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Reply to Beta 2A released of Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't gotten home yet to try it, but the Beta 2 Torian game I ran was very impressive. Their 50% morale building was sweet. I had the stock 16b on any race starting planet and then 20b on normal planets and had no problem keeping the people happy and still pulling cash in hand over fist. Yes, it had a lot to do with having a huge influence area and the OP tourism income...but still, the morale buildings were a nice touch to the population-happy Torians. The poor Terrans had no ch

Reply to I Don't Like your Update/Patch System using Stardock Central in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]You can also get a higher speed connection so downloads do not take as long.[/quote] Don't assume that: A) the option is available to him where he lives and B) he has the power to change the internet connection at the place he lives (kids do play this game and parents often have say). Way out in rural areas, the only options for internet is dialup or satellite (which is horridly overpriced). Yes, people DO live in areas not very wired yet. To the OP, th

Reply to Various Manufacturing Korath Buildings in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Korath Clan: We don't know the meaning of the word 'overkill'.[/quote] Well, anybody stupid enough to walk up to the Korathian production engineer and say "you know, maybe we are working those slaves TOO much" finds himself being worked "too much" on the slave line. Weakness and morals are not something they have time for. If your not researching, working the assembly line or building buildings...you better damn well be having your finger on a trigger in space. Anybody else is

Various Manufacturing Korath Buildings in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I'm a bit lost as to why there are about 3-4 20% manufacturing buildings that can be placed, then the Aul Incinerator on the same planet. I'd think the 20% buildings would be a previous version of each other. On a 30PQ planet w/o manufacturing capital and no bonus tiles I had created a social production ammount. Are they a bug, or should they all be able to be placed.

Dark Influence in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I thought that Dark Influence was going to be simply offsetting the -% influence from production buildings...however when I placed my first one, the Terran influence line retreated at least a sector back. From then on out, every planet on the border got one and any flipped planet got one. Sadly, who needs influence starbases when you had these monsters.

Reply to Starcraft: Is it over rated? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Up until I started this game I was still chugging away in MoO 1 (1992). So game play defiantly beats graphics in my mind. Too many of recent games have catered to the crowd of graphics. Give me Starcraft, Diablo 1 & 2, Lords of Magic or Baldurs Gate any day over the recent pile of goo (present company excluded).

Reply to A couple bugs (Korath + dread lord event) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had the same unfortunate event back in DA. It was very unfortunate as it was "the perfect storm". I decided to see what the DL could be if you didn't gank them the first month of their arrival. BIG mistake. Ships with 2k mass drivers wasn't a welcome sight. The PQ 30 or so planet they made was nice too. The OTHER horrid thing that happened was that they had developed on a Torian world, and as you saw in your experience, there were Torian ships in orbit. So, in order to defeat th

Reply to Unusual Event in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The Dread Lords are pushovers as long as the Korath are somewhere in the galaxy. Purchase (for whatever cost) a spore ship from them and send that puppy to the planet once it's undefended. No amount of soldering helps vs a spore module. As for the mega-pirate event, I actually enjoy that every time it happens. The mega-pirates really makes you switch gears in the thought of galactic warfare. When their uber-ships are flying about, you just need to be able to out fly them or put up a

Reply to beta 2 question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Any anywho, a lot of the beta releases are 2 weeks apart. They started beta1 a week later than planned. Soooo, I wouldn't expect it until the 15th.

Reply to Civilization Manager - Minor Glitch Free Tile Totals not Updating in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Also, just clicking on the tab for the planets will refresh the list, so that you don't need to completely shut civ manager down. This was something I mentioned back before TA beta came out. I figured it just may have been a feature, not a bug.

Reply to tech stealing question in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Do they really have to be planted on research facilities? Did not know that ... I always thought tech stealing would still be like in DL, where you came to steal a tech once you had all info on the civ. Either way, I do not recommend you to use spies to steal tech. That is far too expensive and you will need all of your spies to defend yourself against the other civs, spying at you.[/quote] You need to have spies planted in DA in order to have the chance to steal a tech. It

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

I cannot wait for Lord Vega to find out he can't make customized war ships...

Reply to TA Beta 1: Frequent crashes upon using Ctrl-N in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I sent in a SmartException report and got a reply a fix has been implemented for the next version.

Reply to TA 1.8c beta 1: Trivial Initial Bugs in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Already sent in asa bug report, but wanted others to know it's reported at least once. Playing as Terran, the tech tree is a little...odd when you look down the beam weapon tree. After lasers it ends. Plasma weapons stems off the mass driver tree. Something else that I'm not sure is on purpose, but when playing arceans, the tech "Adamantium Armor" is available at the start of the game. Sure, with Very Fast research on, it would take 300 weeks to finish, but I still am not su

Reply to Total Galactic War in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

...and more importantly, keep any method of making peace off the table (I'm looking at you UP Vote....) I guess dissolving the UP would fix my underlying problem.

DA 1.7b4 Colony Management Screen in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think that all through 1.7 beta I've been noticing that if you go to a planet via the colony management screen, fill in some tiles then hit "done" to return to the colony management screen, the available tiles doesn't update. Example, at the CM screen a planet shows up as 12(7) and you double click on the planet to go to it, toss in 7 buildings then hit done. The CM screen still shows it as 12(7) whereas before 1.7 it would show as 12. If I click the CM tab again it'll refresh the l

Reply to Is this an espionage bug? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think it may be because the AI takes it's turn (everything except ships) at the same time you are working on your turn. So before you placed the CEC, an AI got spies qued to go on those tiles.

Reply to 1.72 - Xeno Ethics bug? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ahhh, I misunderstood the situation.

Reply to 1.72 - auto survey bug? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The only thing I've noticed with auto survey, is I had an event where each civ could only survey inside their space and it tried to survey outside my space so I kept getting yelled at. Sounds just like the AI attacking trade vessels under the protection of the trade federation or the galactic privateer wonder... My only problem (may be intended) is that once all anomalies within range are gone, auto surv

Reply to 1.72 - Xeno Ethics bug? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I checked this out and it turns out that due to logic bug, your negative treasury balance is being converted to a lease. I've fixed this for the next update. Here I thought that was intentional. Paying off what you could, then taking a loan out for the rest. So you are looking to change it so that if you don't have enough, you just get a lease for it and your treasury stays put? That'll cost more money in

Reply to Bravery and Creativity in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not at my home PC to check the description, but I think Bravery is only used when it's your planet being attacked.

Reply to GalCiv II v1.7 Beta 1 Changelog in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

This is pretty much essential really if they are going to respawn. (which I think is ace) The computer players will always be able to see when one has respawned, yet unless the human player wants to scroll around the map each turn checking, they're not going to be getting the advantages this system provides and so will be handicapped. Perhaps just selecting the ship and hitting the button for it to Auto Survey will be enough w/o a fix from them. Yes, yo

Reply to Instead of a Beta... in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

2) Ships defending planets --> Unless using an Orbital Fleet Manager, defensive ships are basically taking turns lining up to be killed by the invading forces; there is no logical reason why they should do this that I can see. The OFM is okay, I guess, but the space required to build it on makes it less appealing, much less the fact that it's unique. So, only one planet in the empire has clued in to the idea of a coordinated defense? I suggest, as an altern

Reply to Problems installing 2nd disc of game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sometimes another way is to copy all the discs onto your harddrive, install from there, then delete the files you used to install from. I remember I had to do this with a certain MMOG's discs. This only works if the disc itself is fine and it's a computer file transfer problem. All depending on your computer, it may be a simple checkbox that needs cleared though. My friend's Dell XPS had something that needed unchecked to make his drive accept multiple disc installations....go go Del

Reply to Cheats and Points in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You would get 0, not surprisingly. Not the same as simply 'not counting'--it still counts as a game in the calculations, so if you already have valid games posted it will actually lower your overall score. Shows you how much I know about cheating now now doesn't it lol. Cheating....why?