Mumblefratz

Reply to Newbie, needs help in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Yes, the Turn button was nonexistent after pressing the Done button. This screen showed up when I asked ANY ship to move, even 1 square.[/quote]If I had to guess there was probably some problem calculating your Area of Influence. That would explain why this would occur anytime *any* ship was moved. Also if the game could not calculate your Area of Influence then it could never finish calculating the path back to your AOI thus the loss of the End Turn button. It might have been

Reply to How do I get back default settings? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Actually, in my experience, TOA has the most bugs by far.[/quote]Oh well, like I said I have very little experience playing it. The only thing I've ever done in TOA is to start a game and retire in defeat just so that I could make sure that I could submit TOA games to the Metaverse. However I was under the impression that TOA has in fact fixed some pretty major bugs that had existed for very long periods of time that had pretty major impact to play style. For example fixing the

Reply to How do I get back default settings? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've never been a fan of campaigns in general. As far as which game I might not be the best person to ask. With a limited amount of time to dedicate perhaps the best to go for is right to Twilight. It's a lot more complicated with separate Tech trees for each race but to the best of my knowledge Twilight has the fewest bugs and has reasonable gameplay. My problem is that I really haven't played Twilight myself and so my knowledge of it is limited. Between Dread Lords and

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]An ironic thing: As memory serves, the Kzinti first figured out the Strategy of a Thousand Names (now best known as the Galactic Swindle?), first discovered by Purge, from an AAR Mumblefratz posted in the general section of the Galactic Core, where the strategy was used but not described. What I miss about this game was how even rivals were friendly and helped each other learn and develop their playing skills. We competed, but we also collaborated and respected each other. I hope that

Reply to Newbie, needs help in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

And the turn button doesn't return once you hit done on this screen? Usually you get this screen when your flagship (or other survey ship) encounters a wormhole anomaly and is transported outside of it's range from your Area of Influence (AOI). This is no big deal other than you can't survey any more anomalies until you get back into range of your AOI. THis is usually a good way to meet far off AI's and minors much earlier than you otherwise could. I've never heard of this cau

Reply to How do I get back default settings? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]i'll poke around those files but it "sounds" easier and less dangerous to just change each setting each time to what i want rather than run the risk of removing a critical file.[/quote]The only critical files that you might remove are the savegame.sav files and those are only critical for continuing a particular save game. There really aren't any critical files under your "My Documents" folders, all the executables are stored elsewhere usually under your "Program Files" directory.

Reply to How do I get back default settings? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't have UE but just go to where the save games for each version are kept which are probably under "My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2" for Dread Lords, "My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar" for Dark Avatar and "My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor" for Twilight of the Arnor. In all three cases the primary file that sets up and saves your current game configuration is the Prefs.ini file. This file contains al of your latest selections as to galaxy size, frequency of planet types, vic

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Quoting jacklv"] Fall of a GC2 Titan, reply 74 I didn't bother to read your drivel wall of text either. You are dumber than I remember. Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People, reply 36 Well then, your dumber than I thought. That's the point.[/quote]Surprisingly enough there are still a few folks out there that are l

Reply to Mega events and Research rate can't be changed/switch off in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Actually the info you want is in the Prefs.ini file which is also an ascii file in the same directory as your debug.err file and your save game files. The lines you're looking for look something like the following and are located towards the end of the file under the [GalaxySetup] section. TechnologyRate=4 MegaEvents=1 In this case I enable Mega Events (0 would be disabled) and I use the fastest Technology Rate (0=slowest, 1=slow,, 2=normal, 3=fast, 4=fastest).</p

Reply to Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Different things happen at Most of the time going below zero bc's does not do anything and this is indicated by your balance appearing in orange. Most things that are prohibited are prohibited at the -500bc level and at that level your b

Reply to Getting My Game Records to Show Up on the Forum in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]There appears to be a latency between messages posted from the "stardock" URL and their appearance here. The reverse doesn't seem to be the case: messages posted here seem to update there instantly. [/quote]Read the above, there's different latencies all over the system you're probably just gettting lucky at stardock.com at the moment I've seen up to 15 minutes of delay at peak times. Also even when on the GalCiv2 site there is some delay between opening a thread and being able

Reply to Getting My Game Records to Show Up on the Forum in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Hah, I see another difference: I've been browsing the forums from the URL "forums.stardock.com". The GC2 "Metaverse" menu took me to "forums.galciv2.com". Betcha the mirrored forum on the stardock site doesn't show game stats![/quote]Once you've set a character as default (which I now see that you've done) it does not matter which of Stardocks many sites (actually there are 12 of them last time I took a count) you post *from*, your medals will only show up but if viewed from the G

Reply to Getting My Game Records to Show Up on the Forum in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Obz3hL33t" reply="3" id="2706516"]Do you get a "cakewalk" medal if you create a character, set him/her/it as the default, then don't post any games under that character? [/quote]I'm pretty sure you do. Basically a reset character appears the same. The forum remembers your alignment icon and then since you have no games it displays the difficulty icon as cakewalk. If you've never posted a game to the default character then I'm not sure if the alignment icon shows up

Reply to Getting My Game Records to Show Up on the Forum in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One thing to note about enabling your MV medals is that once you do it you can never undo it. You can create up to 3 characters under your username and you can select any of those three characters' medals to display along with your replies. You can also reset a character which clears out their games and if you do that and select that characters medals to display you will get the cakewalk medal along with any empire medals that character may have (if any). But once

Reply to Japan demands apology for Atomic Bombs in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Is an apology neccessary?[/quote]Absolutely not, but not for the reason that most people would think. It has nothing to do with whether the Japanese apologize for Pearl Harbor or not. And yes we dropped *two* atomic bombs on Japan and the only reason that we did so was because they were too stupid to surrender after having only dropped *one* atomic bomb on Japan. But again none of the above matters. The real reason why the US owes Japan no apology for dropp

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Nevertheless, i fell you you did the right thing, but for all the wrong results. The sad thing is this will change nothing..the cheat will continue to be used, since there is no way of checking for it, and the loudest protesters will continue to flame away, protesting your actions all the while raping the MV with inflated scores.[/quote]BMF, I agree with most of what you said except this. I do honestly believe that Kryo having pronounced the use of Dread Lord opponents cheating

Reply to Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Ah, then why reply?[/quote]Because if I don't then I let your baseless accusations stand unchallenged. And while I really couldn't care less about what you think there are those here about whom I do care what they think and when someone, no matter of how little stature they may be, makes baseless accusations against me then I'm forced to respond. [quote] Why expose yourself to another lie?[/quote]You're the one that's lying. As I said if you can prove my statement incor

Reply to Is this where the U.S. is headed with Obamacare? in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

The Daily Mail and the Telegraph? What, was the National Enquirer was too busy with Lindsey Lohan to give this drivel coverage as well? BTW whatever happened to Climategate, the last nail in the Anthropogenic Global Warming coffin? Or speaking of dead horse issues what about Orbital Bombardment, Tactical Battle and Multiplayer in GalCiv2?

Reply to Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="jacklv" reply="36" id="2701154"]Well then, your dumber than I thought. That's the point.[/quote]Firstly, as if I care what you think. Secondly, it's you're not your . Thirdly, I know that you cannot upgrade ships nor can you buy buildings while bankrupt (bankruptcy being defined by being more than -500bc in debt) in DL v1.40x. You also cannot continue military or social production by us

Reply to Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]V1.4 can't buy when in debt. Is that your opinion too?[/quote]Yes it is. And your point is? [edit] Actually don't bother to answer here. It's obvious that your post here has absolutely nothing to do with this specific thread or any kind of honest question about v1.4x so there's no need further pollute Obz3hL33t's thread with your sour grapes. If you have something to say why not strap on a pair of balls and create your own thread in which to say it. <p

Reply to Changing Colony Ship Hulls Without Killing People in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]How did this thread get on this topic anyway?[/quote]We were talking about cargo hulls in general and then cargo hull survey ships and then I mentioned I usually put a single psionic beam on my survey ships as well as use cargo hulls full of psionic beams in orbit about a planet with the SCC on it to essentially become immune from attack among other benefits. Certainly psionic beams are overpowered for where they appear in the Tech tree however I don't believe it to be as "unba

Reply to Evening the odds... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]My processes list right now has about ten things on it. It's smaller than your first screen shot. My Win 7 runs very lean...and I have as much control as ever over my PC.[/quote]Sounds good. If so then I won't feel so bad when I'm inevitably forced to change. It's just that I've been through so many new systems and OS'es that it just gets old. When I was younger I was always overclocking and updating my system to stay on the bleeding edge of performance. These days it just annoys me to

Reply to Evening the odds... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Here's the corresponding screenshot from my work PC. The bulk of all this extra stuff is from the overblown AV suite that I'm forced to use along with System Center Configuration Manager used to push unwanted updates to the unwanted crap installed on my PC. Note that both my home and work systems are running XP Pro Service Pack 3 and the screenshots are taken with only a single instance of a browser open. In the work case below the userinit service does eventually terminate but I didn

Reply to Evening the odds... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I was a big XP fanboy and hated the idea of Vista/Win7, but after building a new PC, I bought Win 7[/quote]Not quite the same thing that I said. I said "I'm still with XP and currently feel no need to upgrade. There's nothing about Vista that I've heard that makes me think I'm missing anything. Win 7 seems like it may not be all that bad". What I'm a fanboy of is being in control of my own PC. I'm using XP both at home and work and at work it sucks simply because of all the cra

Reply to Hyper Computer Trade Good in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just checked and I was correct on both counts. In the following screenshots my spending sliders are set to 100% research. Here's a screenshot before building the ASC. And here's the after. Clearly the ASC increases production from research focus. Not only that but it's clearly increased that production by a