Which game to play

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A l-o-n-g time ago I bought a GalCiv II disk off a discount rack...ten bucks I think.  Great game.

So I was among the first to buy Gal Civ complete.  Digital download.  Full price brand new which I very rarely do...but Stardock and their game had impressed me.

Because I had an older version on a disk I was able to move the new version onto my gaming computer and play the new version of GCII.  After three months of trying I was finally told 'yeah we included activation by e-mail, and we never said you had to activate on line in any packaging or promotion, but guess what, if you want to play you have to activate on line', so I never played the other two games.  (it should be noted here that one of the game design team made an extensive effort to make it work, all the while pointing out that the problem was in Stardock's 'Impulse' system, not the game itself)

Now I intermittently hook my game computer to the internet to activate games, and I dusted off the old e-mail notification and installed these games I paid for 5 years ago.

And I find that it is possible to play the campaigns from all three games in the TotA game, which seems the by far most advanced game as far as gameplay options, interface, pretty much everything.

So is there any reason to play the older systems, or should I just go directly to TotA?

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The biggest reason for playing one of the older games (Dark Avatar to be precise) is, that the new tech trees and the planetary improvements in TotA have quite a lot of bugs. This also affects the AI. In fact, one of the AI personalities can be considered broken, while another one is borderline so. If you only play casually, you will probably not notice most, if any, of this. However, if you are more of a hardcore player, then you will definitely notice it.

That said, there are four mods that fix most of those issues:

MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod

Tolmekian's TechTree Fix

Altarn's Polished Twilight

and Autumn Twilight by me. 

If you want to play the campaigns, then you will definitely want to use Autumn Twilight, because the DL and DA campaign haven't been properly updated to work with TotA. One of the DL missions is impossible to win, due to this, unless you wipe out everyone, including your allies. I fixed this and a lot of other bugs, so you should have no problem playing the campaigns now.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

What he said!

I have DL and DA, but never bought TA for the reasons he stated.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It's been four years!


And TotA still has bugs?


This seems difficult to fathom.

Sounds like modding is in my future.