Lucky_Jack

Lucky_Jack

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Reply to the research 'S' curve in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

3 years? That sounds familiear. Having been in the computer industry from 1967 until I retired at hte end of 1999 I kept hearing those words "it will slow down in xx years". It never happened. It may yet, but I will wait until I see it happen before I believe it will. Cheers, Jack

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Reply to the research 'S' curve in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think this might be true for some techs, like batteries, but not all. Look at the advances in computers since the first electronic one in 1946. The progression has ben nothing but exponential. Cheers, Jack

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Reply to The "posted" column on this forum shows 1hxxm when it should show 0hxxm. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wow. Now I don't know what to say. This thread shows up with 0h07m. The next one shows 1h57m even though I only posted to it 57 minutes ago. I have tried several things to get this thread to show the same error as the other one does, but to no avail. So this must be some kind of an intermittant thing that may be hard to find. Cheers, Jack

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Reply to Alpha release schedule in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think this is a very good plan. "Saved games" is going to be difficult to test and should get a lot of exposure time for testing. There are many things that can go wrong with it in so many ways that need to be tested for that the sooner we can start testing it the better. :) Here is a thought I would like to share that may enhance testing of shared games -- Fill us in on the format of the save file, or provide us with something to view it so we can check that ev

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Do the wincustomize values hold sway here? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just went to Wincustomize to edit my account to get more days of threads here, but it seems to not have changed how many days of threads I get. It was seven days before I changed my account to 50 days and it is still seven days. I am looking for some of the old threads so that I can put closure statements in them. Cheers, Jack

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Reply to Word From the graphics Divison in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Good interview, but then, Brad has always given a good interview. IMO it would have been a good idea to give more content about the story line of the game and some more detail (more indepth) of the differing paths to winning the game to stir more interest. Cheers, Jack

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Reply to The "Posted" column in this forum is incorrect when EST goes past midnight. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Without a "marked read/unread" feature the time since last post has been my only way of knowing whether I have read the latest posts to threads or not. With the current method of marking when a thread was last posted I can no longer tell which threads I want to look at again. It is a big step backwards. At least with the old NG forum we could easily see the new posts. Cheers, Jack

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New galciv.com?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What's the word on the new www.calciv.com? Are we supposed to switch over there now or are we supposed to stay on this one? I notice that the threads from here are already over there (or is it all the same entity with different pointers pointing into it?). Cheers, Jack

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Reply to A big thanks to everyone! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I like Paul's imagination too. But... lets remember that this is a _NEW_ GalCiv, re-written from the ground up. Some things are going to have to come later, else GalCiv will never exit the building. Brad has built a schedule for development and shipment. He _MUST_ contain the design in order to meet that schedule. 1). Let's continue to give new ideas -- ---BUT--- 2). Let's not expect them all in the first release. Cheers, Jack

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