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Reply to Unforgiveable, utterly unacceptable, horrifying thing missing in GalCiv2! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I do not wish to insult u but if this is true, u r sad, very, very sad. At least he can spell, while your stuff looks like you were wallowing on the keyboard... I like the idea of having a nice, subtle yet satisfying (and optional) "End Turn" sound.

Reply to Do You Steal anything at Advance ESPIONAGE ? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The only real experience with tech stealing that I have is from 1.0X or some other ancient version. In a game with me and three or four other majors left, I got technologies every three turns for a while. It was almost annoying

Reply to Space Debris in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Also, in a relatively tight cluster of stars you would probably be hard pressed to find black holes except for extremely short-lived ones that forme more or less spontaneously, or nebula(whatever the plural may be), that tend to span an obscene amount of space and would cover the whole play field even on a gigantic map. An area of space surrounding a black hole or neutron star would likely be sterile and still glowing from the time that entity was "born" considering the strength of radiation bur

Reply to Can't launch empty transports in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'd say some of the same people who are used to fly the other cannonfod... uuuh... I mean combat vessels

Reply to Multiplayer Web Poll in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I really don't care for MP, so unless it was "free" (the beer one), I wouldn't buy it.

Reply to More AI fun on the weekend in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

"The Drengin don't go hunting. The Drengin go killing!" *SCNR*

Reply to Can we get Z & X to work on the planet screen? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Based on keycode or actual symbol? (Meaning: can I use Y/X on a german keyboard layout?)

Reply to The galaxy isn't flat in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That would be the universe being bent, not the galaxy. We're pretty sure about how the galaxy works.

Reply to sensorship? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The sensor range was limited because larger ranges may cause serious performance problems, especially when combined with certain events.

Reply to BackGround Sound Corruption in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Did you try turning down hardware acceleration for sound a notch or all the way? Several chipsets are extremely... crafty... when it comes to hardware sound.

Reply to Making a list of text errors in the game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Warp Drive III description: "to developer" should be "to develop".

Reply to Major races slow to expand in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have the same problem on a gigantic galaxy, normal difficulty with all races enabled. Only the Altarians and the Drengin are really expanding, most of the others are just sitting in their home systems with class 19+ planets right next sun and spamming scouts.

Reply to How to address bugs? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Noirbear, that sounds more like a driver or even hardware problem.

Reply to I Colonized a Planet... with an empty colony ship in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

Yep Bolo, would be cool to have some kind of "reaver" event that makes a planet go nuts and spam attack ships all over the place. (would need to grow ships from somewhere though, since the reavers wouldn't produce their own). Leaving a planet without population could give the chance of a minor "spawning" there, although that'd have a certain cheese factor to it. Just imagine being able to create minors. That's like having a goose laying *dia

Reply to Tank vs. spearmen? or How to Suspend Disbelief in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

... or spray it with greek fire. Even an M1 will eventually fail when you spray it with burning oil. Just dig a hole of the right size and depth, soak the ground with flammable stuff, and when the tank dives in *poof*. End of tank. Now, airplanes would be a different story altogether.

Reply to Curious Omissions and some suggestions in Ideas Stardock Forums

Even the ship captains/"hero" units would probably mean a lowlevel change of the combat system. Right now, combat is handled by having all attacking ships gang up on the easiest target each turn. That would mean that you'd probably lose those cpatains pretty quickly unless you're putting their ships in fleets with a bunch of cannonfodder. The black ops sound really fun, especially to flip a planet faster or destroy an orbital fleet manager.

Reply to Ridiculous Requests in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

And just think of the tech name... MOO, MOO 2, MOO 3, ...

Reply to How do you choose an alignment? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Look at the yellow techs near the top of the tech tree, it should be an early tech at level 2 or 3. Just make sure that you have made enough decisions towards the alignment you want to have, the prices are pretty high and you can not delay the choice once you've researched the tech.

Reply to Patch Notes for 2nd patch? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

D1.007 is the combined bonus pack/patch package that was put on the web, mostly because the SDC servers were too busy at that time. .008 is exactly the same, just distributed via SDC. That's what one of the Stardock gals/guys (can't remember who) said.

Reply to Cultural domination takes too long in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Oh yeah. Culture, the silent killer. (Flipped the Drengin in the first campaign mission by accident ) One thing I haven't tried yet... Are cultural starbases really efficient at "remote" flipping? Situation: gigantic map, tight clusters. This makes for a scenario in which you'll have problems projecting your influence across several sec

Reply to Yawn. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm never directly going for a really strong military. IME, Galciv is one of the least war-biased strategy games. It has a lot to do with how you play though. If you violently expand then you'll of course have your fair share of shooting. However, if you manage to tangle the other civs in a web of culture-based conquest, interdependencies (broker some wars between them, great fun) and trade, you'll see that you slowly erode their territories without fi

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: v1.0D1 Available in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

The reason is that your purchase is under your spearhead.de account and you created your account here with your other email account. I more or less just asked to merge the accounts to the spearhead address. Come to think of it, I should've sent that mail to sales, right?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: v1.0D1 Available in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

I'm also having a problem with the serial Already sent a mail to [email protected] about the issue. Well, at least I now have an excuse to get wome work done

Reply to STICKY: Dual Core Machines may need a driver update in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Only AMD knows that, StarBane. If you ever scroll off the map by, oh say, five million sectors, you need it I guess that the "problem" ist the same with the FX60 as it is with the X2s since they aren't all that different. The FX CPUs are generally low-yield units that meet higher standards than the bulk of a fabs output, not drastically different CPU cores. Today'

Reply to STICKY: Dual Core Machines may need a driver update in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

had to disable cool n quiet, it was ramping down clockspeed mid-game and causing some horrible fps spikes. From 1,8ghz ro 750mhz and things would just die. *shakes fist at amd* You're shaking your fist at the wrong people. AMD is just trying to lower your electricity bill. It's a bit hard to decide w