In Twilight, at least, there is a Summary button near the bottom right of the planetary improvement screen. Press it and you'll get a summary of what each of your improvements is doing and the total mp, tp, food, bonuses, etc.
[quote who="Worn Steel7" reply="51" id="3099191"] Quoting Tolmekian, reply 10Lastly, I am alt-tabbing out of GC2 and using good old MS Paint for my screenshots. Luckily my system is stable and I rarely have any trouble minimizing. What's MS paint because I have been wondering what it is since I saw your AAR.[/quote] Microsoft Paint, the very basic editor that comes packaged with Windows. Thanks for reminding me of this one. I had a bunch of fun doin
Here it is, v3.0 at last. I promised the weekend, but delivered at 12:45am Monday morning - my time, anyway. Hey, I tried. Hope you like it. I'm very happy with it. Let me know what you think and if you find any problems. I'll do my best to fix things if there's a problem, but other than that it's vacation time for me. I played it off like this was quick and easy work, but I've been spending a bit too much time on it. I w
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Yes. If you download a mod that changes the TechTree.xml, then all civs will refer to that TechTree. If you download a custom TechTree for a certain race, then any changes or new techs in that TechTree are only available to the races using that specific TechTree. Does that make sense?
[quote who="roaky" reply="3" id="3095936"]Will definitely check it out. Hopefully with some more balance I can see some new parts of the game besides just combat and conquest. Thanks.[/quote] Well, the balance has served to keep wars going longer and ending in peace more often. I was going to say that we can't do much to curb the AI's thirst for violence, but there is something. You could always edit your opponents and reduce their aggression. I've never
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="305" id="3095388"] You could change it just in the tech trees of the 7s, that way you don't have to worry about disrupting the performance of the 8s and 11s.[/quote] For v3.0, I want everything to be universal. Since AIP 7 can only be used under certain galaxy conditions, I don't want to make any changes to individual TechTrees that will change research patterns for AIP 11. As it is, all the AIPs are handling themselves very wel
So, not only do AIP 7 and 8 dislike ethics, they really don't like Pure Research. I thought maybe I'd trick them into researching Xeno Ethics earlier, but now they don't research it at all. AIP 7 doesn't seem to care for Research or Farming, either. It's a shame about farming, since with all those morale structures they should be pushing for population. The Yor build Basic Stalks, which give population, but never upgrade them. It really likes
Like MisterAedan said, some of the glaring imbalance comes from widespread errors in the TechTrees and other files. In Twilight of the Arnor, that is. Those races you see getting steamrolled by the local strongman? They probably never even developed Space Weapons. My mod fixes pretty much all of those kind of issues along with making many other improvements for gameplay and AI competitiveness and balance. If you're interested in something like that, you can f
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Very interesting. We'll see how things go with the Yor. It's nice to get a glimpse into your mod. Keep it up!
The nice thing is, I don't have to choose. I was thinking of leaving both TechTrees in. With the changed Nav Centers, you could go either way. There are some issues, though. You wouldn't want someone to be able to collect 3 or 4 Nav Centers if you had more than one race with the Arcean TechTree. There's also the fact that a player could potentially cherry pick the planets with the Nav Centers, super charging their fleets and leaving the Arceans hobble
Too much to quote, but I'll comment a bit before giving my news. I did fix Spore Weapons for v3.0 (yup, it's official.) I set the AIV to 10 and it works perfectly. I also confirm giving the Altarians the normal ethics techs. Throughout my playtesting I've never had cause to second-guess it. The Thalans on the other hand, don't need them at all. They get a slew of special techs no matter which alignment they choose and they are monsters b
Looks like a wild ride. I'm eagerly getting ready to release my latest version and finally play a game. I think my first game will go up as an AAR with some commentary on how the AI is developing. I've kicked around the idea of doing a full AAR on a good playtest game, but I just end up making adjustments and moving on the the next test.
Duplicate post. Boo.
[quote who="MisterAedan" reply="284" id="3090639"] . . . I've played a couple of games with V2 now and love it, eagerly awaiting V2.1. . . . [/quote] Thanks for the feedback. It's posts like yours that make it worthwhile. v2.1 is, in my opinion, a significant improvement over v2.0. I'd go so far as to say it's at least as big a difference as between v1.1 and v2.0. There will always be room for improvement, but it's actually getting to the
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="285" id="3090702"] Quoting Tolmekian, reply 282I like the hospital suggestion. I'll think about how to make it work. I do have the Hall of Empathy giving a 25% civ-wide population growth bonus, and I don't want to overdo it. Glad you like it. I'm sure you come up with something useful to replace the pop growth bonus.[/quote] I may just keep it in the end, as it makes a bunch of sense. I did have an idea, though. I was thi
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="280" id="3090406"] Quoting Tolmekian, reply 279Any ideas for solving the SE/HI/TF issue? Setting their value to 1 or 0 would lead to the AI disregarding them until more "valuable" improvements have been build. But this is more of a crutch than a true solution.[/quote] I did set AI to 1, maybe I'll go back and do 0. [quote]How about a Hospital SP? Increasing the pop growth civ-wide, by curing the sick and fighting disease out
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="276" id="3088846"]Quoting Tolmekian, reply 275I was looking right at the modding guide and everything, noting the difference. Not everything in the modding guide is correct anymore, because it was made for DL.[/quote] I know. The I-Mod guide and xml reference is a great companion to CariElf's guide. In mod news, it's looking like v2.1 is just about ready to roll. I guess you could say it's in closed beta while I do a
I vaguely recall something similar, but couldn't provide any details. Very interesting though. I love when odd hijinks happen in games. Unfortunately, they don't seem to happen a lot in my games.
Whoops, my bad on the ShipSpeed/Move. Thanks for the correction. I was looking right at the modding guide and everything, noting the difference. I try to be precise when discussing this stuff so as to prevent the spread of misinformation. Boo. As for the sensor bonus, I guess I never thought much about sensor balance. I think I'll leave it as is for now, names and all. You may not like trading off the Galactic Guide Book, but if you want that
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="270" id="3088092"] Quoting Tolmekian, reply 269I was actually being a bit facetious about throwing up my arms and walking away. Glad to hear that. You had me worried there for a moment. Who am I kidding? I'm always worried.[/quote] Always look at the bright side of life. :) [quote]Quoting Tolmekian, reply 269Even the much maligned Galactic Guide Book has been elevated to a hot commodity, more or less literally. I c
Hey, given the way I've let this sit at times, I can't come down too hard on people for not being able to check in. I actually don't mind a small gap, since it gives me time to work on my mod without feeling like I'm delaying the game. If it takes a week or two to deal with a session and a couple weeks for me to play and post, then I'm happy with one session a month. That said, I am committed to keeping a more regular schedule with more frequent updates
[quote who="LapinDuracell" reply="267" id="3087228"]Hi Tolmekian, I just wanted to tell you I'm a new GalCiv 2 player and checking this thread every day for news on your improved AI mod. I understand you might have been discouraged by the recent findings on AIValue but I'm sure 2.1 will be worth it. Thanks again for your work ![/quote] Thank you. I was actually being a bit facetious about throwing up my arms and walking away. I'm happy wit
