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Reply to Sniper ship and starbase ship assist upgrade questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Its one thing to for a starbase to assist, but if you look at it's area of influence, and compare that to how far a ship moves in a week, the starbase must have to fire it's missles, bullets, and lasers weeks in advance in order for it to reach a star skirmish between ships. Do the starbases have the power of precognition? How do you target something weeks in advance when you didn't even know it would be there? It would be pretty hard to sniper something like that.

Reply to Good Sci-Fi novels/series in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I would highly reccomend Jake Davis's "The Last Rangers." It certainly not a space odyssey, in fact as I recall it has very little to do with space travel. But its a post apocalypse book (always brings out the Fallout fan in me) about the last Texas Rangers taking down crime syndicates. Its not a long book, but what i really liked is that 80% of the first book was simply set-up for the next two. Good luck finding it though, its rare enough to be a

Reply to How did you find out about Galactic Civilizations II? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Penny Arcade whore here too! I read about the whole Stardock-Starforce thing, and then I got to reading game reviews and I got really worked up. To me the whole issue seemed like Stardock was just a little kid who just ignored the big bully. But then the bully wasn't getting his way so he hit the little the kid. Poor kid. So I gave that poor kid some candy and bought the game. And the good karma i got from that payed off. I passed a test that I didn't

Reply to I like Minor races! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah man! I for sure know what you mean. Besides being useful trading parters, they're just cool buddies to have around. "Hey Arcean, what you and your Terran buddies doing? Conquering the Drengin? Yeah, well check out my MINI RACE!" Thats way cooler than obliterating the Drengin.