pndrev

pndrev

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Reply to New Techtrees in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Try playing with the default races first. They are balanced for their specific tech-trees, after that, you have a better idea what tech-tree and racial ability combination might suit you. The differences vary. The Arceans and Altarians open up a lot of techs using 'good' alignment. The Iconians have very few economic buildings. The Yor are just plain different. Also, tech-trees bring with them their planetary improvements, so using the Yor tree you get Stalks for example.

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Reply to resolution problem! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

It is highly unlikely that your TV supports any of the higher resolutions. The game just gives you the choice based on your graphics adapter, no matter the output. Try to set the game resolution to the same resolution you configured for your desktop, if you directed that to the TV as well.

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Reply to karma? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Also notice that this option seems to be only available on replies, not thread-starting posts - much like the Metaverse medals.

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Reply to Strategies in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

That depends entirely upon the player race, opponent, difficulty, starting position... Can you be a bit more specific?

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Reply to Space Rangers Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I'm really missing the option to put SR2 into windowed mode though. Is there a commandline switch? Windows behaves a bit strange when one monitor is fullscreen in 1024 and the other in 1280...

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Reply to Telekinetics in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

For starters, try this article: [link="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24973/1.html"]heise on Uri Geller[/link] Also, you don't cite any sources at all, so I think it's your turn to substantiate your points. ;)

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Reply to Space Rangers Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I played both (actually I like SR2 a lot more) - my strategy is to either be late to a battle and just sweep up some 'free' ectoplasm and perhaps a damaged Klissan or two; or make hit & runs to system where I know the Klissan presence isn't very dense. Other than that... attacking a hostile system on your own generally seems to be suicide.

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Reply to Telekinetics in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Actually Mind readers and Psychic's have been proven. they exist.[/quote] And the study to support that? The US experiments in the 20th century were all performed by non-sceptics (as far as I can see via a quick read on the Wikipedia), the environments could hardly be called controlled and the results were mediocre and not even repeatable. The most famous participant perhaps was Uri Geller and I don't have to tell you just how fake he is. Great PR though. ;) [quote]

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Reply to what's the greatest movie monster of all time? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]...the CGI Godzilla from that awful Hollywood movie just doesn't deserve to be called Godzilla....[/quote] Too true. I quote Mittermeier in calling that Godzilla 'Schwäbische Spätzlesechse'. The [b]real[/b] Godzilla, however, is tied with the first Alien for my monster of all time.

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Reply to War at first meeting in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]As the betas came out I simply downloaded them and did not delete any of them, nor did I delete anything when I downloaded the final version.[/quote] You really should, though. Installing the release over the Beta is just asking for strange glitches and bugs. ;)

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Reply to Maximum number of techs reached? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The only way to find the exact line that caused the problem is to go back to the non-working techtree, then deleted line for line and check after each line if the problem has gone away. Or does the debug.err show errors in the techtree?

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Reply to A wing commander mod ? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Wing Commander? Animated series? What? WC was one of the bleeding edge computer games, revolutionising the space combat genre. I remember buying a new computer just so I could play WC2... (And then doing the same for Strike Commander... Pacific Strike... *sigh*)

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Reply to This is a very strange problem... HELP!!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1) Terror Stars don't attack planets. They attack stars. The crash when fleeting one is known, though, and will hopefully be fixed in the next patch. Until then, you'll have to manually manage an escorting fleet. 2) That's the new invasion screen. IMO a step forward, especially as the caustic, ear-shattering sound effects of the old one are gone. 3) Did you perhaps delete them from DA in an effort to save space? TA draws on the same files, except for the new victory condition.

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Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

AFAIK petrol prices in the US have always been ridiculously cheap. Now that the oil companies are upping their prices, the outrage seems to be far more prominent in the US than in Europe. Mind you, I pity those who bought a diesel thinking they might save some - diesel is at 1.45 Euros as well. The petrol prices also seem to have had an impact on the car industry from the very beginning. You won't find any huge pickups driving around in Germany. Even luxury cars seldom use more than 12,

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