[quote] I won't upgrade unless it's to a dual- or quad-core at any rate. i've got a Pentium D 820 (2.8 GHz) that i'm not using at the moment... [/quote] I'll keep you in mind when I have free cash in a couple months, then. :) Ishantil, It is Kingston, but I don't have the packaging
The Vegans ascended right in the middle of my own ascension in this game I'm playing now, but they didn't have all the techs. I was able to trade a few techs to them for black hole launchers and a couple of other rather decisive techs (I'd have to go look again to see what they were). It seemed really odd that they'd so readily part with the BHL.
It is kind of frustrating, as I've found my Yor and Iconian starbases to be a bit hamstrung - and that certain kinds of starbases are really suboptimal choices (influence for Yor, for example).
The last game I started with the Iconians (the latest beta) had aquatic and toxic colonizations, so, yeah...did you disable super abilities?
[quote]Terror stars should be a fully capable military base with offensive weaponary. If you really want to make it a TERROR STAR , you should be able to fuse it with economic and influence starbase's. Overpowered? I call it someting to really afraid of. (If I recall, in Galciv I it was like this^) If you don't like it then you should have the option to determine how terrifying a terror star can get. [/quot
Thank you both. I had it on my desktop's resolution, where it'll stay since it really is windowed. :)
That doesn't work for me either. :( I knew I forgot to mention something.
This may seem like a silly question, since the [link="https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Command_line_options"]instructions are clearly laid out on the wiki[/link], and I've never had trouble adding command line arguments to [i]other[/i] shortcuts, but when I open the shortcut's properties to add the w, I get: C:\games\GalCiv2\GalCiv2\GalCiv2.exe So I add quote marks around the path and w at the end outside, like: "C:\games\GalCiv2\GalCiv2\GalCiv2.exe" w Hit ap
Webreg and Moosetek, thank you for the testing and recommendations. Econundrum1, I had the CD-ROM for 9 years, and even then I didn't actually have it all of those 9 years. I'd replaced it for a year, but the faster replacement broke down very quickly, so I ended up using the old one until its dying breath. I don't even want to think about 9-year old 1 gb RAM.
[quote] I'd only had the thing for 9 years. If it worked for 9 years, why not 9 more? wow 9 years? not only is your pc ancient(in pc years, uh kinda like dog years), but if you got nine years out of a system you should be pretty happy, but its time to upgrade. base systems that will probably run circles around your current pc, go for as little as $300, or build your own at newegg for a fraction of the retail price. [/quote] Ha, people still catchin
Ah, okay. All is right with the world again. Thank you. :)
[quote] think about how quickly the Torians breed, and you might have a clearer picture. Thanks Dystopic, for helping me out here, eh that's EXACTLY what I had in mind when making this well-thought-through suggestion.. [/quote] I liked the suggestion. I was just having fun with the specific form it
Okay, so my RAM [I]is[/I] 333 mhz, but cpu-z says it's running at half that. What's up with that? And how do I make it not do that? I mean, the RAM I described above is exactly what's slotted in my motherboard, and is in fact the same kind that came stock with the machine (although I purchased that stick separately).
From one of my earliest games on the largest map possible, and my first evil game in the previous Gal Civ, I ended up with about a dozen terror stars loaded with cultural palaces, and this was before starbases, influence, and influence modules were all nerfed. I didn't get to blow anything up, because all the systems flipped to me before I could reach them. With that in mind, I don't mind terror stars in TA being one-trick ponies. I mean, it's a hell of a trick. Plus, the speed
PC2700 DDR 333, 184 pin, 1 gigabyte. Newegg already has cheaper RAM, by about $5-10, which isn't bad. What I really truly need is a new motherboard and processor (preferably dual), but that probably won't happen for a few months.
Even so! If you have to choose between taking care of kids and funding the military, it's time to look for pork. Someone is abusing the system! :)
Wow, good deal. I can immediately get another gb for $59 from Tiger Direct, but I haven't done much shopping around.
I don't want to know what kind of day care system can put a galactic civilization into debt!
[quote] I've never gone as far as building my own machine but the concept doesn't frighten me. [i]Actually I probably have, now that I think about it, I just haven't done it in one go - the dustman's broom.[/i][/quote] This is every system I've ever owned - I've replaced just about everything except the motherboard and CPU on all of my computers at one point or another. Zydor, [quote]You took out a RAM stick and it appeared to run fine from your description - is it s
Moosetek13, I'm wondering if I need to put up a sign that says "comments about killing RAM are tongue-in-cheek," because, seriously... Okay, I am pretty certain that TA dealt the killing blow here, even if it was in bad shape - and it could've been in bad shape. But I'm with WebReg here, if software can't harm hardware, why do gaming rigs need so much cooling? What's the harm in letting it run hot? Note, I'm not excusing running without cooling - my CPU and video card are both kept pret
TA totally killed the RAM. It might have been ready to die, but TA was in the room right when I found the knife in the RAM's back. However, I was more posting about crashing in an immense galaxy, which is of course a known thing. The RAM dying on top of that was just gravy. To be honest, this RAM has been working fine for two years. Now, I have been playing a lot of high-performance games lately (Hellgate: London, for example), so there was probably some stress already there, or somethi
That's true, but Freedom Force was totally a CD. I'd only had the thing for 9 years. If it worked for 9 years, why not 9 more? I am getting some really long load times with GalCiv 2 now - I haven't tried TA, just DA. I suspect it's due to having 1 gig of RAM instead of 2, but I miss the almost instant game starts...why can't Best Buy open [I]right now?[/I] And yeah - I love science fiction 4X games. I played MoO2 right up until GalCiv 1 came out (and MoO3 was so lacklu
It might've been anything, but TA did it, damn your eyes. Just like that one time Freedom Force killed my ancient CD-ROM! :p I imagine the gender ratio is heavily weighted toward men. :)
I do agree on the improvements. I was noticing a lot of underused planets last night - like a PQ 15 Yor world with three manufacturing improvements, a spaceport, and no research... and staying that way for a couple of game-years.
That's "ma'am," and I wasn't expecting the exception reports to fix anything. I posted that I had sent an exception report so that I wouldn't be advised to send one. Sort of like explaining to tech support that "yes, I have already tried powering down and restarting the computer, and yes, I did make sure it was plugged in" when you first call.
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