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Reply to Questions on Starbases... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You also need additional constructors to make the bases useful. Bases without any modules can only improve your ships range and increase your civs influence a bit.

Reply to I think I've played my last game... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Wait - you stop playing Galciv 2 because of the bad AI, and go back to playing ROME: TOTAL WAR ??? Romes AI can't even hope to beat me on the very hard campaign level, where it gets 10.000 gold extra per turn. The strategic AI is utterly crap, the AI empires will even start wars with you when you have a three times larger army and them already having wars with two other enemys. I guess thats the reason why they called it "Total War" <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_

Reply to Ship configurations and ship protection in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It's been shown repeatedly that defense isn't worth having. Oh, "the-defenses-are-worthless" thread again. (See also: https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=346&AID=117458) I tend to use a lot of defenses (matching whatever my worst enemy has) as soon as I have medium hulls, but not before that. Putting defenses on a tiny or small ship means

Reply to 1.11 Patch - where did all the minor races go? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have the same problem. I started playing with V 1.11 and have never seen a minor race. They don't turn up no matter if I check or uncheck the box - at first I thought the box was somehow reversed or the german translation was wrong. I even started a 1 vs 1 game in a medium galaxy to provide enough space for the minors, but that didn't work either.

Reply to Thinking about buying this game. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you're a veteran strategy gamer, once you begin understanding the game you will find how flawed the AI is. Well thats true for every strategy game on the market (unless you count chess, but the chess AIs took decades and thousands of developers to get it right). Even with all the flaws, the Galciv 2 AI belongs to the best I know - a lot of s

Reply to STICKY: SHOW OFF your cool ship designs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thats an awesome thread, before seeing the great ships here I never tried anything more complex than a hull with 4 wings and simple stuff like that. Thats my first try to build something more elaborate, the "Reaper" (small terran hull, no mods used):

Reply to Are defenses simply to expensive? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think defenses are too expensive, it just depends on the situation. In my current game the Torian had a 4 times higher military rating and I guess about 10-15 times more warships, however I had a large technological advance. I used mainly large and huge ships, while he stuck to tiny and small ones and only a few mediums. My designs were mostly balanced, for example I had a battleship design with an attack of 34,def 49,speed 19. The Torians kept sending me shitloads of g