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Read the Official Carriers/Planetary Bombardment sticky thread in the Game Talk forum.

Ship Yards- Space Stations that can build ships Here is how they would work: You build a ship yard with a constructor. Once it is built, you can assign the military production from planets and asteroid bases to the ship yard. The more planets sending resources to the ship yard, the faster the ships can be built. Why I want this: -It doesnt make sense to me that huge ships are being built on planets. They should be built in space with planets

Sometimes the AI gives their ships/classes specific names, in alien languages, often containing apostrophes. As for hull sizes, here's what I know: Tiny - Fighter, Scout Small - Heavy Fighter Medium - Frigate Large - Battleship, Cruiser Huge - Dreadnought Cargo - Colony Ship, Transport, Freighter, Constructor Apparently, sometimes even those cargo utility ships are found flying around with weapons on them.

Add Life Support modules. To get better, smaller Life Support systems, research this tech line: Xeno Engineering -> Basic Logistics -> General Life Support -> Extended Life Support -> Advanced Life Support -> Ultra Life Support Researching these techs will also add base range to all your ships. The Hyperion Re-Supply Center Super Project also increases range.

8-Frigate M3-12 3342 I don't know what the '8-' means. 'Frigate' means medium hull. Fighter is Tiny Hull Heavy Fighter is Small Hull Frigate is Medium Hull Battleship is Large Hull Dreadnought is Huge Hull 'M3' means Mark 3, or the third frigate design that AI has created. I'm not sure what '-12' means but I think it means that that ship is the 12th ship of it's class. 3342 probably means that

It ocurred to me that I simply cannot grasp the appeal of this genre. You have to either be extremely smart (which I am not, and I suck at chess, so that should explain a lot), I was always rather good at chess, but not great at it. It's not THAT complex on the board, actually, but in the abstract. It's about depth of thought, planning, patience, proactiveness, timing and, wherever you can use it, psychological warfare. <div class="Article_Quote

So for example a tiny hulled ship with 50hp (very old and experienced) verses a medium hulled ship with 50hp but exactly the same attack rating, which would win? Whoever initiated combat. AFAIK. Hey, I just wanted to verify what exactly is going on in the "tie rule." What I'm referring to is when you pit two ships (or more) against each other, sometimes they'll both "kill" each

AFAIK, if no ship or building is bought or built on a planet, all production points on that planet are returned to the treasury. At least, that's what the wiki said. Although, I'm not sure if it works for asteroids.

I dont think TA will fully satisfy the potential of galciv2 which is a great title. With the active forum like this game has, certainly not. Yes, I will be fidel to StarDock and buy another expansion as long as company maintains their service/quality. <img id="ImageResize_Image_2" src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" onload="ImageResizer.createOn(this);" tries="2" align="absmid

I always play the campaigns through at least once just to experience the story and to get going with a new game/expansion. The one, big problem with "take the techs with you" in campaigns is that it could be easily abused by researching everything just to have it in the next scenario.

So i've read some of these strategies such as ALL econ, All Mining, and All Research. Are these the only viable strategies that will win a Maso+ game? Can it be won with normal sliders(not 1-99-0), decent colony rush, and proper skills in diplomacy, research, and warfare? Or are these "advanced" strategies just bent on maximizing an early win or a high MV score? Because micromanagement to that degree seems less fun to me. I

I thought the Dreads had been beaten by the Terran-lead coalition in GC2:DL. Unless this campaign is out of order and your playing as the Arnor back in that epic war which lead to the disappearance of the Precursors. Would you get to keep the tech you gained from mission to mission, or does it revert back to the beginning in every mission? Immense galaxy? Something tells me this campaign will take a LOT of time.

On large maps with huge fleets of miners it gets really cumbersome if you run out of asteroids to improve before getting the next mining tech. This can lead to A LOT of clicking through notifications about a miner having its auto function disabled. In fact, it would be nice if they just moved close to an asteroid belt (or skipped a turn) when there was nothing to improve, rather then shutting down auto and nagging you.

Wait... in DA, trade routes get more and more valuable as time passes on, so you get more and more and more as time goes on. Yet the original freighter self-destructs. So, since you get constantly increasing payback, would it be O(n^2) or O(n^3)?

Speaking of which, it would be cool to guide your race from primitive society into the space age of Galciv2. Yea, I'm asking a lot that will probably never happen. Combine Sid Meirs's Civilizations, little of the Age of Empires series, Master of Orion, and Galactic Civilizations to get the ULTIMATE GAME! Yea, i'm asking to much aren't I? Doesn't Civ 3 have a victory condition of building a colony ship and setting

Yes thats true, but don't you think good races need some sort of benefits too? Even if they take a loss at the start it should pay off in the long run atleast. And even if you are a good zealot, you have crappy bonuses any way. In a way, No. It should cost to be Good, being evil is always the easy way. Its what defines the universe, if you would suddenly start reaping be

Just randomly thinking it would be nice to have an artillery style unit in a space game. My idea is kind of simple, and if Terror Stars are feasible, this is also feasible to add on in a future expansion. Take a Constructor. Instead of turning it into a Starbase or a module on an existing starbase, it could just create a Battle Stations module on itself, turning it into an Artillery Ship, destroying all components fitted in the original Constructor ship and taking up all it's hull space

For Tactical Combat, there are only a few things I would like: 1. The ability to choose the priority list individually for each one of your ships to shoot enemy ships in a certain order. 2. The ability for faster ships to be able to disengage at will. They get moved to a neighboring parsec as a result. 3. The ability for slower ships to disengage if the faster ships choose not to chase. They get moved to a neighboring parsec as a result. 4. The ability for the

I think players who've got th game and are following it would get the expansion packs, but new players would not unless they can get all the previous versions and the newest altogether, as in Gold Edition. In my opinion, two more expansions would be OK, but after that, a sequel would be better. Carriers, supply ships*, manual target-priority selection in combat, more diplomatic options(like 'wargames') and an expanded UP would be nice. *Supply ships would be ships fitt

They still need Life Support: 1. If the planet is not an industrial planet and warships must be brought in from their main territory. 2. If they actually want to get those ships out of those 'staging base' influence bubbles. Alternatively, they can just send a Constructor and build an influence starbase. Chances are they'll have to build influence starbases anyway if they want to hold on to that planet.

Hi! since everyone has a First Strike ability AFAIK DL lost first strike with version 1.5. But I didn't consider how tiny HD Spike Drivers are when I wrote that post. Check again the graphs on wiki. In the first graph you'll see guns s.x most of the time. The bigger the ship the more they s.x, because their sizemod is about the same as of beams, but always a poi

Another thing that goes against missiles in the beginning is size. They're usually take around 10-12 in terms of space until you get past the Stingers and Harpoon techs. The other techs, however, are much smaller and can actually fit on a tiny design in the beginning. Lets check the Dark Avatar smash-for-size ratings(higher is better): Tiny: Laser - 0.100 Railgun - 0.083 Stinger - 0.111 Small: Laser - 0.091<br/

There is no such thing as a Doom Missile in GC2. The highest end weapons are Doom Rays, Black Hole Generators and Black Hole Eruptors. The highest end defenses are Ultimate Invulnerability, Zero-Point Armor and Aereon Missile Defense. Doom Missile and Ultimate defenses sounds like you've been playing beam/shield combos too long.

2. High speed means that you can attack the enemy when they can't attack you. You get the first shot. In DL, this means a lot since everyone has a First Strike ability. But not in DA. Also, if you survive, you can attack more targets. This means a fast, very high attack ship/fleet can go on a rampage in DL, not giving it's targets a chance to fire back. 3. Psyonic Shredder is more powerful than even Neutrino Bullets. It, NB, and BHG are the only Mass Drivers that can match higher end mi

The Terrans have only 3 customizable points That is because they already have some points "spent" - that is selections made for you. To get their full customization ability you need to clear all of the points that have already been assigned. There is a button to do this helpfully placed on the point selection screen, although you could also do it by unselecting each power that was already chosen.