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What for? Are you offering your services to mods?

Reply to Mods - Besides TV Show (We all love StarTrek, Babylon 5, StarWars, and Stargate...but...) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I'm currently working my way through a new tech tree that will give each race individual technologies, and allow the custom player to choose a mix of the different races technologies, one race's propulsion tech, and another race's ship building and research techs for instance. Unfortunately tech stealing somewhat messes up individual techs, but I'm hoping there will be an option to turn off all tech stealing added in the future. As I plan on having every race being recreated as a uniqu

Reply to Surrendering needs an overhaul in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I can't say I'm keen on the idea of rebellions of conquered systems. In my experience it's just annoying. Realistic, maybe, but annoying. Like in Rome: Total War, I was recapturing a province every turn against constant rebellions. Ridiculous in my opinion. Although, that said, some tweaks to surrendering might be a good idea.

Reply to Apostrophes in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Great I'll try that. If it works I'll post again. Edit: Well, it didn't work in the word "doesn\'t". Is that how you meant it should be? Should I put the \ at the beginning of the whole sentence?

Apostrophes in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

This is just a little thing, but it would be nice if we could use apostrophes in descriptions of techs or improvement names etc. I keep having to write really odd sounding sentences to avoid using them... If there's a good reason why we can't have them (like a code thing) please tell me. Edit: The answer, in case anyone cares, is to use the apostrophe symbol (in MicrosoftWord) instead of the apostrophe key on the keyboard.

Reply to Disabling Tech Stealing in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I thought as much. I think it would be a nice option, because I want to do a mod with multiple tech trees (as well as for normal gameplay reasons) and it'll mess everything up if people can get techs from other trees. Ah well.

Disabling Tech Stealing in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Is there any way to disable tech stealing, both via espionage and after invasions? I have a feeling there may not be...

Reply to A Modding Guide in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I find microsoft word works nicely, and it's much easier on the eye than notepad. Though it's a little awkward setting fields and stuff sometimes...

Reply to Latest Review Round-Up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I've just looked over the PC Zone review again and I'm still surprised at how very inaccurate and unfair it seems. I didn't notice the game because of the poor review until I tried a demo, and I loved it immediately. I guess you just can't always trust reviewers.

Reply to A Modding Guide in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I think this has already been said somewhere, but it would be nice to have the tech tree screen be able to draw two techs leading to one tech nicely, because in function it works fine, but on the tech tree screen both required techs each lead to the tech they're both needed for individually. Obviously not an essential thing though, and I see it could be quite complex if you had a lot of techs crossing over each other. Also, is there any way to disable tech stealing either in the

Reply to Can you stop the AI building something? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Does the AI take into account negative modifiers? I guess it might not, as there aren't any in the game normally.

Reply to How old are you? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

17

Reply to Miniaturization bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

There have been posts on this before I think, I forget exactly why that happens. Components scale up in size on larger hulls, I believe it's something to do with that.

Reply to Ethical Choices in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I think the whole concept of paying to change your alignment is a bit odd. Surely you should have to stick with the consequences of your actions, instead of paying everyone off so they forget about them. But, you should keep on getting events that can alter your alignment (and probably not just when colonizing planets), so you can change your alignent after researching Xeno Ethics. Although that would make it difficult to deal with the research options afterwards...

Reply to They left out one choice on the poll. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I can't help but feel that a 3D environment sounds good in theory but would be very awkward to navigate. You'd have to turn the camera constantly, and you still wouldn't be able to see everything properly. Keeping research from each campaign mission to the next might be a good idea, if you lengthened the research time perhaps.

Reply to All of a sudden I'm surrounded by uncolonized PQ6 planets in the middle of my game? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, sometimes you get an event where scientists discover a precursor device on a planet that raises the PQ of all the other planets in that system by so much. Are there PQ 6 planets in just one system or lots of them?

Reply to REMOVE ALL GAME CHEATS!!! [EDITED] in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This is a fascinating topic, but I don't see any evidence for ShadowTek's view. Surely most games are proof that cheats do not destroy a game. Look at say, Half-Life 2, or Half-Life. They have cheats, but were and are hugely successful, and mods are still being produced for half-life now. If people stop playing a game because they've used cheats and got bored, they must have got bored of playing without cheats first, so they were gonna stop playing anyway. I'm afraid I just can't see how ch

Reply to The arguement FOR multiplayer. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A good point, but it seems quite a lot of people who want multiplayer want it to play with their friends, so they wouldn't show up in that count (I'm playing a play by email game with friends currently, but I''ve never even looked at any online servers). I'm not too bothered about multiplayer, but a hotseat or play by email option would be nice, so long as it didn't detract from many other game features being added. Is hotseat and play by email easier to implement than other modes (like sim

Reply to Delete in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Zman actually said maybe 'more' expansion packs, so I guess he's wondering about after the first expansion.

Reply to I'm trying *really* hard to be forgiving... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you want to upgrade all ships of a type at once you can tick an 'upgrade all' box in the upgrade window, it's towards the top left corner. You might still need to move all your ships into open space first though, I'm not sure. But it still cuts down upgrading time.

Reply to What is the goal of the AI players? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This is a very interesting topic, and makes me glad that I'm not very good at this game. I can play on challenging difficulty, and generally win, but it's not always easy. I can panic if there's an empire bigger than mine, because I don't know the tactics or exploits to have a certainty that I'll beat the AI if they get nasty when I'm unprepared. But like I said, generally I will win, yet I'll have had a decent fight or some competition to get there. Perhaps there should be a checklist of a

Breaking Alliances in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Is there a way to break alliances with minor races? I can't find a button anywhere, I know you break alliances with other major races in the relations tab, but I can't find a way to break alliances with minor races. Am I just being thick or is this a problem?

Reply to Espionage in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you put a decent amount of funding into espionage, you can steal a lot of technology. I stole about 17 technologies in one game. I did have a 15% espionage bonus to my civ though.