Galactic Civilizations 2

[JoeCorrado]

I picked up GC2 on Friday and am about to pull my hair out.

What am I missing guys? I cannot build ships larger than a defender playing the Terran side. I have to be missing something obvious but I can't figure it out to save my empire! LOL

What do I have to do to be able to build larger, stronger ships- I am being killed in every game and I still haven't figured it out.

I thought it would have been medium hulls on the tech tree, but no dice.

PLEASE HELP!!!

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by JoeCorrado

I picked up GC2 on Friday and am about to pull my hair out.

What am I missing guys? I cannot build ships larger than a defender playing the Terran side. I have to be missing something obvious but I can't figure it out to save my empire! LOL

What do I have to do to be able to build larger, stronger ships- I am being killed in every game and I still haven't figured it out.

I thought it would have been medium hulls on the tech tree, but no dice.

PLEASE HELP!!!

Start researching hull size. Doesn't matter much though at you stage since the enemy won't have the tech to build anything better than you if you manage it right.

I doubt another race will sell you hull size upgrades too. They horde it for themselves. You will have to reasearch it on your own.

Small is what you have. Medium is next.

-S

[DeepIron]

BTW guys, StarDock has the first beta for GC2 2.0 out and available. It mostly affects Twilight but fixes some stuff in Dark Avatar as well... You'll need Impulse to install it.

To save you some hair pulling (providing you have Impulse running correctly already) you'll need to click on the blue StarDock icon in the upper LH corner and then click the "Show prerelease versions" checkbox. That way, the updates will show up in the "Updates" tab and you can choose to install them.

[JoeCorrado]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Start researching hull size. Doesn't matter much though at you stage since the enemy won't have the tech to build anything better than you if you manage it right.

I doubt another race will sell you hull size upgrades too. They horde it for themselves. You will have to reasearch it on your own.

Small is what you have. Medium is next.

-S

I researched to "medium hulls" and it says that several new ships would be available but all of them require atleast one new technology- it doesn't say what new technology that might be but on some of the ships it said more than one technology would be need with a not about miniaturization being one.

I am still unable to build anything other than a freighter (from the trade technology) and small ships like the defender- nothing else. This is why I have lost every time I've played. Every other race seems to be building frigates, corvettes, etc~ I'm stuck with patrol craft!

Could be an enjoyable game, but looks destined for file 13...

Any help is appreciated.

[SUBMAN1]

You need other techs to get 'pre-designed' canned ships. Nothing is stopping you from designing your own bigger ships. I don't think I ever used a canned ship in the entire game. Always too limited.

-S

[JoeCorrado]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

You need other techs to get 'pre-designed' canned ships. Nothing is stopping you from designing your own bigger ships. I don't think I ever used a canned ship in the entire game. Always too limited.

-S

I went ahead and designed my own- I had thought that their would have been some stock ships of the larger variety.

Thanks for the help.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by JoeCorrado

I went ahead and designed my own- I had thought that their would have been some stock ships of the larger variety.

Thanks for the help.

No problem man. Even at the behinning of the game, you can build better ships than the canned ships. You can build cheaper colony transports (Think mass production instead of ship speed and you can save a bundle on resources and time to construct and get more transports to colonize more planets 3x as fast).

How about survey ships to analyze those rocks floating around? I built a ship small in size and had 3x of the fastest engines you could research - it covered 25 to 30 spaces in one turn, and usually surveyed two to three rocks in any given turn, increasing my abilities each time.

Just think what you want to accomplish and build a specialized ship for it. A few posts back, you can see I built a ship to take on the Dread Lords - basically send them packing, though it wasn't designed to survive the actual battle. It sent the Dread Lords cruiser packing for over 2 years time though so I had little worry about them doing me harm.

Just think outside the box - and you will win.

-S

[JoeCorrado]

The concept of "pirates" is fine, but to have hundreds of them appear all across the galaxy- all at once and most of them equipped with state of the art weapons (black hole eruptor) is stretching things past the breaking point.

These pirates just appeared out of the blue and instantly became the highest rated military in the galaxy. My nilitary is unable to deal with this! There are so many of them that building any type of a fleet capable of responding is impossible. These guys are everywhere, attacking everything at once.

Wow.

[Egan]

Amazon just dispatched my copy of the 'Ultimate Edition'. That will do nicely for X-mas i think. I can't believe that this game pretty much past me by for so long. Looking forward to playing it.

[Egan]

Installed it last night to have a quick look see and ended up playing for 4 hours. It looks like a keeper. I can't believe I haven't bought it before now.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Egan

Installed it last night to have a quick look see and ended up playing for 4 hours. It looks like a keeper. I can't believe I haven't bought it before now.

Definitely a keeper.

-S

[JoeCorrado]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Definitely a keeper.

-S

I would say so! I became addicted to the game immediately... some very dangerous stuff here if you are married and your other half expects to get much of your time. :rotfl: