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Reply to Help me up my research game in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Not so hard as you think. It's actually easier on Suicidal than Maso/Obscene due to there being a +20 (IIRC could be higher even) to research on Suicidal, so the all lab start really takes off.[/quote] It's a percentage bonus when you have a bonus present. The factor is 2.64 on Suicidal-so if you have a 20% bonus, it's actually a 52.8% bonus (which will wind up being a 52% bonus)-a 40% bonus becomes a 105(.6)% bonus, etc. This also applies to anything above Tough,

Reply to The Millionaire's Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

No, but how long you're going to continue depends on how badly you want it, regardless of what the score turns out to be. I never said wanting it badly enough would get you there; just that it determines how much longer you'll stick it out. :)

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]-Find me a user who actually uses that little and does something other than check their email . Talk to your neighbors much? My mother, my grandmother, my father, half the kids at the college I go to, several of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, the list goes on . . .[/quote] There's also the fact that in my above estimates of my bandwidth consumption I neglected to consider either the bandwidth my father

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to Forum Update - April 2, 2009 in Forum Issues GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="24" id="2125014"] Exactly, that's why the built-in spell checkers don't work. What's a spele chekc?[/quote] ur dung it rong watz a spil chik

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I average 60-80GB a month, and that's on a 768kbit connection. On a connection that wasn't so easy to max out the rate of, I'd probably average 2-3 times that, but that'd be about my limit, regardless of connection speed. If you can find me an ISP that would prefer to do things for the good of the consumer rather than make scads of money, I'm interested. I'm perfectly fine with paying for what I use, but overage charges are, have always been, and will always be ludicrous,

Reply to AI suggested improvements and a couple bugs PLEASE READ in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Maso is Masochistic. It's one above Crippling and the AI gets their economy, production, and research run at 200% of normal (so for instance they have a 50% research bonus, a xeno lab would normally give them 8x1.5=12, now it gives them 8x1.5x2=24, etc), whereas as I noted Crippling only gets an economic multiplier of 125%, which is basically a 25% bonus. It stacks well with the econ racial bonuses, and the AI likes to pick them, but the AI isn't intelligent enough about its slide

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

[quote who="mADDYman" reply="21" id="2124954"]Hey guys, I discovered recently that Apple Macs Safari web browser, which is compatible with windows XP and Vista has spell check built into it which works on all sites. Safari isn't the best browser in the world but if you need a spell check then I recommend trying it out.[/quote] Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Get it off me! I guess I'm the only one who doesn't need a spell check function, hrm? ;)

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Micah" reply="10" id="2124914"]If customers really want no overage a company will eventually do it. For example, perhaps a better business model is one where instead of charging extra, you just stop service, or shape service until the following month. Consumers may like that more in which case a company doing that will end up with more customers.[/quote] I have this crazy idea that I should get what I pay for. Maybe I'm not paying enough.

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

-1 -80 Oh yeah!

Reply to Should Stardock build computers? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="3" id="2124902"]Oh poo, I guess that means I will have to buy one off the shelf then later this year when Win 7 is released. Darn. [/quote] You could always...build your own...

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Micah" reply="8" id="2124884"] Please address the question in the final line of my last post. I don't see a question...[/quote] My bad; I'll restate it in the form of a question. What ISP wouldn't want to charge massive overage charges on a cap that is easily reached? - I don't mind paying more for more. What I mind is arbitrary limits and overage charges.

Reply to The Millionaire's Club in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]By then it becomes pretty obvious. If you haven't made a million by then are you really going to do another year for 4.5K and another for 2.2K, etc.?[/quote] Depends how close you are and how badly you want it. ;)

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

-6mbit is by no means the top of the line. -6mbit is ~2.6GB/hr. -Your assumption of an institution of a bitrate cap that would lead to a 20GB/month cap is...dialup. 8KB/s. (Feel free to correct my numbers, as you may have a different cap-that's the only number I recall seeing in this thread.) -Find me a company that doesn't have a helluva lot more infrastructure than that. -Find me a user who actually uses that little and does something other than check their e

Reply to Time Warner to punish gamers, other internet users. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

The only thing (okay, the most important thing) wrong with your argument is the idea of "uncapped bandwidth". There is no such thing as "uncapped" or "unlimited" bandwidth. The maximum you can get is 24/7/365 downloading at your maximum thoroughput. For a shoddy 768k connection like the one I'm on, that's on average about 240GB/month. For something higher up the line, say a 6Mbit connection, you're looking at 1.92TB/month, give or

Reply to Influance trading Exploit in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]That's why you always put up the influence trade before asking for something - the game runs every integer trade value through whatever algorythm is used to determine whether AI will accept the trade. [/quote] It does this for money, too. Which is very annoying when you're running a treasury of ~5M. [quote]That means the AI is more likely to accept the trade at a lower numerical value, and even if it doesn't accept it doesn't take several minutes to determine that

Reply to Default ship stronger then player designed for no reason? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Grapefruit" reply="7" id="2124595"]I get this too - it's quite annoying. I can't build my own scout ships, because there is no room for the engine. [/quote] 1. Update your game. The problem mentioned in this thread has been patched out. 2. Research miniaturization. It lets you fit more stuff onto your hulls. 3. Use cargo hulls. You can fit vastly more stuff on them than tinies or smalls. 4. Don't use scout ships. Scout with colo

Reply to Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Can anyone tell me if there have been any mods or updates that fix this problem?[/quote] Not moddable; it's a hard code problem. The issue has been addressed before and Brad has defended the decision at least for the GC2 iteration. Feel free to make workable and valid suggestions for GC3, which is due to start development after Elemental launches in February 2010. However , focus was nerfed to 80% efficiency if moving from industry to research or v

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CITRUSGUY" reply="8" id="2124736"]+1 -72 Say What? Citrus [/quote] Illegal post; read the OP. -1 -74

Reply to AI suggested improvements and a couple bugs PLEASE READ in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The not building improvements thing is specific to only some AIs in TA, and has been reported a number of times but has not yet been chased down. They work well in DA, though, and if you change the AI of the AIs in question to a generic one, they will start building more improvements. I'll edit this post or add to the thread if/when I can locate the specifics, as I don't remember which AIs may be affected nor which AI value works the best. As noted, they may not have had t

Reply to Tug Of War! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

-1 -69 I would assume so as well. Please correct us if we're wrong. :)

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Reply to Teams in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

In the opponent selection screen right before you start a new (sandbox) game, select the race in question and alter the relations slider. Unknown is the default, but for some reason it sets relations to Team if you played far enough in the campaign to be on a team with that race. If you're continually playing the campaign, certain races will always be on your team for certain missions.