agreed. 'Tis a shame it got out of hand. It was a fairly fun thread for a while. Oh yes, with the Airus, I'll conceede that I had my numbers mixed up. My apologies. I still figure that its prolly more efficent that a Ford Monstrosity (lol).
Hello; I was unable to find this mentioned in the Modding Doc, and a quick search did not yeild the thread I was looking for. I remember a thread sometime ago where it was stated that in the Tech tree, multiple tech requirements could be listed and that the game would look at them in an either/or fashion. You would need tech A or Tech B to research Tech C. I was wondering if this would extend to other requirements, particularly the Starbase modules prerequisites. If I
IIRC, some Star blaziers ships were in last year's thread. I still check it out once every so often as there is a lot of inspiration in there
Actually I just had a game where tiny actually was helpful: Very eraly game, with the 1st logistics tech, I could fleet 4 tinies. The korath and Yor were feilding fleets of 2 smalls. With no engines, my fleets had an attack of 4. The enemy fleets had the same attack. my 4 tinies cost less than the 2 smalls. On top of that with 5 hp each, I had 20hp. The smalls with 8 hp each had a total of 16. I was able win every engagement, with a lose of 1 or 2 ships. <
yeah but the thing is that you never need to place a single spy and That is my gripe: You can build one spy and then use the "place spy" dialoge to look at every enemy colony, regarldess of espionage level. On top of that you can even get the stats (MP, TP, BC, morale) for every colony. You don't need to get to ADVANCED or spend any significant time other than purchasing one spy. Individual planets, no, you can use one spy to look at the entire empire. It's a bug, loophole, che
Hello, Personally, I think that overall, DA is a great expansion. Everything that I would expect is in there. I would generally recommend it. However, you did mention espionage, which I'm not totally sure I like. The espionage slider has been replaced with another espionage slider. The money you send into Espionage (as a whole now, not my race) builds spies. You then place a spy on an enemy planet. This is the only way to collect info on teh enemy and disrupt a specific imporvement.
Hey, General, I did not to mean to sound like I was jumping all over you, I just wanted to give you some examples where biotech has been helpful to us. One key thing is that all of our current commerically available biotech medicines, foods, chemicals are largely secondary to the human. That is, we've altered organisms to make something for us. People don't mind so much when we alter another organism for our gain. We've done it with breeding of plants and animals for thousand
Al Gore talks about Global warming..... I am sure he flies around in his Lear Jet which puts out way more CO2 in one trip than my POS car will in a year. Liberal hippocrits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 Well I don't knnow about Lear, but I do know that the Airbus A380, The LARGEST commerical jet ever, does about 8mpg (8000mi range, 1000gal tank). Compared to the very popular Trucks and SU
To be honest, I don't think sex matters too much, gender does, as many parents will give thier daughters dolls instead of footballs and visa verca. Both I and my partner loved lego's as children, and my kids, regardless of sex will get lego's (casue I really want to play with them!! And the kids too!)
you could try looking in teh library. I know of some reskinned or altered UI's I use Carbon UI by rub3en, very nice.
My rant: I'm rather unfond of youngsters (I'm thinking highschool to Uni) who have some form of super self-rightoueness. They seriously always think they are always in teh right, and if they are wrong, its someone else's fault. What ever happend to some humility and respect? Kids need to learn to get over their own ego's and accept some responsibility.
Hmm I'll have to try Ian banks. I'll have to say that Asmov's Foundation trilogy is my favorite (the original). While the trilogy is almost 50 years old and some of the ideas then are a little funky now (mini atomic wrist watches!!), it has a strong character driven plot and great overarching plot (keeping it mostly timeless). It's truely an epic Scifi if there ever was one.
Partly, I'm in between places at the moment and can't really unpack. Also, I have a lot on my plate at the moment, can't even get into Galciv that much, sigh. In a few months it'll pan out, I hope. In my opinion, Stardock should take Gal Civ's lego setesque ship designer one step further and design an entirely sperate simulation based on it. I dunno about that. While I can spen hours building the ship.
Hey, from someone with genetics experience: It's esentially scientific ethical code to not clone humans, or alter thier genetics in a non-therapuetic way. (ie - pre birth). That's like super taboo. The only people that can stop this evil are hackers, all of the information on gentic modifiction is sorted in some super-compters all around the world, if hackers suddenly deside to destroy this information stored in those supercomputers the researchers wi
Tyrantus, I'm sorry If I or anyone here offended you. I don't think that was anyone's intent. We all get a little excited when it comes to science, I think I don't care what anybody says, that's borderline sadistic, and the mad scientist who thought this up needs to go to jail. Sorry, you think that. If
- Fix espionage. At the moment it is broken. If I click on an enemy planet to veiw it, I recieve a dialog telling me that my espionage level needs to be "Advanced." However, if I buy a spy, I can instantly see all the imporvements on every planet including the military, social, and research production regardless of my espionage level. In fact, the only way to up the espionage level is to place a spy, which is self defeating as they are neutralized immediately. It's better to build the spy, use
yes, I know about the reorganization of brain patterns, but I wouldn't necisarily conisder that repair. The ending coniditon ofthe brain is certianly different than the state of the brain prior to the injury. Different areas of the brain are simply stepping in as a substitute. Hence why total recovery is not plausible (To my knowledge anyway) I was not aware of any large scale cell division (This is very interesting to me), however was aware of some repair and replacement mechanisms. I'
yeah that was the goal in my mod. I'm currently traveling for the next week (Helllloooo Midwest USA!), and odn't have access to my mod. In addition its not totally complete in the terms of balance, as I mentioned earlier. That and I do have a lot of typos in my descriptions and names (a source of much anguish) I'll be more than happy to share it with you when I return.
i've modded out a few other techs, but not alliances. I am curious, as there is something inherent in the alliance tech that allows for the Diplomacy options (I would assume anyway). Same thing with the ethical techs. There is prolly a tag in teh hard code that would look for the discovery of the tech.
Hello; 1 - More mega events/ rebalance. Also, allow for some rudimentary enabling/disabling of specific events that modders can fool with. Lastly, some of the events don't seem that mega. Normal events, like the PQ explosion are more mega than the unlimited range, for example. 2 - Fix diplomacy. Currently, while difficult, the AI doesn't seem too rational. I can understand if an AI values a tech in its eyes and wants a leg and an arm for it, but for more legit deals, it doesn't
I've actually written a mod to alter Starbase combat (amoung other things) greatly and make so the AI can handle strbases better too. Aside from altering the tech tree (making getting modules a little more logical), I've altered the requisites that the modules have. To upgrade your starbase, research the apporpriate tech. The research cost was designed to keep people from blitz upgrading their starbases to make them invincible (relative to current game status). In addition, the combat m
Not that I know of, sorry. From what I can tell, the Diplomacy model (ie rules, calculations, etc) are all hard coded. It's probably possible to alter the variables in Diplo calculations indirectly, like changing the values (cost would be my best guess) for the tech tree and different items (like weapons, ships). But that won't change the number of civs that can ally. On the other hand: You could remove alliances from teh game entirely. Just delete the Tech from teh tech tree.
what gets me is that I beleive the patches used to be stand alone. I never had to get SDC until DA (to download DA) and I had an updated game for about a year now. I understand that SDC is Stardock's form of ant-piracy, but the problem is that its not easily identified prior to buying. My box (original Galciv2 - Collectors) says internet is only required for metaverse. Now I can understand the argument: "Well if you wanted to update your game you'd need internet in the first place!", b
Either alliance or Military are my normal forms of victory. I don't really plan for a victory anymore. I kinda size it up as the game goes on. In some cases I have to scrap a long term plan as new events occur. Someitmes thigns go very well or bad for me. I did find planning for a type of victory was pretty helpful when I first started (I still do it occasionally). By limiting myself, I explored a variety of play styles and I think it helps me when I play normally as I am more
I played Moo2 for 10 years. I got all my firends into it. Now, since Moo2 over the internet with Windows XP is impossible with out an emulating matching service (like Kali - do they still exist?). IPX was the Lan protocol. Never heard of it? Yeah it got replaced by TCP/IP (Ok it still exists in XP, but its a pain in the butt to configure if it even works in XP). Problems, with Moo2 in terms of gameplay will still exist in Galciv2. Turns taking forever? Yep. One person pointed o
