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Reply to PROBLEM: Cant create mod folder in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You have to have a 'Mod Description.xml' document for the game to recognise the mod. Just copy the one from the Example Mod, and edit the text to reflect your mod.

Reply to Antivirus in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Slightly mixed signals here, but then what do you expect? Thanks for the help.

Antivirus in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

This isn't really PC 'gaming', but I couldn't find a better section to put this under. My subscription to Norton is reaching an end, and I was looking for an alternative antivirus program, since I'm pretty sure that Norton screws up SDC, along with other things. Does anybody have any suggestions for good antivirus software that doesn't screw up your computer just as much as the virus it's supposed to be protecting me from?

Reply to Imperium Galactica II: Alliances better "re-playability" than GCII in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Space battles in IGII are fun, but pointless, since no tactics are involved. Ground battles are slightly better, but still there isn't much skill involved. They are fun though. What I would most like to see from IGII into GCII is the way the campaign is handled. You get all your missions on a randomly generated map. It wasn't perfect (kill the wrong race too early and you can't finish the campaign!) but it was better than the GCII version.

Reply to diplomacy effect test in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

Obviously, the AI is programmed to avoid obvious exploits such as giving you lots of money in exchange for not much money. Diplomacy works, but even the best diplomat in the universe isn't going to convince the AI to give you free money.

Reply to I'm Dieing here. I can't defend myself in the game in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Economy Starbses don't increase the ammount of money you get (apart from the trade modules increasing the trade routes), they increase the Military, Social and Research production of your worlds within their range.

Reply to How to use Mods? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Did you update to the latest version first? (1.4X IIRC) Did you move ModDescription.xml into the folder along with the copymodels.bat? This is required for the game to recognise that a mod is present.

Reply to Tactics for the fourth scenario- Achille's Heel? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Not in the most recent versions, I think they tweaked the campaign code so that team AIs get better on the lower difficulties and worse on the higher ones.

Reply to Rebellion to riches? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

At risk of stating the obvious? Because you put your tax rate up to 100%. Maybe the planet that rebelled was also costing you a lot of bc to maintain (lots of factories/labs) as well.

Reply to Mega event in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Why not? Because it would seriously unbalance the game, that's why not. The unfortunate 50% of races would loose 25% of their population, and be forced to research/buy the cure etc, while all the other races have to put up with is a drop in trade income (easily sorted by opening new trade routes to non-infected powers). All the infected races would be swiftly exterminated by the non-infected ones. The current plague hits everyone, so everyone has the same problem, so it's fair.

Reply to Controlling Projects on a universal basis in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Presumably they got rid of this because it matters which tile you build the improvement on (bonus tiles, for instance). Besides, I wouldn't want to build social projects blind anyway (ie without knowing what else was already on the planet).

Reply to serenity ship in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

It would never be in a fleet of warships. It would be a cargo hull, surely?

Reply to I'm an Idiot and Need an Original XML File in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Or you could just do a reinstall of the game.

Reply to Idea: Partial Real Time in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Your main point is that you want to intercept fast ships with slower ones if the slow ones come close by. How about a new auto-pilot option 'intercept'. Shove your ship on this, and if any enemy ship passes within the remaining move distance of your ship, you automatically move to attack and go to the battle screen.

Reply to What Is The Big Deal With The PS3 Or PlayStation 3 in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The advantages that consoles have over PCs is: - You only have to upgrade once every 4-5 years, and when you do it is cheaper - Bugs are very, very rare - No installation for games - Can get multiple players on the same screen, which has pretty much died out for PC games - Games are designed around the controller, which makes them much easier to get started with, and intuitive to play The PS3 is also a media centre, it takes DVDs or Blue Ray Discs, so you don't

Reply to Pre-colonized galaxy scenario in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can't do this with a scenario, but you could do it with a custom map. I don't know of anyone that has though, check out the library.

Reply to Sensor range bug? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Massive sensor ranges made the game crash for some reason, so the cap was introduced.

Reply to HELP! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

For salvation, you can rush to Planetary Invasion techs and take the planet before the DLs do anything.

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

It's also worth noting that you don't need to go into such hardcore and radical strategies on the lower difficulty levels. I'm sure that they're very effective, but you don't really need to make things so complex if you're only playing up to Tough level.

Reply to Spore in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

You can find hands-on impressions at places like gamespot easily enough. Obviously the game isn't finished yet, so none of us have had a chance to play it!

Reply to EA style?! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Do you really need to ask that? The Sims Fifa (or whatever sports game happens to be popular in your area of the globe) EA seem to own the rights to pretty much every sport in existance. The EXCLUSIVE rights. This, of course, means that if you want to play a game of your favorite sport, you have to buy it from EA, unless you're willing to put up with mangled player names and fictional teams. Now, all that said, I don't have that much of a problem with EA. Most of t

Reply to Speed Ability VS. Map Movement Speed in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

raises the speed of any ship which has that module. raises the base speed of all your ships. For instance, once you get Impulse Drive, a ship without engines will now move 2 spaces in a turn instead of just 1.

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

Obviously, if you shift focus from research towards military, your research is going to suffer. But in the long run you're far better off taking more planets, thus increasing your overall economic base. The idea of GCII is not to completely max out the tech trees (I know I never have), and unless you're playing on one of the bigger map sizes or on the fastest research, you should be able to finish the game way before you reach the top weapon techs. Unless you declare war on som

Reply to Help me with space combat in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Are you using the core ship designs or making your own? The core ships are best avoided at all costs. If you are designing your own ships, you might be better off concentrating on a single type of weapons or defences (preferably weapons that your opponent doesn't have defences against, and defenses that counter the weapons that they are using). Mixing weapons and defenses not only takes three times as long to research, but is also simply not as effective. You also need to consi

Reply to Extra Trade Routes??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There's a hard limit of 12 routes. You can't go over that whatever. Neutral shipping works, as far as I know, but it tends to take you over the limit if you have all the other techs already.