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Reply to Should a race be able to surrender to you if you demand all of its planets? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Another scenario is the friendly takeover. The race decides that becoming "one" with you would be a good thing and responds positively to your peaceful overture to trade all their planets for some sort of gain. Cheers Magus

Reply to Systems defecting to a dead race? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I can send you the saved game that exhibits the issue if you like. Magus

Systems defecting to a dead race? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Had a couple of Terran systems defect to the Drengin (I assume because of low morale). This isn't so odd because I had flipped to Star Democracy too soon and wasn't able to keep morale up. The only problem is that the Drengin race no longer existed in the game. When a system defects to another race shouldn't the game check to see whether the race is in play? Another oddity was that one of the systems that defected was my home system. I think it should be a bit harder

Reply to Lengthy list of observations, comments, and bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One modification to my post above. I went back to the saved game and doubled-checked...there is only one tech past "Beyond Human" and that one is "Final Frontier". I also toyed with the other two techs on that level (Galactic Peace and Galactic Domination) and of the three game winning techs only Beyond Human actually takes you to the end-game summary screen. The other two drop you back into the game to continue playing even though the tech says "You Won". Cheers Magus

Lengthy list of observations, comments, and bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is going to be both far ranging and lengthy so please bear with me. I’ll attempt to organize things by section but there is some overlap. I finished my first complete game of Beta 1Z last night and I have quite a few observations and comments which I hope will be of value. Planets: 1. The game needs a way to get a quick overview of what is currently in production on a given planet. 2. When another race finishes a one per galaxy production item it would be helpful i

Reply to Beta 1Z oddities - Bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On #1: Will do. For this sort of issue shouldn't subsequent betas incorporate the ships that have been posted to the library since the last beta? This seems to have been done with the dreadnaught. On #2: On the sound issue...if I restart Galciv the sound comes back. As for a save game that exhibits the problem :d The save game I sent to you earlier this week was saved just after the sound had failed. On #4: I tried what J. Michael Lynch suggested and it does indeed work

Beta 1Z oddities - Bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There were many little things changed in 1Z that improved things quite a bit but I'm going to point out a few problems. 1. Selecting "Starfighter" from the ship build menu results in GalCiv locking up. I have to use the Windows 2000 Task Manager to kill the process. 2. Sound sometimes fails. All sound will, at times, cease, this is normally followed in short order by a crash to the desktop (which isn't being caught by SmartException .090. 3. I mentioned this in an

Reply to String not found error in new tech - Controlled Gravity? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same problem for the "Gravity Mastering" tech. Is this cosmetic or is something crucial missing from the the underlying technologies that will prevent the newly implemented ship range concept from increasing beyond the starting point? Magus

String not found error in new tech - Controlled Gravity? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The first tech for increasing the potential range of a ship is Controlled Gravity and under abilities, where I would expect to see something like "Range +10" is: "- String Not Found +10" Most of the key game files seem to be text files. Is this something that I can insert myself and have it work? If so what should the value be and where should it be placed? Cheers Magus

Reply to GalCiv beta 1Z roll call in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Got it. Magus

Reply to Color coded messages to other races in the diplomacy "speak to" panel is sometimes blue. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think "pazzo" would be pretty close. Magus

Reply to Galciv no longer visible in DGM? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Success. For those with inquiring minds...can you tell us what the problem was? Thanks Magus

Reply to GalCiv beta 1Z available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Tried a fresh install of DGM on an XP machine. No Galciv. My feeling is that this has to be something on the Stardock server end. The timing of having the new beta go up and many people no longer having Galciv show up in DGM is just too coincidental. Sigh Magus

Reply to Galciv no longer visible in DGM? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just tried a fresh install of DGM version .66b on a brand new machine and still no Galciv. Everything else, including B.U.G.S. shows up just fine. It crossed my mind that it might have been OS related as my primary machine is running Windows 2000 but the new machine is running XP and I get the same behavior. At this point it pretty much has to be something on the Stardock server end of things. Sigh Magus

Reply to Galciv no longer visible in DGM? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No joy. I tried a complete uninstall, delete everything left behind, then reinstall. Still no Galciv. Magus

Galciv no longer visible in DGM? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As of this evening Galciv is no longer a choice to either play or update in DGM. Show betas is checked and B.U.G.S. shows up just fine but Galciv is gone. I can still play the game if I run the executable directly but DGM disavows it's existence. Puzzling Magus

Galciv Crash - not caught by SmartException in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't know what caused it but it Galciv is crashing with without SmartException picking it up. I get a Visual C++ popup window that states: Damage after normal block #39141 at 0x14A8080 A symptom of the problem is that I had a rather hefty survey ship 130+ hitpoints, 100+ in both attack and defense and was a level 5 well on the way to level 6 ship and when I restore from the save that I made just before the crash the values for the survey ship are set back to 100 odd HP, dou

Reply to mcpserver - shutdown failure in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So far so good. I just updated to the .090 version of SmartException that was referenced in a posting a few days ago and my Windows 2000 machine now both starts up and shuts down properly with SmartException installed and running. Magus

Reply to Survey ship - minor display problem with hitpoints in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Whoops. Last line should have read "there isn't room in the display for ships with current HP / max HP values of more than 2 digits." Cheers Magus

Reply to Survey ship - minor display problem with hitpoints in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No such claim is intended :) but in my current game I still have my first survey ship running around and it's up to 139 hitpoints and there's only room in the display for ships with current HP / max HP values of more than 2 digits.

Survey ship - minor display problem with hitpoints in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There isn't room in the hitpoint field to display the current and max HP for a survey ship that manages to reach triple digit hitpoints. Cheers Magus

mcpserver - shutdown failure in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well....it's better than it was. With the 066b build of DGM I no longer get the mcpserver failure on startup but what I now have is that the system no longer shuts down properly. During shutdown background tasks now hang during shutdown and require either a manual intervention or wait for the OS to decide that the task isn't responding to the shutdown command and have the OS kill the task before the shutdown will complete. If I disable mcpserver and smartexception the problem

Reply to SmartException/MCP problems? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The app below is the one I used to disable the errant Smartexception. There are many different avenues for a program to load at startup and one of the apps that I have found for finding them all is a nifty little free-standing app called "Startup Control Panel". http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml It works on any version of Windows newer than 3.1. Cheers Magus

Reply to colony ship and transoprt ship balance in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One of the things that keeps coming up is the concept of ship ranges as a way to keep the game moving. MOO2 implemented this concept in a good way in the guise of researching advanced power sources for ship propulsion. If Galciv were to do something similar it would go a long way towards mitigating the following problems: - every habitable planet in the galaxy is nailed down early in the game. - every race is able to explore the entire galaxy fairly early in the gam

Reply to Smart Execption - Problems in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ever since I downloaded and installed the newest version of DGM the mcpserver.exe start failure message was a constant. I had to remove it's attempt to load itself from the Windows 2000 registry. The ability to uninstall Smart Exception is something that should be looked at while the cause of this error is being looked at. It shouldn't be necessary to have to find a registry entry to "uninstall" something. Cheers Magus