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Reply to Pop growth + useless buildings in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

For what it's worth, just to nitpick, your post has plenty to do with population, but very little to do with the growth thereof. Secret Police Center has never worked properly and may never be fixed; the description implies it's supposed to be a flat approval bonus, rather than a morale bonus (morale is depreciated by population, whereas approval itself is not). I'm afraid I don't have an answer for the Galactic Resort, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was also supposed to be

Reply to How is the planetary research output (number of flasks) calculated? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="9" id="2501161"]But there is still an error of ~ 0.1%-0.5% therein, I can't solve. Works with no bonuses pretty fine, also with 100% planetary bonus (TechCap), but with only 25% (RCC) the number of flasks is over-calculated, 1 or 2 flasks too much in a length of ~1000 flasks. Also I couldn´t confirm this with another racial-bonus, will see next game.... Do you know how the other difficulty-modifiers are?[/quote] The game h

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

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="3818" id="2501205"]Wow, SS! I though you had fallen into a black hole. Welcome back! Be sure to stop in at the Kzinti forums at the COore. Sentient species taste better...[/quote] Nah...it's a long story, I'll tell you later. Yeah, I actually forgot my username there, and took an hour or so to remember it :)

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

The prodigal son returns.

Reply to How is the planetary research output (number of flasks) calculated? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Base: 158 Buildings: 150% (omega & DA tech capital) Racial: 91% * 2.64 (Suicidal modifier) = 240(.24)% 158 * 2.5 * 3.4 = 1343 158 * 2.5 * 3.4024 = 1343.948 It seems I may have been incorrect about it truncating. -Research treaties don't show up on individual planets [quote who="Maiden666" reply="2" id="2496661"]The only time when the number of flasks equates to your formula is - when there is no racial bonus, no "outside" bonus, and no planet

Reply to Opponents - Customizing Standard Races in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]1. Am I supoosed to use the Ability Points of them or does the AI use those "unused" (or even all even if I choose Abilitys myself) [/quote] The AI will allocate its points if you do not do so. [quote]2. If I have customized one of the Standard Races how do I "reset" it to its Standard Values. (I had a for Example Changed the Name and the Pic of Terran Alliance a few games ago and those new Values are still in Place for all new Games i start)[/quote]

Reply to Unforgivable Game FLAWS in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Atheist2" reply="6" id="2139184"]Uh oh, I need to look for a box with a checkmark in it to keep the components in there??? Okay, I'll play and take a look-see, must be miniscule. [/quote] It's in options, under Interface-the check box is Remove functional components when upgrading a design and if memory serves it is checked by default, so you'd need to uncheck it to truly upgrade an existing design, otherwise you're just upgrading the hull. My apologies for not

Reply to Unforgivable Game FLAWS in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In the third instance, it's also possible you did not have the required tech (extreme habitable worlds) when it arrived, but did shortly thereafter. This would cause it to fail colonizing initially, but doesn't prevent you from doing so after you research the appropriate tech. Second instance seems almost identical to the first. In the first instance, there's a checkmark in options that you need to be aware of that clears all functional components from a hull when you go

Reply to Terror Stars - how to guide in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DisneyDestroyer" reply="13" id="2138764"] Quoting Loupdinour, reply 11 Yes. Even YOUR ships if you have any in the system. The Terror Star survives the blast though. This is the part that always confused me. This huge thing can withstand driving into a sun and a subsequent explosion which is big enough to destroy surrounding planets...But it can be taken out by a tiny ship with a single laser. HUH???[/quote] Which is why I

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]But that's not really what the major religions have said God is. It's what a very small subset of modern-day theological philosophers have said God is. For the vast majority of people, they are saying that God is an actual physical guy floating around, using magic to perform miracles, making it sunny when they want to have a picnic, and sending gay people to hell.[/quote] See, now we need a distinction between what people think religion says and what religion actually says.&n

Reply to What a waste of MY time in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Play sandbox to learn the game; the campaign isn't designed to teach it to you, it's designed to tell a story. Yes, the Dread Lords are tough. It's actually easier if you play a higher difficulty because then your allies aren't foaming at the mouth and can actually help you. The lack of retaining progress from one level of the campaign to another has been complained about before and hopefully witll be addressed in GC3, the next iteration, but it's a bit too late in GC2's

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The automatic networking troubleshooter[/quote] Is a joke. Sorry, it had to be said.

Reply to Building money(?), and other newbie project questions (Long post) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Invention matrix is +12, Neutrality is +14.[/quote] Whoa, whoa. NLCs are 18 in TA, 22 in DA, 22 in DL. So I take it you're comparing it to the Xeno Lab, which is a bad idea if you're simply counting how much more it is. Matrixes are 14 in TA as opposed to a Xeno Lab at 8-that's almost twice as much. In answer to your question, though, there's no better research building than NLCs, and perhaps more importantly, they're not even that much better than d

Reply to How can I increase the tech costs in the tech tree in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Arendis" reply="5" id="2137282"]Ok, i did this. But now i'am struggling with the Start "Tech Points" 8custom race) - those 200 defaul aren't enought anymore. So, how do i Increase these points?[/quote] Since you don't care about MV, you can edit the raceconfigxml file and add in new techs that your race can start with, like so: NewPropulsion You can either edit the raceconfigxmls saved in \My Documents\My Games\<appropriate GC2 f

Reply to Report Button Not Working in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

Is the post you're reporting terribly long? I know the karma window pops up over the start of the post, so if it's a long post, you have to scroll up quite a bit to see it.

Reply to Math Changes in TOA in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

1) High population planets aren't worthwhile not because they don't generate cash or influence, but because the morale required is prohibitive. TA has slightly more income from tourism (it was down and then up in the betas, my guess is 15-25% more at this point, but I haven't run the numbers and to be honest I don't think anyone even has a tourism formula), but that's about it. 2) Covered in 1: No. Torians have a 50% morale building now, which helps, but with the native

Reply to Okay, newb question here. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

They're in \My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Screenshots or \My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\Screenshots I don't believe the shortcut works for DL (that is, it doesn't autosave a screenshot in that directory), but I could be wrong.

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="makeshiftwings" reply="8" id="2136722"]Again, I think this comes down to linguistics. I would say that "lacking all qualities of existence, like provability or physicality" is exactly what the word "nonexistant" means. You're saying that there is this thing which, in every possible way, is exactly the same as a lack of that thing. A thing that in every way appears to be nonexistant. That's what nonexistant means. You can't say that this thing "exists"

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Except that logic does not fail. Everything can be proved by logic: that's what science is.[/quote] If God exists, He can choose whether the universe operates in such a way that you can prove that he does-or doesn't. So even if you prove he doesn't, he might. And if you happen to prove that he does, it's possible he might not, with the first instance being that he did, but has since died (which would seem to contradict the idea of being God, but the Catholic churc

Reply to Steam games on Impulse in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Re: Vista Granted, Vista wasn't as bad at launch as XP was at launch. However: -When XP launched, we had recently been treated to ME, the worst piece of shit MS has ever come up with. -Prior to that, 2K worked badly enough that scores of people were still on 98. (This doesn't mean 2k was a bad OS, per se-just that it was a workstation OS, although I personally don't like it and it shows, even though XP was built off of it.) -The difference in functionality be

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It's clear that Frosted Flakes are grrreat[/quote] [/thread] For what it's worth, I read the ontological argument, or at least this thread's phrasing of it, as a logical proof that you can't prove that God exists since it (supposedly) uses logic to prove that he in fact does , and as an extension of that, that in some things logic need not apply for the job-which I understood to be the original intent of DalzK's post.

Reply to Science and God (One and the same?) in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If you can accept that the universe always existed why can there not be a creator who always existed?[/quote] Science isn't arguing that the universe has always existed, for one.

Reply to Looking for a tool to tweak tech trees and building costs in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="KSesler" reply="3" id="2135835"]Hi, yes, I do have twilight. Any help in letting me know names of the editors and or location would be appreciated. Simplifies things a bit. Also, do you remember the name of the tech editor? maybe I could do a google search. Thanks. Keith[/quote] Load up the launcher (TALaunch.exe) and the third option down is Editors. They're located in the Tools folder in the Twilig

Reply to Multiple Altarian civs in meta games in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GeneralEtrius" reply="4" id="2135801"]Why exactly did Stardock get rid of Netro Mancer anyway?[/quote] In relation to a discussion we had the other day in another thread about the fact that the Altarians are practically defeated in the story in DL, the remnants thereof comprise the Altarian Resistance, as opposed to the Altarian Republic. Granted, the backstory in Brad's posts and in various other places on the site provide more information than the game does, oddl

Reply to Looking for a tool to tweak tech trees and building costs in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]without having to do a lot of xml programming?[/quote] XML isn't programming; it's practically plaintext. The portions you'd be altering would be, at least-and there's no "recompiling" to be done, either, although you do have to start a new game to see the changes. Step 1: Right click on PlanetImprovements.xml in the \Data\English folder in the appropriate GC2 folder and select Open With, then select Notepad. Step 2: Use the find function to locate the buildi