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Reply to Does planetary defense protect ships in orbit? in Mods Stardock Forums

Planetary defense only protects against invasions. ~SDC~

Reply to Stardock subscription = galciv2.com? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It says I don't have an AP registration either (pre-release Drengin.Net subscriber whose (now TG.Net) account expired just under a month ago). ~SDC~

Reply to GalCiv via Linux ?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]If anyone is still following this part of the board, I just got Galactic Civilizations and tried to make it work under Wine (not WineX). [/quote] You have to use WineX. WINE itself does not emulate enough of DirectX for GalCiv to work. ~SDC~

Reply to The AI starting bonuses in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Something seems strange with this. I know people have looked closely at this and found no bonuses at lower levels, but those numbers are a bit odd... ~SDC~

Reply to Help: Early Game Yor Producing 1 frigate per turn at planet? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]You don't say what level of difficulty, but the higher the level of difficulty, the more "cheats" the AI employ so that they can do things that you never could by following the rules[/quote] This is only true at the two highest levels of difficulty. At normal difficulty levels (which is to say, anything below Genius) the AI is penalized in one or more ways. ~SDC~

Reply to Omega Pack in Mods Stardock Forums

[quote]Oh, that's the Improved Factory starbase module that won't build[/quote] Starbase module won't work if there are any gaps in the numbering. That's the cause of problems 98% of the time with SBMods. The same is true of political parties. With all other mods, there are no issues with non-sequential numbering. ~SDC~

Reply to Omega Pack in Mods Stardock Forums

[quote]The game won't let me build the Improved Factory. There's no identifier number conflict.[/quote] After you reach a certain number of improvements, the game occasionally loses track of them. I haven't been able to track down anything specific about the phenominon, but it takes at least 400 improvements over the base for AP. ~SDC~

Reply to The Mod Compatability Project in Mods Stardock Forums

[quote]For the political partys would it be nice, too At its best with a expirence report how the AI use them [/quote] Political parties and Starbase Modules have special requirements that make presetting them impossible. They will always have to be edited to fit your individual setup. ~SDC~

Reply to Galciv Library in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Always put mods in the mods folder. The directions on alot of mods predate the implementation of the disable options and the mods foldiers. ~SDC~

Reply to TBS Games and Multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

When I tried to install the XP patch for SMAC, it forced my computer to shutdown.... :SURPRISED: ~SDC~

Reply to How come they can do that? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]First, when I am playing against the computer, their ships seem to be able to fire AFTER moving their maximum moves if I am adjacent to the square where they end up. Meaning, if a computer controlled BattleAxe can move 2 squares, and I am 3 squares away, that ship can move 2 squares and then fire at me. But I can't do that. Is this a bug?[/quote] You can do this too, but only if you use autopilot. If you manually move every space, the game will cut to another ship when y

Reply to Starship Quality +15% question... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Now, does this really mean "star system", or does it mean "individual planet"? For instance, if Earth is really rich, and Mars is really poor, but Mars creates a freighter, will it reap the same bonuses as a freighter built on Earth?[/quote] It is indeed the Star System that is important, not the individual planet. Trade routes operate off the economy level of the two endpoint systems, the distance between them, each participant's Trade ability rating, and Trade improving starba

Reply to Mod conflict problem in Mods Stardock Forums

[quote] Unfortunately, whenever I would select the option, the module would never actually get added, nor would the constructor get 'consumed'. Is there a known fix for this type of problem?[/quote] This is caused by the id numbers of the modules not being sequential, or the id numbers being higher than the id of the BOOKEND module. Increase Bookend's ID number and renumber all the mod modules sequentially starting with the number after last GC (53, I think) or AP (56, IIRC) module num

Reply to Gal Civ 1.21 and Altarian Prophecy 1.51 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]AP v1.51 the auto survey still seems to be broken.[/quote] The quirk appears to be this: when your sensor range increases, newly discovered anomalies aren't picked up by the autosurvey. Existing ones, and ones newly found the turn after your sensor range increase are. Only ones suddenly found between turns by the sensor increase itself are lost in the aether. If this is the case, save and reload should serve as a workaround.

Reply to Discussion Group for TotalGaming.net Games? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Shouldn't one login suffice for all of Stardock's discussion groups?[/quote] Only if you allow your browser to accept cookies from a third domain, which which involves signifcant security risk.

Reply to TotalGaming.net launched! in TGN News Stardock Forums

Everything that reaches release status before your subscription expires is yours (the qualifier is necessary because Stardock's own games do their beta releases over TotalGaming.net too). The expiration of your subscription doe not affect the ability to play any games that you've installed. In the case of the Stardock games, you don't get access to post-release updates that postdate the end of your subscription. Third party games probably wo

Reply to Drengin.net is about to die. Long live Drengin.net! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]On the other hand, is it possible to download the games on one computer (ie. my work computer that has a fast internet connection) via SDC, burn that to a CD and then copy that to my home computer?[/quote] There are two ways you can go about this. The offical method is to archive the programs and burn the SDC installer plus archives to a CD. For modable games, this will not catch any mods you've installed, so burn the mod zip/gzip files to CD reinstall them on the new s

Reply to Something wonderful is about to happen... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Well, I just upgraded, When are we going to hear the news??[/quote] I would expect last week of July or first week of August, based on the first post.

Reply to Stars.Lst in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The GalCiv code manually names the planets in Sol system. Those are the only planets that ever get spcial names.

Reply to Gal Civ 1.21 and Altarian Prophecy 1.51 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]- 10 BC per month, the displayed ETA will be 5 months BUT the project will be completed at the beginning of June 2178, as when the displayed ETA is 4 month[/quote] hmm.... My experience has been that this also completes in July. I've lost a Wonder to the Altarians by one turn because of it before. That doesn't, however, rule out it being an intermittent effect of some sort. Incidentally, I found something else that's interesting: at the start of a game, t

Reply to A Survey on Mod Users in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Actually, the existing stars are animated too, it's just hard to see the animation.

Reply to Gal Civ 1.21 and Altarian Prophecy 1.51 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The turns to complete numbers displayed are not correct. An excample: if a planet is producing Soil Enhancement costing 50 and the planet has a social production of 10, the turns to complete number shows 5 not 4 as it should.[/quote] This is not a display error. It really does take 5+1 turns. Building isn't completed until the turn after the total cost is expended. Whether it should take 6 turns or not is a different question.

Reply to Something wonderful is about to happen... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I did that and ended up purchasing another copy of CalCiv. I thought I was purchasing an upgrade to Drengin.net. [/quote] There should have been two links there, one for Drengin.net and one for GalCiv. Sending a note to mailto:[email protected] explaining what happened would be the best course of action concerning the mistake. ~SDC~

Reply to A Survey on Mod Users in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Instanton TechTree. I don't think I've ever gotten far enough in the game to use that one before winning, actually.[/quote] I have actually built the MiniUniverse and MegaUniverse once, in the AP campaign, scenario 3 when it was still just a few steps short of impossible. I was able to hold off the Korx with mines and other high def, low cost ships until I started building Excaliburs of my own (slower than they were building them, unfortunately). The standoff finally broke when

Reply to Stardock approved mods: will they cause an anomalous score? in Mods Stardock Forums

Individually, no. Certian combinations could, but it's very unlikely with certified mods. ~SDC~