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[quote]Arnor, precursors, mithrilar, draginol, telenanth.. Whoa that made my head spin, I did not get anything out of that. Granted I have not studyed the GC universe at all, is there a place where I can recap ?[/quote] [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=162&aid=127754"]The Story of the Mithrilar, Arnor, Dread Lords, Humans, Altarians, and Drath[/link] You also may find these interesting. [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=350&aid=125748#1367727"]A Collection of

[quote]Well, as promised I reported back to tell what happens when you destroy all remaining civs and yourself in a Terror Star explosion. It took until I hit the Turn button to show the Defeat window...but it was as I had expected. Oh well, nothing special about none of the civs remained or such. /shrug This concludes my odd AAR of the Beta 3 Iconians and a thorough test of Terror Stars.[/quote] [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?aid=169600"]Twilight of the Arnor Beta 3b C

[quote]A criminal thought: if the saved game files for latest stages of the game can be recalled and at the end posted to the metaverse under one's own character then this would make some happy 900k-game-christmas-faces...[/quote] Not possible! Before each metaverse game you need to login to your character. Your character's name is stored in each saved game and may only be submitted by you. Check out my [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/167532"]Detailed Suicide Medium Map DA A

[B]I replaced many of the screenshots in the original post with clickable thumbnails so that this page loads faster.[/B] Now I wish I hadn't posted the last year of the AAR in a separate post; I can only edit the original post! I did this because the AAR was being cut off when viewed in Firefox but I bet now with the use of thumbnails it would not. If this AAR receives more than 50 replies it will skip to the second page with the original post at the top of the page. If this happens I'll add the

[quote]Seventh, we modified it so that when you focus on research or production that there's more wastage when switching from research units to industrial units or vice versa. Doesn't really make a lot of sense that the two were so fungible. We may do more in this area in the future.[/quote] This might be the end of the all factories and all labs strategy. I feel I'm missing out on part of the game by playing with old factories but it was clearly superior than only getting 50% usage on

[quote]Excellent read. Its given me a lot of strategy points to consider in my next game![/quote] Keep in mind that you have to adapt your strategy in each game to the map you are playing on. Map size and number of habitable planets makes a huge difference. There are many other factors such as what type of victory you looking to achieve, where you are on the map (i.e., are you an evil race surrounded by hostile good races or vise versa), etc. However, I've always found it best

[B]The 4th year my focus was war! Industrial Sectors allowed me to fully buildup my economic(+24%) and mining starbases(+39%). [U]Major Events of the 4rd Year in Chronological Order[/U]:[/B] 2229-01-01 UP votes to require governments operate under Star Democracy for the next 3 years. Mine was the deciding vote! I thought this would only set the minimum but it later prevented me to switching to Star Federation! Claimed a research

Thanks for the comments. This game was only my 2nd DA game and the first time playing the all factories strategy (the first game was the only game I ever resigned since I starting playing back in Dec. 2005; I could not catch up on suicide in DA playing a mixed (factories and labs strategy)). I played this game out in June-July. It took a long time to play out because I needed to keep detailed notes but more so because I replayed some parts as I tried to optimize my strategy and as my un

Back in June-July I played a suicide medium map DA game and kept detailed notes for my own AAR but I never had time to complete the AAR. Today I was to leave on a trip to Italy with my wife but I had to cancel since my wife is recovering from oral surgery. So today I finally completed the write up (minus the many screenshots). I added my own 2007/11/11 Detailed Suicide Medium Map DA AAR! - Rise of the Lexionians, for a tot

Back in June-July I played a suicide medium map DA game and kept detailed notes for my own AAR but I never had time to complete the AAR. Today I was to leave on a trip to Italy with my wife but I had to cancel since my wife is recovering from oral surgery. So today I finally completed the write up (minus the many screenshots). I added my own 2007/11/11 Detailed Suicide Medium Map DA AAR! - Rise of the Lexionians, for a tot

I played this game back in June-July (so it pre-dates [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=350&aid=163571#1336093"]Purge's AAR[/link] posted in September) but did not have a chance to complete the AAR and post it until now. Here is a detailed AAR for my strategy for winning a suicide (all AIs set to ultimate) game I played on a medium map. Keep in mind that strategies need to be tailored to your victory goal, difficulty level, map (size, rare vs. abundant, home world location, etc

I added 2007/11/07 Every Point of Light is an Enemy! , 2007/11/05 The Terran Odyssey , 2007/11/04 Drengin AAR - A Twilight of the Arnor Story, 2007/11/02 A New Age , 2007/11/01 Count

Excellent!

January! Those that can't wait can play the betas!

Also, you may set the direction in which your ships launch from orbit so make sure the direction is away from the enemy ships your trying to avoid. If you have other planets along the path you want your ship to travel you may have it enter orbit and then launch it from orbit on the otherside to get two free moves. Setting the Ship Launch Direction

I *believe* to gain "minimal infiltration/spying" you need to have 4 spies in total. 3 spies just hanging out not placed anywhere and 1 spy on one of the enemies planets. It takes a few turns to get the message, but there will be a popup telling you that you have achieved basic spying against that civ. Of course if they neutralize you spy before you get the message, you'll have to try again. I believe only spies you have placed on enemy planets will affect yo

When I played games as neutral I always went with beam weapons because as pointed out above it is much cheaper to research to Doom Ray than Black Hole Gun and Black Hole Eruptor. Also it is much easier to fit beam weapons your ships than missiles (i.e., generally they are half the size with half the fire power of missiles but you can't put half a missile on your ship). Now that I'm playing as evil rather than neutral, I have an additional reason to go with beam weapons. The evil beam weapon

Last month I completed a detailed suicide medium map game which I would like to post but my AAR depends on spaces for formatting which web browsers ignore. I'm an experienced developer but I novice when it comes to HTML but I Google search gave me the answer. Just mark the text block with . 2228-07-08 Claimed an influence galactic resource near Toria freed when the Drengin destroyed the Torian's starbase. Invaded Akilians I (Class 15+

First click to select the tile you want to change, then double click on the planetary improvement on the right side you want to replace it with to queue up an upgrade. If you select decommission then the tile is immediately made empty. Galactic Achievements, Super Projects, and Trade Goods can't be destroyed!

Stupid question: how do I run the game in window mode? Go to the Options Menu (you can select it from the launch menu or from within the game), then click on the Video tab, and finally make sure the FullScreen checkbox is unchecked.

Which version of the game are you playing? The combat system from DL to DA was changed but a bug was introduced which made non-optimal defenses work better than the optimal defense. This was resolved in DA 1.6, so make sure you have the latest build. Luck also plays a major role in combat. Say you have a ship with 200 attack and 0% luck. Then your attack varies from 0 to 200 for an average of 100. But if you have luck 25% then it varies from 50 to 200 for an average of 125!

Second, I'd like to note that the strategy assertion reminds me of another post I read recently but can't easily cite that said basically "If you play on the top AI+bonuses levels, you are playing a different game than the rest of us are." I've been playing at Tough (AI has no penalties or bonuses) since I finished familiarizing myself with GC2. Playing at harder levels can make a big difference but so to can switching map sizes, going from DL to DA, and/or c

What is planned for "GalCiv II: Expanded Universe" other than graphic improvements? What is the target release date?

I added 2007/07/23 The Last Battlefield - Yet Another "Unconventional AAR", 2007/07/15 Oops! Shouldn't have declared war... , 2007/07/11 AAR for the DA campaign , 2007/07/05 Diary of a Terran Soldier - An Unconventional AAR , <a href="https://

I haven't tried to all labs strategy because I prefer the flexibility of the all factories strategy. The medium map is the hardest map to win on suicide. On tiny maps you can rush the AI. On gigantic maps the colonization phase lasts much longer (the AIs don't get aggressive until this phase ends) and the AIs will cripple their economy by expanding too fast (quickly spending the starting game capital on buying colony ships and factories rather than building them). Also these map