Saber Cherry

Saber Cherry

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Reply to Unofficial Patch-Mod 3 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

If anyone knows of bugs that can be fixed with ONLY XML DATA CHANGES, please post them here and I'll add them to the mod (if they are unquestionably bugs).

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Unofficial Patch-Mod 3 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Version 3 Update: Removes changes to ship sensor range (which were not bugs, just personal annoyances) and fixes the Banking Center and Stock Market (before, the Stock Market was worse, even though it was an upgrade). You can download it here: Link Readme contents: Unofficial Patch Mod Release 3. Made by: Saber Cherry GalCiv2 Version

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Reply to Bug: Starbase Ship Defense Not Working? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

octavius, it IS a bug. Consider the description, and the "attack assist" works, and the concept of a starbase only interdicting missiles aimed at a ship that already has defenses. It takes doublethink with the threat of rats to decide everything is fine. Also bear in mind that there is no working 'search' function... people can't always find relevant threads.

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Reply to Whered the Scouts go?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No, no - it's valuable. When I was prompted to reboot, I thought, "Those morons - you only need to reboot for driver changes." And I didn't. But now there is an example of a person for whom rebooting solved a problem! It's like finding the legendary tech-support-caller who said, "Wow, I deleted my browser cookies, and suddenly my Quake 4 pings are cut in half! Thank you, random ISP representative!" You need a new medal <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smile

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Reply to Possible Bug with Ship Dmg in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Scary... To clarify: 1) Single ships in combat may be damaged, and recover full HP if they survive. 2) Ships in a fleet may be damaged, reducing their max HP to their current HP - effectively never recovering from damage. Is that correct? Also, has it happened (and you may not be able to answer all of these): a) more than once; b) with more than one fleet; c) to the enemy fleets also; d)

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What does the game difficulty mean? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I hear people (including Frogboy) say things like, "I was playing a game on Intelligent, and..." However, there's no "Intelligent" setting. Difficulty goes "Normal", "Challenging", "Painful"... with no "Intelligent". Now, the individual races can be set to "Intelligent". But that's a race setting, not a game setting. So I'm wondering.... What is the difference between a game set to "Easy" with all races set to "Norma

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Reply to Retarded Minor races??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think most minors should be able to build colonies, but be unable to research, use, or build range-extending technology. However, having several minors with race descriptions explaining their inability to live on any planet but their homeworld would be nice, as well.

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Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I apologize. The double post is because the forum is bugged (I did not post twice), and I cannot remove the post because the forum is bugged. I would have posted a link to the chart in another thread, but I could not find it because "search" does nothing, as the forum is bugged. But, if the forum behaves long enough for me to delete it, I'll delete that post. I think being able to edit the second was an anomaly, though. Edit: Yep, sorry for damaging the thread... long posts can

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Reply to Females in Diplomacy GalCiv2 Forums

Please note that GC2 females are birthing at 200 million per week; I don't think they really have time for cameos.

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Reply to Manual.pdf updates? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Note that the manual was wrong when the game came out, not just as a result of a patch. I also read readmes, but they are usually useless as a resource to users. When I want to know fact X, I can either: a) look it up in the manual; or b) look it up in the manual, then check EVERY LINE OF EVERY README to see if it changed. In computer science, we use hashtables (O(1)) rather than forcing a CPU to look at every element to find what it wants (O(n)). Why shou

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Reply to -2000 max debt? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Be sure to FULLY exploit the exploit! Person 0: Play normally. (+0BC) /* you'd have to be pretty dumb to do this */ Person 1: Naively exploit the debt limit. (+13000BC, lower morale) /* not bad, but you won't get 1st place in the metaverse. */ 0) Build a navy of mixed hull sizes. Make the medium hulls as cheap as possible: nothing but 1 of the cheapest gun each. 1) Spend until your treasury is 0. (T=0) 2) Buy

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Reply to Manual.pdf updates? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I second that. The advantage of a digital manual is that it can be updated... however, most companies simply publish addendae or put crucial game facts in readmes that nobody reads. I'd like to have a manual that held strictly true information.

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Reply to Budgeting is STILL Fracked in GC2?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

First off, Nerva, you never responded to me. Seriously - X-COM is old... DOS old. Jagged Alliance 2 is actually compatible with WinXP. And it's awesome . This goes for everyone here who liked X-COM and is disappointed that it has no successor... JA2 is the successor. Second - I'd love to recruit you and other "pro-free-market" games to join my God Game Team. Together we will build a game that pulls all intelligent people a

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Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I forgot the 'find' function in the forum is nonfunctional (and thus not a function). Hence, I'm posting an updated simulation chart here. These are the (approximate) average damage rolls dealt by an attacker against a defender of the listed stats. They're listed in order of increasing stats, with selected distributions for any given stat sum. For example, "Total Defenses 5" has (5, 0, 0) and (4, 1, 0) and various other combinations

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Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

nullspace said: Comparing defense to attack one-to-one is oversimplifying the issue because attack and defense "activate" in different situations. Ships always attack once per round, but defense activates every time a ship gets attacked. Defense gets better when the enemy outnumbers you. Let's say you are faced with an enem

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