Scourge012

I hate, and I mean HATE the...Iconians. Not only did those b-words create my second most hated race, the Yor, but every game I have th Iconians in, every other race surrenders TO THEM...even with my custom race's max diplomacy bonuses, and Diplomatic Translators and techs. Currently, I have switched my strategy and race picks to (try to) go rapidly to Planetary Invasion Tech, and snagging their homeworld with four modified transports (modified only for speed), taking their capital

Meh...tested it out and removed my post. What I was really talking about was when MIlitary was 0%...if you still have some research or social production and hit military focus, even though unviersally it's at zero percent, it will still produce ships. Very useful in the early game, methinks.

Hmm...they may also have built the Propaganda Center? Other than that I am at a loss too. I've had similar situations, but (not by a factor of 40!)

Ahhh...software development terminology. Here's something I hope you will find useful (from Wiki): "A beta version or beta release usually represents the first version of a computer program that implements all required features although additional features may be added. It is likely to be unstable but useful for internal demonstrations and previews to select customers, but not yet ready for release. Some developers refer to this stage as a preview, as a technical preview (TP) or as a

While I think you are overstating the nature of your problem, and not being very reasonable with your expectations, in addition to deliberately flaming Stardock--which even I find offensive as they are easily the most responsive dev team I have seen in 9 years of RTS and TBS computer gaming (Have you even tried to play/get help for Battle For Middle Earth II?), I will say: I initially had the problem where my serial number was rejected--then

Ever come across the minor race, "Carinoids (or something like that?" Their leader definitely looks female to me. The Dark Yor also seem female ( big blue eyes, and purple chrome plating)...and the Snathi seem to have fur the color of a female squirrel (at least like the ones where I'm from) , and their "Report" page is hilarious, too. Though, I would agree--there don't seem to be many Females in the game as I feel there should be--all the

It might seem like a nice idea, however, it's not present in the game. When you invade a planet EVERYONE comes out to fight the invading force...so by taking planets you successfully commit genocide against the resident population. In your game, the Torians are extinct, and thus you can't "liberate" them.

Hold up...I thought the manual stated that the minimum defense roll was from 1-Max? Maybe they changed it. What I thought would be the tie-breaker is the "luck" factor. If you watch enough fleet battles, you will notice that sometimes, "lucky shots(?)" ignore all defenses and do the damage they rolled. IN your example of a constructor it would be a matter of time before a "lucky shot." Maybe the lucky shot is due to an unstated and somewhat rare

I have noticed this as well. I've seen it in ALL the versions of the game including the very latest Beta build. Though, this "bug" only appears early in the game, on planets that have been recently colonized for the first time. I.e. like the above poster said, AI colonizes a world, and player takes it via influence a few weeks (turns) later. This doesn't seem to affect the actual gameplay in any way...but it is just odd.

I have noticed the same exact issue. This only occurs with the latest BETA build...all my drivers and stuff are current and all that--been playing the game just fine until I just downloaded the new build. I also noticed that my game took a MASSIVE performance hit in general with the new BETA. All my other games are running fine. Computer Stats: 2040 GB of DDR RAM 256 MB nVidia GeForce 6200SE Pentium D 9 Dual Core Proc

I agree with all the actual bugs the above poster has mentioned with the new beta (Beta 3). I've been able to reproduce them as well. I would like to clarify bug #1: This only happens when I attempt to redesign a Custom ship. For example, in previous betas, I used a lot of Mass Drivers and Shields...now it seems the AI has adjusted and I have switched to Beams and ECM IIIs... so I decide I'm gonna modify my previous "Dallisian Frigate" de

You need to research up to Sensors Mk III, I believe. Not quite sure on that though, as I too am new to the game. But I do know it's fairly early in the tech tree on the "Sensor" branch. Be careful, though. The survey module is quite large, and it's unlikely you will have medium hulls or the miniturization available to equip a ship to go at any reasonable speed while surveying in the early game--hence why they give you a fast medium ship at the st