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Reply to Epic/Steam Achievements, those working and those that are broken in GalCiv IV Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I have tried and tried and cannot get the Breeding Season or Shard of Mithralar challenges to appear on my challenge list to attempt to do them. Over 600 hours and so far I've just been banging my head over and over trying to knock out these achievements. Also, losing by your own terror star doesn't award the one to lose by _a_ terror star. Am I really going to have to do this in multiplayer or hope an AI civ gets to terror stars and defeats me that way? That seems... impractical.

Reply to Political Machine 2020? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Thank you!

Political Machine 2020? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

I see there is no section for The Political Machine under Games here, and no news on a 2020 version. Will a 2020 version of the game be coming out?

Dropped the ball on my founder perk in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I named a star as part of the founder's perk. Years later, after never seeing it, I search the star list (that is, the file, StarNamesText.xml). It's not in there. Now, I remember there being some debate about the name because a Google search would turn up it has intellectual property attached to it. I identified myself as the owner of that IP when questioned on it and sent an email from the domain name of that IP to prove as much. This seemed to satisfy the issue at the time and I wa

Reply to Planetary Soil Upgrade in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Huh, well I guess I can't complain about a research that benefits most of my planets if it occasionally is no benefit for a rare mega planet. Thanks, BuckGodot.

Planetary Soil Upgrade in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I often have certain planets I can't place planetary soil upgrades on (there are no tiles to choose from to place it), is this a bug?

Reply to Yor - Assembly in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Gotcha, thanks for the reply.

Reply to Yor - Assembly in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I see, thanks. Is this a new bug or has it been around for quite a while?

Yor - Assembly in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The Yor project "Assembly" doesn't require a tile and I don't think it's supposed to, however, I cannot use it if there are no free tiles, forcing me to leave a tile open at all times if I want to be able to grow pop. Is this intended behavior? Seems odd to both require and not require a tile.

Reply to Someone tell Stardock there are no contrails and no smoke in space in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

There is also no sound in space either, but I doubt we want no sound effects anywhere in battle, etc. ;)

Reply to Twilight/Arnor Crashes Immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

FYI, I fixed the problem by uninstalling GC2, DA and TA then reinstalling them again. I hadn't realized it earlier, but somehow DA was stuck in limboland, half installed, half not, and I could not reinstall it, so I gutted everything and reinstalled and all seems well now.

Reply to Twilight/Arnor Crashes Immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Done. I mailed a log earlier after I had to reboot. I'll paste a link to this one here. [link="http://www.rmondy.com/stardock/ExceptionLog.zip"]ExceptionLog.zip[/link]

Reply to Twilight/Arnor Crashes Immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Changed as instructed to: DisplayWidth=1600 DisplayHeight=1200 ColorDepth=32 Fullscreen=0 Still crashing at the same point, right after the intro movie. Debug.err below: Debug Message: Version v1.96 Twilight of the Arnor last updated on: Tue Jun 24 17:37:47 2008 Debug Message: Could not query reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE\Stardock\ComponentManager\Drengin.net value named Serial No Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********

Twilight/Arnor Crashes Immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have read the sticky posts - I am using a 1600x1200 resolution with 32-bit color for the desktop. I have plenty of page file space (max allowed under Win XP). I am using an ATI Radeon X1900XTX with the latest drivers. I just recently bought the game so I can't say it ever worked so far. As soon as the intro movie ends, the game crashes. I installed SmartEx but when it catches the crash, it makes it impossible to alt tab, ctrl alt del or otherwise get out of the GalCiv2 window. I did see the

Reply to TotalGaming.net is Transitioning to Impulse in TGN News Stardock Forums

There's nothing more insulting to any employee than to have someone say, "WE pay YOUR salaries!" I wish the token system had stayed too, but I don't think that SD is committing a cardinal sin by changing their business model. And, I think they could survive fine if I wasn't personally buying a game once in a while to "pay their salary", too. ;) I think the design of impulse is slick. What I haven't seen mentioned by anyone is the value of having a program that is a bit more rel

GC2.SDC - Eternal Download? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I went to re-install GC2 on my system... hadn't run it since I did a fresh windows XP install. SDC showed a lot of old info - old last updated dates, was missing newer products, even after reinstalling SDC. I reloaded my XML data and changed servers and SDC updated this time. However, GC2 won't install. It downloads GC2.SDC to 100%, then starts it over again and does this ad nauseum. It did this before I got SDC updated, too. I tried selecting the options to delete f

Reply to Review of Hostile Takeover (book) in Politics PolMach Forums

I hardly think one "bad liberal" is representative of the whole. If that's how we should view politics, let's analyze the number of republicans in corruption and other scandals vs. democrats.

Reply to Error patching GC2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

FYI, the last post on this was 4 days ago, but this problem continues today. It looks like I was able to resolve by installing each module seperately. The "Removing temporary files" for Heightmaps step took an extraordinarily long time but it appears to have completed and as far as I can tall, GC2 is up to date now.

Reply to And the survey says... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'd rather see the next update focus on tightening all the bolts in the game, too. New features are awesome, but I don't mind waiting for them, or paying for new expansions, etc. Not that I'd want all new features to be in an expansion of course, but I think SD proved with DA that they can make an expansion that includes a lot of new stuff. I think that adding new stuff is undermined by bugginess in the product though, so I'd love to see a dev pass that simply addresses known bugs/issues, includ

Reply to What's the funniest thing you have seen on these forums? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I thought the Sims was pretty entertaining until I realized what I was doing and asked myself why I was spending hours playing house and flirting with myself. I do think that it's a high quality game in terms of art, music and mechanical detail, though.

Reply to The most dangerous people alive. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, well even with a basic "arts" degree, you should be able to pull in at least $10/hour. I recently graduated from college, and I've already got such a job. How does anyone live on $10/hour? I was making that much fresh out of high school with no degree fifteen years ago. If you've got a degree of any kind and the best you can pull in is $10/hour, you wasted a lot of time and money on a degree.

Reply to AI cheating on first turn (buys more than one social improvement per planet) ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You may as well drop it, this is not going to go anywhere. Only SD knows how much work would be needed to fix this bug, and if they say, "well we could, but you'd have to give up other cool new features", then the conversation is over because SD has declared a preference, and they've also given enough incentive to ensure other players won't agree enough to change their mind by comparing a single bug fix to "new features".

Reply to Custom Races in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I humbly suggest IrfanView as a light graphics application, primarily for sizing, cropping and converting images. www.irfanview.com

Reply to Stardock, I'm Disappointed in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the reply. Rest assured that I won't make the mistake of believing I am any more than a dollar sign to you, and I will likewise not make the mistake of hoping to be treated as anything more than such by you in the future. Had I realized this beforehand, I would have saved you the trouble of this entire thread. Regards,