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Reply to Trade routes stop working? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

See my response higher up in the thread. When you click on the minifreighter, do you see what I described? ~SDC~

Reply to Trade Route Value N/A in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've seen that also. I've never been able to figure out what caused it. I've always had to kill the route and send another freighter. Seems like it might be a bug. ~SDC~

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Stardock diabolical plan is to bring turn based strategy games back to the norm. And one way we think that can be helped is with a new Master of Magic done RIGHT.[/quote] Whoo-hoo! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: ~SDC~

Reply to Off Topic, Random Olympic thoughts. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As far as I can tell, ping-pong as I (and probably you) played it in my basement so many years ago is to Olympic table tennis as go-cart racing is to Formula 1. I've seen a couple of those games and I'm impressed. :D ~SDC~

Reply to Off Topic, Random Olympic thoughts. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Instead of sending a bunch of spoiled multi-millionaires to the games, I think we should ask the NCAA champions to represent us. At least they play as a team. And know how to play against a zone defense. ~SDC~

Reply to Off Topic, Random Olympic thoughts. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1) That was the first thought that occurred to me, too. 6) What do you expect? Prima Donnas like Katie Couric know that boobs like us out in the heartland are so ignorant that we don't know what a centaur is. They have to explain everything to us. That's why they get paid so much. ~SDC~

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Never having played MoM before seeing the forum items here about it, I downloaded the game and have been playing it under dosbox for the last couple of weeks. I have to say that despite the crappy dos graphics it's a fun game. I'd definitely buy a Startdock remake. I understand Brad's business analysis of the costs of the license and the effects on the econonomics of developing the game. But on the other hand, could one not point out to the owners of the license that they aren't maki

Reply to Just won my first game of Gal Civ in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Congratulations! Check out the strategies forums for hints on how to play at harder levels. ~SDC~

Reply to Drengin.net is about to die. Long live Drengin.net! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've been out of action for a week and a half with a broken motherboard, and now I get back into SDC and find this ... WOW! Congratulations, Frogboy (and Stardock crew)! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: Now where am I going to find the time to play all these new games???? :D :D :D ~SDC~

Reply to Why Master of Magic is Cool. Might want to get a drink and cancel any appointments. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks for the tip on Dosbox. I've now got MoM running with sound. :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are there plans to support any international relations options other than "Global Peace", "International Tensions", and "Global War"? Seems like there should be other shades of gray there ;) ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The tops of the exploded views of Vermont and New Hampshire are a little too high on the screen. I put a spin doctor into New Hampshire and he essentially disappeared from the screen, he was standing in the extreme north of the state, which itself was off the screen. I had to tab around all of my assets to find him. ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As far as I can tell there's not a whole lot of information about PM available. There's hardly any help that comes with the game, you have to go to http://www.politicalmachine.com to get any useful help. I hope that the released version includes the information on that web site. ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I hope that it will be possible to download (or mod) different sets of issues and maps, so that it would be possible to refight elections like Kennedy-Nixon. ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Finally managed to finish a game (on Cakewalk). I thought it was a lot of fun, but did get annoyed at times trying to pixel hunt to grab the operative I wanted. It wasn't until I finished the game that I remembered that there's a key (tab?) that will cycle around your operatives. I never would have had a clue how the play the game if I hadn't found www.politcalmachine.com. After I finished I discovered that the main intro screen had a "Load last autosave" button, so maybe t

Reply to Something wonderful is about to happen... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The "Renew" button for drengin.net that you can push within SDC's registration info window takes you to http://www.stardock.com/order.asp which doesn't appear to have a way to renew drengin.net. Is there a way to renew it? ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is there a way to save a game? I did hit a crash, but it wasn't captured by SmartException. ~SDC~

Reply to Political Machine in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I downloaded the 0.99[rc].015 level of the game, and I'm not having any technical dificulties (i.e. no crashes). But I do need some gameplay advice. Somewhere on the help I saw a hint that I should "bank" a candidate's unused stamina at the end of a turn. But I can't find any way to do that. Is that feature implemented yet?

Reply to Help..!! Having problems updating GV to Altarian P in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Be careful about Brin. The first 3 of the Uplift series are really good, but it rapidly goes downhill from there. Some of my favorites from the 60s and 70s are Roger Zelazny (particularly Lord of Light) and John Brunner (Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up), and Frank Herbert (Dune, but there again the series goes downhill as it goes on). CJ Cherryh is pretty good, too. She can write some awesome aliens. She does both SF and fantasy, and at her best is fantastic, but has some whe

Reply to A Survey on Mod Users in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In order that I started using them: 1) Mini colony ship 2) Religious and Cultural capitals 3) Sneaky diplomats party 4) Research, Inc. party Those are the only ones I've tried. ~SDC~

Reply to The Metaverse Admiralty in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No! No! Not the wormy dead cod! LOL ~SDC~

Reply to Research Inc. in Mods Stardock Forums

You can't bribe your way out of combat with a space shark! >:( ~SDC~

Reply to The Metaverse Admiralty in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In the words of Steve Martin (Not Paul Martin!) Excuse ME! :D Seriously now, could you make it herring insted of cod? I love pickled herring. LOL ~SDC~

Reply to Research Inc. in Mods Stardock Forums

[quote]Well, don't forget that this party can't really sustain a war and have experienced ships[/quote] Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. My point was that you while you certainly want to avoid war with this party, you can't always avoid combat. Stocking up on some AMMs is a good strategy. ~SDC~

Reply to The Metaverse Admiralty in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thank you NewfyScotian! You are a Prince among men. :D :D :D Ok, I edited this message because I was being excessively politically correct. Shame on me. ~SDC~ [Message Edited] [Message Edited]