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Reply to Suggestions to Improve Espionage in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Some great ideas ... Also, might be useful to know in advance how an opponent is going to vote at the UP ... But one idea that would be cool, would be to expand on the idea of the link between spying and events. Like a spy event that you set off and pay for - for example, trying to clone the leader of the enemy race and have your clone put on the throne, kill off the real leader, and voila! Your own puppet empire! muhahahaha! It could take several events and lots of r

Reply to ANZAC Empire, 'Bridging the Ditch' Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Or perhaps: nunc est bibendum - now it is time to drink :D

Reply to ANZAC Empire, 'Bridging the Ditch' Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How about this for a Latin Motto: Condunatio mos accido alter balatro. It roughly means 'Together we will destroy other fools' but I didn't do Latin at school, this was off a web dictionary LOL Well, up to you guys :) PS Will join up (if allowed) as soon as I can, but all this Medicare stuff is killing me ...

Reply to ANZAC Empire, 'Bridging the Ditch' Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How about this for a Latin Motto: Condunatio mos accido alter balatro. It roughly means 'Together we will destroy other fools' but I didn't do Latin at school, this was off a web dictionary LOL Well, up to you guys :) PS Will join up (if allowed) as soon as I can, but all this Medicare stuff is killing me ...

Reply to Declaring war? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Shouldn't a "good" civ declare war ... I mean, that's what good guys do, right? Fight honorable like and all ... just like the US right? :D Don't worry all your pretty US heads, 'we' all still love you. ;)

Reply to What's the point of cloaking? (Phoenix/Ranger) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The Yor are gonna be real p#ssed off when they find out! "what do you mean you can see us puny hu-man? this is a cloaked ship! Wait a second ..." LOL

Reply to Please, someone think about the poor starbase crews! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Anyone else wonder what the defence 'counter attack' is? I mean, you have 10 defence (aka 5 attack) - what the heck is that? "Oh no, the Yor is opening fire sir" "Don't worry Jim" "but captain we'll be destroyed... " large explosion "hahahaa stupid Yor tried to ram us again" LOL LOL

Reply to What are your star naming conventions? in Strategies Stardock Forums

HAY! No bad mouthing Australia ... mate! >:( We don't all live in the middle of a sheep paddock, riding kangaroos to work - that's just a lifestyle preference I have :D As for Stars and stuff, name them after mythical creatures, like Pegasus, Griffin etc ...

Reply to So what is the average age of a Gal Civ player?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Buhahaha - be scared! I am 23 ... ok, so not so old ... :)

Reply to ship combat - one thing I really hate :( in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OK - so Frogboy says no stack bonus - fair enough. But it seems a lot of people are sick of the auto-suicide way that battles currently play out. Perhaps a compromise (don't know if doable) - a stack of ships gets no "attack" advantage, but once they get close to dieing, they retreat, let the next ship in the stack fight unitl almost dead, retreat, repeat. You keep going until you are back to the starting ship (which is almost dead) - it now continues the fight to the death ..

Reply to Does anyone in Australia have the game yet? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Must ... resist ... getting Galciv from US ... currency too crap!!!! ARGH ... can't hold out much longer ...

Reply to Does anyone in Australia have the game yet? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hello, My first post (yay) - I'm in Canberra and the local EB doesn't even know what I was talking about! (:( When is this game comming to Aust?? I want to play ... If anyone knows, please spill. Thanks.