antracer

Reply to I lost again... Whats up? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#4169E1"]It sounds to me like you made a "run for the corner"... But lost. The initial thought was a good one, but when you got beat to it... That was a critical juncture in the game. Next time make a special save right there so you can play out differing strats and see what would have worked... As far as the game you post about: 1- I think you held on to your original idea too long. Once the possibility of getting that key planet was out it would be time to look at def

Reply to Destroy Minor Race's Influencer Starbase ASAP? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Gah, you're right. I shouldn't be posting before I'm entirely awake [/quote] [color="#4169E1"]I must LIVE asleep... I'm going to start a game and load a save just to see that button... I swear I've never even noticed it!!! Now that I know where it is and what it does however... My galaxy will never be the same!!!(was that a girly giggle???) Thanks again to all for the Grand Eye Opening... T [/color]

Reply to Destroy Minor Race's Influencer Starbase ASAP? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#4169E1"]Not to sound silly, and not having played in a bit... what exactly do you choose in the offer screen ??? I would assume the war button under treaties ??? I always thought that was how you "formally" declared war on them. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm missing something... and it's not my brain because that's in the jar on the shelf above my computer... Thanks for the help BTW... much as I hate to be the dunce, I figure somebody else probably has this question

Reply to Zoom to mouse! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I like the dark blue. If you have an LCD you should make sure you are using a DVI cable instead of a VGA cable.A high refresh rate (75Hz) can help too.[/quote] [color="#4169E1"]I have a 24" monitor HDMI input... It's nice enough (for now...) It's my eyes and brain that are the problem, not the hardware. The blue is a little less for me than the green, but it's a fairly happy compromise so I think I'll stick to it for now. Thanks for the input, BTW. It's been very helpf

Reply to Destroy Minor Race's Influencer Starbase ASAP? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I blow up ANY influence base from ANY race in my space.Thing is, your space is only the planet itself and anything you own floating about. [B]Your area of influence is just space in which people see you as their favorite empire.[/B][/quote] [color="#4169E1"] And their favorite empire loves them dearly for it... and is willing to blow the crap out of anyone who tries to change their minds... I don't usually care whether a race likes me or not. I tend to pick a few aft

Reply to Zoom to mouse! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]antracer,Please consider another [darker] color, light green is difficult to see. [/quote] [color="#4169E1"]I am experimenting with other colors in other posts even as we type... my eyes have a very difficult time with the white on black, but apparently the Dev people see it black on white, or green on white in my case. Hopefully I will find one that is mutually pleasing so we can all be reading instead of squinting... :LOL: T[/color]

Reply to Create your own TV show, or what show would you like to be un-canceled? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Finally, Red Dwarf should continue for at least another 50 series - best TV program ever, bar none (IMHO)![/quote] [color="#4169E1"]They promise they'd do it if they could get everyone who watches it to put that "H" on there foreheads... I was going to mention it, but it was so short a run and so long ago... Also Piznit... I do believe Earth2 was the name of that show. IIRC it was just getting interesting when it vanished. Anybody remember the Logan's run se

Reply to Destroy Minor Race's Influencer Starbase ASAP? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#4169E1"]I blow up ANY influence base from ANY race in my space. I just hate somebody putting a base in my territory. They should have to ask, file some papers and get approved or something. Sometimes I regret my decision, but most times I can get away with it without anything big happening. A few battles, a little time and declare peace. Once I did it without thinking first and the Drengin marched across the galaxy and well... It was going quite well up to that point. No regrets though.

Reply to What options do YOU pick? - Attempt #2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...NOW, my questions to you good folk is the following: What difficulty do you play your custom games on? (say you were an intermediate type player) What Map sizes do you usually play with? (including planet regularity) In the set up menu, Do you use the Advanced Technologies option or use (I think its called- sorry at work) Gods of War option? Thanks in advance.[/quote] [color="#4169E1"]I tend to go a notch or two above normal, as my game

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Ah, Antracer, thanks for the sarcasm. Very helpful. I'm fairly new to the forums. There are a bewildering array of subsections. I skipped over "Gal Civ" since I was after "Gal Civ II", and was really expecting "TA" rather than "Twilight". You'd have to concede that it could be *more* obvious where the patch is... even if it is an alpha.[B]Drive-thru? My, you know how to treat yourself...[/B][/quote] [color="#4169E1"]LOL ! :D I'm on the road anywhere from 5-12 hours a day... Som

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It's the way we did it when we were walking barefoot in the snow five miles to school trying to keep our 5 1/4 floppies from getting bent or wet...Luxury! You were lucky! We had to... well, enter entire games by checksummed hex from COMPUTE!s GAZETTE. Those were labours of love, I tell you.Thanks. No idea how I've missed those other threads.[/quote] [color="#4169E1"]Closest I got to that was the mainframe at HS that ran BASIC... I tried to play the Star Trek game, but alas I

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Even though I knew there was a patch coming, it's taken me 25 mins to find a link to it. I think there should be a news article on the News page and maybe a sticky entitled "Patch"?[/quote] [color="#2E8B57"]Dev journals... post labeled 1.92 alpha by BoogieBac... visible from the first page of the forums right on top. Lordy, I'd hate to be stuck behind you at the drive thru ;p T [/color]

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]antracer,The problem is, some people (incl seabass apparantly) view this forum from the main stardock or impulse forums......and therefore the background is not black. It's white.....and I think by going to a lighter green you just made things even worse....lol[/quote] So does it appear as black at their end if it's white here ??? Oy... ;p T

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]This is probably going to have a comically simple solution, but I still don't see any update using Stardock Central. The current version is from May 1 and there's no updates.[/quote] [color="#00BFFF"]1.92 alpha was in two threads and is a zip file containing the major changes. You have to manually download it, extract it and then copy it into your GC2 folder overwriting the old files. It's the way we did it when we were walking barefoot in the snow five miles to school trying to

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]antracer you are a very kind customer and I will help you any time you ask. However bright green on white background is just killing me.... [/quote] [color="#98FB98"]Sorry about the green...but my eyes actually have trouble with the white... The contrast is too much and I end up seeing spots because of the black background. Aside from the fact I can read the green better, it also seems I'm the only one who does it, so I am able to find posts and answers quickly... <br/

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]use their bonii... ROFL.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]You really do have to wonder sometimes what was going on in the heads of those that created the rules for modern english... no pun intended :LOL: T[/color]

Reply to Is there a easier way to post pictures? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]where can you find the image url and alt text that is what i need to know.like download pics from the game,sins of a solar empire, onto a post[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]I personally use photo bucket... It handles any pic pretty well, and gives you all the tags you need to put it on a post here without having to type anything. The account is free and pretty easy to set up. I used alot of "information" I made up to register... From there there's a box on the left for you

Reply to Floating an idea in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Pertaining to Spies and Missions and Espionage in general... Some things to consider... not necessarily in any order. 1-What kind of control or lack of control will you have over this... If you can't control the impact of a discovery, or are going to be penalized/forced into a course of action because of a random tech appearing, that's not controllable... and could potentially ruin a good game. 2-How automated can all this be for the person who yearns for the

Reply to Wait a minute! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Half the fun of the original manual was seeing how out dated it was (even by day 1).[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]Like that bit on page 11 about the Terran tech "vacuum tubes"... ;p T[/color]

Reply to Zoom to mouse! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[color="#00FF00"]There's nothing UN official about this patch, it was released "early" in an unorthodox fashion as a goodwill gesture so to speak. It is a decent patch for sure, fixing some things and adding others. It also addresses the problems some were having with the cost of techs. The scroll to mouse is worth the price of admission, and in 2 games so far no crashes or odd behavior. Now, if they could just make it so my start location wasn't so dang crappy all the time.

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I'd love to see the option of no "tech brokering".That is, you can only trade away a tech that you yourself researched.This would add some flavor, since unique racial techs can still be traded away, but, the race that has the unique tech in their research tree is the one that decides who ends up getting it.This should also be easy to code up.[/quote] [color="#00FF00"]This was the best thing to happen to CIV4... was very handy in that it kept the AI from spamming techs to each ot

Reply to Galaxy Forge - Beginners Guide in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]Need help figuring how to start in a particular spot on a rather nice "Rogue v All others" map of 1 (me as Rogues) vs 9 NPC players... I need to get Me, the mighty rogue empire, starting in a particular spot consistently and not just wtfever SINS decides. Any help is appreciated. ... [/quote] [color="#00FF00"]IIRC, you can edit the player/planet info to assign a specific planet. It's been awhile, but after clicking the planet in question go up to the edit button up top. There h

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Just for the record... from Stardock Central to Impulse was a snap. I didn't have to type anything or enter anything at all. It pulled almost everything straight from SC. It did not recognize ToA as installed and wanted to reinstall it, which I did just to keep it all uniform. All in all from start to finish, including ToA, 15 whole minutes. Hardly any time at all considering what was done. I did notice that the interface was twitchy, jumpy even. It seemed

Reply to Patching in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[color="#00FF00"]Thanks kryo and Seabass... Looks like it's time for something new... T [/color]

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Well, you act like the only player who's trading techs is the player. I see the AIs doing the same thing - the Yor AI trading for economics techs, Torian AIs with discovery spheres - And in fact the AI comes out of these deals with a much better edge, tech for tech, than players do - with the possible exception of Super Diplomats. [/quote] [color="#00FF00"]This is WHY I want unique tech trading turned off. Even a toggle to do it would be fine. It's the fact that the AI does