Qui-Gon Jinn

Perhaps one cannot have AI without AS (Artificial Stupidity)? Just the nature of the universe. :NOTSURE:

[quote]Nope, not that. I've encountered that many times in GC2. No, this is new to TA. I'll be playing for a while and suddenly notice that my graphs have gone completely wonky. I'm yet to have time to play since I mentioned it... Holidays are sucking all my time. Something like this: (EDIT: ASCII art didn't quite work, pretend the '.' marks are blank spaces.) ._. _ . _. _ ________ _. _. _[/quote] Yes and mine looks like this: . - + 1% 3 Except pretend

Yes, this indicates that your planet is in the path of a planned major intergalactic highway, and is scheduled for demolition. Have a nice day. :)

You can also select the economy bonus when you tweak your race abilites at the start of a game. This feature allows you to balance the gameplay to your particular game style.

It is probably giving you 100 million of your own brutally selfish race, to take the place of the wonderfully unique and one-of-a-kind ceatures you are so thoughtlessly cleansing from existance. :SURPRISED:

[quote]While I'm still playing and modding...I can't say its completely "understandable" to work on a something not out yet when you know something that is out is having a major problem. [/quote] That is standard for software development project planning. Software is complicated, and requires advanced scheduling of time and resources to develop and support. Budgets have to be met, timetables adhered to, etc. Yes, there are bugs and usually they are not dealt with one at a time, but adde

Agreed. I made my example extreemly simple just to show the general idea of how it could be done. You can then add numerical weights, say, relative to the cost of the ships involved to further modify a formula. I'd also like to add that I'm sure that GalCiv does something far, far, [I]far[/I] more complicated than I am capable of conceiving. I just wanted to give an example of the mathematical approach to solving a problem like this.

[quote]An apt analogy. It was once called the super-information highway.[/quote] Yes, [I]once[/I]. But then someone said let's call it the information super-highway and they did that instead. :)

Programming considerations aside, perhaps playing on "Suicidal" means the AI is suicidal as well? Did Hitler surrender when he was losing? Did the Roman Empire? Suicidal, indeed. I happen to be a programmer myself, and I understand the argument that what is obvious for us to percieve can be quite vexing to program into a machine. But gallagher's argument seems reasonable to me. I think it would be possible for the AI to look at a win/loss ratio and based on that alone, modify it's stati

[quote]Question one -If I have a planet with 50 mil BP, and 20 social BP, and 10 research points, and this planet is NOT BUILDING anything (to include ships, or anything that goes on a tile) how much is that colony costing me? ***not counting all the other stuff that someone to going to bring up about colony maintenance*** The answer should be 10 right? 10 BC for the research flasks, and the 50+20 going back to my treasury. Is my answer correct?[/quote] No,

Or in other, other words: Your production slider is how big your production pie is. The the 3 bottom sliders indicate how big of a slice of that pie each area gets.

........ :NOTSURE: - Yikes [quote]Oh and that soundtrack is brilliant - try playing 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' while you weave through traffic in your car on the way home from work! [/quote]

Does't it strike anybody else as odd that a gallon of gasoline (or liter or petrol) costs about the same as a locally produced gallon/liter of milk? That is, [B]before [/B]the government tax is added to the price. So basically, if our cars could run on milk, then the price of milk would skyrocket and we'd be paying more, not less for our fuel.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/internet Internet [B]One entry found[/B]. Internet Main Entry: In·ter·net Pronunciation: \`in-tər-net\ Function: noun Date: 1985 : an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world

[quote] It's gas prices that will kill us all Twenty years from now $3 gas will seem dirt cheap - assuming we still use gas at all. Twenty years from now? The litre is now at approx. 1.40 Euros, if you're talking about gallons (since you appear to be American), $3 would be cheap NOW. [/quote] Yes, that would be a cheap price in most Euopean countries. Not

Too bad there isn't a game where you can control the economy at a global - no galactic level and pit yourself against other races and build things like stock markets and such. Things like research and exporation and expanding your influence would hinge on how you managed the economy of this Galactic Civilization....hmmm.... Naw, nevermind - it'd never work.

I like stuffy old things, my favorite chair, my first teddy-bear, and definitions of civilization-altering technologies. Yes, I agree that the user was refering to the internet in the manner you described. And there's nothing wrong with tweeking the definition a bit, as long as it's universally understood. However, I think it is helpful to understand the old definition before changing to a new one. I imagine one day some whipper-snapper will start referring to any downloadable

Great posts in this thread. I would also like to add that you should keep in mind that the AI is facing all the same problems you are. If you find a way to hurt their economy, or lower their moral, or slow their research, then the repercussions are the same for them as they are for you. This allows for a great variety of strategies. Can't stand up the thier ships in battle? Try to destroy their economy by attacking trade routes, or maybe bribe another race to delcare war on them. As for

[quote]The hardware is merely the comunications network, the software is the conversation which is taking place on the network, and it is that conversation that is the internet! [/quote] Sorry, you got it backwards. The internet is a shortend term from it's original name which was the Inter-network. Any network is a collection of physical hardware. I would not call a telephone conversation a network, no. I also wouldn't call the software running on the internet, the intern

That is an excellent site. There should be link to it from the Forums homepage.

Can ships be designed to move at only 1 parsec per turn? If so, you could design a specific ship, call it the TS Defender, that would move with the TS to a common destination point. In fact, just one of these in a fleet of other faster ships would keep the fleet from moving too fast.

I think you are confusing the internet, which is a collection of hardware, with the software that people use to access it. The internet is simply a bunch of computers, servers, switches, routers, cables (fiber optic and other), etc. that span the globe and are joined together by a common communication protocol (TCP/IP). That's it. What we [I]do[/I] with this internet entirely up to the software. This software is only limited by human ingenuity. To standardize any further would mean to add some t

I noticed earlier today that I had an extra 10 minutes to goof around. I musta got them from you by mistake. Sorry I wasted them.

A nice idea. You could have up to 4 planetary "governers" (not to be confused with the AI governers in GalCiv) and 4 fleet officers. Another nice thing about them is you could move them around to different planets/fleets as needed. They took several turns to get there though, so you wouldn't want to move them around too often. What I didn't like about them was that they often belonged to some other race, even ones you were at war with which didn't make much sense, but that's minor. Also

Reply #4 above is right. Trying to get a laptop to do both well and you'll end up with one that is okay overall, but excels at neither. I'd like a 250hp sports car that gets the milage of a Prius and handles the snow like a Hummer.