JacquesGauthier

Long trade routes enhanced with economic star bases also help.

I went through the trouble of building one once and was disappointed to see that unlike the "Star Wars" death star it couldn't defend itself. You'd think they would use that star blasting laser on a fleet. When I build it originally, I tried the following: On a huge hull I put 2 engines and a bunch of constructor module. (The game allowed it). That ship was very expensive to build. My idea was to build the terror star in one shot. M

I noticed that if I build a "Counter Espionage Center" on a planet where spies are already present it will not negate them. It prevents further spies from being placed. (Shouldn't they look for spies to negate once they are built ? ). I rushed researched 2 tech and bought that project hoping to negate 3 spies on one of my world but it didn't work. :-( I had to wait to get spies and negate those one by one. </p

In the month I first received my game, there was this one game where I ended with the Precursor Ranger (the powerful one). I had purchased it from another race to make sure it wasn't used against me as someone in the forum suggested. I used it as the spearhead of my invasions, taking out defenders on a planet before sending troop modules. I hadn't figured out how to used fleets yet. In that game the mega pirate event happened and I found that my precur

Even then, you can usually negotiate with a race for a recently established or conquered planet. Provided they have made contact.

Hello, Anyone try to play a game where you leave right away the Galactic Alliance (or whatever the Galactic U.N is called ?). Is it the equivalent of playing as a minor race ? I s there a way to play as one of the 8 minor races ?

I purchased several ships from multiple races. In my last game, i played as the Drath and quickly built up my military by asking for a few ships every time I traded some tech from other races. I also bought all the scouts and space miners that I could, converting them to constructors that I used to build up my starbases. It was much cheaper than building a constructor from scratch. In this game I didn't build many ships, I mainly did ship u

Hello, I noticed that on occasion, when I upgrade a ship (like a fighter) that I purchased from another race into a design that I made, the ship will keep its original name. For example, I designed a troop transport using a medium hull and I upgraded a Iconian fighter I purchased. The ship's name is still the same and I have to check the ship's stats to see which one of them is my troop transport. Is there any way to m

I won my last game as Drengin. When I saw that the hostilities were about to start, I would bribe some of the most hostile races to attack the others. This delayed the war declarations on myself. I used the minor races as banks, selling them technologies. My preferences for what I sold them was: 1- Things that would increase their trade and economy (so they have money to buy tech) 2- Thing

To Moosetek13: Which drivers are old and how do I update them ? I've got the auto-update setup in Windows so i would expect things to be up to date on my computer. Also, this game is from 2003 so even if my drivers are old now, I would expect them to have been new when Galactic Civ II originally came out. I'm playing the game on my laptop and it is less than a year old. When in Colony manager: I'm instruct

I recently tried 15 times to have a diplomatic dialogue with the Terran Alliance (I'm playing Arcean right now). Each time whether I'm accessing the menu via the foreign stats or by slicking on a planet, the diplomatic screen bugs out on me. Could we have a redraw screen function ? Honestly, I'd take a ASCII diplomatic screen that I can read over a graphical one that is unuseable.

I have the latest update 2.03. Here are some of the bugs that I've noticed. -Diplomatic relations: The screen displays sometimes goes buggy so that when you scroll down available technologies, what was previously printed before the scroll down isn't erased and you get a blurred mix of the previous line and current line. This sometimes happens when I move the mouse cursor to the upper left around where the influence/bc is displayed. The screen also gets buggy