I think it would be very hard to balance this kind of tech-tree, but i like it! Well, I think it would be more balanced-out if all existing weapons on the ships are upgraded instantly when you research the technology (laser 1 to laser 2 etc. but never laser to plasma) and if you want to only add more weaponary to your ship via upgrading it, it would cost very little money (if laser 3 costs 40, than yo
if I'm in the mood of allowing a major race live after a devastating war in which all of their original worlds have been conquered, I would find a class 3 world to give them, or the one next to my home world, build lots of farms, surround it with battleships, and name it after a concentration camp, such as Auschwitz You're nuts!<img src="http://i
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OK, let's not call it a plague, call it anthrax, so it would be event that is not already in the game... but, how exactly does Yor gets the plague..or anthrax..?
stealing tech from battles would make warmongers even more powerful..
I rarely trade techs because I always do a lot of research and I always end up being most advanced, then I just give them plasma weapons 1, 2 and 3 for everything else, while I have phasors and psionic beam... evil is good!
and it would be MEGA EVENT, no more unbalancing than one player getting ranger or bunch of corvettes early (I was wiped out once by the 2 rangers). I like to have small number of planets, once, the arcean had one of his planets quality double --> 39, he was on the other side of the galaxy and i couldn't take him out early so he almost kicked my ass... and it wasn't mega event, it was normal event, just like 5 planets becoming habitable and all was taken by him because they were in his terit
it could be balanced out, plagued races could be more desperate, they could get "plague assault" invasion technique for killing 25% population instantly and be able to use other invasion techniques at the same time (so 25% dead immediately plus mini soldiers = nice deal) they could plague their enemies with spies... they could force their population to give extra taxes for making a cure so get economy bonus, and still trade to each other, they would be no more hit in trading than non-plagued rac
wouldn't civilization that researched "underwater domes" be able to create those same domes on toxic planet (even easier, no high pressure, so structure wouldn't have to be so strong), it would be poison around the dome instead of water, but citizens would be protected... maybe oxygen creation from water is different than toxin purifiers... oh well...
Why wouldn't some kind of a plague hit 50% of all races, killing 25% of population instantly and killing more per turn, so other races would have a choice: a) terminate all trading with plagued races and don't get plague (possibly have a risk because of the tourism and smugglers, maybe 2% per turn, 3% if you have democracy or star democracy) b) do not terminate trading, but risk getting plagued themselves (20% per turn for getting it from merchandising and other reasons, maybe you could
it doesn't work man, what do we need to hear it?
you can make first two engines normal size, and every next one larger for the size of one engine, like 1 1 2 3 4 5 6... so, to calculate final speed for engines with 5 speed: speed 5 with 1 engine (size of 1 engine) would be "slow" speed 10 with 2 engines (size of 2 engines) would be "normal" speed 15 with 3 engines (size of 4 engines) would be "fast" speed 20 with 4 engines (size of 7 engines) would be "very fast" speed 25 with 5 engines (size of 11 engines) w
Your strategies could be written to disk and then analysed in future games by the AI And then analyzed data could be sent to master server while playing metaverse game, merged with data from other players, checked and reanalyzed (somewhere) and released in the next patch... <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Tongue.gif" border=0
What if you play Yor that have 100% loyalty, then some planets joins you, how come they have 100% loyalty too? They are not robots they should have their bonuses, not yours!
Another suggestion, put some bonuses on imperial government and/or create more governments, like totalitarian or even better, communism where walls have ears, so spy on me if you can! Make spying easier on civs that have democracy or star democracy, and make planets with low morale declare independence if you change government from star democracy back to imperialistic... Make it very likely that your other
I don't use ship design, I just throw propulsion, weapons, armor and life support as needed on a hull, maybe put some wings or use one of my designs from before for my ships to differ; no one-hour-losing. I don't know what would take more time? Even battles in galciv2 are shorter than in HOMM... Other candy is candy for me and my teammate also because we both watch it, if we see something new and funny we both laugh... Through the game we make suggestions one to another, what to do a
If I'm in the mood to play multiplayer, I will play a multiplayer game, one that was designed from the beginning as multiplayer, as that game will offer a superior multiplayer experience than a game that was made from a single-player perspective. Than why hotseat works so well in heroes of might and magic, master of orion, and list go on for many
For me, it would be enough to start as a team with one player (already possible), have shared vision with him (minor tweak?) and have my friend play as my teammate (via ctrl+shift+z cheat), no need for different diplomacy, when i will do trading with my friend, computer diplomacy as it is now will be fine (we will just use gifts)... and order of things could be: 1. I play "default player" empire, (then ctrl+shift+z and we go to part 2.) 2. My friend plays "his" empire 3. All of
That's all I wanted to know, and are very happy that expansions will be stand-alone packages! Kryo, you have been one of the most helpful persons on this forum, all other just think they are smart and talk rubbish!
Just to say, I think that almost nobody who didn't buy galciv2 because of the lack of multiplayer would ever buy multiplayer expansion. It's simply because he would have to buy galciv2, expansion dark avatar, and expansion multiplayer... How much money would be all of that? Nobody would be happy with just galciv2 and multiplayer without DA, knowing the DA's possibilities... I know I will not buy it, and I admit that I would rather buy DA than multiplayer because I only want hotseat and I'm not w
There is ctrl+shift+z cheat that allows you to take ofer the computer player, many player would be just happy if this works as it should, in current state, if i play Yor and take over the Drengin, play his turn and hit "end turn", the Yor's turn is ended also, there is no way to play normally... Many players would be satisfied even if this worked right; no missed turns, and no computer played moves, that's all... I somewhat knew that there would be no hot seat yet, I found some more ho
Are you someone that knows this for sure or you have came here to insult me? "not enough people for multiplayer" situation is because of people like you; you chase them all away. I have searched forum for "hotseat" and "seat", did you do that? See how many threads are there and think how many people thinks the same way but don't say anything... In stickies it is written about "multiplayer", like internet and such, and I'm asking about HOTSEAT because of this: Senator Peace Phoenix menti
Well, is HOTSEAT going to happen in dark avatar or is it not? Since we (will) have the ability to customize computer players, all we need to play hot-seat now is check-boxes! For races that are human, you click on a check-box that says "HUMAN" and that's it! Don't say to me "shut up, there will be no multiplayer because there is not enough people that wants multiplayer" because it isn't truth, I want multiplayer, and all my friends that play galciv2 want multiplayer (and they are not ev
Don't even compare Heroes 3, 4 and 5, they're different games. To say that heroes 3 is better than heroes 5 is like "C&C: Red Alert is better than C&C: Renegade"... (ahhh, that's just voices in my head saying to make me feal better...)
Don't research ship hulls against dread lords, just logistics. Then make big fleats (10 or more) of tiny ships armed like hell (6 to 10 attack, lol) so dread lord take out one of cheap worthless tiny ships, but tiny ships take him out in first turn also...
