Bellack

Im not playing on suicidal yet, currently on crippling, but when you are trying to colonize that many planets, and are building all factories on HW, I would move diplo techs for trade and government techs up in priority. Get the freighters out faster for more income in trade until population catches up and trade is less vital. You'd be suprised how it really helps to offset the negative cash flow you wind up with when overcolonizing. Also like Purge mentioned,

Oh, come on, Iztok. SOMEONE is going to have to figure out what is the perfect proportion of planets/colonies to try for in a 600 system game (give or take ~2%), to give the optimum chance of a win combined with a minimum chance of attracting an early war. Who better than you? drrider

He he, I just had a thought. What if you researched invasion early on, built a bunch of troop transports, then sell all your peripheral worlds and promptly reclaim them? Is that free money? In Galciv1 definately! but planets are virtually worthless in DL. It is funny when you get that announcement that some minor race working with you has stolen all the technology of somebody and it says they are particularly intereste

Um HELLO!!! This Political Correctness crap happens all the time here in the USA. Our traitorous media spouts this crap out all the time. Oh and don't get me started on your ignorant Iraq commit. Oh and I assume your blaming the current government (I assume Federal) for all the wrongs in the world. But Have you ever stopped to consider that these problems go back further than 8 years and that there were not addressed by the previous party t

And I thought that crap happen in just the USA. Well it is good to know we arn't the only nation suffering from this Political Correctness bullcrap. This happens in the USA? We just had the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis because of government negligence. All our tax dollars are going to outsourced toll roads and shiny new weapons in Iraq instead of our OWN infrastructure. Um HELLO!!! This Political

I think my problem is not so much that GalCiv is a self consciously 'funny' game (as has been pointed out humour and sci-fi go together like bacon and maple syrup) but that it is a funny game in an environment oversaturated with funny games. Sometimes knowing winks to the player are cute, but sometimes you want a genuinely immersive experience with the confidence to take itself seriously. Civ 4 suffers from the same problem albeit to a lesser extent. In this context, w

but anyway, i think it is a very potent quote to be considered in todays world. Here in Australia we are suffocating under the sheer volume of laws relating to safety, i'm sure it will soon be compulsory to wear pillows all over your body to protect from injury,,, every time some idiot gets killed, and the family goes on tv and cries and all that shxt and demand somthing be done, the government caves in every time and makes even more new stupid

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Since the planet is being destroyed by pollution, our minds are bombarded with violence (see game and movie industry) the people lose their rights and so on.. humanity will never reach ascension. We wont be able even to colonize Mars we will die in a barren and polluted planet after a 3rd world war. Thanks to US that push the world in this direction... Am I pessimist? Probably.. but I was not few years ago now its just obvious the world goes down.. Asce

Crap, I'm a damn toaster and I don't even know it! don't feel bad Speaking of toasters, the next season of Battlestar Galactica looks really good. That is by far the best show on TV.

I personally hate RTS games. All they are is a click fest with little to no strategy involved. The only exceptions to this is the Homeworld and Total War series which were great. Turn-Based games allow you the time to run an empire without the 'Zerg' affect. When I want a fast high paced game I play the FPS or MMO's. If Gal Civ 2 was a RTS I would not be playing it. Now that I have bashed RTS. A good combo between RTS and Turn based can be found in the Total War series. This kind of game

I have never seen pirates in the game. I do see that the AI races will be at war with them but I have never encountered them. And I have played several Huge Galaxy games (that is all I play) games over the last few months.

The DL mega event is so underpowered it's laughable, I can't imagine why it would be giving you problems. Just invade and destroy them the instant they pop up, they spawn with no defenses at all. I get them about 1/2 the times I play and they are way underpowered for the tech they have. They should play like any other AI was the event is triggered. Or there should be an option that the players can adjust the power level of the DL for a game. As it stand

I used to warn young readers, "Frank Herbert got flicked on the head one day by God; he saw the glowing words, wrote them down, and produced one of the 1/2 dozen greatest SF books of all time. Unfortunately, he tried to write the next 4 or 5 on his own." Actually I believe I read that Herbert did get an inspiration while working on another book that was going slowly, and knocked out Dune's 1st editor's draft in about 3 months. LO

the 10% of the brain that they are referring to is what is involved in thought. conscience thought I can prove to you that there are many people that use only 5 or 10 percent of thier brain. Just go to any Fast Food drive through and order more than three items. Do this and you will see that the 10% - 5% brain use theory may have a grain of truth to it.

I'd like to see the option of having the player take control of turn-based ship-to-ship combat whenever a space battle comes up. But I don't honestly know how popular such an idea would be. I would love that. I would also want turned based combat for planetary invasions as well.

Bellack, i also would love to ask you some questions? like stanley, i am thrilled to be able to speak to someone who experienced an NDE, which is a first for me. i have many questions, many of them technical, but i think important to assess the situation. -What kind if operations was this? -Was your life threatened by clinical parameters (heart failure, etc.)? -if your life was threatened, for how long (how long did resuscitation take)?<b

You said you saw your body and them working on it in the operating room from above? And some of these details of the operation were confirmed with the docs when you "came back to life"? How long were you just looking at the operation? What was your vision (eye sight) like? Did you happen to see a seperate "spirit body", or were you basically just invisible above your body? How did you feel? How long ago was this NDE? I know lots of questions, but I am fascinat

there is no way that the universe could have had a beginning or will have an end. because of the fact that if the universe had an edge then something would have to reside beyond that edge, then you have to ask ,what is beyond that objects edge and so on. the universe did have a beginning and it will have a ending the universe is 12b years old up to now. when it comes to god i dont know. Pmutzu i have to say this you know f==k all

occam's razor What? Can you explain this theory? The simplest explanation is the right one? Certainly this doesn't always apply? Someone might say the reason a bug flies is because little buggy buggy flaps its wittle wingses, when really, a little more detailed but still very simplistic answer is cellular energy conversion in the wing muscles moderated by neurologic impulses causes motion in the wings. Said motion in the wings p

Ballack, I really want to talk to you in detail. It is an honor to meet someone who has actually had this experience. So basically, you believe in life after death but no God? What makes you so sure that life continues? What if it was all just random chemicals in the brain, and you just thought you saw yourself? What convinces you??? Well it could have been a chemical reaction but the fact that I could tell what was going on in the Operatin

in order to form a cell membrane you have to have proteins. however in order to have proteins you have to have life. however in order to have life you have to have cell membrane. so where did the first cell membrane come from. i know magicilly out of thin air. What if I said that Zeus and the Olympian gods created the earth and all life on it? What would you say to that? I bet you will say something to the affect that they never exsited

you did get one thing wrong the soul doesn't live in the brain. it lives in the heart Where is your proof on this? If the soul exist then the most logical place for it to exist is the brain not the blood pump of the body.

There is in math an equation which operates similarly to this riddle "This is a lie." Now like this riddle logic cannot answer the math problem. There exists within two logical answers which can neither be proved nor disproved. Either the answer is yes this is a lie or no its truth. For those that believe that logic can answer all questions this problem creates a dynamic paradigm. This riddle then brings about another question. Can logic answer all questions? I sh

which is not the least bit verifiable? that would be called faith. and that would be why i am an atheist it is ok god believes in you Which god? And once you answer the question of 'which god believes in him.' Then tell me how you know what this god believe in.