I know the ship designer and the 3d graphics were touted as a major feature of GC2. I tinkered with the ship designer for half hour when I first got the game. Tried to recreate the enterprise or star wars fighters and what not. But as soon as I get into the game. The only thing I care about are the numbers, how many parsecs/turn,
I make a topic, and it disap[ears to somewhere on page 3, every time. No one ever sees the topics I make. Ok so then I see topics are orgainzed by most recent reply. Perhaps your topics are boring!!!! Ju
On the why one type per base: In my opinion, it not only adds to strategy (i.e. making choices and paying to enact those choices) but it is also realistic (not that I value that very much!). You don't tend to have a factory that's also an embassy and a shopping mall. As for starbases building ships - that seems like a better idea. Maybe a new
Highlite the design in the ship builder. Press upgrade Add / modify components Save under a new name That doesn't work on mine! Core ships are unmodifiable.
Weighing in with the That's What Makes It A Strategy Game crowd!
But right now, the AI doesn't know where players are. So blind exploration is always the norm for them anyway. Oh! I didn't know that! Well that makes turning off the influence overlay worthwhile then! Cheers and apologies to zela! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" bord
You don't have the load the transport with troops from the planet it's constructed on. Build your transport on your "high production, low population" planet, launch it with 1 troop in it, then send it to a high pop planet to fill it up. That's really the way to do it. Manually launch transports from
2) v1.1 will have an OPTION to not see alien influence until you explore their sector. Not sure if you are still awake (if so... GO TO BED!! ).... but will this also affect the AI... will they know where eve
I'm afraid I agree with the original poster's intent. That's not to say I believe it's a bug - nor did the OP say it was a bug, he asked if it was intentional. (Ok, so he implied it needed fixing too - but calm down people!) From in game perspective - people have mentioned that you know where other races stars are - thats well and good but how do you see their radius of influence? That's really not the same as knowing where their
Anything lower than 8 with no visibly upgradeable tiles becomes an all out research facility. 1 Factory then all labs. If the planet has upgradeable tiles bringing it up to 9 or more, it gets 1 factory, 1 starport and then all labs. Later in the game when I upgrade those tiles, 2 of them become farm/entertainment networks. This nearly doubles the pop making it harder to conquer, giving you more tax, raising your influence. If a low quality p
I'm BLIIIIIIiiiiiIiiIiIiiiiinnnnnndd! Thank you Sephlock for a true exercise in futility! If people couldn't see this post.... how would you know as you cant see it?
Even on Tough, the Evil races are pretty much make or break. They either become a significant late game power or are mostly destroyed by the middle game. I'm afraid I still haven't had a game where the Drengin manage to achieve anything. They always get horribly outcolonised, then out-teched then beaten down in a war of attrition. They always manage to achieve highest military statistic at the start of the game (together with the Altarians and sometime
Instead of decommisioning things, Upgrade them to Banks. The AI is bound to have gone on a heavy focus on that planet - a focus that doesnt fit in your economy - so make it fit! War should be expensive... it's about the only thing that stops it happening more often. Make sure you have plenty of surplus before starting a conquest oriented war. What probably happened in your game was that you picked up a second, maybe even a third m
Ok, there are two issues going on here, and the most important ones are getting drowned out by the lesser ones. Nice attitude!! Those who disagree are lesser are they? Just because the majority of
Come on Mr. Thrower, miniturization/logistics are the ONLY advantages that a civ inherently has! The other stuff like pop growth is just dependent on how many points you want to put into it. You can't change what bonus your civ has for those two areas! No, you are indeed totally right there. <b
Spearthrower gets it Aye! And this one IS a bug..... I am really beginning to hate that word on these forums... but this is a known bug - you can read about it on the wiki.
I panic buy (rush buy sounds way too controlled) everything I can to get my colony ships out faster. A factory on the homeworld and purchase a ship every other turn.... so I tend to leave the sliders where they are at the start as I want a bit of everything. I still always outcolonise the AI by a large margin - I play on Tough - ..... but the first 10 turns are mostly uncontrolled panic on my part!! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smile
Definately not a bug. Being Neutral means that all squares become immediately available and don't need soil enhancement, habitat improvement and so forth. You need to build more farms for more pop over 5 bil, no matter what PQ you have. When you go neutral all the squares become available..
This is a case of the Yor simply having larger bonuses numerically than any other civ. It isn't a matter of subjectivity, but raw numbers. Check some of the posts above for the exact details. I have heard a lot of cries about "nerf bats" and such things, but I have yet to hear a compelling case for why we should not have a
When I use the factory provided disk, 3Dmark05 gives much better results than the new NVidia drivers. Clearly not in this case! If you are now going to insist that your system is fine when you are using older drivers and willfully blame the software... even though there were literally COUN
Between Iraq, midterm elections, and a whole lot of real issues going on right now There ARE other places in the world than the US of A you know? The European market has a host of different bodies
New drivers arent the answer to all the worlds problems No, but if you've got an unexplained problem and an old driver... it's probably best to look into updating that before making accusations about the quality of software you are running on your unupdated machine. Simple truth.
I am pretty sure that this is one of the known bugs. I've seen it happen in a variety of ways too.
I think they need to insert a default race templates You know, the more I have played, the more I actually wish the core races were unmodifiable. Leave the custom races to.... customise and have 9 distinctly flavoured races. I am even starting to think about creating distinct abilities for
Well one counter to that is that you would rarely reach this 'late game' where this is an issue if you pursue a military path from the begining. That's also working on the assumption that you are playing on a medium or lower map. I dont believe you are reaching military domination on a gigantic map in
