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Reply to Can't launch GC: Twilight of the Arnor - just get a black screen in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Solved it - I needed to update the prefs.ini file located under my documents/my games/twilight of the arnor to have the screen resolution in that file match my actual screen resolution :)

Can't launch GC: Twilight of the Arnor - just get a black screen in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

After downloading the latest 2.03 update, the game will not launch. I get to the first splash screen where I can select "play the game", but after doing that it goes to a black screen (no intro movie, directly a black screen) that I can alt-tab out of, but that's it. I tried launching with the shortcut, with the exe, from impulse, after uninstall and full reinstall, but it's always the same result: a black screen. I see that the icon is there on the taskbar, though. I'm afraid I don't

Reply to Diplomacy is broken in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] All 4X games have tech trading (since Civilization I) and without it, game loses a good deal of its appeal. Increasing difficulty levels to Masochistic or Obscene is also NOT a proper solution. AI diplomacy needs to be tweaked, not alleviated with huge bonuses.[/quote] Well to be honest, all 4X games have broken diplomacy too. I won't even talk about Civ1 and Civ2 since they're too old to have benefited from decent hardware, but in Civ3 each iteration had a diplo problem that wa

Reply to Informations about the races in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Awesome link, Loupdinour. Exactly what I was looking for. Thx also, Mascrinthus. The reason why I started this thread is because I encountered exactly what you describe for the Yor. I started a game with them, everything was going well, until I realized that there was no way to actually improve their economy beyond that 25% :P

Informations about the races in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Hi, I've browsed the ToA forum and the manual, but I have not found the information I was looking for. Basically: - which races are evil/good/neutral? - what is the specificity of each race's tech tree? I'm asking this because: a. it's kinda annoying to pick a race, select only neutral events, and then realize upon choosing your alignment that your race was evil or good and thus you will have to pay a hefty price to be neutral anyway b. some tech trees seem more