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Reply to A pictorial history of the Templar Navy in Game Talk Stardock Forums

That is absolutely impressive

Reply to Economics in gaming II in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Here are 3 things that folks can do to heighten the awareness of the retailers: 1. Actually place orders for the game if they are not on the shelf (and of course finish the transaction when they come in.) 2. Send a letter or Email to the sales dept of the chain to the effect of: " I am a (regular / consistant / or some other term for how often you patronize them) customer of (chain) for my gaming purchases. When I went to your store in (location) to find Galacti

CTD ver 1D1.008 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had a lockup that required me to Task Manager out of the 3rd campaign. Didn't have Smart Exception loaded at the time and couldn't copy over the Windows error report details. System is a 3 month old Dell 610. Here is the Debug.err info: Debug Message: Version v1.0D-1 Digital: Bonus Pack last updated on: Fri Feb 24 12:35:33 2006 Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 2/27/2006, 20:25:40 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.0

Reply to GalCiv2 Fleet Combat Simulator in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Nice work

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

So far, having a good time with the game - but to answer the call.... Suggested Tweaks: Reitierate ability to go to ship design - outside of game? - and design using all techs/hulls to set up sequence without taking time from game. (Edit - Just saw Duel of Gods workaround) Ability to save games & other files somewhere other than My Docs folder - have had issues in the past with XP profile corruption which also FUBAR'd the My Docs folder. Add a field in

Reply to STICKY: Player Reviews! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

It's a bit early to give a comprehensive review, but... Graphics are great except for some minor flickering of cursor and cutscenes Shipyard is a bit tough for us aethesticly impaired folks to use for "good looking" ships - but since the game only worries about what's on the ship, basic building works fine (besides, as the Admiral or even the Emperor I only worry about spec sheets - fitting this stuff on the ship is what minions are for <img src="http://

Reply to Why are YOU not playing yet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

It's 1535 Central time and the servers are so tied up that the games folder on SDC is a perpetual flashlight. And then doesn't indicate an update is available

Reply to Star trek mod in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You mean *Terminus*, not Trantor, don't you? Depends on whether you want the 1st or 2nd Foundation - Harry developed his theories on Trantor and then set up Terminus to shorten the Dark Ages after the fall of the Galactic Empire - Great series

Reply to How to create Backup of Preloaded in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Archive .AND. then burn to CD/DVD. IME all computers sooner or later crash - offline backups are only prudent (and saves on the weeping & gnashing of teeth )

Reply to TOTALLY IMMORAL! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

"rub it in the faces of the general public that you are playing the game prior to retail release, provided you do not disclose any aspects of the game that are not considered to be public knowledge and have not been provided to the media in an official press release..." LOL <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd_com/smil

Change Save Game location? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Is there any way to change the location of the savegame files? I really try to avoid the use of My Docs - had a profile corruption one time that FUBAR'd the entire subdirectory under Docs & Settings (XP pro SP2)

Reply to DOWNLOAD WOES! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

FEEDBACK: I had the problem earlier of only seeing the galciv2 beta files in the demo section even after downloading the new SDC around 4PM. Went back out at ~ 6PM and was prompted to reload the SDC that I had loaded before - restarted SDC and saw the Galciv2 files back in the purchased section (old TGN #) with the new files. Download went great - main files at ~ 850KB, Tutorials started at ~1900 then @ 25% went to ~ 1500, same for movies and redown

Reply to Ok I have to ask.......... Dont kill me..... :) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

One of the best hard-core SF books I've read is Robert Forward's Dragon's Egg . Any collaboration by Niven & Pournelle is good reading as well. For farce and a view of political correctness taken to extremes see Keith Laumer's "Retief" series. And if you REALLY like punny reading see Piers Anthony's "Xanth" series and Robert Aspirin's "Myth" series ( Myth Adventures , Hit & Myth , Another Fine Myth , etc.) I better stop here before I get long winded. <img src="h

Reply to Masochists wanted: GalCiv preloading this week. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Postulate to Murphies law: Murphy was an optimist. I always knew this as Brian's Collorary to Murphy's law Better polish up the old fiber-optic lines & tune those multiplexers - that withdrawing tide of traffic is the sign of 'something this way

Reply to Preparing for release day in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Good Stuff Backstory info - is both entertaining and hopefully an insight into the AI psychology

Reply to OK, I'm dumb. Somebody explain to me what the Metaverse is. in Metaverse Stardock Forums

You can design ships, but you cannot add new components/hulls to the game as I did with the "Orbital Platform" mod I demonstrated Thanks for the clarification

Reply to Ship Designing in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well, it is impossible to fleet starbases with ships That's an idea - couldn't the Orbital Fleet Mgr work with starbases as well?

Reply to OK, I'm dumb. Somebody explain to me what the Metaverse is. in Metaverse Stardock Forums

Question generated by the "Planetary Defense" thread - Does the term "no mods" include no different ships than are in the basic game? Or can you use personally (or by someone else) designed ships?

Reply to How long have you been playing the Galactic Civilizations series? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I forget how I found out about the GC1 demo - liked it, went looking for the retail version, found it about a year & 1/2 ago. Then found out about Stardock Central and Dregrin.net/TGN. Joined TGN last year, never looked back. Been a wargamer for many moons - cut my teeth (so to speak) on Blitzkreig and other AH boardgames... Opponents come and go, but a good AI is always there to keep you on your toes.

Reply to GETTING THE GAME FAQ HERE!!! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Third Griffin's question - even if we were latecomers to the beta.

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

One of my main Laptops is a Dell 610 with "Mobile Intel(R) 915GM, 910GML Express Chipset Family"(from Device Mgr). Will this be an issue?

Reply to WTF sales tax...... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm glad I live in UK, sounds like too much of a hassle No, you have to pay VAT on most if not everything - which is more than most if not all of the US sales taxes <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-Tab

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

How does one access the California server??? SDC Tools-Settings-Internet has a selection box

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

Well Said! Particularly the part of avoidance via reload of a save game. The idea is to pursue a well thought out strategy and see how it goes - having an unavoidable/undefendable monkey wrench thrown into the mix detracts from the challenge.