Are you sure one Ship was not build at the Innovation Complex planet (usually your Home World) and the other one was? Base Speed for all Ship is 3, Racial Bonus +1, Innovation Complex +1 if build by that Planet: So you get 5. If the ship was not build by Earth then it would only have 4 which is correct.
A couple of things to consider. First, the Recruitment Center is one of the BEST early buildings. It is cheap to build, adds 10% econ, and more importantly adds 20% pop growth. Pop Growth is an important stat early that is largely overlooked. The faster you get more people on a planet the faster, they become self-sufficient. More people means more taxes. Building a small fleet of survey ships also helps slow down the money crunch. Don't be afraid to let planets
Tech trading needs to be in the game. As a player who is usually always number 1 in tech in my games, i have to have tech trading in so that the AI can play a little catch up. The problem I see right now is that you can have multiple versions of the same tech. Korath have Cutthroat Trade. Yor have Economic Efficiency 2, Humans have Xeno Economics. Each provide tech gives you a econ Bonus. Cutthroat is +5%. Yor get 10% for each tech, and Humans have +5% at the beginning of th
Overall Tech trees need an overhaul, so the impact that tech trading has now should be less, i think when things flow better. The main issue right now is how radically different most tech trees are. Tech trees should be fairly similar, only slight variation. The main difference is that the implementation of each tech is different for each race. For example: If the Humans get "Industry 3" then they would get Manufacturing Centers, while Korath would get the 3rd version the
Well, if we are talking wishlist, then here we go: Planetary Invasion. I really dont like the idea that I can take a Transport that is 1 mile long and 1 mile wide and cram 1 Billion People on it and invade another planet. Not to mention the idea of taking 1/10 of the population of an entire planet, giving them a gun and telling them to kill the entire population of another planet. I would like to see conquering instead. The idea is that you build troops on a planet. Your pl
I play with surrender off now. In beta3, I bribed the 4th most powerful race to attack the 2nd. I wanted them to keep him busy. The very next turn the race I had bribed surrendered to the race I told to attack. I was very annoyed.
I was playing a Gigantic Map last week or so as the Krynn. Tough, 8 Races, Habitable planets = Abundant, Planet = Common and Stars = Common, Clustered. I wanted to create a lot of empty space. Anyways. The Yor started of in one corner other side of the galaxy to where I was, and the Thalans were next to them. Yor systematically gobbled up the Thalans. It was a strange game anyways, the AIs took way too long to really start colonizing. I controlled 4 major galaxy clusters, and
Altarian have a -20% weapon Penalty. Now the fact that a 1 laser is reduced to 0 because of this 20% is a bit ludicrous, and limiter should be in place that makes a ship with a weapon at least have 1 weapon value.
I think to make a unique experience with the Thalans, they should get one building that is Jack-of-all-trades, and only 1 Building. The home world could still build the 3 Galactic Achievements, but the rest of the worlds would only be able to build this one building. Idea Building - Cost 7 BC, 3 Industry, 3 Research, 8% Econ, 1 Food, 5% Moral. While a little boring, it would still be a radical game play change. Upgrading this build would stop your production cold for at
First of, sorry about the name. Korgath is WoW Horde Town, which was the main hub to get into Blackrock Mountain and into the Raid Zones there. I spent a lot of time there. Anyways, concerning the Korath. Yes, the Korath have penalties later in the game. Most races do. Late game problems can be out weighed by early game gains. The issue here is that the Korath are so strong early on that in larger games with many worlds to colonize that they out colonize everyone so the
Korgath don't have a negative starting attribute. They also start with an innate +25 Moral Bonus so with the first tech you research, they are at +35% Moral already. Which means you can live very comfortably at 49% tax rate and still have 100% spending. My colonies just get 2 slave factories and the recruitment center and then I just leave them there unless there are significant 300% bonus tiles. Consider how cheap slave factories are. Traditional Factories are 3BC for 4
I have been playing the Korath a lot in this beta, and the amount of Pop Growth bonus that the Korath can accumulate early in the game may be a bit too much. The Korath can generate a 50% increase in Pop Growth with only about 10 technologies early in the game. This bonus allow them to expand very quickly because their starter colony tax bases grows very fast. They never actually get into a money crunch. Their slave based factories are also very cheap in maintenance. The
Thalan tech tree is weird. Thalan's need some initial planetary improvement items. Having 3 Galactic Achievements, and then nothing till I research 3 or 4 tiers into the tree is not cool.
The resource mining upgrades are also missing. Yor can only get to 14% extraction, which is the default. Not being able to gain another 20% bonus on top of that like other races can, will cause the Yor to lag behind more late in the game.
Here is the data from the PlanetImprovements.xml file Improvement Nano Recorders Microrepairbots.png NanoRecorders ManufactureBonus > 0 MoraleBonus > 0 EconomicBonus > 0 PrestigeBonus > 0 PlanetaryQualityBonus > 0 StarshipQualityBonus > 0 ResearchBonus 0 S_Type > TradeGood S_TechRequirement > Sensors2 AbilityType > 8 AbilityAmount > 10 SpecialID > 9 Cost
So I just bought the game, and I am loving it. Much like GalCiv1 though the tech tree is a little confusing at first. So I downloaded "Galactopedia". Very Handy, but... I ran across 2 item in Galactopedia that are not in the game. Namely the Nano Recorders Trade Good and the Galactic Monument Achievement. Nano Recorder supposedly comes from Sensor 3 and give 10% Research Bonus, and Galactic Monument comes from Star Federation and
