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Reply to finding anomalies in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The 25% research anomalies are a reason to micromanage your research. You end a turn researching the more attainable stuff, but when you explore anomalies you switch it to the high-end stuff. You don't lose the research you've already done when you switch what you're researching in the middle. In fact, it's often a good idea to finish researching a low-end tech just to unlock a high-end one, hoping for a 25% bonus. My favorite anomalies a

Reply to Is Aphrodisiac a must build for you? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have never built Aphrodisiac. For that matter, I have never even research Habitat. I research Ethics and choose Neutral.

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

I have been very pleased with Harmony Crystals. The +20 morale is getting my economy out of a deficit and winning me influence victories.

Reply to Planet tile description bug in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like it when you click on a workable tile that's clearly ocean, but the game tells you it's prairie.

Reply to Why this game bores me silly, yet I can't stop playing. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sometimes I think this game bores me silly, too, but really it's just computer games in general that bore me. Then why do I play them? Because I have no life.

Reply to Playing with numbers in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

The tweaking I'd like to see is this: as it is now, the investment in Research Academies, Industrial Sectors, & other high-level improvements is ungodly, but yet the bonus isn't that great. You spend all that upgrading a Research Center to an Academy, for just 2tp? Also, I find Economy Starbases a lot of fun to build. However, I don't often build them. I don't have the money. If the bonus production can be used to save money, that wo

Reply to First Ten Turns in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I won't say it's the right or wrong way, but I've had good luck picking the +4 Sensors racial trait and letting my colony ships and flagship do the initial scouting. I don't need to build scout ships until I research sensors. When building a custom race I don't need stellar cartography (and its prerequisites), either.

Reply to Multiple marketing centers & starbases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No, not the capitals on a bonus tile. What I've seen with the econ and techno capitals is that the bonus only seems to additively stack wtih the marketing/research centers. In other words 2 adv marketing centers + econ capital seems to convey a +15*2+50=80% bonus, instead of a 1.3*1.5 = 95% bonus. That has strategic implications as to how much you specialize a planet.

Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, the horror. That's 8 troop transports that could have been loaded before decommissioning the farm.

Reply to Planet Quality Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It would be nice if the # of usable tiles just equaled the PQ. This is an unnecessary complexity to the game & it doesn't add anything.

Reply to First Ten Turns in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I most definitely change my startup depending on the map. When you play a large map with many, many planets, there's no way your starting treasury can handle purchasing colony ships. You'll be lucky just to keep your spending at 100% producing colony ships the old fashioned way. On a small map with very few planets and no manufacturing bonus tiles you have to change your tune, too--you might have a treasury surplus, and there may be less planets t

Reply to tradegoods in Trade GalCiv2 Forums

My little planet with a precursor mine and a manufacturing capital seems to get the trade goods first just fine.

Reply to Wasted Turns in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think it's nice when I can just click the Turn button. It means I didn't have to micromanage that turn.

Reply to AI and Troop Transports in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If the AI starts escorting transports, then the Dread Lords campaign scenarios need some nerfing.

Reply to Planet Quality Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I hope so, because the PQ quirks are really annoying me, too.

Reply to I don't know if its been suggested but... carriers? in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

I think carriers would be difficult to implement, but I like the idea. It would be cool to have a carrier module in the shipbuilder, and you could hold a fleet of tiny hulls inside. Then your carrier could be fast & have life support, while your tinies were slow, no life support, all weapons-type ships. The problem would then be, how to implement the life support? Because your carrier has to abide by the rules, but your fighters need to stay in

Reply to Multiple marketing centers & starbases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Am I mistaken, or are the bonuses from the capitals only additive? I built an econ capital + several markets on a planet my last game, and the results were very disappointing. Same with my tech capital on a planet with 2 300% research squares and 1 100% square.

Reply to Does designing faster freighters bring any advantages? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In regards to the benefit of fast freighters, if I do some rough math it seems that, if you shave off one turn of time for your freighter to reach its destination, that extra turn of trade pays for one engine. So it seems usually there's benefit to adding engines, except for fast freighters that don't have to travel very far. Another trick is sometimes I'll build the cheap freighters now, but research Master Trade later. By the time they reach the

Reply to Does designing faster freighters bring any advantages? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I put multiple freighters on same trade route all the time. That's not an issue, in my mind. The issue I'm dealing now is, don't you want SHORT trade routes? That gives you more mileage out of your econ starbases. It was the same way in Galciv1.

Reply to Economy Starbases in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

That was like an AWESOME tip. Nice job.

Reply to Are invasions impossibly costly/brutal or am I missing something? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think I even want bombardment attack other than the Mass Drivers attack. The thing about bombardment is, planets shoot back. Hmmm a ship vs. a planet. Who wins that one?

Reply to Are invasions impossibly costly/brutal or am I missing something? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think invasions are impossibly costly. It's a game. Sure, it's MUCH better to influence flip them, but losing billions in population isn't that big of a deal. So you lost a few billion taxpayers, so what? They'll grow back. What is a big deal, though, are those invasion tactics that clobber the PQ. P.S. And yes, I do tend to pick the evil ethical choices. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" bo

Reply to Why Build Small Ships? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Large ships I produce in my star planets with the mega-factories. Tiny ships I produce at the not-so-mega planets. I have to admit, though, as technology progresses I use much less of the tiny hulls.

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

How about morale modules for influence starbases? This could provide another elaborate strategic option for players to resolve their economic woes. The trade modules on econ starbases aren't cutting it.

Reply to Expanding the known galaxy. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

The question is, how would you implement it? No doubt they implement the map as a fixed 2-D array of objects. The easiest implementation would be to just grow the array bound limits, and if you do that, then you might as well just add a larger map size.