[quote who="a0152570" reply="16" id="3591974"] Quoting Tetrasodium, reply 15 yes significantly since you can put off researching weapons techs while researching other stuff while your fleet of pirate ships bluffs your military power up a 2/0/0 0/0/0 with only 2 movement and no life
Are you using the planetary production wheel to squeeze every bit of money out of planets specializing in doing so? At the very least, not wasting time on research on planets without any would help tremendously, as you could still balance your production/income slider 50%-50% for far better gains than when still including science. I'm pretty sure you already know this, but I thought I might check.
On smaller sized maps, couldn't one start as Snathi, rush weapon tech's first thing, and then proceed to put a gun and tons of engines on starting ships and intercept the early colony spam? This way, you'd end up with a solid military, and a massive number of planets right from the get go. It'd be even more terrifying on a custom Snathi race. Intuitive so that you can have a gun and better engines on turn 1. Refit your starting scout, rush buy the ships as fast as you
I should possibly be a tad clearer. I had nothing better to do than churn out constructors. I didn't have military tech' yet, no AI were around, or, if they were, they were all too content to sit back and let me do whatever I pleased in whatever wasn't their side of the galaxy. Next thing I know, I'm mining everything that isn't already claimed (did the AI start claiming things like mad when it saw me doing it?), and putting up economic starbases just due to the sheer exce
This is the reasons my friends would be more likely to play Civ' V and AoW3 with me than this. Then, because after they're done playing, they might want to play more, they eventually buy the games themselves. Having to play hotseat when people are both willing and capable of using their own PC is tedious. However, it's a great way to market the game, and, as the TC mentioned, generate sales.
It is a shame though. I remember, in GalCiv2, heavily favoring the Torian tech' tree, switching to Yor on occasion. In fact, the Yor faction in that game was one of the best, because it was the only one, due to the inherit miniaturization bonus, that couldn't be replicated or straight improved through custom factions. Despite that, I found reasons to play with the Iconian tech' tree at times, and played with almost all of them at one point or another. There were interesting choice
I'd love an answer to this as well, because I haven't seen it. The closest I've seen were some Altarian buildings that give both production and science (I think), but due to the way the game works, I'm not sure these would even be worth using. Granted, I haven't spent too much time with GalCiv3 as of yet. I just remember 2 having far more diversity.
I got it for the same reason (the sale). I've played a game through to completion (unintentionally), and started another. However, I have not, as of yet, found that special mechanic that leaves me trying over and over to make it work. Faith was this in Civ' V for me, so it may just not be here yet. However, it is still a very solid game. If I were to lodge my most serious complaint, there are just too many things that you do that feel like unnecessary filler. Exploration feels bland,
No idea. Diplo' was out of the blue, but in hindsight that should have been an obvious win con'. I kind of thought, with the United Planets, that I had to be elected ruler similar to MOO2, and couldn't just win an allied victory. Hell, I would think that all my allies would have to be allied to get such a win, but I know for a fact some of them hated each other. That's why you RTFM. Also, is the starbase spam real for everyone, or just me? I feel like you just
Does it happen naturally, even if you don't bother with influence buildings?
This is definitely a RTFM moment, but I was enjoying my game, bein' chummy with everyone, got everyone to ally with me, and BAM! YOU WIN! That was easy... I'll probably never play a diplomacy faction again without turning off diplomatic victory. On the other hand, I plan for my next game to be on a MUCH larger map size (was playing on Small), with habitable planets set to scarce, and pirates as high as they go. I want to struggle to get anywhere in this rough-a