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Drengin Super Ability Question in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

I havn't played the Drengin yet so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but do they get a bunch of Super Dominator corvettes each time they go to war? I like to have a lot of minor races to trade with and in my current game the Drengin in the space of a few turns declared war on all of them plus most of the majors as well. They've got literally a few thousand of the damn corvettes; they're sending 300-400 just at me right now. I click on one fleet icon and it's like a stack of 15-20 fleets

Reply to Is this a bug? because if it is, it's serious! in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Sounds a lot more like an overheating video card than a virus. Did you have anything running minimized? Having VLC player running in the background messes up my GalCiv graphics.

Reply to The Artificial Slave Center in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

So the Orbital Tile Destroyer actually works in DA and TA? That's also something that would have been handy to know :SNIFF!:

Reply to Galciv quiz! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

100% here too. The English is a little fractured at times but still a fun little quiz. Thanks for posting it.

Reply to Invasions in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

Sometimes, extreme realism makes for crappy game design. Who wants to sit through a hundred turns of planetary invasion? Not me.

Reply to 3 new updates on Stardock in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I'd like to know as well. Someone's posted about getting the immovable ships bug with .002 so I don't want to risk updating without knowing what it does. I wish SDC had a direct link to release notes for updates.

Reply to The Artificial Slave Center in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The Artificial Slave Center affects all worlds? Holy crap, I'll have to stop building it on my shipyard world then. I thought it was one planet only.

Reply to Minor Grammar Bugs in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

When the Korath contacted me to beg for mercy, they asked what it would take to get me to "withdrawal" my forces.

Reply to Favorite strategies! in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]Espionage-Only use to get enough basic information on an opponent. Then keep on hand for invasions. Place the Spy on a Farm on a colony you want to invade. That way you starve a planet down to a level where only 1 Transport is needed when you would have needed 2-3 and you wont need to use any tactics that destroy improvements or PQ.[/quote] Or, leave the large population intact and put spies on the morale improvements. Then attack with Information Warfare. Often you'll get so man

Reply to Precursor Ships in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I've never had the Pirates event either, or the Peacekeepers. Jagged Knife a bunch of times, Plague once, that's about it. Although I did get the "increased economic activity" thing and it lasted the whole game, with the 5x tourism event right after that. That was good for cash flow. I was putting about 10K into espionage every turn; I eventually stopped because I had agents on every tile of every planet the other races had left :D

Reply to 3 new updates on Stardock in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

[quote] That's odd. So am I-- likewise, no new miniupdates. I wonder why that is?[/quote] You're not in the Super Secret Inner Circle.

Reply to Suggestion: One Per Planet Restriction in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

You could always invade with Tidal Disruption to have good chance of wiping out the improvements.

Reply to Did the meaning of "Genius" change? in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I'm next to them, I've had the strongest military since early in the game, and I've been putting the boots to them for a while now. Besides, it's the freaking Korath. Since when do they not build up their military? It's the first time I've used the "randomize intelligence" option on startup, I thought they must be set to "special".

Did the meaning of "Genius" change? in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Playing on Tough as the Yor, started a war with the Korath. The foreign stats screen says they have genius intelligence, yet they have 20 of 22 colonies undefended and haven't produced a warship in the last 20 turns, while continuing to pump out colony ships at an amazing rate. Perhaps "genius" is being used sarcastically? :D

Reply to Precursor Ships in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I must have played a hundred games of all flavours of GC2 and I think I've seen a Ranger once.

Reply to Weird Bug Puts Homeworld in Fleet in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

So . . . how many logistics points did the planet have? :D

Reply to Minor races use ships badly in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

It would be nice if you could actually use minors as pawns. But no; a minor race is at war with my enemy, so I give them ships. And the ships just sit there unused for the entire game until the stupid minor is wiped out.

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

I had a pic of a red light bulb on my 2nd monitor to provide "general quarters" lighting while playing Silent Hunter :D

Reply to Terror Star Suggestion in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

When TA is done and released, I'm modding the tech tree so I can have my Alan Parsons Project :CONGRAT:

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

Multi-monitors are great for work, even if it's just having a word processor on one and reference material on another. Very poorly supported for gaming though.

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

Going back to the filter question, I had 2 kinds of filter, one a foam type material and the other a fine steel mesh. Bottom line, anything dense enough to filter dust will not be good for airflow. Pet hair on the other hand is coarse and you can get away with much bigger mesh that won't have much if any impact on airflow. If you look at the system pics I posted earlier, that black mesh on the front of the case will stop lint and hair. The best defense is getting the case up off the

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

[quote] SLI is a horrible waste of money. If you're rich and you can afford to buy two top end cards when you buy your PC, fine. Don't ever fall for the "I'll buy one card now and another later" BS, because by the time that rolls around you'll be able to buy one new card that will outperform your two old ones. [/quote] QFT. SLI is only effective if you build something faster than the fastest available single card at the time. Even worse than t

Reply to Game non-responsive after attacking orbiting ship in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Same thing here. I'm so glad I have a fast machine, because sometimes I've been saving+loading for every movement point of a ship doing multiple attacks.

Reply to Terror Star Suggestion in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I had to look up the real name of the Yor dude. I renamed mine TRS-80. I'm such a nerd. :)

Reply to Custom ships with different races, can't have the same names? in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

QFT. I don't want to make up a dozen different sets of ship names to avoid overwriting another race's version of the same ship.