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not_smishra

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Reply to [2.0] Wildling Hermit causes combat to stall in LH Support Elemental Forums

I've had the same experience, with the Windling Hermit and the Stone Guardians in the scrapyard wildland. The problem indeed seems to be if the AI is blocked from reaching its destination. This is a serious problem in space constrained battlefields with lots of obstacles where there are many units. I had to retry the battle a couple of times, to make sure I left enough space for the AI to be able to move around, so that I could get through the battle. S

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Various bugs and annoyances in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

Nice job Stardock for the fresh take on the game. A few issues I've run into, playing the v1.1 game: I can't complete the dwarves "frozen settlers" quest. After I hand over the papers I get to the next screen which doesn't have any buttons to select. Half the time I don't see any of the particle effects in battle. Animations etc work, but for instance I don't see flying arrows or webs being flung. I hate the cloud walk dialog. I'd lik

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Reply to What the stupidest thing you ever saw the AI do? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

My list of stupid AI tricks come in at diplomacy and declaring war. 1. Declaring war on me and/or an ally when one of us is the strongest in the civilization. Happens far too often. 2. Inviting me to attack a civilization (the Drengin did this when attacking the Arceans) that is my ally. Naturally, they proceeded to declare war, and a few turns later were wiped out. 3. Out of boredom, I paid the Drath to declare war on an ally, which resulted in my declaring war on the

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Reply to DA espionage and tech trading a bit silly in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I generally like your ideas about spying. But this last one isn't in accord with reality, oddly enough. If we look at analogies in real life, it's actually much harder to spy on smaller countries than on larger ones. Look at how little is known about North Korea, even by the South Koreans, but how much was known by the US about the USSR, not to mention how much the USSR knew about the US. <

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Reply to DA espionage and tech trading a bit silly in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My point with tech trading is that it is much more compelling and sensible if both parties actually care about what they are trading. It doesn't make sense to me that I offer the computer laser for... i dunno, farming... when the computer's researching down the missile tech branch. The computer should have some strategic sense for whether the technology being offered is going to be useful. Creating an artificial imbalance in the value of the trade (well, maybe a slight imbalance still works) doe

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DA espionage and tech trading a bit silly in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I've played galciv, galciv2, and now DA. The games have definitely improved substantially over time. I've been irritated though at how the human's handed a huge advantage over the players in what the game makes visible as part of the interaction. First, espionage. It has already been brought up. You place a spy on a planet, and as part of placing a spy you see what's on the planet. You're forced to affect production, and you get substantial knowledge you should only have after gaining h

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Reply to Torian influence base threatened by transports in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Skyjack, it isn't about seeing influence spheres. It is that my transports are in space that is at the other end of the map from the torians, and the only explanation for their declaring war seems to be that the transports were gathering near an influence base of theirs that was in the middle of my planets.

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Torian influence base threatened by transports in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I was playing terrans, and had been assembling transports to attack the yor. This happened to be near a torian influence base deep in my territory. The torians took this as a threat to themselves, and declared war on me. Seems like a bug in the AI? The torians, btw, are at the other end of the map from me with the altarians in between us. So the declaration of war can't make sense any other way.

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Iconians can't finish their political capital in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've got a game running presently on 1.10[b3].015. In it, the Iconians have been trying to build a political capital. I get a message each and every turn that they have completed a political capital. There's only one planet on which they are trying to build it, and that shows the political capital under construction with one turn remaining. Any idea what might be happening? Do you need any information to reproduce/debug this?

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Reply to What Do You Think is the Best Galactic Wonder? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just traded pd combo for supreme miniaturization with the arceans (the most powerful civ), and *after that* gave point defence II & III to get them to attack the torians (who are at #2). This is with diplomatic translators and galactic bazaar and a bunch of yellow techs, on tough.

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Reply to what i would like to see in 1.2 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Here's my laundry list: I like the idea of having additional diplomatic options. I'm most frustrated by having to use the mouse all the time. Most of the dialogs require you to move the mouse and select OK or some such. Seeing ships on the minimap is all but impossible. It would be good to be able to select individual civs whose ships ought to be displayed. There is no way to visualize the IP from your planet

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Reply to Make it easier to research specific techs in Research Stardock Forums

Another problem is, for any given ship design, there's a list of required techs. I'm not talking tech X plus its its prerequisites, I'm saying "ship design has engine X, therefore requires tech Xa. Has sensors Y, therefore requires tech Ya." etc. To make matters worse, it's not like we're only using predefined ships. That's

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