Silverbeacher

Silverbeacher

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Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

@Loup: since the colonists declared the "United States of America" in 1776, but the Revolutionary War did not end in a formal peace agreement until 1783, then yes, that would count as the first war between the US and GB. The second being the War of 1812 (and as a side note, the Overture of 1812 is NOT an American song, or even about anything American; its actually about the Russian defeat of an invading Napoleon army) and for the record, the capital of Nepal is Ka

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Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

well i would be remeding it too, if someone would get off their lazy furry behind and write me that straetgy "guide" that i asked for; but i think they are too busy playing with their toys [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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Reply to MVL Round 11 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

once the round is over, JS will have to tell me what he did. Its hard without those psionic beams [e digicons];P[/e] , i actually couldn't just spend my way into oblivion

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I think it was the limits on activation that frustrated players. I mean, heck, I know that I was forced to download GalCiv II and WindowBlinds twice last week alone (PC crash, and hadn't backed up those files as they are "not irreplaceable"), so even though I had, in my mind at least, a legitimate excuse, by EAs standards I would have already used up two of my "freebies" though I have issue with the runup in companies and this whole "intellectual property" BS that has been the f

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Reply to What Did You Play This Weekend? in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Jinksy" reply="5" id="1885734"]Colonization (old version). Still fun to play, but I'm looking forward to the new version this week. [/quote] i wish i could play "Colonization" (old version) but it doesn't run on Vista :-( I'm sure there's a workaround, but I'm not tech literate enough to know how otherwise, more GCII, trying to get my MVL game done (darn you Dystopic on these settings!)

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Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

see, now THATS what I like about GC....if you really are willing to think outside the box, there are some very interesting ways to conquer the galaxy; though I'll admit I'm partial to the Krynn's culture flips

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Reply to MVL Round 11 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

as a random aside, do you know that i've now been on every team (and captain at some point of two of them) except for the Bladerunners just interesting

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Reply to What the heck did they do to the economy? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

assuming your sliders are at 1/49/50 (the most efficient use of production and research); then yes at 8 worlds you would have 1 prod, 1 research, and 6 econ. Generally, for me, i have one-two factories on all worlds to keep build times manageable. On research worlds, I will usually buy the first lab and then use Focus to do the building, no factories. Yes, they majorly upped the maintenance costs; also they lowered your starting treasury. They did up the

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Reply to What the heck did they do to the economy? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

thanks Loup, i meant when your treasury hits those milestones, your income will drop. I believe there's another drop again later, but I don't know at what treasury amount that it is at. Lowering Maintenance: Efficieny, efficiency, efficiency. Really, in any game in any version of GCII (DL, DA, or TA) its always "The Economy, stupid!" From day one that should always be your priority, because if you can get that to flow, everything else

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Reply to What the heck did they do to the economy? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

my guess: maintenance costs; they are pretty hefty in TA; esp for some of the high-end structures and the big military ships. other possible culprits: 4yrs in, i doubt population is a problem, I would hope by this point your planets are maxed out (either 13 or 18b) Graft: your income takes a very small hit at the 10,000 mark, and a noticeable hit at the 20,000 mark due to "graft"; its easily mistaken/missed by some players not paying attention leases: tho

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Reply to MVL Round 11 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

well i love the new settings myself; i think they are pretty cool good job to JS and Dys now if only the iconians would stop blowing up my ascension starbases [e digicons]>:([/e]

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Reply to Add Bonus Tiles in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

sadly not always, though i seem to recall that Cari has improved the MV to guard against this; but getting caught using a Hex editor on a MV game will not maybe, but definitely result in your banning from posting games to the MV not the least of which, IMHO, i don't know why someone needs to use such a tool; there's enough "valid" cheats (at least by adding the cheat parameter) that will assure victory; does one really need to manipulate the planets that badly?

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Reply to taskbar transparency not working in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Windows Vista-32 Home Premium The following is from the WindowsBlind System Information Tab Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.3 Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.3 WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.2 (build 102 x86 - Vista Edition) WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC (Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT Wblind.dll&

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Reply to EA and SecuROM in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

i know that im not purchasing Spore/RA3/or any other EA game; actually outside of Civ IV, I havent bought any game other than Stardock titles for the past two years; I don't personally pirate games, but hell if i can't say that I don't agree with people. My computer crashed twice last week, and while my important files were backed-up, I was glad to know that even though I lost all my saves for my SD games, I could just hop on Impulse and have em right back within about 5 minutes.

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Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Congratulations to MetaLeaguer for joining the ranks of the Senate; and Hyperion is within 9,000 pts As a reminder to OG members; 100,000 cumulative points or 25 total games will earn you a Senatorship position

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Reply to taskbar transparency not working in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

lol, its ok; i HAVE done stupid stuff before [e digicons]:grin:[/e] , but i am hitting the Apply Changes button; the rest of the Theme will appear normally, but the taskbar will not. What is SHOULD look like: [IMG]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/silverbeacher/windowsblind.jpg[/IMG] What it DOES look like [IMG]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c358/silverbeacher/mainscreen.jpg[/IMG]

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Reply to The Olympian Gods in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Indeed, let it be known that Olympian Gods are merciful and welcoming, let even one of the Titans join our midst. I call for a celebration to take place.

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taskbar transparency not working in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I am using WB 6.20.088 on my PC, which uses Vista (32) I am using the "Leo" theme, though the same issue has happened with all themes. The taskbar will not become transparent even though I've moved the slider. I can't seem to find any other reason for the prevention. Just wondering if I'm missing something here, or is there an actual 'issue' thanks! -Silver-

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