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[quote who="antibor" reply="6" id="3451500"] Or sharing them via the GalCiv 2 Library ...[/quote] Yep. Forgot about that. Which starts me wondering, will the sharing be via Steam somehow, or will it be via a new StarDock library for GalCiv 3? Maybe this will be another wait and see thing.

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[quote who="sansin00" reply="58" id="3451493"] I gotta ask cause I haven't seen anything about it yet can you say if we will be able to create custom factions in the final version, like we could in Gal Civ 2 Dread Lords? I understand if you can't say but I couldn't resist asking.[/quote] I think they have announced custom factions, certainly the fan base has been talking a lot about it.

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Nothing has been said other than that they will give us notice. I would speculate that the notice will be one or two weeks.

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[quote who="AppleNitrox" reply="53" id="3451454"] 27th so close! I cannot wait! Actually, quite ignorant question for which I am sorry but I didn't fully follow the topic. Is it said at what time the Alpha keys will be out?[/quote] Nobody has said anything yet, but since they are in Michigan (UTC -5 +1 DST) I would guess it will be either midnight their time (4:00 UTC) or 8:00 their time (12:00 UTC) provided they don

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Another point about overclocking, I have learned that at least some CPU manufacturers (one in particular, Intel) have also put into their circuitry protection against overheating. It reduces clock speed if a certain temperature is reached, usually about 80% of TjMax.

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The ships in this video are amazing. And they were all designed with the GC2 ship designer? WOW. I wish we had a way of sharing ships in GC2. Oh, that's right. We did, kinda. The ship designs were saved in discrete files and we could send those files to each other.

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[quote who="kryo" reply="20" id="3451412"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 11I found the star name list for GC2 on my PC at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Data\English. You'd want to use the TA version of the list, that's the DL version.[/quote] How can that be? I have never loaded the DL version of GC2 on this PC. And that file I listed came from what Steam has for GC2 ultimate, and th

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[quote who="treborblue" reply="120" id="3451385"]I'm not really into overclocking, does it make all that much difference?[/quote] I really don't think so. Many people talk about overclocking their CPUs, but when I watch the monitor for mine, I see the clock speed changing constantly. I don't know what causes this, but the temperature is not the reason, as it is staying below 30 Deg. C.

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TWO MORE DAYS!!!!!

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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="37" id="3451324"] Well my first question have they decided to fix the random events, and planetary exploration in a way that any choice besides antogonistic will be a more fair option, or is the biggest benefit when you decide what to do is evil, or is it more fair. Another question is as far as the factions goes are the tech trees more equal like for instance a more equal number of wonders per faction, if a faction has diffe

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[quote who="Avatar137" reply="33" id="3451316"] Quoting jim_viebke, reply 30 Best two minutes of my week so far! It looks like you Stardockians are doing a great job. Quoting WIllythemailboy, reply 28First thing I noticed: they apparently ditched the mobility hit for going through asteroids. Oh how many of my fleets have taken the wrong path. I won't be missing that. Just remember, it's an "alpha" and thi

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="115" id="3451317"] Quoting sulley1, reply 113Is this a laptop or desktop? Desktop right? [/quote] When I looked at the Intel website this chip set (i7-4770k) was described as part of the Desktop processor series, so if he got it on a laptop I would be shocked.

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[quote who="sulley1" reply="113" id="3451181"]Is this a laptop or desktop? Desktop right?[/quote] When I looked at the Intel website this chip set was described as part of the Desktop processor series, so if he got it on a laptop I would be shocked.

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[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="15" id="3451247"] On a similar subject. I found out we get a special thanks in the credits, will that be our real names or screen names? I hope it's our screen names.[/quote] Actually, I hope it is our real name, or perhaps ( ). Otherwise how am I going to convince friends and family that Lucky_Jack is me, when they don't know me as Lucky_Jack when I show them my name in the credit list?

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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="168" id="3451231"]These values are all set out in data, that modders will have access to later, which should be fun.[/quote] Interesting. Am I reading this correctly? Am I missing something? It looks like mormegil is saying that modders will have access to the size of the current galaxy, which I can understand may be needed for some decisions a mod's logic may have to make, but he doesn't say explicitly that a

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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="3" id="3451207"] Cool video! Needs moar details! Moar length! MOAR everything![/quote] "Moar"?? It is obvious you don't mean "more", so what do you mean? Is this an acronym of some sort?

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[e digicons]:grin:[/e] You forgot the brain muscle exercises. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="157" id="3451074"]I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you will be able to mod map sizes in Galactic Civilizations 3, meaning you can probably generate much larger maps than what we had before (Immense).[/quote] Do you remember where StarDock mentioned this? And don't forget, the game will be validating any mods, purely out of self defense in what it can handle, if for no other reason.

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[quote who="danielvr" reply="105" id="3450837"] After seeing all the configs here, I'm afraid my 2+ year old laptop will not be enough Win 7 Home Premium (64bits) i7-2670QM 16GB RAM 1.5GB Geforce GTX 570M 2x500GB 7200RPM (RAID 0) [/quote] Looks more than adequate to me. I don't know why you would spend money for a new computer before trying it out.

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[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="99" id="3450693"]A non upgradable motherboard (There is no reason to find out what it is) 4GB ram[/quote] If you run DxDiag you can get more information about your system. You really need to let us know what model CPU and display card you have before we can give you any help, and DxDiag will give that to you.

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[quote who="Seilore" reply="6" id="3450700"] has anyone else wondered if Stardock gives tours though their building? That would be cool I think. yes?[/quote] I visited them many years ago (2003 or 2004 I think) and they showed me around the place and introduced me to people. I don't see why they wouldn't do the same for anyone else that messaged ahead.

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[quote who="Tonath" reply="19" id="3450637"] I do think all strategy games need a way to make the AI turn into a big threat once you start to gain too much of a lead, they should put aside their rivalries and start to ally or even unite completely to counter you like in EUIV coalitions forming when you become too aggressive.[/quote] Wow. I do agree that this looks like a way to spice up the end game, but this does look like a formula guaranteeing that you lose.

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[quote who="treborblue" reply="96" id="3450631"]Do I a) Upgrade my GFX card and purchase a SSD drive to speed it up. or buy a new system, looking at http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Vortex-1000-gaming-pc/ spec/ price wise. If b, what do I do with my current system?[/quote] Under a: You are undoubtedly going to get a lot of recommendations, many of which will be to go as high end as you can. Add to that that we fa

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In checking the Valve website it looks like StarDock obtains the Steam keys from Valve that they will provide us, and they get those keys at no cost. The web site also says that Valve gets revenue solely from sales from their (Valve's) store. My new revised guess and understanding is that this is to encourage game development, hence increasing the potential for sales from their store, which I guess is what all of you have been trying to tell me.

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When I sorted the list of stars in the file I listed in reply 11 I discovered that there are masses of duplicate star names in it. Obviously, this does not cause a problem in the execution of GC2, but I wonder if the community would be better served if the list was alphabetized and duplicates removed in GC3?