Mistoffeles

Mistoffeles

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Reply to Reducing population??? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I get far too many colonies with excess population, requiring me to waste many tiles on entertainment buildings, so I have developed a set of rules: No farms on tiles with a bonus greater than 100% unless I am trying to fast-grow a colony on a high-PQ world. Replace farms on farming-bonus tiles with farms on no-bonus tiles (build the new one before destroying the old, so you don't lose a huge amount of population to starvation) if you have more than triple (or frequently mo

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Reply to Game Locks-up in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

That is definitely not the latest driver, and don't forget to reinstall DirectX after you replace the audio driver. I had a long-term problem with audio, because the Miles Sound System really is a piece of crap, and eventually had to remove my Sound Blaster Audigy card and reactivate my on-board AC97 audio, plus replace the driver three times and reinstall directx before I could get rid of the same exact problem. Two things to note: The geniuses at RealTek

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Reply to Area of effect radius circle is too light to see in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I find it a lot easier to see than the grid lines, especially the thinner, darker parsec ones. Fortunately, I have a fancy monitor with a button that switches between normal, 3x brightness and 4x brightness, but most people don't. My recommendation would be any of the following, or combinations: 1) turn your lights out (you can use a table lamp beside or behidn the monitor to see your keyboard/mouse if you need it). 2) adjust your monitor brightness and/or contra

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Reply to GalCiv 2 on PSP? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

GC2 is already a pain in the butt to play in 1024x768 mode, anything smaller would require a complete rewrite of the interface. Besides, calling most fo the quoted "TBS" console games mentioned by that genre name is about as realistic as the whole "RTS" genre - RTS is not even remotely about strategy, it is about tactics, and should be called "RTT". In the same way, most console "TBS" games cannot truly bear the name "TBS", and the few that can do not hold a candle to games like GC2 i

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Reply to New way of looking at technology in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There are games that have a sort of "blind research" already, where you research in an area and get various improvements based on how much research you put into each area. Most of them allow you to research multiple areas at once, putting various amounts of your available points into each area. I don't see a problem, however, with GC2's system, because if you look at it, it is based more on a combination of "cornerstone technologies" and "incremental improvements". Laser is a cornerst

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Reply to Disabling and capturing enemy ships in battle in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

A turn is a week long, so crew have plenty of time to don their spacesuits for battle. It's "documented" in endless science fiction (remember, a game is also fiction) novels, where the first reaction to attack is to get into a vacuum suit. A lot of novels also depict ship crews as wearing pressure suits continually, but with the helmet off (like the space shuttle crews generally do, at least during takeoff and landing). A ship could also have crew cabins each with extra armour and a single door

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Reply to complaint: color of pirate ships vs drengin ships in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I use white for my custom race's colour, no race in the game uses white. I have tried so many different colours, but there is always one race whose colour ends up being very similar, probably because they started with primary and secondary colours then move on to tertiary, so you are looking for a "gap" more than anything else. The way the minimap changes in brightness from time to time and the stupid "shine" streak across the top doesn't help either.

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Reply to Good is Evil in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Here's a thought for you all, in the vein of this conversation. George W. Bush is, in almost every way, exactly like Adolph Hitler. How he justifies things, how he acts towards people, how he views his country, and everything outside of it. They are virtually identical.

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Reply to 1.1 Memory/Performance/Save Game Problems - look here in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Talon> you fiddled with your config.sys on your Apple IIc, eh? marvellous accomplishment, considering that Apple IIe's have never run MS/PC-DOS. ~~~ Never had a crash while saving, autosave is off. My crashes in 027 seem to be when the AI is thinking or, rarely, when a move path is being calculated (and GC2 comes up with some really bizarre, highly inefficient move paths).

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Reply to AI Ignores Life Support? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

feh! Life support is for wimpy races! Build starbases to extend your range! that's probably what the AIs are doing to reach that far, my opponents do it extensively.

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Reply to Wishlist for 1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

... 13) When you capture a colony, or flip it, the queue should automatically be stripped of improvements you cannot build or use yet, such as Manufacturing Centres if all you can use are Enhanced Factories.

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Reply to Wishlist for 1.2 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1) When multiple constructors will arrive at one starbase in a single turn, have a field that displays the number of upgrades selected/available, checkboxes to select the upgrades, and a running total of additional costs, with just one confirmation at the end. 2) When loading a game, don't display the same message you get when you start a game, it just doesn't belong there at all and looks, well, rather dumb. 3) In the list of ships you get when you click on a fleet, have a

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Reply to Game won't load after computer upgrade in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Rule number 1 of upgrading a computer is to never, ever use an existing install of an operating system when you change the motherboard. There are literally dozens of components on a motherboard, and the change can severely cripple your registry, operating system, driver configuration and so on. Back up any important files to CD, DVD, USB key, or another hard drive and reinstall Windows from scratch (or install Windows on a new HD and put your old HD as the secondary drive), including

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Reply to planet construction / complete terraforming possible? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I just last night had an entire region of approximately 3x3 complete sectors turn into Class 12 planets (over 30 formerly Class 0 planets) due to some ancient artefact the Torians (last race, down to just 2 colonies) dug up. I had to race like a fiend to get them colonized before their two colonies flipped, as I had only left about a dozen colonies with starports by this time, trying to maximize my productivity.

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Reply to Too Easy? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There is only so much that can be done with "artificial" intelligence, especially if you don't want the computer taking half an hour per race for its turns. Throughout the history of computer gaming, the only way that has consistently allowed a computer player to challenge a human is to give it an "unfair" advantage. Even the much-celebrated "Deep Blue" only beat Kasparov once, and IBM would not allow a rematch, because that would show just how limited the computer was as the champion became acc

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Reply to v1.1: How to report a CRASH! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Three crashes since downloading the release version (1.10.027) and not a single debug.err anywhere on my system. I looked in every folder I could think of, then used two different search utilities to verify that debug.err does not exist.

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