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In the planet view screen, what does it mean when some icons are lowered in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am referring to the planet screen that shows the amount you are spending for research, social and military. Sometimes one or more of the icons are slightly lower and smaller than other ones. This must indicate something but I don't know what it is. Any ideas?

Reply to Question for Stardock: Fog of War issue, is it a bug or by-design: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Fredick_Jacobson, Yeah I did. So even though the fog shows on the screen still, eye of the universe will allow you to see ships anywhere? That will cancel my second post then. But my first one holds true for sure since I have played games from the beginning to test this out and there was no way I had eye of the universe then.

Reply to Question for Stardock: Fog of War issue, is it a bug or by-design: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok, I need to update my post with more info. The fog of war is not working correctly when your ship(s) is destroyed by the enemy. This should of course cause the enemy ships to become invisble assuming that no other friendly ship is at that location. That is not happening. You can follow the enemy through the fog. This to me seems to be the number 1 problem with this game. All of the other stuff that I have seen or read seems very minor (except for the people getting crashes of co

Question for Stardock: Fog of War issue, is it a bug or by-design: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have a question about some behavior I am seeing with the fog of war. Is this by design that you can see alien ships orbiting their planets even though they are behind the fog of war? Once they leave orbit they are invisble until they come out of the fog, but isn't it a bug to be able to see them at their planets? To me it somewhat defeats the purpose of having fog of war especially on small galaxies where alien stars are usually close by. Another similar question, you can also see

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is probably mentioned above somewhere but in case it is not. The fog of war should not allow us to see enemy ships in orbit around planets that are behind the fog. It renders the fog almost useless, espcially on small galaxies. I got a link for this too: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=29061

Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Maybe this is mentioned in here somewhere but I need to make sure. Fog of war still allows you to see enemy ships in orbit on their planets even when the planet is behind the fog. Kind of defeats the purpose of fog or war. I got a separate link for it too: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=29061

Reply to Why can I see what ships are in orbit for a planet in the fog of war? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So I am right about being able to see ships in the orbits of enemy planets behind the fog or war. I love this game but this seems like a pretty bad bug. Unless someone can explain to me why they would have the fog work like this, I think the fog of war is next to useless, especially on small galaxies where the enemy planets are fairly close to you.

Do planets have differnt max populations? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I know over population makes morale worse but it would be great if I knew what the optimal poulation for a planet is. Does the max vary by planet as well? I can't find any stat giving me this info.

Why can I see what ships are in orbit for a planet in the fog of war? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Have you ever noticed that you can see any and all ships in orbit of a planet even though it is cleary in the fog of war? Unless I am mistaken, they seem to be the current ships and not an "image" of the what was there the last time the fog was lifted. Except for ships moving in space doesn't having the fog do this defeat the whole purpose of having a fog of war? :(

Question, can I take a "minor race" planet over? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I want to take over a minor race planet (the fundamentalists) and I click on their planet having like 3 battleaxes, 2 defenders and two transports filled with like 1200 mil of people total. The planet has no shield, so no ships orbiting. But I can't take the planet? My ships won't move onto it. What gives?

Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

See this thread. I think it is a bug. Two people verified that it sounds very strange. http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=27254

Is this supposed to happen when you run your empire out of money? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I did a test of what would happen when I ran my empire out of money. It did some very strange things and I am hoping someone can explain them. First off, my treasury was allowed to go to around -500 before it said anything. After that, it said that all research and production stopped until I get out of debt. That made sense but I kept losing money anyway because of leases that I gave myself. What happened a few turns later was that my race had a revolution and some of the pl

Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am on my second game and I decided to just see what would happen if I ran my empire out of cash. I think I must have uncovered a small bug in doing this however. Even though my treasury is at $-580, when I view the rankings for my empire it shows me in first place for treasury! Of course that can't be. Unless I don't understand the ranking, I'd say this must be a bug.

Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am on my second game and I decided to just see what would happen if I ran my empire out of cash. I think I must have uncovered a small bug in doing this however. Even though my treasury is at $-580, when I view the rankings for my empire it shows me in first place for treasury! Of course that can't be. Unless I don't understand the ranking, I'd say this must be a bug.

Reply to Question about victory condtions for the A.I. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, we have two opinions here. One is that an allied victory is where everybody remaining in the game is allied with everyday else (hence everybody wins). The other, which only applies to the human player is that he can achieve an allied victory if he is allied with every remaining major race. Since both sides seem confident that they are right, we may need Stardock to verifiy I suppose. :notsure:

Reply to Question about victory condtions for the A.I. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't think it is true that all races have to be allied with each other for an allied victory. In the latest example, let's say instead that Drengin and Yor were both allied with Human but they were not allied with each other. I would think the humans would win the game with an allied victory. But actually in the last example, you had the Drengin allied with Human and Yor but Yor and Human were not allied. They did not get an allied victory so the rules must be different with an A.

Question about victory condtions for the A.I. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Can the A.I. win the game with the same victory condtions as the player (I.E., technology, cultural, alliance, etc..)

Reply to Suggestion: ANyone posting about GalCiv on MOO3 forum - STOP in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I understand what you are saying about GalCiv getting slammed by MOO3 lovers. But look at the amount of people that learned about GalCiv through those posts on the MOO3 board. I would have never heard of GalCiv if it wasn't for a post on that forum. If people see GalCiv getting slammed on there and they do no investigation for themselves about the game, it's their loss. If you got a person very disappointed in MOO3 like I was, 10 to 1 they are going come here and get a much more positive out

Reply to Do you wish to help the developers ? Buy the game DIRECTLY! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How does that work? Can I buy the game now and download it on the 26th with a purchase key of some kind?

Reply to Simple one line responce to help developers know. Where did you hear about GaCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

MOO3 forum.

Reply to MOO3 to end up boosting GalCiv sales? :) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am yet another disappointed MOO3 fan that found out about this game through posts on their forum. The biggest problem for me with MOO3 is the horrible A.I. Maybe they can patch it and I will give it another try. But one thing I will say that has me really looking forward to GalCiv is the fact that it is single player only. I can't tell you the number of games I have literally trashed because the single-player A.I. was a joke (Sacrifice, Heroes of Might Magic 4, to name a few off the top of