William Becker

Reply to hyperion fleet defense in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hyperion Fleed Defense gives every planet you own an orbital fleet manager.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Beginner's Strategy Guide in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Factories give you build credits on a per planet basis. These build credits can be used for building more buildings (labs, farms, etc.) or ships. That's why you can build the Xeno lab faster after you've built a factory (and for that reason, I generally build a factory or two before anything else on most planets). Your initial colony has a few build and research credits that it can throw around, but if you are trying to make your colony expand at fa

Reply to DOWNLOAD WOES! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Sorry to add to the mess. I was trying to download the game, and got an installation failed message. The last bit of the log file was this: -- [Account] -------------------------------------------------------- First Name: William Last Name: Becker Email: [email protected] Error: Attempt: 1 | Account information invalid Error: Attempt: 2 | Account information invalid Error: Attempt: 3 | Account informat

Reply to "The Spiritual Heir to Master of Orion II?" in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

I just noticed, GalCiv2 cracked the top 10 most looked at games on gamespot, so its featured on their front page. www.gamespot.com.

Reply to Things you dont like in GCII in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Only problem I have is that once battle is entered, a fleet cannot disengage. I don't really like the "2 man enter, 1 man leave" approach to the combat. However, I see how it might be difficult from an AI standpoint, but I know if i had a weaker but faster fleet, i'd get the hell out once I saw the tide of battle turning and live for another day.

Reply to No background sound in Ideas Stardock Forums

wait... there's sound???? how do you install the multimedia?

Reply to Beta 4 tentatively this Friday in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Once you preorder the game (planning on doing it friday = paycheck), how do you go about getting the beta... sorry for the newbie post, but we all gotta start somewhere. -Will

Reply to Planetary Improvement understood in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

As for the "Spin Control", it's not necessarily simple to detect spin. A sudden 5X power jump would be obvious to humans. However, let's assume: Some random target number "T" between 3x and 6x is selected. The observed power of the military slowly advances from 1 to T over several (perhaps 10 or 20) turns. Once T is achieved, a new value of T is selected, an

Ship Names in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Hey- I was wondering if the ability to name ships was implemented in the game? It seems like, with all the resources going into shipbuilding, it would follow that the custom ships were given individual names (instead of warbird class cruiser #4) or whatever. I'd love to have a giant flagship 'Enterprise', and name all of one class after states or something. It would be pretty cool to be like "i'm moving the enterprise, ohio, and new jersey battlegroup to alpha centauri to deal with