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Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Yeah you're right. It's just that I really struggle to find anything to compare EA to.

Reply to Research/Production/Maintenance Mod Idea in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can add production bonuses. Bonus production (anything over and above straight production from buildings/asteroids/colony tile) is charged at half the rate of normal production. Races which have a bonus effectively pay less per unit of production. However they still pay full price for the base production. One of the ways you can work around that is to have their factories give less straight production but a small percentage bonus to production which improves as t

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You're welcome. :) I wouldn't rule out working for Stardock, but life sucks and I'll be lucky to get through this year without going insane. Living in a country run by crazy people will do that to you. :P

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

It wouldn't. For example, to make life easier, Minecraft now runs an internal server when playing single-player. To be sure, there's an associated CPU load with running a server on the same machine as a client but honestly, a lot of ridiculous gamer rigs could do this effortlessly. The reason that EA didn't want to let you do this is so they can make more money by selling features and things to you the player. It's that simple. They're the F

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Well they sort of do if you want any sort of multiplayer sanity. Otherwise someone could hack in forty nuclear power stations into a non-sandbox region for reals and ruin all the fun of creating a power infrastructure from scratch. That said, I'm not impressed with the sync performance. Send a gift of Simoleons to another town, chances are it will get eaten by the server. It's like Homer with a donut, it is.

Reply to Always on DRM *cough* Sim City *cough* in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I have to admit that I'm not thrilled about all the bugs, and I was hesitant about picking it up so soon after release. That said, played it non-stop since Tuesday. There are some improvements over SC4, like police/fire station/clinic coverage that make it worthwhile. There's the ability to turn services on and off at will instead of demolishing. High density cities are quite easy to make but they're actually challenging (for now anyway) to run. My last

Reply to Does PC Gaming have a future? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Nah, it'll never happen. There's always going to be someone out there willing to develop games for the PC. As long as Microsoft doesn't stuff up Windows 9 for games we should be good.

Reply to What to do about Internet trolls? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

There has been a trend lately in the UK for people to go onto Twitter and rant about subsidising all the spare rooms that benefit claimants are occupying. I don't know if that's trolling or whatever, but it's really bad form to go demonising the poor for being able to use Twitter, for having a spare room through no fault of their own, and so on and so on. And the UK government has basically created this rift between the people who work and the people who don't, h

Reply to The Wealth Inequality thread in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure if it's an answer to the original problem of 'too much automation' but here goes. You know what's missing in a big store? Cheerfulness. I mean really, the fact that you can walk in, pick out all your groceries, and check them out yourself at the express lane without having a conversation with anyone, that's just terrible. Sure, it's expedient, but you lose the personal touch. Not that there's much time for a chat w

Reply to Hull Research in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

It should have a solid base of technologies. Medium hull ships have more space and can pack in more stuff and thus require more maintenance and production time. So for example, on the Terran tech tree, I would hope that at least Xeno Trade Centres, Xeno Factories, and Research Academies would be available to the AI before it starts on Medium Hull Building.

Reply to Seeking Galactic Balance Advice in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Try this mod . I like to play long games and the mod is designed around around balancing the weapons, nerfing the Arnorian Ranger, nerfing the Super Dominator corvette, making defences capital-ship only for most of the game and generally pushing most of the races towards building military.

Reply to Please Fix! I Bashed Darkling Shaman and knocked him down, and on the same turn he got up he cast Shadowbolt and killed me. in FE Support Elemental Forums

I think it has something to do with casters having a high Initiative, they lose a turn from being bashed but then they get another turn before you do.

Reply to What to do about Internet trolls? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Political trolls are the worst. Especially on Twitter. For example, jumping on a bandwagon to say how against something you are, when you don't even live in said country any more and it says so in your profile? Totally trolling. :P

Reply to Suggestion: allow mages to cat spells. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

They exist, but you need to choose Enchanters trait to get it.

Reply to Tarth and monsters attacking. in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Well, unless they're called Atlantis. ;)

Reply to [1.3] Tile Yields capped at 9 total? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

Try this: Yields Mod There is still the issue of having the odd weird tile yield but there's a fair emphasis on production and essence. I've upped the minimum total tile yield to 8 to avoid having oceans of lesser yield.

Reply to So Brad, What Are You And Company Up To...? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Well, here's what I did today: I think it would be a ways off yet but it was fun to try.

Reply to adding ship components to tech tree in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You want to use the Ship Component editor for that (main file is GC2Types.xml). There's a field that shows which tech is required to unlock a given component.

Reply to I run dual monitors...anyway to switch game to run on the other one? in FE Support Elemental Forums

Usual way is to set your widescreen to be the primary display, then the game will automatically use that.

Reply to Will this ever have multiplayer? Will the new game have multiplayer? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Multiplayer is notoriously buggy unless it's coded by someone who knows what they're doing. You don't want to start getting into a game with some friends and then get the dreaded out of sync error. Forget for the moment the actual market for multiplayer. That's something that can wax and wane depending on the alignment of the planets, never mind how good the multiplayer experience is. But if the multiplayer is enjoyable, you're guaranteed no end o

Reply to Have you ever experienced the power of the Cave Bear? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Now if only those cave bears could maul with laser eyes... ;)

Reply to [1.3] Tile Yields capped at 9 total? in FE Modding Elemental Forums

It's a bug, most likely. Only thing you can do there is dial back the grain yield. Grain is too plentiful, in my opinion, despite the fact that you need 1 grain just to get a tile yield readout.

Reply to Will this ever have multiplayer? Will the new game have multiplayer? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

As Brad mentioned recently, it's also a question of whether Stardock can attract the talent to write the multiplayer code. If you are or you know someone like that, nudge them to send in their resume.

Reply to GalCiv 2 Ultimate Edition NO-STEAM in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well if you want a physical copy then you can still do that, just burn the game install folder to disc and then copy back when needed. You'll have to re-register it after doing so, though, and maybe re-create some registry entries. I know, 'cause I've done that. Of course I have not done that with a Steam version of the game so I dunno, you may not be able to do that. :(

Reply to What to do about Internet trolls? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Xan" reply="20" id="3324299"] Disagree. I think you would see trolling dry up in a hurry if the person's unsavory activities came up when ever you google searched their real name. Being an Internet asshole is all fun and games until it comes up on a job interview.[/quote] The downside is that a lot of people share the same name. But yeah, I do think that employers should be able to find out if you've been engaging in such behaviour. Who wants