Todd_Hawks

Todd_Hawks

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Reply to I need some Rationalization.. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I remember how MoO3 was *slightly* 3D and it was already very annoying because stars seemed closer than they were and you had to rotate all the time to see the real distance. I don't even want to try to play a game on a true 3D map (and my 3D spatial sense is excellent, thank you ). Ascendany was 3D, yes, but then again you only could follow the star lanes so it d

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Reply to Suggestion: Please change weekly turns in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Leave it as it is. Even if it only took five minutes to "fix" (which it won't... don't forget events like the UP assembly (once a year) or laws (running for x years) or elections (twice a year) which would have to be changed as well), I'd rather see them spending those five minutes on the AI and bug fixing. Not to mention that I don't see how changing weeks to month will accomplish anything... so it doesn't take 10 years to conquer the gala

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Reply to Influence Flood! (1.0X) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I had a similar bug, for one turn the Arcean's influence was so high that the whole map was yellow and the ip ratio on the planets was about 130 and I got all kinds of warnings about rebellions. Fortunately one turn later all was back to normal. (and no, I neither saved nor loaded the game at any point).

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Reply to ETROM: The Astral Essence Coming to TotalGaming.net in TGN News Stardock Forums

I had a different problem but it runs now. When I tried to install, it always quit because of an expected file with an "à" as one of its letters (you can see that in the log file). So I went to the location specified in the log file and saw that the file was there, but with a normal "a". I renamed the file to be like the one in the log file and installed again (SDC just extracted again, I didn't have to download all of it again) and I got a

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Reply to Updating GalCiv2 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

On the page you mention, there should also be a download for the bonus pack, including the patch. Your game should then say 1.0X on the main menu screen.

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Reply to features of moo2 that would be nice in gc2. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Not that discussion again, please! Dead horses and suff. Not only dead but decaying. I'd like the UP to work a little more like in Alpha Centauri. At least allow us to buy votes from others during the meetings or something. Better yet, allow to vote a "leader" who can then bring forth issues to vote on. Actually, there are a lot of things you can change with respect to the UP, which would make the game feel way more alive with all the

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Reply to Worst Turtorial EVER!!!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

While I wouldn't call them the "worst ever", I agree that they are pretty useless. They don't tell you about gameplay, they only tell you about the features in a very, very limited fashion. They are actually more advertising videos than tutorials. Something you'd give out prior to release to give the people something to drool over.

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Reply to Budgeting is STILL Fracked in GC2?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Nerva, while I see your points and I can't disagree with them in general, you simply should go and look for another game. The stuff you want here is so far from what GalCiv II is, you will never get it in this game, no matter how many upgrades and expansions there'll be.

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Reply to I don't understand this: in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1. Certain events may make them inhabitable. They prevent you from seeing where the habitable planets are on the minimap (if all were habitable, you'd just have to go to them). And they add atmosphere. Other than that they are useless. 2. Check your options, there are several switches. Default is "fleets only" and since the Drengin ship was no fleet, it didn't show the battle. 3. I don't know how important morale is (or if at all)

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Reply to Social Spending Always on! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Lol, waving the "fanboy" flag won't help you here. I think you are confusing two things, anyway: What you describe in your last post has nothing to do with whether social spending is on or not. Even if you didn't have to *pay* for unused social spending, you still had to adjust the sliders to balance between military, social and research. So what you write - "for larger ships you need to increase manufacturing facilities and then set social to zero, reversing this when finished, and

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Reply to Turn off these "too powerful" Random Events?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, if the random events aren't significant, why having them at all? I don't think something like the above mentioned "one factory destroyed" will make any difference to the game, so you might as well turn off the random events completely. Sure, some are really changing the flow of the game, but what's bad about that? They don't happen often enough to make the game feel random and I don't mind something exciting happening every couple of

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Reply to Social Spending Always on! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Uhm, there is no way to tell whether it's a bug. In fact, since it's hard not to notice (and devs commented on it before, so they know about it), it is a "feature" and the manual simply is wrong/outdated. I don't know why they chose to do it the way they did, but I guess it has to do with balancing. Besides, it rarely happens that you build nothing on your planets and if it does, then it's only logical to change your slider and stop social spending altogether or reduce it

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