Saareth

What is needed is distinction between the races, for modders this should be a race type setting. Wartime trading: No to most races, yes to the warlike races. War to them is more like peace to us, or it should be. However yes they wouldn't want you getting your hands on their ships or weapons techs, but I don't think they'd care less about their environmental techs. Some races shouldn't want to trade you this fullstop even in peacetime, or be m

That's one way to do it but i'd prefer to keep them unique. The drengin AI should just get a constant desire to go to war with races on their borders, so everyone else should get a penalty to the drengin OR their AI just has a setting called breathing room. They should be always ready for war, especially against anyone weaker than they are or on their borders. An easy way to do this is triple or double the border relations modifier for drengin. If they were

It seems an upgrade to the surrender mechanic I never really enjoyed in the last few games, (and am hoping to get the option to turn off) as it always felt like a cheat previous. Must confess I still haven't played long enough in a war to beat someone into becoming a pirate i've been restarting my games till combat is in anyway or the AI gets worked on. Becoming pirates though really does change the game a bit, I think they should be working with other pirates to setup outposts in spa

If you continue to call me a troll, a liar or a whore, or tell me to **** off expect me to respond indefinitely, and yes expect me to be angry, as it is not civil discourse it is insulting and rude.

Is that the tactical top down game, I saw total biscuit and angry joe's playthrough of it, it looked quite fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY5vP7EqsyM Wonder what happened?

[quote who="sareth01" reply="11" id="3513254"] It's choose your own adventure time: If you are a trolling whore, fuck off. If you are legit, i'm sorry. If you were not a liar you would have accepted my apology. Such a response could hardly be viewed as trolling. Yet, you chose to fixate on being a lying troll whore. That is your choice. I provided the labels, you stuck

[quote who="sareth01" reply="9" id="3513250"] It's an "if" statement, I look to see if you consider it to apply to you. If it does, then you would accept it. That's how logic works. By posting again, you agreed that you are trolling. I'm not determining it, you are. You are also trolling because you refused to accept my offer to stay on track on the conversation: anyways, any other fun comments ab

Mostly because it's just a standardized AI and the races don't have individual personalities yet, they all share common preferences. As to why, what do the minus and plus columns tell you? As an example, i'd like to see the iridium corporation give extra ++ relationship bonuses for trading, and a penalty for not trading with them (if you have the tech and several trade routes). I'd like to see the dregin more warlike, and have a desire to expand borders constantly.<

No, sorry hold on, labeling people as trolling or not trolling is not your call, it's not even your job to tell people when to post or not post. Swearing at them is even less called for. If someone has upset you in the past I am sorry, but that wasn't me, and it wasn't the next poster. Honestly, I can comprehend what you are saying but it is so far out of my own experience these days. People's needs for superiority come about because they require a reaction

In fact here is one of them: https://forums.galciv2.com/306597 Here is the other https://forums.stardock.com/111630 Please check who you are calling a liar before you do so.

[quote who="sareth01" reply="4" id="3513065"] Hmm I have been on forums long enough to know that what you are saying is a flat out lie. anyways, any other fun comments about this game? [/quote] A flat out lie? How so, do tell? And why would I lie, I emailed them and got no response. I've posted on the forums about it and got no response. If I am lying about it what does it get me exactly? They are a great company but after all this time I am not su

Testing now thank you!

[quote who="sareth01" reply="2" id="3513057"] Anyways, I am happy that you choose to make an account name after mine, it shows how much you look up to me. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] :) This is my third account heh, I have tried in vain to get access to my old ones or to have them merged, I didn't even get a response to my support email :/. My first was paareth or markmid, I forget now, paareth was probably before your time :

Regardless of the AI numbers, just the big galaxies we have now will lead to a lot of planets. I tend to like the idea of universal planetary build queues which I just had. When you've got your first main dozen colonies up, and you are colonizing your 20th planet, already we could use them. One possibly way to implement them. A Planetary design screen, when you can create several custom queues that you just set planets to build. But what if it's got le

Seems interesting, I've been playing this kind of game for ages :) if you haven't heard of it: Mount and blade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvsds-2d6S4 Their new one being developed: https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord Or chivalry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwphGoBkUOE

The problem with this issue is, you can't discuss it because people get banned. You might as well write piracy is bad and move on, or just lock the discussion to start with. Also and I know I may get a wrap on the knuckles for even bringing it up, but if a discussion does not take place somewhere, nothing changes. I am not however advocating you do it on a game developers forum.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="36" id="3512931"] The EU (European Union) is Europe I can give you the definition of what it does if you'd like, started as an economic treaty to become more interdependent/prevent war. Has a delegation to the UN, so by that I would put them below the UN. [/quote] For the purposes of a strategy war game, you are getting way to hung up on the details. There are several Intergovernment Organisations, and they have differe

Same for me. Try a 3 player godlike game with the Yor on a huge galaxy to test it, I haven't, but I suspect mid/late game they will be stronger if they have enough room. They have to halt production to make population, and as others have said I don't think they do this intelligently yet, in fact deciding when and when not to do it will be the biggest challenge for the devs in their AI code. After a colony ship? Check, easy one, but when else? Maybe listing a few

[quote who="Bamdorf" reply="86" id="3512930"] Of course very large scale games, though insane, sound very attractive, superficially. But I think there almost inevitably has to be a problem when there are a LOT of AI factions. As in Civ, it is almost inevitable that some faction will snowball while they are completely out of reach. (With 99 AI opponents there will be many more than one, I suppo

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="84" id="3512859"] Don't forget you can make your own, so that you can have 100 faction games. Also minor races arent in yet either. They just like city states in civ 5 add another layer to the game. [/quote] Yes, and that will help a lot, as in one of my points there. But I wrote factors ;), not merely just factions.

The issue for me is two fold. How predictable the game plays. How repetitive the same actions are with no thought involved, thought is crucial and more weight needs to be given to every decision, with more consequences. Techs: The number of techs isn't the problem, it's the frequency of them. Slow down tech pacing and you'll not only have a longer game but also make each discovery more meaningful. Though I do agr

[quote who="Seilore" reply="33" id="3512844"] You want to run your own, get elected in. Leaving because you aren't the leader doesn't make you a better person or leader, it makes you a cry baby (lack of a better term). I'm still not saying it wouldn't work, I'm just saying how do you divide the power? How do you determine why UP A can give you a class 14 planet but UP B can give you a class 18? [/quote] The crybaby labe

Ultimately on reflection an option box would be best for this option. [quote who="Seilore" reply="30" id="3512765"] What is the point of a Galactic Council if a half or two thirds of the races aren't part of it? [/quote] Consider a very large game of let's say 30 races. That's still 10 races per UP, sharing diplomatic exchanges. This is what I am thinking about. not a huge galaxy with 6 races in it, but excessiv

[quote who="Rik73" reply="1" id="3512401"] While we are at it is there some place to view what bugs have been submitted already? [/quote] Yes please, I am sure we are all just submitting the same bugs on top of each other in some cases.

[quote who="dragoaskani" reply="14" id="3512597"] Why? They are flipping because the people of the planet want to change sides. This makes no sense at all under that context. It is not a hostile takeover. You're approach would make since if they were "forced" to join another civ, but this does not represent that. [/quote] For all the reasons I put in my post. Some of those citizens would be forced to join, flipping simply represents the majority cu