Suralle

Reply to Ship Designing in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I have a thought on this, now that I have had a second cup of coffee. How many of you win through any of the four ways to win either Galactic Civilizations 1 and/or 2 (B/G) on a consistent basis on or above the intelligent level? Not very damn many I would suspect. Why is that, well Frogboy sums it up. Stardock is known worldwide for their extremely capable artificial intelligences. The same AI that is or has run the battle sequence a couple of million times faster than

Reply to Get your system ready for GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Just as a heads up, the biggest problem I had with the Geforce 5200 (and CariElf will testify to this) is the sprite use and just general recognition of resolution, both of which seemed to have been worked out by the December time from of 05. Unless something has changed, the comp at home sets up automatically for 4X antialiasing and I left it there and seems to have no problem with the Beta, graphics good, no jerkiness, combat video a blast to watch. Given the reduction of the footp

Reply to FYI on Pre-orders!! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

In response to the following: I strongly rcommend not buying from Walmart. There strong anti-union and racist and sexist policies in promotions are a turnoff to all who toil for a living and expect better. Walmart is really exploiting Chines labor and possibly prisonlabor as well, though I have not confirmed that specific detail yet. They have huge factories

Reply to Early Download in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Makes you almost want to move to Guam, USA doesn't it. Course, almost all the updates on products I have seen Stardock come out with are ready some time after 5:00 pm eastern time (GMT -5, currently). So now that I think about it, maybe the Guam thing isn't all it is cracked up to be. W/R Suralle

Reply to Really annoying... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I have read that somewhere by one of the dev folks (Frogboy, I think) that allies do not have to go to war with you if your the non-aggressor ie: On the defensive in the new version of the AI. On the other paw though, you have been fobbing off attempts from the Drengin, Yor and Arcean for advanced technology in mass drivers for the last 30 weeks. One-on-One they are no match for you. Two fronts stretch you out leaving a glaring opening for the third ally to come in the proverbial ba

Reply to GalCiv 1 in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

There is plenty of good people around. And plenty of us that would just as soon have you over for lunch. W/R Suralle Straykat Kat Lord @ Large Bring some dessert wine btw, preferably something that goes with... pink.

Reply to Alliances Should Extend the Range of My Warships in Diplomacy Stardock Forums

Does that UP event where your allies all get to use their allies respective starbases allow that? I always vote no on it. If they want a starbase in my sectors to use then they can pay for it their damn selves is my read on it. W/R Suralle

Reply to Can't reinstall game in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The chat room hosts at SDC can reset your activation OS2Wiz, they did if for me a couple of weekends ago.

Reply to Can't reinstall game in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

1st - make sure you have the latest build of SDC. 2nd - try changing to the California server 3rd - cross yer claws and pray to the supreme being in charge of all Kat Lords. W/R Suralle Straykat Kat Lord @ Large

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Good to see you got at least what I got now OS2WIZ. W/R Suralle

Reply to Is it ok to DL the lates updates? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Subject [#BHT-678619]: Little help with the d/l of GC2 MM pack please Smith, Kirk, Your ticket has been received. One of the staff members will review it and reply accordingly. A response to your ticket could take up to four business days. Our office hours are from 9:00am to 4:00pm EST Monday through Friday. Listed below are details of this ticket. Please make sure the Ticket ID remains in the subject at all times. Ticket ID: BHT-678619 <br/

Reply to Is it ok to DL the lates updates? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I would archive first. W/R Suralle

Reply to Some graphics looks bad on high res in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I thought I read that only the terran type colony ship was supposedly a high res image in the beta? Anyone else? W/R Suralle

Reply to Query on Pre-order. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Depends on the local laws as to where your shipping. I was on a mission down in Chile once repairing an electronic system aboard a sub. Well to make a long story short, the part I needed arrived but the airlines wouldn't release it to me due to the +200 customs fee that was owed on it. Turned out the Chilean govt had deamed anything with a cathode ray tube (CRT) was or could be used in a commercial application therefore there was this huge fee for having it enter the country legally

Reply to How do I get the already purchased beta? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

www.stardock.com About 1/3 of the way down the left side, do the download. Requires your stardock email address and password. Soon as you have installed, click the icon. SDC should load and have about 12 updates or so. Let it do its thing, which includes a restart. Make sure you have the california server selected, it seems to be more up to date and stable (settings, internet) update applications and select show prerelease versio

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Just to add fuel to the fire here is the end report I get -- [Installation] --------------------------------------------------- Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1 Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2_Multimedia.xml 1 Download: C:\Downloads\gc2_Multimedia.sdc 0 (attempt: 1, The Url is invalid, code: -14) Downl

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

What I cannot get to install on my desktop or laptop is either of the multimedia files 1.0.041 (Chicago) or 1.0.042 (California) I continue to time out and receive probably the same error as you which is the... blah de blah url -14 sdczip.xxx failed to install. Here is my read on what is going on with the entire GC2 on Stardock Central beta download. There is a cross up of files posted by SDC on which file/folder is for Gamma folks and which ties to just the poor cuzins who preorde

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You don't have to believe me. Let me tell you something one of my old Commanding Officers told the Executive Officer one day. CO: "XO, I really don't give a shit whether you like it or not. I am telling you how it was done, how were going to do it and guess what?" X0: "Yes, Cap'n?" CO: "I have already made captain, I am and have already commanded a nuclear power attack submarine, so in this case and in the future I believe I am immeniently more qualified to mak

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Took me 3 times before I was able to get the beta to fully extract on my desktop. Good luck, Suralle

Reply to uninstalling the beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Oops! What if I inadvertently uninstalled SDC? Go back to the website and d/l + install it again. SDC will update when you restart it, restart itself, than you can go in and do your stuff, the deed, take em out... sorry out of Katnip. Good luck. Suralle

Reply to Bad Aspects of the game in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Why nova the sun? Just have some solar flares every now and than. Total disruption of communications results in a 75% loss of research, 66% loss of manufacturing and a loss of say 10% of the population! In the words of my old warefare instructor, KISS! Realistic and to the point, provides an "OH NO!" appeal and for those folks that like to horn all of the racial goodies on one planet... you know who you are Mr./Ms. I got a PQ 19 planet and I am going to put my c

Gamespy has the Gamma Questions in Research GalCiv2 Forums

"All of a sudden older technology becomes more viable because it miniaturizes and gets cheaper, allowing the player to crank it out quicker." I am not exactly sure what question to ask on this one. Its still early here and I am only on my second cup of java. For example: Laser 1 Size 11 w/10% mini = Size 10 w/+15% mini = Size 8 w/+25% mini = Size 6 w/+25% mini = Size 3 Not that you would want to bring a laser to a disruptor/gra

Reply to 'Extra' componant direction changers not removable in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I have seen a similar problem and basically had to go back and start over from scratch on my design. From what I have gleaned from folks in gamma and corporate entities though ship design is far better and more intricate in gamma than what we see in beta. See previous post that I made about mass drivers fitting backwards for a spoof on it. W/R Suralle

Reply to Problem Downloading Beta in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

One thing to try before all else that I have come across is to change the server, the setting is in there for Chicago or California. Try the other one. Had a similar problem a few days ago, so did quite a few folks actually. Just had to wait until Stardock got the gamma stuff unmixed with the beta stuff I believe. Still do not have multimedia on my desktop. Which is probably because it looks to me (version wise) that the multimedia being displayed for d/l is the gamma version.<br/

Reply to Solar Systems? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Same, you can change the names if you can colonize them but the names follow the primary until then. Can always mod of course. W/R Suralle