Usually ships that somehow end up outside of logistical range are automatically autopiloted back to the logistics 'border', at least that's what happens when a wormhole gets one of my survey ships and puts it out of range. So it's a bug of sorts that those ships aren't being moved to the nearest reach of the AI's logistics.
Correct Defense is actually more valuable than offense, offense dice of all enemy ships are not pooled, they must =individually= break through your defenses to do any damage whatsoever. If they have no defenses, they're SOL. And a lot of defenses do become equal or smaller in size than offense. They do seem to be more expensive, but if you're able to mount enough for them to absorb sufficient damage this makes sense; your ships come out of e
Basically the AI is moderately good at trading for the techs it wants every (just a number out of my @$$) six turns or so, and rather willing to share everything with everyone to get it. Especially the minor civs of course, who end up getting the most techs out of the trading and become a kind of storehouse of technology. My advice would be to trade with all the minor races you know same technology for different things, you might need high D
It's a multiple of the base industry cost, just like if you purchased the ship at a shipyard. It is a little less, depending on the value of the original ship. It's definitely expensive right now and it discourages upgrading everything you have, but I think that's the intention.
I'm pretty sure freighters gives you more money when they're close to their target and less money when they're close to your colony. Sometimes all of your traderoutes are close to your colonies around the same period, thus there's a tremendous budget shortfall.
I think I see what's going on here, the AI is designed to counter a player that half-heartedly techwhores rather than a player who trades tech every 1-3 turns. If that's the way you play it's going to be too easy. But if you're a player who almost never trades techs (like me), the game is going to be too hard even on a difficulty level that is otherwise perfect for you. Then again some players who do just the right amount of techwhoring will wonder what the big deal is.
My gamekilling bug is that playing on Normal Difficulty, on whatever turn corresponds to Dec 1st , 2225, I once again see that all the alien races have the same major techs that I do not. All five have Impulse Drive, Diplomatic Relations, and Laser. More than half to them also share a host of other techs. We're talking Drengin and Korx having the same major techs as the Altarians, Drath, and Arceans. The Akilians a minor race have the most techs of all. My empire isn't particular stro
Weapons cost a lot of money, so it isn't very efficient to pack them onto a cargo hull that would die so readily. However, you could put a lot of weapons on it, maybe if you were going up against Dreadlords and you know you'd die in one shot ANYWAY.... then you can make the attack, do the full damage of all those guns on the cargo hull, and its HP wouldn't matter.
Presently I recommend that my friends not buy Galactic Civilizations II. It does make up for the failings of MoO 3 in every conceivable fashion, except that on Beginner difficulty the AI is no challenge on Normal difficulty the AI uses extremely exploitative tech trading tactics. I don't want my friends to play for three days on a huge map just to find out that despite their empire being powerful, their friends and enemies will gladly trade weapo
It's worth it to buy colony ships (fast ones preferably) in the initial colony rush, ditto constructor ships if you see any resources you need. Otherwise, try to not buy ships, it's an emergency tactic or a tactic when you've just got tons of money laying around.
I usually emphasize speed in my ship designs, I don't think I've seriously used any warship that didn't have at least one engine module. I might even mount two engine modules on a mainline combat ship. If your ships can reach the combat zone first, then your empire will have a greater representation in the war than their production capacity and standing army would otherwise reflect. Yes they can be outarmed and outdefended by enemy shi
I would say tactical combat in GalCiv II is a horrible horrible idea, however that's just fanatical fanboyism talking. The thing is, I'm really just neutral on it to begin with, it wouldn't effect my enjoyment either way. The thing is, we DO determine the outcome of battles, we determine the outcome of each and every battle by designing, building, gathering, and maneuvering fleets into (or away from) battles where they can either achieve victory or accomplish an objective. We d
Only if you click at just the right time and get that 30 to 6 advantage Mario. Personally I don't like a chance of an invasion failing, given the trouble of getting all the transports over there I want it to 'take' the first time.. sure I guess I could just save right before, and reload, but that's not very immersive. *Plays the Thraddash themesong as his 10,000 troops swarm a small plane
You don't just need that pack thathas the patch + the content, you need the other file on that page the 'unlocker'. https://www.galciv2.com/collectorsedition/ Btw if you aren't sure if you even want the desktop theme, don't install it. Maybe it works okay if you're familiar with and have the various windows customizers from Stardock, but I went from plain Windows XP settings to the GC II theme and was noticing missing functionality and
You don't just need that pack thathas the patch + the content, you need the other file on that page the 'unlocker'. https://www.galciv2.com/collectorsedition/ Btw if you aren't sure if you even want the desktop theme, don't install it. Maybe it works okay if you're familiar with and have the various windows customizers from Stardock, but I went from plain Windows XP settings to the GC II theme and was noticing missing functionality and
Perhaps a module that takes a lot of space which allows a ship to share its total Life Support range with all other ships in a fleet with it. If it has no weapons and decent armor, it will be the last ship that enemies try to kill, therefore, a Carrier is a completely viable idea. More than just allowing carriers, this allows true 'support' ships, rather like refuel/rearm ships in a naval task force. It sounds very logical to me that space fleets should have supply ships that allow t
I think what it is is they're giving you the weakest technology that they have and you don't. Thus, theories, not weapons. Though that's a good theory Dewwar. "Oh sure, I'll give you terraforming for beam weapon theory. Hey, while you're here, howabout Planetary Invasion for my grandma's psisnake stu recipe?"
Maybe the Arceans traded their starbases to the Korx for a bunch of techs the Korx had, then when the Arceans were beaten up a bit and wanted peace they traded a bunch of other techs to the Korx to get the starbases back, and this goes back and forth and back and forth, and thus shows an underlying theory behind the wierd AI sharing that goes on behind the player's back. If the developers say th
I have the electronic download version (pre-order), and I registered it, I thought at this point I should be seeing the CE components but I don't see any of them at all. I thought I read somewhere that the names or the description of the Extras that come with the CE edition will make themselves known. I've gathered that registration of the product key for extra content is their main form of copy protection, plus it sounds like the patch included the CE
Aren't super-near traderoutes not worth much money though? Personally I conquer Minor races as soon as it's convenient to do so, they're the easiest targets because once that first planet is taken there's not going to be anyone to take revenge. In the game I'm playing through right now, the nearby Paulos have also claimed two resources that I want, a military and an economy bonus, frankly I'm glad they took it instead of the Drengin who bord
Fred Meyer's usually doesn't get a game in stock until several weeks after release, though there's probably been some exceptions like The Sims, Halo, and possibly console games (I really haven't checked). EB or Fry's or some actually dedicated computer store like that will definitely get any given game before FM does. Gecks did you click on the + symbol next to the Galactic Civilizations II listing in Stardock, to get the movies, multimedia files, etc? I don't know if that's what you
The only smart way to fight a war is to get as much intel as you can, if you don't =have= to know what the enemy ships are doing 8 turns before they get into your territory then maybe you didn't set the difficulty high enough to challenge you. As for 220 sensor range. You can't do that anymore. You can't even get 16 sensor range. That first post-retail patch they put out capped it at 15, and this takes effect retroactively for saved games bt
Is it possible that structures-in-progress don't show up when looking at enemy planets? Perhaps the Drengin didn't have extra cash laying around and couldn't jumpstart the building. I did notice a fair amount of unescorted transports, though occasionally they would be escorted. I suppose it's pretty difficult to make an AI actually consider its overall situation an figure out whether or not a transport will be safe... especially if you decimate their fleet, something they can't always
D'oh! In my current game my race is 'Don't Ask'. So now I'm definitely starting over. (But that's kinda okay because everybody else has Harpoon missiles, Planetary Invasion, Lasers IV, and I've got... squat. No idea why) So are there any other racial bonuses that are completely useless ri
In my current game on a large galaxy, on (I THINK) normal difficulty, I'm completely getting my butt whupped. I've beaten it on normal difficulty before and I did really well in the 'colonization' phase, so I just don't get it. What I noticed was during the game setup, whenever I'd add another race it'd change the difficulty to 'Masochistic'. I'm pretty sure I switched it back to normal, but I can't figure out how to check and I don't want to los
