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Reply to Strategies sharing: survey ship usage in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

How come you can make dreadnoughts but I can't?

Reply to Odd things in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And here are some more odd things: 7. A conquered star system cannot be colonized even though it has a planet that would make a good colony. 8. Ship piles seem to build up in various places. I find I can pull my own off the top, but it's clear it's not just trading, since cultures that are at war (and hardly likely to be trading ships) are involved.

Reply to Odd things in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1. No it's the stats screen at the end of the game. But the weirdness was accompanied by the one-month build syndrome. It was actually quite easy to conquer these systems and they were GREAT to own, but it was sort of cheating... Another oddness that's probably already been mentioned: The saved games don't retain trade routes gained through conference votes (though they reappear without needing to be re-freightered when new votes are taken).

Odd things in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just managed to play a tiny galaxy to completion (beyond human). Here's some idiosyncracies that I noted: 1. The Drengin Empire ended up with 150 million odd tech points for some reason and when I defeated them, both their planets kept producing any class of ship in just one turn. They were the only bad guys in the game. 2. The tech list would freeze at whatever position it ended up in after new tech was developed. This eventually rectified itself when all available rema

Reply to Random thoughts about the Research Anomoly... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The thing is, they tend to be the only way to get to the end of a game with an all-Avatar navy in place. Unless you have a LOT of time on your hands. Of course once the Excalibur class ships are implemented that will change things a lot. :sniff!:

Reply to Prioritizing for Beta 2! PLEASE READ! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Fix the known bugs, implement all of the ships and add graphics for those improvements that don't have any. A look at making some of the colours either configurable or more contrasting to background might be helpful. Faint blue overlaid on dark backgrounds is just about invisible to these old eyes.

Reply to Repeatable crash in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Maybe. Anyway, I sent you the saved game. Sorry no SmartException file was made.

Repeatable crash in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This occurs when I access a freighter that I built and then stashed in orbit around one of my own stars near where I eventually wanted it. Twice now I have tried to activate this ship with the result that the program ducks out to Windows. Still not getting .cra files even with SmartExeption running... Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fu

Reply to Anyone still having DGM Errors in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think mine is still erroring at the end of an install...completes the install but errors at the end. Also it gives Run-time error 9 "subscript out of range" if the server is not online.

Reply to Not a bug report--comment on poll in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think they make eminent sense on a smaller map, but on the hugest map, the size alone, coupled with the slow speed tends to take care of it.

Not a bug report--comment on poll in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My reasoning for voting against ranged ships is that you can achieve almost the same effect in a much more natural manner by simply playing in a huge galaxy. I've done that a few times in the OS/2 version and the effect is that you can only explore and dominate a patch of the galaxy at first, with the rest of it slowly opening up as the ships get faster and faster. Oh, you can send a survey ship on a long, long voyage, but to get a colony ship or even a battle cruiser to those remote a

Reply to Income from trade routes is 0 when starting a saved game with trade routes established. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Near as I could tell, it only affected the display on the economy screen. When you took the turn, the trade income was added in.

Reply to Excaliber? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OK, so it's unimplemented. That's no problem....they will get to it. I could maybe help in the art dept. since I do 3D stuff and could make a ship and render it with any desired materials to an icon. If I remember, the Excaliber had a sort of transparent look to it. I do have the OS/2 version but I shut my last OS/2 system down in August of 2000.

Excaliber? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay, so I learned Battleship 5 tech but I still can't build Excaliber class ships...this keeps my naval expenses WAAAY too high!

Reply to Useability comments in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'd also add that deep blue on black is very hard for this old guy to read. It was easier on my 21" monitor but that is offline for repairs... :(

Reply to Useability comments in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't mind the way the list works in the social projects screen, but my governor's screen has the same scrolling problem with the priorities list. I'm running Win2K Pro, K6-III+ 450 with 256Mb ram and ample disk space.

Reply to Another crash log--latest beta in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The crashes don't seem to generate an exception. They just terminate the program.

Another crash in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This one occurred when I sent a freighter onto a Drengin planet. The screen actually showed the freighter move onto the planet then the system crashed: Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fullscreen Debug Message: Shell initialization complete Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game ***** Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 12

Reply to Another crash log--latest beta in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was just taking a turn and the program exited leaving me at the Drengin CM. (I hit the turn button). I'm posting another log from a similar crash that just happened as I tried to land a freighter on a Drengin planet to set up a trade route.

Another crash log--latest beta in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This one just happened: Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fullscreen Debug Message: Shell initialization complete Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game ***** Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 1234de Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaWhite11 VerdanaWhite12B VerdanaYellow11 VerdanaLtBlue11 VerdanaGreen11 Deb

Crash log in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Last night the game just crashed in the middle of a turn. Here's the debug log from the run: Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fullscreen Debug Message: Shell initialization complete Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game ***** Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 1234de Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaWhite11 Verda

1A crash in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I played extensively this afternoon, and had one crash where the program simply rolled up and disappeared. It occurred when I tried to access one of my freighters on the ship list. And it was the second freighter I tried. I accessed the first one OK. This looks like some sort of memory or stack error, but I have no way to run the program under a debugger and still get any playable speed out of it.

1A Spelling error in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Spacial Rifts should be Spatial Rifts spatial (adj) : relating to space

Beta 1: First notes in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The word surveillance is misspelled. And one screen, I forget which has "mush" for "much." The game crashes unaccountably at odd times, most notably when I try to access a ship from the ship list and when starting a new game with all idiot opponents (hey, I had to try it!). No error message or anything, the program just exits stage left. There seems to be something amiss with the animations of freighters under autopilot (though they get where they are sent, they don't move wh

3D engines and strategy games in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm abstaining from this poll. I think that a well-oiled 3D engine can be used to enhance a strategy game but I'm dubious about the utility of trying to use one of the bleeding edge protocols (this has always been a problem for DirectX--it's a moving target). Still, I think game concept, general implementation and user interface are probably much more important. I used to play the old BASIC Star Trek game by the hour and the Galactic Empires BBS game (for which I wrote a set o