Actually, I like it. It's different, and involved a different way of thinking, thus providing a different challenge. I think it boring if all strategy games do things the same. The Galciv economy is quite different, but it is entire workable, if you just forget about how it works in all the other games.
my bigest problem with Galciv is always money. I always run a deficit for the entire early to late part in the game. I jack up the tax rate if I must. I start turning a profit only when the trade tech starts going around. A couple of trade route's later, things start looking up. I also tend to get a lot of economic treaties from minor civs. I'll trade them tech for eco treaties, and that always helps a lot, plus they can only have one such t
In this case, if someone buys the game used then we haven't gotten a cent from them. Okay, I've been mostly defending Stardock, but here's where I take offense. Yes you have made money from it, from the original purchase. Don't like that? Well, tough. Just about everything exists in a second hand market. You could make the same argument for anything, just about. And indirectly, you do make money on it. There are still quite
I wouldn't call this a cloaking device, but still a good idea. It would make ship sensors far more useful.
I welcome a good debate with reason and thought about whether God exists or not. I have gone on for dozens of pages on a particularly vigorous one in another forum. This is not one of those. The basic premise is because you assume we can become infinitely intelligent, something which is scientifically unknown and, at least for now, unknowable, God must not exist. So you have a single assumption and are not willing to hear anything else. So why post here at al
That's a pretty cool take as well. . .
Glad you like them. And it doesn't really matter. It's not a contest. The important thing is that you enjoy what you make. Feel free to steal any ideas here, by the way. As Formis has been busy of late, it will probably be a bit until this mod is released anyway.
The way I think it should work is, you have cloaking devices and cloak detectors. Cloak detectors would be under the sensor tree. Regular sensors would help detect cloaked ships, but only detectors of the same or higher level as the cloaks would be 100% effective. In addition, cloaking devices would get exponentially bigger and more expensive the bigger the ship, making larger cloaked ships impractical. Cloak detectors would be the opposite, being of a set, and very large siz
Stardock said "Fu@k you, we don't care about you" to anyone who doesn't have their gaming computer connected to the internet. I agree with smartwings, I don't want to be forced to install another program just to make the game updateable. Granted, I've never had any problems updating either GalCiv or GalCiv II/DA...until now. I'm in the Army and deployed in Iraq and the only internet access I get is at an internet cafe where I don't even have access to the desk
ok here is a question for all of you. if god was alone when he made everything. then who was he talking to when he said lets make man in our image. That has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread. Please stay on topic. you can pronounce anything you want to but that doesn't make me a lier. because i have had this knowledge from the day of my birth. In an intelligent d
4. Time is not something you can maniupulate as it does not truely exist only though are perception does it exist. It is foolishness to see it as metal which can be manipulated. All your other points are good, but now you're getting into a fierce scientific debate. No one really knows what time is, so you can't make a definitive statement about something we just don't know for sure. The FACT is that time, or at least what we perceive as time DOES chang
What is causing the mass of a particle to increase? time compression? Or it could be the other way around. Perhaps in this context, the question is even meaningless. We just know that both happen. (Yes, experiments involving atomic clocks and planes flying around the earth have proven that there is a small time difference caused even by getting up and walking to the other side of the room. Actually, just the motion of the solar system makes o
You should be build up the planet, but very slowly. There may be another factor here.
Sometimes I don't research those techs at all. I trade for them. Not always a good solution, but most of the planets from other races planted in my territory flip over to me before too long anyway.
I do not know why it is impossible to travel faster than light? just because we don't know how it could be done yet, does not mean it is impossible. It is impossible according to known physics. Particle acceleration experiments have proven that mass does indeed increase as predicted the closer you get to light speed. It would seem to verify that mass would reach infinity at light speed requiring an infinite amount of energy to accelerate further. <
I'm pretty sure you must have DL in order to use DA. It's not stand alone. If you already own DL, you can only get DA by itself online, otherwise, get the Gold edition.
Keep in mind too, the space-time warping of a black hole, if such a thing exists. (some scientists now say that what are believed to be black holes may simply be worm holes and black holes may not exist at all.) funny thing about light is it's velocity. Velocity for most stuff in the universe is relative to somthing else but not light. so if you traveled at the speed of light and then shone a torch out front, the light would simply pool up in the torch would i
true but according to the above it is either one or the other. No, not at all. Read what I said. The fact is, that anything that behaves as matter is classified as matter, and anything that behaves like energy is classified as energy. Nothing in the above says that the same thing can't behave as both and therefore be classified as both. Light does. Sometimes in apparently impossible ways.
Scientifically and physically possible, although I doubt it actually can be done. classify this one then light That one's highly debated, but it's usually considered to be both matter and energy at the same time, since it contains all the characteristics of both. I do not know if there are forms of energy in the universe that defy classification - nor do you! If they defy classific
My point is that you are making asumptions about the universe based on what you know about such a tiny fraction of it (Earth). You cannot tell me there are no cat/insect hybrids anywhare in the universe any more than you can tell me what amazing and unknown forms of energy could be out there. Such an animal would no longer fit the definition of either cat or insect. It would have to be classified as something completely different. The fact
Well, it is a fact that humans use only about 3-5% of their brain's potential. I suppose having a hightened usage of our brains may bring something truly spectacular. Although I doubt it will result in ascension. No, it's not a fact. It's a myth. We actually use nearly 100%. Google myth and brain. You'll find hundreds of legitimate science sites debunking this. I'm not sure about this, but we have an megnetic field
Yes, but all forms of energy REQUIRE matter in order in exist. The wavelenghts of light are somewhat of an exception, but that's because light is simulataneously both matter and energy at the same time, so it more or less can effect itself. If it can exist totally without matter, than it is matter. Are you saying you know what all forms of energy in the universe are? No, but I am saying that I know what energy itself is. I don't have to know
As has been expressed here, mass is energy. Energy in the form we think of it, is incapable of the rigidity of form and interaction necessary for complex devices and organism, making it impossible for any devices, machines, or life to exist in this form. Energy must first be in the form of mass before this is even possible. To even think otherwise is to show ignorance of what energy is.
I'd like it to be more moddable, with the ability to add historical scenarios with appropriate maps, issues, and even modes of transportation. Imagine playing Lincoln's elections, where candidates had to travel slowly by plane and bus, and the newspapers were the only way of quickly spreading your viewpoint, and issues so fiercely divisive as to cause actual violence to break out. With a few scenarios like that, it could get very, very interesting.
When you buy a game or other software, you are really only purchasing a license to use that product. The license varies from product to product. What you are doing is considered fine for most games, since you generally need the disk to play, it is often actually not allowed, strictly speaking. In the case of this game, it is expressly forbidden, as every install is actually a full copy of the game. So yes, installing the game is, in this case, piracy.
