Jonnan001

Jonnan001

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Reply to Dead horse buffet in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I think what irritates me is that this seemed (to me) to be what was *obviously* going to happen when the GOP was having photo-ops of themselves with the regulations and a chainsaw in the 90's. I could just scream - Now McCain's commenting about how the problems were caused by 'Greedy Wall Street Speculators'. "Umm, Senator McCain, with deepest respect, did anyone mention to you when you and Phil Gramm were deregulating everything in site . . . It's frickin' *WALL STREET* JACK

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Reply to Game Cheats Are Illegal? in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Bodyless" reply="1" id="1887949"]Sorry for the late answer. I had my head elsewhere Thats exactly what i found. But there there is not a word about inofficial extensions and cheats. And thats what i was talking about. And i do not see how the paragraphs you posted have would garantee you the right to cheat in a computer game, ect.. You obviously misunderstood my post. To clarify: Since bots

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Heh - With apologies to frogboy (who obviously disagrees) I see it as an information theory issue, and frankly my intuitive suspicion that any system that can implement a copy protection system encrypting data sufficiently that it is both A. Accessible to be output and B. Cannot be accessed by any unauthorized attempts in software, despite their having access to the system probably no longer qualifies as a Turing machine. The definition of a Turing machin

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Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Skippio" reply="3" id="1887163"]I have some questions about that... What do you need to take one on a "test flight"? [/quote] So far there have been three attempts to informally schedule 'test flights'. These coincided with similarly unscheduled tests, for marketing purposes, of the Dirac nine targetting computers and the supercharged dilithium foci test of the central doom ray core system. While we feel that the high performance of these marketing

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Reply to Federation and Empire in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Now on to specifics. I have some suggestions for the Klingon tech tree. As was mentioned, basing it off the Drengin tree is the best bet and keeping the slave pit, perhaps renaming them slightly, is perfect. The science labs, however, should not be the slave labs. As Klingons do everything for combat, they would research themselves. Regular science labs would work, but I was thinking labs that have a slightly lower effect on science, but are cheaper and add a slight bon

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Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Our apologies, in accordance with the Psilon 'Bias against the temporary temporally displaced' and 'TARDIS technical teleportation taxation termination' acts, Post Dated Cheques only accepted from Gallifrey Residents, with three forms of ID. (*)(**) All others please pay by cash, wire bank transfer (***), cashier's cheque (***), or major Credit Card (****). Thank You for your interest in our product line. J'nan Precursor Ranger Sales. (*) citizens

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Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Quick thumbnail response (posting from work, need to go home) First and foremost. If, having a legitimate copy, a reasonable person would have to think about downloading a pirated copy simply to be rid of the copy protection, it's an indication of a real issue. Seems obvious, but I bought three neverwinter nights modules and found out I had to be online to play them - despite their being single player modules. I live in the boonies, I have an overpriced ISP, and it was

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Reply to Worst sequel of anything in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="15" id="1885959"]That's because his talents lie with singing. Yeah, I went there.[/quote] Compared to having Scotty hit his head on a beam and having Nichelle Nichols do a fan dance while singing? Okay - Nichelle Nichols doing a fan dance while singing is *not* the worst thing in the world however bad the context might be - she looks better than I will by that age. Or now. Okay, better than I did when I was fit and in t

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Reply to Worst sequel of anything in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Odd numbered Star Trek Movies haven't been mentioned yet, and frankly Star Trek V out-smells anything mentioned yet, including the Star Wars movies *and* the Highlander that shall not be named. Even Episode III (In which we find out the greatest bad guy in the history of fictional bad guys is basically a whiny 'lil shit.) failed to generate the amount of pain caused by Shatner attempting to direct. I'm fine with him as an actor (Sure he was over the top - but dammit, Ji

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Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Cool as that would be, I'm 'fraid it was but a typo...beta is this wed [/quote] Bah - I care not for your 'logic' and 'factual accuracy' - it is a *sign* I tell you, a sign that the dreadlords walk among us, even now, planning their attacks for the end of all, as was foretold! In a completely unrelated event, I happen to have four Precursor Rangers, recently refurbished, leather interior, mini-bar, only 1,000,000 lightyears on the engine, have everything a dreadlord wou

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Reply to What to do with low production planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I wanna see how this new governor setup works - I find I switch stuff over a lot, based on changing factors in the game - get a radioactive/minor world in enemy space, set it up to spam influence mercilessly, later move it over to something for which it's better suited after I've flipped some neighboring worlds - {G}. Hopefully I'll be able to just switch governors now, and the system will take care of the rest - {G}. Jonnan

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Reply to How do you feel about Ability Bonuses? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I find sensors (marginally) for useful than speed - early on you're more likely to actually *find* that planet if your ships can see further. It's not *as* powerful later in the game, but it still means I typically have a few moves warning on things if I keep my eyes open (particularly since the AI doesn't seem to build for speed), plus with "eyes of the universe" I never have to pay for sensors on starbases. Creativity I'm almost getting to the point of not using - it only kicks in o

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v2.0 Preview in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The color of any civ can be changed when you are setting up the game. [quote]I've never tried that. Are the changes persistent across games? [quote]Yes, as with any change, it goes into the customrace files in My Docs\My Games\GC2... and persists until you clear it.[/quote][/quote][/quote] I feel stupid - I've been playing with my colors trying to find a good one for ages, it never occurred to me to just, change everyone else. HAH screw you Krynn - try b

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Reply to Population, food, morale in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Just out of curiosity - is there any bad point to low Morale *besides* elections? I started a game this weekend to get myself back into practice for 2.0, and I've been doing well on all my planets except for the Thalan homeword, where they built some neat little super-project that generates eight food on a capital world that already has 16 from the capital - so a 24 Billion Population cap, and that jump from 20 billion to 24 billion is a doozy (Terakris, the psilon capital world, has 20 billi

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Reply to Federation and Empire in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh, yes, and I forgot to add that disruptors would replace phasors and would have slightly different stats. Say, a little more powerful and expensive than regular phasors, with slightly less room being needed.[/quote] Actually, classically, the exact opposite - Disruptors were slightly less powerful, a lot less "Swiss Army Knife" useful, but cheap. I think the classic Phaser/Disruptor comparison was from DS 9 - Paraphrasing from Major Kira (IIRC) "This is

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Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]GAH they must have meant 2012!!! That's the next time sep 26th falls on a Wednesday afterall....[/quote] He's cracked that codec, the final piece before the end of all things, as prophecied in Revelations, the tale of Ragnarok, Nostrademus, ancient Indian tales, and Battlestar Galactica 1980 - Now, only now will the four Dread Lords of the Apocalypse ride in their fully customized Precursor Rangers, with custom Corinthian Leather <span style="font-size: xx-small;

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

Whine Whine Whine bitch bitch bitch. Each of the threads they gave had quite a few details about specific parts of the game, from which, which my twelth level intelligence, I deduce that they were separated so people could get details on the parts that they were most closely interested rather than either have a massive four page fp, or an announcement that gave so very little detailed info that people didn't have enough info to even ask relevant questions. "no time to be nice"

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Reply to Analyze my game . . . in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]All things considered, things have turned around from pretty bleak to sunshine and rainbows (not that robots get sentimental over sunshine and rainbows . . . or do they?) I'm not sure how much of my survival was a result of a well timed plague, but oh well--I'm back in business and ready to roll![/quote] We find the separation of electromagnetic frequencies in our photo-voltaic recharge circuitry quite . . . refreshing, actually. Some days we can almost hold organic life forms

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Reply to GCII 2.0 - The Planetary Governors in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]a big reason i rename my starbases immediately after contructing them. then at least the alphabetical sorting helps me a bit. but the info you mentioned would be a nice addition. the way sorting works on the mini lists could use a slight tweek IMHO. on the planets mini-list, for example, there are many useful ways you can sort the list, but the sorting option itself would work better as a pull-down list. it can be frustrating using the left/right arrows to cycle through the

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