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Reply to Anyone still having problem with our fullscreen Bink movies? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I do run into problems wirth the bink movies, but only if I don't reboot before starting GalCiv, so I'd have to guess that it's a symptom of being stubborn and playing GC on a computer that is (occording to the listed reqs) woefully inadiquate for the task.

Reply to Diplomacy Screen loophole round up in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'I've also heard reports on abusing the trade X amount for Y months but don't remember specifically how that works.' It's a simple overflow on trade value, from what I can tell. Any arbitrarily large trade could trigger it. 'Technician, there was lots of discussion about whether your x million soldier or colonists WOULD let you sell them.' I really have to agree with Technician on this. Everything should be tradable under the right conditions. The question should no

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'Freighters now don’t get a shield icon off-planet which doesn’t help in locating them. When browsing via the Galactic screen (which I often do).' The shield is for defended planets. Freighters have no defense, and as such do not register for that shield icon. 'I can see part of the mining choice screen in the background.' 'Keyboard/mouse focus problem?' According to what Cari said in another thread, this seems to be caused by another window that has the focus being h

Reply to Positive feedback - favourite features in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'the influence upgrades affect adjacent sectors (at least, they did the last time I checked).' I don't think the influence upgrades do directly affect adjacent sectors, but the spillover from high influence may make it useful even without much else in the sector.

Reply to Trading for planets bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The maximum tribute already seems to have been set to 9999bc/mo. I reported this same bug a while back (at the time I was using 65536bc for 65536 mo., which comes out to the exact value I noted above) and the next beta wouldn't let me request a five digit tribute. I didn't think to check the duration, though.

Reply to Trading for planets bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'this bug didn't work with minor nation' The bug does work with minor races, you just have to use different numbers. The value of a trade is influenced by the diplomacy rating of the AI and your diplomacy. Trade ratings may also be a factor (or at least Brad suggested that the Mercantile party did get a bonus on trade via diplomacy a few betas back).

Reply to Information graph dips in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'(Military queues would just keep producing the same ship, right?)' In my experience they do not. It empties, just like the social queue unless you have an actual active military governor.

Reply to Crach opening foreign policy screen. Trap 5 at 0042083F in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'CTD This has happened to me a couple of times. In both cases, I accidentally selected the Minor Races diplomacy tab when the Minor Races had ceased to exist. I figured there was no error trap in place for trying to display a screen that no longer had any data (or had random data) to link to its output fields.' I haven't tried in beta4a, but judging from past behavior, the tab should have disappeared when the last minor race was conquered. If that tab was the last one selected, tha

Reply to Wow... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm getting little thrashing here with only 96 MB RAM on a gaigantic galaxy, except when bink animation that isn't regularly displayed loads.

Reply to General Help and impressions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'3) I think that you might have left a few words out of that sentence, because I'm missing your point.' He means morale is very low in the early game, something I've noticed myself, but usually not had much problem correcting.

Reply to ethical querry in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'how does work the good/evil in the game... after choosing 3 evil choices i became evil and so after that i always choose good choices and never became good or neutral again...' Most events don't have a very big influence individually, and the evil choices tend to have a larger influence than good ones. I have gone from good to evil and back to neutral. Evil to good is hard part because only colonization events and one or two of the other planet based events can cause good inf

Reply to Beta 4a - suggestions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'User interface - diplomacy with major/minor races should be on the same page. What is the diff between the major and minors anyway? My minors routinely colonize, build wonders, etc.' They can't be on the same screen because there isn't room. There can be up to 24 minor races, counting the pirates and the space monster, if the conditions are right. The main difference between the two is that minor races don't count for game conditions, and that minor races don't colonize outsi

Reply to Trading for planets bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The problem isn't specifically that it's a planet, it's that the value of the items you're trading overflowed the datatype GalCiv uses for it. Trading 1bc a month for 4,294,967,296 months would accomplish the same thing.

Reply to Can we add galaxy shape to size? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'i think it's more feasable than change the galaxy generator in the game...need less change on GalCiv if they create a map editor' Not really. The 'map' editor just needs to save out a turn 1 save game instead of a map.

Reply to Newbie question - is this an open Beta and if 'yes' where can i download it? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

From what I understand, it wonn't actually be closed unitl the first gamma

Reply to Research completion bug when 2 items are done on the same turn in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This has been reported a few times. What appears to be happening is that the game isn't switching to the second tech you gained when the second research complete screen comes up, so it thinks that there's still anoter research complete screen it needs to display, and ends up in an infinite loop.

Reply to Can I design ships? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Not in the game, but the definition files are all plaintext. As long as the file structure is correct, you can add more files with new ship/tech/etc. definitions and GalCiv will recognize them (exception: the UI isn't in place for more than six political parties, and the default definitions already specify six), although in some cases they won't be available in a saved game from before the new definition files were added.

Reply to Performance question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On the subject of performance, I see mid-to-late game pauses, but I'm also running this on a CPU 400 MHz and three generations older than the listed minimum reqs, and with a shortage of 32MB RAM on top of that, so I can't say appearances on my end really hold much weight. Even given the noted handicaps, I haven't had a wait of more than 30-45s between turns that wasn't caused by being stubborn and trying to watch all 900+ ships in sensor range move. 'The OS/2 governor's window

Reply to Metaverse? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You have to be online when you finish a game. If you are, and GalCiv can detect the connection, it should prompt you to submit the score when you reach the summary screen.

Reply to planet class 13 14 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'Are you sure you have seen a class 1 planet receive any increase in class since build B3 came out?' In the case of the class 1, it's flawed math on my part. I haven't seen a class 1 improve since the morale resources stopped improving planet quality (which was B3D, or so, IIRC), but I also haven't actually finished a game since about that same time frame. New versions have been popping up too quickly. The rest of that statement should be accurate as written. 'I have

Reply to mysterious damage to starbases and ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A number of techs also give +10% Hit Points, and there is one anomaly that gives +1% Hit Points, IIRC (and if there isn't, I may make one when I get around to adjusting stuff I've been poking at to Beta4A).

Reply to Performance question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'Generally, what I'd like to do that I can't do now is hit the turn button and Alt-Tab away to other things. Windows seems to start to respond by putting up a reduced-size task bar, but the resolution doesn't switch back up to my normal desktop resolution nor is the display cleared until the turn processing is over.' Task switching from GalCiv doesn't cause this problem for me, although CTDs do occasionally do so in both GC and Diablo II. Might have something to do with the fact that t

Reply to planet class 13 14 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'soil enhancements is +1 to class as is habitat improvement...so a 13 class planet can become a 15 fairly easily. I do colonize all 14s. Sometimes the 13s.' This is only true for planets of class 10-14. At 15, Soil Enhancement and Habitat improvement provide a combined +3. At 20, they're +2 each, and at class 25 a combined +5. Going in the other direction, at class 9 they provide only a combined +1, and at class 4 they provide no benefit whatsoever until terraforming is also b

Reply to planet class 13 14 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you wish to colonize low class planets, either build low population colony ships early in the game and don't send them anywhere until you have most of the morale techs (and preferably terraforming, as well), or rush-build colony ships on the colonized planet to get people off it. Generally, they are more trouble than they're worth, but I sometimes colonize planets as low as class 6. On anything below class 13, you don't want a population above 100M until you have all the mor

Reply to Culture and Abandon the Galaxy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

'Don't concur with bug out and systems default to someone .. leadership may flee to some island paradise, but then civil strife usually follows not we join you cause we like you better.' This does occur under other conditions. Poor morale can cause rebellion. Underwhelming culture can cause defection. In the case where both exist, defection is the usual result.