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Reply to How to stop or roll back a W10 upgrade in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="30" id="3638155"]You think turning it off will stop them?[/quote] The way I see it, speaking now in general terms, is that if you want to stop/prevent/harm something created by FactionX [in this case Microsoft] you shouldn't (naively) trust/rely on solutions offered by said same FactionX (because they naturally have an agenda on their own, so their solution might not work well] but instead refer to something created by a company that is independant or ev

Reply to How to stop or roll back a W10 upgrade in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="16" id="3637825"] That's the same 'nagging' KB that several people reported as having ignored for several days before waking to find Scheduled Maintenance had 'upgraded' their Win 7 or Win 8.1 machine to Win 10. In other words, MS is losing patience with the resisters to its latest OS. It reminds me of Stalin and other dictators, only now it's Microsoft throwing its weight around and forcing its will upon others.... its own

Reply to How to stop or roll back a W10 upgrade in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

If you're having trouble in that windows is downloading unwanted things one way to prevent it is by using Netlimiter. The advantage of it over a firewall is that you can be specific on an actual connection-speed of any process that there is - for example, for Windows Update to check for new updates 5kb/s is enough - but ofc it's nowhere near sufficient to dl a new OS^^ at least, not overnight, and this is buying you enough time to become aware of any foul play going on and stopping it

Reply to new 2.20 patch in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1.53 is the final version of the vanilla GC2 "Dread Lords" game. The Community Update has only changed things from the latest xpac "Twilight of Arnor" - which is included in the complete "Ultimate Edition" release. So you either own TotA as separate extension or the UE, in both cases you simply register your game to the Stardock site & then you should be able to have access to a direct link containing the latest (2.20) version. If that doesn't help perhaps Star

Reply to speed limit 5 parsecs on immense in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="LarryY" reply="2" id="3636775"] I see this won't help your current situation, but I was able to turn this off (including the Jagged Knife events) during game setup by un-toggling 'Mega Events'. But yeah you lose all the other mega events though, as well.I like 'immense' galaxies too, games that take a month or more to get through. With Core i7 and 16GB ram I still need to close/restart the game between turns near endgame; there's some kind

Reply to Random GC2 questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DMF" reply="2" id="3635558"] First, how did I lose the Tech score when I researched twice his number of techs, and the Military score when I kicked his ass all over the galaxy? [/quote] I cannot definitely know what did go on in your game, but the number of researched techs is irrelevant to your techscore - only actual output (number of flasks) do measure it. Now I've observed it multiple times that the AI doesn't pick a tech to research but still m

Reply to Production Overflow Questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You're correct on Military Production - no overflow/refunding does happen. For optimal play this means to match your planetary output with shipdesigns having different costs - let's say a planet outputs 75 MP/turn but your ship costs 120 MP, then you are at liberty to increase its costs up to 150 MP. Although it may increase the likelihood of increase maintcosts, but you sometimes can have stronger ships. Usually additional hitpoints are far too expensive but in these cases they are a

Reply to Yeah, you're gonna get crushed... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I tell you a secret... these ominous AIs you wanna talk to... they don't really have a true consciousness, like you & me etc so it's not really important or significant or makes a lot of sense to begin with to tell it things it can't understand anyway... although, maybe, yes perhaps for roleplaying purposes ok but you could instead, just try to replace actual reality with your fantasy as well to achieve whatever results you'd like

Reply to Isnt Stellaris just a shiny fancier version of Distant Worlds? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3634423"] Also, in what way, specifically, is GC3 "micro hell" on large maps? [/quote] Because, someone or some people in this thread seem to assume that the step to go into 64bit was mostly to be able to introduce even larger maps, more planets, more w/o the game handing out OoM errors. Which is ofc ironic if micro is perceived to be [quote who="psychoak" reply="11" id="3634430"] Getting the n

Reply to Huge email leak involving major services. in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="7" id="3634275"] Yeah, I know, but it's not just the lazy bastards who'd rather steal than earn a crust, it's also those who hack primarily to cause harm, pain and frustration. The cash 'reward' at the end actually disinterests them. No, their 'reward' is derived more from the damage done, and those are the worst kind of hacker. Not that I condone it, but stealing does have a point, in that there is an actual gain

Reply to No Game Left Behind: Stardock Brings Update to GalCiv II! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Since it's mostly a graphical mod, I think it can be combined with any of the other rebalancing mods, though you need to do it manually. Actually I felt there isn't much point to it because I play zoomed out at most times. [quote who="Orbital 2000" reply="176" id="3634401"] any one here ever played master of orion?? is it any good?? [/quote] well, the MoO-series did sort of define the genre and MoO2 is regarded as one of the topnotch classic and it beats GalC

Reply to No Game Left Behind: Stardock Brings Update to GalCiv II! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Byeohazard" reply="173" id="3634380"] I don't see it listed but I hear there is a High Res mod floating around. Is it included in this update or a separate download. Thanks in advance! [/quote] https://forums.galciv2.com/142714/page/1/#1257753

Reply to MS is enforcing MS Edge and Bing with Cortana in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="gmc2" reply="3" id="3633593"] Didn't MS lose a battle with other software suppliers back when IE was made the default browser. I assume that up until now other browsers worked with cortana so it might seem apparent that this will be headed to the courts as well. [/quote] [quote who="DrJBHL" reply="4" id="3633595"] Not so sure about that...it was the EU and IE was integrated as the default browser with MS claiming it was part of the OS, if memeory s

Reply to This may slow down planetary production. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="3" id="3633615"]I think resource gathering would aldo give you something to do. [/quote] It depends a little bit on the model that you choose. For example, if these resources is just stuff you'll find in space and you just need to claim it then it's logical that a big empire will be able to claim more or faster, and hitherto is also able to expand faster... then you have 2 mechanisms which boost themselves up and such a relation (wit

Reply to This may slow down planetary production. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

I think what should ultimately be penalized is not to simply have a large empire, but to acquire it fast - aggressive expanding. That should invoke some corruption or civil unrest. Think about it, if you build up a society slowly, it'll have more order and be more stable then if you just rush the infrastructure & head towards the next planet.

Reply to I feel cheated when... in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

^Yeah it would be nice to be able to basically give different objects of the game our own designed logical routines - because that's really the only way to ensure that automated features are working out exactly like we individually want them to be. But I don't think alot of people would actually bother, neither will the devs. You simply have to accept that if you want to have something done most optimally, you'll have to micro it. Nevertheless, the claim of

Reply to GoG Version with integrated community patch very much uninhabitable planets in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, it's weird in regard as I can't replicate your findings. Generating maps with both 2.20 or 2.042, unveiling them via cheats, and using the PlanetList to count the number of habitable worlds, I see 15-20 for each PQ4, PQ5 & PQ6 in an all-abundant immense sized galaxy. PQ7 alot more, but what's mostly interesting is that 60%-70% of all worlds are uncolonizably PQ0 worlds.

Reply to GoG Version with integrated community patch very much uninhabitable planets in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Maxvorstadt" reply="3" id="3632710"] I`ve set both, planets and habitable planets, to abundant, but as I said, I have many star systems without any havitable planets. [/quote] This is working as intended, it was so in TotA 1.97 or 2.042 and, like Gaunathor already said, there is nothing in the CU that could change that. However, this [quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1" id="3632649"] Still, you should have at least one habitable planet per star s

Reply to GoG Version with integrated community patch very much uninhabitable planets in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can use cheats to turn all PQ0 worlds into a random PQ1-20 worlds https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Cheat

Reply to GalCiv 2 Ultimate Edition Community Update in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I've no clue if that's somehow humanly possible. The basic problem here is that it hasn't officially been released how each of them is actually achieved. At least one of them - Wounded in Action - doesn't show up on the forums (but it will show on the resp. MV profile), and I've never seen a single one of some of the other groups like for excessive forum potings etc. Maybe the 750 battles or 1000 battles will show, at least, the 250 and 500 do indeed show. But in o

Reply to The 'Negative Balance'-strategy (NB strat) in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Only with cheats, where you can turn all PQ0 into a randon PQ1-20... DA also has more planets

Reply to GalCiv 2 Ultimate Edition Community Update in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

If you can post 4 screenshots detailing all Military, Population, Economy & Research-curves (Civ-Manager-->Timeline-->Show all: first 4 curves)... this is essentially were you can see how your score (and the one of your opponents) did develop.

Reply to The 'Negative Balance'-strategy (NB strat) in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Nevertheless, if you don't play for score you could fill it with any structure which may help you to achieve victory: - Embassy etc to flip planets and win culturally - Planetary Defenses... maybe if you picked a too high level of difficulty with the AI having space superiority - More labs = perhaps producing large hulls which, in opposition toi cargo hulls, can put up a real fight.

Reply to The 'Negative Balance'-strategy (NB strat) in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

For score of course [e digicons]|-)[/e] - the Economic Score consists mainly of your tax-income. Trade & Tourism make out only a tiny fraction of it. Depending on what kind of game you play, your Economy-score is usually the 2nd, sometimes 3rd best contributor to the overall score. In an All-Abundant Millionpointer game it's like this: Military (60%) Economy (30%) Society (7%) Research (3%) Ofc these are now

Reply to GalCiv 2 Ultimate Edition Community Update in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Orbital 2000" reply="1740" id="3629165"] cool, I wanted to see how u make it,,, if you decide to post a game on youtube let me know,, [/quote] such a game takes several hundreds hours to play and is also very boring, its basically just leasebuying stock markets, fleeting ships together & waiting minutes, sometimes hours until the game is done processing shipsmovement. how could I possibly make a video from this? the only interesting