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Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Ironically, Labor Day -- tomorrow.

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]because we have computers[/quote] At that price, i want much more than just value. I pay for every last supplemental drop of gazoline, tires & oil changes for it, anyway. Things is, it's scrapped as soon as we switch it on or dare spending extra bucks to fix or make it work as it should. It has become a luxury to

NVidia 8600GS + ATI-Wonder 200 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I now *really, very* hate the Acer PC tower i had bought at Staples in August '08... In a weird set of events, i decided to plug the "all new" TV pci card to check if cable would pop the signal on the PC... only to fry out the NVidia GPU to an halt! Back on 7100/630i onboard VGA spoof and wouldn't you have guessed GC2 has now grinded to impossibly slow gaming speeds. Anyone knows where i can find a 8600GS (since anything above won't fit the boringly limited 300W-PS eit

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Could it be somehow better (as in efficient) or fair to all, though?

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...most notably in the EU, the UK and Australia, though I am sure there are others.[/quote] Canada has been hit by such "variations" for soooo long, it's mind boggling to evaluate (through simple observation of the *MADE IN* tags, btw) how much financial advantages corporate america gained by over_pricing their exported items at 1.40+ ratios on average for every products shipped across our mutual border. In fact, commerce

Reply to Major Race's Trade picture in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You need three 430x280 or 393x256 files; x_angry, x_happy, x_neutral. The RC.xml tag lines (Trade...) of custom races between #0 to #11 could also be altered to default at these images rather than the presumably accessible bik (movies) when it's not available.

Reply to How to create your own race logos in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

PNG 32bit, transparency layer by deleting such "white background" color.

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="130" id="2361312"]Piracy can only be fought by changing the way people think. You can NOT do that by threatening them with lawsuits, jail or by treating everyone as a potential thief. It hasn't worked throughout the whole of human history, and it certainly isn't going to start working now.[/quote] Maybe later -- until then, Piracy (of anything) is a direct cause of unemployment in plenty of industrial sectors; from manufacturing to distributing.

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]btw what kind of revenge are you talking about?[/quote] Products sold and made available by businesses to consumers and NOT **indirectly** to thieves.

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If there is no money in a business you quit and start a new one where there is money to catch.[/quote] Piracy is a business ? Since when must ANY honest people surrender to criminals after being stolen from. Revenge cost a lot less for those with some moral principles.

Reply to Converting a mod from DA to Twilight in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Three major points, first; 1) The RaceConfig.xml file has a number of tags which must be edited. 2) Tech Tree(s) & PlanetImprovements xml files have to be "adapted" for proper readouts of the above, too. 3) There are also other files which must be "converted", but that has to do with how extensive that specific mod is. Soooo, generally speaking, one could simply compare some files from DA & TA and figure

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Do you see any Tyrannosaurus Rex roaming around dowtown cities anywhere on Earth? Besides, in a Jurassic Park fantasy. We'll simply evolve beyond any cataclysmic events when the time (or the End ) comes our way. Trust me, i've observed the past & present -- none of which stopped humanity's continual progress. 2012 would still be yet another hurdle. Soooo, race down the track & fields and Bolt (9:58!!) for the clock.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Fanatics on both sides have no time to waste as proven by which had an early start at spreading out THEIR own coordinated attacks. For or against, and like any civilized dialog, arguments rain on the parade... gotta love how America deals with serious issues. Collective delirium, unfocused, hysterical, paid up & down - from extremists to moderates, it's weird how truth is never revealed for all to cope with or even forge a valid opinion for themselves. I'd recommend a goo

Reply to Why was my post deleted? in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Assuming your OS is Vista, these files could be into the "Public" directories rather than your regular "Username" area just as some of the other Stardock programs (Icon Packager, WindowsBlinds, Themes, etc) pick there from.

Reply to The Best Of PirateBay in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Internet-piracy is ultimately an act where the "pirate" obtains a service without the consent of the service provider. It is not theft, robbery, a terrorist attack or a Grand Theft Movie/Music/Software/etc... It is - at best - fraud.[/quote] Click on this for a quick rundown of some "Criminal activities" fraudulent enough to snoop eventual worthy Lawsuits, worldwide.

Reply to X-Worlds (News & Comments...) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The ThumbNails_Series file has just been updated with the missing weapons... Only two simple ways to get it; 1) At GalCiv2Guide.com in this thread . 2) If you aren't members of Drengin's forums here .

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The point I'm implicitly trying to make is that unipolarists usually set the bar much lower when it comes to defining preponderance of power.[/quote] Not in a case where, for example, some specific national interests seek to offer alternative leverage over other's industrial infrastructures; as in, Boeing vs Airbus "competitiveness" at international levels that gives economic advantages (including employment ratios in any given country) against other manufacturers such as Ambra

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]That depends on how you define dominance. [/quote] Exclusive control over anything that isn't of local (as in population needs) interest; multi-national corporations, value of exports above imported necessities (the usual GNP trading balance), industrial capacity, technological innovations unshared , cultural propagation, economic fluctuation(s) by monetary flow of products pricing, plenty more.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...no single nation will be able to topple the US as the dominant global power.[/quote] There is no dominant global power on Earth, and there never will be any expect for the United Nations mecanisms (Security council, etc) as a form of preventive measure to stop such behavior against humanity itself. Last and everyone else who tried were completely obliterated into oblivion. Next & Future included.

Reply to Full Battles causes fog of war to not reform in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It doesn't look like you got any clue to what you are talking about. Please stop wasting peoples time.[/quote] Count on it from now on. You wouln't guess helping words from others if they were insisted upon more than once anyways. I've wasted MY time on you. [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e]

Reply to Work on your PR, Stardock ! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If you want to get noticed it's hard to beat "Arrest Me Red"[/quote] While flat or shiny black gives you a free pass in the dark... i've seen chromed reflections so crisp and "transparent" that even stealth mode doesn't scramble detection fast enough. Holographic illusions turn heads -- i stopped counting the vandalism scratches only to slap a boring bronze brown. It's not the car color, it's the driver.

Reply to 2012 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

How many differently interpreted calendars have had their own share of mythical effects on history until the present day... what's that, again?

Reply to The 1 - 1000 number game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

255 is the closest thing you can get to express the entire ASCII table while the extra slot is a very well known binary language multiplicator gap.

Reply to Full Battles causes fog of war to not reform in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Then, think it over just a little more... this isn't really a bug. I might even claim to you that certain Foggy situations are meant to react at *particular* code-driven stacking of memorize map conditions **WHEN** certain activities take place. It's hard to express comprehensively but let me be rather simple about such details of gameplay; Does it make this game less fun than it already is? [e digicons];)[/e]

Reply to Full Battles causes fog of war to not reform in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Explain *IT* better or more precisely, i might get what it is exactly that causes Fog-of-War to not react as you wish when fleet or ships pass THROUGH some unexplored areas of a map. I DO understand that you may want to point at a buggy situation... but so far, you haven't proven to me or anyone else how or why. I certainly could read the OP and supplemental comments given so far, ya know.