I was referring to the 5.9 versus 11 million in AltMeta. You are doing a good job, always nice to see that some people continue playing GalCiv II Thanks SaintMina, though you can't really call it hunting... My playing style is more to throw in a few games for fun with no regard for score, the equivalent of hunting meat that's already on the barbecue I guess [e digicons]:|[/e]
From the top of my head I believe it's 1 year. Allowing treaties before that left the AI wide open for extreme exploit by the player... You shouldn't spend too much time trying to get a treaty: as long as you get the "it's too early" message it means you're not past the 1-year (?) mark yet. Once you've passed that, they will turn down insufficient offers using a different wording so then you'll know it's worth upping your offer.
Starting from cargo hulls and adding hit point addition modules will probably end up being more expensive than a regular hull. Cargo hulls are great for suicide tactics such as Klaatoo describes. It depends on difficulty and which races are being used: sometimes the AI will go after weapon techs so aggressively that you can't keep pace with your defenses and still have decent enough offense. In those cases it's more advantageous to go with full offense. In huge galaxies I
That is rather optimistic, considering the Kzinti Empire has almost double the AltMeta score of the second in line...
Sounds like a party! Glad to see that you're managing well on tough with the Thalans.
(Late) congratulations KP! Seems the forums are not that active anymore and without us "old timers" (judging by the member numbers below 3,000,000) this thread would have been asleep for 6 months.
Is that retry on challenging difficulty? How are you faring against the Krynn? They can be quite tough to finish off once they've grown so large.
The Terrans would be much easier because their tech tree is the least "exotic" in ToA, in fact it's very similar to DL/DA. What's making the Thalans hard (other than the mere fact that their tech tree is out-of-the-ordinary): Slow population growth (which in turn has an impact on your economy). Some of this -30% penalty can be offset by researching technologies that increase population growth No factories, labs and econ buildings early in the game. And
Not dead, just sleeping "That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even death may die.”
With some delay due to other matters at hand, I have added my vote below to that of my fellow councilors: Research Allow Dr. Malar to direct research under advisement from the council: +, +, +, + <span style="
Esteemed assembly, It was a very pleasant surprise to see our colony count compared to the other powers, from the galaxy map I would have thought us to be rather somewhere in the middle. However some of our colonies are isolated and we should remain vigilant for any signs of foreign cultural influence by our neighbours. In addition our radioactive and toxic worlds are not working on full efficiency yet due to the harsh environmental conditions so we should not count ourselves ric
I'd say it depends on which other wars would be going on and with whom the Thalans are siding at that point. If the Thalan coalition is too strong, we could at least help the minor races by feeding them military techs (and get some bc or tech out of that). If we can stage it so that other races gang up on the Thalans, let's join. Not only from a moral point of view, but also to avoid that the Thalans get their hands on any additional economic / manufacturing / technolo
Research Research Academies: 6, 2, 4, 3 Sensors IV: 3, 4, 6, 6 Alliances: 2, 3, 2, 4 Lasers: 4, 1, 1, 2 </sp
Commander, My thanks for providing that additional information which is extremely useful. Based on this most recent intel, I do agree that the Krynn make a very suitable candidate for an alliance, in particular seeing the deal that we would expect to close with them, where we are getting an economical and research alliance from them in return for our economical alliance. On the topic of Xeno Anthropology, this does not look like a path that should be investigated anytime
Esteemed Assembly, First let me congratulate the people involved on the great trading deals they have managed to close with the other races - in particular getting economical and technological alliances, as well as on the work that was completed this quarter in the area of research, colonization and ship building. Speaking of alliances, is there a possibility to have an economical and perhaps research alliance with any of the other major powers? I would send
If imageshack is giving you too much trouble, maybe Photobucket is a better alternative? It's been ages since I used either but I see Photobucket being used quite often for large AAR's with tons of screenshots.
Esteemed assembly, The growth of the Thalan economy is worrying, there are no clear mitigating actions that could be taken now but I do see this as a major concern. I think we should aim to increase spending in a way that speeds up our research (rush-buying labs or a technological capital). We do have a decent cash inflow and could always slightly decrease espionage spending if required. Trade for weapons tech, preferably with Trilarian & Trade for
Tolmekian: I don't think that the impact of 1 vote is an issue, on the contrary; I see it as a motivation for people to vote since their vote will have an impact :) AdmiralMaximus: indeed, this thread is being used to discuss all sorts of things; the other one is used to vote (in character) on the approach that will be taken in the game. If both are mixed, the thread would become rather messy and hard to follow who's voting for/against what exactly.
Tolmekian, Probably you already made the move but just in case I've added my vote and re-calculated the results below. In any case it's interesting to see as an exercise that 1 vote can change the research order quite a bit. The peak in workload and working hours should be over, so hopefully my next vote will be on time again ;) Research(1st-Last) Advanced Computing : 5, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2 = 21
Research Advanced Computing : 5, 2, 7, 4, 1, 2 Advanced Diplomacy : 6, 1, 8, 2, 4, 3 Basic Logistics : 4, 6, 3, 6, 6, 8 Missile Weapon Theory : 3, 7, 1, 5, 3, 4
As a heads up, if I would not respond in time for the next voting, don't wait for me and go ahead. The past week at work was quite loaded and hectic with extremely long days, the upcoming few weeks will bring more of the same.
Esteemed Assembly, First of all I would like to thank the Commander, our Ministers and Doktor Malar for the wealth of information they've shared with us. On the topic of research I've been advocating for a while that we pursue advanced computing. At this point in time I cannot assess which route would bring us the fastest increase in research capability: either advanced computing or research centers. Based on my current understanding I would prefer to develop and build&nb
Agree as well on one week. Best wishes to all!
Research Basic Miniaturization : 4, 6, 5, 4 Soil Enhancement : 1, 2, 3, 2 Weather Control  
[quote who="Tolmekian" reply="121" id="2843750"]Alrighty then, the report is done. Sorry if it's too much... Since we're using the Arcean tech tree . . . Did you know . . . ... [/quote] Great idea on the voting (+, - , 0) even if the previous way of working provided more opportunity to nuance (strongly in favour, strongly against). Let's keep things simple, especially now that we have a fair number of people voting. Personally I feel you've struck
