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Reply to BETA 5 on Drengin Game Manager in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad said: "The alexians, incidentally, don't colonize worlds outside their home sector so I wouldn't worry too much." The Alexians exhibited several strange attributes: 1. The outproduced every other race in the game even though they only had one colony. 2. Even though there were only two habitable systems in their sector they had six colony ships in orbit around their planet. 3. How were they able to get far enough along on the tech tree, at the speed they

Reply to BETA 5 on Drengin Game Manager in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I had no problem with the 0.9028 release downloaded from the DGM. It ran without incident. Initial comments on Beta 5: 1. It seemed like every time I turned around another of the AI races was surrendering to the Drengin. 2. The Alexians, with one colony were managing to outproduce every other race in the game. They build two galactic wonders in a _very_ short time period. 3. I like the new nuances that have been added in the area of diplomacy.

Reply to version 0.9.029 is up on SD Central in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Unless it's a different 0.9029 than was there at 1630 EDT it still has the same problem that 0.9027 has. I'd wait until an update appears in the DGM.

Reply to Unable to Play the Beta. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't know what the situation is yet. Stardock Central is showing a slightly different picture of the situation than DGM is. I'm in the middle of a scratch re-install using DGM.

Reply to Is there a new beta ? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't do it yet. There appear to be problems.

Reply to Unable to Play the Beta. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Here is the relevant snippet from the debug log. Debug Message: Creating opening menu. Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: DataMan ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579. Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System DataMan ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361. Debug Message: Creating player setup screen. Debug Me

Reply to Unable to Play the Beta. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

BTW - this was with a fresh, from scratch, install.

Reply to Unable to Play the Beta. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same problem here. The bar graph for setting up the game gets to approximately 66% and then crashes to the desktop.

Reply to No Autopilot! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hit the send button too quickly. Have you tried saving and reloading the game to see whether that will restore autopilot functionality? If it doesn't I suggest sending the saved game to Stardock with an explanation.

Reply to No Autopilot! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ted, The answer to your question is "no". Wydom@ker, I've never had autopilot fail in that fashion even after The Venge poisoned one of my planets.

Reply to Correct pronunciation of 'Drengin' wanted in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What's wrong with exactly as it's spelled? Dreng - in.

Reply to Tir-Quan Training bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ted, I'd send a copy of the saved game to Brad or Cari for a looksee.

Reply to Autopilot on 4Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, What happens to me is that the ship will still be marked as autopilot and just not move. If the ship is one of a group, not a fleet, that has stalled the act of taking one ship in the group off autopilot and redesignating the destination seems to break something loose and all the ships will then start moving again.

Reply to Multiple Starbases - pt 2 - comments welcome! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Where would you have to set your spending slider to achieve a positive cash flow under the scenario you describe above? I wonder whether the game is correctly transferring the maintenance costs for the ships you are selling? I've run into similar monetary issues once or twice, I didn't have a large number of ships but sometimes after restoring from a saved game my economy would tank and I'd have to move the spending slider down to less than 15% before my cash flow became positi

Reply to Autopilot on 4Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's been reported here and there, in many different threads. I've had it come into being for both ships and constructors, most often when I have a large number of ships that I'm trying to get to the same destination.

Reply to Diplomacy polish in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Steevodeevo, I like the idea of an abstension but to _really_ work we should also have the ability for a race to propose UP issues for vote. Failing that, as Solitair said, knowing in advance what was coming up for a vote would greatly increase the utility of influence trading.

Reply to 4z - bug - the skull and crossbones don't dissappear when they should. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I sent a saved game to Cari on Friday that demonstrates this issue.

Dead Race Still Alive? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The Altarian Republic has vanished from the diplomacy and UP screens but they still have a planet and can be reached via the "speak to" button. I've sent the saved game to Brad and Cari.

Reply to Speed of your computers in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think it becomes a bit more complex a question when one factors in the galaxy size. How does that P2-400 do with a late game gigantic galaxy?

Reply to Starbase destroyed, resource goes offline? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If this behavior persists after restoring from a save game please send the save to Cari [email protected] with an explanatory note. This is a bug that has existed for a while but has proven hard to track down.

Reply to dumb colony ship in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A mechanism to move people between planets in the same star system, with the need for a colony ship, was discussed a while back. I seem to remember a comment from Brad that it would be on "the list" as a post 1.0 addition.

Reply to End Game comments in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree that sometimes the end-game becomes simply a matter of grinding your way through to the conclusion and I'm not coming up with any blinding insights on how to make the situation better. But. I really, really hate the concept of massive game altering "random" events that are designed solely to smack the player because they are too strong. There has to be another way. Better AI design is a part of this better way but it's not the only component. P.S. The Dreadl

Reply to By god those escaped Zoo monsters are powerful! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sigh...teach me to re-read my post before hitting the submit button. I _meant_ to say it's one of the new UP issues, like the, prison planet and galactic olympics votes.

Reply to By god those escaped Zoo monsters are powerful! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's one of the newer random events. It's not terribly common, I've only seen it happen once or twice in games I've played.

Reply to Beta 4z comments following lengthy play in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[regarding a starbase] "I couldn't see it beneath the 25 (twenty-five) constructors that were sitting on it." I've seen this happen when a large number of constructors are sent to the destination point on autopilot and one of the "magic" changes happens to the destination that hoses the autopilots ability to recognize that the endpoint has been reached and that it's now time to do something.