Stanley Tarrant

Stanley Tarrant

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Reply to Alpha Squad in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Do a planetary invasion snapshot and have one of the Atari-graphic soldiers mention that the animation is all crappy, and that he wishes that planetary invasions had at least the qaulity they had in MOO2. In not so many words.......

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Reply to Doing well in this game seems to depend too much on pure luck. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

focus on adapting and less on your anger and on lossing. Like any 4X game, you can not underestimate the importance of a strong beginning. You have to buy colony ships left and right initially, research the right techs, and deal with enemy AIs before they become a problem. Also, try playing on medium galaxies with abundant all settings. I find those games very enjoyable. There is plenty to do and yet the game doesn't take forever and can be completed in a night or two (if you spend many hou

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Reply to Amazing! in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Hey once this game is released (when is it getting released anyway???), will there be a medal system similar to GALCIV II / DA that will display on the forums as you post??

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Reply to Alpha Squad in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

LOL!! "or we can run around like idiots as always". The way the combat viewer works, the ships do move kind of randomly don't they.

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Reply to Ships can be created without hyperdrive component! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

i mean how can the whole of planet earth only have room for 8 structures You got think of it as like an entire network of factories, research or whatever that takes up an entire citys worth of space. So when you build a "factory", you are building like an entire manufactoring network the size of a couple cities perhaps.

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Reply to Ships can be created without hyperdrive component! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Well who's to say they are? 1 parsec/week may represent crawling along at sublight. Of course, it's still too fast in real terms but GCII isn't very realistic when it comes to interstellar distances. Did you read my previous post? 1 parsec per week using the definition of the parsec as a unit of length of 1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10^16 meters, which is about 3 light years (the unit of measurement I am sure that was intended for this game) is an incr

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Reply to Scoring in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I also believe that between total score and difficulty level that being able to beat the game at a higher difficulty level is a better indication of the player's skill level than the total points someone gets. I agree 100%

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Reply to Scoring in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think the scoring system should be the most impacted by the difficulty level. In other words, the number one person should be on suicidal or obsence. Here is a question, if I played a game on suicidal and lost, would my gauge show suicidal? See, here is the thing: you could invest tonns of time into chessing your score as mentioned above and get like 400,000 points on an easy difficulty level and become one of the top meteverse players. Then, you just play a bunch of games on su

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Reply to Ships can be created without hyperdrive component! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

1 space per turn in the game equates to 1 parsec per week which is still very, very fast. It equates to a speed that is about 171 times the speed of light. So you are getting a free hyper drive engine I guess. Lets put things in perspective. I think Proxima Centauri is the closets star to the Earth besides the sun at 4.4 light years I think. If we say the fastest human built ship right now could travel 100,000 miles per hour which I think is an over-estimation with current

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Reply to Scoring in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Difficulty isn't a factor???????? So you could play on cakewalk, and get an absolutely ridiculuos huge score on a gigantic map, win as quick as possible, and potentially be number 1 in the metaverse on cakewalk??? Difficulty should be a multiplier. In other words, the game should be set up so that it is definetely worth it to tackle higher difficulty levels. I guess the only reason to play on a higher difficulty level is to show other players your difficulty gauge.

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Reply to This game is a pig! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Agreed! We must push the envelope of technology. Maybe someday we will travel through space through the use of a "hyperdrive" device or something like a quantum gate from Supreme Commander (I think more likely). From the books I have read on hyperspace, the amounts of energy involved in creating worm holes, etc. are just rediculuos. You would need the energy contained in entire stars. Hopefully, Stephen Hawking is wrong in his calculations!

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