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Problems with german special characters ae/oe/ue in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

When opening the german xml files, there is a token for our special characters äöü, it is a square. I got the latest word and ultra edit text editors, but none of them is able to recognize the tokens. So when I change the xml file and save, the files become corrupted and within the game, nothing works anymore. IE I changed the custom race in the raceconfig.xml and saved. Now when I start a new game, I see not even one race in the race selection screen (due to the fact, that any race g

Galactic Guide Book in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The descriptions read "Reduces the cost of the Survey Module to zero, allowing you to equip any ship to explore anomalies." Your wikipedia also says the same. Now Ive made this improvement for the 10th time and there happens absolutely nothing. The survey mod still cost 11points. Looking at the PlanetImprovements.xml I find the following Improvement> S_Name>Galactic Guide Book S_QueryGraphicName>GalacticGuidebook_epic.png

GalCivII not working with mousesoftware in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just found it out as I installed my mousesoftware. When there is a mousesoftware running that defines middle and other buttons, it is inpossible to rotate anything in GalCivII. Even when I set the middle mouse button to the "middle mouse button" function (thats actualy no function at all), it does not work (logitech mouseware). Tried it out with a microsoft mouse and microsoft software, same result. Got to deinstall the software in order to play GalCivII... big deal to have a 5 button

Reply to Cheating AI or GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the answers. First off, Im not assuming the AI cheats, it was a question, but for some reason this forum did not want to accept my post with an ? in the thread title. So actualy, Im asking if the AI cheats or made the devs some bad "settings". Problems... : Difficutly level below to normal: the AI is super dumb, they actualy do nothing, by the time I got like 50% of the galaxy, they run around still with just 5 colonies. The larger my empire becomes, the fri

Reply to More examples of semi-(in)competent AI concerning planetary improvements and planetary class bug. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The AI always builds a starport on ANY planet, independant of size, thats realy odd. WIthout the "extras" the AI civs get at higher difficulty levels, they would lose within few years. Its realy a miracle how the civs can be first in the top 10 economics with 90% planets like all the pics posted above.

Cheating AI or GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Few days ago Ive read an article about cheating AI... the GalCiv2 guys demented this and said the AI depends on the difficulty setting... well, how comes when I start a game in challenging diff level (or above) the other civilizations have pointdefense, but not ecm techs researched (example - I have checked few more techs, but this was the one I found out very fast )? There are races who have no ion drive, but fly around from the very beginning with hyperdrive <img src="smiles/Gasp.gif" border