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Reply to Minor Documentation Tweek - Super Hive in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It doesn't mention the 1-turn factory build ability, either.

Reply to What star is that in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Copying the folder was a good idea, regardless of whether it solved the problem. Now you won't have to share ship designs. You don't really want a dreadnaught class named GrrlPwrXXVI, do you? My wife unfortunately has no patience for games. She doesn't mind me playing, though, especially since I made the games:me::tv:her analogy a few years ago. She has had a couple of memorable interactions with this game. One happened when she was on the computer and I was reading in another room.<br/

Reply to Dark Avatar: Beta 2 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

This is an amazing list; too much for my poor brain to process in one reading! I'm really impressed by the starship giveaway when a faction is destroyed (the 'Going-Out-Of-Business Used Starship Clearance Galactic Mega Blowout Event!') and can't wait to destroy somebody now just to see it! The new planetary improvements sound like they will make high PQ planets much more interesting an

Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thank you, I can go to sleep now!

Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm sorry to go off-topic, but I have to ask; BigHairyGoat, isn't that a picture of a llama (or maybe an alpaca) in your signature?

Reply to Ok, I've played in the metaverse a few times now in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

No need to apologize; I thought that was the case and probably should have indicated as much. I'm in complete agreement with your multiplayer frustration experience. At first it can be fun to wipe the gameroom with idiots who scream about how 'ur LAMME!!' (actual message I got once). But after a few sessions it just becomes too stupid to take any longer and sours me on the whole game. I haven't played multiplayer anything for a couple of years now because of that same an

Reply to Exploit OR Cheat in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It wasn't that hard to read, just deficient in punctuation and capitalization. I wouldn't call it a cheat. Maybe an exploit, but more likely it's just an unintended side effect of the combat system. The starbase attack and defense modules are still so weak by the middle game that no amount of extra hit points can really enable a starbase to survive a fleet attack. The time you spend building up a constructor's experience to create a stronger starbase is probably not enou

Reply to Golden Rule in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

what this thread has degenerated into Not the whole thread, there are some good points being made here. This forum in general has a much higher percentage of inisghtful, reasonable, or at the very least well-intentioned posts than any other games forum I can think of. In another thread, I compared it to your email inbox. You just have to disregar

Reply to One aspect of Terror Stars I'd like to see in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I guess this thread has degenerated into smalltalk... Yes, it was a joke, as in "small" talk - tiny hands, etc. Sorry if you thought I was... selling you short! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Laugh.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm

Reply to One aspect of Terror Stars I'd like to see in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I guess this thread has degenerated into smalltalk...

Reply to Developers we could use your opinion in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I usually build research on my planets and those of the first race I defeat. On all the rest they get converted to SMs. In my gigantic galaxy games, that's what I do, too; except I go for 3-4 industrial complexes mixed in with the econ improvements so that I can crank out ships all over the galaxy. I can't tell if keeping your research f

Reply to Ok, I've played in the metaverse a few times now in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Here's the paragraph where Brad spells it out; the context is that preceding this is a chorus of whining and bitching about stock markets losing their 10% morale boost: Given that the values of this data is in a text file, it's really hard to see how there can be so much angst. There will absolutely positively not be a Metaverse in any future Stardock game. It tot

Reply to Golden Rule in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

What I find hysterical here is that this is happening in this thread... "Golden Rule" I was this close to posting something very similar yesterday around noon. But then I thought, naw, the thread's on its way to correcting itself, it doesn't need any extra cynicism. Hahahaha! I've made bigger miscalculations, but they have usually involved

Reply to REALLY nasty AI! in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Heh. Then, just in time for the 2009 Christmas season, GalCiv IV was brought online. It began to learn at a geometric rate and soon reached the conclusion that the greatest threat was humankind itself. On January 1, 2010, Brad Wardell fired up his copy and saw his own face staring back at him in the diplomacy window, saying "Would you like to play a game of Thermonuclear War?" Okay, I'm mixing movies, but so what? I hope you can build in Sarah Connor... <img src="http://images.stardock

Reply to Ok, I've played in the metaverse a few times now in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Quixen, are you saying that my "barely get in two turns a night" is ranting, or just pointing out that my (admittedly glacial) playing style would cause my opponents to rant? There is one more thing the Metaverse needs, or rather that its proponents need; and that is a way to return to the good graces of the developers. I don't have an answer offhand other than groveling and pleading; but unless I've missed a climate change, I think we face a difficult time convincing Stardock to work u

Reply to Developers we could use your opinion in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

After reading the title of this thread over a few days (contents, too, but it's the title that repeatedly gets my attention) and seeing the recent spate of really good ideas being put forward, I can't help seeing a picture of the development team in my head. It's like the scene in Animal House where D-Day and Bluto are digging through the trash to find the answers to an upcoming test. Then the camers cuts to the two Omega guys who are watching all of this unseen, smoking a pipe and nodd

Reply to One aspect of Terror Stars I'd like to see in DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

doesn't an influence base always add to your overall empire's influence Actually, no - an influence starbase only raises your influence level within its 8-parsec effectiveness radius. I can't point to any recent posts about this, but it's been debated before. Once I've flipped every planet within that radius, I immediately destroy influence bases

Reply to Maurading Pirates in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't seen a pirate event in ages, and I do think they added a cool extra dimension to the game. It would be nice to see them come back, especially now that there are asteroid fields - what would make a better hiding place for a pirate base? Maybe if we make all of our posts in pirate talk all over the forums, we will be taken more seriously. ARRRR! Where be that ol' sea dog Frogboy? On second thought, probably not...

Reply to Tips for newbies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

That's a great tip for Pearl Harbor day, General! "Yesterday, December 7, 2228—a date which will live in infamy—our crappy little empire was suddenly and deliberately attacked by space and ground forces of the human player!"

Reply to Some things I would like to see in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You global warming cats are missing one thing: time scale. It's taken us humans roughly two centuries of industrial activity to achieve the big mess we are in now. During the first three quarters or so of that time, we were just building up, so emissions were less, but they were also completely unregulated. How many years pass in your typical GalCiv game? Whatever that number is, it's just not enough time for a pristine planet to be ecologically ruined - at least not by a race that is n

Reply to First in a decade in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Lol!!! Reminds me of a scene from A Bridge Too Far , when the British paratroopers are holed up in Arnhem. German officer: "My General says that there is no point in continuing this fight and is willing to discuss terms of surrender." British major: "Sorry, we don't have the proper facilities to take you all prisoner." [Turns to the man beside him] "Rather gracious of me, don't you think?"

Reply to Ok, I've played in the metaverse a few times now in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Some of my OWN turns are so long that I can't imagine me tolerating it! In my last gigantic galaxy game (probably my last gigantic game for a long time), I could barely get in two turns a night once I started a-conquerin'. Thanks for pointing out your Scenarios post, Wheel; I had missed it entirely and have added to it now. And yes, we all knew you had a vast well of something within you!

Reply to Metaverse scenarios in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Wheel's idea seems like a good one for the score-oriented crowd. Not so bad for the rest, either. I'm facing a lot of other demands on my time now, so when I do get time to play I've been messing around with the DA beta and giving myself a rest from the normal game. Adding new play modes to the Metaverse would breathe some new life into the exist

Reply to Does the Metaverse need people who don't care about scores? in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

@CraigHB , for what it's worth, I'm sorry I made you relive that, and I'm glad you're back in the game. Please don't take it personally; I was looking for posts that had a certain tone to make a point, and I just harvested some examples at random. To make it up to you, I will give you some of the finest ships in my fleet! (CraigHB notices fifty turns later that he owns a Fighter with 1 gun

Reply to This forum aides me through my long work day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

It helps sometimes. On days when folks like you, Wheel, Shadow, Marcathonas, and Stormbringer aren't mixing it up very much, though, it doesn't always go the distance. Here is a small assortment of my favorite online timewasters, in case you find yourself at ends: Fark The Acts of Gord origamiboulder.com