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Reply to What Do You Think is the Best Galactic Wonder? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The restaurant at the edge of the galaxy... is my favorite... I know its not actually called that, but since the first time I ran across it I've called it that... One of the things I love so much about this game is all the sci-fi references that are snuck into the documentation and descriptions... Aside from the starwars/startrek that seem to be in every game, I've seen at least one B5 reference (not to mention the whole Antarian/human Minbari/human si

Reply to Gameplay Example: Computer AI in transition in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I'm on board for the logistics changes its annoying to have 1-2 useless logistics points left when building a fleet. And the AI upgrade looks good, even with the "misuse" of the farming squares...which I do as well--smaller populations are easier to keep happy...

Reply to GalCiv II v1.1 Dev log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

I have to say, other than the odd frustrating moment this is the best 4x game I've played (and I was a MoO junkie up until MoO3 sucked so bad)... I would like to add my voice to those crying for minor race emacipation...I want to see the squirrel empire... And as for tech trading, depending on whether you are playing a research savy race or not would determine whether it unbalanced the game for you... besides I find that whether o

Reply to Ship Gifts Gone Wrong in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hahaha, Last night I gave several of my Cruisers to the Snathi (evil squirrels) and in short order they became the second most dominate race in the galaxy (my tech rating was 300+ and I was the only race with medium and large combat vessels) They certainly figured out how to use them... however I noticed that when I gave the same style ships to the I league the ships just sat in my space until they were destroyed... It may be that the enemy will only s

Reply to MoO 2 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I've had luck copying it down to my harddrive and installing from there...there do seem to be some issues when you try to load it from disc in xp though... I just find that the game becomes too predictable to quickly (it sucks to never risk lossing)

Reply to In-game text constantly refers to "humanity" in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You can just go into \data\english\TechTree.xml and just change the description to something more pleasing to you... Open the file in notepad or some other editor and change the Description and Details sections (see below) Interstellar Governments 200 Allows us to begin researching advanced types of governments. Each cul

Reply to Number of starting abilities. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

That would be interesting... In one of the later patches they could add negative abbilities, like low birthrate so that you could in essence spend more points without unbalancing the game.

Reply to Creating Custom Planets in GalCiv 2 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I definitely like the idea of being able to customize the custom race's homeworld... It feels like a bit of a rip off when the custom race's system is a carbon copy of earth with a different name...

Reply to GalCiv II: v1.1 preview in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't gotten to the end of page 5 of these comments, however as a suggestion for 1.2: Allow Minor races to colonize any planets in their home solar system. For example there always seems to be one or two conolizable planets around the Snarathi homeworld...wouldn't the "evil squirrel" back story seem a little more realistic if they at least expanded to the other worlds in their home system. (The evil squirrels by the way are GR