Galactic Civilizations II 1.1 has arrived!

New features, updated AI, and much MUCH more!

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Galactic Civilizations II v1.1 is here!  This free update to Stardock's award-winning PC strategy game includes tons of new features, updates to the computer AI, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes, and more!

Here are some of the major new features:

  • New Option: No tech trading.
  • New Option: Blind exploration (players can't see the spheres of influence on the mini map)
  • New Option: Random intelligence (Players select a general difficulty level and the game can randomize the indvidiaul intelligences of each player.
  • New Option: Random number of players (Players can elect to have the game decide how many players they're going up against)
  • New Option: Random opponents (Players can elect to have the game choose which players they are up against)
  • New OPtion: Random galaxy size (Players can elect to have the game randomly pick a galaxy size)
  • Computer AI *significantly* enhanced.
  • Computer AI updated to work together with other players (including human player) to thwart a common foe.
  • New Alien dialog: (ex: Drengin: "You complete me." ack!). Another Ex: Computer players grovel dialog more satisfying.
  • Fleet Manager Screen added to manage stacks of ships and fleets that are on the same tile more easily
  • Rally points can be moved
  • Lots of UI tweaks
  • Game will tell you when someone else is paying off, manipulating things behind the scenes to go to war with you (but won't tell you precisely who is doing it).
  • Players can choose to upgrade ships and either have the functional components removed by default or have them stay.
  • Unused Social Production now transferred automatically to military production rather than "wasted".
  • Economic System overhauled to be more transparent and intuitive.
  • Production that is the result of abililities is only charged at 50%. (that is, if player is getting 10 more industrial units of production per turn because of starbases, player abilities, etc. they only have to pay for 5 of it).
  • Population growth revamped to put more emphasis on population growth ability and morale.
  • Lots of new hot keys.
  • Metaverse Scoring revamped.
  • Ship Designer revamped to be easier to use, more powerful.
  • Ship Designer now allows players to rotate ship pieces on the fly.
  • Ship Destination markers also display how many weeks until ship arrives there.
  • Selected ship displays an animated line showing where its destination is.
  • Constructors will display what area of effect a starbase would have it one were built in the constructor's current position.
  • Lots of new balancing of technologies, planetary improvements, starbase modules, etc. based on the feedback from players.
  • Lots of new options added to the options screen
  • Better support for modding (full-blown mod UI coming in v1.2).
  • Soundtrack changes
  • Lots of tweaks to improve pacing, balance, etc.
  • Removed a lot of player discovered "exploits"
  • Performance and memory optimizations
  • New hot keys
  • Lots of bug and glitch fixes

Full list of changes here..

Existing customers can upgrade to v1.1 in the Downloads area.  You can also get it via Stardock Central.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Am I happy I checked the site before playing!

Well done! It's great to see such effort post-release going to download it now and enjoy it to the fullest!

Thanks again!

P.S. First comment! (Probably of many)
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Quick question: will it cause grief if we still have a saved game in an earlier beta version? Thanks,

-HM
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And I just finished a Metaverse game! Superb timing ... and oops, download has finished - bye!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Excellent!!

Should I finish the game that i'm playing at the moment before I upgrade or is it safe to download now?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No copy paste allowed. Someone at Stardock make Frogboy retype the whole list again!

Obviously just kidding.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
are you planning to fix the savegame issue with ship movement for 1.2 ? Link

and what about the number of turns left for social projects ?
Link

(if you are going to answer, the 1st is more critical from my point of view)
thanks for this feature full update anyway.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Long time no see.

Thank you guys for that final patch. Must have been said.

Great news for all non-english version gamers:
The game keeps the installed primary language (at least for german I can guarantee)


I still miss the function from GCI to launch ships out of orbit after construction (it was a handy candy), but okay maybe I have overseen it. Intro still plays no sound (what a pity ! ) but it´s not that important. Let´s have a look if the food and moral improvements are correctly tweaked now - and the strange behaviours after loading a previously saved game
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I still miss the function from GCI to launch ships out of orbit after construction (it was a handy candy), but okay maybe I have overseen it.


Galactic Knight: You have missed it. It's in the civilization management section under governors. You can set up colony way points (which will auto launch from orbit after construction). I used it to great effect in building and launching hordes of constructors so they could be staged for a simultaneous influence starbase assault across the galaxy. There's a couple quirks that disappear once you've used it a little bit.

Enjoy.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In the full changelog:

+ NEW FEATURE: You can select a planet on the main map and then use Z and X keys to cycle through your planets

JOY!!!
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@Skelton42:

That´s exactly what I meant. I used to "frickel" here and there for updating the starbases before, and that was kinda boring I can tell ! I love to micro-manage, but not for all gold...

Good hint !

Enjoy yourself.

Edit quote:
In the full changelog:

+ NEW FEATURE: You can select a planet on the main map and then use Z and X keys to cycle through your planets

JOY!!!


I second that !
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i tried stardock & game is still 1.0x. so i downloaded the standalone patch, installed it & got the same result.

whats up?
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Better support for modding (full-blown mod UI coming in v1.2).

This has to be a must have. Games like RTW, Oblvion, Civ 4 etc etc etc continue to do well due to their modding capability, imo.
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Better support for modding (full-blown mod UI coming in v1.2)


Proof again Stardock is WAY above the rest.

It's one thing to say its moddable, have at it. Making it easier to mod in things is great.
Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Said it before and will repeat it again:

You folks ROCK! Plz go out and have a beer and/or favorite beverage on us .

Now to see how many new ways the AI can hand me my backside since it sounds like there are a couple of things in this version that haven't been in the betas.
Reply #18 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Proof again Stardock is WAY above the rest.

It's one thing to say its moddable, have at it. Making it easier to mod in things is great.


Well, considering that they didn't make much effort to make modding easy pre-1.2 (ie, mod directory not working, for example. GC2's current modding abilities are a pretty far cry from most other games), I wouldn't really give them a pat on the back for this. It's more like them living up to their obligations when they said that the game was "moddable".
Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Way to go Dev Team! Three Cheers!!!
Reply #22 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am newcomer to GalCiv motivated in by personal recommends re Dev quality, openess and speed of updates. I bought GalCiv2 when it first came out. I have been watching with interest the full cycle of Bug fixes / features / exploit deletes etc etc. Very impressed, head and shoulders above other game software., certainly made a Stardock convert of me I am finding I am viewing other Stardock software with a different mindset now ....



A hearty Thank You to the dev team - its clear you have a deliberate strategy of close contact with your Gamers, listen to feedback, and produce excellent game software in short time frames.

I hope your Management Team are properly appreciative ......... they damn well should be !
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Great news, great game - any update on when the meta recalc will happen now? The new scoring system is likely going to frustrate a few people when they see some of the huge v1.0 metaverse scores and compare them to what they just scored in v1.1

It's going to hit my scores badly, but the sooner it's done the better
Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just finished downloading..... :crosses fingers: