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

What do you do, just turn down the overall Video Quality a notch?

Reply to Advice re purchase DONE in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

How many $$ ?

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

I have to disagree with you, loudly. First, have you ever had to find a fix a memory leak? Thought not. A company could spend the profits from the next game paying for the effort, especially if the developers are unfamiliar with the code. Second, is it NOT a major bug. One sees it occasionally after playing a very dense games for a long time. And it is recoverable. The graphics bug is *not* new. It has been around as long as there has

Reply to Get up to 66% Off in the Galactic Civilizations III Anniversary Sale! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv2 Forums

I'd buy the whole package, but I'm on Vista (with DirectX 11). I'm fairly confident that GC III will work, but if it doesn't I don't want to be stuck with a package I can't use. Is GC III returnable? Or does anyone have experience using it in this configuration?

Reply to Production Overflow Questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry, I got no clue. It would be nice to know, though. FYI, I have it on good authority that Research Points are carried over.

Reply to Random GC2 questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Here's another one. I just finished a game and I don't understand the score. TotA 2.20. Immense, all-Abundant. Two majors: Terran player, Drengin AIP. Terran Conquest victory just two weeks short of 4 years: Terran Drengin Society 34,000 23,000 Tech 24,0

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

I don't recall what I was playing - probably DA with the AT mod - but I was surprised to find a number of PQ1 worlds, with several PQ2 and PQ3. Previously observed low was PQ4. Max, I just finished an all-Abundant game of TotA 2.20. By eyeball estimate, 20% of the star systems have no habitable world.

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

Thanks! I missed that entirely.

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

Someone did some diplomacy movies and research avatars to better fit a 16:10/9 aspect ratio. Not a complete set. I think this was discussed in the Community Update thread. The only place I really notice the aspect ratio is the opening screen, so maybe they did get incorporated.

Reply to Prince…Dead at 57 in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Kevin Smith had some experience making a movie for Prince: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhcParuzpc[/video] And yes, Prince was a better guitarist -- and songwriter -- and producer -- than Clapton.

Random GC2 questions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What is the difference between "Ship Quality Bonus" and "Ship Hit Point Bonus"? What is the concept of Ship Quality and how does it appear?

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

I really liked the idea of stuffing certain critical planets with Planetary Defenses to stymie an invasion. But alas, TotA PDs are One Per Planet. [e digicons]X|[/e] Also counted the number of habitable worlds generated for all-Abundant, largest Loose galaxy in TotA, rare asteroids. Three counts all had a result very close to 550. Is it possible to get more worlds than that in different games and configurations? </

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

Reportedly, 2.21 has been delivered to Stardock. The developers need to do a full build before the release (and may also do some internal tweaks). No firm schedule yet. From what I've observed here, it won't be much different from 2.20, so don't get too militant about it. ;)

Reply to Apple v. DoJ–Is it really over? Spoiler alert: No. in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

The FBI has no idea whether there's anything on the phone or not. It's a fishing expedition. And apparently the bad guys are not relying on phone security at all. The Brussels mob used/uses untraceable burners. The only records left on them are of to calls to other untraceable burners.

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

One thing I don't understand. Why all the Stock Markets? If you're going to stay negative, what matters the payoff rate?

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

Hmmph. Finished that game (wherein I went heavily negative) right at the end of 2229. Military rating was 11,114 yet scored only 9400 in the military column. Total 64,000 and change. Maybe those upgraded SD Corvettes weren't worth the half year it took to pay them off. They did come in handy, though. I used up almost half of the 200. Btw, DA is kinda boring after TotA.

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

You're right. DL is there. Missed it. No icon, though.

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

Look at Maiden666 recent thread on how MV calculates score.

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

Curiouser and curiouser. The recent 2.20 non-Steam release is a strange animal. No launcher, DA but no icon for it, and AFAICT no Dread Lords at all. Except for using the same data folder, the installation seems completely separate from the Steam/previous standalone installations. Is there a philosophy at work here? Don't get me wrong, I would more than welcome a truly separate installation. But it only half does that.

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

Aha! So it does mess with the registry. Well this is interesting. The Kalypso launcher is picking up the executables from the Steam installation: DA 2.01 and TA 2.04. I bet the launcher refers to the registry that points it to the later installation, the older registry data having been overwritten. I see two installations in the Control panel. One has the Kalypso UE icon (? ball of black yarn) and the other has more a generic one. I suspect

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

[cross-posted] It took the godawful Windoze search function quite a while to search the drive, but it found three DA executables: the one in Kalypso (what the hell is Kalypso? any relation to Impulse?), one in the 2.20 release, and one in the UE Steam installation. So how is the launcher in Kalypso finding one of the other executables?

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

Hmm. That's interesting. I have 2.01 under the UE installation and I get it when I run [Pgm Files]\Kalypso\GalCiv2Ultimate\GC2Launch.exe But when I run [Pgm Files]\Kalypso\GalCiv2Ultimate\DarkAvatar\GC2DarkAvatar.exe directly I get 1.82. Where the heck is the launcher finding the executable if not in its own subfolder??

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

Typo. 5500+ rating. I came green again the turn after the frowny face showed up. Is the morale effect permanent? BTW, where the hell is Recruiting Center in DA v 1.82? Are the tech trees all the same in this version? Thanks for the comments. Looking forward to the Colony Storm!

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

Boy is this app f*d up. I'm playing DA as Evil Dregin. Gifted 200 SD Corvettes. Let's go negative! Upgraded them all (5500+ military rating) and went 250,000 bc into debt. Obviously factories stopped producing but I was able to keep enough production going to survive using the focus, as described. <span style="text-decoration: line-throu

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

Are you thinking that they would kill each other off?