a few problems. Recent discoveries showed, that 1) they only have access to Super Projects, but not to Galactic

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="warkbt" reply="13" id="3106168"]my altarian ally seems to be more intelligent than drengin enemy in mision UV.[/quote] Yet another bug. Twofold, this time, and it takes a little bit more explaining. First, the races in TotA use different AI Personalities (AIP for short), unlike DL and DA, where it was one AI for all races. AIP 7, which is used by the Drengin, Yor and Korath, and AIP 10, which is used by the Torians and Iconians, are considered broken. AIP 7 doesn&#

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="warkbt" reply="10" id="3105989"]Oh no, I hate those un-fixable bugs, I will need to investigate before advancing in the campaign. I like more the style of TotA because the Toursim income (which is bigger than in DL) lets you reduce the taxes (since I can't have trade routes).[/quote] It is not unfixable. You have to mod the scenario file for one of the missions and change the race number in the winning conditions. I never tried that, so I can't give exact advice on ho

Reply to New type of Fleet Warp Bubble--but for range instead of speed in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="HighWater" reply="6" id="3105956"]You'd have to disable tech stealing and such, or they might get it anyway... [/quote] That is unnecessary, if he sets the tech to cannot be traded\stolen.

Reply to If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

I have to agree with Qrtxian. This is a great AAR, but it clearly shows an imbalance in your mod. But I'm sure, you will iron this out eventually. BTW, have you considered using multiple pre-reqs for techs? It may not look pretty to have a tech shown two, three or more times in the tech tree, but it works.

Reply to Game Options in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Tech Trading allows you and the AI to buy and sell techs. You can re-sell any techs you bought, too. The AI is doing that constantly. This is called Tech-Bartering (or Tech-Brokering). If you disable it, you and the AI can no longer re-sell techs. Only researched techs can then be sold. Oh, and welcome! Better late, than never. [e digicons];)[/e]

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="8" id="3105571"] It's not brilliant planning on the part of your ally, sure, but I don't get how that translates into being frustrated at your inability to conquer them like the OP seems to be saying.[/quote] I'm a bit on a loss there, too. Let's wait and see what he has to say about it.

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="6" id="3105402"]How does this actually hurt you, though?[/quote] It's more of an annoyance really, but their starbases prevent me sometimes from using the optimal placement for my own starbases. The other things is, why does my ally build military starbases around my planets? They can't help me, because they have no effect on my ships. And my ally won't send any of his own to protect my planets. It's such a waste of time and money. Well, tha

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="warkbt" reply="2" id="3104967"]2) God, i hate my allies they build starbases every where even near my planets.[/quote] The woes of artificial stupidity. Your ally thinks, he's doing you a favor, but doesn't realize, that those starbases have only an effect on himself. There is a UP proposal in the sandbox game, however, that allows starbases to help allies. [quote who="warkbt" reply="2" id="3104967"]4) How do I build a fighter ship with beam defense or miss

Reply to Need help on GalCiv2 ultimate edition cheats how do you make them work? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="lhim" reply="9" id="3104865"]I probably shouldn't use Admin but the Win7 UAC stuff drives me batty. Not just with the game but elsewhere as well.[/quote] You can lower the settings for the UAC, if you want. [quote who="lhim" reply="9" id="3104865"]Does the "Microsoft says so" apply to game publishers? Rhetorical Q I guess. I have never understood the whole "My Documents" thing as I want my data the hell away from the OS. One disaster ate my C; drive but the D:

Reply to Dreadlors campaign in UE after update to 2.03 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hello and welcome! 1) In Ixith, the initial treasury now is always 3000BC? the next mission will be the same or less? It's been a while since I played the campaign, but the standard starting treasury has been set to 3000BC in TotA. So I would say, it's very likely the same or more, but never less. 2) Is there a way to declare war to our allies in the first mission? No. You and your allies are in a team, i.e. a unbreakable alliance. 3) I know

Reply to colonizing planets: quality or quantity? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="7" id="3104768"]ahh...no. But it seemed like a witty comeback at the time![/quote] Should have realized that. But then, I always have a hard time telling, if someone is joking or not. [e digicons]:([/e] [quote who="Neilo" reply="7" id="3104768"]I was looking for a similar avatar to my old one, but something rendered not slapped together in paint. I found that at wallbase (its actually a 1920 x 1080 wall) and with some scaling got it to look decent a

Reply to Need help on GalCiv2 ultimate edition cheats how do you make them work? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="lhim" reply="7" id="3104633"]Since nothing else appeared amiss in the shortcut trying to activate the cheat codes, perhaps Win7 had some bizarre idea that it should be in the User account.[/quote] Win7 has no effect on the cheats. Playing the game in Admin mode, however, definitely has an effect which account is used to store the data (saves, configs, etc). [quote who="lhim" reply="7" id="3104633"]Now the freaking shortcut to directly launch GC2 "GalCiv2.exe" will

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

All right, disregard my last post about the minors. There is definitely a connection between unique techs and the presence of the major races using them, but it doesn't make any sense. I gave several minors access to different tech trees, for testing purposes. Akilians got the Thalan tech tree, the Carinoids the Iconian one, the Paulos the Arcean tech tree, the Letzlandians the Altarian one, the Dark Yor the one of the Yor and the Snathi the Drengin one. Scottlingas and Jessuin

Reply to colonizing planets: quality or quantity? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="5" id="3104567"]There is actually, I'm color blind. There i said it!!!! Whew..glad to get that off my chest! [/quote] Really? Must be pretty hard to play this game, because so much is color coded. But then, you play on suicidal, so I'm not quite sure about that. [e digicons]:S[/e]

Reply to colonizing planets: quality or quantity? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="3" id="3104378"]Good point, in fact i wouldn't bother with them at all. Let the AI take them, those planets will never yield enough influence to be a bother and you will flip them quite easily.[/quote] I wouldn't go that far. If you're lucky, those planets can turn into PQ 16-18 after terraforming. They are quite an investement early on, but going for them after you have the high PQ planets in the area is definitely worthwhile. PS: Rose ti