MarkWarren

You've had trouble, Moosetek? :P I rush to point out, though, that in defense of the marriage thing, the divorce rate being what it is is likely due to Vegas-styled marriages more than decieving partners. I hold my own parents as an example of things that did not go awry. But, because devil's advocate is my self-elected lot in life, I have no intentions of getting married any time soon, as I don't do well in relationships. And now, I believe we were disc

Scoutdog: Hear hear. I also have a girlfriend so the whole dating concept kind of loses its point... Other than that, me being an orc, means I can't be an Altarian.

The computer-generated designs are bigger than the player-generated for reasons I do not quite know/remember. Likely there just needs to be a reason for the computer-ships to not be perfectly obsolete compared to what a the player can do. It all adds up though, as the player can thus stick to creating the special ships. And the fact that you can swindle the AI. Build a ship with a Colony module on it, or Trade or Construction (I do not recall the best one), make sure th

[quote who="Sarissi" reply="13" id="1949402"]Star Wars is Science Fiction.[/quote] Star Wars is Science Fantasy, fantasy with added technology. It has the classic good/evil theme and magic which are the hallmarks of fantasy. As for epic fantasy: Stephen R: Donaldsons The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Those are amazing.

Just to add a bit to DW's post: When I colonize, I set the starmap to display only planets, not stars. You do that, and you won't have to bother with empty stars. Then I start the colonizing, going for the systems with the more planets first.

[quote who="Loupdinour" reply="18" id="1960336"]That's when KP shreds a box of tissues just as your sitting down to eat, so you'll get mad, chase him off, leaving your food unattended, so he can steal the salmon from your plate. In game terms, you let the AI colonize for you (you cooking the salmon and placing on table), you make an uber force of a navy to war with them (shredding the tissue box) and you buy all their planets as a peace agreement (eating your food from the plate).[

IF you're only partway through second season, you should look forward to the third :) That is good :P What's a Swindle game? :)

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="9" id="1957150"]Nice! B5 is my second favorite sci-fi series, after the current BSG, but I dont remember Sebastion....[/quote] BSG is awesome, too! My favorite show is Dexter, though :P Sebastian is from the third season, and he arrives to test Delenn to see if she's worthy to spearhead the prophecies :) He's dressed in this Victorian suit and looks all too awesome :)

[quote who="Snarkotamus" reply="24" id="1954957"] Back from inactivity Welcome back! BTW, I just finished watching the B5 episode that your avatar comes from. My goal for the holidays: Watch them ALL back-to-back.[/quote] B5 rocks :D I still haven't watched the fourth and fifth season, since I'm waiting for my girlfriend to catch up. But Sebastian rocks so much! I wish I could find a picture of him wearing his hat, though... </p

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="15" id="1952639"]Anybody here play The Witcher? It's one of the games I'm thinking about getting.[/quote] One of my friends recommend it as being the rpg of the year (if you get the updated/expanded/whatever edition). I played the first release of it, but the writing was horrible and unlogical. It definitely didn't catch me, but I am considering to get a hold of the updated one. There's just the whole money issue... &nbs

Mine was 16K, so I'm right behind you, KP :P I tried creating a bunch of life support+basic engine hulls to put around the computers planets, waiting to be upgraded into spore ships. With the one I won, my opponent only had three planets though. I won by April something, so it wasn't bad :P I just need to get it rolling properly, since I couldn't start sporing until April.

Now, to move onto other matters: Woo! ZYW!

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="17" id="1889595"]Cheaters: https://forums.galciv2.com/310532/page/2/#replies The posts regarding Harborne start at reply #48. Kryo/Cari..RE Harborne and his antics: https://forums.galciv2.com/325689 Sentient species taste better...[/quote] I'm just going to stay out of the whole thing, seeing as how I joined in the middle of it (and making a forum-entrance by requesting the ban or sanctioning of another fo

I've read somewhere that the max number of combat turns is 50, but that was in DA. It might have changed since then. I believe it was also implied that if the battle was not resolved by then, the two ships would simply seperate and th ecombat would end. I'm far from sure about this, though.

1) Each research building produces a certain amount of research points each turn, depending on how your research slider is set, and whether or not you focus any of your planets to research. The tech you're researching requires a certain amount of tech points put into it before it's completed. 2) As far as I know, between each attack cycle. 3) That, I don't know. The basic translation, however, is that for every ten percent of +speed you get, all of your ships moves 1 point fas

[quote who="dystopic" reply="7" id="1886693"] What is the capital of Nepal? What is the square root of 49? What was the second war fought between the U.S. and Great Britain?[/quote] What if you're outside of the US? I can tell you what war cost Denmark it's status as a major european power, and what two 'Reichs' came before Hitlers promised Third, but not the third question you asked (not without looking at the below posts :P ).

I've got to try the Korath thing some time :D I've had a grudge against the Terrans after they drew out a game (wherein I'd *saved* them at the beginning) to the point where my computer took 30 secs to a minute per turn due to stuff happening, forcing me to surrender out of agitation, so Influencing them back to hell would be a nice payback. Should play against Thalans and Iconians, then... Thalans have two pretty nice Influence techs.

But now, one has to find alternatives to getting that grotesque economy score? Such as tech-trading with the Yor, I'd imagine... But now, it simply makes evil Terrrans or Krynn influence monsters that will flip planets faster than they can possibly be conquered? That makes the Drath Creativity bonus for being good die out instatnly... I'm going evil with the rest of the big boys... What is used instead, if you want to achieve the high scores, when the MCC has been fixed?

What is it that the MCC does? I've heard a few conflicting statements about it (at least so it seems to me). I've heard of a +100% econ (which is eight different kinds of awesome, and a life-saver to my own multi-spending, rampantly debt-inducing playstyle), but is it planetary, or galaxy-wide (which would be eighty different kinds of awesome: Refer above)? Then there's it being broken what with the influence beng impossible and all, but it was just referred to as being fixed? And is the fixe

Thanks :) Trying to get some military tactics down on some middle maps, but the Thalans keep handing my Yor back to me in pieces, leaving me to desperately scrape together the shattered pieces of my broken ships to build new ones for months at a time before giving in. Now playing as Thalans :D

My favorite is definitely the Drath, at least when you play on really big maps. War Profiteering can mean that you can squander your money in the early game like no one else can, since you will be getting a lot of cash in from the minute you encounter other races.

remember to use the Spin Control to keep your military rating ludicrous, so they'll leave you alone. Oh, and, if you actually want the game to continue, sell the cure to the other races.

Ah, that makes sense. I'm in the middle of a game right now, and the Torians have quite rightly gone from being some strange beast capable of warring on every other war-like race at a time without flinching and now, they're pretty much just a recruiting ground for me and the Terran's Influence abilities.

All of this makes me think of a thing: Doesn't this make the Torians far superior to other species in terms of the economy? They can fully populate their worlds much faster, they have far superior morale structures to anyone else anywhere, and as such, can keep more Stock Exchanges on each world for a larger profit, earlier in the game. What's the catch?

16 billion people have the added bonsu of being extra difficult to invade, too :P