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As far as I know, the "alliance" option only shows when the potential ally has a status "Close" towards you.

Also check if one of them perhaps receives production from asteroids.

[quote]Hi, (sometimes Turns take up to 2 and a half minutes or the game temporarily freezes). I'm wondering if there's something cheap/quick I can do to increase the quality of the running of this game. [/qoute] Turns usually take long either due to big amounts of ships that need to be moved or due to the AI not having finished it's preparations while you did your turn. The first doesn't really have a cure, I suggest bringing a book (I personally reread the hitchhikers guide to the g

This is nog a beta bug specificly. I make abundant use of this feature in Dark Avatar when invading an opponent with weak soldiering. You need to refresh view of the planet or indeed the old morale will still be displayed. Doesn't work the same way with farms, a spy on a farm takes effect the next turn.

If you focus your factory output to research, 25% is converted. It's part of the "all factory" strategy, you build only factories, and put your research slider down to 0%, then you focus all planets on research. That way, you only have to build factories and don't waste any of their "potential" production. (A quirk in the way the sliders are configured means that if you put research at say 33%, that means your factories are only poducing 67% of their max output and your labs only 33%. As mos

Interesting... Interesting... Perhaps you are simply an easely forgotten person? ... Who are you again? :P Or perhaps they had Alzheimer, or Korzakov... actually that seems quite likely, the Iconians are old = Alzheimer! And the Drengin look like they drink too much too often, so no wonder their memory is shot... No?... Darn. Interesting bug though. I'll see if I can get my scientists to develop amne

Did you perhaps declare war on them, before you actually met them? (Possible through the diplomatic screen, by promising a race that you did meet to go to war with a race you didn't meet.) Were there any actual hostilities or was it a was withour a shot being fired?

It doesn't consider the value of a planet much. (Though which planet you offer DOES make a difference, if they want one planet more than another NEVER give them that one planet unless you're anxious to get rid of it, because it's a much better planet if they value it more.) But with increasing difficulty, the value they will put on any planet will decrease... What difficulty are you playing? And what are your odds. What do you estimate that the planet equation is. (How many plan

You are quite right with your second post Nickziller. Bug #1 and #3 have been fixed by now, just need to update to the latest patch. Not 100% sure about #2, but it's been ages since I've seen it happening, so I am guessing it's fixed aswell.

I only pay attention to "overspending" on military ships in the early game, the difference of a single turn can decide whether you get that awesome planet or the competition does. Lateron it simply costs waaaay too much friggin' time to micromanage that (especially when you have more than 5 planets). Just not worth the hassle. That said, I often do end up with planets that have too small an output MP wise to build the bigger ships. (Usually taken by force from enemies) I assign them

For me the game is generally over before I have won it. I only continue to get that win screenm I have absolutely no desire to continue as you can't win "unfairly" in Galciv. (There's no Game winning "Wonder", tech/ascension victory take you out of the galaxy, so there'd be nothing to play with...)

Darn you Sole Soul, are you abolutely sure? (Cause you appear to have left room for doubt :P) An overall 3% research bonus is usually quite worth it, so if it's really that, it is the most interesting ethical choice...

my home computer can't handle the extra stress, but when I play at my parents' house, I use max CPU, the game doesn't become much harder, but the AI does seem to move... more human... But that might've been my imagination.

I assume it's also factored in, invading enemies that are way ahead in tech does seem to cost me more soldiers, but to be honest I never did the math on it. But for invasions soldiering just makes bigger difference than tech level...

Lol yeah, that works. I usually name them "Race" Gift "Number" because I simply cannot be bothered to jot down the names and numbers of the ships I want to gift, and giving away the wrong ships can be a pain. I once encountered a gifted ship of mine on the opposite side of the huge map...

I'd say it would've been called +3 Research then, rather than +3 tech. Ethical events are rather accurate in the mentioning of percentages and even more so in calling it "research" rather than tech. Especially considering that the event specifically mentiones "defenses" makes me think I'm right with the "tech level on invasion" theory. Problem is that this is pretty much impossible to find out. It's a random occurance that's going to be pretty tough to trigger (is there a cheat

Had the "plot all courses to the middle of friggin' nowhere" once in all my games. It is excruciatingly annoying but I read somewhere that it is also non-reproducable (and thus hard to find) for SD. It only seems to affect that one game who's file apparently got "corrupted" in some way... It was with an older DA version though. Edit: I noticed you are using an NVidia video card. Choppiness and slowness is a known issue with nvidia, make sure you have the latest drivers (from the Nvi

Mining a resources requires you to build a starbase, so yes. As long as the structure is closer to the "border" than the previous closest object, your range will extend. I usually send a single constructor out in the dark and construct an economy base to extend my range if I can't get something 'functional' like a planet or resource.

Had it happen to the Krynn once. All game I'd been orchestrating a war between the Korx and the Krynn (who were close neighbours in a huge galaxy), nearing the end it became more and more difficult to prevent the Korx planets from defecting. The Krynn fleets also started to look much more menacing and the stats screen did reveal that their stats were growing steadily. So yes, the artifact does have an effect, especially as a mega-event. But I could've still beaten the Krynn if I had

Had this happen to me once aswell. The Krynn, the most powerful faction and my ally, the humans and myself (Korx) were left. I had just orchestrated a war against the Terrans by the Krynn and myself, when I got this notification. I thought "Damn, I only get a notice at the last tecg before tech victory?! I'm screwed!" I hogged all their best research plans, focused completely on tech victory (100% research), but still had about 12 turns left to go when the Krynn finished. Couldn't

Oh damn, that might mean I'll need to step back down from obscene to... I think maso comes below it? I can play obscene, hanging by my fingernails... This will probably snap those clean off... Good work! :D

Well... I am not sure if it's the correct answer, but I always assumed the following: +3 Tech problably has bearing on the "tech level" that is displayed during invasions. During the endgame my techlevel tends to get OVER 9000!!! (poor attempt at lame internet joke, disregard it) Well, near 200,000 actually, maybe even more. +3 Doesn't really seem to make a dent... And for all I know, it might be planet specific, in which case it REALLY doesn't matter... Si

The name never changes when the ship is sold, just for future reference!

The whole problem for the Arceans is reaching the end game. Once they get there, they're nasty buggers to kill. Their smaller navy can wreak havoc on other navy's with that first strike thing.

This problem was fixed in 1.80g, your problem is most likely: You have 1.80e, not 1.80g. Eventhough it appears that you did update it. (This does happen, you are not the only one) [quote]Download [link="http://files.filefront.com/Keyreg/;9530968;/fileinfo.html"]this[/link] and then run SDC to update DA. You can open it via Notepad or send it through your favorite virus scanner if you're concerned about the contents; it's clean. It changes your DA version number to 1.7 so SD