I am a subscriber to Object Desktop. I really like window blinds and and I love to play around with Icons. There is a lot more interesting stuff in the package but some of it takes a lot of resources and while I might enjoy playing around with it, Windowblinds is the only thing I keep resident.
Like most things, the moderate approach seems to be best. In my opinion and in my experience, late game is the time to grow population, after you have the best entertainment techs (VRC) and you have built some of the moral boosters like FC and HC. I have no problem building a huge economy with all my HQ planets in the 10-20 billion population range. I usually have one and sometimes two entertainment tiles and never more than 2 farms. <b
This is sort of an exploit. I found out in the beta version that for some reason trading with the Dark Yor had a high return regardless of distance. In one game I shared a system with them and sent nearly every freighter to their planet about 4 moves away. It returned an average of 10bc per turn which is pretty spiffy. My planet and theirs were tucked into a corner of the galaxy and I shielded them from invasion, so it was a neat arrangemen
I have always been fascinated by the way that the AI in this and all games seems to give up when defeat appears to be inevidable. Ever try to breathe new life into a beaten AI? Try giving them fleets and lots of money. It is a waste of time. They appear to be in deep depression and nothing will revive them. Going back to AOE, the AI that had taken a beating would have lots of workers bumbling around that could have started rebuild
an ai that thinks making 100000 scouts could possibly overcome a fighter? Well if you had multi-player you could be playing against humans that think building 10,000 farms will win the game
Interestingly, the last gigantic map game I played I was pure eveil and got some great planet bonuses, I figured I would have no choice but to take the dark way since when choice time came around the cost of changing would be too high. When I researched ethics I was surprised to see that neutral was available to me for a lousy 2500bc. Since by that time I had over 50K I went for the neutral planet upgrades. Seems strange that you
Yes! it's not.
I had to use 1152x864 and it works fine but no option to go full screen or resize. I gues the graphic demands are too great to allow a lot of switching. Oh BTW I do have a border, title bar, etc, but the window size is fixed.
So much depends on Moral bonuses. I play Populist politics and the highest moral (naturally Joyous) so I can control moral with fewer entertainmet buildings. I also build frictionless clothing, harmony crystals etc. I can't imagine more than 3-4 farms. Use 4 or more Market centers to boost your income and shoot for 25-30 billion max population. With the econ capital you will have an economic dynamo. It is not hard to beat the AI
Thanks, that is the problem, I'm sure
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I am usually a diplomatic player and I try to avoid the long wars, In a recent gigantic map game I stumbled on a strategy that seems to work well at the challenging level. I colonized all the high PQ planets in my part of the galaxy with the intent to come back and pick up the 6-7 PQ later. I was well established with influence and diplomatic tech when the AI came in with their slow, long range colony ships and started picking off the low P
I don't understand either. I have had PQ 7 planets with bonus tiles that were MFG Capitals and some that turn out constructors in 2 turns. They are obviously a deficit planet but they don't need entertainment usually and they rarely remain PQ7 after terraforming. After some playing around with it I use Mars as a Research base. Build factory, build 2 labs, then build over the factory. BTW there is one planet below PQ4 th
When I deselect fullscreen and restart the game I do get a window but there is no title bar and the window is nearly full screen. I can't resize the window and the only real difference is that the task bar will pop up. I am using window blinds. Could that be a problem? Before anyone thinks that is a silly question, the Stardock distributed Deciples is not compatable with WB on my computer.
Another way to play that is interesting is Rare everything. I haven't tried it on a large map but on tiny and small you wind up with not much more than your own system.
There is a ship folder for regular games and one for Metaverse. I would guess it is set up that way because of modding. Some ships could be modded to the point of being a cheat?? Anyway you can copy and paste ships from one file to the other
If you bump the level you will get all the influence countering you can handle. (not that they don't still make silly AI mistakes like selling influence starbases). It may only be economy bonuses but like us humans, having the cash helps us do what we need to do, so they will seem more intelligent even if they are not. If you read the forums you see that there are still many players that can't survive 2 years on cakewalk. Leave the lower lev
a list of the components that I could potentially add. This is my favorite gripe and I have seen very little comment on it. I would like to be able to see a list as you suggest and I would like for there to be a visual cue when the starbase is currently or permanently filled up. When you ar
a list of the components that I could potentially add. This is my favorite gripe and I have seen very little comment on it. I would like to be able to see a list as you suggest and I would like for there to be a visual cue when the starbase is currently or permanently filled up. When you ar
Holy multiple farms batman! I have never built more than 2 farms on any planet and that was a high PQ planet with no bonus farm squares and I usually don't have but one entertainment building per planet. Once in a blue moon I might have to build 2 on a PQ 20+ planet. If you build 3-4 entertainments and more than one maybe two farms where do you build factories, labs, embassies, special projects, trade goods etc. A plane
You can delete the design in My documents/my games/GC2/ ships. I think that is the folder
A recent survey showed that there are 243 persons on Earth that still have a 2 button mouse. All of them seem to have bought GC2. Seriously, If your mouse happens to have a scroll wheel it will usually work as the third button if not, the only fix for this is to buy a new mouse.
I think it is a reward for going down the Mass driver tree. Mass Drivers used to be my favorite but since they downgraded the 2 powered mass driver in favor of the 1 power rail guns it has not been a desirable weapon choice over lasers and missiles.
I just finished my first game on tough and it was tough. I played head to head with the Drengin on a tiny map with everything rare. There were only 4 habital planets on the map, Earth and Mars for me and Drengi and Hoth for them. There were 6 resources, I got a research, a military and 2 morals. They got influence and econ. As usual I jumped out to an influence lead so I controled the UP. There was a new planet event an
Cheats are a great way to learn a game. For me I don't learn anything getting my teeth kicked in but the cheats allow you to experiment to see what you need to do to win. The victories are indeed hollow but the learning experience is fun as is blowing up the guy that was crushing you a few moves before.
