I think they're just so obsessed with making them as small as possible, they're forgetting about the practical aspect of things. I think most people would give up a little compactness for better battery life, I would. My cell phone is already so small, I can't even push the buttons without hitting two of them at once, it's almost ridiculous.
Yea, I really like Newegg. I've even bought other consumer appliances from them, i.e. my laptop and my TV. The service is impecible and their prices are pretty good.
Yea, my old brick had a huge battery that lasted forever. My new "chicklet" size phone has a tiny little battery that doesn't last that long. Hehe, something to be said for old technology.
[quote]...wow! check this out. yeah, just a little overkill[/quote] I live in Reno Nevada and we have a number of Casinos here (nothing like Vegas though). Casinos have pretty deep pockets when it comes to decorations and the local one my wife and I frequent has a bunch of ultra high resolution panaroma displays on the walls. The things are huge. I drool everytime I look at them, the detail is incredible. I have no idea what the resolution is, but it's so fine, you can't see the pixels a
[quote]'Neo' would dissagree with you on that! [/quote] Ahhh, Mr. Anderson, hehe, I think I've seen the first movie ten times. I just never get tired of it and it's permanantly stuck in my TiVo. Must be the green hue on everything :)
Those $800 Dell and Gateway computers with monitor included are really poor quality. You'll likely have component lifetime issues or just defects right out of the box. The big makers buy volume, often custom designed components as cheap as they can. They strong-arm their suppliers into meeting contractual price and quantity obligations resulting in poor quality control. They also broker deals for off-the-shelf hardware that is really bottom of the barrel. You *can* get a quality system from
I just wish I could speed time for everyone else and slow it down for me :)
[quote]I imagine there would be powerful laptops doing a similar thing with processing power?[/quote] Modern laptops are very power efficient and have all kinds of mechanisms built-in to conserve power. At idle, they reduce power consumption drastically. However, if you need a lot of run time, it's probably because you need the laptop to do stuff where it won't often be running at reduced power consumption. That's where those exaggerated run times come from, they're not talking full load.
Yea, it does look promising. I'll be looking into it for my next upgrade in a year or so and that should be right about the time the Spider has really matured. I'm always looking for the cheapest, fastest upgrade. Computers are just such a horrible investment, you don't want to be spending a ton of money on any one system. And, with the incredible pace they advance, there's really no reason to. As far as the dual video card setup, they do/will offer a non-Crossfire Spider version wh
The Windows "close" hotkey is Alt-F4. That does the same thing as closing a program from the task manager.
You can trade for everybody's economic and research treaties without giving up your own, however, economic treaties are highly valued by the AI and I won't pay what it costs for one. Also, giving up your treaties can stab you in the back later in the game. The only way to get one back is if the race is destroyed. So, if you sell a major a treaty, they can benefit too greatly later for the paltry sum they gave you earlier. Minors are safe, but there's usually not much you can get from them.
The game seems to intermittently hang on something when it goes to quit. The system prior to my current (which wasn't all that slow) would do this quite a bit. My new system never seems to hang on quit. When I had a problem, I would just jump to task manager and kill it that way. I don't think I have a problem anymore, but I'll try the F6 method if it happens again.
[quote]I like all the races but their racial traits (with a few exceptions) do not seem to fit their history as well as how they should play in the game[/quote] True, the races do seem to be sort of generic without a whole lot of variation in their character. There is some, but not a lot. TA should address that with more differences from one race to the next. [quote]One of the other aspects of the game that tends to frustrate me is the fact that it seems like their is no reward in
Actually you can get away with a very old computer if you don't *have* to have the latest anything and only use it for the basics. My wife uses her computer for nothing other than email and web browsing and it's going on 7 years old now. It's plenty fast enough for her and she has no complaints about it. Of course, I keep in top running condition. I've done a few small upgrades like more memory and a faster hard drive, but it still has the original motherboard and processsor. Also, it runs
[quote]After all, what use is a large or huge hull (or even medium!) if you can't possibly complete it before your civilization is destroyed by fleets of smaller, more quickly produced ships.[/quote] Yea, that's a good point. Most of us take the galaxy configuration we like to play for granted. A small/uncommon galaxy is a much different game than a gigantic/abundant one. I don't imagine you'd ever need to build (or have the resources to research) a huge hulled anything in a smaller game.
[quote]I am tired of becoming basic every three years.[/quote] Unfortunately, things move that fast. It would be nice if they didn't, but that's how they part us from our money. Could you imagine if your TV or your stereo was useless after three years? It's a racket I tell ya :) [quote]What is a mid-range PC? Halfway between $200 and $32,000?[/quote] Hehe, if I was going to spend $16,000 on something, it wouldn't be on a personal computer with the way they depreciate. Anyway, I t
You'll have a hard time finding a laptop with a powerful 3D video processor and 3 hours of run-time. Advertised run-times are usually somewhat exagerrated. In reality, you'd need an auxilliary battery pack to get run-times like that, even with a conservative laptop. It's going to come down to one or the other.
I pretty much go for the mid to lower high range machines. Like you said, you can spend a lot less money each time and get a faster machine more often. I've found the top-of-the-line stuff usually isn't a whole lot faster, but it's a lot more expensive, only to be surpassed by the next generation mid-range system.
[quote]Tiny hulls, as I've mentioned, I find worthless, even for scouts. [/quote] I have a use for tiny and small hulls. At some point I always design a colonizer and a constructor with a tiny or small hull for planets and resources next door. Why build a cargo hull when you only need to travel a couple moves. I've built tiny hull fighters before. Sometimes I use them to start a war.
BTW, although I don't play that way, I believe a lot of people do well with larger numbers of smaller hull fighters. The main reason I like huge hull fighters is they carry the most firepower in a single package. For the gig/abun games I play, it makes managing the big numbers of ships easier. Also, in the big games, you often have to face down opponents with huge hulls. I've had to look down the barrels at ships with two or three hundred attack points before.
- Do you focus on defense, or mostly on offense? In terms of points, my fighter designs carry about half the offense in defense. - Does it matter whether it's early in the game or late game? Yes, you should be designing your own ships first thing. As soon as I have Ion drive and sensors (which I research right away), I design a colonizer, a constructor, and a survey ship. Not long after comes a fighter, then a transport. Of course, these designs get upgraded as I
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Here's the wiki, [link="https://www.galciv.wikia.com/"]WWW Link[/link] The primary distribution point for GalCiv2 is now Stardock Central (SDC) so where and how you access some of the stuff depends on if you are using SDC or original boxed installation media. The official documentation for the game is the pdf manual located in the in GalCiv2 directory. If the game was installed via SDC that would be something like C:\Program Files\Stardock\Total Gaming\GalCiv2\GalCiv2Manual.pd
Yea, i tell ya, the stuff I could have bought with the money I wasted partying in my 20's, but that was quite a while ago for me, hehe. As far as an HTPC, I thought about that at one time, but decided to go with an HD TiVo plus lifetime service. It doesn't cost a whole lot more than an HTPC and it has cable cards so it's a drop-in cable box replacement, just a lot less trouble, hook it up and you're done. I have a 720p LCD TV and that seems adequate for me. I thought about
You better be quiet about all this case modding, you're going to get me roped into it, hehe. Anyway, it sounds like you're pretty handy with a screwdriver so things should work out well and I'm sure you'll find it rewarding. I don't know what to tell you about resurrecting your old system, but I have couple old K6-III 450 systems I can't seem to get rid of, you want 'em for your media system? Anyone? They were high-end systems in their time, but I don't have a use for them and I can'
[quote]i want to do this case mod[/quote] Oooh, pretty. You'd say, "yuck" if you saw my case. It's the old ugly beige sheetmetal style. Decorating the case looks like fun though. Maybe one of these days I'll get one of those newfangled fancy ones if I ever have to scrap my old case from the 20th century, hehe.