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Reply to Stir The Pot in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]You can add a 4th congressman to your list of "liars". Besides Clyburn, Cleaver and Lewis now Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) has also publically stated that he and other members of the CBC were called the N-word.[/quote] IMO this should be prosecuted as conspiracy to commit a hate crime - I consider knowingly giving false accusations of a hate crime to be a hate crime itself. Filing a false police report is a crime, and it was certainly committed against a group based

Reply to Productivity of Surrenered Planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Planets can be toxic, radioactive, aquatic, barren, or heavy gravity and still be colonizable - assuming you are playing Dark Avatar or Twilight of the Arnor. They will still show up with planet class greater than zero, but you cannot colonize them without researching tech first. All five types of planets have two levels of colonization tech, basic and advanced. Having both techs for a particular type of planet will give you production values the same as a standard planet. Having one of the t

Reply to Productivity of Surrenered Planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is due to you not having the proper tech for these planets. If you have neither tech for Toxic planets, any Toxic planets you get by surrender, invasion, or influence flip will have effectively zero production. The good news is that if you research the proper techs, the problem goes away.

Reply to HOTTEST JANUARY EVER in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]not to derail the thread but why are you still sticking to IE7?[/quote] Not to speak for anyone else, but for me it is what is on my work computer, which I have no control over so I couldn't switch if I wanted to. At home it's simply what I'm used to, and none of the supposed benefits of alternative seem worth the aggrivation.

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

We may have another candidate for getting a refund here. As I've pointed out, the CEO/majority owner of the company has said this isn't going to happen. Deal with it; if your method of dealing with it involves boycotting Stardock, they and the community here are better off without you anyway. More importantly, take a look at what the "rest of the industry" does for other games. EA strips support and activation servers from entire groups of games a few times a year, particularl

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Had I known that they were going to do this I would never have given them my money.[/quote] [quote]They've lost my confidence until this is resolved and I know I'm not the only one that thinks this way.[/quote] This discussion has happened several times before, most notably when Sins stopped getting stand-alone patches during the Impulse roll out. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but Brad's overall answer to this was that Stardock was better off losing a handful of disgruntled c

Reply to several newb questions in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[i]2. "Ship will become much more lethal after upgrade" random stuff from anomaly. What exactly that means?[/i] This anomaly give the ship experience. Normal armed ships will level up when they win battles, giving them more hit points. This anomaly gives your survey vessel the same type of experience, but you need to upgrade it into an armed design to get any benefit from it. [i]4. Miniaturization bonuses - how exactly they work? I did try to compare stuff before and after, bu

Reply to The Age Old Debate in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Worst soft drink ever award: Diet Coke Lime[/quote] Clearly someone never experienced the atrocity that was Red Flash.

Reply to The United Planets fails again in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Enskipp" reply="5" id="2537597"]I think the point is the combined vote for Vulcan (29660+32637) is greater than the votes for Borg (34551) and yet still Borg won the vote. [/quote] You missed the 34510 voted the player gave for himself. The math is correct, at 64061 for the Borg and 62297 for Vulcan.

Reply to One man empires in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I have a one man empire, and I'm currently rated #18. So I guess I disagree with you. In all honesty, I started my empire with the intention of getting several real life friends to join in. It just never panned out.

Reply to The liberal plan. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

The Illinois Constitution has a specific requirement that every 10 years a referendum line be placed on the ballot asking to call a convention. Direct bypass of the legislature, based only on the popular vote. Of course, there's no way we'd keep current politicians out of the convention process if we ever invoked it, but we have the option available in theory.

Reply to Small GalCiv II updates? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Could we launch colony ships without civilians? Sometimes I'm shuttling people from a full world to a less populated world and I'd like to not need to put "1" on the ship just to send it back to pick up more people.[/quote] Or as an easier fix, eliminate zero as an option when launching. Make 1 the minimum number the slider goes to. Also, add an option on the pop up for surveyors and miners: when we get the pop up about them shifting to standby, give us the option to st

Reply to Can Starbases overlap and stack effects? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They *do* stack. You can usually get 8-16 starbases to stack on any given space, and a maximum of 24 to overlap on a single space.

Reply to Small GalCiv II updates? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

You asked for small, I don't know if these fit or not: - multiple constructor modules per ship - multiple mining modules per ship For both of those, maybe link to techs and make them progressively more expensive. - Ability to ask allies to research a tech Especially for races that lack certain things (i.e. farms for Thalans) simply waiting for an AI to research something is highly tedious and often results in simply giving the AI tech to limit their cho

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Gah. That's a red herring, or at least it's so for some of us long-term space program supporters. You are ignoring the fact that we have plenty of valuable, hard work to do via unmanned space missions and 'arrogantly' assuming that personalized, dramatic moments are more important to the future of humanity than the basic research and engineering that will make those future moments possible.[/quote] There is still plenty of worthwhile work to be done for the robots. I dare say *

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Every atom in the universe can fusion with an another one if you inject enough energy in them, not just only the Helium 3 : basically, you can do it with deuterium and tritium and there is plenty of those two on earth. It is just less efficient. And we are still decades far from making a fusion energy plant.) Myself, i am an ingeneer student and then a true scientist.[/quote] I call bullshit. Higher mass atoms require more energy to fuse than you get out of the reaction

Reply to Soldiering/Tech in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, they do. Although I haven't seen too many in TA, I have seen planets lose PQ to invasions in DL and DA.

Reply to Battleship cost & strategies in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]just give me your opinion if you have any strategy to grant high morale on overpopulated planets![/quote] Avoid having them. Seriously, the morale cost of having a planet over 20 billion is actively counterproductive in terms of making money. Economic output is proportional to the square root of population, so keeping the population in the 15-15 b range with a couple more stock markets gives you more money than 20 b and a few more VRCs.

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Furthermore, skeptics are not addressing the issue at hand because they are too busy accusing the greenies of being fanatics with flawed science. I havn't heard of the skeptics encouraging people to use hybrid cars or encouraging awarness of environmental damage. All they do is accuse the greenies of fanatacism. They may be right, but it doesn't get us anywhere.[/quote] That is simply untrue. Take Brad as an example; he's a skeptic as far as AGW, but is building (has built

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="977" id="2509880"]WIlly - I think you missed the sarcasm. [/quote] Given the people in this topic, I'm not sure it *was* sarcasm, and even if it was it's extremely likely that most people in here would not see it as such.

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Ya, only 10 years it would take. And I really doubt that a significant decrease in CO2 levels can be reached in that period of time to make much difference.[/quote] Again, the level of math I expect here, this time from the other side. The point is that at 0.2 C per decade (which even alarmists don't claim we're at yet) it will take 100 years to get the 2 C increase we are supposed to be fearing.

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]6 meters really isn't just a few, that would pretty much flood out the entire east coast of the US and 2C is not all that much more warming. At 0.2C per decade it's only another 20 years, 0.2C per decade is a bit higher than it is right now but another 2C in the next 30 years is not all that unrealistic. Even I might still be alive to see it.[/quote] 2.0 C increase at 0.2 C per decade = 2 decades? Yeah, that's about the level of math I expect to see in a AGW debate.

Reply to Need some help with Espionage and Star Bases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Drop one spy on a farm - one turn before you invade. This will probably reduce your enemy's population. Or drop on moral structures & combine this with "Informational Warfare" - helps a lot. You can, of course, combine these 2 methods.[/quote] You *can* combine these two tactics, but under almost no conceivable circumstances should you do so. A morale/IW attack works better the when attacking a higher population, reducing the population to 8 billion before attempting i

Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The second problem with it is the fact that temperature graph is a deviation. A deviation is a relative number. Meaning, if you don't know what it is relative to, then you don't know what the actual values are.[/quote] This right here disqualifies you from any further discussion. The entire point of using a deviation scale rather than an absolute temperature scale is that where you draw zero doesn't matter . You could plot the scale in degrees C, and the y axis would be

Reply to Pop growth + useless buildings in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I was under the impression the Omega research centre was supposed to give you a civ wide bonus to your research, NOT just planet specific ? Is it the same with nano recorders and the aerelon (?) missile defence ? for their 10 and 20 (% / points ?) bonus ?[/quote] The trade good buildings are definitely empire-wide. Morale trade goods are the same way. I will need to check on Omega, I don't remember one way or the other (read that to mean by the time I get it, I don't ne