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Reply to Help building an economy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Basically what LTJim says but I'll tell you what I do. 1. at the start dock the initial colony ship with your homeworld as 100m citizens paying taxes is better for you.also set your flagship to auto survey and build 2-3 scouts as they dont have maintenance costs and set them to auto explore. reduce tax to 31% and spending down to 60% buy buildings on your homeworld to get its econ up and if you spot econ or res or war crystals start building a constructor. 2.I dont start c

Reply to Drengin AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Brilliant start long may it continue...

Reply to Yet another Terran AAR in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Brilliant work qrtxian! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] I cant wait for the next part! This is even better than the book AAR by Tom Francis

Reply to Show off your Ship designs 2012! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

More Cybrans ships: [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/255/gc2tacybrans1347047292.jpg/][IMG]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/52/gc2tacybrans1347047292.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/gc2tacybrans1347047283.jpg/][IMG]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3152/gc2tacybrans1347047283.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/gc2tacybrans1347047273.jpg/][IMG]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/410/gc2tacybrans134704727

Reply to Show off your Ship designs 2012! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Some more Cybran designs: [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/gc2tacybrans1347047349.jpg/][IMG]http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6626/gc2tacybrans1347047349.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/580/gc2tacybrans1347047331.jpg/][IMG]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/5364/gc2tacybrans1347047331.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/gc2tacybrans1347047312.jpg/][IMG]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9171/gc2tacybrans

Reply to Show off your Ship designs 2012! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

2nd go Ihope this works? [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/gc2tacybrans1347047392.jpg/][IMG]http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2087/gc2tacybrans1347047392.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/708/gc2tacybrans1347047374.jpg/][IMG]http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6985/gc2tacybrans1347047374.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/gc2tacybrans1347047368.jpg/][IMG]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8000/gc2tacybrans1347

Reply to Show off your Ship designs 2012! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Right I'll give this a go to see if it comes out ok these are a custom race I call Cybrans a off-shoot of the Yor. A troopship design. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/222/gc2tacybrans1347047392.jpg/][IMG]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2087/gc2tacybrans1347047392.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Uploaded with [URL=http://imageshack.us]ImageShack.us[/URL]

Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

A88mph if you create custom races to fight against you can determine for them how aggressive/likely to declare war they are 50% or less on the slider and you should have a more peaceful game.( I learnt the hard way! I cranked the sliders upto 75% and found everyone declaring war on me everyother turn!)

Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I didnt read all 53 pages but some good and great ideas were there. I would like more hulls in the generic extras section,more race pics and logos.I like the pirates as a more potent force in the galaxy perhaps with a pirate starbase thats fully moduled and rising and falling amounts of ships.The espionage needs work so you can place a spy for spying without placing it on a enemy improvements just to gather info. Also I would suggest that the tiny and small hulls have their sizes

Reply to Better Planets, More Ship parts Mods in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

on the left in the Library is where the mods/designs are other than that sorry!

Reply to Keeping the Korath in check and other ...stuff in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As Noctilucus said its difficult to explain but as simply as I can put it when you setup a new game depending on what you go for can have a drastic change in the games you play! every option you tweek,even how your race is setup alters the game you will face. eg. just turning the super abilities or the mega events on and off can make the difference between having a average game and the game from hell. we all have our own abilities and when I started playing GC2 I went straight

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

After reading Froboys post as a fan of Gal Civ I and II and their DA/TA expansions, I say if people want a multiplayer put your money where your mouth is and buy it as a expansion and not demand it to screw up GC 3.And considering how few people supposedly come on the forums why for the love thats all holy should stardock/Kalypso/whoever monkey about with the game we love because "some" people want to play online for 3-6 months till they get bored and throw it back on their shelf. Whereas tho

Reply to First computer game you played in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

On console Pitfall on Atari [e digicons]:omg:[/e] On school computers Dungeon quest on floppy disk! [e digicons]:omg:[/e] on my 1st personal computer DS9:Dominion wars [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Mega Event List *Spoiler* in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I've had all of them and I really hate the dread lords mega-event it gets me everytime! to the point I've turned it off.

Reply to If there was a movie about you... in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

"Take your job and shove it" with the theme song of Joan Osbournes "One of Us"

Reply to What Fresh Hell Is This? (pirate fleets) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Yranib" reply="11" id="3204237"]I have left Mega Events turned off since I first got the game. Playing nicely, sizable empire...then BOOM Jagged Knife and I lose 1/2 of my colonies. What sadist programmed that?? [/quote] I dont mind the pirates actually I quite enjoy it but I have to keep Mega Events turned off especially on immense maps as 9/10 I get the dread lords and by the time I find their single planet my empire/fleet and planets are

Reply to Cannot figure out how to make money. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Heres what I do to get started on any game I play in GC2: 1) set your flagship to survey 2) dock your colony ship with your homeworld to boost its pop+tax 3) lower tax to 31% so improving morale and increasing pop and lower prod to 60% 4) research planetary improvements and then economics to get adv econ buildings then go for ion and impluse techs. 5) once your homeworld starts getting near 12-14B pop I then launch the original colony ship and go for cl

Reply to Keeping the Korath in check and other ...stuff in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

what Highwater said^ and that I'm amazed you started on normal and went onto challenging! but we all learn in our own way.

Reply to Riddle me this... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I dont go over 16B population per planet unless the morale tiles have big bonuses as over population kills morale

Reply to Normal difficulty is too hard (for me) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Failing all else lower the AI setting to Beginner or Easy? or if your really,really struggling Cakewalk [e digicons]:|[/e]

Reply to How often does this happen...? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I've had precursor corvettes and the precursor rangers and have been on the recieveing end as well.I've conquered entire galaxies with a ranger and had my entire armada wiped out by one solitary ranger.The AI tend to get rid of their Rangers especially if their draining their coffers their on easier settings.

Reply to Computer-generated ship types in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Tiny and small hulls can be used with great efficiency as I've had swarms of tiny and small class fighters running around that I had upgraded so they were carrying weapons,armour,shielding,warp/hyperwarp engines and had dozens in a single fleet and they were wiping the floor with enemy frigates and destroyers.