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I have some problems with your re-purposing of Wretched Cloning. As described it has no economic purpose. Why spend the time, effort, and bc when the slavelings will do it for free? As an Aul generator it kinda made sense since you don't need to bring the new clone to full growth, but simply as a population enhancer it's way too inefficient and would only be implemented as a solution to a problem. But if the Korath recognize that they have a problem Aul Harvester

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Say, I'm using the 64-bit Notepad++ and it's got this really annoying autocomplete type-along popup. Do you know how to turn it off? I'm going to have to go back to 32-bit because I really need a spell-checker. My editor eye is seriously handicapped by the confusion of XML. (And this time leave the tabs in.)

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Gigantic hulls have no attachment points, thus are useless if Tech Victory is disabled. Hyperion Domination has moved from Thalan - where it was never very comfortable - to Iconian, where is just doesn't fit. So I've done this: Discovered Secrets Secrets of the Precursors applied to our ships. <Detai

Reply to What does Super Manipulator ability really do? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="4" id="3681787"] if a Major is engaged in a war versus a Minor civ then that proposal doesn't end this war? Or are only Minor-vs-Minor wars unaffected? [/quote] Nope. Iconian vs. Carinoid continues on ad infinitum . Minor v. minor wars are so rare I've never seen it happen. Also never seen the "can't attack minors" event. [As an aside, in your FW mod the minors are much tougher yet much juicier. I

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One thing I didn't mention about Thalans. They build their own improvements now. They used to trade for alien production techs to get around the high maintenance. Eventually most of their facilities are alien, making the whole concept of a Thalan tech tree kinda pointless. So far I like what you've done. Quoting DMF, reply 98 </d

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How are you using ? It used to be the universal prerequisite for Massive Hulls, but your new description implies that it exists to convey the Hyperion Shipyard project. Is the split between hull size and hull quality branches, breaking the relation with Massive hulls makes sense. Do all races have access to Hyperion Shipyard and Fort. III through Massive Hull Building? Do all races have a follow-on hull quality tech?

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Maiden, I'm starting to go through TechTree.xml. Did you base yours on the work I did for CU? Some of the words look awfully familiar. Edit : Never mind. I found the one I submitted. It appears that you used a form of the original CU texts. On re-reading, I did good work. [pats self on back] This is gonna take a while. If you have changes to the tech tree, please copy them to me. I'll let you know w

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BTW, a side note on wars. The UP proposal "End all wars" ends wars between majors , but not those wars involving minors. And Drath profit from minor wars, too.

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Oh, and Drones. Drones have a base HP of 1. Barring mods, if a weapon rated 10 fires at a pack of 10 drones, shouldn't it kill them all? (while probably dying in the process) I understand the purpose of the Fleet Carrier name, but it is just a bubble ship. We'll have to discuss the name...

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No idea on Karma. How is the anomaly "You receive +n on all three weapon/defense types" expressed? I got a couple of those, but on a ship with e.g. a single Laser the Beam rating is still 1. Applied directly in combat, thus not visible? Speed ro0lz! With good speed and good defense/HPs you don't need the latest and greatest weapons - something the AIs don't comprehend. In this game, all the Minors charged up the Mass Driver branch, and the Altar

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Dear Catburglar, I see the other designs in the initial shipyard, but not the Colonyship 500. AFAICT the AIs don't have a problem finding colony ships to build. I'll wait until you post the update before I start poking on it. And before I start on the text. Love the new building icons! Tech trees are quite different, but make sense. I did have a suggestion but forgot what it is. Now, assuming Tech Victory is enabled, The Terran needs to re

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Delaying starport construction. Most interesting. This is very good! I've only played 6 months with two opposing majors, so still a lot to discover. (And yes the English needs a buff in some places. [e digicons]^_^[/e] ) Is there supposed to be an initial colony ship design? I had to make one in the shipyard. (Terran)

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I downloaded whatever is posted as of this date. Now let's see what you've done. [e digicons]:jafo:[/e]

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Well, WoW screwed me. They suddenly stopped "supporting" Vista and put some code in the startup that refuses to even run on it. I've moved to Win7, but now my video driver crashes. (It also like to lock up in the GCII Shipyard...) GCIII runs, but I haven't been able to get into it. So now I'm back with good ole GCII, playing 2.22. (There's a bug: the first paragraph description for Federation on the Government & Ethics screen is "string not found".)<

Reply to What does Super Manipulator ability really do? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's probably more that the AI is set to "want" to manipulate others. The Terran (Super Diplomat) "can", but that is up the player. An AI Terran probably won't. In general, the mechanisms behind the Super Abilities is not well understood.

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This is not a "mod" per se . It is supposed to be basis of the next release of GCII, as 2.20 was the packaging of a previous version of the Community Update mod. It is now up to Stardock to allocate the resources needed to validate and integrate this drop. I supposed they'll get to it eventually. So until they do, with the exception of bug fixes it is complete. Meanwhile we kinda got sidetracked. I discovered World of Warships and I think Maiden66

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What's a Discord?

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I always buy through SD, and yes, all you get is a Steam key. Interestingly, IIRC Steam and SD seem to run sales independently. That may be only on legacy apps, though. I'll pay more attention henceforth. What's a GOG? FWIW, I tried running galciv.exe and others when I was finally able to find the game folder hidden in the steam tree. But they don't run the game; they just call steam.

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So Frogboy has morphed into Draginol, eh? Hi, Brad. I think the OS/2 version was my favorite, though the later versions are so much more impressive graphically. I think it was the first game I ever bought, and probably still have it somewhere. (Actually one of the few box games that I ever bought besides the various iterations of Harpoon (R.I.P.)) Wish I could play it but my last OS/2 machine has passed the way of the dodo. Have played th

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Well, I'm coming from 20 years of playing GC and GCII, and I find GCIII damn near incomprehensible. Yes I understand what the player is trying to do, but the controls are totally different. For instance: * NO manual movement of ships? Mouse only? * Why is the 'scientist' staring at me? Is he expecting me to do something on the Tech screen? * Is there any $^&*) way to play this game without involving F^&*)G STEAM ???

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Sorry not to have replied here. I discovered World of Warships and haven't played GC much at all this year. I'll get back to it eventually.

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You have to correlate to Morale. If Morale falls below a certain point (40%), the population will be too depressed to breed. Also, I think Planet Quality factors into the growth rate and max pop, but I don't remember how.

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[quote who="Maiden666" reply="83" id="3658477"] Is here a Neutral- or Good-aligned player that actually uses Military Starbases and attaches the military ship-support modules? These currently do still cost 500 bcs each, a maxed-out SB demands perhaps around ~7000bcs, ofc not counting the constructor-costs which may be around 2000 production spend. That seems to be completely out of line. For that amount of money/prod I could have several state-of-the-art warships. Given that S

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There is an mode where normally non-printing characters are displayed. View->Show Symbol...But then you have to be able to spot them manually. Properly speaking, though, Å in not a non-printing character and N++ doesn't highlight it when I put it in explicitly. This leads me to believe that the original "bad character" was not Å itself but something that displays as it. It clearly wasn't there (visually) when I opened the file and looked at it.

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Mm.. the one I remember is an Angstrom sign (cap A with circle above) smack in the middle of Xeno Mysticism. Right after "split between the Dread Lords and the Arnor." Do you see it too?