Taco Bob

Taco Bob

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Reply to Global warming hoax!?! - UPDATED - in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[e digicons](\B):vulcan:(\B)[/e] I agree that it is a hoax. The climate is always in flux due to countless, naturally occurring factors. Politicians and some companies are making millions off of this and some even get a Nobel prize for it.

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Reply to Class 45 Planet o.O in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I saw once when there was already a planet with base quality in the 20's which the Korx owned, then they found a precurser device on that world which doubled it's base quality, then, having the orbital teriformer, I conquered it and it became 65! [e digicons]:D[/e]

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Reply to economic buildings vs farms in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I've explored this as well. On a large planet (qual 16 or more) I had alot of Galactive Stock Exchanges (GSE) and one Intense Farming thingy (xeno farm III) bringing it up to 15b population. When I replaced one GSE with a food dist network, it broght it to 18b but the income dropped. It depends. If you have few GSE's on the planet, go ahead and max your pop for taxes, but if you have lots of GSE's don't go beyond one farm or the gains will be offset by the maint' of th

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Reply to Multi Monitor Support in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Almost everyone has a video card with two monitor outputs. Zing! I'm sure our wives will understand the need.[e digicons]:dur:[/e]

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Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Did you know that you can get two Xantinum Hull Platings? I conquered a world where it was already half way built, placed another on a blank tile and it built both of them and each time it said "no additional may be built" TA v2.03 [e digicons]*_*[/e] I wonder if it works on other trade good super projects! BWA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!

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Reply to Does the computer play by different rules? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

At the onset of war, my first move is always destroy the mining starbases and take the resources (if possible). That can make all the difference in the verse. A race can dominate quickly if it has enough green resources, and can loose military might instantly if you take them as they can no longer afford the maintenence. Taking planets away also rapidly diminishes the enemy's financial capacity. Have many spies on hand as well. A spy placed on a farm will in on

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Reply to What would you like to see in Galactic Civilizations 3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[e digicons]:fuzzy:[/e] A few ideas... First, once you research Star Federation, you can invite minor races to join your empire with a certain degree of independence, like Star Trek and also as the USA was envisioned. Second, why not allow a colony to produce more than one ship per turn? If it's got the resources, why not? And give me a QUE too! After all, GC2 will allow more than one tech to be completed in sequence in a single turn. Third

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Reply to What would you like to see in Galactic Civilizations 3? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'd like to see a 3D environments for galactic, solar systems and planetary levels. Three environments. In otherwords, while panning, zooming and rotating through the galaxy, you see cube-shaped sectors with a 3-axis grid, stars, impassible nebulea, ship icons and paths. When you double-click on a star, it opens up to view of the solar system depicting the central star/stars, planets with orbit lines and asteroid belts. Then perhaps zooming in to view a particular

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Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Another few ideas. Why is a space port a "on ground" construction? Can space ships in that era simply launch and land anywhere they please? Why not ditch the whole space port/ship yard thingy. If there are factories, then starships may be built. Looking at the astronomy picture of the day (for today) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0906/Korona_oreshko1800.jpg I

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Reply to What Do YOU want to see in Gal Civ 3??? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

The eventual ability to use artificial gravity to turn asteroid fields into planets. A ship's maneuverability should be a factor in battles. Why not allow ships to dodge enemy weapons fire? This would involve a second propulsion system for battle maneuver

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Reply to Jagged Edge took 47 of my planets!?! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's a stupid mega event. I mean, how could it happen in reality if the game were a reality? I just save oft and reload when it happens. One time, though it wasn't that bad and I went with it and all of the planets that I lost came back due to my magnanimous influence. Eventually they all fell back to their old empires one way or another. If the effect is bad enough, I just reload because it's really a silly concept anyway. Where were

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Reply to Out of memory on save in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This happened to me too. It wasn't actually a crash. I minimized the game (dual core CPU) and saw a pop-up which said "save aborted" and I also had a balloon on the task bar stating that I was low on virtual memory. Virtual memory is when your work demands more RAM than you have, so it spills over onto the hard drive and begins using it for additional RAM. This is why more RAM makes things faster! I opened Task Manager and saw that my page file totaled 2.47GB. I have only 1GB RAM, so it wa

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Reply to ANNOUNCING: General Pants' Political Party Proliferation in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

WHOOHOO! MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. Money results from a satisfied market. No show? No dough. A Limbaugh party ideology, (not that he originated it): I don't need the gov't holding my hand through life. They aren't my Maker. They aren't my Savior. They aren't my concience. I need them to enforce the law, protect my freedom and democracy, and stay the heck out of the way. With God and

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Reply to What game or genre would you like to be reborn? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

DESCENT 3'ish. I love the genre. Only thing I didn't like about D3 was you're in a ship that can traverse the solar system, but play in maps where you can't exceed about 15mph. I still play through D3 from time to time, ~1/year What I'd like to see on a new Descent-genre game: bigger maps, cooler weapons, faster boost, and robotic apendages that reach out and pick up power-ups and install

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Reply to What game or genre would you like to be reborn? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

CRAZYOID!!! You can still find it's demo at file planet, but it doesn't run well on an OS beyond Win 98. It was produced by a Canadian company called: "Magorum Praeda Interactive Inc." who is history. It was a fun, top-down asteroids-like shooter where you fight organic alien ships and blast asteroids to mine resources that allowed you to upgrade your ship. You'd max out your storage and warp back to your starbase to purchase upgrades and repairs. It featured" a map screen of the

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Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

This is an awesome game! In fact, it inspires me to ideas for future gaming possibilities. I'd like to be able to: Utilize multiple monitors, each one displaying different screens out of the game. Then, I'd like to see touch screen support or multi-mouse. You can get PCI video cards at walmart and use them for the 2D rendered graphics i.e. colony management, research, etc... at tw

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