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smjjames

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Reply to Does the AI recognize bonus tiles? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

well the influence tiles are kind of optional, say if your planet with influence tiles is deep inside your territory, then it probably won't contribute much, but if its on the edge, then its more importaint. I've also noticed the AI not building the right stuff on bonus tiles.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

and while crashfixes are important, there are alot of other things that do need to be adjusted, although there are probably more changes that aren't listed in the changelog, mainly small boring stuff. that production loss from a savegame load is definetly a good fix, especially for those casual players who only play maybe like a half hour or hour per day. Anyway, it IS a beta release so more changes would be added for sure.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

would clicking the windows key still do the same thing? because I don't have any issues with fullscreen mode and the mouse. Yes, the mouse is free to move anywhere once the game is no longer the active program. So hitting the windows button, or alt tab, or even another window grabbing the focus will free the mouse again. This was mainly an issue f

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.3 BETA 1 change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

When running in full screen mode (Release build), the mouse will be clipped to the game window to prevent accidentally clicking outside of the window. You can still use ALT+TAB to activate other windows. would clicking the windows key still do the same thing? because I don't have any issues with fullscreen mode and the mouse. also, I h

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Reply to Natural Disasters in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

although there are a few random events that are related to natural disasters, at least two of them are drought/famine related, but they kind of hint at the disaster happening on several planets at once, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there is one or two meteor shower events, one event where a moon or some huge object is going to crash into a planet and the race that are the victims (some minor race incapable of interstellar flight I guess) are the ones that you have to save. Theres als

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Reply to new starbase type??? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

that would be cool to make outpost construction starbases that are further away from the empire. only problem is that it could be easily abused to death and how do we be sure that the AI doesn't build hundreds of them? while it sounds cool, there is a game balance issue there.

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Reply to The Dread Lords, the Arnor, the humans and the Altarians in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

lol, so the Humans are the Dread Lords? its like one of those time paradox loops where the humans at some point got sucked into a pocket universe, they developed and became the immortal mithrilars who created the Arnor and Dread Lords, who created the humans... who became the immortal mithralars, who created the arnor and dread lords, who created the humans, who became the.... see where I'm going? its an infinite loop, but a loop has to have some sort of origin, which is why its a paradox. Its

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Reply to REALLY BIG SHIPS in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I don't know myself, but you could ask Kryo, he's the one who has done that Kryo's hull system mod. with that mod you can create truly leviathan ships.

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Reply to What weapons do you use? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

the huge hulls are useful against pirates though, I often create a ship class called pirate killers or pirate hunter/killers, something along that line which is a huge or large hull. Its actually just a very specialized type of ship that I use sometimes when I need to take out pirates that are harassing me or are just plain getting in the way. Even if the pirates are harrassing my enemies, they don't make any distinction between who is an ememy of who, so if they pose a problem to me, I just try

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Reply to What weapons do you use? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I usually go for beam tech, although the AI often times goes for the shields (the ones that work against beam weapons) when they see me go for beams, but most of the time the AI does missile or mass driver tech and get bogged down by the high research cost of those branches while I forge on with the beam tech.

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Reply to What elements in Galciv2 are useless (or almost useless)? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

if it's on your side it always means you offer it. While that is perfectly true and correct, it doesn't make the Surrender feature anything less than utterly useless. Cheers, Reaver yea I'd rather fight to the end than surrender. also, I don't think the mind control center is working right, or maybe I don't un

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Reply to So what game do you want Stardock to work on next? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

4X strategy games like GalCiv2 and the Civilization series are just popular I'm a fan of those type games myself. although, it could be possible to have role playing elements through a campaign of some kind which allows multiple paths. still, a strategy based game with magic/fantasty elements is cool <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm

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Reply to Dark Avatar - Beta in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

well, I'd certanly like to help beta test the DA expansion I've had a little experience with beta testing in MMOs, but beta testing a single player game is different from beta testing a patch/update to an MMO. and I'd certainly want to have the expansion be as good as it can get

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