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Reply to Beta 4C: problem with Thalan's Xeno Influence in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Maybe the enemy is supposed to just get tired and give up before the singularity armor is worn down :p

Reply to Beta 4C: problem with Thalan's Xeno Influence in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Is there an attack equivalent of the Singularity Armor? Right now I don't see anything, which makes the 72 defense kind of useless. I also don't see any resource mining module.

Reply to Beta 4(c) up! in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

At this point I'm happy just denying it to everyone else :D

Reply to Beta 4(c) up! in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

I haven't gone far enough up the tech tree to try out the Hyperion Starbase stuff, but this should keep me happy until I get there. Class 26 planet, with a +48% PQ ethical event on colonization: [IMG]http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u287/rls669/pq38.jpg[/IMG]

Reply to Post your TA suggestions here in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Another tweak suggestion -- I meet a new civ, I don't even have Universal Translator yet, but the Stats tab in the gives me a lot of information I shouldn't have. Some areas show a ? and say I need a higher level of espionage, but I still shouldn't be able to know what their spending and maintenance is, or what they're researching.

Reply to Twillight of the Arnor Beta 4c delayed in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

[link="https://forums.galciv2.com/?aid=174410"]changelog[/link]

Reply to Twillight of the Arnor Beta 4c delayed in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Dagnabit . . . why not just delay the map editor, as many won't care about it anyway?

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

After the Voodoo 6 fiasco they were bought out by nVidia. So if you have an nvidia card it's got some 3dfx DNA in its heritage :)

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

[quote] Actually, 3DLabs got hit with Patent Infringement and/or Copyright Violation, and they nearly went under as a result. It did kill the Voodoo line, although they still make Workstation cards in the same class as Quadro and FireGL. [/quote] 3DLabs != 3dfx.

Reply to Question on Xeno techs in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

[quote] The mining modules gained from those techs could (and should, imho) be moved into the Space Mining techs.[/quote] Good idea.

Reply to I did a bad thing... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

That's like the time I was getting ganged up on and the Snathi gave me a bunch of constructors inexplicably equipped with railguns. I used the constructors to destroy the Snathi military resource base and build over it. Hey, I needed it more than they did.

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

[quote]There was at least one Voodoo card that used an External power supply.[/quote]The card that was such a white elephant it killed the company ;)

Reply to THE CASE FOR THE ROBOTS AND THE MINORS. in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

[quote] You could make a case for the huge dragonlike Drath being okay for HG worlds [/quote] The square-cube law says otherwise.

Reply to 16:9 video and stills stretched? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

If I can run at 1920x1200 and 4x AA, I don't think my video card is overly weak :) Anyway, for some inexplicable reason the problem has gone away. I played around with resolution and fullscreen vs. windowed mode and can't reproduce it. This time GC2 is the only 3d app I've run since my last boot, perhaps there was a conflict or something wacky going on with other programs that caused the AA artifacts. Alternatively, gremlins. I think the invasion screen is still messed up th

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

[quote]I've seen some of those cards way up there in price. I really wonder who's buying them. [/quote] 1. People with more money than brains. 2. People who play 3dmark more than actual games, or who live and die by the length of their e-penis. (2) is likely a subset of (1).

Reply to 16:9 video and stills stretched? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

It's not just the movies -- I just upgraded to a 24" widescreen and GC2 looks like hell at the native 1920x1200 res. Everything just looks a little bit off, not as sharp as it should be. Enabling AA causes white sparkling on all the straight lines. Running it in a 1600x1200 window fixes it, but I'd like to be able to use my whole monitor. Silent Hunter 4 shipped with ludicrously bad support for high resolutions, but it was fixed in a patch. If devil-spawned Ubisoft can manage that, ho

Reply to THE CASE FOR THE ROBOTS AND THE MINORS. in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

And water can be stopped with a rubber gasket ;p The Yor already have one of the best super abilities, one of the colonization techs, and in general are massively powerful. They don't need any more advantages.

Reply to THE CASE FOR THE ROBOTS AND THE MINORS. in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Toxic atmosphere could easily be corrosive as well; radiation can interfere with electronics.

Reply to Pink Blob of Doom in Beta Reports Stardock Forums

Painful, Immense, Tight Clusters, Common Inhabitable Planets Result: AI Drengins wiped out AI Thalans before I encountered them.

Pulsating Joy Happy Driving System in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Also, [I]Gravitational Mystery Happy Driving System[/I]. I've never clicked on Intelligence Report before; love the Engrish. Now I'll be checking out every ship I encounter to see what kind of whacky description it has :CONGRAT:

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

AFAIK, the newest cards (the Radeon 3800 series and the G92 8800s) have lower power consumption and better performance than their direct predecessors. Granted they still use a lot of power compared to cards from a few years back, but the hardware isn't really comparable. A card can have better performance/watt and still use more power compared to something less efficient but also much lower performance. The very high-end cards also aren't really representative of the majority of card

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

GPU makers are a generation behind Intel with their process technology. GPUs are getting more power efficient on average. And to make a completely fair comparison, you'd have to add the power consumption of the ram, the hsf, and a portion of the motherboard to that of the cpu :) I guess a similar rationale would apply to price comparisons as well.

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

GPUs have more transistors than any single cpu core and are already massively parallel compared to a cpu -- over a hundred shader processing units in the newer ones for example. So you can't really compare the two in terms of structure. It might be getting to the point that cramming more processors into a single gpu has diminishing returns compared to going multi-gpu.

Reply to When Did the Game Start Cheating? in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

So you turned on random events, got a random event you didn't like, and you bitched about it and called it cheating. If there's any more content than that in your post, I'm certainly not seeing it. There's no guarantee that the random events are going to make your life easier. If you don't like that, turn them off and quit whining.

Reply to computer technology chat in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

The important thing is that it'll give ATI the fastest single-card solution by a wide margin -- which might kick nvidia's ass into gear. Their roadmap for this year just consists of 9800s, which are merely die-shrunk rehashes of the 8800. Why bother releasing another generation when there's no competition to the current one? The 9800 GX2 will be faster than the 3870X2, but it's not supposed to be released for another month at the earliest. It's also a real clunker, 2 separate PCBs j