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Reply to Question for Beta Users: Unowned Colony List in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you look at the planet image in the list you'll note that the new types have a sort of colour coding to them.

Reply to MORE Mega Events! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Perhaps a new research project could be added to the tech tree in much the same way as for the galactic plague, to overcome the effects of the speed limitation mega-event. If that research led to a new ship module (a Hyperspace Stabiliser maybe) then it would pose an interesing dilemma to whomever researches it first - whether to fit the new module to all ships right away, or to give the module only to ships that need to go faster than speed 5.

Reply to MORE Mega Events! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I have an idea, although it's not too original. Scientists everywhere in the galaxy become terribly absent-minded and can't say what exactly they're working on or how long it will take until they've finished it. You can steer them in the right direction by suggesting one of the colour-coded categories, but that's about it. All research is effectively blind - although you can still see on the tech tree what projects have or haven't been completed, you won't know which one specif

Reply to 1.6 Beta 5 is Now Available on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I noticed in Beta 5a that when quickly designing ships (by double-clicking modules or by using the Place button to automatically place it onto the hull) the new component(s) are completely black. When you click on them or on their icon they become lit properly. Also, the highlighting of the currently selected component (or dimming of the rest of the ship perhaps) in the ship designer does not seem to work as it did in previous versions.

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Having three flavours of weapon and three of defence makes things interesting enough. The limitation of these weapons is that their mechanics are essentially the same - if you roll higher than defence you cause hull damage and defence is lowered, if not the defence sucks up all the damage. It would make some sense to complicate things so that the high-end weapons can partially or even completely bypass the low-end defences, or affect more than one ship at a time. That increases the pr

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Defences are now cheap enough and small enough that if you needed all three you could fit them. Therefore it may not be such a bad idea to drop off-type defence or place more limits on how it can perform. Off-type plays a role in avoiding the phalanx-beats-battleship scenario where the AI is left completely defenceless when the human player starts using a weapon that they can't effectively block. If you haven't been gathering intelligence on the fleets of your enemies (and friends) an

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What you have to bear in mind is that as the weapons become more potent, they have that little bit more potential to roll higher than defence and cause some bleed-through hull-damage. Low-damage weapons are invariably going to be spent wearing down any defencces before doing damage.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Public beta testing has the advantage that you get a wide variety of mindsets playing the game looking for potential problems. It's usually never the case then that all your testers can't see the forest for all the trees

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Dare I say it but if you require to distribute an executable with the old graphics engine that will run on earlier operating systems, and one that will run the newer engine on newer systems, couldn't you simply distribute both and give them different names so that the launcher can run the right one? I realise that continuing support for older operating systems may be a strain, but it seems that for the moment the rest of the gaming industry continues to support them, and if they do in f

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, it would explain why the same issue is seen on different video cards. One of the thing I learned about computing way back was the concept of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) - now, if you consider that the CPU generates the input for your GPU, then what is rendered (the output) is only going to be as sensible as what was fed in.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Okay. It's just that after taking a look at the debugs posted here it seems that there aren't any comments from players with Intel CPUs about graphical glitches, but almost everyone with an AMD processor has mentioned it. However I should point out that the cross-section here is too small to be statistically significant.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Does anyone with an Intel CPU have the graphical glitch?

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I tried to do a little research on the web to see if similar errors have been come up in other games, but not knowing very much about Direct3D some of the things I was reading went completely over my head. Also, the lack of supporting images made it difficult to make a guess about actual relevance.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sure, I might be out of line with this rant, but after spending two weeks trying to play a game on the last beta, just to realize there were problems that beta 4 supposedly addressed and chucking that game for the latest and greatest and again to pretty much end up 'screwed', yeah, I would say that I am a little upset. Beta testing is one sure way to get the level of feedback necessary to address these issues, especially ones which can't be reproduced in

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I also experience the same graphical glitches with the Beta 5 test build. Is it a good idea to send in a new debug file at this time? Also, I caught a minor typo in the new Milky Way galaxy map. One of the stars is named Epsiolon Eridani. I do like the layout though and the start settings (just 1 billion population and no freebie colony ship).

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

All I can see on SDC is 1.59[b].096 I've got the show pre release option checked too. That is the beta version. Version 1.60 would be reserved for the finished (post-beta) update. In-game you would see that the version is 1.60 beta 4 at the bottom left corner.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I uninstalled Dark Avatar and then re-installed Beta 4 (five minutes ago). If there was any file corruption, that should have taken care of it. However, the same graphical oddity persists.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

For the time being, is it possible to revert back to beta 3? Does anyone have a copy of it or know where I can get it? Thanks. If you have checked the box in Stardock Central marked 'Auto-archive on application update' then you should have a restorable archive of Beta 3. Choose 'Restore Archive' from the File menu and pick out the most recent archive.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Marvin, thanks for trying that. Could you please post your debug.err file? The file is located at c:/program files/stardock/totalgaming/galciv2/darkavatar/ Thanks. I sent a debug.err to gc2bugs a few hours ago, it's been given a case ID of 37755. Marvin, have you tried reinstalling the game? Not yet, but I have tried rolling back to my archived beta 3 and the problem has disappeared. I'm going

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

A question about the gfx problem: Does disabling ship textures fix the problem, complicate it, or no change? Having re-tested with the same Korath ship from the screenshot, there is a slight change - the anomalies lose any colour they might have previously had.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

A question about the gfx problem: Does disabling ship textures fix the problem, complicate it, or no change? I tried this very early in the morning (when I first tried the new beta) and there was no change. I'll try it again just now.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Also, for anyone experiencing the gfx issues, please make sure you do have the latest version of your video drivers. I got hold of the latest ATI drivers this morning and installed them. Unfortunately, the translocated vertices are still alive and kicking in the DA beta. However I haven't seen any drop in frame rate or any other issues (with any games) since updating, which is always a welcome relief. In addition I should note that it's possib

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What I see, on a freshly-designed Terran style colony ship, is a single acute triangle the same sky-blueish colour as the interior of the colony module. It's only visible from one direction. When I make a scout with sensor modules, each sensor pallet creates two hull-coloured acute triangles which are visible in both directions. Sometimes I'll see the texture for one of the ship's built-in engines in the wrong place too (stretched out, much like the triangles).

Reply to BUG: Spending allocation sliders malfunction in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This is an old bug and not specific to the 1.6 beta. It's been kicking around since Dread Lords I wouldn't mind seeing that panel improved. For example, it would be nice to be able to right-click a slider to lock it where it is.

Reply to 1.6 beta 3 now available on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The version number 1.6 would be reserved for the official (stable) 1.6 release, after the beta period is over.