Prince of Crows

Reply to Release time? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Consider yourself lucky, in New Zealand Daylight Time the game should be available at 2am on the 22nd

Reply to Were animated ship components considered? in Ideas Stardock Forums

I hope they'll look at it in an expansion as well. *Thinks about launching a fleet of Earth Allliance cruisers (B5) with rotating crew compartments...*

Reply to Star trek mod in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think a B5 mod has great potential, particularly for the Earth Alliance it would be so cool to have access to rotating sections for your ships, though i don't see how that could be possible By the way, sorry for appropriating the thread for B5, but it is that cool!

Reply to Join the Overmind empire in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Silent Archer: "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees" No, my friend you have it backwards, it is better to live on your feet than die on your knees.

Reply to Is attacking a huge advantage in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Absolutely! Going first gives you one firing round to wreak havoc before your opponenbt can retaliate. The more damage you can inflict in that round (as a proportion of the total enemy hit points) the better attacking is. Its also worth noting that if the enemy consists of many small ships the advantage will be bigger than if fighting a few large ships (but I believe that this was your point popup target).

Reply to Questions on Combat + Ideas in Ideas Stardock Forums

I like the idea of a cloak-esque system, and it could be done without introducing any kind of fleet tactics. Introduce a "jamming" module which reduced the effectiveness of enemy sensors in detecting the fleet with the module. Sensor range could be reduced to 1 / (1 + N) where n is the number of jamming modules in the fleet, so 1 module would halve sensor range, 2 would reduce it to 1/3 and so on. This would pave the way for specialist jamming ships that could hide a fleet from detection at a

Reply to The Galactic Civilizations Universe in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

I must say that I like the take on humans here (as I did in B5 and the remade BSG). One of the biggest problems I have always had with Star Trek is the utopian vision of humanity it presents.

Reply to I want to buy this game but... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm not sure if this is true for GC2, but for GC1 it was possible to download updates as a patch without using SDC. Provided you could get the patch from your library computer to your home PC, you could still get updates.

Reply to I want to buy this game but... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

That is correct it is mentioned explicitly on the forums somewhere (though i don't know where). Basically the developers don't believe in copy protection. So Starforce is definitely not in the picture.

Reply to UP Question in Ideas Stardock Forums

a good way to implement such a system would be to have a chairman of the UP. You could make it either a rotating chairmanship (like the EU presidency) or an elected chair (like the UN in Civ 4) or the chair could be the major race with the highest influence. The chair would then have the authority to table a resolution for a vote. In the interests of balance (not to mention variety) you could make it so once a resolution has been voted down it cannot be reintroduced for (say) 5 sessions. Als

Reply to Looking forward to game - some questions in Ideas Stardock Forums

The only point I would add is that there are some techs that are alignment specific, so it is not possible to research every tech. However I do not know if it is possible to use the techs of other alignments even if you steal them.

Reply to Is attacking a huge advantage in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I would imagine that it also depends on the offensive and defensive capability of each ship. There will always be some first-mover advantage unless the attacker cannot harm the defender (in which case they have bigger problems), but the magnitude of the advantage would depend on attack vs defense. In a battle between high attack and low defense / hit point ships attacking is a huge advantage because a lot of damage can be caused per round. By comparison if each ship is largely def

Reply to Carriers or individuals? in Ideas Stardock Forums

It does make sense that the carrier is the last ship to die. It could be justified as an effort by the fighters in the fleet to screen the carrier, so while the enemy may try to destroy the carrier, they can't because the fighters are in the way.

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

As a soley single-player gamer (in computer games at least) Frogboy makes perfect sense to me. Incidentally funkman2000, I think Ghandi gets so much flak because of the whole smug pacifist thing, it raises irrational hated in others

Reply to Global production waste? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If you look through the tutorials you will see that you can make each planet specialise in one of the three spending areas (military, social, research), which increases its focus on that output.

Reply to Poll about game mechanics in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

No Tactical, keep it "Strategy First".

Reply to Great Job in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Thanks Brighton, I ended up downloading them all anyway. Oh just for the record, it's prince of Crows, not prince of cows

Reply to Great Job in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm getting about 24KB / sec at the moment, but I wouldn't read too much into that since broadband in New Zealand is notoriously slow. Incidentally, What's the deal with the tutorials, movies and multimedia folders under the GalCiv2 icon in stardock? Do these need to be downloaded separately or are they just parts of the package being downloaded as part of GalCiv2?