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The human flag ship doesnt look exactly like the star wars ship! OMG THIS IS HUGE! Wait a second, I can't find star wars in the title! OMG AGAIN! Bloody hell, do you even realise what you are saying? It's a homage, not a ripoff. Christ. And post a debug.err file, the amount of people either trolling or whingeing in the forum ABOUT A BETA (which will obviously be bugged, hence "beta") WITHOUT AN .ERR FILE is whats making me seem so p***ed off, post the file so we can see what your

Reply to just bought this...please help me enjoy it in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You need the patches, because there are some major crashes out of the box that got fixed in the first update, plus the AI improves and makes the game better and more fun.

Reply to Don't want to use "Central" in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

THAT is exactly what everyone said about Starforce Show of hands all who find SDC blue screening their computer, using malware to damage the drives, and eventually destroying them? None? Difference between a download tool and basic malware.

Reply to Log In in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

what internet service you using? opera does this a lot for me, gotta switch to crappy old IE.

Reply to Where are the dreadlords in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

That's not true peace phoenix, you can set the scenario to "dread lords on parade", where the only goal is to wipe out the Dread Lords.

Reply to Best planet evar! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Racial PQ number does nothing atm. Well it will increase your max pop but who f-ing cares about that for 8 skill points!? You get 0 additional squares. Test this by chainging it in you abilities file to like 50 and you'll notice only the same number of squares (10 on a pq 15 world). The landing event though where you can either c

Reply to Best planet evar! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

100% moral is giving you the money, more moral=more taxpayers. There were reports of a planet being in the mid 70s without cheating. 26 is generally the max, but a bunch of events together, and abilities, and other things. I can imagine it now. 100bill pop, 100% moral, lots of stock exchanges, trade wonders, ah the glory. A planet like that could probably fund my entire war effort.

Reply to installed BETA 2A yor portrait flashing and stuttering audio in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Exactly! It's the Yor's evil brain control! "You will play one more turn fleshling. Then one more turn. Soon you shall suffer from the weakness of your fleshy kind, and the Yor shall rule you. Maniachal laughter RUN program#15!" I love how in the Yor description they're seeking a deeper meaning in life. "Truth, peace, justice, family values, and the obliteration of all other life forms" Hey, why is there no Heart of Gold mod out ye

Reply to Will "Neutral" Benefits Be Enabled in v1.1 or Have to Wait Until v1.2? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

"Pond Scum" Best Alignment Ever "Come, my pond dwelling amphibious bretheren! We shall show frogboy how to catch those Torian fly's! MUAHAHAHA!"

Reply to KI Cheating - True or Not? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Tons isn't right. The highest they go is about a 300% economic bonus, that's all. Doesn't make much difference. Gifted AI has only about 125% of the money you have.

Reply to Why choose anything but the best option in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Nanorippers yes, they're justified at that early stage. But since my infrastructure and playstyle relies on having a ffew outstanding ships, and a lot of good ones, it works well. In a game I had ages ago, I was getting beaten quite badly, and designed a "Nano Defiant" class cruiser (no prizes being given on what weapons) and they allowed me to capture a couple of high pq planets, which I converted to research. Got to doom ray in a year after that (fro

Reply to Best planet evar! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Reserach is the best method at harder modes. Tech whoring gives you the money to fund the war machine.

Reply to Beta V1.1-2 to an offline computer? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

SC is an online program, so no. However, due to the fairly liberal liscense and lack of copy protections, I'm fairly sure it's fine tocopy the beta onto a disc, and putting it on the laptop.

Reply to Why choose anything but the best option in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Doom Rays are cheaper and far better. I'd rather spend my time doing the required research and then having ships that are nice and cheap, yet still doing huge damage. I can get tiny fighters with an attack of 26 and a price less than 200 bc with proper weapons, Psionic just arent worth it.

Reply to Best planet evar! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh god, are we going to see sick wedding jokes now? no? damn And spacetimer, I didn't use terraforming etc, I changed the files in the game, so I started with a class 21 homeworld (The Thala get it, why not me?)

Reply to Mouse wont work in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Get rid of the beta. Beta's are not stable, and will certainly increase problems over the main games. Uninstall the patch, and go back down to 1.0x with SDC. A debug.err will help, so people can analyse your problem, as it is I (and everyone else) can only guess. Your machine is definately powerful enough, it was tested that a windows 98 can run the game. Make sure all unnecesary background programs are closed as you play it, because they cause problems by pinching the CPU. Mcaffee, if I remembe

Reply to installed BETA 2A yor portrait flashing and stuttering audio in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Been since the original build, depends upon background programs I think. If I have large background programs running (like messenger), it'll flash and stutter. If I don't, it's smooth. Ditto to audio.

Reply to Junk Ships in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You have to manually delete them anyway, or they just come back next game. If you're saying that the ship designs pre 1.0x are bugged now, this is a reported problem. Fixed in 1.0x itself, but you're out of luck for now

Reply to Best planet evar! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

But Astax, this could be useful. A PQ+17 with a bonus of about 300+ on a front line is useful, and if it's a core world then you make it very hard for the AI to conquer you, you can move quicker than they can with hige numbers of ships . My best planet (sorry to beat you) was a 21 with a grand total of 1000% bonus (one 700 one 300) for manufacturing. Cost l

Reply to KI Cheating - True or Not? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Steller catography wont tell what's habitable, but you can guess. If habitable planets are normal, odds are at least one will be habitable. On abundant, I'm averaging 4 planets per star, with at least one pq+17 per system (and one lovely pq27)

Reply to The Short Life of One Marine in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just finished my enzo ship. 104 beam attack, 8 speed, 6 sector range, about 40 defence. DL Flagship Enzo. Time to go obliterate those irritating Torians

Reply to Why choose anything but the best option in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

After the ethical alignment, no events ever. I used to always play evil, and evil is useless unless you have a supreme economy to support those insanely expensive evil weapons, which aren't good for very long on large+ maps. Everybody likes good races except evil races, many people won't attack. Nice good defences which just got made cheaper with last nights patch. They surrender to you more, and you get a Wonder that makes them pretty certa

Reply to KI Cheating - True or Not? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

First, there is a search on the forum, above the reviews. Second, the reviewer was a fool. Research is not "insanely" high, it's better than him. I can thrash it on pretty much all levels in terms of research, it's using all the same models as you. Same applies to planet production: high enough military spending will get you a ship a turn on a low-prod planet. Only at "gifted" AI level or above does it cheat, and then only gets money. I suggest th

Reply to The Short Life of One Marine in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

But, as a trade merchant, he was probably privy to certain information about the Torians, like their favourite foods, music, easy ways to brutally commit genoicide on them, what they do for fun etc

Reply to Regret buying the game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Unfortunitly, the nature of a startagy game is that no matter how good the aiis, it's still ai That is probably the key point to be made here. It's the same reason we'll never understand the working of the human brain: if it was simpled enough to understand we would be too simple to understand it. AI w