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Reply to So how DO I download the english version of GalCiv II? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="StarkillerDGDG" reply="5" id="1916027"]Uninstalled and deleted everything, with still the same result. Turned out the german language was in the (campaign-) save games (huh?). Started a new campaign, and everything is as it should be now. Thanks again for the help.[/quote] This would be a symptom of save games using the files/version they are started with; a common example of this is not being able to insert new ships into an active game. Glad you found

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: v2.0 is coming... in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I found Galactic Civilizaiont II in August. I love it, wife hates it. I just purchased the expansion pack with the digital download. How do I get the v2.0 update? I have looked on SDC and Impulse with no luck. [/quote] 2.0 isn't out yet, although there's a Twilight beta up on Impulse, 1.99rc (which is not on SDC, but 2.0 will be). In addition, it's mostly updates to Twilight, with some things backported to Dark Avatar. EDIT: Loo

Reply to Why won't this Dreadlord ship die? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="bogga1066" reply="2" id="1915621"]Ah so that's it. You can't destroy each other. Gotcha. Yeah I'm a long way off from being able to do what you described. I'm glad it's not a bug. I just need to set up a containment strategy until I can deal with them much later on. Thanks for the explanation and the quick reply! [/quote] Then try 20+ tinies in a fleet. Weapons don't matter, as long as they're pre

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="4" id="1915591"]Nice. March 15 for me IIRC. That was some time ago now.[/quote] Et tu, Brute?

Reply to Why won't this Dreadlord ship die? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Combat model changed in DA. Important things to note are as follows: All ships fire at least the first round in a combat now, even if they're destroyed in the first hit. Each weapon on a ship fires once per round of combat. Tie rule added; if both ships/fleets destroy each other after 50 (ship) or 300 (fleet) rounds of combat, the ship/fleet with the highest attack survives with 1 hp. Given the above, your best bet would seem to be a fleet full of fighters-more

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="dystopic" reply="25" id="1915550"]i dunno, that's just how it's programmed. though if i had to field a guess, i'd say that the way the game calculates your score, winning on april 1 or earlier would result in an unrealistically high score. maybe. like i said, i don't know.[/quote] Based on my understanding of how game length depreciates score, this isn't the case. I'd be glad to present math on it but I'm having difficulty finding an acceptable set of numbers to wo

Reply to Building a good economic planet in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

@EF Thank you, for being gracious in "defeat". But it's really not about right or wrong, or who wins or loses. You might have noticed I've been wrong on a few things myself around this forum. [e digicons]:)[/e] While I don't share your desire for an income-dependent production modifier in GCIII or other future games, I have to agree that it would be very interesting. And if your shred of hope that things actually work that way motivates

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="LedZerggelin" reply="21" id="1915532"]Question Does the Metaverse flag for cheating if you up the research time to 'fast' from 'normal'. It just played about 4 games and the only thing I changed was research speed on the last game.[/quote] That's a negative, to my knowledge. There is no reason why it should, but I haven't played an MV game myself. Since we're in the ZYW thread, did you happen to finish the game too early?<

Reply to 1.99(rc) Bugs and Issues in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Seilore" reply="1" id="1915485"]Here is something that I'm not sure is a bug, with the new spy game, it doesn't seem to be working, I have spy stealing checked in the game screen, however, it doesn't steel any techs. I have advanced knowledge of all 9 of the major races in the game, yet I haven't stole a singel tech. I have only been spying on the races not on individual planets. What is the point of spying on the computer when I can't get anything out

Reply to New Player: Declaring war and Econ in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="George Simpson" reply="4" id="1915426"]Declaring war is one of your options on the left side of the diplomacy window. I guess it might be difficult to declare war on a race that doesn't want to talk to you because you just traded with them, but if you can't attack them this turn anyway I don't see that it makes a difference.[/quote] I was going to post this as well, but I fired up a DL game and the option does not appear to be present. Additionally, DL

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

If I might change the subject momentarily: Economics . The topic seems to have degenerated from its original purpose into a questioning of game mechanics, as it relates to an economy's effect on research and production. It'd be appreciated if some of you guys would care to stop by and put in your two cents worth, as it seems we have a veritable smorgasbord of knowledgeable and/or veteran players in this thread (whether or not they are in th

Reply to Questions on the current usability state of Galciv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="whismerhill" reply="12" id="1915402"]I may be wrong but I think the only problem(with planetary management) is the "All X strategies" which it seems the AI cannot use (or doesn't know, same result)and that gives the player a huge advantage. But there's other problems like it seems that the AI doesn't use DA espionage system except for nullifying your own spies.[/quote] Oh, wow . If I may ask, what difficulty are you playing? I even

Reply to Building a good economic planet in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

@EF That's where you're wrong. Never believe you can predict me, EF. I'm still tackling this on a per-planet basis because the math is much, much simpler there and there are far less variables. - Based on some of your other posts, you play consistently or frequently at or above Masochistic. Look into the numerous posts that I and others have made regarding the hidden bonus that the human player gets to research

Reply to Higher Difficulty Level gameplay tips & strategies for TOA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Correct, hostile environments don't penalize your research output, just industrial.

Reply to DA Fleet Glitch 3/0 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Joemr102" reply="2" id="1914543"]I am also having this problem and it is relentless. I have had to halt my conquering of the Arceans as I can not get my ships to their worlds! I'm using version 1.80g.100 Dark Avatar. I thought I'd post here instead of creating a new post to save clutter.[/quote] Fleet movement bug only exists in 1.80e; it's fixed in 1.80g. SDC is lying to you. Change your HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar Versi

Reply to Building a good economic planet in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Extant Faora" reply="11" id="1914506"]Yeah!!! I know that for a fact. And there is no need to be a DICK WITH EARS!!!! (Although I find it amusing that we're having such a heated argument over this!!!)[/quote] Do me a favor. Fire up a new game-on Cakewalk if you like, so the AI doesn't interfere. Set your tax rate low enough that your pop grows-100% approval is best. Set your research slider to 100%. Drag your pro

Reply to Building a good economic planet in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Extant Faora" reply="6" id="1914307"]I did not say what you said-A. And B, what you said is way more confusing, not to mention wrong. Compared to mine which is simple and to-the-point, and perfect in every way.[/quote] Are you fucking kidding me? Do you honestly believe that an empire with a single planet (the homeworld), with 24 research and 24 industry, at 100% research funded, with no bonuses, will produce more than 24 points of research <s

Reply to Year Zero Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="LedZerggelin" reply="6" id="1914258"]Ok, I'll give that a go. But do you guys usually have to chase colony ships or do you eradicate them before the AI has a chance to colonize another world?[/quote] Under most circumstances, with rare everything, even in a gigantic or immense, there simply shouldn't -be- any other planets for the AI to colonize. I had a gigantic rare-everything DA game somewhat recently just for fun (not intended to be a ZYW), and I found

Reply to What? No 64-bit support for Cisco??? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="2" id="1914143"]I also hope Windows 7 doesn't come in 50 flavors like Vista. Too confusing without adding much value.[/quote] Indeed. There are almost as many flavors of Linux as there are of Vista. ;) (That was a joke, people.)

Reply to Best AI of all times - why, oh why?! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Silverbeacher" reply="10" id="1914122"]best way to increase the difficulty 10 fold without giving the AI any actual bonuses (so at Tough): Play with Blind Exploration on. Trust me, your game goes from easy to very difficult without any actual "change" in the numbers.[/quote] What if we do that already? ;) I haven't actually noticed that much of a difference playing with it on or off, to be honest. I suppose that means I'm doing someth

Reply to What? No 64-bit support for Cisco??? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="24" id="1914076"]About the "server targeted" thing... i use for gaming a dual Xeon 4 core with 16 gb ram... yep, it is a server computer... and it give me a very good result for game... Sins run very good on it... before, i was using XP pro 64 bit but these was crashing once the game was using more of 5 gb ram... now, i use Linux and some game have reach over 6 gb ram without problem... Open-solaris work almost good ( some problem with my 7.1+2HD sound system )...

Reply to What? No 64-bit support for Cisco??? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="21" id="1914057"]I knew I should went into computing instead of customer service. hehe So I have 64 bit hardware but Windows does not have any 64 bit os for the main public on vista. How nice.[/quote] Vista has 64-bit versions, but 32-bit is still the default for some ungodly reason. In addition, I'm fairly positive Home Basic is 32-bit only, although I have no idea if that's relevant, as most default installs ten

Reply to 20000BC limit discussion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Right. I would tend to agree on that as well. It only applies to the lower difficulties, though-on Maso and up, and possibly even on those above Tough (haven't done that much testing or research), it's an every turn thing.

Reply to What? No 64-bit support for Cisco??? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Solam" reply="16" id="1913968"]Thank you Kryo that is very clear. Now I am pissed mad. I just bought a new laptop 3 weeks ago and if I had known I would of looked for 64 bits LOL My core 2 duo in in my specs says 32 bits... DANG IT!! Edit Spelling error[/quote] C2D is 64-bit hardware. Most hardware at this point in time is 64-bit (with 32-bit backwards compatibility-with the

Reply to 20000BC limit discussion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="1913941"]p.s. Re save patterns, I strongly recommend *against* making your autosave every turn. If you set it to something larger, say 10-15 turns, *and* remember that CTRL+S is your friend, then the quick save is your immediate ditch option and the autosave gives you some time to figure out that something really, really bad happened.[/quote] On the "lower" difficulty settings (Tough and below; possibly up to sub-Maso but I doubt it), the AI will,