Dude THIS IS GREAT! Well time to go play more Gal Civ 2.

Thanks! And a happy Thanksgiving to you.

Nicer eye candy is always good, but I like the steady flow of AI behavior tweaks as much or more. (I don't buy new hardware that often, so I suppose "replayability" is more important for me than "future-proofing.")

Thanks for the update. This may even pull me back from playing HoMM5!

I have more AI enhancements in the works. I would expect to have another update ready before we go on Christmas break.

If you guys have anything in particular balance wise or AI wise, let me know (i.e. don't suggest some new UI or whatever because I can't do that, I work purely on the gameplay aspects).

Agreed Brad. I still watch the battles. I just never tire of it.

I'm STILL waiting for the option to have NO STARTING SHIPS. How hard would this be?

How about, if it doesn't find the name of starting ships in the XML, instead of crashing, just don't create them. Then we could create a MOD to pick and choose which ships to start with.

Isn't it a bug? Beam weapon theory now costs only 57 tp, while mass driver and missile weapon theory cost 357.

Edit: pardon, it costs 116.

Brad, could you look into this thread https://forums.galciv2.com/?aid=329764#comments and tell us what you think about population and morale?

Hey Frogboy,

There's a big bug where the Terrans and Altarians don't build warships in TA. I saw this in a post earlier. Could you look into that?

No - Beam weapons are cooler, and result in vastly better battles - accordingly time spent watching "Battlestar Galactica", "Star Wars" and "Bablyon Five" is counted against the 300 point Beam Weapons discount.

Due to the vast number of uber-babes seduced by Jim Kirk, Star Trek only counts for higher morale bonuses.

It's True - you've never caught me lying to you before have you - {G} - Jonnan

edit: No one appears to have mentioned that ship build bug to the Altairians in my current game.

And if the generals' intelligence was set to "really intelligent", they wouldn't declare war on me when I have one transport in their space . . . the one they gave me the previous turn

How do I go about getting Version 2.0 of Galciv 2?

Something I think is unbalancing, that it seems like could be updated would be "Eyes of the universe", and in general the AI not thinking sensors or engines are worth putting on a ship.

Assuming that the AI is as bound by the same sensor ranges I am (Having shadowed enemy ships before, it seems to be the case that you can see them and not have them see you.), and that only anomalies are trackable outside visual range, it seems to me that AI's *really* should value sensors a bit more, nor have I ever noticed their adding engines on ships, which frankly seems pretty obvious to me.

Of course, *I* hardly ever place sensors on ships either, once I have "Eyes of the universe". But I can't think of any good reason for that to be a galactic achievement - it's not like it would be irreproducible technology - {G}. But I have gotten so much tech traded over time for Sensors I - IV that it doesn't appear the AI ever uses that and I find it weird.

Jonnan

You know, I have to say, Brad, that despite having Fallout 3 at my house, Gears of War 2 a few Amazon clicks away, and countless other "new" games to play, that I've found myself, quite "by accident" simply playing GalCivII 2.0 for hours and hours and hours.  It's finally replaced MOO2 for me, which is no small achievement.  So, way to go, if you would make a GalCiv3 and take SOME of the ideas from the MOO series, I think you'd have the Game To End All Games.