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Reply to Know a great RPG? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

great RPG is Mount and Blade, its in its last beta stage (the game was open to beta from day 1 pretty much, and they updated it based on what the fans etc said, also the price scaled when you bought it so if you bought it near the start you payed less) but its hard to explain, but theres a free demo up to level 6 or 8 (i forget) and a great mod selection, its set in the medieval period-ish) just try it, trust me its damn addicitive!! www.taleworlds.com

Reply to So what exactly is this whole EA stuff about? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Wow, that sounds rather unfair, just seem to be blanketing every PC gamer as a criminal. Thanks for the response btw.

Reply to Thalons gonna need to be nerfed. in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]hmm, ive been playing the Yor (on Tough) because of all the recent Yor bashing and ive nearly conquered the universe, and my economy is booming, and i have well-developed planets, so... i'd say their fine, but that prehaps the AI needs to be 'taught' how to use them properly.Are you playing with tech trading on? It makes a massive difference. Tech trees with massive holes big enough to drive a Terror Star through still work fine when you can plug them with somebody else's technology. Othe

So what exactly is this whole EA stuff about? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Recently i've been hearing a lot about DRMs and 3 time something or other in respect to EA and Mass Effect/Spore and i was just wondering if someone could explain to me what exactly is going on, as there seems to be a lot of negative things being said about EA at the moment (well, i guess there always was, but theres more now).

Reply to Twilight 1.92 Alpha in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]hmm, got a 'cannot find binkw.dll' error, any ideas?[/quote] Oh and im on Vista btw, sorry should have mentioned that.

Reply to Twilight 1.92 Alpha in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

hmm, got a 'cannot find binkw.dll' error, any ideas?

Reply to Thalons gonna need to be nerfed. in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

hmm, ive been playing the Yor (on Tough) because of all the recent Yor bashing and ive nearly conquered the universe, and my economy is booming, and i have well-developed planets, so... i'd say their fine, but that prehaps the AI needs to be 'taught' how to use them properly.

Reply to Vista Lockup Problem in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

hmm, thats an odd one, im using Vista and i dont relly have any problems (only the odd crash) I no it may sound obvoius but are you totally updated, with Vista and graphics card drivers? if not run in admin. mode? sorry i can't be of any more help.

Reply to Good VS Evil in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Neutral has the neutrality learning centres which are awesome, (best research centre IRC), and also some trade bonuses and extra trade routes.

Reply to How long do think the Simpsions will last? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

dunno when it'll end tbh, but its gone a bit downhill recently, i think they should bring back Futurama!

Reply to Bug in movement/selection system (all GC2 versions) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

yeah i find this annoying too, now i just use some rally points and the 'T' key to send ships there, its not perfect but it helps, but would be nice if this could be fixed.

Reply to Thalans (played by AI) seem to expand like crazy in every game - daunting in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The Thalans also get a few galactic wonders from the start, which give a real boost to production on the home planet, when i play as them i just pump out colony ships (not much else to build in early game with Thalans) for ages.

Reply to Honesty and Common Sense Sweeps the Galaxy in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Fox News admits that it is infact just a tool of propoganda for the right wing. On a related note The Sun (A UK newpaper) admits that their earlier claims that if one more foriegner enters Britain, we'll sink, were lies.

Reply to Terror star in a fleet in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

yeah i just use a fleet of constructors, but i was kinda hoping for a bit more glitzy solar system destruction, like an event movie, or one of those pics each time it happens.

Reply to The China Post in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Mightygoobi, i don't suppose you could do the translation for Great Britain could you?

Reply to Tech tree modding help (using the ToTA tools) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

ok thanks for the help, ill post if i get any results.

Reply to Tech tree modding help (using the ToTA tools) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

no? not even in, like, a xeno ethics way?

Tech tree modding help (using the ToTA tools) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Hi, i was thinking of making a kinda new government branch to split off from the interstellar govs. bit, so on the on hand you have star rep, democracy etc etc, and on the other i was thinking of having a socialist branch, i was thinking of a split which means you can only chose one branch, and then also to have a kind of xeno ethics screen with like war communism, international marxism, and reactionary marxism, (or something like that i havent quite figured it out yet), however the

Reply to economics in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

An early game strategy i use is to lower taxes until approval is 100% (on all planets, cos the homeplanet will have a higher pop. so more effect in the average) then i just buy my first factory on my homeplanet and set the investment slider quite high, (but not -ruin the economy in 2 turns high) then i just colonise, and military prod. focus on homeplanet churning out colony ships, in this way the pop. massively rises so that it get less hard later on, then i tend to concentrate on the first few

Reply to Certain Mods in the Metaverse in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

no not with logos or pics,

Reply to help with custom music. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

bump

Reply to How can you compete with a Suicidal AI? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

it does, if u say ask for money or whatever, sometimes if you have changed alignment or something else big then they'll cancel the alliance

help with custom music. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

ok i wasnt really sure where to put this so... Anyway i changed some of the tunes for my own, but the problem is, is that at the moment im in a war, and it just plays the same song OVER and OVER, its damn frustrating, so i was wondering, why is this? there are 2 other war music files (ive triple checked their names), so why wont they play, is it because of the stage of the war or...? also don't know if this helps but i changed the music directory directly, i didnt use the mod folder.<br

Reply to The Desktops Thread in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

heres mine, sporting the galciv theme. "/>

Reply to Gameplay example: The Evil Manipulator in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

nice story, i like reading them, btw 'and my agents inform me that the Iconians are destablizing me. I crank up propoganda spending to keep my people happy.' i didnt think destabalization was in GC2, or propganda spending, is this dramatisation or...???