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gallagher118
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Best size to play ?

June 22, 2006 1:06:17 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I find large to be about the most fun to play. The AI does well at the colony rush, the game runs smooth, and the AI puts up a good mid-game. I find huge to be overly long, and generally dominate the AIs from the start as they generally don't all get a good colony rush. But metaverse wise, a large game for me ~30000 points, and huge ~45000. So for points is it better to play 3 larges vs 2 huge ? Does the averaging hurt you that much ? Personally going to keep playing large as it's way more fun...It's just a shame that at huge the AI isn't quite there yet.
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gallagher118
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Reply #1 June 25, 2006 7:26:06 AM
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I like Huge, Gigantic is waay to big for me atm.
You could select the option of course to give them more smarties
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Reply #2 June 25, 2006 8:11:34 AM
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In a way it does hurt you to play 3 large vs 2 huge as over time the metaverse system starts to divide your score by a % of games played. This % has diferent levels in which it is calulated. I know that was probably confusing as its early but check out the two threads "scoring" and "metaverse scoring". Those two threads have better examples of how the system works. While I know their systems is designed to allow new players the ability to compete with those who have been playing a while, it still sucks to have a score cut in half or even a third. A 1 for 1 point system would work for me, even though I would never reach the top spot due to having a life and knowing there are many players out there better than I am. As it stands now, the only way I've found to get into the top 10 is to play boring gigantic games.
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Reply #3 June 25, 2006 12:01:36 PM
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I ONLY play gigantic with ALL races.
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Reply #4 June 25, 2006 1:12:26 PM
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I generally like to play medium. Usually with about 5 or 6 random races. I like the fact that I can finish a game in a few hours depending on how the game is going.
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Join Date 06/2006
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Reply #5 June 27, 2006 9:45:18 PM
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I've been playing gigantic with 6 races, max planets and stars. Usually score about 15 to 20 planets right off. Those settings make games long and complicated, 15 years or so. Though I seem to get good scores that way and I like the challenge of managing a lot of resources. Also, your range and scouting ability comes into play a lot more.
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Reply #6 June 30, 2006 9:37:06 PM
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i normally play huge, only because my pc is a piece of crap that can't load a gigantic map once more than 3 years pass. too much going on, and my on-board crappy pc can't take it(and i have excessively toned down grafs to boot)

god, please give me a vid card...

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Reply #7 July 2, 2006 9:02:19 PM
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I normally play gigantic only because its fun, and u get alot of time to make bigger civilizations and reservh more and more things can happen.
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Reply #8 July 6, 2006 7:08:05 PM
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I did notice the game gets very CPU intensive toward the end when you have a lot of planets. I have a pretty fast machine, Athlon 64 at 2.5 GHz and it starts to slow down noticably after you own over 40 planets or so. It doesn't cause a problem, but you do need a good machine to run this game through its courses with a gigantic universe and abundant habitable planets.

As far as the video card goes, you can get away with a lower grade card on this game. It really doesn't tax the video system much compared to graphicly intensive games like Quake 4 and Doom 3. If you run a lower resolution and turn off anti-aliasing, you can probably get away with something like an nVidia 7300 GT which is a modern low end card that costs under $100 new.
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Reply #9 July 27, 2006 4:52:08 AM
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I stick to mediums. Cos anything bigger just takes too long on my laptop...
In terms of scoring then the bigger the better the overall score. You can NEVER get into the top 10 with mediums no matter how many or how well you play.
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Reply #10 July 28, 2006 8:38:05 PM
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I randomize everything... it's more fun for me to have to deal with what the game gives me, rather than knowing at the start who my opponents are, how common planets will be, etc.
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