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Reply to Cloaking the Ships/Fleets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Y'know, instead of all-or-nothing 'cloaking', why not just define a 'stealth tech tree' of five-six levels... Stealth Plating I-II-III, Scanner Interference I-II, Cloaking Device. Stealth Plating would have a rating of 1, Scanner Interference would have 2, Cloaking Device would have 3. So what would they do? Well, every point of rating would... act as an additional square of distance when determining if you showed up on scanners or not. So, you're planning an invasion of th

Reply to Your dumbest Gal Civ blunder in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I had just defeated the Dregin Empire, a long war during which I had supplied their other enemy, the Torians, with nearly all my uber-tech to keep them occupied. Successful, I sat back and waited. Five turns away from an influence victory, I figure, "What the hell," and send in a fleet to take a minor Torian world. I hate having more than one empire own part of a system. It looks... untidy. Not only does this mean no influence victory, five

Reply to Random Exploration: Not So Random? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

More annoying, to me, is that all ships (yours and nearby enemy ships) all auto-survey the same things... resulting in 'races' to the nearest anomaly, after which all the nearby scouts turn and head for the next one. You'd think the ones who'll ose would realize it and turn for something else so they can at least survey -something-...

Reply to researching is not worth it in Research GalCiv2 Forums

I can see the OP's point, because research in this game is different than, say, MoO. MoO, unless you were Creative, you got to pick one tech out of a handful to research. As such, each tech offered a fairly sizable advantage. Cloning centers gave a massive boost to population growth, Walker Garrisons gave you a highly resistant-to-invasion ground force, and whatever you didn't choose to research, you'd have to try and trade for. GC2 research