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Another (small peeve) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It would be nice if DGM had a direct link to this forum. (And also nice if the chat worked).

Reply to Battleship 5 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I implemented my own version of the Excalibur but my memory of the OS/2 version is pretty dim so the only things I really remember are that it was cheap to maintain, fast and deadly. Anyone still have the OS/2 game running who can give me the exact cost, hit-points, attack, defence, maintenance, etc.

Reply to Some more little peeves and bugz in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, this game was started in 1Z too. The only oddball thing is that I have cleaned up the ships so the all use the Tech _ID spec and have ranges. And I've added my Excalibur (using the Dreadnought MDL file).

Reply to ALLY and War PACT in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is there some way now to have an alliance? Where is the button for this?

Reply to Some more little peeves and bugz in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The most common error in debug.err looks like this: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0Decoration (PlayAnimation) Where 0Decoration can be 0Decoration through 4Decoration. The other one I see often is: Error playing bink movie for research win And occasional complaints that there are no autosave files in the current directory. Plus a couple of startup messages that seem to refer to missing stuff in either the trade or tech depts:<b

Some more little peeves and bugz in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1. The social governor screen is still not scrolling. I work around it by having one governor for early improvements and another for later. 2. The military governor screen is scrolling correctly but it would be nice to be able to select "nothing" in the upper screen and have the planets not now producing any military hardware all assigned to produce the latest improved spaceship (or whatever). 3. What the heck is a .MDL file and what uti

Reply to GalCiv beta 1Z available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As impressive as the list is, I can't see it in DGM.....

Reply to Galciv no longer visible in DGM? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yep....it's gone for me too. :sniff!:

Reply to feature request and a bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree. And the logic can be fairly simple. Issue an ultimatim. They party you issue it to MUST offer peace to the other party in the war. The results of the offer can then be reported to you so you can decide who to jump on... LOL

Reply to Will there be another build soon? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm sure I would have had no trouble in my last game putting together a nice smooth Alliance. Everyone was trading heavily and nobody seemed to want a war at all. :)

Reply to Bugz 'n peeves. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My exit problem is also happening when I go the menu and try to start a new game.

Reply to Will there be another build soon? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As long as there is another build (or two) before beta 2, I,d say go ahead and put in the bases and delay it....

Reply to Bugz 'n peeves. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OK....a couple of comments here. I'm not getting approvals over 50% in the current beta with an empire (Star Federation gov.) that runs ENTIRELY on trade. I do not tax! All planets have built all possible improvements and my navy is 100% Excalibur class and pretty much invincible (I implemented the ship myself using the Dreadnought pics for it). I do have Star Hawks posted in every quadrant so as to get at the anomalies quickly (except my Survey ship is in one of the quadrants).

Bugz 'n peeves. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Bugz: Every time I exit the game I get the following VC++ debug error: Damage: after Normal block #34780 at 0x0b71a080 Also, the estimate to completion time in the research screen is a bit over two times the actual amount it takes in turns (assuming one turn per game month). I lose 2 and occasionally 3 off the number of months to go with every turn. Peeves: With the Harmony Generator gone from the improvement list, it's impossible to get approval up over

Reply to Loosing economy in later stages of game. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I make a LOT of money late in the game by selling my trade goods around. In fact, the current game I'm playing has got so much trade in it that there are no wars. Not only that, I can, if I want, lower taxation to nothing and still do OK. But I did implement a version of the Excalibur, as best I could remember it from the OS/2 game. If I recall correctly, it embodies the best replication tech to make a cheap (to maintain, not to buy), fast, powerful warship so you end up with a much more pra

Reply to Another bug report in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm not having any problem (that I'm aware of) with the planets list. But the social projects list is a mess and the military governor screen doesn't scroll and is gibbled, with the same ships listed twice in the lower pane.

Reply to Space Eggs scheduled for beta 3 (IMPORTANT) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

one word: COOOL!

Reply to Why I'm not voting in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I must agree that the AI is important in GalCiv. It is the AI's abilities and behaviour that made the game work in the first place. And what I look for in an AI is something that will pretty well pass the Turing test with respect to the game. Right now, we are seeing some rocky places in the AI code, though, where they seem to have abilities that are denied human players. They have to be made to go through the same hoops as the human player or the game quickly becomes frustrating.

Another bug report in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To put it bluntly, my Social Projects lists are all screwed up. The pictures and the info with them are wrong and the governor seems to be in the habit of scheduling projects not on the list! (One of a kind things usually that have already been built).

Why I'm not voting in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The current poll is an apples and oranges thing. I think the AI's need to be as human-like as possible. That does not necessarily mean they have to be super-intelligent, though. Just human-like. And I think multi-player would be a nice addition to the game. So the long and short of it is, I vote BOTH!

Help! Lost my serial no. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The subject says it all. My C drive took the big dive into the bit-bucket. I managed to keep all the files in Drengin.net, but had to reinstall the game manager to get it is show in the start menu. Now loader.exe wants me to register again, but, alas, the email with the serial number was on the now-deceased C drive.

Reply to Beta 1Y seems much harder in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, this is something I've noticed, too. The AI's seem to KNOW where the good planets are. I have seen them drive right up to one with a fast colony ship just 20 or so turns into the game when I have my own extra points set 5 on speed and 5 on tech. I was actually WATCHING the damn thing and there is no way they surveyed it! Their survey ship was 2 quadrants away surveying something else!

Question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What are the proper parameters for the Excalibur? I can remember that the OS/2 program had it as a fast, powerful and cheap replacement for the Avatar and I'm just impatient and would like to implement it myself, using one of the other ship's .mdl files. And while we're at it, what is a .mdl file and what program can convert them from other file formats?

Reply to Smartex.exe and mcpserver.exe load on startup.....WHY?!?!?!?! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Unfortunately, in my Win2K system MCPServer self-terminates due to errors. Of course this prevents Smartexception from working at all.

Spelling error in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Shouldn't "foundary" be "foundry?"