ChrisGrenard

ChrisGrenard

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Reply to Upgrade Freighters in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yar.... I figured this out after breaking about 10 trade routes while trying to put faster ships on the route. Very stupid of me to do. Indeed, once a trade route is established there is no need to do anything to upgrade it. It will just chug along at 1 parsec singing songs all the way.* *Note, you can only hear the song from maximum zoom in level. It turns out that all freighters listen incessantly to "Yellow Submarine." Who

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Reply to Propusing Bills in the United Planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The two suggestions I like in here are the use of espionage to see how the AI will probably vote and the ability to swing votes by paying people off. Anybody here ever played Disgaea for PS2? If so, think about how you could pay off senators in that game.... same sorta thing, but GalCiviz

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Reply to Aggressiveness problem in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In recent games, I have had fairly good luck with a semi mean little trick. YMMV of course. I have found that if a race is starting to pester me a bit, I can usually trade them a tech or two (I tend to be a major tech trader) for a bunch of their ships. Usually this will give me the military presense to get them to back off, and weaken their own military. A few games, after doing this, I immediately trade all those ships to anyb

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Reply to Am I in the minority? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Early on I was making crazy ship designs, but I quickly discovered due to my VERY low system power, these were killing my computer every time I went into 3d view. Now I pretty much go with a pretty standardized system that is simple, but lets me know what type of ship it is in 3d view easily. For example, all my construction vehicles have two arms that stretch out in front of them a ways, all trading ships have two huge wide wings, etc.<br/

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Reply to GalCiv II: KNOWN issue list in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Wyvern, if you chat a lot in the background, play the game in windowed mode. I believe Brad told me a while back that the game uses a different mode of memory managment (or something technical like that) when windowed, so it should work well in that mode for you. Give it a try at least!

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Reply to Fans don't like complaining, so I will constructively complain. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I will do my best to address a few of these points, though I have only played a few games. >>Minor races: I, too, would like to see more the minor races items and trade more with them. As they are now, they are actually supposed to be there for you to milk them for technology and stuff. You shouldn't be having that much of a problem with them... >>Transparency: Take a look at those charts that you get access to by clic

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Reply to Breaking alliances in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Took me a little while to find it, yeah, it's that first tab, right above trade embargo. I decimated the insects after I broke with them... it was beautiful. I had convinved them to send their military after the guy on their other front, then I back attacked them. Mwahaha!

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Reply to And in other news... in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Brad, you rock. I'll be sure to notify you asap if the performance options work for me. I'm betting it has to do with hardware t&l, as I believe my card lacks that. Thanks a billion infinities +1!

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