It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword,' and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.'" ...

If you are a long time player of some strategy game, what you learn is what you think you should do to win...is actually often a very expensive inefficient way to win, and a well written AI can merely make more efficient colonies and out muster your own ability. Thus while you may have a fine small ...

Someone who enjoys diplomacy and wants to bring around minor races to join their empire, but who also means to play as the Rotharians will have negative morale checks from their own citizens, so must make many morale boosting buildings, and then do lots of terraforming (of minor races once treaties ...

http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/index.php?title=Rasseneigenschaften The eleven breed traits which your major race has then influences the initial diplomatic response when encountering new minor races and influences diplomatic acceptance and by what degree because of their eleven breed traits. If...

With modding, alternative major races could be created so one could have twelve choices, but still only choose six. That is a function of galactic map size and depth of play due to complexity versus time constraints. And at some point, I want to have civil war scenarios where a race of ancestors div...

The average wargamers is likely to be innately militaristic. Maybe they are veterans or took martial art training like Japanese Budo or wrestling/grappling or boxing or trained with edged or ranged weapons. There is a small number of Europeans in fencing dueling clubs plus medieval historical reenac...

You really do not want more than six major races at one time and then only on a maximum 40*40 galaxy as otherwise they do not naturally develop superpower status. A human player can create superpower status either by innate aggressive qualities or learned behavior, but will always be limited by pare...

There are no diplomatic and warlike races, yet historically these existed. Those two aspects do not oppose each other. In fact, to best succeed, one needs BOTH attributes. All superpower nations today have both, and in history, all major powers in western civilization had both. Japan being xenophobi...

In the US military, and I am certain in most nations, combat leadership demands aggressive qualities be present within the basic personality of that leader's core personality. In childhood, the way that parents teach their children then sets a tone, and those learned acceptable types of imposed beha...

If the programmer does not want everyone to know those commands, you create a group for "modders" and they alone know those commands and in exchange create at least one advance save game. This way you build up perhaps 100 advanced save games. Then in a later patch, those advanced save game...

It is nice to have a formal BotE editor, but one can do quite a bit with commands. Typically they were unusual key combinations so players didn't cheat in-game. Some kind of usual keystroke then does a command at a selectable map coordinate point or within a menu. GalCiv2 never had a formal scenario...

Say I get a patch that allows a command to place a transport at a certain map coordinate point. That means as a modder, I can design the sphere of influence for every empire by building outposts and starbases. I can design the boundaries of empires and create places where I think war would be likely...

What sav game editors do is allow rapid cloning of infrastructure to many inhabited sectors at once. As a leader/commander you generally build the same infrastructure on sectors supporting 10.0+ billion people. Thus you are just replicating your method over and over. Copy infrastructure totally from...

The only slow parts would be... 1. Terraforming time 2. Exploration time 3. Deployment time In GalCiv, a modder could terraform by a command and then it was done. You could just put a colony ship on a map coordinate point and create a starship on that map coordinate point. Really so called cheat com...

You could have a very fast battle between two opponents, single or multiplayer, on 1/9th of the galaxy and so fight that out in a single day or over a weekend. I can do that up to giant maps with everything included. Suddenly players could wage massive war without sabotage, but could elect to make t...