The only times I've seen pirates are when I get the galactic prison and the inevitable "escape" event occurs a few turns later. Give them one or two turns after that, and a pirate fleet appears near its planet and starts attacking stuff. Unfortunately, they're too few in number to be relevant, as far as what I've seen. It'd be nice if SD raised the ante a bit with regards to how prevalent the pirates get.
I think the Civ4 expansion is going to implement vassal states.
Here's some stuff I've noticed, not certain if they've already been reported, but what the hell. 1. Between turns, if one of my ships arrives at its destination but that destination doesn't make it automatically do something (such as a constructor arriving at an empty point in space, rather than automatically triggering a starbase module build window), the game will basically sit there waiting for hell to freeze over. The turn button doesn't
Try it now, it just worked for me.
Try it now. It just worked for me.
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Topic title says it all.
I think the rule of thumb is "if you have to ask, it's not good enough." One other thing about posted system requirements, when they say minimum 256MB of memory, figure on that meaning 256MB available to the program, on top of however much the OS has to take up. I've had GC2 take up as much as 1.6GB of memory.
April 2006 issue, page 131. 8/10 and a 7.75/10 second opinion.
Arrow keys yes. Would be nice if those were mapped to scroll the window, like practically every other strategy game in existence.
This is why I skip the expensive stuff and just ask for EB gift cards for Christmas.
Make certain you didn't set them to guard. They skip their movement points every turn unless an enemy ship enters their sensor range.
I'm assuming the stuff in the Target field is in quotes. Put the "cheat" parameter to the right, outside the quotes. It's no problem if there are no quotes, but the quotes are necessary if there are spaces in the path.
Probably my biggest pet peeve with the interface is trade routes. They need to be made far more obvious than they actually are. Against the darkness of space, I have to squint in order to guess where they're at, and they're far easier to see when covered by the fog of war.
Mistake??? I call that a means of relieving boredom. If you can't get the AI to declare war against you (believe me, I poke and prod them all day and they're too scared of me to do anything about it), just ally with a minor race, and in a few turns, guaranteed war that you didn't start.
Yeah and in middle to late game each AI is pumping out tons of ships and of course the game has to keep track of every single one of those ships, calculate the movements and such, all of which takes up progressively more cpu and memory.
Yeah, once you select your alignment, you trade away the random events in favor of the civ-wide bonuses afforded by a particular alignment. It doesn't negate all random events, just the alignment-shifting ones.
I've found that the only way to practically guarantee a AI surrendering to you, is to have an overwhelming coordinated offense take several worlds in rapid succession before they can bring their forces to bear. I get the impression that the AI checks to see if there are any other AIs that can stand up to such an array of forces to ensure the preservation of their kind, and if none are available, they're stunned into complicity. If all you've
Would be nice to get a more in-depth explanation as to what sort of "performance issues" actually occur, you know, to understand if it's really worth the 15-parsec limit. I mean otherwise it sounds like it was capped at 15 for game balance purposes.
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Great. Is anyone else having problems logging into SDC?
You can do the same with Interest Rates (17) and Government (26). Interest Rates controls the amount of interest you pay per turn (as well as the number of turns) when you buy something (a ship, or improvement) versus building it normally. Government apparently affects the amount of bias towards you, all other things considered, in senate races. Apparently "Crime" and "Cabinet" are marked as "not yet implemented.'
Okay, so how do you actually get the miniaturization bonus to take in AbilityBonuses.xml? I've already added it and it doesn't show up in-game.
He said "distributing," not "publishing." I think Stardock is still the game's sole publisher in the 'States, just that T2 handles distribution, possibly along with other distributors.
I've seen that only once, I don't have a damn clue what it does and it didn't seem to adversely affect anything.
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