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Reply to Good, Evil, and Neutral in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

I have never played GC, but it would certainly be a morale-hitter (for the player) to constantly get hammered with these forced "choices", as though the game is laughing at you and saying, "Ha ha, you goody punk, pay the price for your stupid alignment!" If the weapons techs and other bonuses were suitably compelling, there would be no reason for good/neutral to get shafted in every "choice". Evil races could get +50% production to everythi

Reply to Civilization IV due out this week! in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Hmmm.... having finally played it.... my conclusion is that Civ IV is mid-late beta. I will not play anymore until a patch comes out. 1) Lots of freezes (not CTD, but an unrecoverable system lockup requiring hard reboot) 2) Lots of graphics and sound glitches - for example, no music in the normal game, roughly half of all diplomacy using a black screen, no wonder movies, zooming out covers the world with opaque (rather than transluc

Reply to Civilization IV due out this week! in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

If you have CivIV, and render problems, they seem to have been solved now. Go here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140859&perpage=30&pagenumber=1 Personally I've been too busy programming to even install it BUT that'll change as soon as my willpower dissipates.

Reply to Civilization IV due out this week! in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Stardock peoples, you're tempted. We know you're tempted. The Civ, it glitters like a star in the darkness... BUT STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT! Like the rare moth that lives, you must resist the pull. Yes... stay in your cave, coding. Illwinter succumbed to the temptation that is Guild Wars, and Dominions III's fate is now dangling by a thread of Schrodinger's cat-gut. I will sacrifice my grades to Sid, so you need not place GalCiv 2 on the altar a

Reply to Mini Races (Suggestion) in Ideas Stardock Forums

"Allergic to Hard Vacuum" is another possiblity

Reply to Planetary Improvement understood in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds like fun I agree that some perks for neutrality could be interesting... I'm thinking of a galactic achievement called the "The Map of the Illogical Mind." This would open a new tech line of psychic weapons that shred the minds of double-thinking zealots. In combat, they'd deal damage proportional to the squared deviation from neutral alignment, to both the attacking and defending ships. So a race at alignment 50

Reply to Upgrading\Refiting Ships in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

How about an imperial upgrade tax? 1) Click "Upgrade" for a type of ship. 2) All ships of this type are mothballed where they stand, unable to move, and with X% combat capabilities. 3) The Imperial Upgrade Tax goes into effect, under which Y% of industrial output from all worlds is skimmed (reducing their output). Y% should be player-adjustable. 4) These taxed resources are sent directly and instantly to every upgrading ship, and applied to the ship's "completion b

Reply to Mini Races (Suggestion) in Ideas Stardock Forums

If this thread is any indication, the terms "minor" and "major" are not clearly defined. The "Storyline" versus "Also Ran" distinction is interesting, and can be useful in the context of a story or game... but... I feel it reduces realism, and is not very scientific. My view of the split defines "major" as unlimited or unrestricted, with access to any action you would expect from a starfaring race, able to spread throughout the galaxy like a plague. "Minor" would apply t