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Reply to Galciv2 Game crashes, how can I fix this? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My game just crashed also after ALT/Tabbing to come here and ask a question. When I tried to go back to the game I got a microsoft error message blah blah blah and has to shutdown. Then the whole thing froze and I couldn't click on anything to see why. I had to use CTRL+ALT+DEL to get the task popup box so I could stop the processes. So, we can't ALT+Tab out of the game to ask questions or read the stupid PDF manual ? This is one of the reasons I hate online downloads you get a sorry PDF manu

What does asterix mean? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am now playing Twilight and I noticed during a trading of techs session that one or two of the races had a tech that has an asterix by it. Like WAR ROOM? So, what does this mean when a race has an asterix by one of it's techs?

Reply to OMG CREATE MY OWN RACES TO PLAY AGAINST?!! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Then it wouldn't be a random map and I would know where everything is. Or is it possible to make a map and then have the game randomize it? Would be nice if they had a feature where you just put how many habitable planets you want in the universe and then the program randomly spread them out.

OMG CREATE MY OWN RACES TO PLAY AGAINST?!! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Well after jumping through several hoops and finally getting this expansion downloaded and finally getting to setup a game I am simply in AWE that I can create the races I want to play against. No more passive AI non aggressive types for me. I wanted to see what it would be like to play against my own race or custom creation I made. Now I can do it. Thanks Stardock and Froggy. ;) Also question: Is there any charts anywhere that someone maybe has made that will give you an idea of how

Reply to Installing Twilight - Already have Gold Ed. installed? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Oh gawd don't tell me I now have to deal with this as well. I have the GC2 Gold edition boxed set I got from Amazon.com. Now you're telling me the download of TA I just bought and am downloading finally now isn't going to work?? You guys need to get your chit together and make stuff that works with the products you sell and not just online but in stores as well. Us having to muck with the registry is rediculous. I certainly don't feel like or even want to download the whole series over again

Reply to Where the Fark is my game download? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks guys I finally found it, why the fark don't they tell you in the verification email to press that GD ? in the upper right hand corner? To top it all off the flippin server or whatever it is made me use my email address for paying with paypal instead of my normal user name I always use here. What a pain in the A$$ this is. I tell yah I been using Gamers Gate and whatever the fark Strategy First uses and now this and every online download has been a pain in the A$$ to get and get to play

Reply to 2.0 update must be made available on Stardock Central in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You've GOT to be KIDDING US. The download speed of Impulse is cut in half compared to SDC!? This is preposterous! And what's this crap the retail version of Endless Universe will not be sold in the states??! So you give everybody else the chance to get these expansions in the BARGAIN BIN later on and not US as in U.S.??!! Well I just guess I will be IMPORTING them from UK then pfffffft on gew. Man Stardock used to be a great company, but, this mess is getting worse than STARFORCE in that you

Reply to Major Pirate Problems in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Isn't it funny in a world where there is very little challenge to most games that people complain when a game finally has some. Lil Tommy Tucker could't beat the bad ole pirates the first time so it's time to nerf the entire project because HE couldn't. lol

Reply to Easy to make an AI that can beat a typical player? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The human players looks for holes in the program and uses them instead of playing fairly and not using things the AI would never use. What developers are saying though is they CAN program these AI's to use those exploits and cheats just like the human player and defeat them, but, then you would hear much crying and gnawing and gnashing of teeth if the AI did what a human does to it.I do *partly* agree with you, but most of the "exploits" in Galciv2 involve taking advantage of holes in the

Reply to Option to disable trading of race specific techs in TA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Not at all I play on huge galaxies, but, yes military wins all that other stuff is romper room type of play (play nice don't hit the other children lol). I play with tech trading off and it's quite the challenge to take out all the other AI's I play against. See, I DON'T HAVE TO WIN every single game. That's the problem I see with so many other players, if they can't win they don't want to play it. So, they use every gamey exploit or mechanical exploit they can find in the game to puff up their

Reply to Option to disable trading of race specific techs in TA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Tech trading should be removed altogether as that is just an exploit vs the AI. The human player ALWAYS comes out ahead in in tech trading. So, no they don't just need to disable trading of race specific techs, but, all of them to the human player. People always complain about how easy the AI is well this is one sure fire way to make it a bit harder and stop the human players from exploiting it. ;)

Reply to Easy to make an AI that can beat a typical player? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well let's face it if the programmers made ALL the AI's grunt rush the human player turn 1 the human player wouldn't be around very long. They would all play by the same rules and not get any bonuses they would just either all ALLY or just all attack the human player from turn 1 and never sue for peace or grant the human player peace. I played a LOT of Age of Empires to see this happen to me more than once when I'd have 3 AI opponents on the map. They'd all come after me an early and I

Reply to What do like most about Twilight of the Arnor in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I just played about three hours worth of a Terran game (large map, challenging to start with) and I am quite happy with it. I don't have time to go into much detail, but I had a great experience. If I had to say right off what was my favorite thing, I would go with the Ascension Victory condition, if only because at this point I have three of the crystals and am set to win in about 250 turns.[/quote] If you can win that easily already then it's not a very good game or very challe

Reply to World of Warcraft: Is it worth it? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

WOW the origional poster is a noob an a idiot. What a chickelittle the sky is falling post. hahahaha Why is it when something is FUN others who don't play it or don't like it call it an Addiction? lol Addiction is something you are if you WANT to be. I used to smoke and I quit cold turkey just like that because I WANTED to. I didn't need any cigarest or patches or any support groups. I smoked for 35 years and just quit on my own because I WANTED to not because it was an ADDICTION. lol Some peopl

Reply to GalCivII OR SoaSE? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Let's put it this way if you "hesitate" you lose. That enough information for yah? :)) SotsE is for KIDS just like TRIX are for KIDS. ;)

Reply to GalCivII OR SoaSE? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You want to get GCII as SotsE is just another kiddy clickfest RTS game. Though slower than most it's still what it is. It's not a 4x like GCII by any means. You couldn't get me to play a copy of SotsE if someone gave it to me for free. GCII will offer you hours and hours and years and years of gaming pleasure and be sure and get the GOLD PAK so you get everything.

Reply to AI isnt very smart.. it Cheats in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't trust the origional poster, did you notice how he changed his story when someone brought up occassional planets or rare planets. Then all of a sudden, yeah that's how I played it, I meant to mention that. He's clearly just trying to destroy the game for "multiplayers sake". Go back to Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic where they cater to mp's over single players. You lost any credibility after your 2nd post and certainly after Froggie showed how the

Reply to 1.1 Turned into a war simulator in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

When you turn off a feature of the game you can forget expecting it to play like it was meant to be played with all the features turned on. The trade off feature option was added for the whiners that didn't find the game challening enough with it turned on. Well, now you have your challenge and it will be a warring challenge, hell, what else did you expect? With trade turned on the AI hardly ever went to war, now with it turned off and it becomes a war

Reply to 1.1 Turned into a war simulator in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

OIC now so turning off tech trading which was one of the features to help keep the AI at least on a neutral or better relationship with you, you now expect the game to be the SAME without it? lol When you turn off a feature of the game you should expect it to change and wars are going to be more common without trading with the AI. Not saying it's impossible to get a decent relationship with the races without it, but, it's certainly going to be harder and you should expect and accept that. I cert

Reply to 1.1 Turned into a war simulator in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You guys just don't know how to play it as I don't have issues with war the way I play and I play on tough with intelligent opponents. Obviously you aren't setting your sliders correctly enough to tech up very fast and apease the AI with trades as I do. It's rare there is anything I haven't already teched first except some of the extremely long ones which I will eventually buy and then trade to the other races. Also I "custom" build my civilization, I

Reply to 1.1 Turned into a war simulator in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just depends on how one plays whether it turns into a war or not. Basically there are two things that will keep the AI off of me indefinitely and that is military power and political power. Influence goes a long was as well. I can get the entire map on friendly with wheeling and dealing and trading low techs when they are 1 or 2 turns away from completeing them anyways. Makes them like me better and eventually I get to sit back and watch the AI's just

Reply to AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Something else I'm findout out about the Military power rating is it isn't tied just into how many ships you have, but, how much power those ships have as well. In one game the Drengin had over 240 ships to my 120 or so and I moved ahead of them into first place with just 28 more ships at 148. I had been building up medium hulled ships with heavy lasers and fast engines, no armors of any type. When I went to war with them it was a massacre. They had al

Reply to PC Gamer gives Oblivion a 4 page, 16 screenshot review, Galciv2 gets 1 PAGE????? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Haven't you learned by now that magazines and review sites are owned by Microsoft, EA, Activision, Atari and any other major mainstream companies I missed? Advertising dollars equate to excellent reviews even if the games are crap. Oblivion is horrendous for the PC because of it's UI, plain and simple it was made for the console first and then ported to the PC with an identical UI. POS if you ask me. Rome Total War had almost the worst AI in gaming his

Reply to Getting my ass handed to me in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

@ WTF Chuck : Paragraphs are our friends....use them if you want anyone to read your long posts.

Reply to AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI in "The Godfather" does learn. If I kill too many of a familys members they declare war on my family and come bombing my stores and rackets. It's called a Vendetta. And you can decrease this Vendetta value by paying the FBI large amounts of cash or blowing up a few of their shops and rackets before they get to yours. I love that game almost as much as this one I keep jumping back n forth now playing both. Gang Wars/Mafia has always been fun to m