I agree with #1. Most recently, I was in a game where myself and one race were next to each other on one end of a large map, and four other races were all right by each other on the other end. It made little sense to me that a UP council was assembling with myself and one empire when there were presumably four empires that all had contact with each other, just not with either of us...
Exactly. Another thing I was thinking of was that your ability to negotiate a shrewd deal might end up affecting your diplomacy ability. This would probably be too drastic a change for anything but an expansion or sequel, but for example, if you agreed to a lot of deals that were in favor of the AI, your diplomatic ability would go down. On the contrary, if you were able to negotiate in favor of your empire, it would increase...
I think the whole "spite surrender" thing doesn't make sense at all actually. In my current game, I control about 2/3 of the map. The Terrans were stuck in the middle, surrounded by myself, the Korx on one side, and the Altarians on the other side. I declared war, took Earth (thereby immediatley wiping out all their influence and controling all of their former territory) and they promptly surrendered to the Korx. Less than five turns later, their two remaining planets, no
Not everyone who has dial-up has it by choice. Furthermore, most companies who offer these things force you to use crap downloader programs with no resume feature. If Stardock enables me to download a single .exe or .zip file from a regular server using the download manager of my choice, I won't complain...
Civ. The original civ, in DOS.
How about a "What do you want for X?" or a "What will you give me for X?" button? As in, you select something from them you want, and rather then having to spend a long time trying to figure out what a fair trade is, they just suggest something. The same thing could work the other way, you select something you don't mind trading to them and they offer up something in return. Obviously the AI would reserve the right to initially offer up a deal in their favor, but I think this would be mor
How lame. A single player game that requires a broadband connection to purchase? Sheesh, I'd rather have copy protection...
Giant thumbs down on the digital only. You do realize that some of us still have dial-up right? When you design a game to be single-player only then restrict the use of it to those that can download a gig worth of files, well, what are we talking about here really??
Well the reason I'm asking this is because I have no frame of reference for before. I bought the game just a few days ago and immediatley installed 1.2 so I don't know nay better!
So let me get this straight. In combat, if I attack with a Beam Weapon strength of 5, and the Opponent has a Beam Defense strength of two, I will roll a 1-5 and he will roll a 1-2 and the difference will be the damage he takes. Then, regardless of whether he lives through that or dies, he will attack me in the same fashion. Say he has a Driver attack of 2 and I have no defenses at all, he would roll a 1-2 and I would take damage equivalent to his roll. Is that about right? If so, wo
I don't know why I can't get any paragraphs in my posts either. Anyone know what's up with these forums?
Is there any way I could find a list of 1.1/1.2 gameplay changes? I've tried to read the current lists, I really have, but I just can't bear to read through thousands of lines of things like "Fixed a bug that caused the music to play too quietly" or "Fixed a typo on Torian diplomacy screen" or "Fixed issue with extremely rare video card nobody has" I read the manual when I first got the game a few days ago, and took it as gospel, but now I keep hearing about com
Sorry, that was split into paragraphs when I first typed it. Not sure what happened...
Hi guys, just got the game and I have a few questions. First of all, I just finished my first winning game, and I can't seem to find any sort of hall of fame or high score list or what have you. Is there nothing that stores your scores so you can compare how well you've done in your games? Also, if all the victory conditions are enabled, is there any possible way to win by Conquest without winning by Diplomacy or Influence first? In my last game, I never put any effort into influence a
I'd like to echo the sentiment of everyone above. Personally, when a software company treats me with respect, I return the favor. GalCivII is the first piece of software I've ever voluntarily registered. I did so because Stardock cut me a break, so I cut them one in return. Now feel free to sell my email address to various spam companies! ... just kidding <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/BigSmile.gif" border=0 AL
