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Reply to Very bad homeworld Moral? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Funny how a Galactic Resort or Counter Espionage Center can bring timely sweet happiness when sliders tax them all just enough.

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]the mayans also abandoned their cities and were a small tribe living in the jungle when the europeans arrived.[/quote] Could they build temples as good if not better than the Egyptians? Did they mine for gold & minerals... pirated later, i might add? Their

Reply to Ultimate Edition mod directory problem in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Read this .

Reply to Demigod: Another well-polished success story published with the Stardock business model. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Soon to be Thz.[/quote] What's the boiling point of steel on Mercury (the planet, not the morphing metal on some printed circuitry), even if carbon nano strings could help? [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

Reply to Can you reccomend a good mp3 player? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Zune.

Reply to X-Wing and Tie Fighter!?!? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

In which box have i buried the ol'joystick (Not USB, right?)... and why do i feel like Will Smith aboard an ID4 Alien interceptor yelling "oooopppss" and swiveling up for down or vice-versa? Aft shields depleted for Lucas, ILM & the clone armies -- sooooo early 90's stuff, and yet. Welcome to Space (not Earth), some GC3 fleets ahead - most probably too late for real market-sharing action, in scheduled theory.

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for bringing up the mis-calculated effects of Karma points as none of it can indicate what membership truly means.

Reply to What's the optimal setting to enjoy the game most? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Optimal? Conquer Nine opponents and Eight minors without trading anything or using diplomacy & other victory conditions to escape abundant settings everywhere while defining maximal difficulty options such as boosted AI algorithms through suicidal capacity levels -- on a tiny map. Immense only delays the inevitable outcomes as epic as they may seem.

Reply to What Did You Play This Weekend? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Nothing, lately... too busy with trying to pull out alive of another HUGE job-loss from May; struck by financial drain, bothered by the neighborhood, cancelling any personal projects, watching the bad news on TeeVee, calculating & evaluating the slow depleting effects on some savings, gradually plunging in unemployment hell. Dream or hope, here's the situation; crooks are simply "winning" the wealth games. I'm in no mood for even a silly minesweeper gimmick graciously given by a V

Reply to Campaign editors in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Where? ...DATA/CAMPAIGNS *Mod* folder. What? Maps, Scenarios & the xml campaign text itself -- for every steps of the "process". It's THAT easy.

Reply to Could the beta program be an experience unto itself? in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Nothing could equal a MUCH more complex contribution from the user base than an extended beta/gamma phase for a number of key reasons; 1-) Gameplay would answer needs rather than guessing on pre-release reactions. 2-) Bug free development, by coders AND the hardcore fanbase. 3-) Ironing the flaws and introduction of general extra features skipped by designers but suggested within a longer "testing" period. I could imagine a feedback loop device so efficient that ev

Reply to Look out Microsoft, Google is coming for you again in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="12" id="2322062"]The rest of you all - One of these days Windows will be gone. You will have no choice but to use the next best OS.[/quote] Do we have any choice? Really? OS "principles" were discarded the minute packet transmissions took over your data flow like an hybrid cloud of linked PCs and yet, manufactured to compete. There's nothing next , since everything is always (not to say, continually) current

Reply to Best Guitarists in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Jimi Hendrix. Just because of Purple Haze . (PS; embedding the above YouTube link hasn't worked for this either, anyone knows why?) Beyond classic, above harmonics, integral magic, defined Psychedelic.

Reply to Look out Microsoft, Google is coming for you again in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

As is the inherent limitations of (some) loopholes in multiple (but highly variable) interpretations of Law or "standards" for specific markets, btw. Considering GNU agreements are presumed valid upon distribution, one could easily claim these rights as being non-transferable too. Thus, were born FreeWares *OR* Softwares - tricky distinctions i might add. Just like contracts, read the tiny characters at the bottom -- a simple (wisely inserted) word can turn any product

Reply to Bing vs Google Round 2 in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="25" id="2321403"]Face the truth. No! Truth is, MS data mines to provide you with updates and sell you MS stuff... whereas Google data mines for advertising puposes and to sell you all sorts of crap... most of which you neither want or need --- [/quote] There, you have it. Now, pick a slot on your financial statements and crank up the volume; deafening sounds of the most annoying can still invade your enlightened perspective on what

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]They could not have located a meteor and plotted its trajectory without: A) Telescopes to view it with.[/quote] Dresden Codex proved that the Mayan civilization was at least 2000+/-500 years AHEAD of the Europeans when it comes to Astronomy & possibly even more scientific achievements... why much of the entire cultural artifacts were slandered or simply destroyed by invaders , btw.

Reply to Bing vs Google Round 2 in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Phoon" reply="9" id="2321088"]That way I'll be safe from the evil advertising gremlins that suck my brains out and force me to buy things at gunpoint....[/quote] They'd shoot you in the back while competing for everyone else's attention; multi-internationals corps stop at nothing to pile up bullets anyway. You could be next. As long as you have money to spend, the purchasing decision still isn't yours to take but theirs to invoque by slamming the hammers of hypnosi

Reply to How to change the appearance of Starbases? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Study this method by our friend Drengin, first.

Reply to Bing vs Google Round 2 in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

Weird, we'll be bombarded even more by continual misleading advertisements; most of which spent on lies rather than creating true "work" for real people. Don't you all have had enough with being interrupted constantly everywhere you simply see ? I certainly can't afford wasting my life away on mind wrecking psychotic overpricing gimmicks wherever they may popup along with propaganda. Yep, banners, sidebar

Reply to GC3 indepth Part 1: ships, art and fleet battles in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Keep going, they're listening... let's just hope the yet to be announced development team for GC3 will have at least two years worth of long-term memory once they're all through Elemental:WOM duties. Everyone has suggested plenty (dare clicking and reading for that much!) already; none of which acknowledged for consideration. In the meantime, mods for GC2 still can't be uploaded in the library here -- my weapons t

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Strangely, the sun also experiences such reversals every 7--15 years. Spots, flares... name it, all of which directly affects our planet "conditions". Particules adrift have to go somewhere, yearly.

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Meteorological events are waaaaayyyy different than a pole shift; Eastern Canada suffered through weeks of an ice storm , IIRC... if you want detailed "analysis" of something close to home. Arctic to Antartica is a magnetic shift; it simply fries communications until repaire

Reply to Jupiter impact. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]In the end, Zyx, we all die.[/quote] Not so, says the current generation of environmentalism goals. And their own ongoing quest for a future worth living for but still granted to THEIR precious childrens. And yet, money can buy whatever we (as in Humanity, btw) decide or not; health or death, budgeted by conflictual choices, militarized by arsenals. Catch a ride to Mars, dump the UN flag. Party time, comet X is on its way. What NASA can't (or wou

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]You may loose a few of the less-protected power girds for a while,...[/quote] A week of total blackouts in some urban areas would simply create anarchy. It's called famine from lack of regular productivity ratios. We are after all highly dependant on industrialized mechanisms. Machines pack up cereal boxes, etc. Delivery stops. Remember Katrina in New Orleans? Multiply that "effect" by exponential limits, worldwide.

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]its like some kind of fad that comes and goes every few years. [/quote] Pays off also... Brown's Code & Angels -- sold out paragraphs and watched out by scoutdog's "Woodwork People". Ingenuity has a knack for emotional responses, collectively managed or sustained. But fear not, GOD will help us -- it's written somewhere to calm down even the most uneducated or weak minded.