I don't have that much experience with this game, so when I was playing a few days ago and a single pirate ship took out my entire army, I was quite dismayed. That's when I realized that the core ship designs suck and that I should make my own.
So I've downloaded the full games from Impulse. It took a while since for some reason Impulse servers don't advantage of my full internet capability. It was downloading at 450 KB/s speed only, even though my full download speed is around 1MB/s. Anyways, game seems I don't notice the bugs anymore. Planets now have tiles with resource bonuses, survey modules now have a cost, etc. I also notice that that the launcher program (DAlaunch.exe) is now able to load. Unfortunately when I click
I've had my home planet down to 37% approval without it rebelling. This was with 22% tax rate.
I don't think it is possible to install Dark Avatar by itself with Gal Civ II Gold, so we'd have to download both, which is like 1.6 or 1.7GB? Seriously that is a lot just for a patch. But I am tempted to download as I have been playing unpatched I have noticed several bugs. I hope I don't have to and there is a solution, because forcing people to download over 1.6GB just to patch their game is kind of unfair, no?
I'm not going to download the game and waste my time and monthly bandwidth when I can just install from a CD, just to get a friggin patch. I'll just reinstall it from CD again and see if Impulse can detect. If that doesn't work, then it just an example of why there is so much piracy these days. I don't see why a loyal and paying customer like myself has to go thru this BS. But whatever.
Okay thank you very much. I have tried your instruction, and Impulse detects and imports Dark Avatar no problem, but it won't import Galactic Civilizations II, even though it automatically provides the correct path of folder the game is installed in. It automatically detects the folder location, but then it says there is no Gal Civ II in that folder, when I click on the Import button...
Arcanum - Possibly the best RPG ever. Amazing world design, setting, story, and atmosphere, and unparalleled depth. Just look at the day-night cycles and how they affect the game world, and compare that to Morrowind where the time of day has little to no effect on the game world at all. You can an electronic version of this game $6 USD at GOG.com. Baldur's Gate - Not as deep as Arcanum, but higher production value and great atmsophere. It stil
Stardock Central won't update the game. I tried Impulse but it doesn't even recognize that the game is installed. It will only allow me to install the game (again). I can't find patch anywhere else.
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