3 PM EDT is 1900 UTC. Now everyone can use their zone number (+5 or -7 or whatnot) another hour and 24 minutes (give or take problems). Also, someone on the galciv chat channel is saying Steam is being cranky. don't know how true this is.
I'm there now.
It is now 10:08 AM PDT and nothing from Steam yet.
UTC +7 is midnight Daylight Savings Time when it is 10:00 am PDT (UTC -7)
[quote who="scruffitude" reply="25" id="3452185"] I activated my key on Steam and it didn't say "Galactic Civilizations 3" or anything like that. I'm going to assume for the moment that this is because the thing isn't technically available. But did anyone else have something like this happen?[/quote] Same here. Mine says "Steam Sub 37746".
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="16" id="3451960"] I am wondering how long do we have to be online, before we don't have to be online with steam?[/quote] If you are asking how long it will take to down load the first Alpha build, try this formula: total code size * 8 / (your suppliers rated speed * 90% ) / 60 -
[quote who="ozmono" reply="4" id="3451934"] Quoting Replicators, reply 3 I wish SD would give us an ETA They already have If they stick by it, it's only hours away. No biggie.[/quote] They also said if nothing goes wrong. (Just a small sheet anchor, just in case.)
[quote who="Fate" reply="1" id="3451924"] I'm 12 hours into the day already, the waiting continues Fate,[/quote] Ouch guy. I think you have at least another 8 hours from what the Stardock guys said. It is only midnight in Michigan (UTC - 4). I often thought it was neat to be on the early time zones of the day, but I guess this is one of the draw backs.
Since there is nothing we can do until we get our "Steam" key from StarDock, I am watching my email like a hawk. [e digicons]:time:[/e]
[quote who="Fate" reply="23" id="3451899"] Quoting Werewindlefr, reply 21SE Michigan, Stardock-town, EST. Available many hours while recovering from the end of grad' school. As an Australian I have no idea what "EST" means, please remove some of that american arrogance and add a UTC timezone Fate,[/quote] I really think it is more that most US citizens don't know or understand about the current Prime Meridi
[quote who="satoru1" reply="146" id="3451881"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 144 Anyone know if it releases at midnight? I work a graveyard shift job, but have Wednesday nights (into Thursday mornings) off. I'll be asleep Thursday afternoon, and have to work Thursday evening :/ Would be nifty (as in bragging rights ) to use my nocturnalist life to have first crack among my fellow Elite founders to catch the first wave of alphabugs. Kinda unlikely.
[quote who="satoru1" reply="142" id="3451847"] One more day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddP8AAIGTQ Sorry can't resist[/quote] WOW. Very appropriate. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, you go daddio.
It's too bad you don't have shots of GC for OS2. That would truly be nostalgic.
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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="7" id="3451772"] Quoting Gaunathor, reply 44. They are telepathic. The Drengin can sense pain and anguish, and are absolutely ecstatic about experiencing it in others. They're don't like experiencing pain themselves, however. (Except for the researchers. Pain makes them think better.)[/quote] Are you sure you don't mean "empathic"? That's what this sounds like. Telepathic means being able to read another's thoughts and
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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="4" id="3451665"]4. They are telepathic. The Drengin can sense pain and anguish, and are absolutely ecstatic about experiencing it in others. They're don't like experiencing pain themselves, however. (Except for the researchers. Pain makes them think better.)[/quote] Are you sure you don't mean "empathic"? That's what this sounds like. Telepathic means being able to read another's thoughts.
Go to the "Store" tab at the top. That will take you to the screen where you can buy the Elite Founder's package.
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That's OK, DARCA. I have seen it happen too many times that a fan's statements were taken as a dev's commitment, so I just wanted to protect some poor unwitting fan from disappointment.
[quote]Apparently according to canon, Class 6-8 planets are the "Northern Michigan" of planet types?!? It wasn't THAT bad when I was there [/quote] When were you there? When I was there the summer was warm and pleasant (or so I was told. I worked the midnight shift and slept through it that day [e digicons]:grin:[/e] ), and the winter had two separate week long stretches of -40 degree cold. Even without calculating wind chill into it.
[quote who="satoru1" reply="31" id="3451583"]Civ4 had corruption and by and large it was considered one of the weakest elements in Civ4.[/quote] They also had corruption in Civ III, along with pollution, and between them they totally crippled the larger maps.
At 1.8 GB (about 14.4 Gb), if it doesn't grow in the next work day, Here is a rough estimate of download times IF you can get the full bandwidth for the entire download: 50 Mbps (less 10% for overhead) = 320 seconds = 5.333+ minutes 20 Mbps (less 10%) = 800 seconds = 13.333+ minutes 12 Mbps (less 10%) = 1333.333+ seconds = 22.222+ minutes 7 Mbps (less 10%) = 2285.714+ seconds = 38.095+ minutes 3 Mbps (less 10%) = 5333.333+ seconds = 88.8888+ minutes
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[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="54" id="3451548"] but will be in expansions and future DLC's.[/quote] DARCA, do you really have any authority to get any, let alone all, of these ideas included as you say? I am sure StarDock will consider all of them, but it seems they, not you, are who will be making the decisions. Or have you been in direct contact with StarDock about this list of ideas?
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="22" id="3451522"]The Ultimate Edition includes DL and both expansions. You can even play DL (or DA), instead of TotA, by using the GalCiv2.exe in the main game-folder (or the GC2DarkAvatar.exe in the DarkAvatar subfolder). The folder you referred to earlier contains the data for DL. The correct folder for TotA would have been C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English.[/quote] <
[quote who="antibor" reply="124" id="3451509"]T4300[/quote] Ah yes. The Pentium dual core. And at the time, quite fast at 800 Mhz. Certainly it is a bit late to get a new one before the Alpha ships, but since your wife wants a new one anyway, .... But I think you are going to have a real bottleneck with page swapping with GC3, since you only have 3GB ram.
[quote who="bornloser" reply="95" id="3451503"] I never understood the purpose of starbases in Galciv 2. There are no chokepoints in space so I just built one or 2 on trade routes and rarely upgraded them. From the sounds f things hopefully I can use them as poor man's planets now.[/quote] I used them on trade routes to increase my empire's income. They were also usable to increase the production of your planets, or to mine resources in space that improved yo