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By focusing on my sliders on my economy and buying AI ships to boost my military rating, I've not been threatened much in my games. Choosing pop growth picks also help to boost economy faster. Remember that your overall might is a factor of both your economic and military rating.
With a good start, any AI can become "Strongest" in both economy and military very quickly and start to throw threats around. The best way to weaken their ratings is to get it into wars.
If that Strong AI is pretty far away from you, there is no real need to be afraid to go to war with it. From experience, they would usually offer peace after a period of inactivity and the AI is poor at waging long range wars. Quite a few times, I've seen the AI offer peace just when their transports draw near to my undefended systems. 
          
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Hello everybody.
Just wanted to drop in and give you all an update on life in Rohan.
As you've no doubt noticed I've been eerily quiet lately. This has been in part due to me creeping away and playing Pool of Radiance, but there has been some real life factors which have contributed to my absence. My wife is still having complications from childbirth (yes...my daughter is now over 15 months old and my wife is still having trouble). She is currently in the hospital and is scheduled to undergo surgery today. I've been having to take care of the baby by myself, which most men would agree is not an easy task.
So that's what's going on in my world. Hopefully things will return to normal sometime soon.
   
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Take care of yourself and family, Theoden.
vincible,
The new features that are planned, especially those for the Metaverse, do look exciting.
Those would go a long way in retaining the attention and participation of the Galciv community and also help to set the stage for Galciv 2.
| And by then, the Metaverse should be powerful enough to combine the best elements of a MMRPG with a multiplayer strategy game. You'll see. |
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Good morning, all!
My wife's surgery went well. She was released from the hospital last night. We all stayed at my in-law's house last night as it's closer to town than our house. Didn't sleep worth a damn, so I feel like hell.
It seems SpecFor is getting a little close. It may be time to rally the troops and crank out a few games. I've got to admit, until the fixes come out I'm not crazy about playing 1.12. If I vote on the permanent taxation of war one more time, I'm going to scream! 
We need a fix really bad...
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Thanks Cypher! I hope this takes care of this...I hate to see her going through all of this. Can you believe she wants another baby, even through all of this? 
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Interesting ideas, vincible.
Will be trying out mods once they fix the bugs in the latest updates.
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Good morning all! Thanks for the well wishes for the wife. She's really, really sore and just a bit on the cranky side. Ah, the joys of marriage! 
Decided to play a Huge/Uncommon/Painful. Yes, Painful! I don't have a lot of time to play right now, so I just want to have a little fun. With so little time on my PC, I don't feel the pull of the Pool of Radiance for now.
It's supposed to snow/sleet here tonight and tomorrow. It's certainly a little bit early for that kind of action around here...looks like it might be a hard winter.
I've still not tried any mods. But I think vincible's got something there. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any success on that.
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Smealgol O
I'm back playing. Hopefully we can get the engines refired pretty quickly. I'm really not satisfied with 1.12, though and really looking forward to some fixes.
Looking forward to the next story!
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No, it's pronounced 'Downie'! 
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Welcome to the Fellowship, John! 
Singapore has a 2 1/2 years mandatory military service for all male citizens. I'm a Lieutenant in an Air Defense Battalion, operating the Mistral surface-to-air missile.
Good to see that you are active in the forums already. Beyond strategy discussions, we are also committed to contributing to the forum discussions and the game.
What other TBS/RTS games were you playing before you picked up Galciv 2 weeks ago?
I'm currently playing Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic while waiting for the next Galciv patch. Was thinking about playing it multiplayer but saw that there aren't many players in my time-zone. In addition, I read that the best players play maps which they have perfectly memorised - I mean how interesting is that?
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Welcome, John!
Just submitted my little score for the cause. I think the Fellowship is going to really get back once the update comes out.
How many of you really weren't happy with 1.12? Lots of bugs in my opinion.
Well, it's snowing like crazy here and I'm exhausted, so I'll talk to you all tomorrow morning (about 8 hours from now!)
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vincible,
As far as i remember 2/3 of all research bonuses are free (i'm pretty confident that this is the case). Try maxing out 3 research ressources and see how little that affects your income.
  
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