DuckofDoom

There's a problem to non-genocidial invasions of planets, and that's assymetrical warfare. A planet is really big. Really really big. There's going to be at worst a billion combatants and billions more saboteurs fighting your army. There's only one way to solve this- massive application of force such as orbital strikes, or converting the populace (cultural and/or information warfare). In orbital strikes, there's a massive, massive amount of damage done. Or even less techy, imagine a vie

Even through the haze of technical problems I have managed to cobble together the glorious first professional-style ship (as opposed to Hull + Addons + 1-2 Extras lazy man's style). It's not bad, I think, for a first hack at Kryo's Hull Systems. Especially since the damn thing is black. Looks cool but makes it hard to see what I'm doing. Presenting the Holy Navy's Virtue-class Electronics Warfare Ship. Nex

... And just when you think you're so clever and have done everything the obvious occurs, and thus a regrettable hat trick of posts: The title says "1.1" since this is a rather old bug that hasn't gone away, and obviously my game isn't still 1.1. I've updated to 1.40X.062, the current newest version, so no dice. Since I know some wise guy will suggest that based on the subject of the bumped post. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="ab

Double Post, sorry, but I keep getting errors while trying to edit in some information that might help. If it's any help, this also occurs in the following games: Silent Hunter III 1.3? (rendering it completely unplayable) Dawn of War Winter Assault 1.6, occaisionally Mount and Blade 0.751, very rarely and minorly but not in the following Defcon 1.0 Rome Total War 1.6 (as far as I know) Hearts of Iron II 1.3b Europa Universalis II 1.9 W

Massive Bump For Blast From The Past, Because I got the hankering to play some GalCiv and realized that even with the latest drivers this still occurs. I understand a bit of a wait on Tech Support but still... :\ Irregardless, bumping because it contains all requested information from Stardock and so it'd be silly to repost and waste bandwidth.

None of those work, not even the Anti-Aliasing. Thanks for trying, though.

[Secret Bump Incase My Case Was Forgotten?]

Damn you, Meteor! You killed us around 65 million years before we conquered the world. Now those stupid Drengin will get it all.

Apologies for image size, but I took four to show seperate things happening. First Image: Text Occlusion On Main Menu Second Image: Text Occlusion (Different Sort) On Startup And Game Screens Note that these lines are constantly in motion and/or vanishing, making the text unreadable with all the pieces vanishing and reappearing many times pe

I have a strange thing going on with GalCiv after upgrading to the latest patch. When I start, the menu has little white lines flying all over it, making the black text on the buttons (only, for some reason) have random parts flash in and out of existance as the lines go over them. The same thing happens in game with many buttons. Additionally, the textures of many ships have random parts at strange angles, pieces jutting off into nowhere with horrendous stretching, and crazy 2d piece

Custom, naturally, since you can design them from the ground up for Cultural Victory. Otherwise, if we have to choose base ones, Torians.

I usually get several per game, but with the Lucky Attribute I've seen a ton. I'm not sure if that's just coincidental or not. Anyone else ever get a crap event? I think it might be due to the randomness involved in the number generation for them. I once saw an event where the bonuses were something like: Good- Nothing Neutral- +1 BC Evil- +2 BC

Control + N once if I am completely gimped (like being 30 Parsecs from the nearest star like I saw the Yor's home system end up once. Amazingly, they still managed to colonize a few planets.) by bad luck in Star dispersal. Only on the 1st turn. If it's anything less, I don't. Corner of the map with only four stars within 20 Parsecs? Whoops, time to research Impulse Drive, then. It just makes your triumph more fun. Or makes it more acceptable when you lose because then you can blame th

The AI is very sneaky with troopships. They often loop into my fog of war when my faster and stronger but less numerous ships start to move into their territory, and then reappear right next to my nearly defenseless worlds with some fighters to clear out my garrison of outdated Defenders and the like. However, they make huge stacks of unfleeted ships and hardly move those. They also never research Medium Hulls quick enough (or at least as quick as I do), leading to my small fleets of

You might want to make about 3 defenders per planet or so after the expansion phase of the game, just to get your military rating up high enough that the the AI won't declare war for no reason at all. It doesn't always work, but it keeps smaller empires and such from declaring war opportunistically. Well, at first, at least. By then you should be economic and technologically advanced enough to build some cool ships from a factory world and go kick ass in outer space.

Does your graphics card have pixel shaders and vertex shaders? If it's a GeForce4 MX440 as my spider sense tells me, it does not. That will cut way back into your card's graphical sophistication capabilities. I'd recommend upgrading to something newer. I have the same problem, and I will be.

To clairfy, there are two reasons I can think of that you are unable to build ships: 1. You owe over 500 Billion Credits (BCs). Extreme debt will leave your economy focused entirely on paying debt. or 2. You have somehow accidentally set the Military Production Slider or the Tax Spending Slider to 0% or thereabouts.

It is a testament to how good the AI of this game is that one of the features they're adding is a stupider AI for easier difficulties. I have never seen an AI that is this smart beforehand, in fact, most people use AI and Stupid synonymously when referring to difficulties in games. Good show, Stardock, good show. However, I must third the comment on Fleets and Attacking. I too rarely see the AI effectively defend itself. The AI should understand the concept of escorts for v

Click the colony ship and right click a destination to move the ship. To colonize, drive the ship into the planet. It will automatically colonize for you. Edit- Um... Make sure the planet is above Class 0 and so is colonizable, too. Class 8+ is good, Class 13+ is great.

Geforce 4 MX 440 is what I have. It has no Pixel Shaders, nor Vertex Shaders, so it won't run textures or much graphics of any sort. It also is a 64 MB Card, which is passable but not by any means good at all. It's suprising it even works with the game. I'd recommend updating like I will as soon as you can, it'll be worth it.

Minor militaries are usually completely unimpressive and they generally aren't allied with anyone. What I would do if it's enough of a problem is just declare war, saunter over, blow up their bases, and then get a peace. Vouila, no more Influence Bases. It also does wonders for getting the Minors to... ahem... surrender Resources that they are holding. Or better yet, just conquer them. That's what minor races, after all, are there for. ; )

Terrans are Neutral, too. Aren't the Arceans said in their description to be Neutral? I have a hard time believing they're Good.

Did you place the Influence Starbases on your borders? Influence Bases in the middle of your Empire won't affect anything but the United Planets because their radius (click the base to see it) doesn't touch another race's planet. Did you upgrade the Influence Starbases with new modules from more constructors? Unupgraded Influences Bases provide little if any bonus. Also, Yor have a +100% bonus to Planetary Loyalty. Not a good race to be influencing. I've won 2 In

Also, depending upon what you're researching, the time difference might not be noticable. Building a single Discovery Sphere in my latest game only cut down my Tech Research victory's time by an extra week per upgrade from Invention Matrices.

One could rationalize ti as that the Altarians didn't wish to fight you and so made themseelves a vassal race or somesuch to the Drengin Empire. However, gamewise, it's likely you were so overwhelmingly militarized they surrendered before the war even really started.