RagtimeRodgers

Reply to Official 1.4X Bug Report Thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I dont know if it this was a bug or if anyone has had it happen to them but I was in a DL game with a gigantic map using a custom race against 4 other races. I got the Altarians to attack the Drengin and a few turns latter I declared on the Korx. The war went well for me and I got the Korx down to 20 undefended planets (all they had) and no ships (not even freighters). I was positioned to take every planet they had and there were NO other alien races ships anywhere nearby and there is no way tha

Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Did you also know that if you buy a troop transport from another civ it appears just out of orbit next to the AI planet of origin and (here's the best part) it's fully loaded with his troops! Timing and planning it right you can conquer the galaxy using his ships his troops and through the diplomatic screen you can do it at the cost of only a few low level techs. I got my diplomatic and soldering ability up to the max, built a few heavily armed well defended and fast ships, sent them out to the

Reply to Critique my strategy in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I would suggest some tech trading. One strategy I use is to bring my diplo and soldering up as high as I can as fast as I can and then go to the diplomatic screen and trade a low level tech for every alien transport on the board. As soon as the AI accepts you get fully loaded transports just one square away from their systems. Time to declare war on the AI. I've conquered the galaxy very quickly that way with Xeno Farming II. One big suggestion though make sure first you have 3 or 4 heavily arme

Reply to In order to submit a game, you must start it through the metaverse manager. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Does that mean that only games above normal difficulty can be submitted? Somehow that doesn't seem right when I see ranking icons as low as cakewalk in these forums

Reply to I am ever so thankful Galciv is turn based! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The other thing to remember is the speed of your machine now as opposed to back then. While you were good at those real time games of a few years ago your computer now is processing those same games at about 2x the speed you got used to.