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1. For the new spy sytem from DA to GO AWAY! I very much enjoyed the old system, You kept putting money into it (like you should) for updated information, it was compaired to how much your oponent spent against you, and no micro managing something you shouldnt have to manage. 2. Unlimited research. If your finnished with the tech tree, simply add infinite loop techs to upgrade weapons, planet upgrades ect. Thats it, that is all I ask and I am satisfied. Once #1 is fixe

well, been a while, and I stopped playing GC really because of the spy system. I don't know if anyones played Pax Imperial Emanate Domain but that really had the best espionage system. You had a kind of Slider that would increase or decrease your Espionage rating. This then was compared to other races for success/ failure when performing black ops missions such as causing instability, stealing ships, ship positions/ movent ect. I would like to see something like this, and it dosnt seem

[quote] Please change the spy system! The current system is garbage, the old way was a great deal better. Change it to how it was and add a counter esp system to keep people from constantly keeping those spy networks on you. Completely disagree. DA and DL's espionage systems are both excellent systems for what they do best. DA's Agents are great for sabotage, while DL's Sliders were better for information gathering. I always believ

Please change the spy system! The current system is garbage, the old way was a great deal better. Change it to how it was and add a counter esp system to keep people from constantly keeping those spy networks on you. Randomly stealing your enemies ships, collecting data, troop movements, inciting rebellions, stealing funds are all things your spending should do and more. countering these effects from outside influences should be what the counter espionage slider do. as well as give

I like the Idea. Makes me want to preorder Galactic Civ 3

details details but I do like your eye for details. It has been a while sense anyone has posted on this. I was just wondering if anyone out there still wants carriers.

Id like to see trade routes / civilian transports between your planets. This would give you a reason to protect your boarders so those pesky enemy fighters don't get in an wreck havoc on your defenseless infrastructure. The only "infrastructure" we see thus far is between different species. Should be easy to do, set up how much you tax your trade routes, then designate safe paths between planets. Then the AI will animate little ships to go from A to B to C ect. this would allow planets to b

Wow these are some great Ideas. So why dosn't anyone make a mod to make these changes? this dosn't look like it would be a difficult thing to do.

Interesting. I wish i knew more about codeing so i can mod this game.

Why is this so complicated? Carriers are logistics. They should allow for a greater field of mobility on the map for smaller ships. Lets make this simple. Carrier modual can carry ships via logistic points. you "dock" smaller ships into these carriers ie, largest single size ship is 1-4. however it can carry 20 points of logistics, that means you have 20 little ships, or 5 more powerful ships docked. These docked ships will be short ranged but built for

spying shouldnt be something you control. Reality (bare with me) is you give specil ops and trusted personel money and tell them to find ways to knock out enemy defenses, steal ships, gather technology ect. This should include buying out govoners and other things. I dont know if anyone has played Pax Imperia, but spying in that game was fierce. I want that spy system if you have to be an active participant. Actually, I miss Pax imperia eminent domain... the real time portion

Good and Evil is more or less a religious fabrication to point out your enemies. Remember that Christian (similar to others) teaches that Evil wizards and witches are inherently evil. D&D 3.5 put Good and Evil into a different perspective. rather then labeling something evil because its not the same belief system as you are, it looks at good and evil as more of a greedy and not so greedy system. ie, a chaotic good person would bend or not adhere to the law in order to help or save some

If you look at Star Trek, all ships in the Federation are science vessels, just with guns. The Federation belive its unethical to build war ships (they felt they had to build the defiant) Building Science Vessels should give you bonueses when they are, "studying" say orbiting a Gas planet performing research ect. In the federation, all ships are constantly contributing to science as a whole. where as other empires the ships are simply dedicated for war. You know it shouldnt be hard

Wait a sec, Slavery isnt inharently Evil. its the way people would treat them and other societies that would lable them as evil. I dont understand why people seem to have a Lable for Good and Evil the way they do. In general, a good person will help out and sacrifice for greater good or to help, also telling the truth, being genuin and contributing. an evil person would backstab, betray, lie, cheat, steal to gain power or get what they want. So a good society who uses slaves (pris

I like that idea of staionary battles, as well as smaller ship hangers ect. Seeing large and small ships dance around equally and more like a dance routine is annoying. the invasion battles are stationary... Why not space?

Ill agree with you GW. I am hurting myself more then I could simply enjoy the game for what it is. I had no complaints with Dread Lords, but sometimes you just do too much and make things worse. DAoC and SWG are two prime examples of how over tweeking a game can lead to failure however. In the DA beta they had a selector in the game customization menu where you can select and make spying DL style rather then DA. That would be nice at least, as well say a counter intel slider to the old

Why not just simulate real life rather than dealing with this stupid and lousy system of spying? I don’t know who created this idea to favor defenders in spying, making it ever so pricy and causing vast amounts of frustration with the game. Ships don’t get more expensive if you build more do they? Oh this is the only reason why I stopped playing DA as well. I just came back to see if it’s still there and yep. Sure enough they didn’t fix it. It was a very easy system. But you do ne

After watching DS9 S6 D5 Wrongs Darker then death or night. I had a few Ideas about good and evil. And how you run your empire. When you take over an oponent, you really dont know what happend to that race. Infact... your not even sure if your troops Irradicated the population, turned them to slaves, or the population simply accepted the new rule. When you conquer a planet, you should have the option of enslaving the petty population or allow the poorfully mislead population to

I Like alot of the stuff in DA. But I wish it was still beta, so I could choose which Espionage type to use. Ive had some really good games go to crap because of it. When an expansion comes out for anything, its almost usless to play with out it. I start missing the new things they threw in it.

This game is far from complete, to me this game is a Living Classic. One that will evolve and continue to grow with imput. One day this game will be so great, that when a new engin comes out for it, the game will be copyed over to the new engin, then just improved from that point. The concept of this game is perfect, and I will stand by the makers and fund them so one day, I will sit down and play this game, and be perfectly happy about playing nothing else.

Im not seeing anything negitive about keeping this post active. So im just Commenting to get more people to say something and hopefully get a patch *prays* to allow the option of the old ways. Even somone making a mod would be nice.

This game dosnt reflect reality or history. Its just a game, somones concept of something to play. If people enjoy playing it, there isnt a problem. I can deal with pretty much all the flaws this game has, except the spies. That ruins it.

GC gold has the old spy system, though not perfect, you basically spend money on spying on opponents to get a diplomacy bonus, and information such as exact spending and such. Even if they spend money on the spy network, its impossible to block, and once you reach the HIGH status of spying, you can stop spying. Which was really bad. The new spy system was introduced in Dark Avatar, the expansion for GC2. now you have, “agents” that you pay for and get more expensive per agent. You have

the AI in this game is crazy though. And in this game, I take my sweet time per move, and have fun with it. MP would kinda kill it for me. in Pax Imperia getting a LAN was interesting, and people often got screwed when trying to design a ship and they would get attacked or something dumb.

I wonder what the new expansion will bring out... or GC3? Stardock needs a pay per month system so our programers can have a steady income. I'd pay 10 bucks a month to access Stardocks stuff and support its workers.