I just saw the reviews/trailers on Gamespy and Gamespot. The game looks really great. Are you concerned with the securerom drm/protection? Does it slow down your pc in anyway with other games? How would the fps be with a Geforce 8800 at 1600x1050?
I've bought HW2 some time ago, but was occupied with different games and work. I will try it when I have more time. It is not going anywhere ;). @shadowt Galciv2 is indeed my type of game, much more than SotS. However in Galciv2 I didn't like the micromanagement of the planets so much. Also the economy system was tedious. I'm looking forward to Distant Words, which is to be released next week.
Moosetek, interesting site. Is it legal? Quality is not perfect, but doable I guess. StarAdder, why did you give up on Stargate? I've heard it is a good show, but I havent seen it yet. Currently I watch the series 24. I still have a lot of seasons to watch, but it is so addictive that they are running out fast.
Ship combat is much better in HW2 and I don't like the way ships look like in Sots. They look much better in HW2 and SINS imho. If I want a decent 4x game I would play Galciv2 or the upcoming Distant Words, as I don't like the tactical combat so much in an 4x game. In particular if it is not so easy to understand how to master it.# It shouln't be about battle skills in such games but rather about empire skills. Note that I've tried the demo of Sots. #
Didn't the patches fix the issues with Armada for you Martok?
Maiden, thanks for the tip! Unfortunately they are not at war with anyone. They have the highest diplomacy rating :(
Why? I don't really like Sots I didn't really understand the tactical combat part of the game and the ships look a bit strange.
@Major Stress: Q1:What is bloom? Q2:What are skybox effects? Q3:Why don't you need anti-aliasing on a large monitor? Thanks in advance for the answers! PS Galciv2 was programmed to use more than one cpu core and is older than SINS
@Whiskey: what if I would buy a new comp with a gpu with 1gb memory, does it make SINS have fewer memory dumps? 2nd Q: could the devs introduce same patch as what has been done in the case of SupCom (so as to increase the limit from 2 to 3 gb)?
Great to see that people are still playing this game and using the metaverse. I intend to play a metaverse game soon after I've getting my skills back after a long time not playing this game.
I'm (as Terrans) now in this game with Altarians as the strongest opponent, for the moment I'm friendly with them. But they keep sending scary fleets through my territory to attack the Drengin that are on the other side. I support the Drengin to keep the battle going and the Altarians occupied. I like this type of proxy fighting. In the meantime I'm killing off the weaker players and taking their planets. To answer your question: you can see where ships are heading by clicking on them
Thanks. But why don't you play the game anymore? What do you play instead? Have you seen this new game Distant Worlds, sold by Matrix games?
Good to see that you and your wisdom are still around Mumblefratz! Have you already started playing DA? I just installed it for the first time, after playing DL since I bought the game.
Yes I mean Galciv2. It seems that you are one of the few active participants on this forum left. What kind of games do you play nowadays? 20 hours, you must be kiddin?
Thanks for the responses. I have solved he error with a registery fix I found in the bug section of the Galciv2 forum. The forums went online again after some time I posted this message on the Sins forum/websie. I don't have clue what the registry fix fixes, but it worked somehow. Now I can play this great game again! Are you guys still playing it?
Could someone from Stardock tell us when they expect the forums to be back online. In addition, the download of Galciv2 and Dark Avatar from Impulse seem to be corrupt. I've downloaded both games today but they don't work when I move from starting up a game (e.g. which opponents) to loading the actual game screen (e.g the star map). Also the tutorials in Galciv2:DL are missing, which seems to be strange.
Sorry guys I don't fully get this. Is there a way to circumvent the 2gb limit on 32 bit systems or not?
Oops a double post, I thought the forums went boom again..
I am going to buy it
I will buy it. I have been active on the forums and the dev seems like a smart guy with a capable team of producing a very good game. Don't judge the game by the video's and screenshots though. It is mostly about gameplay, which seems to become great. Perhaps even better than Galciv2 (which was a bit too much micro management imo).
I think starbases boost trade as long as the trade route goes through the starbase radius of influence (the circle you see when you click the starbase). I don't really get your question on the economy boosting improvements. I think they are very useful.
I'm by no mean a veteran but I play this game from time to time and have played it since it was released. For most of your answers you can go to the galciv 2 wiki (just google it). It is very useful to get you started with the game. Regarding your specific questions, I believe the answers are as follwed: 1) Yes they apply to every ship and soldier 2) Dunno exactly 3) 15% morale is for every planet within the radius of the starbase, it works just like bonu
I just moved from vanilla to entrenchment and play multiplayer with entrenchment. I like the simplicity of the vanilla version though. In time, once I master entrenchment, I will move to diplomacy. I keep that now as a nice present for the future (although I have already bought it).
Strange that these repair cruisers differ so much between the various races
Any news on the proposed small update? I would prefer a change to the approval system. Now you can easily rig elections by lowering taxes just before the election, which seems strange as people are not so stupid just to vote for you again if you only have low taxes just before an election and raise them afterwards and keep them high until the week before the next election. Brad/Frogboy please change this. I would really appreciate this change as it makes this game concept much more in
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