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Reply to Auto-survey & spawned ship modding in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Probably coded, at least for the flagship. The starting ships appear to be scripted to carry out their predefined roles (ie. miner goes straight for the nearest asteroid whether it actually has a mining module or not). Is there a way to mod this? If they are behaving in that way regardless of modules or lack thereof, it'd be an AI thing. So, not moddable. Don't know about how modding affects it, but I update the Space Miner to

Reply to Kzinti Empire ranked #10 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

BTW, KP, I was very flattered by the invite. If I ever do decide to apply to an 'Empire', I'll keep you guys in mind (though I must admit that the entire concept of these 'teams' that have no other relationship to each other other than posting collective scores is just a little bizarre to me.) Now, there is the problem that you guys are avowed Evil, and I'm habitually playing Altarians who ultimately go Neutral...but if it ever comes up you can just keep in mind that my general reactio

Reply to Question about Planet Quality in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In DA, NLCs are still the megaliths of Research, but the economy is much tighter so its really work to establish a whole planet of them. You've got to have 2-3 big all economy planets to support the effort. Of course, if you do get it all balanced out and start stacking up those econ SB's to inflate the output even more, you can eventualy create a single homeworld that is cranking out 5000+ research points per turn. Yum. drrider

Reply to Why doesn't GalCiv display planets to accurate scale? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Wait! I didn't 'click' on who had started this thread! Now I feel (appriopriately) like a real idiot. (For those who don't know, 'Draginol' is another on-line alias of Brad Wardell, GalCiv's creator.) drrider

Reply to Why doesn't GalCiv display planets to accurate scale? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Well, let's see. If you started a throughgoing re-scalling to get everything to scale, you could start with getting the stars to scale within the galactic map. If that were the case, at maximum zoom, a large star would occupy about 1-4 pixels at 1600x1200. Let's be practical here. The reason that various elements of the game are not at true scale is so that we can SEE those elemnts, ENJOY their artwork, and =ahem= PLAY the game. Nothing could illustrate this necessity better

Reply to Question about Planet Quality in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, Alex, the effect of Neutral alignment that the OP describes is correct for Gal Civ 2: Dread Lords. Neutral Alignment choice in DL makes all tiles of all planets immediately available. It makes a quick research run to Xeno Ethics and Neutral in DL VERY powerful. Clearly the OP is playing Dread Lords, because the situation that he describes with a Class 10 planet having 1 yellow tile, then becoming a Class 11 with 3 orange tiles cannot occur in Dark Avatar. In Dark Avatar, a C

Reply to guide in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I think he is asking about a conventionally published book, ala 'Guide to Middle Earth Online', etc. AFAIK, there is no such hard copy publication. You would have to print out one of the resources identified by Mumbles. drrider

Reply to Fertility Clinics, not just for women! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, fertility clinics ARE 'not just for women'. Most of them have a staff or consulting urologist. Takes 2 (or 3 or 7, depending on species) to tango. drrider

Reply to Someone please explain how the economy works in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Piznit, Have you really ever see a planet 'revolt' at 40 or even 30% approval? I don't even see the 'dissatisfaction / unhappy face' show up until down in the 20s, at best. However, at 40% approval, a planet WILL stop growing, and at 19% it will begin losing population. I play with 30% approval on maxed out planets all the time, for the extra tax income - no problems. I pop it up before elections, of course, or my government would get thrown out. Revolts that caus

Reply to Issue with ethical allignments! in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I view the tendancy as an unsophisticated urge to have the biggest...er...weapons. Guys (and I am gender specific deliberately), technique is way more important than...firepower. drrider

Reply to looks like ur done in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ginny, I gotta say, from this and other threads, you are REALLY REALLY ready to see 1.7. Nothing wrong with that, but are you REALLY bored with beating Suicidal, 9-opponent, galaxies all that much? drrider

Reply to game crashes while clicking on "turn" in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

kryo, No offense meant to a great company and staff, but based on various posts here, isn't v1.0 supposed to run on almost any XP, SP2, DX9c machine, out of the box? drrider

Reply to Issue with ethical allignments! in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Being as I am a big fan of the 'all research, all the time approach' I am always Neutral. Or rather, I am always Neutral at the end. I usually start out as Altarians, so I guess I'm as Good as it gets in the early game. Then I take all the nice, BENEFICIAL, Evil ethical choices, to get the various money and abilities bonuses and to move my current alignment toward the center of the scale. Finally, when I research Ethics, usually after a deliberate delay, I'll al

Reply to Suggestion for Starbases = Hangers in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Well, you can find Stardock's home page for the product by just going to www.galciv.com. I often see the product itself in just a jewel case distribution format in the bargain s/w shelves of Target, Best Buy, etc. drrider

Reply to Request: Please remove off-topic categories from recent posts list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

JubJub, I don't think the original point was whether they should or shouldn't be able to talk/write about those beliefs. I think all here are generally agreed that they have every right to do so, and that its fine for them to post and debate those musings to the Off-Topic area of this forum. The point in question is whether it is fair or appropriate or healthy for maintaining the interest of the GAL CIV GAMING community for multiple very-Off-Topic, not remotely GalCiv related,

Reply to Request: Please remove off-topic categories from recent posts list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Just to remind everyone reading, on the point of this discussion: There have been times, recently (cetainly within the last 2 weeks), when waay Off-Topic threads have occupied a third or more of the slots on the expanded , 'Everything' page of recent forum posts, thereby making it difficult for those interested in finding current GalCiv2 discussions to do so. At the moment perhaps there are only two egegiously left-field topic posted, but increasingly recently it has been

Reply to Collectors Download? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I found a reply from kryo in another post that says CE stuff is all available in current downloads / updates, except the box and poster. I tried to link it but couldn't figure out how (must turn in my geek card now). Let me try to insert the pertinent text: (Citizen)Bl4ckSh33pOctober 24, 2006 07:09:36Reply #6 You can get everything except the nice box and techtree poster via patches and downloads here, right? (the new shipparts) Trolling Insightful<

Reply to Collectors Download? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Guys, I'm almost certain that DA or at least the 1.61 latest version already includes all of the DL Collector's Edition special content (essentially extra ship components - mostly ugly ones ). I have both DL Collector's Ed and the Gold Edition. However on my new desktop I only installed Gold, then immediately added latest update. I seem to have all the same components that I have on my laptop,

Reply to Request: Please remove off-topic categories from recent posts list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I think you mean something like "forum area" and not "thread." That is what I mean, thank you. I guess threads are looming large in my head and I was just a-skein for it "Subforums" is probably the technical term I was looking for. Actually, if the options of the forums area are modified, I WOULD like to have the ability to opt-out on a thread-by-thread basis, as well as by sub-forum. There are Off-Topic threads (usually short ones ab

Reply to Request: Please remove off-topic categories from recent posts list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't....especially in those damn religous threads. Dude, I don't want to hear about your god(or disbelief in god). I just want to read about galciv2, or atleast games in general for god's sakes. (No pun intended) One is bad enough, but if I am remembering right, there are three of those damn threads floating around. And they get bigger! Hundred's of posts high. Why don't the devs end these cesspools of nauseation!? I don't like to call to anyone in partic

Reply to 2 possible errors in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Oops! Link still not working, and unfortunately I'm not the one who can advise on that. BTW, the first situation decribed, the volcano on one of your planets, is normal. And actually I usually take the LAST choice. I am often playing good races for their stats, but I want my ultimate alignment to be Neutral. It doesn't take too long to recover the pop on a fully developed planet, and every little bit of scale movement toward the center of the alignment scale helps. I'd rather not h

Reply to Revenge of the Pirates in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

And in general, I was asking how it could be that pirates could suddenly have a higher-tech and bigger fleet than the top civilizations in the game. I hadn't seen it before, but if other people are losing planets/having the game ruined, then i guess it may be more common than I'd thought. The prev report about Pirates stealing 2 planets was not really about Pirates, probably Dread Lords. Pirates simply do not take planets. The 'Pirates kill ev

Reply to 2 possible errors in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Moose, LMAO drrider

Reply to The Krynn--Brad's gift to maso + players? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The Krynn and Korath share one thing at least. There are inflexable. That's intersting I thought flexablity was important. It is. It is part of their racial descriptions / characteristics that these 2 races are powerful but inflexible. Also, at high difficulty levels, the flexibility of the real human player is one of your few constant advantages. drrider

Reply to Farm Spies in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

If by worked out you mean the original question about a spy on a farm, there is no question that it kills (actually, per the backstory, alienates) the excess population that can no longer be fed. I have had it happen to me, and lost the population within 1-2 turns. If you mean the further discussion about losing trade goods benefits (and other Super Projects benefits) when they are destroyed / siezed / spied upon, there are aspects of that which are still up in the air. I am experimen