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Reply to Still on Schedule? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]I have a different serial number in the email I got than I do on this page: https://www.politicalmachine.com/account/regs They're even formatted differently (the one on the regs page doesn't have dashes). What's up with that?[/quote] I think that our serial number generator re-generates the serial every time that you request it but it uses the same seed. I don't know why it does that, I'm just the game developer. :) I believe that you should be using Impulse to

Reply to Still on Schedule? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I think that the first Galactic Civilizations might have been released at midnight, but that's the only one. It's better to do it during the day so that if there are problems with the servers, people are awake to deal with it. The game should be available very soon. :)

Reply to Twilight 1.92 Alpha in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Do this mean that the exploding research cost bug has been eliminated? The description sounds like a major understatement.[/quote] The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that research costs have always gone up as you get farther into the tech tree, but it's now back at the levels that it was prior to the change made right before the game went Gold. I didn't want to imply that the penalty was eliminated completely.

Reply to Twilight 1.92 Alpha in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]cannot find binkw.dll' error, any ideas?[/quote] Sounds like your working directory is wrong. Are you starting the game from a shortcut or the game launcher?

Reply to Impulse to deliver next-generation PC platform in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]One question about Impulse Reactor: What happens if the user isn't connected to the Internet?[/quote] This will be up to the developer of the game/app to handle, whether they want to provide alternate functionality if the user is not connected, or to require an internet connection. In The Political Machine 2008, you should be able to play on a LAN without an internet connection if the Host player runs the LAN server.

Reply to Sitting in the airport in Living in Cyberspace Stardock Forums

It could be worse. You could be stuck in an elevator. :)

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I notice the trade route bug was not mentioned in the alpha changelog, and it's IMHO far more severe than the research cost bug. Is stardock on to this bug, or has it been overlooked?[/quote] Sorry, what bug are you referring to? The only one that I know about is the one where you can build a starbase to extend your range and then kill the starbase and keep the traderoute, and I haven't decided how to deal with that yet.

Reply to Floating an idea in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One thing to consider would be that if you don't want the tech, you can't really prevent a planet from culture flipping to you. With invasion, you make the decision to invade that planet.

Reply to Game's been fine the last two days but keeps crashing now in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Debug Message: Unknown error when flipping back buffer to primary buffer[/quote] That's an error from your graphics card. Since it works when you clear out all the custom races from the My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar file, it may be saving bad data into your customracexml files. Try clearing out your My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\ships and My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar\Metaverse\ships folders and see if that helps.

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm certain that we will continue to tweak the tech costs among other things, but for now we're just setting it back to the way that it was because that's fastest. We still have a bunch of stuff to catch up on, especially support. If anyone here has a ticket open with Support that was assigned to a developer or you e-mailed me directly and you haven't gotten a response, I really apologize and ask that you please continue to be patient while I try to catch up.

Reply to Update next week in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I'll list those techs, and the civs that should get them.-- Drengin/Korath --Ion Beams (I to III) -- Drath/Altarian --Photonic Torpedo III Disrupter IV[/quote] Hmm...I could have sworn that I fixed the Ion Beams. There are definitions in GC2Types for them. The other two I didn't know about or I would have added definitions for those at the same time. I'll try to look into it for the update or see if I can get someone else to do it. I'm not sure if I'm a

Reply to It's quiet... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The tech bug is known since the beginning of the release, and everyone has a 1 month holiday![/quote] We are NOT on holiday. The dev team has been working weekends since the beginning of April, and some of us have been working weekends since March. We've been working a minimum of 10 hours a day, but most of us have been putting in 12+ hours a day. This includes both Scott and Charles who are new fathers with infants at home. So don't you dare suggest th

Reply to GameSpy: 5 out of 5! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The biggest problem with introducing multiplayer into GalCiv2 would be that I'd have to re-write significant portions of the engine so that stuff didn't happen instantaneously. In GalCiv2, if you click on a ship and tell it to moves, it moves right away. For multiplyer, it would have to send a message that it was going to move so that it could also move on the other players' computers.

Reply to CTD after Alt-Tab in Twilight of Arnor in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

We have fixed the crashes with ALt-Tabbing that do not give you the message Invalid Call. We'll try to get the update up as quickly as possible. Running in a window will get rid of the Invalid Call bug when alt-tabbing, but we need some more time to fix that.

Reply to Mouse/input problems.. on a UMPC in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The game is designed for 768px high at the minimum, so the UI is going to be all out of whack no matter what you do. That's liklely the cause of your problems, and it really can't be solved short of making a whole new low-res UI.[/quote] Actually that probably won't work either because the minimum resolution is 1024x768 and so even if the interface looks right, the mouse input will probably be wrong.

Reply to Twilight Bug Report in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]- reloading a save game can sometimes cause teh game to revert to the original buildings and tech tree. As in: race specific buildings, tech tree etc go away and are replaced by the standard, common building graphics and tech tree from Dark Avatar.[/quote] Please zip and send in a save game that does this to [email protected] with a description of the problem. [quote]- I am currently playing mission 1 of the campaign. At tu

Reply to TA final (1.9) - still black frame ships 1 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Thanks ,no offence intended for anyone but after more then 10 or so years using windows thats not what I really needed. I now that, I just wanted to report bug and btw where is log saved on Vista in GalCiv2 ?[/quote] Well if you want to keep getting the Invalid Call bug until we manage to track it down, you can go ahead and run in fullscreen. However, I can tell you it's not something that we can fix in a day or we would have fixed it already.&nb

Reply to Twilight Feedback! Let us have it! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Is anyone else unable to submit games to the Metaverse? I've finished two Metaverse games, and each time, it goes to the victory screen, then to the score screen, then back to the main Twilight menu, without giving a chance to submit to the Metaverse. A bit off the topic, but I've tried to post this a couple of times on in the Twilight forum, and the posts don't show up, which is odd. edit: Just played a third game, and that one submitted without issue. Strange that the others

Reply to TA final (1.9) - still black frame ships 1 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Isn't whole point of this thread to report bugs not find work around solutions for them[/quote] You've reported the bug, now you can use the workaround so that you don't have the crash until we get it fixed.

Reply to CTD (vista?) in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Please make sure that you have the latest video card drivers from the manufacturer's website, particularly if you have an NVidia card. You'll get the Alt-Tab crashes a lot more frequently if you don't have NVidia's newest drivers. Nvidia's website is http://nvidia.com and for ATI cards, http://ati.amd.com Also, if you increase your resolution to match your monitor's resolution and uncheck the Full

Reply to Before installing Twilight of the Arnor Read This in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If I purchase a digital download of the expansion, is there an easy way to backup the downloaded file for future re-installation? Or, once its active on my Stardock account will it just re-DL the whole thing if I ever have to reformat?[/quote] You can archive your installation and then copy the archive files to a CD or DVD for a quick re-install, but you can always download it from us again. If you'd like to archive your files, it's as simple as right clicking on the app

Reply to Before installing Twilight of the Arnor Read This in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Carl so clean install on TA so should we re build our mods from the ground up ??? or just import they after clean install ???Nasty!!![/quote] Just move your mods folder out and then you can move it back afterwards.

Reply to Before installing Twilight of the Arnor Read This in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I only see the version .86.003 available to install. Is the full version supposed to be up? I am on the US-1 as far as I can tell.[/quote] Uncheck Show Pre-release if you have it on, and then go to Tools->Settings->Internet Settings and refresh your XML. You may then need to go to Tools->Check for Application Updates as well.

Reply to Before installing Twilight of the Arnor Read This in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Pardon my ignorance, but to "uninstall," do I simply delete the TA folders that you mentioned above? Is that all there is to it? There does not appear to be a control-panel icon for the beta in Add/Remove programs.[/quote] You should use the Uninstall button in Stardock Central or Impulse. You'll only need to delete the folder manually if something goes wrong during the un-install.

Before installing Twilight of the Arnor Read This in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Today is Release Day! Yay! I know that you've all been waiting for this day for a long time, but hopefully you'll think that the end result is worth it. We're very happy with it here. Twilight is now available for download! If you have any problems after following these tips, you can hop on irc.stardock.com and we'll try to help you. :) Anyway, I have a few tips to make sure that that you don't have problems installing the full version of Twilight. Fi