Arthur Urban

Reply to Surrender issues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay Stardock. Time to seriously examine the AI's surrender strategy. I had close relations with the Torians, and was even an ally for 18+ months. When the going got tough, I siphoned them money and ships. But in the end they surrendered to the Drengin all the way accross the galaxy... not me ! What good are my relashions with the other races if these relations never help, but only mitigate the harm I incur. Arrrgh, this game can really tick me off!

Hacking Stellar Cartography? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay. No matter what I do, I can't seem to give myself Stellar Cartography early. I edit the .tech file and change SC to a requirement of CommunicationTheory and time of 1. Not only does this double every single tech entry in the reasearch list, but once I do finish researching SC, I don't actually get it. By that I mean my galactic map doesn't hilite the yellow stars. How the heck do I level the playing field by hacking SC? It's trickier than I thought. Thanx!

Starbases Suffering Random Damage? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Saw this one in my last game. Can't figure it out. I had built two starbases and was shuttling constructors to them, when all of a sudden I notice they both have the "flashing" electrical sparcs indicative of damage. I check the hit points of both and sure enough they are both at about 70%. I'm not at war with anybody, so they weren't attacked (and if I was the screen would have scrolled to show me the attack). Is this a known penalty for not having researched a particular tech? Did I sleep thro

Reply to Another Rant in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

That's a great tip Mark. I intend to employ that one as well, and it should provide additional money since I'm not having to pay maintenance on things I can't effectively use everwhere anyway.

Reply to Another Rant in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

First I want to thank everybody that replied in a very civil manner to my posts. That must have taken some restraint. I was really frosted by the time I took to the keyboard -- always a bad move. russellmz2: I'm glad you liked the quote. I had to laugh out loud myself when you quoted me. wampyre: I've actually considered that maybe my GalCiv is corrupted in some way. I know that's lame, but just to be sure, when the expansion pack comes out I'll probably do a new install just p

Reply to Another Rant in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This game just gets better and better. I'm doing somewhat okay finally. Then because I can't lick the Drengen boots fast enough, they want to go to war with me from the extreme oppotsite end of the galaxy. Then, to top it all off, the *only* race I was actively trading with (Antarians) decides that I fit their definition of evil. Great, I decide to utilize slaves *once* and I'm evil. Now I'm at war with half the galaxy...guess what the outcome was? Really guys, this game could use some

Another Rant in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm starting to side with the folks that are concerned about GalCiv cheating. Now, I don't think it cheats outright, but there are many things that don't ring true during game play. Why do other races have monster level populations early, even though I took the highest level Pop Growth, and second best Planet Quality? I can't even hope to keep up. If I don't grab enough worlds right at the start...I lose. If I grab too many worlds...I lose. If I don't build ships by the dozens, every race wants

Reply to Early Colonization Bug? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Nah. The only starbase in the area is held by another race. Nice thought, though.

Reply to Early Colonization Bug? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is in a medium galaxy, where I can only colonize one sector away from my current colonies. Even if the AI had a range of 2 sectors, it can't pull this off. Heck, it would take me longer even if I colonized "junk" systems in between, built a colony ship, abandoned the junk colony, and moved on. And how would I know it would be worth the effort 5 sectors away? Seems like something fishy is going on.

Caught in an Infinite War in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You gotta love this. I attack a world trapped in the same sector as two of my own. Because they are trading with another race, they both go to war with me. Then because of an alliance, another race goes to war a turn later, and then because of they're aliances all the races go to war with me the turn after that! Gets worse. I'm actually holding them all off, and all of them want out of the war but can't stop it. One of them will offer a peace treaty, but because of the war status of their

Early Colonization Bug? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is irritating. In my current game the Drengin are somehow in a system 5 sectors away from their starting location, and the Arceans are 4 away. I know that some races get an additional range increment as a racial bonus, but 4 and 5 sectors? In a colony ship moving at 1? I reached the same sector as aggressively as possible which was only 2 sectors away from my starting world. How does the AI pull off this stunt? It's absurd to even see this on the galactic map since other worlds in between a

Can't Get 1.04 Beta From SDC in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For some reason Stardock Central does not show me GalCiv 1.04 as an update. I've tried refreshing, quiting and restarting, nothing works...

New Tech Browser? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I thought 1.03 was going to sport a new tech browser, but I see no mention of it in the release notes, nor in the game itself. Has this slipped to a 1.04 release?