Steven Damer

Reply to Interesting Late Game Tactic - Ship Catapults in Strategies Stardock Forums

When I made a catapult, I noticed that fleets didn't seem to see speed bonus, but individual ships did. If you send your constructors around in fleets, that might be why you're not seeing the bonus (note, once you get the bonus, you can join the ships into a fleet without loosing the bonus). By the way, I think we should rename them Ship Yoyos, not ship catapults. I made one in a gigantic galaxy big enough to send the ship where I wanted it, have it beat up whatever opposition was in the

Reply to My survey is my most powerful vessel! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You gotta play Gigantic - Attack 37 def 130-something 150-some HPs :) The only thing out there that was nastier than it was my Excalibur.

Reply to After pumping countless constructors, my starbase is just a piece of fancy junk ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You can get through a game without ever losing a single unit. One of the things I thought was really neat about this game is that on my first game, I set all the AIs to sub-normal, and followed my usual Civ strategy of build up, wait for someone to attack you, obliterate them until you run out of units, make peace, repeat. It didn't work, because even at that level, the AI was smart enough not to start a fight if they would just get crushed :)

Reply to Terror star strat - Spoiler ....weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in Strategies Stardock Forums

I second this strategy. I just finished a game on a huge map, where I built a very fancy Terror star, with all the cultural trimmings in my home system, and sent it towards an enemy system about 2/3 of the way across them map. It got maybe 1/2 way there, and I got bored, and sent out a fleet of constructors. The constructors had reached the enemy system, built a starbase, and converted all the planets before the Terror Star arrived :D

Reply to Drengin AI floored me. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you want to help another race which is being annihilated by culture, send about 10 constructors to a system where they are in danger, build a starbase with good defenses and all the culture improvements (Ok, it takes more than 10 if you've got a lot of tech), and then give them the starbase

Reply to Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I know this is asking a lot, but I would love - I mean, absolutely adore - an interface which would allow us to write our own AIs for the game. I've been reading some of the threads about AI goofs, thinking 'that doesn't sound too hard to fix'. I'd really enjoy the oppourtunity to prove myself wrong :)

Reply to Bug Reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Here's a fun one. In a game I was playing, the Altarians surrendered to the Torians. Then, several years later, I got a message from the Altarians saying that they were going to join in my war against the Arceans.

Reply to Simple one line responce to help developers know. Where did you hear about GaCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Slashdot

Reply to Wanted: Best solution for "wasted" resources issue (Slider allocations to non "active" projects" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My vote is definitely for Thrags proposal. If programming concerns make that unworkable, I think getting some (50%?) percentage of the cash back makes the most sense.