drakonfire

Reply to Bought DA - Now multiplayer in the next expansion? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Oh heck, that even sounds like a multi-player add-on title. Okay Brad, spill the beans so we can nip this in the bud, whats going on?

Reply to Bought DA - Now multiplayer in the next expansion? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I wouldn't mind Multi-player, I understand why the devs haven't done it yet though. Now about that second expansion... Brad mentioned something about a second expansion in his interview with Gameasutra, didn't he? yeah I just found it... What was the inspiration behind the recent graphical revamp? Was that in response to fan demand? For the most part, we wanted to future-proof the game. We know we won’t get to a Galactic Civil

Reply to Help! morale troubles! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, silly me, I didn't realize you could have more than one trade route with another race's planet, I had never tried. And good point about taxation, I'll try that, see how much of an empire I can actually salvage.

Reply to Help! morale troubles! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

drakonfire, are you changing your tax rates appropriately? You can get higher morale by doing that. If your econ is a problem with lower taxes, then did you build the the what...? and my taxes were only 39% I have lots of trade, and 2 economy stations giving bonuses to them, my economy is about as low as I am comfortable with it being. That 16 billion cap is kind of annoying...

Reply to Help! morale troubles! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Its not completely lost. I've nearly finagled the Altarians into an alliance with me, and as they own half the galaxy, I think I'll be okay. really, I wasn't that bad off with 3 planets, 2, yes, not a good situation, but not bad either. I'm playing on a small galaxy with uncommon planets and uncommon habitable planets. So, the Aforementioned Altarians still only have about 10 planets to themselves (after Torians surrendered to them and they ATE the drengin for dinner). anywhat, whatever

Help! morale troubles! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Okay, so I have played my share of games (though I haven't played many through to endgame, I don't know why) but I recently reformatted my hard drive, so I began a brand new, all default settings (sans intelligence, which I bumped up to "bright) as Terrans. The game isn't going so well for me, as I have only Earth and Mars (I had a 3rd planet but it got overwhelmed by the combined might of the Yor and Drengin) this wouldn't be such an issue, but I have to devote 2 whole tiles to morale on earth,

Reply to Diary of a Terran Soldier in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Wow... my writing efforts appear paltry in comparison to yours... excellent. I love the style of your writing, it is very similar to mine (probably why I was never lost while reading it, I actually paid attention to the chronology ). And as I am re-reading Starship Trooper's for the nth time, I can see the similarities, but while they are similar, don't let that degrade your work in your own mind, it is a

Reply to Is DA Worth the Time? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

the answer to this question would definitely be yes

Reply to Yet another newbie question: what are the bonus prod/research expenses? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

so wait, your racial bonuses cost you money?

Reply to Absolutely Awesome Game Diary in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

really some great laugh out loud moments in that blog so what I want to know from the devs -- is his final analysis of the Drengin's behavior even remotely accurate or were they incompetent because he played on a low difficulty level?

Reply to After playing for a while, I just don't like the new spy system anymore in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

While I have no problem personally with the spy system, I think what Swicord suggested, a hybrid of the old and new systems, would probably make for a much more interesting (and balanced) game

Reply to Terrans discover class 18 planet in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

serrian - sorry to burst your bubble, but my name is something I made up about 8 or 9 years ago, playing the original pokemon Red version -- nothing to do with any roller coaster, I hate roller coasters

Reply to Buying New Comp - Need Advice Please!!! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

just to throw my 2 cents in there, that ibuypower website is amazing, just surfed around and built a quadcore system with an NVidia GS8800 and a number of bells and whistles (including vista premium and office 2007) for 2500 -- 3 year warranty and lifetime tech support included -- dell would charge about 4 grand for an equivalent system -- oh and if you happen to have an OS disk they will sell the HD to you unformatted with that said, one of my friends just custom built his computer, an

Reply to Terrans discover class 18 planet in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

the problem is that when you depressurize too quickly, nitrogen gas bubbles form in your blood. -- read more here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness

Reply to Steam? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

steam forces the updates down your throat in order to help with their online anti-cheating software (VAC) -- at least for online games -- me, I only play Counterstrike and other half-life games on it, and its never bugged me about anything other than slowing my PC down on startup when it loads, but what auto-loading program doesn't?

Reply to galciv2 shutting down in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

i'm no debug expert but that doesn't look like a DA issue, and that dialog of that error message seems to me to be a windows muck up... yay M$

Reply to The Battlestar Galactica for GC2 WIP in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

actually i had the crazy idea of making a weapon animation of vipers launching from the ship and firing on tagets then landing, all as one single gun weapon. this gets a thumbs up from me, that would be crazy cool to see! you could even make three different renders of the ani, one with them shooting bullets for mass drivers, then one with lasers, and a third for missiles... could be the exact same ani with just different weapons shooting from the vipers.

Reply to Stardock Please Revive MoO! in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

for the record, fans of X-Com and Rebelstar Tactical Command, check out www.lasersquadnemesis.com -- might also fulfill your MP PBM desires.

Reply to I don't think I am cut out for this type of game. in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

it should probably also be noted to any newbies that the defensive capabilities of ships is supremely over powered at the moment, I don't know if this might impact a newbies first experiences, but I could definitely see it being a bit confusing if you didn't know how the defense was supposed to work as opposed to how it appears to work right now

Reply to The One event that truely sucks in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

i also like the event for how huge it makes the galaxy feel. space is a really BIG place and tech can certainly make it seem smaller, but its still really, really BIG, and the event makes the game feel epic, even when your not playing a huge map

Reply to Wow... Thanks... [/sarcasm] in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hint: Scroll to the right. huh?

Reply to Starbase NEEDS in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

hey're precious resources (or mining such) but military starbases should not be... or maybe add another type of SB, Fortress, and don't allow it to give ships any bonuses, but let it be a major powerhouse in a sector

Reply to GameSpy picks GalCiv II: Dark Avatar as their Game of the Month! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

congrats, you guys deserve it

Reply to Will GC:DA run on a laptop with a GMA 950? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I believe my friend has that exact same chipset and he runs it just fine

Reply to Patch for DA ? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

it should yell at you automatically that an update is available. if not you need to change your settings, Tools-->Settings-->Genereal tab, and select the appropriate check boxes for it to alert you when a new version of an installed application is available. Next you should be able to go to the Games section of SDC, and update DA manually from there (it will show you your currently installed version and the currently available version) i've never done it manually before, but I imagine its not to