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Reply to Computer not doing anything at all..... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You have loaded the latest patch haven't you? You should be running version 1.2. This sounds like the AIs have been made stupid and you need to reset the intelligence level of each race. Just a note, you can't actually set the level higher than the highest level allowed for a 'challenging' game. Try setting your difficulty to Suicidal and then set all the intelligences to Incredible and then change your difficulty back to whatever you want to play at. If you have any experience I woul

Reply to Starbase and fleet managment in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I never bother to build weapons upgrades on a starbase anymore. They are too slow and expensive to upgrade. I just put a ship on the same tile and have it guard the starbase. It is easy to upgrade that ship as I get better weapons and armor. I feel that this area of the game is pretty flawed and needs some rethinking to make it practical to use starbases this way.

Reply to AI Cheating? or did I miss something? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Nah, the AIs buy colony ships until they are broke. Have you ever looked at how far in debt some of them are at the end of the colony rush? No wonder thay can't build their planets, they must need to turn production almost off until they repay that debt. The Torians are particularly good at this part of the game. No doubt dystopic has it about right except he forgot about the first colony ship they bought on the first turn so by turn 3 they can have 5 colony ships from 2 planets

How many months/years does your average game take? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I play on Masochistic and I read about people with weapons at the end of the tech tree but I just don't ever get that far into the tech tree. It is a rare game that I will get much past 3 levels of weapons or armor and I rarely get all the econ/research bonus' researched. On a long game I might get 'eyes of the universe' but I don't think I have ever researched all the levels of ship size. I usually win about the time I am thinking of researching large ships. I am a warmonger in my games, I don'

Reply to bonus tiles and AI's choice of planets in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Cause it's still somewhat retarded so that the idiots can actually win on the easier levels.

Reply to The game is too easy in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Painful IS too easy. Crippling IS too easy. Masochistic starts to be a challenge but is generally always winnable. Obscene is actually hard and Suicidal is a real challenge now that 1.2 is out if you don't use cheesy tactics. There are 2 problems with the AI that make this so. One, they just don't develop their planets at all well. I would even say that for the most part they do it poorly. It may be that there is code that keeps them from developing a planet if it is out on the front lines at al

Reply to Pirates! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I had pirates in my previous game. They had 2 ships and I killed them right away. They never bothered me again. I am running 1.2 and it is the first time I have seen any of the 'random' events.

Reply to What it the highest moral rating you've gotten? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It becomes pretty easy to get 80% taxes and moral above 80% in the later parts of a game. Most of my games only go for 3 or 4 years though so there are lots of morale boosters I likely haven't even researched yet.

Reply to Let slip the rodents of war in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

First time I saw the Snathy I almost died laughing. What a great sense of humor Stardock has! They were actually in my last game and were at war with the Drath the whole game. I kept feeding them money and warships and they kept the Drath busy until very near the end when they finally succumbed. It's good being Evil and having a friend (I was Drengin).

Reply to Favorite victory strategy? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I usually play on Crippling or Masochistic. I usually play as an evil race so that everyone hates me. Then I usually go to war with the biggest opponent as soon as I can afford to build war ships. Usually other 'good' races try to pile on. I thoroughly enjoy the challenge that being ganged up on provides. Alright, I admit it, 'I am a warmonger!'.

Reply to Ok so just how does one beat the torian's??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I prefer to start with Ion Drive and then research Hyper Drive immediately. I turn off military constuction and set social to about 20% so that I can get Hyper Drive in about 6 turns. Then build a good colony ship (one colony module - I only put about 300 pop per ship) and the rest engines and life support. You can have 5-7 speed colony ships. Turn military production up high and start buying and building colony ships. In the meantime research any tech that increases production before ever bothe

Reply to your opinions on game difficulty in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Let's see, I always have a hard time with the levels but I think it is Tough, Painful, Crippling, Masochistic.... If I am right then I find Crippling fun (everything lower is too easy) but Masochistic is almost too hard to be fun. It used to be that prior to 1.2 I could play Obscene and have fun but the new build has made the game quite a bit harder. If Stardock would finish the job of having the AI build it's planets up well then I think the game would be hard even at Painful.

Reply to Does AI adapt to betrayals? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Uh no. The new AI switch lets the AIs design new spaceships every turn instead of once a year. Turning this switch on does make the AIs more competitive, because they can actually field ships with their latest techs.

Reply to Ideas for more challenge? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, but I hate needing to be that artificial in order to get a good game. Now that 1.2 is out it is much harder to win on the last 3 difficulty settings if you turn off tech trading and avoid any cheesy tactics. I also like Medium Galaxies with everything Abundant. It is kind of like playing a Large galaxy except that everything and everyone is right on top of each other. It sort of maximizes the tension right from the start. And then pick evil against a pack of good races and you WILL find it

Reply to Unfair galaxies? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I actually do play some of the grossly unfair maps when I am in a disadvantaged start. But I seem to be getting starts where the Korx get 40 planets and the Your get 40 more and everyone else gets 3-5. If I don't quickly eat all the little guys then I am dead. Now I might as well be playing a game with only 2 other civs. That is why I don't like them much. I do agree (and said so I think) that bigger galaxies don't have this problem so much, but they take too long for my tastes. I don

Reply to Does AI adapt to betrayals? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just about never make alliances any more. I just don't think it's fair to the stupid AI to back stab him like that. I try to declare my evilness early and ramp up my military production to deal with the ramifications. One game just before 1.2 came out I was bored and played as the Drengin and selected all Good/Neutral races to play against. It was awesome, I got attacked by 4 other races in rapid succession. Too bad none of them could 'bring it' though. Now in 1.2 I would be a littl

Unfair galaxies? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In 1.2 it seems as though the galaxy generator isn't doing a very good job of spreading the wealth. Some games I need to ctrl-n 10 times before I get a galaxy where most races seem to stand a chance. Too many times one or two races get all the solar systems and everyone else is stuffed into a corner all piled on top of each other with very few extra solar systems. For me, even if I am one of the 'lucky' ones, I reload until I get some sort of relatively fair distribution. I don't remember having

Reply to Can you make a race surrender? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think the may also be driven by whether you are good or evil. If I am evil the other race almost always surrenders to someone else. Last night I was playing as good and I had 3 races all surrender to me. The last one surrendered their last 5 planets.

Reply to AI dumber in v1.2? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I do see this a little. I will start a new game tonight and check that every civ's intelligence is on the highest one possible. I shall report back tomorrow.

Reply to Specialization in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I only build achievements on my high industrial planets, otherwise they take too long to build. Like Sxt178 I build nothing but research facilities on low PQ planets (except I will start with an industrial site but later decommission it). Large planets mean large populations and large incomes. I had a PQ21 planet with a 700% research tile as my research capitol in my last game. I was generating over 300 research per week. Most of my middle PQ planets focus on industrial capacity with just enough

Reply to Bored of Galactic Civ II in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Just play as an evil race on Painful or higher and choose evil early on. Watch out though cause you are probably gonna die. Still, if you survive the early attacks by the 'good' races, the game quickly gets easy because the AI still isn't developing planets very well. I admit it is a LOT better than 1.1, but it is still pretty brain dead in this regard.

Reply to AI dumber in v1.2? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just finished a game under 1.2 and everyone colonized pretty well. Most races had 7 or 8 planets in a medium galaxy. While I did prevail, the Drengin in particular gave me a good run for my money. However, once my espionage was good, it still looks like the other races just aren't developing their planets very well. Yes, they now put the right things on the right tiles, but to still have many empty tiles late in the game is pretty unexcusable. Also it appears that the AI should have

Reply to Sharks with lazer beams !!! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Pirates?! I have never seen pirates in the 30 or more games that I have played! I have had the federation vote to put weapons on transports (which come free!) so maybe they voted to put some on transports in your game?

Reply to Names in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Just create your own names. For instance, when I play as the Yor, I generally name my leader (is that me?) something like Baba Yor. I like to have fun with the names. I once played a custom civ game as the Hobbits living on the Shire. It was pretty fun seeing the message that The Hobbits have captured Dratha!

Reply to Dark Avatar? Discuss... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Like other features of the game that I would prefer to be different, I don't worry about this one. So what if the game is just a tad harder if I lose a little production between items? If I can't win in spite of that issue I try to figure something else out. Just like the cheesy tactics so many people use, I would consider this one item that isn't worth adding to my repetoire. If skipping these things makes the game harder, so much the better. I play for the challenge, not just the win.