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Reply to What is a better game? GalCiv2 or SE5 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Space Empires V has overwhelming amount of options, far superior technology tree and much more feeling of power once you advance on it. There is so much fun stuff that you can do, that you cant do in GCII -- like dropping cloaked spy satellites into your enemy's system, deploying minefields, capturing ships with boarding parties (and analyzing them), building dyson spheres and ringworlds, blowing up planets and entire star systems, and collapsing stars into black holes. Ship damage is also model

Reply to Custom Race Animations. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I am sure there are several open source or freeware video editing programs for all major operating systems. It shouldnt be too difficult to google for one?

Reply to Custom Race Animations. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

What you could do is that you take a small clip, then at the end of it you switch to a reversed version of that same clip. That way you could mask the looping, and if you have it done in slow motion it shouldnt look like too awkward.

Planet special features in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Is it possible to somehow assign guaranteed special features to certain planets, like precursor mines, either on random maps or custom scenarios?