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Reply to Way to make the minors less... minor in Game Talk Stardock Forums

[quote who="galacticdoom" reply="3" id="2057840"]Yeah, normal minors are absolute moron's. I don't even bother conquering them anymore, it's not worth the diplomatic hit to do so, even for a class 15 planet. Question? when you play, do you also set all the AI personalities to Generic during game setup? I have found that by doing this, all civ's tend to expand much much better, and I am in my current Suicidal game, to see if it fixes the bug with the Torians and Iconians not building planetary

Reply to Spies and surrenders in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

What are the advantages and disadvantages of playing with "surrenders" turned on or off? also: when you play as a "good" civ (like the Terran Alliance), what are the penalties and detourents of playing aggressively (declaring war)? Thanks in advance

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Make exploring anomalies more interesting. Some anomalies adventures should include combat, which requires survey exploxers to be armed with weapons -instead of just a survey module. I'm thinking of all the Star Trek episodes in which exploring missions required phasers; or superior sensors. It'd be really nice to see one of your finest vessels being used for exploration. By the way: I can't watch an episode of any of the Star Trek series without thinking, "How can t

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

If I could pick one thing in GC2ToA to change, it would definately be three way wars; meaning wars where A is at war with B & C and B is at war with A & C, and C is at war with A & B. In my campaign last night, the Krynn declared war on the Drengin because they had been "the aggressor against the Iconians". Then either later that same turn or the next, they declared war on the Acrean saying that the Acreans where the aggressors against the Drengin. The Iconians where allied with the Acr

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

In my most recent ToA game I was building and giving ships to the Altarians, who needed these ships very badly as they were losing a war. I'd launch the ship (right next to my planet) and then I'd give it to the Altarians; it's color would change to Altarian blue. But then several turns later I'd notice that it was still right next to my planet. Why won't they move their new ships? Eventually I stopped giving away ships, but only for this reason. Can anyone please tell me if th

Reply to Play with tech trading on or off? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I'm playing with tech trading off for the first time and I really like it. Other races truly feel alien now. Besides when I used to leave tech trading on, I found that it really wasn't very transparent. And I'd make trades for short term rewards that was more the result of impatience than proper strategy. Now (in ToA), I trade lots of ships to my friends -rather than techs. The only problem is: I notice that the races I'm giving ships to aren't moving them! These ships just sit one squa

Reply to Would like to hear opening strategies for your race in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

So all things considered, should I discontinue adjusting the research slider like this every turn? If it really makes a difference I'll keep doing it; especially now that I'm behind almost every other race in my current game. But when I do this each move, right before I click on "next turn", I can't help but wonder if this is what most players do.

Reply to Would like to hear opening strategies for your race in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

If I allocate a higher percentage to research than the minimim needed to complete the tech in a given number of turns, does the extra "carry over" to something else or is it simply wasted? How do most players deal with these issues? Thanks in advance

Reply to Would like to hear opening strategies for your race in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Hi, I haven't played GC2 in a long while and I have a basic question about slider settings. Should you move your economic sliders to the minimal percentage to finish researching a technology or build an improvement or ship? For example, if I'm researching a tech that will be finished in three turns with my current percentage allocation to research (let's say 50% research for this example) should I lower this percentage to the minimum percentage it takes to complete the tech in three tur

Reply to Why are maintenance costs so high in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

So is a far less aggressive colonial rush strategy better in ToA? Even if an aggressive colonial rush strategy is expensive early on, does it not pay off long term?

Reply to Do Econ Starbase Bonuses Stack? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Has ToA changed trading in any way? I don't mean tech trading; just trade routes and freigters. Thanks in advance

Reply to Anyone else never finish games? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Is there any way to change difficulty levels during a game? I have a really good game going right now, but I should have played on a harder setting.

Reply to Tech trading in TA in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think I'm going to try a game of TA with tech trading turned off. I've never tried this before. How does turning tech trading off effect things in general?

Reply to Focus research? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So the "all factories" method doesn't work if you play with tech trading disabled?