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Reply to Has the research bug been fixed, or planned to fix? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

How about this - for every 'tech speeds are perfect' thread you can give me, I'll give you one 'tech speeds are broken', AND a 'tech trading is broken' thread!

Reply to Has the research bug been fixed, or planned to fix? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]No, it's basically just you. Your ideas of tech costs clearly do not have the popular support you wish they did. As I said in the other topic, mod it yourself.[/quote] Just me? You mean me and the other pages of complaints? And popular support amongst whom? I've seen COUNTLESS threads about people wanting SOMETHING done about tech trading, and very few (actually, next to none) saying it should stay the way it is. And you're going to base this on what, these forums, that

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Translation: Metaverse continuity is meaningless[/quote] It isn't? [quote]All Metaverse players are soul-less abusers of game mechanics.[/quote] Why would they be any different from any other kind of online competition? Korath. Spore Ships. Tiny Map. Suicidal. 'nuff said.

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] and then one night he rapes you, Did you just compare the 'reseach bug' to being raped?! Consider my mind blown. [/quote] Actually, I was more taking the twisting of the washing machine analogy to intentionally ridiculous heights, hence why I quoted it. The analogy of being told to wait to get your machine fixed while they build a new one for you to buy instead was apt. Applying the whole 'history means its okay' thing behind it was not.

Reply to Tell me what is a good game? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh and Vampire the Masquerade : Bloodlines. Awesome RPS thats getting popular again for some reason....[/quote] Gaaaah forgot all about that one. I KNEW it, because I was playing through it again recently, but I'll be damned if I could remember it (and I was too lazy to go grab my external hard drive and look). Fie on me. Therefore, I give you V:TM:B, and another classic great. Sadly, it's not too playable, unless someone's finally fixed the massive engine bugs with XP i

Reply to Tell me what is a good game? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Bah, couldn't squeeze these three in. Honorable mention to Max Payne 1, because without it, Max Payne 2 makes NO sense at all. [img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/1b/250px-Day-of-the-tentacle-cover-art.jpg[/img][img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/games/drg100/g173/g17312a00dz.jpg[/img]

Reply to Tell me what is a good game? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]the top ten gratest games ever made. Portal F.E.A.R SIN Star wars empire at war. Half life 2 Resident Evil 4 Crash Bandicoot 2 Dawn of war winter assault Galciv2-DA Ratchet & clank up your Arsenal Star Wars Nights of the old Republic II[/quote] And you've been playing games for what, 4 years? SIN? Are you serious? Even Portal is something of a joke. It was a good game, but it wasn't epic in any way, shape, or form. It was about

Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Everyone hated Bioshock's DRM. So EA took Bioshock's DRM and put a fake 'twist' on it, with the expectation of complains. Then they 'backed off' to pretend they were doing a favor, leaving you with... DUN DUN DUN [b]BIOSHOCK'S DRM[/b]. And all the sheep are happy, suddenly. Well played, EA. The 10 day thing was nothing but a lie in the first place, created to get you to accept equally shitty DRM.

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Let's say you buy a washing machine from a company whose service has been, over a long time, twenty times better than service from other washing machine companies. But this time, the service is only ten times better. Do you whine incessantly about how what is still some of the best service in the industry is somehow going to make you only buy washing machines from companies that have even worse service?[/quote] So if you knew a guy and got along great with him for 15 years, and t

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Wow... just... wow... I suppose even Stardock has to attract some of the selfish, assinine, me first, frell the rest of the world type gamers out there, but Fluxx, you definetly represent the cream of that crop. Do the rest of the community a favor and take your lame-ass, self-absorbed, ungrateful jackass presence somewhere else, because you certainly are lowering the average post quality around here by several orders of magnitude, all by yourself. To the devs,

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It's been just over five weeks (I don't know where the seven weeks mentioned by one came from) since TA launched, and Brad said *at that time* that we wouldn't be able to get a patch out until now. So it's hard to see how some people can take such grave offense at something which was already planned and announced some time ago. We've been nothing but open about exactly what's going on.[/quote] Like it or not, us as consumers don't give a shit about the reasons behind it. <br

Reply to Why PC Gaming is Dying in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

PC gaming is dying because more idiots are getting into gaming. PC sales haven't changed, but the market for consoles has GROWN making it look like PCs are weaker. The end result is great PC games, and the standards for gaming the PC set are destroyed to dumb-down games for any retard who plays Halo.

Reply to PC game piracy hurts us all in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I try to sympathize so much with voices like Kryo about how much effort it takes to make a game, and the personal commitment to do so, and the end result of not being ENTITLED to a free copy of it. But then I see: - My BOUGHT copy of Splinter Cell: Double Agent - an Xbox -> PC port so atrocious, it's unplayable. Literally. It lets you save ONE game, and will overwrite it with an autosave or something, and 90% of the time you can't even LOAD that without it corrupting. The inter

Reply to TotA - Things I miss in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The "limited tech trading" option sounds good in theory, but the problem with it is it will likely significantly disadvantage the more unique races out there. The Thalans for example have such a highly exclusive tech tree that it will largely leave them out in the cold. How do you balance this option?[/quote] I'm the strongest advocate of this idea, because despite your nay-saying, you need to look at the big picture. The absolute rule for tech trading should be that if

Reply to Has the research bug been fixed, or planned to fix? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Yeah, you can pretty much count on the good folks at SD being on top of patches and updates for their software. I wouldn't be too worried about the bugs, GC2 has only got better and better since it was released and probably will continue to do so for a good while. I get the impression they have some bizarre concept of taking genuine pride in the quality their product.[/quote] Oh please. The game has been borderline unplayable for me and others since this bullshit poorly-

Reply to Suggestion for creating "Epic" Research Costs in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The 'tech cost multiplier' is not a feature, and even if it were, it is so poorly implemented it's not even anything remotely similar to what we wanted so it'd still be considered broken. I'm all for steeper tech costs... I charted the costs of Beam Weapons around here somewhere, and applied a simple formula to the costs to comparison with 100 research points. Suffice it to say, tech costs from Beam Weapon Theory to Phasors were laughably linear (with only the 'end game' weapon

Reply to A simple, excellent improvement suggestion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You can just right-click on the minimap to issue move orders, FYI. Since this is unlikely to ever change. No need to 'guess' at where a planet / star is. Just zoom in, right click on it, and be done.

Reply to Read this if you ordered Twilight of the Arnor on CD! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just got my CD. I leave for my deployment tomorrow. That's cutting it close :D

TOTA is finally playable! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't used my laptop since christmas. Huzzah!

Reply to Noob Teching question - Fastest way to warships? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Yes. Make your own ships. And - do not make the mistake of thinking "just one other tech and i will build it".[/quote] I usually use the top-tier of whatever tech I need (for space/weight reasons), with a few exceptions. For example, my basic K-5A Diamondback corvette uses less efficient mass drivers, because using more efficient ones does nothing except give me two or three more units to work with, which I can do nothing practical with. So I therefore degrade them to a lower eff

Reply to Twilight--No Box--False Advertising in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Frogboy, I have tremendous respect for what you've done with GalCiv and I thank you for responding. But I'm sorry you are rude to someone who has supported your game so strongly for 14 years.[/quote] Oh please. He told me to go 'make my own game' in response to a suggestions / feedback thread. You got nothing, s0n. Oh and Elysion - yes, Tribes was the best MPFPS game ever made. I was more partial to Tribes 2 myself, mainly for the larger focus on more encompassing teampl

Reply to Broken / Missing Features in T of A (ridiculous!) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I never bothered to check as I rarely use it but it's distressing to hear that Favorites still doesn't work. I know Kryo knew of it, mentioned it in the beta several months ago.

Reply to Opponent gains 3000 influence in one turn! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Save games?

Reply to Ion Beam tech seems costs too little - like a typo in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

THis is why I hate playing with the Korath. They'll come out of the blue while everyone else has Plasma II, and they show up with tiny hulls with 80+ beam attack.

Auto-explore is broken in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I certainly hope this is known, but if you put anything on Auto-Explore, even if they're two different ships in two different parts of the galaxy, on two different turns, they'll eventually smash together and begin exploring the same areas together. One ship will move all the way over to get to where the other one is, and they'll just start following the same auto-explore waypoints. Quite easy to duplicate. Just build some scouts and put them in auto-explore. It works nothing like it used