uglycow

uglycow

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Reply to Crash - in battle viewer in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had something similar to that, when I attacked a star base. After fiddling around with the options dealing with the battle settings ckeck boxes I discovered that if I unchecked the box labeled "always watch players ships in full battles" then the game doesn't freeze and battles work like they're supposed to, but every time I have that checked the game freezes. That topic I made has for some reason disappeared.

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Problem with choosing to research "cure plauge" and workaround in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I got a random event in the game, I assume it was a mega event, where a plauge strikes everyone. I was told the only hope for each civilization is to research "cure plauge" or "plauge cure". I went into the research screen and it didn't show up on the list. I then looked on the tech tree link window on the same screen but at the bottom. I was able to find it and click on it and research it that way. I already had the prerequiste for it.

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Reply to Space Mining in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think a game play improvement needed is the ability to attack mining bases. I tried to do that but nothing happened. It would be cool to reak havoc on the enemies production that way.

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Reply to Cannot use custom saved ships in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I am able to build custom ships. Are you creating your own template of a ship, you know, selecting a block of a certain size and building a ship from scratch? I havn't done that yet.

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Reply to Computer froze during combat(found problem I think) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think I might have found the problem. Good thing the autosave saved the game on the turn I attacked the starbase. It seems that if I have the "always watch players ships in full battles" selected the combat always freezes. I tried with a variation of things regarding battles checked and unchecked and every time that option is checked and I do that battle it always freezes. All the times that option is not checked the battle works like it should. Here is another debug file, this one is after th

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Reply to Computer froze during combat(found problem I think) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Umm... smart exception created a file when interenet explorer crashed and when a game made by lucasarts crashed. Is it supposed to do that? Could it not be creating a file for DA because it is somehow monitoring the wrong programs? I looked in the file that tells what's installed and only stardock stuff is in there, including the directory and .exe name for DA.

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Computer froze during combat(found problem I think) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You guys call this an expansion pack? This is more than an expansion pack. I'm so wowed that I don't care that it froze on me! Ok I was having a battle with two of my fighters against a dread lords starbase that didn't have any weapons or defense. My fighters were just firing and after a few combat rounds everything froze. I could still move the mouse and the music was playing but nothing else. Nothing would respond. This was my first combat. I had smart exception running but becuase my computer

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Reply to Borders! Why not !? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe a new type of treaty option could be created in which no ships can come within 10 movements points, (or however many movement points you want), of the other empire's planets? If they do after that treaty has been accepted it's a declaration of war. And what if it could only affect ships, so starbases already built won't be affected. The influence wouldn't need to be moddified and new starbases couldn't be constructed within 10 movement points of the opposing empire's planets. Does this sou

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SEV is a flop! Glad I preordered Dark Avatar Expansion in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Space Empires 5 was released without even fixing ANY bugs and problems that existed in the demo. They have a post on their forum detailing the 1.07 patch, (as thought it has already come out), but no patch has been released. What a waste of time and money for whoever made SEV. Glad I already pre-ordered the expansion to GalCiv2. I know I had doubts about GalCiv2 when I found out there wouldn't be tactical combat like the space empires series; but after seeing the bugs and untested game of SEV I'

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Question-is miniturization ever going to be fixed? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

A while back a moderator said miniturization would be fixed. He said the component size would stay the same but the mini techs would increase the space on each ship. I was lead to beleive that would be in effect in the 1.31 version, but it is not. The same components take up more space on a large hull than a small hull. So are we going to have to wait for the expansion pack for that to get fixed or do I just have something wrong with my copy of the game?

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Reply to The starting placement of civilizations is very anoying in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Personnally it sounds to me like your exagerating a bit and may need to work on your opening strategy. And you would know because you watch me play, right? Or do you think you have ESP? I don't see another person around me and I doubt your stupid enough to think you have ESP so you REALY don't know what your talking about do you. Another

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Reply to The starting placement of civilizations is very anoying in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have to agree with the OP on this one. It's not the version though, its been that way since... well... uh GC1. Make the hugest galaxy ever, even with few opponents, some fartknocker alien civ will be in the next system over. Ctrl-N is definitely your friend. I still wish to be able to somehow add/edit the init routines and fix it for good. like a simple if/the

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Reply to The starting placement of civilizations is very anoying in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I never mess with the xml code for this reason. Can't mess something up by 'randomly' coding, and then blame the developers. I have this problem very rarely. I HAVE NOT messed with the coding on this game. When i said I have done A LOT of random coding I was talking about ME doing MY own programming NOT related to this game. I have not

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Reply to The starting placement of civilizations is very anoying in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I already stated that I had planets and stars set to abundant. I will also add that habitable planets are set to common. The problem is, (every single game, yes it realy is every single game), on a HUGE map all of the civilizations are cramed into a stupid corner. And then one civilization, different every time, is on the outside of this corner cramming crap and colonizes the rest of the map while I have to plow my way through a bunch of stone age races, (there is not enought room to colonize pl

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The starting placement of civilizations is very anoying in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Does anyone else have this problem. I am using version 1.2. Every time I start a new game on a large, and upwards in size map, I always get placed in a corner with all the other civilizations placed in a semi-circle around me. What the heck!? Basically one civilization is placed outside this circle and they always dominate the map. I'm placed so close to other civilizations that I can see them on my first turn of the game. I just have to move my survey ship one movement point. The only way I can

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