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Betrayal of Beauty in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

This isn't really an AAR, it's a short story depicting an event possibly more horrifying than the destruction of a system by a Terror Star. No, there's no gore or anything in it that could give you bad dreams. For the entire length of our written history we had thought to be alone in this universe. We had not wandered far from our planet; the furthest any of our species has ever gone was to one of the moons orbiting our planet. Our planet, a lush and green planet with

Reply to The future of Galactic Civilizations in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

No OpenGL(2.1/3.0) support? [e digicons]X([/e]

Reply to Clues you've been playing too much Galactic Civilizations II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Inspired by LedZerggelin's post. 77. Everything that happens in a week, happens at the first day of that week. 78. Anything that happens after the first day of the week simply has not happened. 79. Anything that happens after the first day of the week must have been an opponont's action. 80. You have no knowledge of dates that are not the beginning of a week.

Reply to Sins Of An Empire Install Advice in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

What Windows are you using? XP? Vista? This is a last resort suggestion; There's probably something messed up in Windows itself (could be anything). Format the partition Windows is on, re-install Windows, Update Windows and then try to install Impulse again.

Reply to Clues you've been playing too much Galactic Civilizations II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

32. You wonder why those Europeans are still trying to figure out how to get nuclear fusion to work(*) properly, while clearly, you have already built a fully functioning fusion plant on the North-American continent. (* ITER for those of you who don't quite get that one ;))

Reply to Communist Party Mod V1 by happy_cake132......question in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I think that if you'll look in the AbilityBonuses.xml file you'll find the answer (AbilityIndex). Not too sure though.

Reply to Clues you've been playing too much Galactic Civilizations II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

01. If you start posts like these. 02. If you reply in posts like these. 03. If you start referring to Humans as Terrans. 04. If you try to start diplomatic relations with robots, thinking they are Yor. 05. If you know everything about the game without having to look it up. 06. If you stockpile weapons and ammo for an oncoming Dread Lords invasion. 07. If you sell your blood as a delicasy. 08. If you keep dangerous reptiles in the sewers. 09. If you deminish an en

Reply to 3 questions in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

3) Every race video gets stretched in the diplomacy screen when using wide-screen resolutions. Some are more noticable than others. I agree, it's terrible, Stardock needs to fix it. 2) Don't put farms on your homeplanet or other buildings that increase your maximum population. This goes for conquered homeworlds too. (Nothing wrong with buildings that increase your population growth though)

Reply to Community Game #1 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Are you still in the first turn? can I make some suggestions? Send one of your colony ships to the closest star in the top-lefthand corner of your position to explore and possibly colonize. Send another colony ship to the closest star in the bottom-lefthand corner of your position to explore and possibly colonize. Forget about the two stars in the top-righthand corner of your position for now. The goal is to try and colonize as many planets as possible in the four (4) secto

Reply to Show off your ship designs 2008! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Since this topic is here, might as well post my most recent ships here too. All ships belong to my custom race the Solarian Federation. What you see are base designs btw; standard templates for all versions of that hull size. Nothing fancy btw. All images are thumbnails (click on them for larger versions). Solarian Federation Space Corps Corvette (tiny hull): <img src="http://tweakers.net

Reply to Terror Stars - Useful??? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Don't Terror Stars increase your military rating significantly? If so, that would seem like a big plus early on in the game. Otherwise I can only see two usefull, though limited, tactics. 1) clear a path between your borders and your opponents so it'll be harder for them to beat you by influence. 2) If your opponent likes to turtle (heavy defense of planets, rarely sending out fleets) and is more powerfull than you, then blowing up their systems would be the better

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, that might do the trick. Gonna try that. Thanks.

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[U]SFSC[/U] Battleship [U]HFBS[/U]-[U]G[/U]1 That's already 9 things I'm abbreviating/shortening (underlined), any ideas on how to shorten on this? 'Battleship' is something I'd rather not shorten or abbreviate.

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I keep running into this one lately and it's annoying me more than anything else. The maximum lenght of ship's names! It should be doubled at least.

Reply to Weird Fleet Autopilot Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Stardock Central or Impulse.

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Speaking of sliders for the ship builder, how about some x/y/z off-set sliders?

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet. When you've researched space defenses you get armor plating. Considering you get the other two basic defenses once you've researched their theories should you not get armor plating with armor theory? Same goes for the particle beam, should this not be given with beam weapon theory instead of space weapons? Another thing; I've been able to win by influence even if that victory is turned of. Planets still turn to my side if

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Still, then each world is treated differently when being colonized. And when using a spore attack, the most appropriate/effective toxin is chosen.

Reply to What do you want to see in 2.0? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

You forget, there are many different toxins. Being immune to one doesn't mean your immune to the rest too.

Reply to I could use a little help in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

1) GigaHertz 2) What's the make and model of the CPU? There's a huge difference between a 2GHz Pentium 4 and a 2GHz Core 2 Duo for instance. 3) nVidia 4) Is the graphics-chip powerfull enough for these games? You mention it's a laptop you're using so it the graphics-chip not a less powerfull mobile version?

Reply to Which books have the greatest movie potential? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Larry Niven's Ringworld books perhaps? (Part of his 'Known Space' series)

Reply to Innovative History & Extremes? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Innovative History gives you the Innovation Complex; bonus economy, bonus research and ships build on that planet get +1 in speed (if I recall correct). History of Extremes, don't know.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]this is what you want then wouldn't it be far simpler to play that game instead of wanting GC3 to be a IGII clone? RTS and TBS games are entirely different gendres. If you want RTS then play RTS but most people that play TBS specifically *don't* want their TBS games to play like RTS.[/quote] I'm not saying GC3 should be IGII (or like it). I'm saying there are many aspects to that game from which GC2/the developers of GC3 can take note. The elements I mentioned are far mo

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I would like the developers of GC3 to be locked in a room with computers on which Imperium Galactica II is installed. Have them play that game for a while.Colony management, espionage, diplomacy and trade/second-hand market elements from that game are far superior to what GCII has to offer.[/quote] Since I can't edit anymore; Fleet battles and invasions are also superior in IGII.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I would like the developers of GC3 to be locked in a room with computers on which Imperium Galactica II is installed. Have them play that game for a while. Colony management, espionage, diplomacy and trade/second-hand market elements from that game are far superior to what GCII has to offer.