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Reply to What techs go with what ships? in Research GalCiv2 Forums

You don't want to use the standard ships anyway, they mostly suck.

Reply to GalCiv2 and WIndows Vista? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Both versions 1 and 2 of the Vista beta don't get along with me, then again I tend to give them a serious workout, and Microsoft operating systems don't take to that very well.

Reply to Question on ship building... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

OMG! why isn't EVERYBODY using KRYO's HULL MOD?! Because you can't post games with mods to the Metaverse, perhaps?

Reply to Fleet battles in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I kind of think of fish when I see them, or maybe sharks... ... sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads .

Reply to AI gets lamer every patch in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I am a "legitimate threat" when I have less primary planets than 2 other races, the same number as 6 others, and one more than 1 race, and out of 9 races have killed off only 1 that did not attack me first, and 1 that did attack me first? That's pretty far-fetched, in a tiny galaxy where every race has only their home planet and the low-PQ planet in their home system (except one race which had only their home planet, with only PQ0 planets available in their home system).

Reply to Ships in service says I have an enourmous fleet in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Why would it be any different? Personally I would be puzzled if you didn't see the number of weeks to build a ship in the Shipyard screen, and the number of each ship you have in the "Manage Ship Designs" screen. When you are managing designs, they are not relevant to any one shipyard but to all of them, so it would be impossible to determine how long a ship would take to build. The best you could get is an average, and that is of dubious use. Far better to know how many you have in s

Reply to AI Question for Brad in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I would expect that is the way it is, with a generic AI "class" which all other AI classes inherit from (assuming OOP was used), changing only certain properties or parameters to make the "Drengin AI" or the "Torian AI".

Reply to Which Race Will Be Best Under V1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

So playing the custom race is completely pointless thing that only a newb should consider Wow, you really seem to know so much about this game...oh, except the inherent bonuses that custom races get. Pfft!

Reply to I hate how "good and evil" works in this. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What I would like to see is some more hulls etc for download as a self extraction file like Microsoft does. I hope you don't think Microsoft actually invented this idea, they stole it, like just about everything else they have/do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey, good/evilexists in the game. If you don't like it, don't

Reply to Stardock being a little personal with there poll now! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

How do you know that the Torian ambassador isn't female? And why weren't there entries for neuters and hermaphrodites in the poll? And...and...nvm

AI gets lamer every patch in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Nobody is allied with anyone, and yet, because I am at war with 2 races (one until the Altarians joined in), and they are depleting my armada (though I replace them almost as fast as they are destroyed, meanwhile decimating their armadas), the whole galaxy decides to join in, race by race, even the one race I get along very well with who donated three ships to me when the Altarians decided they wanted to play tag. This has more cheese than Kraft! Why is it the only way for t

Reply to GalCiv II is not GREEN in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

No, the AI does not run until you hit TURN.

Reply to Chiclets! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

hmm...are my chiclets even there still?

Chiclets! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am proposing a new name for the medals and other symbols at the end of Metaverse players' posts, "chiclets", because that's what they really resemble (despite coming in different sizes) and many of them aren't medals, they are rank insignia, race insignia, alignment bonuses or average difficulty level meters and new name is really needed to describe them all. My chiclets:

Reply to Which Race Will Be Best Under V1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

the Custom race

Reply to Influence Starports in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, it's Starbase, a Starport is on a planet's surface (or in its sky, for fans of Star Wars, or occasionally underground in some fiction).

Reply to I don't have what it takes anymore in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

You know you're young when your mom plays RTS games and is really good at them 8D Cheese tactics have really ruined the online gaming experience, and make the "ladders" completely worthless as evaluations of a given player's skill. It's too bad that in the competitions, the cash and prizes go to the person who wins, at all costs.

Reply to Let me take that scout off your hands... in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Back in the 20th century we called that a "decoy"

Reply to I don't have what it takes anymore in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

You've got two games mixed up there, Muppet, it's "I long for battle". "I hunger" comes from an old arcade console called Sinistar.

Reply to Stardock being a little personal with there poll now! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Why would scantily clad amazons be evil? Are they a threat to you?

Reply to Seemingly random game crashes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

One good way to make reinstalling a system from scratch more bearable is to collect together all of the drivers you will possibly need (and BIOS updates, etc.) and stick them on a CD so you can install them right after you do the OS, like so: Latest motherboard BIOS Latest videocard BIOS Latest motherboard driver set (chipset, IDE, onboard audio, etc.) Latest videocard driver Latest audio driver if you have a separate sound card or external device Latest full

Reply to Big AI problem in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

No kidding, xpyre, that's exactly what I was saying - bad AI coding, cutting corners, cheaping out, not putting in the effort to make the Artificial Intelligence intelligent enough to remember its own actions.

Reply to What about the custom playlist? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Or you could like, turn on the radio, or play a CD on your stereo, hum a tune to yourself, etc.

Reply to Game is Buggy in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

So you don't like how the game works. End of the world! (Or should I say galaxy? ) Every game takes getting used to. I still take a couple minutes to remember the difference between GC and CTP2 and Master of Magic when I switch between them, even though I've played all three very extensively. You are never going to find a game that has a UI tailored to you, at best you will be able to do a littl

Reply to 1.1 Trade 'sploit in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

if you try and sell graviton driver 3 and gd2 and gd they only pay for gd3 You don't sell 2 of the same tech in the same trade round. Sell the expensive one first, then in the next round sell the other, you get full "price" for both.