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More UI suggestions: In the planetary build list, provide some means of sorting improvements by type. It's really annoying to have food mixed with research mixed with manufacturing mixed with approval, especially with all the unique techs in TA. Sort by type with the highest production/bonus at the top would be really nice for quickly finding the right improvements to build. In the F1 fleet list, provide a checkbox to 'Hide all garrisoned ships', so that you can quickly find o

Tweak the diplomacy AI slightly so that TP costs show up on technologies (no right click required), and the TOTAL TP cost for any techs placed into the trade section on either side shows up. This would make tech trading a lot easier, and require a lot less spam clicking back and forth to see what the AI will trade with you.

If something major happened to Stardock, why would you think they'd do anything other than release the patches as standalone? In a world where Ubisoft's idea of copy protection is shackling you to online play, installing Impulse to patch your Stardock games is pretty benign (and actually less intrusive than Steam, my Impulse games don't even require me to launch Impulse to play them).

Haven't played GC2 in a long time - I quit playing before the first expansion came out because I was getting annoyed with some game UI/AI issues. Some of them may have been patched out/expansioned out, but that's what I'm here to ask about. Based on a recent play on a medium size map against challenging opponents on GC2 vanilla 1.6, stuff that I noticed: 1) The AI does not build proper improvements on bonus tiles (even in cases where the planet has plenty of open spaces)

"I would also like to repeat something I’ve complained about before – diplomatic negotiations. After the initial GalCiv2 update, negotiations are just about the only thing in GalCiv2 that makes me want to shut the game down and not look in its general direction for a while. The problem is still finding the right price for a deal. When I see that the AI will trade tech X for my tech Y, I will go and ask them to also give me some gold. The matter of finding out how much gold they’ll give me is ext

Not that - I'm more irritated by the inability to tell what the AI WON'T trade. The money/influence thing is also a niggling irritation, but I just got sick of constantly having to click in and out all of the AI's techs, some of which it would trade under no circumstances (even if I offered all of my planets!) - why do they even show up in the tech list if they won't trade them?

It's just too irritating to deal with diplomacy with multiple races. Figuring out what they will or won't trade, micromanaging the amount of credits or influence every trade, the interface just doesn't do what it needs to do. I posted about this in the past, but never got a response. I was hoping it would show up in 1.1, but there aren't any changes there. I'm done playing GC2 for awhile, the diplo is a deal breaker for me I'll

The lack of max baffles me, why is there even an option to trade some fractional amount? Same goes for the non-trade techs - if they aren't tradable, why are they even in the interface? I wish ui quirks didn't bug me so much, but they do

Swank, thanks. The popup is too small (have to mouse scroll, only takes up like the center inch or two at 1600x1200), but better than nothing Now I'll just be grouchy about the others

I can't set the max credits/influence from an alien to me for a lopsided trade in their favor without manually fiddling with the number of credits one click at a time (or a typed guess, in the irritating text interface the game has) I can't set the max credits/influence from me to the alien for deals that they would accept with a sufficient number of credits, again, I have to manually fiddle with the sliders Even clicking on t

Am I just blind or something? When you select a ship, you can see its maximum range on the minimap, but when looking on the main map, I see no dotted line, solid line, or shading at the edge of its potential travel distance, which makes sending ships to the very edge of your possible distance annoying. I figured there would be some sort of visual indicator on the main map, but if there is, I'm not seeing it <img src="smiles/Mad.gif" border=0 ALIGN="abs

I haven't seen any change to the tech tree in the 1.1 beta Hoping this is still on the table for revamping

Starbases fighting in their area is a really cool idea, but it'd probably have substantial balance ramifications - and what happens if you litter an area with Starbases? Do they all fight? Impossible nut to crack?

Is there a way to see this in-game that I'm just not seeing? I reloaded a savegame, but I can't tell what difficulty the aliens are set too, and I have no interest in playing if they're below intelligent (I did a few trial run games at a 'normal' difficulty, which I found out to be crippled AI, and now I can't see an obvious place that shows what the diff is)

Staggering.

Agreed completely, the 3-5 turn AI tech trade round robin is one of the lamer 'strategies' that can be exploited, and a major reason I've disliked diplomacy in this style of game for some time. Some very good suggestions here, I hope Stardock looks some of them over for consideration. At a bare minimum, a no tech trades option would be a decent stopgap, but there are some good ideas here for integrating tech trading into the diplomacy process more full

Tactical battles are only interesting if either the entire focus of game is on the combat, or if the number of total fights over the course of a game is relatively low Otherwise they tend to bog down the play horrendously I know some games have attempted to streamline tac combat, but I've yet to see one that has meaningful AI in tac combat, it's just too open to exploitation by human intellect...

I wish I had more interest in coding. Yours is exactly the sort of company I'd like to work for. I spent years doing mod work for Quake (and various other fps titles), and even more years picking apart design (and competing heavily online) for dozens of games, but I've never been interested in coding enough to do more than make small mods for games, or organize teams of people to work on mods. Discussing the intricacies of game balance, design, numbers, and what's fun? Yes. Hashing o

I have a rather average laptop with a cruddy Intel integrated video card, 512, and a 1.7 or so Centrino, and it runs GC2 wonderfully. I was quite happy to discover that it runs well, works with the widescreen on the monitor, and can even alt-tab if I don't mind a bit of chunking. Of course, I discovered this at about midnight in bed when I idly copied it over from my desktop machine to test it, and some five hours later finally went to bed..

No issues. I've seen a few quirks, but nothing really major. Besides, I've seen Stardocks support for GC1 in the past, I'm confident any issues that do exist will be ironed out (and then some) in the future.

What was added?

The "Next" and "Previous" planet buttons on the planet detail button should probably be down where the "Summary" and "Details" buttons are currently - I use next and previous far more frequently, along with the done button, but the Summary and Details buttons, which are used much less frequently, are in an easier to use location. It'd also be nice if the arrow keys and the mousewheel changed planets. On the Research screen, MUCH more informa

Forgive me for seeking validation, but I see very few replies to posts made in the various Ideas and Ideas sub-forums from Stardock staff, and I'm making and expanding a large post there, just wanted to make sure I'm not shouting into the void - there's no links at the top of the forum page to even get there, it's in that sub-forum dropdown that I didn't even notice for a week

I'm planning on using this post as a dumping ground for all the things I notice as I play through my first couple of games. I just purchased GC2 and started playing it seriously tonight, so I thought it would be useful to have my fresh opinions recorded. Some are suggestions, some are opinions, some are bugs (or what I'm assuming are bugs), some may be good, some may be terrible. I've watched the tutorial videos, read the quick start guide, and I'm reasonably experienced with tbs games. Away we

This was in 1.01D Got a quarterly update praising my population growth from 50B to... 50B Congratulations on your 0.0 increase in population!