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Reply to Known Bugs / Cheese Listing (Game Mechanics Only) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The only problem with the repeat colonising one is that it seems to crash the game every time I destroy a colony.... so hardly worth the hassle (particularly considering the save game doesn't save everything).

Reply to GalCiv AI question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

IIRC, the human never gets a bonus or penalty. However, at lower difficulty levels the AI suffers an economy penalty: for example at Fool (the easiest difficulty level) it only gets 40% of the income that it would earn at the breakeven difficult level (Intelligent, I think). At the highest couple of difficult levels, the AI gets a bonus. The other stats of the AI are not affected by the difficulty setting, except (and most importantly), its "intelligence" which determines how likely i

Reply to The ultimate in trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree with Alzandrion, selling Tech is the way to do it. This seems particularly ridiculous with a high diplomacy bonus - I just finished playing a game on Tough where I started with the pacifists, and bought Diplomatic Translators early (from Mitrosoft, ouch!), and refused to trade them to anyone else. With ~60% more diplomacy than most others, I was getting truly ridiculous amounts of cash for selling tech - particularly from minors. I could get like 150bc per year for 20 years for sellin

Reply to Galactic Kiwis in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Jeatalong: Actually, NZ was offered the chance to be part of Australia at federation, but refused (and who can blame em?). We were never actually "part of Australia". ;-) I doubt I'll have enough time to play Galciv to be of assistance to any empire - besides, I'm off to live in the US in a month or so anyway. |Zero|

Reply to Galactic Kiwis in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Edit: oops double post. [Message Edited]

Reply to Weird bug (1.03.56 I think) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sorry, I don't recall with certainty. I have a suspicion it might have been the "information warfare" one (whatever its called, costs like 2200 bc and subverts some of their population to your side). It could however have been a traditional invasion, and there's a very vague possibility it might have been the gas invasion one. Certainly none of the others. |Zero|

Reply to can't update to 1.03 , invalid CD kay in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One thing to note: the CD-key is case sensitive. So, if its in all capitals, you need to enter it as all capitals. Similarly, you may or may not (I don't recall which) need to include the hyphens. |Zero|

Weird bug (1.03.56 I think) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi all, I was just playing a game where I invaded the Yor home system with ~5b troops, which contained 4 planets (2 18s and 2 19s) (with about 9b population each). Anyway, I win the battle (just!) - and then find that each planet has 100b population (and of course morale = 1%)! (Though, despite shipping lots of troops off with transports and building things, I never got morale above 1% for the rest of the game. And though I had the "unhappy people" icon on the system for the re

Reply to Starbase Maint Idea Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The ^1.7 power seems designed so that at 10 starbases, the average maintenance is 5 - ie at 10 starbases you pay the same maintenance as in 1.03. I think maintenance on a per-module idea is a bad idea: the idea with having maintenance was to reduce the number of starbases rather than the quality of each. In terms of the ^1.7 power system: be aware that this will have big consequences on a large map - should you really have to pay a larger proportion of your economy for starbase

Reply to Civilization Creation - disadvantages! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Alternatively, you could offer "packages" that offered both benefits and penalties for a net change of zero points. Eg: 0 points for +20 something -25 something else. You could offer themed "packages" this way. Eg: -20 soldiering, -20% hit points in exchage for +20% economy and +15% diplomacy. Or whatever.

Reply to Destabilization in practice? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm an utter newb so apologise if this is a silly comment... but on a reasonable intelligence level, would you really expect it to have a huge impact on morale? Surely, if you spend enough on destabilisation to make their morale drop, they would spend lots of money on morale boosting stuff to keep their planets from defecting. So, your destablilisation may have a big effect on them, but the effect may be to force them to divert resources to shoring up morale (at the expense of military

Reply to I find this a tad disturbing in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

New Zealand regularly has a bunch of loonie parties who get a few hundred votes nation wide (though note, the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party got over 3% of the vote in 1999). Unfortunately, the McGillicuddy Serious Party (with their stated policy of tying ropes to the tectonic plates and pulling on them to cause an earthquake, in order to knock all the buildings down to make room for zigzagging bullock tracks) no longer exists. Still, parties like them, the Natural Law Party (advocat

Reply to System requirements in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sweet! Thanks Nicholas. Now, where's that credit card... |Zero|

System requirements in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hi everyone, Apologies if the answer to this is somewhere obvious, but I didn't see it in a quick look round (and this forum doesn't seem to have a search feature). Anyway, I note that the min system requirements are supposed to be a P3 600. I have a P3 450 - at least for the next few months until I upgrade - will Galciv run reasonably well on this system? I don't mind skips in movies and the like, or not being able to play the largest map sizes, but would it still generally