I build a specialized Sensor ship that has upgraded weapons and sensors. I never use the stock Scout ship - although this is true for virtually all standard ships excluding the Defender. (I use the Defender just to get some early military presence while I work towards upgraded weapons that are more worthy of a specially designed ship.)
The other thing I have heard is that disabling "Tech Sharing" might help with this issue. The assumption is that one or two military AIs develop a weapon, then share it with the other AIs through trade. Once all of the AIs are started down a weapons tree, they keep specializing in that weapon until they see a need to switch. Consequently, as long as there is no significant combat, AIs keep developing the same weapon tech until they are so far down the tree that switching
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Also, what is the general diplomatic situation? 1) How strong are the Iconians? 2) Are there any other large races and what are their relations with the Iconians? 3) The Terrans seemed to have liked you before - what is their strength and relations with the Iconians? There seems to be two problems here - your military situation and your inability to work the political situation to your benefit. The more info we have, the more we can help.
MisterWolf: Ummm.... You are aware that it takes one of each to have children, correct? Please figure out which one you are, first. That will help in deciding whether the devs become your children's mother or father....
I love this change. It means that it makes more sense to scout planets than do a mad rush. I hate it when my game is determined by whether I happened to move my initial colony ship in the right direction or not. Plus, it will make me think about how many people I load onto a colony ship. (Low PQ planet? Load up only a few million to claim the planet - like an expeditionary force - and reinforce later when your home planet has the population available. High PQ planet? Maybe I wan
Understood - but I still say that you can't separate the two issues of their program and your computer. If the problem truly is in the program, then how does the program work on my computer? I'm not nearly savvy enough to fix anything much beyond a power problem. ("Is the machine plugged in? - D'oh....") More likely it is something in the program that is reacting to something installed or some setting on your computer. How in the world is Stardock going to figure out yo
Psio: I see a slight inconsistency in your statement that Stardock doesn't care (whatever "care" is officially defined as - I'm still not clear on that one), and the fac tthat you have received multiple responses to help you with your problem. I understand you aren't the only person that has problems loading games on your PC, and this certainly isn't the only PC game out there that has had issues when people tried to install it. However, there are two pieces to the equatio
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I find good Military starbases absolutely essential in some games. I just finished a game where I played the Drengin and started in a bad position - with the exception of a Precursor mine on my home planet. (You've gotta love those Precursor mines...) The Arceans were way ahead of me and eventually teamed up with the Altarans (moderate to weak) to beat up on me. Fortunately, I had a military starbase built that covered four worlds - their
OK, let's count the tiles... 1 for the colony 1 for the Starport 1 for a factory 1 extra Can you even fully load a Transport with the PQ4 population cap? You must have had an economy that could have barely managed to support your fleet - much less funded your production...
Another thing on war. I tend to be stubborn with war. If someone attacks me I will keep after them, even if it takes me a while to gather the transports to take any serious real estate from them. The result is that I get tied down in a long struggle that may not completely wear me down, but keeps me occupied at the expense of economic development. All of a sudden, a big, bad neighbor - like the Drengin or Yor - will come at me with a fres
The only other general comment I will come up with is: Come up with a strategy and stick with it. You need to be focused in this mission. Usually you build up a great, strong homeland that is flexible and can react to multiple challenges - depending on how events turn. In this case, you need to grab one planet and either avoid or find a way to beat off the Dread Lords. If you are going to "turtle" strategy to try to survive and
Yeah - well, see, now - that would make a little more sense... Ooops... While were on the topic of what you can tell the AI to go shove - is there any way to just flat out declare war on the AI without actually having to attack a unit of theirs? It doesn't seem to upstanding for the goody-two-shoes of us to have to resort to sneak attacks all the time.
If I am not mistaken, you can decommision a starbase. Just select the starbase and you should see the command option on the left of the descriptive section. You get some money back (not enough to make it economically advantageous, by far), and the starbase disappears.
On placement of economic starbases: Always tough to give exact rules, as "it depends" is always a valid point in GCII, but... You should tend to focus econ starbases where they will give the maximum effect - and note that the more modules on a starbase, the more effective it becomes in general, plus the later modules tend to be more effective in their own right. (Example: initial mining modules will increase resource mining by +
I've seen questions on race abilities and bonuses before that ultimately boiled down to: "Yes the X civ does get a 20% morale bonus vs. the other civs - you just can't see it on the screen becasue of incomplete disclosure." I think this situation is similar. When you attack a planet, the screen displays your soldiering bonus and tech advantage. I'm not sure how the tech advantage weighs in, but the soldiering bonus appears to have a direct correlation to the "advantage factor". (T
There is a slightly random element - I think it is mainly attributable to luck. (This is one way that the "luck" civ attribute can help you.) I have had battles where I had 1,000 soldiers, and the target planet had 10,000 soldiers. The "die roll" was something like 5:1. On a pure numbers basis, I should have lost all of my troops and the enemy should have had 5,000 left. I did actually lose all of my troops, but my target only had 4,940 left.
Also, if I am not mistaken, the soldiering bonus is at least part of what makes up the advantage factor. IIn other words, the two numbers are related to each other, not seperate inputs to the battle factors.) The advantage factor usually seems to be the soldiering bonus divided by 10. Again, AFAIK, you do get an air superiority factor of 5 added in if you are the attacker. This is applied to the advantage factor, not the soldiering bonus.
Sorry - I have no idea on that one. My knowledge (as my medals below would indicate) is limited...
Quote from Frogboy (dev) in the forum string you were referring to: IF the player plays as the Drengin, they get those bonuses too. Each race has its own native advantages. The Terran Alliance get a diplomacy ability (so do players when they play them). The Custom race gets a +25% soldiering bonus AND a bonus to trade and research. I
I learned about GCII when I was playing GCI, which I bought after seeing on a shelf in EB - now Gamespot. (Note: before buying GCI, I researched it by going on-line and checking out Stardock's site and other review sites, so I'm not sure the credit for my GCI purchase goes entirely to Gamespot. GCII, however, I knew of an bought solely because of Stardock and my GCI experience.) Another note for the poll-makers: Shouldn't you m
If I am not mistaken, other factors will play a part, too. The cultural ratio will tell you if a flip is even possible, but there are other numbers that come into play. (The culture ratio will tell you if you have enough cultural presence in a society to make a flip possible - but actually accomplishing the flip relies on other factors. For instance, Europe is saturated with American brands, music and culture - but still hasn't flipped to become the
Just a quick note to thank Woody for a thought-out, non-flame post. So often when people think they have found bugs, they just scream "BUG!" and start insulting the developers/designers/world in general. Posters (including myself) often point out that complainers shouldn't be so negative towards those that they are trying to get help from. To that end, I figure it's worthwhile to also note when someone comes out with a
I just reread your post like andrewas did... I realize that the 25% approval mentioned was your bonus, not the planet approval rating/morale. I have to admit that I'm stumped - but I can see in another one of your help request posts that Stardock has already offered to review your file. I'd be interested to know what their answer is.
Rebtad: Is your approval actually 25% on that planet? If so, that's your problem. Your people are in such a bad mood about your rule that they can't find it in their heart to get in the mood with their loved ones... You don't appear to have hit any other limiting factors. And in the future - please don't start posts with "This game sucks because it's buggy/boken/stupid!!! - Oh, can one of you idiots that actually likes the game help me out?" I know
My 2 cents: Tell them to send your money back first. (That's what you had to do to get the disks, right?) Once you have the disks and the cash, then the choice is up to you. (If they can't prove the disks are real or any good, then why would they need them back?) In reality, if you say that you want the cash back first, they likely will not pay. If they do, then they are either hoping you are gullible, or are just desperately hoping to ge ttheir disks back wit