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Reply to What map sizes are best for the AI? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Frogboy has said the AI is strongest on medium map, scattered stars, abundant inhabitable, 5 AIs. That was for DL.

Reply to Gamespot Hands on Preview of Dark Avatar Beta 1 in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

It's possible he may not have played GC for a while and doesn't remember exactly how everything looked before.

Reply to Patch 1.4 :) its coming in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

StarCraft has been patched 20 times. There are many games that have been patched more than GC2, and many, many more that needed to be but never were. I'm not exactly sure what ES is asking for, and I suspect he doesn't either. At first blush it seems he wants a sort of communism where everyone is brought down to the lowest common denominator to make everything "fair". Back in the old days before the internet I remember some game companies would mail out floppy disks with patch

Reply to The complexities of marketing, publishing, and distributing in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

The ship design interface was completely redesigned post-release, some pretty big changes have gone into those updates. Well, Brad just said it ain't gonna happen. I think people would be more supportive of holding off for more features if they knew what those feature were. People who want it NOW no matter what seem

Reply to The complexities of marketing, publishing, and distributing in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

There is nothing more Disappointing than a game that is rushed out the door and you find out they cut out features just to make a date on the calander. Exactly Most games released just before Chistmas suck.

Reply to The complexities of marketing, publishing, and distributing in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Take as much time as you need. Maybe do a little public beta to appease those who want it NOW NOW NOW. I'll wait. As someone else pointed out, GC2 was released after Christmas and that hasn't hurt it's sales one bit.

Reply to 1.2b Smart Exception email problems in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected] This is why. They put the wrong address in Smart Exception. I noticed this myself several weeks ago and mentioned it on the forum. The correct address is gc2bugs@stardock. com . I wonder how many bug reports they've lost because of this.

Reply to Success... new races in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I found a picture of an alien that should please Skyjack and the other dude:

Reply to Success... new races in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I much prefer humanoid looking aliens. Most people do, which is why that's what you see in most sci-fi. You can't give recognizable (to us humans) facial expression to amorphous blobs. Also, without a humanoid face they could not communicate like humans do which could make dialogue problematic.

Reply to GalCiv2 offering no fun on huge/gigantic maps in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Along with more outrageous random events, there needs to be a everyone likes you less when you are in front. You could call it the USA syndrome or something. Sometimes called Tall Poppy Syndrome

Reply to Please vote kill the Altarians in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I hate the Altarians because their song is the worst I've heard in over 13 years of PC gaming. Heh, I voted for the Torians for the same reason. Damn circus music....

Reply to Apolyton Audio Interview coming.. in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

a half-our audio And half-theirs?

Reply to CariElf, please "kill" auto-select as it's killing me in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

SD slap in a hot key for "move all autopilot moves" while you are at it pretty please This is the one thing I really miss from GalCiv 1. It was the space bar in that game.

Reply to Game Crashes on same turn every time in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

And maybe download SmartException too...

Reply to Much too peaceful galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI won't attack because of your high diplo skill. This appears to have been put in after people who wanted to play as a peaceful civ complained that the game would not allow them to do so ("the AI always attacks me!!!"). The obvious downside to this is that it makes concentrating on diplo techs an easy win even on high difficulties.

Reply to Sometimes evil wins.. in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

i dont know if am going to waste my money on that i think i am waiting for suoreme commander to come out I'm going to waste my money on both.

Reply to Don't Upgrade Display Drivers Using Microsoft Update in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Um, why are you going around bumping every thread you've ever started....

Reply to I'm trying *really* hard to be forgiving... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

BoogieBac, you may want to check Smartexception. When I used it to catch some crashes a couple of weeks ago the address it told me to send the files to was [email protected] instead of .com.

Reply to POLL: Should FP Calculations Round to the Nearest? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It would be better, IMO. I've always wondered why they round everything down.

Reply to Diplomacy + Spin Control Centre = Cheap? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Keep in mind that this tactic was implemented after people complained on the forums that they wanted to play as a peacefull civ, but the game would not let them. Remember all the "why does the game force me to be a warmonger?" threads?

Reply to 1.2: Tie goes to attacker... why? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What would be a better system?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.2 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

let's go through all possible cases : -the computer enter an alliance with you & elimanates all the others => you win a diplomatic victory -the computer enter an alliance without you & eliminates all the others (which means you at least) => you lose whether or not the computer entered an alliance is irrelevant to your lost status ....

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.2 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

+ The AI is now allowed to win via a technology victory. A warning dialog is brought up if the AI is going for that tech...similarly, the AI is now informed when a human player is going for a tech victory. Great change, but does this mean the AI can now also win a diplomatic victory, or are they still disallowed that?

Reply to Tech victory rumours in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just a thought, in order to win an alliance victory, they have to build an alliance with you in it. Hence, you also win. Perhaps that would be the case if it worked, but if an AI civ is allied with every other civ in the game, the game does not end like it would if it was the player's civ.

Reply to Tech victory rumours in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No, they can't, nor can they win by alliance victory. In fact, AI civs are not really allowed to win the game at all. The best they can do is prevent the player civ from winning by taking all his planets.