You do know that if you buy the TotalGaming.net membership for $70 and then use 5 of your tokens to pre-order that you can get the beta 2 at any time and also be in Beta 3 when it comes out? That's what I did yesterday and happily played it for like 5 hours straight I know some might
I'm pretty sure you mean The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear. Great books by a great author. LintMan, you are amazing. I've been casually checking the web for the title of that book for about a decade without luck. Once I googled Anvil of Stars , I knew immediately from the cover art that this was the book. Thank you!
Not to hijack the thread, but I've been trying to ID the name/author of a book I read 10 or 15 years ago and I thought maybe someone might be able to help me. It's a story about a group of children who survive the destruction of earth (I believe the story has them on another planet at the time). These kids are then loaded onto an intelligent space ship and sent to exact revenge on the race that destroyed earth. I would've read it sometime in the early 90s, so I can bookmark '92 or so as
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Doh! I guess the fellow I was trying to contact doesn't have PM's enabled. It's a shame. Thank you
Hi guys, Sorry if this is in the wrong place. How do you go about sending a forum member a private message? I see the 'private message' tab, but I don't see an option to actually create a PM. Cheers, meeper
In my opinion, I think SideMancer partially hit the nail on the head when it comes to why I don't consider GalCiv2 a classic. It sounds contradictory, but one of the things that makes this game great is also one of the things that keeps it from becoming a classic for me - namely the perpetual updates (though I suppose expansions could be included in this). Classics don't need continuing tweaks to gameplay. Classics need a patch or two to fix bugs, but seldom need aspects of the core gameplay cha
Something that I've found effective in other games is a prototyping fee associated with producing the first ship of a class. Such a restriction often deters me from creating insanely specialized units, but gives me the flexibility to do so if it's absolutely necessary. - Meeper
In terms of turn-based games that demanded a certain level of tactical/strategic thinking, it'd have to be Desert Commander for the original Nintendo. Under the stricter definition of TBS, I'd have to go with the original Civilization.
I positively agree. IMO, the AI far too freely trades technology. While a fix to the AI itself for this would be admirable and appreciated, I would be happy with a simple option to completely disable tech-trading a'la Civ 4. Cheers,
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I'm all for limiting technology trading for most of the reasons already listed, but one in particular stands out - to encourage the much-hyped weapon/defense specialization for races. To me, one of the simplest methods to encourage specialization may be to renew the tried and true prototype model. Every time a new technology is used (Laser IV, Ion Drives 2, etc) a stiff prototype cost is associated with it. The more units made with a specific technology (or even technology branch), th
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Just to throw my own two-cents in... I've got the game running on my 1.3ghz laptop with a paltry 256mb RAM and a TNT-2 video card. Given that, I find these suggestions that the game is unable to run on lower-spec'd systems completely foolish (if a TNT-2 card can run it, surely a ge5200 can). Cheers!
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