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Do you still think GalCiv 1 is fun even with GalCiv II out?

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shipless military victory

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by Veteran Maxtipherous - 10/26/2003 9:32:54 AM

Greets y'all

was playing my typical giga-maso uncommon, and decided to do zero culture flipping (agony!). I started with econ 30%, morale 30%, diplo 40%, good isolation and four (!!!) econ resources within range, 2 20PQ and 2 19PQ. This is, like, a cakewalk and I almost didn't play it. By mid-game I had 100% taxes and 100% expenditures and 120K+ BC in the bank.

After overlords I started cranking out the ships and took out four majors handily. By then me and #5 have excaliburs and he is pretty well entrenched with 50billion populations and all the defenses.

But I've still got over 40K BC in the bank. Did you know you can buy your opponent's entire navy if you have 40K BC? I mean all of it.

Declare war by popping a starbase. Sue for peace and take 5 or 6 systems. Declare war, sue for peace, take 5 or 6 systems. Declare war, sue for peace, take last system. End of game. One turn.

They have to change the negotiation screen to cash-flow -- one slider for cash on hand and another promising only up to your positive cash-flow for n turns.

#1 by Citizen Matthew Downie - 10/26/2003 11:05:13 AM

100% taxes? You can do that?

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#2 by Citizen Stydracos - 10/26/2003 11:59:32 AM

I do this often, buy morale trade goods, tech and get some resource plus all the morale improvements built and PQ improvements (unmodded). Basically I look after each and every planet to get the morale high. Thats why I hate culture flips... they cost so much to be made hapy and ruin my income a bit.

Seems with the high population and 100% happy people I can manage to make money from taxes alone abeit not enough for 100% production, more like 35%-50%. Add in 10 trade routes and say show me the money.

However this micromanagement comes naturally now too, begin with... not so. It was a long time before I realised it was more the order you build things, a slow constant progression with 100% moral per system maintains the empire economy. This way I can war monger all I like with in budjet of course

. In fact I'm not sure what it is I'm doing now I didn't before

.

Might add if it makes a difference I play as good, tade center helps. Sometimes manage to get some evil techs that might help too, slightly... like secret police etc.
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#3 by Veteran vincible - 10/27/2003 3:22:08 PM

But I've still got over 40K BC in the bank. Did you know you can buy your opponent's entire navy if you have 40K BC? I mean all of it.Declare war by popping a starbase. Sue for peace and take 5 or 6 systems. Declare war, sue for peace, take 5 or 6 systems. Declare war, sue for peace, take last system. End of game. One turn.

It's that cheap? How big was the navy?

#4 by Citizen Stydracos - 10/27/2003 8:04:33 PM

Must be low tech fleet to be that cost, for me being an ally with a high diplomacy rating Overlords were 10000 each and excaliburs around 150000 (

was a while ago) Very hard to buy too many with 60k.

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#5 by Veteran vincible - 10/27/2003 9:56:19 PM

Yeah Stydracos, that's more in line with my experiences.

#6 by Citizen Jexal - 10/27/2003 10:15:05 PM

How do you sue for peace and are able to grap planets in the process? Because I usually play the lowest level ai and haven't at any time during that period was I able to sue for peace and grab 6-7 systems in the process.
Your fellow player,
Jaxel

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#7 by Veteran vincible - 10/27/2003 10:25:44 PM

Jexal,
In the diplomacy screen when you ask for a peace treaty, add other things to their side of the negotiating table as well (techs, money, planets, and so on). You will only get planets if your military is much stronger than theirs.

#8 by Veteran Maxtipherous - 10/28/2003 12:40:45 AM

vincible
40,000 BC for 100 turns!!!

#9 by Veteran vincible - 10/28/2003 12:48:19 AM

omg

that sounds like an even worse exploit than mass terror stars.
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#10 by Veteran Maxtipherous - 10/28/2003 2:07:03 AM

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