According to that run, in the simultaneous-firing system coming with 1.2, a fleet of 10 ships each A:(20-0-0) D:(0-0-0) will be evenly matched against a fleet of 10 ship each A:(10-0-0) D:(10-0-0). This doesn't look at cost, though; I expect the 20-attack ships would be cheaper. Yes, there are two kinds of cost to talk about technological resea
Speed gives you the *strategic* advantage of being able to pick your fights if and when you want it. You know the old saw, about attacking the enemy where they are weakest and where you are strongest. I believe, this advantage is equally useful whether you are using all out attack ships or mostly defensive ships or mixed in between. This is also independent of whether the combat system is simultaneous or gives the attacker the 'first strike'. Currently (v 1.11), attacking f
Congrats on winning, what was the difficulty level? MIND YOUR TAX SCHEDULE! It made the whole difference for me. Can you expand on that? Do you mean adjusting tax rates? Or adjusting social/military/research balance?
I have to agree, the race abilities look pretty generic, there isn't any unique feel to the races. This is for balance reasons I expect, so all races can do exactly the same thing but differ only in efficency. It would be nice to have some modal ability that is yes/no allowing some races to break the rules (not just bend it). Such as the lithovore ability from Moo2 for instance, so they don't need food, or cybernatics where they consume 1/2 production 1/2 food. Or telepath
It means that by your willingness to enter this discussion, with primary purpose of calling myself and CARL "idiots", that you yourself have become the subject matter of your own attacks. Welcome to the cellar rich! Thank you, a point I appreciated way back , see post #62. If you want to roll in the mud with idiots, you are going to
Rich, you eat too much sperm. That's all you got? I don't merit a google search to show what an evil person I am? I'm so disappointed. ROFLMAO. By chiming off like that, you can't now count yourse
Precursor loves to dish it out, but can't take it. "Jas" just loves to mix it up. You are both idiots.
Nice idea Infinitywp. But given the difficulty of Ai with sensors, this is just another way for the human to bash the AI...
'd like to see the following simulation: take a fleet of 10 ships, 10 attack and 10 defense each (lets say beam, can be any one weapon/armor type) then let em fight vs a fleet of 10 ships without defense and just 15 attack then 16 attack then 17 attack and so on, until 50:50 win chance is reached so we see how much more
The point is to send colony ship to rich one whyle purchase another ship and "discharge" video on near low class planet so you'll get good planet before AI can reach it. but around fifty percent of the time u dont get a bonus decision. so in the ti
You missed out chess. Try Rybka it will knock the socks off Fritz , Shredder, Junior, Hiarcs etc..Not to mention any player who isn't ranked top 50 or so in the world, in which case, they (the humans) have an uphill battle to draw.
Precursor, you are looking like an idiot, with your latest posting. Best case scenario both of you Jasamcarl and precurosor are sad losers... I regards Third best loser.
The only real trend I've seen is the Arcean, Torian and Korx colony-spam. They're not always very powerful - indeed, they've often ruined their economies to get all those planets - but they're almost always the largest. Yes, I tend to see that of Torian and korx...
Heh, interesting comment, given that in the past, quite a few people stated that it is suicide to build on bonus tiles at the start because it will bankrupt you. Of course now they changed the system so unusued social is transfered to military but still....
a question here, I'm doing the demo atm, but will get the game in a few weeks for my B-Day, so it doesn't hurt to pick up a few strategies now. my question is, when I start, since you don't want to use the core ships, should I buld colony ships with one or two colony modules? Definitely one. the idea of a colony rush is that You are
Here's a blueprint to how i played on my last large map, settings abundant all , tough, 4 opponents. 1. Set spending to 100% 2. Left social/military/research at 33% (maybe not optimal) 3. Bought a factory, started working on next factory and a newly designed colony ship (one equipped with only engines.) Continue buying factories and colony ships until cash drops to some 200 or so . 4. Consulted mini map, I was on the middle lower left, while the other
1. send out several scouts as far as they'll go and send your colony ships as far as they'll go as well, so as to create the largest perimeter possible. Produce colony ships as quickly as possible while maintaining research and social construction. 2. send out colony ships as they are produced, in random directions, looking for planets. No scouts. </TA
Yeah, super sized colonies with tons of people , tons of economy and high approval seems to be a popular strategy. On the other hand , there is another group of players who fear high population colonies because they have problems with handling morale.... The writer of this newbie guide, belongs to this group. My own playing style looks upon the economy and BCs as not an ends but as a means to the end. As such I feel uncomfortable, when I notice my cash reserves piling up,
Abundant settings pretty much wipe out the need to scout. Every star system you visit has pretty much a good planet or two, so colony ships can be cranked out blindly and sent ASAP to star systems. The aim is to extend your reach as far as possible with a string of colonies...
A. Attack undefended or weak resource starbases. This can cause civ-wide chaos for the human player...especially those economy resources. It will also force the human player to stretch his or her available defense force a little thinner...to more uncomfortable levels. The AI actually does it, if it is at war. You seem to want the AI to d
You have to be able to get a feel, on when the AI will declare war. If you research a lot of diplomacy, have a lot of trade with neighbours in the position to attack you, you can avoid being attacked for suprisingly long periods while you focus on development even at Tough level. But the trick is not too overdo it, and keep thinking you don't need a military, at some point they *will* attack. I have this particular bad habit of putting this off, keeping doing res
Weird i always thought that when i customised one of the standard races, and if i didn't wipe out the race.config files, it would become the standard... I suppose that's wrong?
Well, the standard textbook answer is "A combination of our volcanic atmosphere, and porbably a meteorite, caused protein strings to be created, forming deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. This twisted and formed into methane breathing bacteria, which expelled oxygen. As more oxygen became available, some bacteria learned to breathe oxygen, which was more efficient in terms of ene
Yes, age of wonders has the same uniform distribution and some of the same arguments against it was made. But at least AOW allowed defenders to strike back (unless you had the special first strike ability), something Galciv2 does not YET which makes defense even less useful. That alone helps a lot i think
That's a good argument, but I think knute is claiming more that you CAN"T point to any evidence for evolution (an emperical question) rather then saying evolution is impossible based on what we know (a theortical one), altough no doubt there is some of the latter as well. People who argue the later , tend to ramble about the 2nd law of thermodynamics.... <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-T
