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[Xeron]

Greetings, people, I have decided to do a Let's Play of Galactic Civilizations 2. What's that, you may ask ? Only one of the best 4X games I have had the pleasure of playing, although I'd trust most people here would already know about this game. Regardless, we shall begin the game as a custom race that is more or less similar to the Terran Alliance, the Human Empire. You can all submit characters and vote upon them, six which will be used to represent various factions within the empire. I will be the seventh, the completely originally called Leader. I also want pictures for them.

Spoiler: Game Conditions (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Our Race (click to show/hide)

: Let the expansion commence.
Chapter 1

[Sirus]

Best of luck to ya. I tried to do an LP of this once and it got bogged down in a nasty conflict before ending when school robbed me of inspiration.

It looks like you might be playing with the Twilight of the Arnor expansion. What major races are you playing against? What difficulty?

[Xeron]

Max number of opponents, everything else is random.

[RedKing]

I'll have to watch this. As much as I tried to get into GC and GC2, they always left me feeling like it was a very superficial sort of game.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'll have to watch this. As much as I tried to get into GC and GC2, they always left me feeling like it was a very superficial sort of game.

Seconding this. Personally I think that it's mostly to do with how the tech tree is structured. It's hard to be excited about research when most of the technologies are minor upgrades that take many turns to complete. Add in the fact that even the more significant techs are rather lackluster and you do not have a winning combination. Plus ship customization seemed to be almost entirely superficial with few interesting options which made me even more disappointed with it.

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What I'm trying to say is that I liked Master of Orion 2 more. Not going to stop me from posting to watch this thread though.

[Anvilfolk]

This was the ONE game I've ever played where I felt like war wasn't necessarily the way to win. Sure, Civ allows you to "research lots", but you wouldn't overcome the other empire.

From my time with GalCiv, I focused on tech, and sold tech to get other empires to wage war. While they were destroying each other, I would focus on my culture and influence, which means their planets eventually revolted and became mine. It was great!

I hated the ship builder, which meant that every new tech you'd have to redesign everything... and I don't really care for cosmetics either.

Good luck Xeron! Looking forward to seeing what happens! Knowing you, this definitely won't be a case of diplomatic victory... more like DEATH FROM ABOVE.

[BFEL]

At least one race has to be "The Supremacy" with the default wire dude pic (though you stole their emblem) super breeder trait, and as much influence bonus as you can fit in. Would also suggest miniaturization maxed, but you don't have that mod apparently

"The Supremacy" is made up of energy beings who power their ships and equipment with their own bodies.

I had made a custom tech tree for them at one point but this'll be good enough

[Xeron]

Spoiler: Update 1 (click to show/hide)

Shadow Father: As you already know our system contains one potential colony, namely the now rogue moon Europa and a couple of asteroids from Mars which will serve to further bolster our economic ventures.
Illusive Man: Jupiter's destruction did serve well in the end, as Europa has been heating up to more....habitable climates.
Shadow Father: The colony ship should be arriving any moment now.

Bain: The door is malfunctioning! Get the thermal drill!
*Several ages later the door is finally opened*

Dr Horrible: Labs are being set up, everything seems fine so far, Eagle Nest.

Dr Horrible: Begin research at once, my fellow minions.


Illusive Man: Our flagship has discovered several anomalous objects in space.

Illusive Man: And a race identical to humanity. This should attest to our superiority against aliens even further.

Duke Nukem: Damn you're ugly!
End of Update 1

[Anvilfolk]

D:

I feel like reinstalling and playing now. Dammit.

[HooliganintheFort]

PTW!

[Sheb]

PTW

[inteuniso]

Pos2WHN

[Xeron]

I apologize for the lack of updates, I'm afraid the save got corrupted when I got a BSOD. I will be restarting this LP.