DMcCormick81

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The Corrupted Heart of the Heart of the Resistance Eleys Mue sat before the Altarian senate, bored with the preceedings. The senators were up in arms about her decision to conquer the Vegans, when they landed too close to one of her worlds. She really wished the pacifist party and the war party would quit bickering and holding up the vote, everyone knew her Universalist party was going to win the vote anyway. She idly wondered if it would be worth the trouble to just

Altarians are best known for being one of the most upstanding of the good races. So it comes as no surprise that one of perhaps the most controversial points in Altarian history was when, caught between three warmongering evil races, the Altarians embraced the ideals of evil and pain themselves. One famous speech by an Altarian only referring to himself as "The Prophet" moved even Eleys Mue herself. "Friends and cousins, it is a dark time in our history. The Yor eat away at our outlyi

Part 4 - The Thalan Threat Turn 270: The Torians surrender to the Thalans last turn. This turn marks a considerable shift in the balance of power on the map, as the Torians were overall 4th and the Thalans were overall 2nd. Now the Thalans are still not 1st overall or in population (I still hold those honors), but have the 1st in production, influence, economy, and research. Moreover, the star cluster they were sharing with the Torians, and I assume they still

Part 3: Meeting the Neighbors Turn 215: As I was researching the techs to be able to colonize the decent number of high PQ toxic planets inside my borders, the Drath Legion poked their flagship into my territory. Contact was made, pleasantries were exchanged, and our initial meeting finished with them telling me they're not sure if the universe is big enough for the both of us. Pricks. They're somewhere in the larger part of the northern star cluster.<

Part 2 - Boring Nothingness. Turn 85: Nothing interesting has happened in the last couple dozen turns, besides a second bout with the economy, resolved by lowering taxes until Approval reaches 100% for 5 or so turns and basically doubling my empire's population in that time. This left me slightly in the negative for treasury, but after I turned taxes up again I was in the black again within a single turn. Xeno Ethics was researched, and I aligned with good

Part 1 - The Beginnin g: Flirting with Economic Meltdown Turn 1: This race was created with one overall goal in mind: Expand, expand, and expand some more. So my first turn is spent toward those aims. Since I'm using the Altarian tech tree, my first priority is to beat any true Altarians that might be on the map to getting the Social Matrix galactic achievement, so that's the first thing I set on my homeworld to build. Toying wi

So it's been a few months since my Yor wiped out an immense map full of Normal AI, and I decided it's time to start another game. This time, I decided to create a custom race, and see if I can't do any better with a race tailored to my particular playstyle tastes. Enter the Space Bunnies. These little critters were designed to be a race of happy little baby makers. Given some advantages in Research, I hope that these critters will be able to out-research any

If it helps, the steam version is downloaded to: Windows 7 64 bit c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\galactic civilizations ii - ultimate edition

Does anyone have any suggestions for an immense map setup that promises a long, interesting game but won't bog down the map with endless border planet trades? I'd like to play a game which is challenging, but doesn't get too tedious conquering the other empires. My last game I started up with random everything and slow tech, I ended up with rare, sparse stars, rare planets, abundant asteroid fields, and nobody could find any planets to colonize. Obviously th

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I've been playing for about two weeks now, since picking up Ultimate Edition off of Steam. I've been playing with mixed success on 'Normal' level on Immense maps, but this last game just seemed a little unfair to me. In my last game, I started off in a corner right next to the Yor, and with nowhere to expand but through them I ended up having to go to war with them. I'd started off fantastically until I ran into them, and my research put theirs to shame; by the end