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Reply to Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I like SR2 so far, but I'm really bad at it. When I don't DIAF during combat, I run out of cash. heh.

Reply to newbie asking for advice with war in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Another way is to have your planets build the bare hull and use your money to upgrade to full fighting configuration. Upgrades cost far less than a straight purchase of the ship. I really like that technique. I fill the empty hulls with engines and life support so that they can scoot quickly to trouble areas, then upgrade based on the mix of weapons a

Reply to newbie asking for advice with war in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

There's a bug that causes your income to be reduced by about 30% if you keep your treasury above about 20K. Umm, I think that's "works as designed" and not a bug.

Reply to What is the stupidest comercial on TV? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I am scared by the new Microsoft commercials with the people dancing all funky. You should be. That commercial promotes the "Skinny People With Eating Disorders Are Cool" toxic meme. One of my least favorite, most cringeworthy commercial is the one where the folksinger with an acoustic guitar volunteers to provide sappy background music to so

Reply to ommg in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

In order to join the ommg, I suppose one must forgo the use of punctuation, spelling, capitalization and grammar in favor of bellowing in leetspeak, right? Utterly charming.

Reply to What's the point of the income-sharing UP proposal? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you're the Influence leader but not the Economic leader, you can vote yourself a nice stipend from that event. I've had civs vote "yes" under other circumstances, though. Perhaps it has something to do with civilization popularity.

Reply to Official 1.4X Bug Report Thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Of course bugs need to be fixed. Adding an item to the build list does not correctly refresh the display. And it's not merely "two mouse clicks of my time" it's multiplied by every player of the game, or worse, giving incorrect information to players who don't realize it's a bug and trust what they see on the screen. If you apply your logic to game design, they might as well layoff a dev or two to save money from fixing those pesky bugs while they're at it. Not a good choice for any serious game

Reply to Official 1.4X Bug Report Thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The build time is wrong when first placing an improvement on the production queue. You have to toggle one of the three focus buttons to get it to display an accurate number of weeks on the production queue. This happens both when there is no initial focus set and when there is a focus set. Bug first reported at v1.31, still happens with v1.4x. <img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/

Reply to Colony Upgrade in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That sounds like a great premise for a science fiction horror story. As for surplus loaded colony ships, I also like to upgrade them to Transports. Keep them as colonies until you're almost at the target enemy planet (oh, look, we're just a harmless luxury cruise ship with Buzz Lightyear as our celebrity guest) then the "colonists" put on their military uniforms and attack when the ship upgrades. heh.

Reply to Official 1.3 [final] bug report thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

By the way, is there going to be an Official 1.4x Bug Report Thread, or should we just continue to post here instead?

Reply to Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The game appears to need another English translation edit pass. There are a lot of ESL-isms in the text of the game.

Reply to Official 1.3 [final] bug report thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The bug I reported in Reply #72 has not been fixed in v1.4x.

Reply to build time is always "never" in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you toggle one of the focuses (military, social or research) the build time should then display properly; I don't know if that's been posted as an official bug, though.

Reply to What do ship commands do? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

What about Auto-Retreat?

Reply to Question: Can you ask a race to surrender? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Can you even do that since the value of AI planets was boosted so high in recent upgrades? Doesn't seem too likely.

Reply to Declearing war in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Looks like I'll have to dive into more detail about my problem with not being able to attack minor races and then file a bug report.

Reply to Declearing war in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It bothers me that I can't just attack minor races, but my AI opponants can.

Reply to Explain diplomacy to me in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

As for gifting planets, they're not worth nearly as much as they were in earlier versions, unless you want to trade your entire civilization for one planet of theirs.

Reply to Why is the game cheaper at an actual store? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Being able to download GCII immediately instead of trundling to a brick and mortar store in meatspace is like Homer Simpson wanting to buy a gun and finding out there's a cooloff waiting period: "But I'm angry NOW!" heh.

Reply to Why doesn't ship life support add up like I think it should? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Another thing I've noticed is that sometimes the range changes by .1 after I upgrade engines in a design without touching the life support at all. Some kind of rounding error, perhaps.

Reply to Feature Request: Improve Auto-Explore in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It would be great if a group of auto-explorers would pick different spread-out areas to explore, to prevent the scoutship conga line effect.

Reply to Jehovah's WItnesses in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

It is dangerous to attempt to engage in reasoned dialogue with religious fanatics.

Reply to Game not centered with screen in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've seen this issue in other fullscreen games where the fix was to adjust the monitor's refresh rate.

Reply to Conspiracy Theories in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Ronald Reagan was a honorary member of the Imperial Council of the Shrine.

Reply to Official Carriers/Orbital Bombardment Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

They're not gods, after all.It's blasphemy I tell you!! How can you say such a thing about the mighty devs? I'm allowed to say that because I used to be a dev for typesetting software (a thankless task). heh.