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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: The Post Mortem in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, to deal with morons, pop up 3 dialog boxes in sequence on random places on the screen for those who don't upgrade. That way, they can't click through them quickly, and might be annoyed enough to eventually do something about them. Most morons, of course, aren't smart enough to notice that you will leave "Yes, contine" focused, thus allowing those with "legitimate" reasons for not upgrading to simply press enter 3 times to skip them

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: The Post Mortem in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Because there's a counter argument to how I tend to do things: From a career point of view, unless you plan to spend the rest of your career making games, you need to learn and keep up with these new techniques so that you don't one day wake up as one of those 50-year-old COBOL programmers who has long since fallen behind the latest techniques.

Reply to Any chance to play in 800x600? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

the game will play at 800x600, but the UI will be all messed up. No, it won't. I tried playing at less than 1024x768, and I had incredible instability. As in it would intermittantly crash when openning various screens.

Reply to Good concepts for next expansion or Galactic Civilizations 3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

All of these ideas stem from the ethic of "Wouldn't it be cool if?" rather than with any consideration for the design goals of the GalCiv series. Exactly how does any of this help the game achieve what it is trying to achieve?

Reply to Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The first thing I will say is this: this is why there's no multiplayer... because all you'll ever hear is people yelling "nerf!!!". For god sakes man, I had enough of that with the MMORPG. It's a single player game, if people are playing fine with guns, then let them enjoy it. Multiplayer, single play

Reply to The Galactic Civilizations Universe in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Have you eve been stood up by someone up to 10 years younger than you? But more in national perspective, have you ever gotten you butt handed to you by minor dot on the map by a bunch of up-and-coming natiionalists? (Carthage and England certainly did) I'm not sure I see your point. Having

Reply to Game runs slow please help in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Update: It might be your HDD access speed. What hard disk do you have? I'd like to strongly reiterate this. Once I got 1GB worth of RAM, I found that memory and CPU speed were pretty much irrelevant for the performance of games. No, after that, harddrive speed. SerialATA is vital. <br

Reply to Story: backed into a corner with no where to go in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Do military starbases have cumulative effects? IE would a pair of identical bases with modules to give say +1 on all att with overlapping radii give +2 to any ship within the overlap? I imagine so. It'd be silly if they didn't. That's an interesting idea, though. Defending a relatively s

Reply to Modder Wishlist in progress in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Multiple requirements for techs already work It does? Is that AND (I need all of them) or OR (I need any one of them)? And how do you specify multiple requirements?

Reply to Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

All I know is that I play Nano Rippers, and they own. I've actually been wondering if Nano Rippers aren't some kind of tech-tree bug. Or maybe the developers didn't realize how unimportant cost can be compared with how overpowering Nano Rippers are (1:1.125 size to damage. Nothing anywhere close to it

Reply to Just how far can one mod the game at this point? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

"Making another game" IS what modding is about, ever since the days of the old-school Quake TC's. No, it is not. What you're talking about, "Making another game" isn't modding anymore: it's total converting. These are two entirely different concepts, and I strongly dislike the way everybody

Reply to Modder Wishlist in progress in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I don't really feel like registering to another GC2 forum just for this, but here's what I'd like with respect to modding: 1: The ability to have multiple required techs. Preferably both AND and OR. IE, you need to have Techs 1&2 or tech 3. 2: The ability for weapons and defenses to provide attack/defense to more than one type. A laser/autocannon hybrid that does 1 damage of each type, for example.

Reply to Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ok now I see the factor you missed: beam weapons scale the worst while missiles scale the best. Even if that is the case (and nobody has a specific formula for it, so I can't test anything), it does nothing to deal with the fact that someone going for lasers has an effective technological advantage to

Reply to Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Um, so I'm looking at this analysis again.....did you take into account that missiles do more damage at every tech level after the initial one You seem to have missed the substance of the analysis. It does take into account damage, but the damage is mated (as properly) to the size of the weapon. A 2 damage missile weapon t

Reply to The SciFi Channel gives Galactic Civilizations II an A+ in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The A+ is almost enough to make better able to cope with having to wait until next October to find out what happens to the Colonials on Battlestar Galactica No. No, it's not. Not even close. I'd be willing for them to give it an F- if it would give us BSG just one month sooner. Granted, I'd

Reply to Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

do your calculation take into account the total tech cost from the very beginning or are they simply for that particular tech? Yes. The costs listed are the total cost in research to get to that weapon/defense. <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Text

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

I agree. It is much easier to get a tech victory than to research the high-end weapons, much less equip them on your navy. I think this is a legitimate game-balance issue. Maybe. But getting a tech victory is incredibly boring. At least when you're getting weapon techs, you're getting new weapons. S

Best and worst kinds of weapons in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have done an analysis of the three categories of weapons as presented in the 1.0X version of GalCiv2. And I have come to a conclusion: the developers made some significant mistakes. First, missiles are a waste of time. Period. I don't care if your enemy has ships with shields and armor; never even consider investing in missile tech. I will proceed to prove why a bit further down. Second, beam weapons are the best weapon. Period.

Reply to upgrading my flagship in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The Flagship is a medium-hull. So you need to get to at least that level of hulls before you can upgrade it.

Reply to The Galactic Civilizations II Battle Plan in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

You are trying to tell me, that stardock isnt capable of programming AI - that already has been programmed 10 years ago in Moo2. I think you're missing the point. Code doesn't materialize from thin air by force of will. A human being has to write the code. Whether the StarDock programmers a

Reply to The Galactic Civilizations Universe in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

A great deal of time is spent considering the significance of that -- ever imagined living 1000 years? What about 10,000 years? What about a million? Even if you were in perfect health, how long before you went mad? Being an amatuer writer myself, I have pondered that question myself. My a

Reply to Fairness in computer AI in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Baloney! Fair trading practices can include diplomacy skills irregardless of it being human or AI. How? by the same +% related to the skill. Just so that I understand this correctly, you're suggesting that the game somehow force human players to make trades the same way that the AI makes trades. IE, f

Reply to racial tech : Not work. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One Year after the beginning, Thorian have already the tech... and i don't even search this tech myself (as the Foxies) !!!! DAMNIT ! First, I'm pretty sure that an AI value of 60000 means that the AI will research it ASAP, possibly through any and all means. Though personally, I don't know why the AI

Reply to Terror Star in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

So if Gal Civ II were to make a supernova effect, it'd have to be able to kill an entire small galaxy, essentially. No, it wouldn't. If you're going to bring realism into it, then bring realism. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light. It would take a decade, minimum for the effects

Reply to Planetary improvements give bad morale. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

So I build 4 Virtual Reality Centers for a total morale bonus of 240% (60% each)! I should be able to have 100 billion (-80%) 100% happy people with a tax rate of 69% (~ -160%). And yet I can't because my 240% is only worth ~70. All the other morale modifiers, especially the negative ones, seem to work. This has happened to m