Raknor

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I just find it sad that someone would not believe in SOME type of "afterlife" or God. The most depressing thing I can think of is that there is nothing beyond or better than the life you have now. Yes, it is very depressing, most people can't and don't want to deal with this, they flee into religion. However, as depressing as the lack of an afterlife is, it means one thing: We have to make sure that we and everyone else on this planet can enjoy our

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The funny thing about random number generators is that even though they are random enough for the task set to them they are not truly random at all.[quote] That's the definition of a pseudo-random number generator. However, there are some true random number generators. You could for example measure resistor noise in a circuit. To predict its behavior, you would have to know the exact state of the universe, which obviously isn't possible. Alternatively you could

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

One common issue raised by religious people is that science cannot prove everything, that ultimately a higher being is responsible. But that's not the goal of science. Science wants to extend our knowledge as much as possible. But knowing everything will be impossible, because unfortunately one cannot describe a system with the means of the system itself. Logically it all falls back to Gödel's incompleteness theorems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems). <br/

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I don't follow any religion nor do I belief in any deity, higher being, the afterlife or whatever. I got raised as christian, but never had faith. In younger years due to ignorance, now by choice. Why? Well, there are many different reasons. 1) First of all, there's the historical background. Look at the knowledge we take for granted nowadays. Lots of stuff which are natural for us, people did not know about in the past. Take for example the plague. Today we know its caused

Reply to Memorial Day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Please, your point has bigger holes in it than the Titanic.... We all post in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine...

Reply to Memorial Day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

the current war we were attacked by terriosts and saddam for over 10 years Terrorism always requires two parties: The terrorists and the one that let themselves get terrorized. Ignore the terrorists and the problem will solve itself. Oh, and it were the USA that initially supported the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

Reply to Memorial Day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

In my opinion, every type of violence which is not a direct, immediate response to an attack in order to prevent further harm, is unethical. And even in pure defense, if not absolutely unavoidable, violence has to be kept to a minimum. In terms of wars, this means that any war that is not fought on a country's own territory is unethical and should not be rewarded in any way. There are other things to influence things outside your souvereign territory. Diplomacy, trade, welfare and so on

Reply to The AI can read my mind in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, I think I just came up with a new gameplay idea which has never been done yet. The game would be a classical multiplayer capable 4X game. However, the difference is an integrated, fully open, unlimited scripting engine together with an ingame editor. Basically it's the AIs written by the player which plays the game. And in any case, the human player still has the control over every aspect of the game, like giving specific orders or changing the AI strategy at will. Then do

Reply to How do you pick your enemy? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Usually, even more so in the later stages of the game, I have far superior fleets. When I attack, I try to get about one fleet for each planet my enemy has, bring them in position and quickly destroy all fleets my enemy has. After that I'll send in the transports. However, I usually make the same mistake, I leave my planets and transports totally undefended. I'm working on improving that though <br

Reply to Memorial Day in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Please keep in mind the Men and Women that served and died for their countries. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. And many of them in wars of aggression (e.g. Iraq). Everyone participating in such a war dishonors the people who died in an honorable defensive war. Everyone who participated in a war of aggression should be punished for the crimes they committed. What's the punishment for mass-murder again?

Reply to How do you pick your enemy? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Whoever I can reach the fastest with my transports. I'm an impatient emperor, I want some new planets now. NOW NOW NOW I said

Reply to How does one become a professional programer? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The best way to get a better programmer is to actually program something What language you start with doesn't matter, in each and every language you can write horrible code. First task is to learn the language, read a couple of books about it till you know the language syntax. Concerning the language, everything is allowed. I think Python is a quite nice language to begin with. Also, C/C

Reply to Where are the betas heading in terms of gameplay? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Gameplay wise not much has changed in 1.6. The only changes I have experienced are the change to the colony ship size and the starbase repair. Other than that, the AI is sill as stupid (*) as in 1.5 In an in-depth view, I think the AI might be smarter in its building choice. In my current beta game for example, I've yet to see planets with an enormous amount of morale-improving buildings I noticed in 1.5 and early 1.6 betas. Then again, a single game isn't much, it could be mer

Reply to 1.6 Beta 5 is Now Available on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm currently a couple of years into a game, the only problem I've seen so far are the invisible missing mining bases.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 5 is Now Available on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Great. I'll test it on Friday, it's my GC2 day

Reply to Torgalian Domination -- Defeated! in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

"294 Big Croz!? That almost Think building!" Hilarious

Reply to The Ultimate Dev Team in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

You forgot to include someone experienced in cross-platform development. I finally want to be able to play a recent game under native Linux. Oh, and the management has to include >50% open-source zealots, so it's not proprietary crap.

Reply to Tech tree in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Some general tips: - Don't fall behind in military tech or the AI will steamroll you - Focus on one of the three weapon branches, otherwise you'll be a master of none.

Reply to The Undead are killing me! in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

build fences what ever it takes to keep them at bay. also, if you can, stop it from spreading off world. (+20% The YGA check failed (Yor Genuine Advantage)

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The minimap is still broken. If zooming the minimap, the trapezoid still changes its position.

Reply to Becoming bored with Galciv, what will make it interesting again? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Pretend you're a race of interplanetary cavemen, making thinking buildings

Reply to Torgalian Domination -- Defeated! in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

Do more report. I reading then I no do work. No work good, more fun. Fun good or I be sad. Raknor not want be sad.

Reply to MEGA FAST: The next 1.6 BETA! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I have a saved game in which there are so many ships and other objects that on my Quad-SLI nVidia 7950 I only get 3 frames per second using 1.6 beta 2. Double-pirates? But in the current internal build, scheduled to go up later this week we hope, we're seeing 30+ frames per second. A 10X performance improvement. 10 times more FPS? You gotta be kidding me. It sounds too good. Make sure to publish this savegame

Reply to It's the Economy Stupid! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Agreed Mistralok, the economy is your best friend. Nothing is more than invading a puny PQ 2 planet only have a brand-new huge-hull class ship in orbit the very next turn

Reply to It's the Economy Stupid! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

All buildings are social, all spaceships are military. If no buildings get built, the left-over social production gets added to military production. The other way around it does not happen. Each point in production costs some BC, depending on many things (for example bonus production from starbases is cheaper afaik). Using the spending slider on the domestic screen, you decide how much BC to spend. I don't know what 100% corresponds to, but generally the spending slider should be at 100% unl