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Reply to Bought ship does not appear when mil. prod. at 0% in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It has to do with game mechanics. Regardless of the cost of a ship, the game always has to devote at least some military production to building it, even if it's just one little shield, and even if it takes just one turn. Without it, it can't be built no matter what you do. All buying a ship does is reduce the cost of the ship to 1 BC anyway.

Reply to DEATH PENALTY in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If some one were to kill one of your family memberd or rape them or harm them in a similar way would you want to see that person dead. Please be honest. Personally i would hunt the SOB down and kill him/her or see him/her hang. ( the Him/her is because I live in a politically correct society and I don't want the Liberalnazis to get on me for discrimination) *puke*[/quote] No, I would not. ... Okay, I take that back. I WOULD feel an instinctive need for reve

Reply to Non-human intelligence: foreign or domestic? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

We--as a species--have already encountered non-human intelligence, in the form of Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, and others. They were different species, and while not quite on our own level, they were close enough that I'd call them non-human sentient beings. Of course, we also had a last contact. As for a new contact, personally, I suspect we'll be defining the legal personhood of A.I.s before anything else.

Reply to FrogBlog: May 2008 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I know you can't change this now, and I'm certainly not asking you to, but I have to say I preferred the older, Hanna Barbara-esque cartoon graphics over these bobble-heads. I know why're you're doing it, but I still honestly feel those looked better. Otherwise though this version of the Political Machine is shaping up to be quite nice looking. Keep it up.

Reply to Who hates EA games in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]EA doesn't make bad games (Ubisoft is the worst, to be honest), EA just makes bad business decisions. They work for them, but they're just the epitome of corporate greed.- Every title must be dumbed-down to appeal to the 'widest market' (meaning console retards) to maximize profits.- If you're trying a new franchise, it must use old concepts. If you're trying new concepts, it must be in an established franchise.- Anything for the almighty dollar - in-game advertising, nasty DRM, 'micropay

Reply to Comparison to Sword of the Stars? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. When you purchase the bundle, you can download the current beta, which is the last beta released, though this beta lacks a significant amount of content being placed into the version to be released in about two days. (Though I honestly have no idea what time Wednesday the game will become available.)

Reply to Approvel crashing - Need help in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That's your problem right there, the population. It is not worthwhile to have populations over twenty billion. You should do something to cull your populations down. I suggest removing something that takes the population limit down to twenty or below on all of your planets.

Reply to PC game piracy hurts us all in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

There are actually a few good aspects to certain elements of game piracy, but only to the elements that pertain to games that are difficult to acquire/made by companies that have since gone out of business. For example, I had a purchased set copy of the various Might and Magic games(the main RPGs), but lost the CDs some time ago. Piracy through file-sharing allowed me to regain a copy, which I think is certainly fair. Unfortunately, this same beneficial aspect also causes a huge number

Reply to Diplomatic consequences of spying? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I call for a bit of in-depth added to the spy system too, for the purpose of diplomatic issues. The AI already recognizes when you pull the trick of placing transports near their planets(I LOVED IT the first time I saw that hilarious "Stop...just stop" message.) I don't see why they couldn't randomly discover where a spy came from too.

Reply to Joystiq Interview with Brad Wardell & Chris Taylor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Exactly. This is how our economy is supposed to work after all, and besides, in my brief experience with Stardock Central, I'm already finding it far better than any other direct download software. It really works wonderfully, and it's great to see Stardock build on it. On the other hand, there was an amusing sense of "We're going to take over EVERYTHING! BWAHAHAHA!" from this quote: [quote]In two years -- or less -- most new PCs will come with Stardock-developed technology and

Reply to [TA beta 6b] An ascension demonstration in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

I was experimenting with ascension victory too. No techs to advance it so far as I've seen. Worse, ascension bases can't even have any sort of defenses or other modules added to them, which means you have to very carefully protect them. You can't lose aura points though, so that's not a worry. As for the number of points, it's one per base, per turn, meaning that you have anywhere from 1000 turns to 200 turns for an ascension victory, and usually somewhere in-between.

Reply to TA 098c[b].001 bugs in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Specifically, I get the error when I return to the game, not when initiating the alt-tabbing. Let me repeat it and grab a screenshot. Interestingly, it seems to only happen if I wait awhile before returning, though I have no idea what that time period is. More than a few moments, at least...to the point where I don't think I'll be able to get a screen shot. But it's just a little error.

Reply to TA 098c[b].001 bugs in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Alt-Tabbing out gives me a fatal error of some sort. Terror Stars almost always have to be selected by clicking on where they had been before they destroyed a star. (Fortunately the ship list selection is unaffected.) In addition, whenever I used something like auto-attack and hit next turn, the turn button would disappear and I'd have to hit space a few times to let the various actions that were supposed to be running finish running and then have the turn happen before the tur

Reply to An Apology To Stardock in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thank you very much, all of you, for your welcoming replies. I didn't expect it...least of all from a Stardock Representative. I'm already enjoying my purchase...and I'm enjoying the game itself in a whole new way again. I hadn't realized just how much this feeling of "It's bad to pirate" has always lingered in my head whenever I had been playing it before, partially ruining the fun. Without that, it's ten times better. It's psychological, and stupid psychological at that, but it's how

An Apology To Stardock in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I will come straight to the point rather than meander with useless babble: I have been playing a pirated copy of Galactic Civilizations II, as well as Dark Avatar. My initial reasons were a stupid feeling of "Why pay when I can get it for free?" After awhile I began to feel bad about it and began to rationalize my piracy as "Well I don't have an income right now anyway so I couldn't really pay them." But it wasn't right. It was wrong to do that no matter how I tried to rationalize it, as

Reply to Gamma Testing: Gameplay Example for Twilight in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

You're right, of course. In any case, TotA is shaping up to be fantastic.

Reply to Gamma Testing: Gameplay Example for Twilight in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Can you give us details about how exactly you died? Oh, and I'm curious about Wyndstar's Thalan concerns as well.

Reply to Twilight Beta 6a in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Does this beta mean it will finally be released soon? I've been somewhat anxious to play it.

Reply to Request: animating ship components! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

While this might seem nice, it would ultimately hog resources. Instead, if possible, once everything essential and important is taken care of, I'd like to see truly distinctive styles for each race. Although each race is given their own style, with their own distinctive ships, all of the races have a set base to work from that ultimately renders the user-created ships appearing identical despite being created for, say, Arcean versus Terran. Only if it's truly possible though. I

Reply to More Twilight Improvements in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

The Healing Pool will be, presumably, as will the Industrial Cluster...I don't know about the other buildings.

Reply to More Twilight Improvements in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Fascinating...you're really doing fantastically well at coming up with improvements that are unique to each race. I can very easily look at each of these and say "That's Terran" or "That's Korath Clan" and so on. Splendid job. Splendid.

Reply to Spin Control Centre Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Okay, thank you. Now I just have to wonder why some of those people in the strategies forum gave me the impression that it could affect the entire empire...

Reply to Spin Control Centre Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

So it only affects one planet, then, not all of the planets?

Spin Control Centre Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've been reading up on various strategies and I notice the Spin Control Centre coming up in several of them. I've never used it before since it didn't seem worthwhile as the game description seems to indicate that it is useful for only one planet. But the strategies all mentioned it having an effect on every planet in your empire. Is this what really happens? If so that means it's much more worthwhile than I thought.