Pyrion

Didn't they correct this in one of the patches?

I'm curious, if Great Britain invaded the Soviet Union, do you really think the United States would come to the Soviets' rescue? No, good civs shouldn't always come to the side of the defender.

So leave the UP Council.

An easier mechanic to implement, over seperate logistics points for "carrier" hulls, would be just to implement a "fighter bay" ship module that would function similar to a standard weapon mount. You'd have your three weapon choices, and the fighters would otherwise be unshielded/unarmored (you gotta figure they're too small to carry much more than short-range engines and a single weapon of choice) and completely dependant on the carrier's survival for

Yes, starbase bonuses do stack. Don't know about marketing centers though.

It stands to reason that with the weapons being the same, the shields being the same and the engines being the same, being able to fit a lot more shots in per "turn" makes the smaller ships the more advantageous. Sure, you will lose more ships in the long run due to a lower HP value, but you stand a greater chance of winning the battles simply because you're firing more often. Especially against the Dread Lords.

Yeah it's intended, and I always use it. It doesn't help any though in the Dread Lords on Parade scenario since they don't produce "influence" in that sense.

No, two AMD CPUs doesn't equal dual core. Two AMD CPUs = dual cpu. A dual-core processor is two cores within one package. Furthermore, most software licenses work based off of physical processors, not logical processors, so a dual-core processor still counts as one physical processor (hence you can run both cores on a XP Home install), and you can run a dual-core dual-CPU system (for 4 logical processors) on XP Pro, which only runs up to 2 physical pro

Don't you get an economic bonus on top of the morale bonus with VR centers?

Go into your My Documents/My Games/Galciv2/ folder and delete all the .raceconfig files. I think the game will then revert to whatever the defaults are.

From what I could tell, it was only extra ship cosmetics and a printed tech tree poster.

There could be a problem with the dread lords appearing out of nowhere in the sense that they'd need some place to establish a colony. That would majorly suck for whoever ends up the unlucky sap whose star system is randomly chosen to host the Dread Lords' homeworld.

What do you expect? They're machines. Of course they'll be able to fit more on their ships simply because they don't need to waste space on organic dependencies such as life support.

I think they used "flagship" not in the context of it actually being a ship, but that you'd use starbases as the spearhead of your military force. Kinda like some companies have what they call a "flagship product", even though they're not actually selling flagships. A "flagship" in this sense is just a declaration of focus.

As of this moment, just one minor request: Alter the Dread Lords on Parade scenario to allow playing a race besides the Terrans.

Yes, it does. I once had a very peaceful gigantic galaxy go to all-out war in a single turn thanks to the idiot Torians on the other side of the galaxy declaring war on a minor race deep within my territory that I was conveniently allied with. Which is why I say "ally with a minor race if you want to alleviate your boredom." The Torians and the Altarians were allies, and I was allied with the minor race (Andians I think) as well as the Terra

Bah, just switch back to Imperial gov if you wanna go to war.

You don't have to start over each time. You do get increasingly more techs to start with as the campaign goes on. You do in the sense that if you've researched farther than the next mission starts you out with. You have to research those techs all over again.

The only sound problem I have is in mid-game on gigantic maps when each civ has a crazy amount of ships moving about all over the place. Each turn that passes, the sound starts crackling like mad while the CPU handles assigning new paths for all the AIs' ships. What really irks me is I once had a train of Altarian fleets run right through my space (across the whole frickin' galaxy, basically) to destroy a single Drengin scout, just because t

I actually rather like it. I only have to burn half an hour getting a ship to look just right once, rather than having to redesign the same ship over and over for EACH FRIGGIN ITERATION.

Prioritize researching stellar cartography, and once you have it, zoom in on the minimap so you can actually see the clusters of planets. That should give you a decent idea of where to start looking.

Pfeh. Here's an idea. Build transports and load 'em with the absolute minimum, so that it's a guaranteed loss, and then just escort 'em in and use them to specifically assault the planets themselves. Mass drivers, core detonations, the works basically. You know you're going to lose the invasion, but that's kinda the point. It's an expression of "I don't want that planet, and I don't want you to have it either."

So there's some truth to the suggestion of chaining programmers to their desks?

You want to get out of the boredom of a game? Ally with a minor race. Problem solved.

I think it's per-sector, not based on where your cultural influence borders lie. So if you have a planet in the sector you have the base in, then you don't get taxed. If nobody has a planet in such a sector, you don't get taxed. But if you build a base in the same sector as another player has a planet, then you're taxed, even if your influence reaches out far beyond them. I'm not sure since I haven't tested every possibility, but if both you