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Reply to Oh noes, the evil Drengin Empire is defeating me wholesale.. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe its justthat the Drengin are so evil and warlike that even while losing they don't lose their desire for fighting and only when they have no defense left will they look for peace. In the game i'm playing the Drengin declared that the galaxy wasnt big enough for the both of us. I had a very small military but had the techs to change that. I was woking on getting rich (I'm the Krox) so i neglected my offensive military. I made a ship called The Dregin Blackeye to counter them and in

Reply to Stardock Please Revive MoO! in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

First, is MoM = Master of Monsters? I had that for Sega Genesis, LOVED it, then got it for Playstation, HATED it. But I think Stardock could definitely give the dubest AI new life. I would look for ward to a new version. i have never played or seen MoO. But having seen what Stardock can do, i don't see whyt the couldnt do a new version of it. May be hard to keep two great games compketely separate without having the slowly morph into the same game. MoO can have a lot of the t

Reply to Why does the company website charge $5 more than stores? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If Stardock were to sell the same game cheaper on its website, no one would want to do business with them in the future. As a company, you can't sell to wholesalers and then turn around and sell the same game cheaper. how would you feel if you had a really great tech to trade, expecting to get a lot from each Civilization for it but the first one you trade it to practically GIVES it away to everyone. You'd wanna kick their butts (if that particular race has a butt that is). So

Reply to Tell us what you'd like in Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

ok heres another thing i would like for Christmas... the ability to sort, under different tabs, my different ships. i don't mean the one that i have already build but the ones that i can build. Similarly to when we're constucting our ships from scratch; where there are tabs for weapons, hulls, modules etc. and even sub-tabs for missles, beam and laser. I think it would be great if i could create my own tabs where all my avaiable ships are listed and be able to drag an

Reply to Newbie Trade Questions in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

IIRC the mini-freighter has to be killed a few times before the route is dropped. [/quote] REALLY?? I thought it would just take the one time to lose the route. thats good news to me. its actually only happened once so far and i didnt check to see if it was lost forever. to Suedenim: if you build the "Galactic Privateer" wonder, all of your cargo ships will be safe from attack. you will however, still lose them

Reply to Effects of population Growth and some other questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe not a direct impact, but since my military, research and social spending are paid for through taxes, wouldnt oi get more production with a higer population? And that raises another question for me...if i have industrial spending at 100%, shouldn't i have ZERO net income? I get it that of all the places where i make money (trade, tourism etc) and where i spend money (production, espionage etc) is it that ONLY taxes go towards prduction (all 3 that is) and everything else is just i

Effects of population Growth and some other questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was under the impression that as my population grew, my taxes would grow and my Social, Militay and Research would grow along with it. Is this true or will i just have more money ion the bank, so to speak? I have noticed on my economy screen if i slide the %-tax bar up or down and leave the individual sliders alone, i see no difference in the total amount spent on the three spending sectors as listed on the top-right under "expenses". I do see my net income go up and down, by why

Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Ok sorry i need to add this I would really like to be able to move the pop up window that ummmm pops-up, when a constructor reaches a star base. It askes if i want to upgrade but sometimes i can't see which start base its refering to. If i could move the window then i can tell what it was i sent that constuctor there to do.

Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Adding meaning to your area of influence. So that its YOUR space. No ships can cross, or only unarmed ships or only trade ships or only warm relations or better or a screen pops up asking your permission. "We're on a humanitarian mission" type of thing. Saying NO or YES can have an impact on your relations. If relations change for the worse after that you may be asked to leave someone's space. Instead of using your area of influence it coula also be a certain distance to your planets o

Reply to is in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Clones? i just figured they were mini soldiers!

Reply to The joys of spies in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Spys are a great tool and a nice addition. You dont want spys to be able toi d too much though. They can easliy be an unbalancing force within the game. i think they should be kept to a reasonable level of ability, just one more point for you to consider but not a game-changing force. I'm thinking about Civilization 2 and how, with a strong economy you can pretty much conquor the word with spies. either by bribing cities to revolt or by destroying all city defences with a nuke device.<b

Reply to What do you call your ships? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I name mine Shirley

Reply to no one wants to get close in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

well i have all 12 trade routes with them, im nuetral, they became good i think (jerks, lol). we were never at war, they did go to war for me once. Maybe i just waited too long to build up my military. while there were still 3 civs left i went from third to first in a couple of turns. I beat the "yellow" race completely and lost only 2 ships. So i don't know why i havent been able to get them to change. i'm trying to get close with the Alterians (the human looking guys), if race makes a

no one wants to get close in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I STILL have not been able to form an alliance. I asked about this a little while ago and was told that i needed to be "close" with another civ and of course both have the alliance tech. Well i can not seem to get better than "friendly", i've given 50-100 bc every couple of turns just to see what will happen , and nothing. What gives? I'm playing DL and there were ony two other civs (one was destroyed early on). Does the number of opponents make a difference? like maybe to make it harde

Reply to Wow... Thanks... [/sarcasm] in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

at the eternity restaurant?

Reply to Wow... Thanks... [/sarcasm] in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Don't spend it all in one place. That's too funny

Reply to Designer Babies? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Because Kahn and his followers were genetically engineered.

Reply to Tell us what you'd like in Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

^^^^^^ I want my YAR, character to be the suprememe entity in the game. Maybe every planet would have to be called YAR or It should get tribute each month, or he gets his "revenge". ok fine then DON'T ask if you don't want to know. lol How about if EACH planet was managed like a game of civilization? And each invasion was hands on, like a first person shooter (Star Wars Battlefront type). Talk about too much management, a game would take years! Ok im done wasting everyone's t

Galaxy sizes / scaling ?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

While reading some ofthe posts to the "what do you want next" post by Frogboy, i noticed something that raised a question to me, being very new to this game. I have so far only played on a small map, i notice that doing this enabled me to have almost complete access the the whole map with only a small amout of range boosters. Also, it means that colonization was fast and furious, with eveyone being close and the number of planets limited (Mars was even taken by an AI like right away).

Reply to can we get in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

uummm out of reverence?

Reply to Superweapons? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

no wave motion guns either

Reply to AI battles in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

COOL !! thanks

AI battles in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Is there a way to view a battle between two AI opponents? Or at the least get a view on the main screen of what battles are taking place. I'd like to keep track of how the war is going. (especially since i got them started)

Soldering Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I would like to know if i research a tech that gives me a soldering bonus AFTER i've loaded my troop transport, if I will have the bonus when i attack a planet with that particular transport. Also, i traded an AI for that Armor (can't spell it) trade item, the one that gives a 15% increase to HP, but now it doesnt appear on either of our trade screens and its not on any of my planets. Do i actually HAVE this item now, or did i just take it away from the AI? And similar to the above ques

Reply to What do you call your ships? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'm still new to this so i haven't found a method i can keep track of yet. Fot now I'm putting a description of what the ship can do, for instance: miss8 md4 spd4 would be a ship that has 8 attack with missle, mass driver defense of 4 and speed of 4. otherwise i might use something funny or sarcastic, my fast trooptransport is called "school bus 1" and my trade ship is called "space truckin'" after the Deep Purple song. Once i have designs that i like enough to keep from game to game i'