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Reply to Starcraft vs. Sins of a Solar Empire in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I agreed Ron, zooming has a ease of control. but i think when taylor made sup com, the zoom function allow the Ai to attack a player on multiple fronts. In SC 1, i don't think it will do that. In that sense, the zooming function allows the game to have bigger maps and more units. but then, of course, it becomes unmangeable to play after too many units on the zoom out screen. So the AI has to be good at automating things for the player. having the zoom out function allows for less o

Reply to My last post. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

aren't sethpenguin and minidump the same person. But anyways, trolls are worse than flaming. Those two should get a life.

Reply to Starcraft vs. Sins of a Solar Empire in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I like games having the zooming ability. I recently replayed command and conquer 2, and i soooo wished i can zoom in or out with ease. I am not sure if SC 2 will have zoom abilities, but i hope it does, If it does not, there is no way i will be buying it. Are we being spoiled by sup com and Soase. Yes, but then...that is where the zoom function is changing the RTS genere. It is not earth shattering, but it adds a small layer of strategic depth.

Reply to X3: Terran Conflict in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

thanks :)

Reply to X3: Terran Conflict in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

oh okay thanks. What is the most profitable for trading in X3.

Reply to Scenario Editor in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

how do you get the sceneriao editor???

Reply to The Team Up in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Brad looks younger than Chris Taylor. I am surprised Taylor looks so old.

Reply to X3: Terran Conflict in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

thanks for the link. I have geforce 7300, dual core, 2.5 gigs of ram. It runs X3 okay. No graphical glitches, but occasional glitches. I want to finish X1, not the expansion at least to see what happened at the beginning of the story. Manual trading in X2 was a pain in a ways, i never knwo where to get those automation and price tracking softwares.

Reply to The Team Up in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

argeed, where is the big SD logo???

Reply to Revisiting the Korx and the Thalan in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

it would be nice if one of the major races would use the minor races as pawns to declare war on a player, and then the major race would come do the mop up work, or the minor race would manipulate the major races to do the same. I would love to be defeated by a minor race.

Reply to THEY DISSED US! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

:)

Reply to THEY DISSED US! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

m3nt0ras, if your argument is true, then i have a question for SE 5 developer Aaron, why make SE 5 so complex if the AI can't be make robust. He will probably admit that he wishes the player to have more options, even though the AI is weak compare to Galciv 2. Then that is a design choice. It is not a fault of Galciv 2's developer for having a lack of depth or Aaron's choice for having more depth but end up with a weak AI. There is one thing that Galciv 2 does right in terms of simplicity, i

Reply to Revisiting the Korx and the Thalan in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Problem with my games is that, i always go for mini techs right off the bat, because i know that the AI will be way ahead of me militarily, so the only thing i hope i can counter them with is being able to put lots and lots of stuff into a ship. However, because the AI end up researching faster than me in terms of weapon tech, i end up losing big time from a military point of view. I know how to keep my peopel happy, but then the AI will just keep sending troop transports for a few terms to gr

Reply to GalCiv2 $9.90 at gogamer.com in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It is still 39.99 at my local EB games.

Reply to THEY DISSED US! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

to say that the the AI in galciv 2 is better than SE 5 due to the fact that in Galciv 2, the AI only makes limiting choice where as the AI in SE 5 can not be as good as Galciv 2 because SE 5's AI have to make more in choices per turn is just a silly comparison and argument all together. Take a look at computer chess, an AI in computer chess has very limiting choice because that is the rule of the game, but it took a long time before the computer chess AI evolving to its current state. It took

Reply to Revisiting the Korx and the Thalan in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Frogboy, can you also add the following minor detail. If ever we make contact with a minor race, before it gets wiped out, do what the major races do, get it to send you a moving goodbye message. like "we have decide to surrender to race X whose compassion will treat our conquered well.. blah, blah". Every major race does it. But of course, with the drengin, it always give you a slicker smile regardless if it is getting beaten up or making real/empty threat. Vinraith, how do you s

Reply to X3: Terran Conflict in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

yes i am. but truthfully, i enjoy the game, but i don't play it well. I never understood how the trade system work. It says you have to know what the supply demand for a system is. But then, for me, the most fun part of any X game is flying around and doing sight seeing.

Reply to THEY DISSED US! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

someone on there said that playing galciv2 is like masturbating, but then afterwards, you feel ashamed that you played it. That is just rude and offensive. because we would never make such comments about SE 5, regardless if it is on par or not with galciv 2. Here is the quote: "ive said this before but ill add it again. my opinion of this "awsome" AI is this. it looks so awsome because its as the expence of depth of game play for humans. you dont really have any choices on

Reply to Revisiting the Korx and the Thalan in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

frogboy, you are awesome. :D Now when the tech editor comes out, maybe someone can creat a ship that can lauch fighters, and modify the terror star tech so that there will be orbital bombardment.

Reply to Revisiting the Korx and the Thalan in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

the minor races' ships are so weak. I play on the beta on cripping, they keep getting wiped out. It is like they are there to satisfy the other major races' egos. If the races are not warring with each other, they beat up on the minor races, or me. but then since i am not a minor race, i can provide resistance. The other thing that i don't get is..random event would pop up and state: our spies working with minor race X to get all of the techs from nother major races, they want to

Reply to THEY DISSED US! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

someone on that forum were whinning about the intelligence of the AI for SE V, and this was one of their customers. Another customer told that person to basically unless he knows how to code, he should bascially be quite. The person who made the correction stated that AI in SE V is not a strong suit of the developer, even though the game in itself is fun. Anyways, SE 5 is so different from Galciv 2 in a sense, the two really can't be compared. Both have strengths and weakness and both games

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thanks

Reply to STrategy Guide? I always run out of $! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

but how does having lots of factories around impact research speed????

Reply to In a span of 3 months, one faction of the Digital Distribution pc segment outsells every console during that time, and all cojnsoles combined for one month. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

if it is not deteriorating, it is certainly changing in its priorities.

Reply to How do I use the z-axis? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

try pressing ctrl and z. or if not, go to options where there are keyboard hot key change options. It will tell you. If i am wrong, can someone please correct me.