JD Wren

Reply to Creating military starbase arrays in Metaverse Stardock Forums

final score is the average over the course of the whole game, so a last-turn array would indeed be virtually meaningless. Well, not necessarily - there are several things you can do later in the game whereby you can watch your individual and overall scores go up in relatively short time frames. For example, I figured it was pointless to invest in technology after researching the entire tech tree and when I finished that game my tech score was pathet

Reply to Do you usually ctrl-N til you get a map you like? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The AI lobotomy is thorough. It resets everything to Cakewalk, including the difficulty for scoring purposes. Makes sense. My opinion on ctrl-N is that it should be used in conjunction with difficulty level. I just play on suicidal now, for example, and I try not to use it too much, but I don't want to start the game being stiffed in starting position compared with an AI that cranks out colony ships like mad. I basically use it until I get a startin

Creating military starbase arrays in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

At first I thought this was an ingenious idea, but I tried it and it didn't work, at least not in DL 1.5. To test it I whacked the AI down to its last planet and moved around 100 constructors into an area along with 300 huge ships maxed out with weapons & defenses. I ended the game by taking their last planet and recorded the score. Then I reloaded, went 10 turns doing nothing, ended the game and recorded the score. Finally, I used the constructors to build 4 maxed out military starbases right i