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Reply to Placing specific planetary bonuses. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Is it possible to actually create new kinds of bonus tiles with hex edit (I don't think it would be, but I hope I'm wrong...)

Reply to Custom Terrain ships in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]using Blender & their DirectX plugins[/quote] I am searching unsucessfully for DirectX plugins for blender myself. If you could give me a link to the site where you downloaded your version, it would save me a lot of Googling...

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]ToTA? Hopefully in a few days... [/quote] Actually, it took me more than a month, but I finally got it. Unfortunately, my 2003 Toshiba laptop lacks sufficient processing power to play it without horrible lags, so I haven't really gotten a chance to see what it has to offer.

Reply to understanding ship component textures (especially in TA) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]plus a couple of hundreds more along with some 'shareware offers' such as Blender).[/quote] I tried opening one of the UV map files with Blender, and they are NOT compatible.

Reply to Placing specific planetary bonuses. in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I can't do anything about the search function, but I can tell you that those bonus tiles are IMPOSSIBLE to mod. I really wish they were, but no matter how much I complain the devs will not (maybe just cannot) make them moddable!

Reply to Reusable Transports in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

A way to avoid the "genocide run" problem would be to have the transports get destroyed if every soldier on them dies on the planet. But I agree with your (and your roommate's) point. If you conquor(sp?) a planet, your transport should be in orbit over that planet afterwards.

Reply to Recruitment System & Soldiers: Added Dimension in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]It is one way, albiet probably the main way, to add RePs to the base stock each player is assigned @ the start, along with improvements, maybe anomalies & resources, and techs.[/quote] And ethical choices. Let's not forget those.

Reply to Life-like Solar System and Planetary Disasters in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

With regards to the star-destruction thing: maybe have some stars be "Nova Risks" i.e. @ the end of their life-span or just naturally unstable. They would have an icon on them like you get on planets, as well as a "Our astronomers predict that this star is likely to explode" popup if you colonize one of the planets. You can colonize the planets around such a star, but you run the risk of it going nova and destroying all the planets and any ships that get too close.

Reply to GC2: The Bringers of Light in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

What program did you use to create the race portraits, & where did you get it? I have attempted to create portraits before for other mods, & have gotten nowhere.

Reply to The Basic Story behind The Bringers of Light TC for TA in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I am basically undecided with regards to liking/disliking the plot, but humans having stargate technology by 2025 seems a bit unrealistic to me. My advice: either set the dates ahead significantly (as in stargates by 2100 or so), or have the stargate device be alien technology that somehow found its way to Earth.

Reply to New player who is struggling with a few things in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I cannot answer 1 or 2 because I am impulse-phobic and still use Stardock Central, but as to 3: This is the normal behavior of the AI at normal, plus the fact that the campeighns start out easy and get more difficult as they go on.

Reply to A modding question in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

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Reply to Changing the hot spot of cursors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

After running some experiments with images that happened to be lying around on my desktop, I came to the same conclusion as you that the cursors are not really "meant" to be modded. As for the left-handed cursors, you're right that the INI file was not really meant for Gal Civ and that left-handed cursors need to be supported in code. Over all, it doesn't look that good if you want to mod cursors. I would recommend just what yo're doing, namely backing up the original and r

Reply to Changing the hot spot of cursors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

This is really wierd. I'm going to mess around with cursors myself and see what happens when I change them.

Reply to Changing the hot spot of cursors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Also, it doesn't seem possible to throw the modded cursors in My Documents/My Games/GC2TwilightArnor/ and have them work either.[/quote] You need to give your new cursor the exact same name as the default cursor, and put it in the exact same folder for it to work. [quote]So far as I can tell, nothing I change in the INI file for a modded set of cursors actually has any effect. The cursors themselves definitely work (they're basically flipped horizontal

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

ToTA? Hopefully in a few days... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, looks like this wish list has gotten a bit out of control. Guess that's what happens when you mix a perfectionistic streak with extreme verbosity.

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

12. In the race selection screen, have the computer assign all of the ability points not assigned to abilities for AIs be randomly assigned. This would close the tried-and-true AI-nurfing strategy of giving your player all of the abilities you can while you give the AIs none, as well as making it possible to include something like the Pants Penalties mod as a default part of the game w/o screwing up the strategy.

Reply to Question About AI Colonization in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

Or you can buy or te=rade the offending colony ship from the trade screen. Of course, it's more productive to let them colonize, then flip, but if you REALLY don't want themm to get that planet for some reason, then buy the ship and decomission it.

Reply to Me again! Horrible Lag In DA This Time... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Odd, it seems to have resolved itself. Maybe I atoned for whatever I did in my past life.

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

11. Have anomalies randomly appear in space throuought the game. It gets boring after all of the anomalies have been snapped up. Maybe they already do, and I just don't notice it, but it cerainly seems like there's a finite amount. This is not realistic and it makes the game boring. Maybe even have a non-participation event (or whatever the heck they're actually called) that incresases/decreases the frequency of generation, like a recession for anomalies.

Reply to Tourism income in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I know it's a bit late, but I second that.

Reply to Recruitment System & Soldiers: Added Dimension in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]For invasions, the soldiers from the transport fight to the death against the soldiers on the planet. If the invasion succeeds, the planet's population stays the same, and the surviving soldiers become that planet's soldiers.[/quote] Maybe have invasion tactic penalties include killing a certain % of civillians, along with destroying imps and lowering planet quality.

Reply to A few random ideas. in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

REPLYING TO WILLYTHEMAILBOY: Good point. I like the idea of not getting the benifits until the money is paid, as well as the more expensive costs. As to the problem of players flipping , I was thinking of having the bonuses for choices that do not match your alignment be sharply reduced, i.e. if a Good player chooses an evil choice, that bonus is not nearly as good as if an evil player made the same choice. That would prevent the player from flipping to get the best choice, while stil

Reply to Recruitment System & Soldiers: Added Dimension in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

Of course, millitary ratings should factor in the number of troops, not just ships.