And don't forget if you pick Neutral, that opens up all of your tiles as well. I wouldn't say Oribital Terraformer and Galactic Guide Book are useless (as you can see we have people trying very hard to come up with weird circumstances where they are useful) I would say they are extremly underpowered.
I'm curious about this statement. What AI level you playing Civ 4 in? You do know that any level above Noble the AI is getting significant bonuses right? I wouldn't talk about the cheating AI in other games anymore, Frogboy, you are adding in MORE CHEATS to the AI at higher levels. Not less cheats, MORE CHEATS. And don't give me thi
Actually the Humans get +25% trade and +25% diplomacy. Drath should probably lose the +25% diplo bonus and Ion drive and the Humans should get a few more techs. Actually, I never noticed this before but wtf, the Humans start off with Hyperdrive and others start off with Ion drive? This completely contradicts the story as the Humans invented Hyperdrive, if anything, the Humans should get Ion drive and everyone else should be stuck
In the betas you get a +25% pop growth rate for morale higher than 75%. Pop growth is also one of the factors in the pop growth formula.
Manual is wrong. You roll from 0->n (where n is the amount of attack of defense) on attack and defensive rolls. But if you do roll a 0 for attack, it doesn't get shown in the combat viewer.
Well, MoO2 and GC2 are similiar games, but MoO2 is ten years older than GC2 so it is really hard to compare. It's like comparing Street Fighter 2 to Soul Calibur 3. Sure, Street Fighter, one of the best games ever, but would I really play Street Fighter over Soul Calibur today? Heck no. Oh and btw, my memory of MoO2 is a lot different than yours, I remember boarding Antaran ships and winning vs huge odds on the highest difficulties. And that
Yeah, the Diplo victory (called a Political Victory btw) is pretty lame. I think true Political Victories are naturally lower scoring. I mean because the onyl reason you should get a Political Victory is if you and maybe 1-2 other races are left and they are pretty big. If you controlled 30% of the galaxy and still manage a Political Victory, you will have a lower score than a Conquest Victory. Not that much lower, maybe like 10-20% lower score. <
Actually his first post is written like a troll would. Firstly, he claims that the devs have no idea (although he doesn't really do this in a open way, he does it) secondly he just states his oppinion and declares it as a fact. No, that was his SECOND POST. His first post was not trollish.
Ok, images don't work, I dunno what is wrong. I know I've posted thumbnails before, but forget the trick and which link in imageshack to use. Oh well, I'm retarded, but the links are still good, just click on them to get to the appropriate image. Dang, I'm a little bit disappointed that mine didn't come out as pretty as Stardocks posts, but oh well. Oh wait I got one to work, hmm I was editting real fast, forums probably just catching up. Oh well, maybe I'll try to make it prettier tommorrow.
We did these for Civ games we played on apolyton forums. We'd play the game and post pics of what happened during the game. Kinda like the devlopers journal. So here's mine, I hope someone likes it. Please forgive some of the AI bashing, part of why I did this is to show my displeasures with the AI. I will be using images hosted by imageshack.us (dunno where else to host them) so if the pics aren't showing up, I'm sorry in advance, hehe. If you want details as to how I have played,
I play as stock Yor and stock Drath, which I consider to be the two best races. I add in +30% hp with the Drath, forget what I do with the Yor, I think I add in more weapons. I go evil and use the evil wapons with the Yor and use the good defenses with the Drath, works out very well on Crippling and Maso so far. I don't like using custom races because they get less starting technology. I like to start out with Ion Drive and Xeno Industrial t
Looks great, I hope we will get another beta sometime this week.
Frankly, I don't think the C4 civs are particularly distinct in their actions: they might get different units, but they all seem to follow pretty much the same agenda. Wow, did you actually play Civ4? Because no way could you play it and make a statement such as this. I love GC2
Dude, no one starts off with Planetary Invasion, you can't even get start with space weapons on a custom race... It's expensive to prevent rushing. Actually, it isn't that expensive, you can still catch enemy races with their pants down if you focus on a fast invasion.
Dude, MoO2 is TEN YEARS OLD. Being superior to a ten year old game is hardly worth gushing over. Tactical combat has been discussed to death so much that it's boring. You think making fun and fair tactical combat is easy, it is not. I could regularly beat the Antarans and being outnumbered 40 to 1 in MoO2. Tactical combat + custom ships = ouch time for the AI.
The main problem that jumps out at me is that the AI doesn't really have any plan or sense of direction while playing. Take a look at your graph, all the AIs flatline in regards to population very quickly. This means two things, the AI doesn't build/upgrade farms and the AI didn't attack each other(and if they did well they didn't succeed which seems to be the case in your game) So yeah, the AI pretty much just waited to be killed. Now say i
I'm not going to be as polite as Frogboy... In response to post #5 by Gookamundo (nice name, really mature) Unfortunately I have to agree Fritz. Having to download and install bloated software just to download a patch is a pain in the you know what. You don't have to,
The malfador game you are looking for is Star Empires V which will hopefully be released sometime this year ( no date announced yet and their site Link is rarely updated Civ4 expansion as well as Disgaea 2 (PS2) will also be coming out this year for more TBS gaming fun. As for MoO4, I don't think we'll ever see it. MoO3 was one of the worst games I have ever played, not only did the u
Just got it now via SDC. Thanks, frogboy.
This AI is the best out there, end of. It doesn't cheat pre-tough. It goes after what is needed, and weaponless fighters are by design, they're to slow you up while the real force arrives. If they can't see any ships in their way, they will send an unescorted fighter as a human would. What difficulty are you playing at? <br
Please, oh please devs of GC2, give me an option to turn off random events. You know the ones that give you +econ +/-influence and +pop growth(and maybe others, but those are the main ones) They are game breakers! Literally, if you get the +econ event for a decent amount of time, the game is over. OVER. You could be hanging in there at 90% spending and getting -5 BC/turn and then the +econ event hits, boom I'm at +900 BC/turn with 100% spending and a lower tax rate. One
You cannot win an influence victory while in a war. So you will always get that message as you target your last victim. Just declare war before those 10 turns are up. If you are playing on a weird map and you can't get to him in 10 turns, give him one of your ships/planets, then attack that ship/planet.
700% bonus tiles are extremely rare. I do not notice any drop of bonus tiles in any version and I've used them all up to beta-3. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't
This bug was fixed in 1.0X (which was also released about a month ago that's why no one has replied, it's been fixed) you should really update your game.
Ahhhh, ok, yeah miniaturization also changes the size of weapons/armor, I forgot that one too. Nice to know the exact formula. There are sometimes when getting more +mini results in a larger size of your weapon but even if this happens you just research another level of weapon tech and that'll get you optimized again. I would point you towards the wikipedia site for galciv2's battle mechanics, but it seems that wikipedia is having problems t
