Charvel1

Charvel1

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Reply to Articles/Tutorials for a Newbie in Strategy Sins Forums

I'll assume you're playing single-player only at this point. Start by playing on a small map; either a random generated one or something like Point Blank. Play as TEC. On a small map you will only have one or two computer opponets. Set them to Easy or whatever the lowest difficulty setting is. Opening strat generally, for me anyways is: 1) Build Crystal extractors 2) Build Capital Ship factory 3) Queue up a capital ship (usually a Kol or

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Reply to GC vs SE in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I originally heard a lot of buzz about Sins and went and bought it; fell in love with it. It's easy to get into even without reading the manual. The tooltips are great and it's not hard to figure stuff out after a little trial and error and a few games. I had been an exclusively World of Warcraft player for three years and hardly played anything else, but when I finally left WoW and picked up Sins it filled the void. I was impressed with the design, lack of micro-management, zoom capabilities

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Reply to SOSE badly needs a Scenario/Story line in single player mode!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="CenturionJixra" reply="3" id="2043413"] The problem with your argument is that the online multiplayer "pros" and many of the online multiplayer players who are merely above average would steamroll over the single player "pros" if they ever played against each other. I'm not saying this to make anyone feel badly; I'm just telling it like it is.[/quote] I don't doubt what you're saying there Centurion. The point of my post was to point out the stupidity of po

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Reply to Why I haven't enjoyed multiplayer RTS since Myth: TFL in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote quoting="post"]On the other hand there was Myth (it's sequel was even more amazing), a slow paced, no resources, purely commanding your units game. There was micromanagement but your forces only consisted of about 30 units at best. You commanded them as an army, having your archers nowhere near your thralls or soldiers was crazy, each had their role. The game didn't have build orders, it didn't need shortcut keys to switch to different base buildings, rushing was unli

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Reply to SOSE badly needs a Scenario/Story line in single player mode!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="L9000" reply="19" id="1986616"]Im gonna word it the way competitive players feel about it: There are 2 kinds of players, PROS and NOOBS. NOOBS want a story. PROS want to POWN in multiplayer!! Its the Competitive (PROS) players that keep the game alive year after year. This happens in Multiplayer not in story mode... [/quote] Good argument! I'm gonna try to rebut: Ummm, hmmmm, what's a go

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Need help with Campaign mission - Achilles' Heel in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm pretty new to this game but really loving it and starting to get the hang of things and strategies. Currently I'm playing the campaign through the Twilight interface. I'm on the Achilles' Heel mission of the Dread Lords campaign and I'm having some difficulties with it. Hoping someone can help. I've tried it about 3 times now and can't figure out how to win. I've tried the mission on Cakewalk and Normal (I put it to Normal thinking my teammates would come alive and do something in the gam

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Reply to How to build starbases and the combat simulator in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="pndrev" reply="1" id="2035806"] 2) What combat simulator???[/quote] Perhaps I'm naming it wrong. I'm thinking of the screen where you can watch the space battles between your ships and the enemies. And you can replay, go forward, backward...

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How to build starbases and the combat simulator in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Couple of questions: 1) What do I need to build starbases? Seems like I was able to do it once in a sandbox game (but don't remember how) but in the Dread Lords campaign I cannot figure out how to do it. 2) How do you enter the combat simulator during a battle? Thanks

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Reply to Should my first play be with all the expansions installed? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just bought the game plus the expansions as well and have been playing for a week or so. My advice would be to play a Cakewalk game in the Dread Lords interface first; or at least part of one to get the feel of things. Then start playing from the Twilight interface; and yes you can play the full campaign from the Twilight interface. A good starter place is the Beginner's Guide that can be found here: https://forums.galciv2.com/104908

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Flagships, Invading planets, and Stacking in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi there, newbie here with a few questions. I have read the Beginner's Strategy guide and some AARs (with pictures; the one at Galciv2Guide.com is good). However, I can't find anything on the campaigns except the through Wiki site and that only gives the same info that you get in the game. By the way, I'm playing the campaign through the Twilight of the Arnor interface and I'm on the first mission 'An Unexpected Visitor'. The mission objectives state that we need to take the 3 planets

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II and its expansions in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Thanks folks for all the input. I think I'm pretty well convinced I'll get the game along with its expansions. I've been looking for a package deal and I see that Stardock has all three downloadable for about $60. However, I see that Amazon.com has a release date of an 'Ultimate Edition' that will be released mid-February that they have listed for $39.99. Of course, I never trust Amazon's release dates but hopefully it'll be out soon. Thanks again for all the comments. Also, I tried t

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Galactic Civilizations II and its expansions in PC Gaming Sins Forums

Hey there, got a question for Sins and GalCivII owners. Currently I own and play Sins and Civilization 4 (with Beyond the Sword expansion). Civ4 sort of takes care of the turn based empire building, trade and diplomatic strategy gaming while Sins gives me that real-time strategy only on a much larger scale gaming type of fix. I've heard and read a lot about GalCivII and its expansions and have seen them win many awards and so on (and I have some extra Best Buy gift cards from Christmas that a

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Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="epiclulz" reply="6" id="2009341"] Nope. The game's resale value is gone since it can't be updated, upgraded or played online.[/quote] And again false. The game's original owner can update, upgrade, and play online to his heart's content. If someone buys it second-hand, they can update, upgrade, and play multiplayer over LAN all the way up to version 1.05. And of course they can continue to install and uninstall, install and uninstall on any and all computers in the wo

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Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="epiclulz" reply="3" id="2009206"] Once you register the game the resale value is gone, so there's only one install. [/quote] False again. Once you register the game you can continue installing over and over again on one computer or all the computers in the world. And then you can go sell the game to somebody and then they can install over and over again on one computer or all the computers in the world. And then they can sell the game to somebody....and so on and

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Reply to To All the Players of Sins of a Solar Empire in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This is the game that brought me back to Real Time Strategy (I've played almost nothing but World of Warcraft the last 3 years). 1)Fantastically easy resource management 2)No need to micromanage anything but I have the option to do so if I want 3)Graphically very pleasing 4)Many civil elements involved away from warmongering 5)Moves at a slow enough pace that I can manage my empire without feeling pressured 6)The camera maneuvering is outstandin

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Reply to DRM problem with used copy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="epiclulz" reply="19" id="2009056"] EA provides more installs than Stardock does, [/quote] False. You can install SoaSE on all the computers in the world using the same disc. And every single one of them would be playable at the very same time. This is not possible with EA games. Furthermore, you can install and uninstall SoaSE on the same computer over and over again until you die, without using the CD key once. And of course it's playable every single

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Reply to Lots of questions from a new player in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="ReadyMan" reply="9" id="2008241"] One thing I cant seem to find: Is there a command to add a ship to a control group? (or fleet? I'm used to shift/control group # to add ship to an existing group)[/quote] What I do is create fleets. When a new ship is built you can select it and then right-click on the lead ship of that fleet. The lead ship will have a ^ symbol above it's icon in the Empire tree to the left. No matter where in the universe that fleet

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