MarshallONeil

Reply to Confused! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I play lots on a dual core, and some on my old single-cpu desktop, and it happens occasionally on both. What usually works for me is to click the Find button. The game sometimes hangs on one of the player's ships that has moves remaining. Do something with the highlighted vessel (move it, set it to Guard, etc.), and the game should take over again from there. This doesn't work for everyone, but give it a try next time your game freezes.

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

As the captain of team b, I am happy to welcome a new player. Sorry to see you miss out on this round, Ghost, but I understand being too busy with RL; I was afraid that was going to happen to me this round, as well.

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

My Round 6 submission: [img]http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8868/mvlr6lr8.jpg[/img] I decided to ramp up to suicidal for this one. Motti, I would like to apologize for beating your score by such an inconsequential margin. I had much loftier goals for the remainder of the last game year, but those cheese-eating surrender monkeys suddenly caved with several powerful warships (that I had let them keep, to nurse them along) still in their possession. I had thought that would let

Reply to Custom Races in TA in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think the Supper Dominator ability should include an extreme environment tech for colonizing Dessert planets and a discount when building the Restaurant of Eternity. :LOL:

Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Well, please keep in mind that I am almost 100% self-taught with Photoshop. The helmet and spear that I picked were both on relatively monochrome backgrounds, so for both of them I set the wand tool to a tolerance of about 50, anti-alias, and continuous area, and selected the area outside the object. Then I used the polygon lasso to select several areas around the edges of the object, holding down shift to add to the outside selected area or alt to deselect parts I wanted to ke

Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I don't have a free character at the moment, or at least none that I'm willing to move around yet. My Tyranny character has been a little bored lately, however, and decided to dress up as Athena for a cameo appearance. [img]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7118/athenakh7.jpg[/img] [I]Let the mortals fight among themselves.[/I]

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Now that I have seen the pic of your Altarian Love Slave... I believe I will kidnap her[/quote] Hahahahaha! Good luck, man! She fights very, [I]very[/I] dirty. :SURPRISED: To the death unless I tell her otherwise... Perhaps some of you remember Alex Atticus? One-time ruler of the HCH, which for a time was the most powerful empire in in the entire Metaverse? Now completely missing in action for several months? My #1 character at the time was in the HCH. Think about it.

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Very nice, Wyndstar! I tired pm-ing you earlier today. For some reason, pm-ing using Firefox always gives my browser fits. Hopefully you will get this next one...

Reply to MVL Round 6 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Nice one, defcon13! And welcome Wyndstar - there's a post in our core forum that I think answers your question.

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Running Man isn't it?[/quote] FTW!

Reply to Tyranny of Evil - A Metaverse Empire. in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Steal me Marshalls Altarian beauty slave and we will call it even![/quote] Just you try it... Cloned from Drew Barrymore's DNA, she's worth all the fembots in the galaxy times, like, eleventy! Btw, is a slave still a slave if the MCC makes them [I]want[/I] to work all day for no pay? [quote]so wait, i actually have to play a game?[/quote] Time to dust off my space armor, it looks like. Captain Freedom to Wardrobe... Captain Freedom to Wardrobe... <

Reply to Metaverse League Round 5 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

daggone double post...

Reply to Metaverse League Round 5 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]That large pile of bones must have been a give-away.[/quote] Boy... Talk about "taking one for the team!" :d Is it "the Domination of the Dead" now, KP? Note to Mumble - I did post my score a few days ago, no time to retry this round. Cornhusker, you still out there, mate?

Reply to Empire thread --> The Gerontocracy in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I think I'm in the same boat as ghostwes. Is that you over by the starboard gun'l, ghost? Honestly, at the moment, the MVL is the only thing that keeps me completing games at all. Other than those, I am definitely taking a break for the time being.

Reply to Metaverse League Round 5 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

My entry for round 5: [img]http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/276/mvlr5xg9.jpg[/img] Reading over Mumble's post, I know exactly where I went wrong - I left my last opponent too many planets. Sure, I didn't have to worry about building them all kinds of influence starbases, but they had enough research going to get within striking distance of a tech victory. I wasn't set up for a blitz that could have stopped their research in time, so I bit the neutrino bullet and built the inf

Reply to Metaverse League Round 5 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I'm here, just not very much lately. Thank you all for taking the time and effort to work so dilligently toward nailing this loose end down. Also, thank you Ghostwes for putting us on the scoreboard. I will submit a game this round, but at this rate I may end up sliding my score under the door at 11:59...

Reply to Of the Korx in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The Korx of today are not libertarians. They're ruled by a single corporate monopoly. But historically, the Korx were pure capitalists -- far beyond anything attempted on Earth. Completely unregulated. The military, police, schools, and roads were all owned by private entities and leased out to others as services.[/quote] Brad, were you reading Neal Stephenson when you came up with the Korx? His book [I]Snow Crash[/I] comes readily to mind. For those who haven't read it, the s

Reply to Metaverse League Round 5 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Aw, c'mon PlayJeff - be like Luke Skywalker and get your [I]taunton[/I]! Sorry everyone... I mean, it was [I]right there[/I], how could I not... Greetings, defcon13, the BladeRunners welcome our new three-eyed player. I'll pm you the core forum password momentarily.

Reply to HUGE Morale question in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

How many farms are you building? Once a planet's population gets close to 20 billion, you will see tremendous morale drops. Pop levels between 13 and 19 billion can be managed if you have a good morale bonus, a morale mining resource or two, and are willing to sacrifice a few planet tiles for VR centers, but once you top 20 billion, it is almost impossible to keep any kind of morale going on a planet. BTW, is the morale on [I]all[/I] of your planets falling to this level, or just your o

Reply to Beta 3 Bugs in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm enjoying playing as the Iconians for the first time in... well, a long time. I noticed tonight that their barter/merchant econ buildings don't replace each other in the "newest" improvements tab - I researched the top level building, and all three still appeared in the improvement choices. Also, they did not replace one another in the build queue - if a barter improvement was building when I researched the first merchant improvement, the planet kept building the barter improvement.

Reply to Play testing the Iconians in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]the Iconians can build their own Precursor libraries[/quote] That's really cool - and the improvement graphics are very nice. Given the new model for planetary conquest, I'm guessing that the Iconians' unique buildings are destroyed when their planet is taken over by anyone else - probably just as well, I'd hate to see the Drengin gain that kind of research power... Have you changed the Iconians' 'stackable' starting abilities at all?

Reply to Ship Movement Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you're in Yor space, you've run afoul of their super ability. The Super Isolationist ability reduces the speed of enemy ships to three. If it's happening outside of Yor space, then you are experiencing a bug of some kind.

Reply to Metaverse League Round 4 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Yes first one and thanks.[/quote] Congratulations! Fortunately, as I found out when both of mine were very small, strategy games can easily be played one-handed during those "I'm gonna cry unless you hold me constantly" times. My wife got concerned about the amount of time I spent holding our first in front of the computer. I gave her my best Dr. Evil look and said "But who's going to take over the galaxy when I'm gone?"

Reply to Korath planet is building Torian fighter in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This can happen anytime a planet is spored, I'm not sure why. Playing as the Korath, I have built dozens of foreign spacecraft that were under way in shipyards on planets I have spored. I've built huge-hulled ships like this before I even had the tech to build huge ships. Once, I even spored the Dread Lords' planet and finished building a defender with over 100 attack. It was too slow to use in my fleets, but it did wonders for my military rating once I got it to my Spin Control Center!

Reply to Beta 2B of Twilight arrives in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I think it would be cool if the Yor had to choose between building improvements and starships or increasing population (by degrees, with sliders) since they literally build their population, too. That being said, I recognize that having all races in the game subject to morale, taxation, and population restrictions is a factor of game balance - keeping all races on the same playing field. If one race were to play by an entirely different set of rules and were not subject to t