This game is impossible

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I'm really pissed i just baught this ... game and theres just no way to get far in the dread lords campaign. First the stupid starships that come out fo nowhere are way to strong to fight and they invade your planets easily cause you don't have starships to defend them. (cause the starships from the dread lords destroy everything) So i tried the alternative mission but there its impossible to get the other race to ally yourself with you. I had the biggest military might i traded with all there planets and gave them every bit of technology id come across but in the end they just declare war on me and lose. This is fucking annoying bying a game 50$ andf not even being able to play with it this compagny sucks. Its the last time i buy a stardock product and i'll be sure to tell all my friends.

Please have at least the coutesy to try and win back an unsatisfied client.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm still a bit of a noob to this game -- but not to 4X gaming. From all that I've heard, the AI in this game never "cheats", and if so, then seems to me you were just out gamed here dude. In any event, you posted here your inital frustrations, and that understanable, but please consider posting instead an after action, or "lessons learn" report -- or at least summerize a "5 Why" study on how you lost that game to an honest AI -- making sure to include game settings.

Anyway, I'm curious why didn't you anticipate the Dread Lords might possibly have advanced technology allowing their ships to appear "out of no where"? What sort of defense grid did you have in place and were you keeping your ships upgraded. Also, if you had the "biggest" military -- why would you not expext the other galatic species to eventually view you as a threat? Besides that -- if in a multipayer game where you gave me every tech I asked for -- I'd own you in very short order.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i wouldnt play the campaign first if i just bought the game. parts of tech tree are missing and some are useless. if i were you i would just play a normal game against the ai races and forget about the campaign til you have more playing time under your belt. the campaign is not a tutorial.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I play WoW where no one ever post anything constructive and since you did not. I wont either. Therefore I will fal l back on a very VERY common comment made to crying post such as this. And that is.

L2P
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As harsh as "L2P" may sound, that is exactly what is required. It takes knowledge of the different aspects of the game and how to balance them to get you ahead. You don't just build the biggest fleet and have at it. Have a look at the beginner guide, and don't hit the campaign until you can at least finish normal games. Link
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
L2P = shear gospel in some corners of the universe.

Regarding "courtesy" - Hmmmm, let's examine the first post boys & girls....
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
People facing a steep learning curve, yet without the patience to at least give it a go, are funny.

Reminds me - an oldtimer - of the days where n00bs in StarCraft would say "Terrans are teh only race you can win with". It was always funny to play Zerg against them
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm finding the campaign hard so far, but not impossible. On lower difficulty levels (simple) the dread lords do some pretty stupid stuff. Namely, after they invade and capture your planet, you usually have a few turns before they'll think about consolidating their capture (you can throw a transport at them and their scouts won't attack it). Ofcourse, their frigates and battleships hit hard, I've left them and the scouts alone. All you really have to worry about is the transports. I'm on the mission after the seige one (been playing normal/begginer till the seige mission, heard it was really hard so I went for simple difficulty) I've gotten two higher level techs by letting the dreadlords capture a planet and then capture it back myself (which I've used to build a ship that should be able to kill a dreadlord scout if I throw 3 of them at it).
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I seriously think the campaign ramps up way too quickly. I'm currently stuck on the fourth mission and it feels like I'm being beaten around the head - repeatedly. No sooner than you've beaten the first couple of missions when the DLs start totally taking you apart. They're all powerful and take no prisoners and outgun you 20 to 1. Yes it's possible to beat them but you have to have a much much greater feel for the game than those first couple of missions teach you.

I think it's too much too fast a ramp up in difficulty and tactics for most players and quickly becomes a very negative experience. To think that people picking up the game will get three missions into the campaign and then give up in abject frustration isn't a good thing. Which is a crying shame when it's such a fundamentally good game.

Sure they can drop the difficulty but will they? Hell I don't want to have to drop the difficulty below normal to win these but then I'm not all that inclined to spend another six hours being pummelled to a pulp by super-leet bad guys. Am I the only one? I doubt it.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I kinda like how it gets hard so fast. Makes winning, or even just holding your own, a lot more rewarding. As for the difficulty, the way I see it is that aslong as its challanging you should play on which ever difficulty you want to. As soon as it starts getting easy you move onto the next difficulty (did that with GC1, went from getting my but handed to me on cakewalk to beating three technologically, militarily, planetarily, economically superior allied enemies on the intelligent setting). It just takes time to get good, experimenting with options and learning how to react, when to fight and when to suck up your pride. (which is why I suck at GC2, probably only played for a total of 5-6 hours).