RonLugge

Reply to Took my money,no game download in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As Spaxspore said, its the weekend Did you check your e-mail account? There is a link in the e-mail they send to the D/Loader, IIRC.

Reply to Are there different endings based on HOW YOU WIN? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The tech one is quite bad compared to the tech one from GalCiv1 OK, but not great. Influence one is pretty much da bombiest one though.

Reply to Ship design Tips in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Um, last I checked starbases gave boosts if you have one point in any category OF a set -- 1 attack or 1 defense gives full attack or full defense bonuses, in all three categories.

Reply to Ship design question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They need to give us a way to add "dummy" modules if only for aesthetic balance. Though, actualy, I think we can fit two parts on a single ship, though maybe I'm thinking of transports.

Reply to *** How was this game Released?*** in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

My thought? Bugtesting and fixing is a LOT harder than anyone who hasn't tried to do it thinks. Go take a programming course and you'll begin to get the ideas -- a simple program can take literally DAYS to debug if you don't get outside input (the good old fasioned "see what I thought I had and not was actually there") and its difficult to get outside input on a game which can easily span millions of lines of code.

Can't build a starport in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have a savegame where I can't build a starport on Akilians, and I can't figure out why... I think there was one there once that got knocked down (don't remember why) and caused a little confusion (no starport instead of build ship, but I could -- and did, silly me -- spend money to buy the ship, money got spent to finish the half-built ship and the money was paid, no ship arrived)... but anyway, I can't build a ship there *now*. Want a copy of the save?

Reply to My friend wants to borrow my game :( in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, that did sound very much like you were advocating piracy. To me, anyway. I think the problem here is the lack of tone in a visual medium

Reply to AI isnt very smart.. it Cheats in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Thats odd... I've tried varients on the "send the survery ship out into the black and autoexplore", and I usually get the "can't see" error message -- or it went after only the ones I could see. Maybe I did it wrong or something (since I've rarely sent it straight out as my only explorer).

Reply to Major Memory Leaks in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

If it does housecleaning on a save/reload, why do all my obsolete / deleted ship designs keep coming back? (Not to mention being able to construct two different varieties of thunderfury, one of which I'm keeping deleted... wierd)

Frequent CTDs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Its getting a little irritating, no common denominator. About half the time I get the standard CTD message (debug, send error report, and don't send) and the game closes... the other half, I get the error message, wait a bit, and the game comes back to the foreground and I can save and exit just fine. Then reload the savegame and take off just fine... until the next CTD. Want my debug.err file? edit: and my DXDiag is available as well, if you want it. I'm a little fuzzy on the exact

Reply to Inefficient Planets? How to fix? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Population effects taxes, happines, and influence, I think. Not production except insofar as "money makes the world go round...". At least, thats what I heard in another thread.

Reply to Donated ships idle in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The game says it all... the crew goes into cyrogenic storage

Starbase Stacking in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If I put two or three econ starbases up so that they all effect the same set of planets, do the planets (trade routes too?) get multiple bonuses, or just the best one?

Reply to Scale modding in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Yeah, agreed spear!

Reply to Quick ship build bug in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If you obsolete a ship design, its SUPPOSED to disappear from teh build list. As far as having two ships of the same name available to build... I think the dev's have already stated that saving "over" a ship name like that is, currently, a no-no for some reason.

Reply to Adding new techs to existing ship designs in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Yup, you have to build completly new ship designs to take advantage of a lot of the new techs. Newer ships do become available, but rarely on your schedule -- you have to research just the right techs, which often doesn't suit your needs.

Reply to Curious Omissions and some suggestions in Ideas Stardock Forums

Can't launch transports / colony ships with a pop of 0

Reply to Trading Ships to Minor Races in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I think the problem might be range -- I noticed something similar, then plopped a starbase down to give increased range, and the ships took off like a rocket after I gave that starbase off.

Reply to What to do with your flagship? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Ouch, that sucks!

Reply to "Intelligent" AI in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

As far as the unfleeted fighters go, its always seemed (to me) that the AI is using those early on in a war to try and raid my trade routes, contructors, and what not to gain XP -- usually by the time *I* get to smack them down (I play a research game, so I'm not very good on the tech curve) they're a pretty major threat, and often fleeted.

Reply to Savegame Corrupted in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

... By "I have acopy of the save" I kinda meant I wasn't going to touch that save again untill I heard from you guys. Unfortunatly, it seems that I can't find the savegame folder in GalCiv2... . Also, since I kept playing this morning from the autosave, the autosaves are kinda... long lost. Edit: Ok, found the savegame folder (thanks #galciv!), and apparently the problem. When the error occured, it apparently deleted both of the save game names I

Reply to Who Beta Tested This? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

No offence, Mat, but you're post is offensive. Not to mention moderatly ignorant. *Any* (PC) game releases with a junkload of errors simply because PCs are not all identical; what my computer will hiccup on will be ignored by another computer -- or not come up at all! -- simply because I have different hardware than that other computer. On top of that, your comment about "Developers are notoriously lax about recognizing errors they will be responsible for fixing... " has the right e

Savegame Corrupted in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was playing a game, minding my own bussiness (tiny galaxy, max opponents) when the game suddenly dropped a lot of the graphics (stellar backgrounds, trade route "lines", the lines that break up sectors and parsecs, but not planets ships and starbases). I saved the game to a save slot, then quit and reloaded. Save slot caused the game to crash, even after I rebooted (figuring it was a leftover from the earlier wierdness). It turns out that the savegame itself was corrupt, so I went ahead and

Reply to BUG: Fleets change directions by themselves in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I've had this happen to me fairly frequently

Reply to Why would you ever want to buy a ship/building on credit? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'll often use payment plans on larger items -- such as trade goods -- that I need *now*. For example, I do *NOT* want anyone else getting hold of micro repair bots, period the end.