FireBender

Reply to sorry but the game story has it wrong about Stargate's. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The Precursors had FTL systems on the level of HyperWarp Mk.3 - much faster than HyperDrive. The Iconians existed in the time of the Precursors and served them. The Arnor, being Good, found this servitude to be morally wrong, while the Evil Dreads liked it. The Iconians created a non-sentient robotic race - the Yor - to take over their role while the Arnor and Dreads began warring. The Dreads created the Snathi to help their fight, but as we all know, the Snathi are pathetic weak

Playing my own songs while playing GCII? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Can I put my own songs as background music to replace the GCII game music or something? The current playlist for DA gets kinda annoying after being played over and over again...

Reply to MVL Round 4 Draft and Discussion in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Welcome back! If someone had joined the league in your departure then there would be a bit of complication but fortuantly for you, there wasn't. [quote]2. There seems to be a dev-created MV league/tournament thing for TA? Is it a danger for our league?[/quote] I don't think so. Even if you are currently playing the beta its easy enough to spend an hour on a small galaxy for the league. Of course, people would feel discouraged to join the league with the tournament feature up bu

Reply to TA: more exciting ground battles, simple implementation in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

Just make them a bit more realistic. In real life, it could take upto 3-5 years to conquer an entire PLANET(think earth) with 12 billion people on it. Just take into thought the weight of that number. 12,000,000,000. Kill 150 million(think of that number too) and thats still 11,850,000,000. (it could be more or less then 12 billion, just using a common figure) But, this is a game so how about just having 1-3 turns in taking a planet or 1 turn invasions but maybe on a few occasions t

Reply to Laptop gaming in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Ever try Warcraft? Google it and you'll find a host of suggestions.

Reply to sorry but the game story has it wrong about Stargate's. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]maybe but if the dreadlords knew. they would have given it to their children(for lack of a better word) [/quote] The Dread Lords were the ones who wanted to destroy the younger races. The Arnor were the ones who wanted to protect them and as mentioned in the story, it started a civil war in which the Arnor almost lost but ended in a stalemate when they both disappeared. In the game story, only the Iconians had a unified race in that period and the Iconians were in the se

Reply to The Hitchhikers of the Galaxy in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Hitchhikers, assemble! We have again fallen in these ranks 14 hours ago. We're down by 9000 points. I might submit a game today to cover that gap but beware that this period of inactivity in this empire will lead only to disaster. Many other empires might surpass us. The void might become ever larger. C'mon! Submit a few games once in a while.

Reply to NEW POLL: December or January release? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Better game or earlier release? I vote for the former.

Reply to sorry but the game story has it wrong about Stargate's. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]i have a question for the devs or kryo. did the amor and/or the dread lords have hyper space or gates. because the story line says that humans discovered it. which says to me that the amor and the dread lords may not have it. yes i know that they were way ahead of everyone else but that doesn't mean that they knew of it. [/quote] Good question. Maybe they knew of it but the Terrans were the first of the younger races to develop Hyperdrive.

Reply to A New Age in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Still cool though.

Reply to Fall from grace (Full Story) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Nice, making the Altarians evil. I play the Yor and make them neutral. [/quote] Thats nothing. I played the drengin and make them good.

Reply to Fall from grace (Full Story) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Lovely read, Xpyre. Great show, mate! Bravo! And to think this hasn't been bumped since last year. By pure accident I found this one. This is my first thread necromancy but atleast this one has good reason to be revived.

Reply to A New Age in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Perhaps tell it in a slightly different style, like "Diary of a Terran Soldier", "The Other Shoe", or "Green Pastures." Those are some of the most original AARs ever written, and they are some of the best aswell. [/quote] Hey, read "Fall from Grace". Its also purely original.

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Speaking of which. Is that forum moderator issue over at the Team C private forums done. I still have the same problem. [/quote] Its fixed now. Nevermind. Alright, mumble. I created the poll(I really hope you don't mind). I will update as we go along about the status. Would you mind pinning the post please?

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Speaking of which. Is that forum moderator issue over at the Team C private forums done. I still have the same problem. [/quote] Big punctuation errors. Don't mind please.

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Why keep discussing about whether or not to have a vote? We already have about 3/4 of the discussion that went about tie breaking into having a vote or not. Just make a thread with a poll. Delete all non-voting replies. Checking if there is an extra is easy. About 2 minutes I think. You can easily find a pie chart generator on the internet and just post the image here. How about I make poll and Mumble can erase the unnessesary chatter-talk and maybe Pin that poll and lock it a

Reply to Metaverse League Round 4 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I knew about the lowered difficulty but didn't know it made a difference to score unless it's simply the score difference due to reduced difficulty which is really pretty minor.[/quote] The difficulty goes down if you have set [I]most[/I](if not all) of your opponents to be friendly. There is another (though smaller) penalty [I]per race[/I] with pre-set relations. Btw, the highest relations you can set yourself to is "Close". I've never played a game with AI at close in

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Speaking of which. Is that forum moderator issue over at the Team C private forums done. I still have the same problem.

Reply to Metaverse League Round 4 in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

You have it pretty much wrong. There isn't much point in customizing relations unless your trying to live out the star trek empires and want everything to be the same as in the series. First, setting relations to anything other then unknown(even war) drops your score and even your reported difficulty depending. Second, pre-setting relations doesn't help much. The relations drop like a hot potato if they develop a military before you(even if you pay tribute it only works for so

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]With you and FireBender this makes 2 for ties broken with about 5 or so for leaving them alone[/quote] [quote]FireBender seemed to be the only one in favor of breaking them [/quote] Umm... no. I'm for leaving ties unbroken. I thought I mentioned that. So by your current count thats 6 for leaving ties unbroken and 1 against. I thought I mentioned that. Also, I don't think there is a particular danger of a non-metaleaguer core member to vote. Just add text telling

Reply to The MVL Rulebook in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Has any thought gone into bonus points beyond team scores and average times. Are we simply going to bring back the 1st, 2nd and 3rd for speed and score for individual points or something else? Since there is only one victory condition the Round 3 system won't work. Thoughts?

Reply to Counterstrike! in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh, great. Now the Altarians have a superweapon... [/quote] I think it was a spore bomb... or a nuclear warhead?

Reply to The Terran Odyssey in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]P.S.: Plz forgive any errors or goof-ups. Don’t shoot the writer![/quote] I must say this is spot on! But you might want to replace most of those "..."'s with a comma.

Reply to Unhonorable spelling in the screenshot in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]But on that note, I'm interested to hear if anyone has a plausible reason as to why the English language lost a number of letters when it sailed across the pond.[/quote] In America the population was operating under the administrative language of English but the people weren't totally english but a mix of people who came there for trade, emigration, etc. Mainly the people were German, British and other people who spoke english. The language diversified and formed into a new yet v

Reply to Twilight of the Arceans (A Twilight of the Arnor story) in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Great story. Look forward to the rest.