I can't get to the Metaverse Account info to change my e-mail address. I tried FireFox 4.0 and IE9. It just goes back to the main Metaverse page. My addr will be deactivated soon, I may not be able to use the old addr for confirmation after today!
When you research the proper thing for your ship hull, like Battleship hull, you can then click on the "templates" tab and choose a hull of the ones available - in the construction interface. You may not be able to choose the Battleship otherwise, until you research more things like required weapon and shields. Don't wait for that, use templates, or design your own from scratch. If you wait, you will miss victory oppurtunities.
1. Minor races do that (in non-TA versions anyway). 2. That is a "Mega-event," you had a revolt and a faction took over Earth. Apparently you missed the notification popup. Sometimes I mindlessly click these away too, as I assume they are another notification. These happen at the beginning of your turn. I don't think DL has this feature (it's a DA & TA only feature). You may be able to turn off these events with the checkmark or the slider at the beginning of your g
I am curious: What is your graphics card? SLI? System specs?
First, did you install Impulse, and update your game? If no, that is probably the problem. What's more, there were many more gameplay enhancements (positive) that were made since the original popular version. If you still have this problem, I would suspect a sound driver or graphics issue. Also, sometimes reinstalling the game fixes bad install issues (uninstall first). Personally I highly recommend you upgrade to Twilight of Arnor. It may fix your problem. Even better, upgrade to Dar
[quote who="RyanLeoWildMoon" reply="518" id="2826332"]they have given the game more depth, realism, and strategy. In short...I feel this game is absolute perfection in it's genre.[/quote] I agree. Great job, Stardock, and Kryo! I love this game. Replayability max!
I know this reply is late. I think it works like this: When you start a game, the game checks to see what ships meet the criteria to be shown in the shipyard. Saving and loading a game will not result in a re-assessment. It will not re-asses your available ships again until you complete a ship-related research, sans newly created designs created within the same game. When it re-assesses your ships available, you must have all the techs used when you created said ship (don't forget the
[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="108" id="2821592"]Ctrl-N works just fine with Metaverse games. However there is one thing you need to be careful of and that is that randomly and for no apparent reason your difficulty level could be reset to cakewalk and if you're not looking you might not even notice it until later in the game when the AI's don't really bother to colonize or otherwise show any signs of life. There's an easy way to avoid this and it's simply to pay a
I prefer to restart games over and over again (dozens) until I get a planet with good bonuses, and a good map setup. This is the (only) way to play on the highest skill levels (and win). I have a laggy Satellite Internet connection, and login takes about 10sec and sometimes fails due to the extreme lag, especially in early evening time. I know the thing to restart a new game, but I think this only works with non-metaverse games. Once I am logged in, is there any way to (r
I prefer to restart games over and over again (dozens) until I get a planet with good bonuses, and a good map setup. This is the (only) way to play on the highest skill levels (and win). I have a laggy Satellite Internet connection, and login takes about 10sec and sometimes fails due to the extreme lag, especially in early evening time. I know the thing to restart a new game, but I think this only works with non-metaverse games. Once I am logged in, is there any way to (re)start
The Tech rate does not hold for me. EVERY TIME I start a new game I have to manually set the tech rate, no matter what the previous setting; but then the game does progress at that tech rate selected. I have checked the prefs file, and it does indeed have that setting that I selected. All the other settings hold over from previous, it's just the tech rate that does not. Could it be something about the fact that I moved my "My Documents" folder to a different drive???
Update: When the icons do not load, with TA, now all icons (of particular type, like ship construction) do not load - never just some of them. I merely have to immediately check the ship construction menu to see if the problem exists on any particular load. If they are there, it loaded OK. I get about a 20% successful load occurrence.
I thought this problem was solved when I completely uninstalled and reinstalled this game with the TA add-on, but I was mistaken. It only loaded several times sucessfully before it started doing it again, this time playing TA! Sometimes it will load without a problem the first time, other times I have to restart the game engine a dozen times before it loads right. It seems quite random in attempts, it loads right about 1/3 of the time. I have updated ATI drivers a few times, started with 8.69
EDIT: NVM, I figured out the prob, the game installed into the wrong directory on the wrong drive (long story). I will fix myself. I have the same problem, but the fix above did not work. There are good indicators of what's wrong in my debug.err file below. I have Windows 7-64 and DA works fine. ATI CCC 10.4 drivers (10.5 and 10.6 have issues). I think it may have to do with my custom "My Documents" folder location
Moose I changed my desktop res after I configured my game. It fits my CRT monitor better. And neither is my native res, it is 1600X1200. Running at non-native resolutions works better on CRTs than it does on LCDs. UPDATE: I found out after months of occasional BSOD that I had a bad stick of RAM. Yes, it would pass Memtest86+ v4.0 for days of testing. It took me a month to nail it down, but I have RMAd it now and the problem is gone! So apparently it was not a game glitch. But occasion
[quote who="kryo" reply="6" id="2618759"]Did you get an autoreply with a ticket ID when you first mailed in? If not, then there was likely a spam blocking issue on one end or the other.[/quote] No I didn't, and it wasn't on my end, I don't have outgoing spam blocking. I have sent confirm from Eudora.
Apparently GalCiv2 tech support is AWOL. There was no answer from [email protected]. I'm not surprised considering the age of this game.
Upon more testing I have discovered the following additional info about this problem: 1. Planetary icons in the planet finder window also don't load when the ship icons don't load. 2. I can attempt reloading a game infinitely and said icons will never load until I completely exit the game and reload the game interface from the beginning. What's more, if this problem is in effect on game startup, said icons will also be absent if starting a new gam
OK here is a debug.err when the game loaded normally, from the same save: Debug Message: Version v2.01 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Nov 24 16:26:43 2008 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 4/23/2010, 15:02:46 DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Machine Name: MC_EVGA_X58_09 Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rt
OK I'm thinking it has to do with these "no files found" messages, WTF?: Debug Message: Version v2.01 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Nov 24 16:26:43 2008 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 4/23/2010, 12:19:52 DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Machine Name: MC_EVGA_X58_09 Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm
I have a relatively new system, not OCd (presently), awesome power, and unfortunately I have this problem with loading saved games. When I load a saved game, usually the custom ship icons do not all load. Some do. What I mean is the icons used in the ship finder window, and the ones that appear in the lower left of the interface when you select a group of ships. Also, said ship icons may not load in the shipyard (ship selection), and the
OK, yes it was just a fluke. I played a game with Huge map, uncommon stars, uncommon habitable planets, and uncommon number planets; and there were only two extreme condition planets. What's more, the game before it that I aborted had more uncommon planets. However, one thing worth noting: I noticed that if you don't put any spies in the "race-wide" slots, you never advance the "espionage level," and therefore never have stats on
No, I will test further when I get my new rig up and running again, without a mobo right now.
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="5" id="2523001"]Odd question: Do you have them turned down in TA? Perhaps DA is reading the settings from TA?[/quote] I don't have TA.
Please help, is anyone home? Is this thing on (tap, tap)? Debug.err: Debug Message: Version v2.01 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Nov 24 16:26:43 2008 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 1/18/2010, 11:26:14 DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Machine Name: MC_ASUS_RMPG Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_r
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