BigHairyGoat

BigHairyGoat

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Reply to What am I doing wrong? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]... but for anything more than a half dozen planets or so, it seems to become completely unweildy.[/quote] Don't use the auto-pin planets, cap ships etc options. Just manually pin planets etc as and when you really need quick access to that ship/planet. Took me ages to figure that out but when I did it made the empire tree very much easier to use and also far more useful. Then I ended up playing with the main screen zoomed in close and following one of my cap ships most of the ti

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Reply to HELP - Where do my created ships go? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]How do I know to where a planet is sending my ships by default without having to search around in every system for a rally point icon?[/quote] Hover mouse pointer over the planet's rally point button and the pop-up tells you which destination planet the rally point is set to.

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Reply to SINS vs Mario Kart in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Sins is missing something....easter eggs? Where are the easter eggs?[/quote] And what about the lack of chocolate bunnies? I wanted Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of The Apocalypse ...

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Reply to Packaging Issue in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]Me too man. when the game turned up the delivery guy said that will be £16.50 please. I was like you what I already paid via card over the internet? Vat and import tax he replied. What a rip off I replied!! I have ended up paying in excess of £46 for this game.[/quote] @EnglishAl68 - That sucks bigtime. I'll have to remember that for future purchases. Man I'm glad I bought by digital d/l (£16.95 it cost me in July 07 ... pre-order, Beta2).

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Reply to How do you get Cheat Codes to work in 1.4x? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That, however, doesn't explain your need to cheat. Is this just a normal path you take when you buy a game? If so, slit your wrists immediately. This is you agreeing with me that it doesn't matter if someone wants to play using cheats? And you say I am stricken with fraktardation? (Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean) M

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Reply to How do you get Cheat Codes to work in 1.4x? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Dude... seriously... go slit your wrists. I have suffered from depression for over two years and have attempted suicide twice in the previous ten months. So I hope you die slowly and extremely painfully in a horrendous accident you total f_cking w@nker. (and if I'm banned for this post, it's been worth it).

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Reply to How do you get Cheat Codes to work in 1.4x? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If someone wants to play using cheats, then fine. Not the way I usually play games but, hey, as long as s/he enjoys the game - so what? If the OP is insecure, maybe slitting his wrists (vertically, not horizontally) isn't such a bad idea. One less cheater in the world. Telling people to slit their wrists, even in jest, makes you seem a comple

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Reply to Game Crash in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Even if you get the game running, don't expect too much. You may still experience crashing, and you will definitely not get the textures or performance, from your GeForce4 440 Go. It only supports up to DirectX 7, and the game requires a DX9 card for full functionality. Maybe try turning off all "extra" graphics effects. If GC2 runs okay add extra gra

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Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

That is indeed a llama. Partially due to Hillaire Belloc's "The Llama" - "The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat...". The rest is a long and very boring story which no-one here would have any interest in. At all. Ever. Trust me, I'm a goat

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Reply to Need help with upgrading my graphics card. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I use a Sapphire Radeon 9550 (not sure of version now) 256MB. It's a downclocked 9600! All I had to do was flash the card with the 9600 firmware and I had a Sapphire Radeon 9600. And it was really cheap (UK) earlier this year when I bought it and runs GC2 at 1440x900 (widescreen) with all graphics features on. It might go higher res but that's all my monitor can handle. I think I can dig out instructions for the firmware flashing procedure if you want to go that route. (Though google i

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Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Do starbases themselves gain experience when they win battles? Good question. Mine rarely win battles so I don't know - if they don't then this wouldn't be a legitimate tactic for constructors (for the way I like to play).

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Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It wasn't that hard to read Agreed, I understood at the first read through. Just thought I'd mention the capitals-at-sentence-start as I'm really lazy ... and caps make my reading easier. The time you spend building up

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Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sir Nasty - just seen your screen capture. Jaw drops at the stats on that starbase. Make all mine look like utter wimps!

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Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

At first I thought "Exploit". Now I'm thinking it may be a legitimate tactic for constructors (if the crew have battle experience in an invasion fleet surely they'd be better at defending the starbase when constructed?), but I don't think I'd ever use this tactic for empty hulls - it just doesn't seem "realistic". I may well try that tactic for constructors in my next game ... if I still think it's legit. @Sir Nasty of Tang - very few people have perfect punctuation,

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