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Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Snarkotamus" reply="14" id="2371969"]I have given up on the bonus tiles, but I am certain that I can fill up the tiles with stuff. I can at least get the manufacturing tiles since I will have to manually select a starting tile on each planet.[/quote]You can create a hotkey that reads the mouse position and builds a predetermined factory on that tile. It will look a bit bulky but it won't be if you increase the mouse speed. (You can still watch it at the default sp

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe he's an evil Snathi.

Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Configuring freshly built stations for auto-build is another annoying item. You have to hit a very small check box and then click OK on the other end of the screen. Bleh. That's not counting that you may wish to alter the default build order for this type of station at the same time. Once built and quick-configured like that, I just reroute 8 constructors to this station and don't need to look at it ever again. It will be </em

Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Speaking of wrist-friendly macros: [quote]MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos *do stuff* MouseMove, xpos, ypos [/quote] This returns the pointer to the position where you started the macro, avoiding unnecessary resetting of the mouse. Going along the same line of thought, you wouldn't have to click the mouse if you want to do stuff with a particular tile on a planet. [quote]MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos MouseClick, l

Reply to New to the Metaverse and "Empires" in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Bah. Join the pussycats if you like. Noone is gonna sue you over it. Apparently a lot of people did because otherwise they wouldn't be so far ahead of anyone else by now. It's true. It's an extremely easy way to get a shiny #1 medal - for the achievement of clicking "join empire". But so what? Take the shinies and run. =P I created my very own empire because I wanted a pre

Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

https://forums.galciv2.com/171278 Heh. Knew I was forgetting something. =P [quote who="Snarkotamus" reply="3678" id="2368464"]I wonder if we could make a Planetary Buildout macro for DL and DA with this. It would be easy enough to populate tiles so long as the player starts with the same buildings in the same order of availibility every time. The trick is going to be getting the correct structures on the bonus tile

Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Make no mistake, this utility alone will not improve your score. You still need practice and experience.[/quote]"Intelligent" macros are a massive undertaking and a ridiculous idea for a strategy game. For twitch games they can be a huge benefit, taking some idiotically complicated mouse maneuvers outta yer hair. The full scope of Autohotkey is far beyond what a few posts here can show. This thing is... huge. You could pop up input boxes, using keys

Reply to The Autohotkey Thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I was starting to wonder when a moderator would start slapping wrists and splitting the Kzinti thread. =P Use this to "encase" several macros so they are only played back when actually in the GalCiv window. [quote]SetTitleMatchMode, 2 ; tells AHK to search anywhere in the window title for some text #IfWinActive GalCiv2 ; playback if the active window title contains GalCiv2 ^k:: Send ^d ; remap CTRL-k to CTRL-d return ^h:: Send ^i&

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Snarkotamus"]*freaking out*[/quote] Yeah Autohotkey is extremely versatile. It could also replace a series of keypresses with "stuff", not just a normal hotkey like Ctrl-B. So you could type b1 to rushbuy the first item in the planet queue and b2 to buy the second. Often I find a command string easier to memorise than a ton of unique hotkeys. [quote who="Snarkotamus"]Now I can do all the things that used to KILL my deflicted wrist wi

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="jacklv" reply="3652" id="2365745"]I haven't used key macros since Lotus. Sounds good. Do you use in Planet/Ship List, Civilization Manager or Colony Management? Is it as fast as manual (ignoring lag)? Do you activate in game with hotkey?[/quote] Yah, you assign a key(combo) of choice. A simple example to chain-rushbuy the first item on the colony list would be [code]End:: Loop { Sleep 10 GetKeyState, EndButt

Reply to The Millionaire's Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

How does it go again? So I rise to the mark. I think we may be gaining on the snark! But what is this? The snark is gaining on us! So much for anachronisms like classic hunter/hunted roles... Grats in any case! I think that's the most perfect score so far.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

People with ideas are bad enough but those with a PLAN are just plain dangerous.

Reply to 15k score in large galaxy, wtf? in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Either the Re-Education Center or just let the enemy have 2 planets. One of them being some worthless PQ 4 piece of rock. As soon as one flips, give it back. Once I completely relocated "the other race", too. Gave them 2 planets at the edge of the map along with the 4 influence starbases I prebuilt in that sector. They totally owned that space and I didn't have to worry about them any longer. Their original colonies eventually flipped, of co

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Above the shiptype selection window there is a small tick box: Upgrade all ships of this class. I didn't find it at first, either, but I wrote a keyboard macro to do the clickeroo for me. Although the tickbox is faster, I gotta admit... Of course, that only works on all blank molds but *shrug*. Barring that, an Autohotkey macro. Autohotkey.com

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy"]That's pretty much how my games for score go, I just haven't been able to get a million points out of one....yet.[/quote]It's dreadful work without any margin for "fun" like leaving a particularly furry minor race alive. You need their capital. And their econ capital. (which tech you just happened to drop at their doorstep, gift wrap and all) I'm currently dragging my feet through another game but pressing that turn button is starting to take

Reply to Ship Extras limits? Please Help!!! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I noticed that, too. If you use hundreds of "fluff" parts (or useful components if you can fit them) then 2 things happen. 1. The graphics start to crap out at some point 2. The memory requirements go through the roof because every single ship that is built with that design will require a large amount of memory. The dreaded Out Of Memory error becomes far more likely.

Reply to AltMeta Help Desk in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hi there. Please add the empire "Gold Wing" to the AltMeta list. http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=empire&id=4137 Thank you.

Reply to Regrets. Regrets. Regrets. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Nox and Diablo 2 were released the same year and even though Nox came out a bit earlier... it simply didn't survive. D2 hit like a tsunami. Few series would ever top that. Except of course, the Sims. =) Either way it's baffling when a new Hack'n'Slasher has to compete with a 9 year old game. Wonder if Blizzard releases D3 on D2's 10 year anniversary. And announces D4 for 2020. =P

Reply to Regrets. Regrets. Regrets. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

1. Outpost. They called it a game. I disagree. 2. Supreme Commander. They did everything right. Except they forgot to include anything to make me want to play it. Build 8273562 units and send them towards enemy? *shrug* 3. All games with stupid level scaling. Darkstar One and Mass Effect did the exact same thing and they were about improving one's avatar - which is impossible when every improvement improves all enemies by the

Gold Wing - A Metaverse Empire in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

So I created an empire of my own. I'll have to admit that it was only to have a pretty empire logo. =) The old farts among you will surely remember that eagle. But it's no ripped copy or anything like that. I created the thing and the whole of it. Some things you just gotta do all right and proper. I

Reply to STICKY: Metaverse Help! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, now it works fine. But I found another issue, although that one is merely an incomplete description. For a metaverse character logo I was told it had to be a 128 x 128 (max) JPG or PNG. I used exactly that and it did not work. The upload script hung up at the "processing" window. I found that it only works if you upload an RGB JPG... How am I supposed to guess

Reply to STICKY: Metaverse Help! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Tried the same again about 1 day later - same result. For both browsers the Upload Logo button does not respond.

Reply to STICKY: Metaverse Help! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi there. I have a bit of a Metaverse/Website problem here. I registered the empire "Gold Wing" - worked I joined up one of my characters - worked I tried to upload the empire logo (128x128, JPG) - FAIL On the webpage, the Edit Empire and Invite Player buttons work fine. Entering the path to the logo as well as "search" works, too. Only Upload Logo is inactive. Th

Reply to Games with Style in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Magic Carpet 2. I still play that one occasionally and it still rocks the socks off of many "modern" games. What could be more stylish than surfing through the air on a... magic carpet? You can modify and play with the terrain like in no other game. Create a volvano inside the enemy castle, then toss a gravity well on it so all the lave doesn't flow out of the castle but... into it! Burn^2! You can even download it as abandonware nowadays... <p

Reply to What Did You Play This Weekend? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

X3: Terran Conflict. Im probably modding it more than I'm playing it but it's the thought that counts. =) Simply the prettiest starship flying game around and moddable (and already modded) beyond recognition. Practically nothing is off-limits for modders. There are new weapons, ships, stations... whole new universes. And it's the only game where you have a freedom comparable to GalCiv. No other game has the same vertical depth. Trucking around in a trader, min