octaviusviii

octaviusviii

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Veraxus, Yeah I've used the modified exe's but they still are unstable for alot of people. Myself included. Sometimes they work but mostly they don't. Either the game won't authenticate, or SecuROM will cause a hard lock (driver issue as securom is a set of drivers). If it actually runs the game then when I go to play another game that uses securom, even an older version it will cause securom to lock up the system again....horrible really. Oh and it g

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Reply to Society Screenshots in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Brad does mention for Society it will be free. The premium version (mainly enhanced content) will be subscription based and have an intial cost. Running and maintaining servers cost alot of money so they will need some cashflow to keep it going. It would be nice if MMO simply didn't charge you for the time you didn't use, but then it could become difficult to make a profit and further develop the title doing things that way. MMO's can be qu

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Correction to my earlier post: Safedisk is by macrovison (least intrusive and generally works, some report problems) Securom 7 is by sony ( almost as intrusive if not just as bad as starforce, people report alot of problems with this drm) Starforce (the devil, Ubisofts spouse, and TCPA lover)

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

While everyone is upset about StarForce copy protection ( a draconian style drm) They should also look into SECUROM7 by Macrovision and see how it works as well. It functions in a simular way to Starforce. It will install a number of hidden drivers that are not removed when you uninstall a game. It puts it's tendrils into the registery, and has ring level 0 access (I think). It too will mess with your cd/dvd drive and burners and blacklist

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Reply to The Snathi should be a major race... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes I can vouch for the Yor, they do indeed have great dialog. "Sooo you actualy talk with meat, in that meat mouth of your's, that is so wierd." or something like that. when you play as the Yor they have some great lines too. Korx are pretty interesting as well. Thalans have been forgetable so far. sorry, they could use a bit more personality or if they have it they need to show it more. Just an opinion tho

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Reply to Old Tech in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

don't research certaint planetary techs until they are needed. Work on getting a good economy going that will rake in the cash. With that cash purchase the improvements you need on late game underdeveloped planets.

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Reply to Component Inflation in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

while capital ships are great, you gotta admit though the dozens of tiny hull types flying around dogfighting each other is kinda cool. would be nice if they were also a little more economical.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

quote: "I believe that software piracy must come to an end and that StarForce and the likes are necessary. And if you're wary of StarForce then you don't even want to think about TCPA.... " :end quote Actually people do want to be VERY concerned with the TCPA, even companies like stardock or other small developers out there. The TCPA may have started with some good intentions but it's a horribly flawed and freedom crushing act. Way to

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Reply to Espionage needs spiced up badly in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Brad has mentioned before that espionage will be enhanced and deepened significantly in future updates. There will be several major feature updates that will be for free. They do plan to make one or two $20 expansion packs in the future. I think they said the first one would be available around the end of the year. The free updates will be before then. the 1.1 update (primarily a feature update) will be available in a few weeks. Brad has not yet releas

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

quote: " Providing that link to an example of where individuals could download Galactic Civilizations II looked like a direct attempt to persuade game devlopers (and in particular stardock, piggy backing off GC2's recent unexpected commercial success story) to use and promote starforce copy protection software. This kind of underhanded tactic at promoting the sales of a commercial product should not be stood for. The other obvious reason is

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Reply to Anyone else have buyer's regret? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

By the way. A better way of stating your opionion would be to say: "Gc2 is a good game but it's interface is terrible to me and is hampering my ability to enjoy what's there. Here are some ways I think it could be improved"...etc.. etc... and post it in the relavant thread.

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Reply to Anyone else have buyer's regret? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Good...Bad it doesn't matter. You are obviously trolling. You think aimlessly posting flame bait is going to get things changed the way you would like them? Think again. Did you need reasurance that others thought as you did amongst all the GC2 lovers? Needed some playa haters support? Or did you need someone to convince you to like the game? The only thing you accomplished is troll bait everyone and bring down the flames. I assume you t

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Reply to Random Event, Exploding Stars? in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

tsk tsk, people people.... do you not know your astronomy? Blue stars are young stars. Yellow and Orange are mid aged and Red giants are old stars. Red giants tend to expand then collapse creating a number of possible endings: brown dwarf white dwarf (can't remember if its brown or white that forms from a collapsed star. one of them can form from a star that fails to get a good reaction going in the begining) Neutron s

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Reply to Random Event, Exploding Stars? in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

tsk tsk, people people.... do you not know your astronomy? Blue stars are young stars. Yellow and Orange are mid aged and Red giants are old stars. Red giants tend to expand then collapse creating a number of possible endings: brown dwarf white dwarf (can't remember if its brown or white that forms from a collapsed star. one of them can form from a star that fails to get a good reaction going in the begining) Neutron s

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Reply to Jax The Ripper in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

this will not work since damage is a roll of 1 to (weapon damage #) Defense is also allowed to roll against. So one ship against a fleet, even if the ship had a very high damage ability, still has the possibility of only doing 1 damage and so your jury rigged cargo ship would perish. You might get lucky, but it really is a waste of money. In combat more ships is always better and even some defense is better than no defense. You should always

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