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Reply to Big "Thank You Stardock" for a great game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

di55ec7ion, Living in a (truly) democratic society gives you the right - almost the obligation - to question the rules and laws of that society - and those who you elect to govern your society. It even gives you the right to protest and campaign to change those rules and laws you think are wrong - from simply changing your vote through to more vocal campaigns and even standing for office yourself. This is true no matter how intelligent you are - lets all point fingers at our favourit

Reply to Big "Thank You Stardock" for a great game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Buying after testing is a good principle - which is why you can download a full demo of the game from this very site - [link="http://www.download.com/Galactic-Civilizations-II-Gold-Edition-Demo/3000-7493_4-10696264.html"]demo download[/link] which you can get to from the "Downloads" link on this page. Note that it is a demo of the Gold Edition too. [quote]But the game is relatively rare in germany and theres only DL, not DA to my knowledge.[/quote]This is a simple question, which I hon

Reply to Big "Thank You Stardock" for a great game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well di55ec7ion what would you like - a pat on the back - a free parrot to go with your eye patch? You have just publicly admitted to a criminal offense and think that thanking the victim of that offense and finally getting around to actually paying them for their hard work after you have been illegally using their software (for how long?) makes it all OK. Are you going to send them the interest they would have made if you'd paid when you should have? You also seem to be implying that

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

OK - I've been doing some testing and I am no longer sure that CPU-z is accurate. One thing is for sure, the figures given in the version I am using under "Timing Table" are accurate as far as the latency values etc are concerned BUT they relate to the timings to use under different frequencies than the ones shown in the same column. For my system anyway. SiSoft Sandra reports the timings correctly.

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I don't know PC Pitstop (I'll need to check it out) - another useful tool is SiSoft Sandra. In CPU-z you need to also look at two tabs: "Memory" - The "Timings" section gives the specific BIOS timings currently being used by your system. "SPD" - The "Timings Table" section gives the BIOS timings that your RAM reports as supporting. NOTE: There is a separate set of timings given for each bank of RAM - and they can be different and each bank may support more than one se

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You really should try to ensure that the new memory uses the same BIOS timings as you old ones - even if they are not directly paired with them. Download an application called CPU-z and it will tell you what your current timings are. Either to ensure that you are not wasting money on high speed (low latency) RAM that you wont get the benefit of - or, worse but less likely, slower RAM that could slow your system down. Sorry, if you already know this.

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Your quite right to concentrate on the most probable cause of her problem - and try to help out with that. She has already stated that her "blaming" the game was largely tongue in cheek - it was just the last thing to touch it when it went - if it has in fact gone. But I got a little off topic there - sorry. But I still take issue with calling people clowns and idiots (and no, it's never happened to me in 25+ years of software engineering) for issues that can and do happen which are la

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Zydor, [quote]For software to directly, and be the sole cause of, hardware damage, it would have to be written by an incompetant idiot - and/or be written with malicious intent...[/quote] I agree with the "sole cause of" bit but not the "incompetent idiot" etc. bit. Software is designed, implemented and tested on only a small sub-set of possible system configurations (both hardware and software configurations). Those possible configurations are also expanding hourly as new h

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I have 11 running in my system tray. So, maybe, 10 - give or take 2.[/quote] Well, you definitely need to get rid of a few :) It really boils down to this (for each icon): - do you know what they are and what they do? - are they serving either an essential or useful purpose [B]at this time[/B]? If the answer to either of the above questions is [B]"no"[/B] then they should not be there. [quote]Well, that all depends on the manufacturer, ...[/quote] Almost all P

Reply to TA killed my RAM in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Moosetek13, [quote] A game will not kill ram. Period. A game can put a stress on the system, to be sure. And, to be sure, GalCiv does this because of the intense AI. But the ram (or any other component) will not fail unless it is weak or faulty to begin with, or has inadequate cooling. [/quote] Hmmm - I don't think I totally agree with this statement, this might be splitting hairs but ... Hardware components (RAM, CPU, GPU etc.) are all designed and

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor BETA 1 in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

"Pain Amplification", "Agony Coordination Grid" I don't normally bother with Beta's (too many games to play, too little time) ... but for that I might just change my mind. I have just have to know what follows on - "Technology T...". No, don't tell me - my mind is going into overdrive - and after the day I've had at work, it's placing certain people into numerous nefarious devices. Gnash, gnash ...

Reply to New PC Recommendations in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Here is some general advice. Work out your budget - it all boils down to money. Scan the reviews of the processors and graphics cards - Toms Hardware is a great site for this (hunt out their performance comparison charts for both). I'd recommend picking at least one notch down from the top in both processor and graphics card to reduce the cost by a large amount with a tiny amount of performance loss. Find someone that lets you pick a P

Reply to Poor spread of ethical random events in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Gothfather, Its utter nonsense to expect people to go through hundreds of games and while playing hundreds of games, record data on the random events and then "get back to you." Is it any less nonsense to expect the devs to code a game anticipating that someone would play the game by starting from exactly the same first move every time? And do this for a game which gives you almost complete freedom of choice over the game starting configuration

Reply to Poor spread of ethical random events in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry Godfather, I wasn't meaning to have a go at you and I'm sorry if it came across that way. I was merely trying to point out some alternative reasons that *might* cause the results you are seeing based on my own knowledge and experience. You may still be correct and it may be a bug or at least an undesirable feature, but it could be caused by other factors - only the devs know (or at least have the ability to find out). I realize no-one wants to play 100 complet

Reply to Poor spread of ethical random events in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

As a developer of simulation software I can tell you that you have made one potentially fatal mistake in your sampling technique. You have assumed that the history of the game has no impact on the choice of "random events". This need not be the case for several reasons including the two most obvious: 1) Firstly, and I base this on our software not Gal Civ, the randomness may well be based on a pseudo random sequence which is primed from an initial "seed value". This seed valu

Reply to Request: Please remove off-topic categories from recent posts list in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I agree. I've just come back to Gal Civ after a few months and just picked up a copy of Dark Avatar. I came along here to get back up to speed and learn whats new in the add-on. All I find is unrelated drivel. Please clean it up.

Reply to How does one become a professional programer? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

First and foremost - consider the user. It does not matter if the code you write is the most sophisticated, clever piece of programming ever done by man (or woman!) if it doesn't look and feel good to the user, or doesn't actually do what they want it to do. The above may seem obvious but so many developers get this completely wrong. So, for your project, find a user. Look for friends or family that need or want something that isn't readily (or cheaply) available - ma

Reply to How copy protection creates pirates in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

So then basically you are admitting that you don't do your job well, correct? Nope, I am actually very good at my job. Darkrenown explained it much better than I did, he must have got that A in English As to the time versus money argument, that's all very true and there is also the law of diminishing returns to consider. There comes a point when the

Reply to How copy protection creates pirates in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

There's a heap of interesting stuff in here, mostly the usual arguments back and forth on the subject but some interesting twists. To the person with the Mac and the serious PC/Internet phobia - seek some help. So you had a bad experience once - well I got run over crossing the road many years back and I still cross the road when I need to. To those with the unresolved technical issues - maybe it's your machine. It needn't actually be broken but there are far more different s

Reply to New Thought... in Game Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I've always had this dream where you have a gaming environment within which multiple games can co-exist. Each game can be a fully developed game in its own right, even developed by different companies. As you move from one "arena" to another the new one is primed with the settings from the original. So, as Icecius suggest, move onto planetary invasion and an RTS takes over, switch into the "infantry" eye view and FPS takes over. If you haven't bought one of the game types i

Reply to Fun thing to do with GCII in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

A software engineer responds ... All software is full of bugs. Over the years computer software has become more and more sophisticated often involving millions of lines of code. It is a practical impossibility to test every path through the software and eradicate every bug. Here is a little test for you - try writing a one or two page document (any subject, doesn't matter), read it, correct any errors you spot in spelling or grammer. Now give it to someone else. H

Reply to Updated list of hotkeys in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Have a look in the wiki at this page: https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Keyboard_shortcuts Also this page: https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Cheats_and_keyboard_shortcuts

Reply to New Forums Are Up! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

For those having problems in Firefox: I had to do a shift-reload to get it working. Once I had done that it worked fine from then on, until then it just looked bonkers.

Reply to Things that are wrong in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, it's so temping. As a[nother] software developer from a company who also handle all their own support and discussion forum traffic directly, I know just how irritating posts like this are. I also know how temping it is to tear into them, and frustrating knowing that I'm not allowed cos' I'm from the company. So, Stardock - can I please, please, please tear into him on your behalf - no-one would know. Nah, it's not worth - time to switch off. Let him listen

Reply to Things that are wrong in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Posting on the developers discussion forum 101: The title is the first thing people see - so lets make it good: "Things that are wrong" Hmm, maybe not: "A few ideas that might make the game more fun" See, I said "more fun" - implies it already is fun - they might like me now. "1.Races are all the same, robots Yor eat food, need entertainment etc." Becomes: "1. The races seem much the same to me, a