Zarnick

Other modders might want to see this. Move thread to "Modding" now?

I used spies in the DL campaign to sabotage. The Dread Lords didn't do much after I had a spy on every factory, and they seem unable to nullify them.

[quote who="Noctilucus" reply="10" id="2986018"]...Jagged Knife, pretty much get that one in each Korath game I'm playing.[/quote] I too, get them in almost every game for several consecutive games, then they don't appear at all for many games. I noticed that the Independent League takes over only the most unhappy planets, I am wondering if there is a similar condition for the Jagged Knife. They have appeared both when there i

[DA] Within range of my military starbase: tiny hulls, so that more ships in a fleet where they each get the starbase assist. OK for defence of a cluster of my planets and usually cheap to upgrade all of them. All other fleets: same size or larger hulls than the enemy. I like to have some fresh ships nearby to quickly replace casualties which can go be repaired. Smaller hulls get completely destro

[quote who="dnzrx" reply="4" id="2982411"]Just to see if the aliens are stupid?[/quote] I think I had offered Yor something like "Advanced Aquatic Colonization" for "Aquatic Colonization", which was refused despite the "close" realations. I usually try some money during negotiations, to give me some idea of whether it is worth trying other combinations of trades or what sort of techs I can squeeze out of minor races. Sometimes the

That is what I want to say to N1 here: N1 didn't realize how lucky he was, our relations were "close" but I could crush it/him/her like a bug. (btw the deal where he gives 11bc was acceptable).

Minor races (up to 8 in DA metaverse games) always get a high quality planet, but you have to conquer them which can cause "tendancy to conquer others-" in your relations with other races.

[quote who="Noctilucus" reply="12" id="2978219"]Are you sure this is possible?[/quote] Yes, it happened in a (metaverse, DA) game I was playing a few minutes before I posted my reply. [quote who="Noctilucus" reply="12" id="2978219"]plenty of occasions where I was attacked and my ally signed a peace treaty with the enemy while I remained at war with them[/quote] That is what usually happens with me too.

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="6" id="2604867"]Tip: be careful when joining an alliance, because you can easily get into an universe-wide war if your ally is not very cautious or a warmonger or weak military.[/quote] ...and you can easily have suddenly "signed a peace treaty" if your ally decides to make peace with a common enemy. Great if you want peace but won't give up half your planets and most of your techs for it; you get it for free. I thin

[quote who="Marauder_IIc" reply="6" id="2976428"]How high of production should I be at? Once im up and going, im normally at or around 75-85 depending on the galactic economy.[/quote] If you are at 60% production, you will have the same output at 100% production with 60% of your factories. You could build market places instead of some of those factories. I don't know any reason for having less than 100% production except when I suddenly lose a larg

There is a multitude (well, thoroughly thorough throughout[e digicons]:borg:[/e] ) of information in the tabs at the bottom of the screen: Foreign relations tab : the "stats" sub-tab contains more tabs for data on each race, such as "now researching", "number of colonies", "weapons bonus", "intelligence level" and <span style="text-decoratio

The health bar and graphics seem familiar; a PS1 game? [EDIT: I just saw the address link with the game's name, and I am still not sure if I played it.]

Banned for banning someone.

[DA] As the title says, sometimes the game seems to freeze between turns (the "turn" button is hidden), but the cursor still moves (I use the "hardware" cursor option) and I can still navigate around the map and click on planets and ships. Clicking the "find" button can select to a ship which (surprisingly) still has moves remaining. I do not have the "skip moves left over" option on, so this ship should have been auto-select

1 - look at the list of planets to see which ones are making losses. Maintainance costs of the basic colony are significant early in the game; new colonies make a loss for a long time. Its not worth building many factories or labs (workers' costs) if you are on 60% production already.

I have some other PC games whose graphics mess up after an ALT-TAB (Windows XP).

[quote]If I got ferther questions, please respond.[/quote] I guess that everyone feels the same. Internet forums don't display people shaking their heads when they can't find anything to say...

www.ukash.com has info about buying vouchers in shops which can be spent online. The vouchers are in units, thus limiting your liability to the value of that voucher without having to give any personal details. The website has options for several countries. I haven't used this system myself; the nearest I have been is paying in shops to top-up my mobile phone. I guess

Post the debug.err contents here (its in the same directory as the saved games).

To set a rally point: click on the icon in the top-left of the UIF (near the esponoige icon) at the bottom of the screen. Click on a parsec to place it, then select one of the options: Set "fleet" option to make ships form into a fleet when they reach (I find this useful for building small ships to create a fighter fleet near a military starbase; eliminates a lot of same selec

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(Quoting Ashantai) is there any reason building tiny or small ones anymore ? Fleets can hold more tiny ships - good with military starbase assistance because each ship gets the defence/attack value added. So a +1 ship assistance on a fleet of 4 ships gives that fleet a (free!, once the starbas

In my last game, I caught Drath doing the same sort of thing! I conquered all their planets using mainly 500-troop transports. Most of the other races declared war on me, then I conquered the extreme planets which they had colonized in my territory. I just couldn't make any friends after that; I gave up after the Thalan Empire did its usual dominationism[e digicons]:\[/e] .

Granted - now they will all come to me. I wish I hadn't granted your wish, they've all gone shopping.

When I was new to GalCivII, the random events were significantly game-changing, especially the pirates event. Now that I play at crippling difficulty (huge or gigantic maps), most of the events are another challenge in my game; both myself and the AI can handle them - the balance of the game is not upset, indeed they usually merely speed up the process of wiping out the weak[e digicons]XD[/e] . Only the Jagged Knife megaevent