CariElf

Reply to Beta 1Y seems much harder in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are you using the smallest downpayment to buy the colony ships? Also, you can increase your Military spending to help crank them out faster. Trading for techs also helps.

Reply to Energy fields around my ships? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's the damage animation. If you have less than 80% of your health, you get the first level of damage, and so on. You don't necessarily have to be damaged to get the damage animation; if your survey ship goes through an anomaly and gets more base hitpoints, it will show the damage animation, since it's not at full strength.

Reply to Can't research Cultural Trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It was supposed to be last week, but we've been having trouble with our version control software, so we have to make sure that nothing got overwritten before we can release the build.

Reply to Social and Military project progress bars are nice, but the social bars are not working. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Jack: the way I currently have it working is that if you were building a ship and then you cancel it, or switch the ship that was being built to a less expensive ship, you still have that amount of resources that was expended towards the ship. So if you were mostly finished building an avatar, switched to nothing for a few turns, and then built a transport, it would probably build like 3 transports over the next 3 turns because it had those incomplete resources. It's been so long since I coded

Reply to Simply crashed ... debug.err provided in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you leave GalCiv minimized for a long time? I've had it crash when trying to come back from minimizing it, but that's only been when I'm running out of the debugger.

Reply to Planet class improvements on OS2 - how did the work again? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, class 44 is the highest that I've been able to get, after Soil Enhancement, Habitat Improvement, and Terraforming a class 26 planet. It also happened to be in a corner of the map, and the Altarians had a pretty good planet in the opposite corner, so my traders were making out like bandits, until the nasty Arceans came and destroyed my ships. They're extinct now. :D

Reply to Lemmings, Schools, and Wabbits....... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In the next build, alignment will matter more. Brad's been working on the AI. It's really cool. :)

Reply to Ship HP miracle (bug) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok, this should be fixed in the next build...if you have good repair ability and got a really good random roll when the ship was being repaired, it appears to be possible to go over the max number of hit points. So I just added a line that sets it equal to the max number of hit points if it goes over. --Cari

Reply to Random thoughts about the Research Anomoly... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

We will have negative anomalies eventually. The suggestion on randomly increasing a tech somewhere in the tree is a good idea.

Reply to Ship list bug in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There was as bug where you could click on a ship in the ship list and have it crash, but that should be fixed in the next build.

Reply to Two ships from two different empires stuck on a planet in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

hmm...that's bizarre...

Reply to Event List, wrong planet in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, it could be due to the lag with the social projects...it's a timing issue that I'm still playing with.

Reply to Odd things in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1. Do you mean the resources, that you view on the planet data screen? 2. I think that I know what is causing this, although I haven't seen it yet. 4. It's on my list. 5.If you trade for ships that are in stacks, they could end up like that, or little freighters ignore other ships, so they can move on other ships. 6. They're not really fully implemented.

Reply to Ship HP miracle (bug) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No, you're right, it should be fixed. I'll add it to my list.

Reply to Lost Sound in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Did you lose sound on other programs, too, or just Gal Civ?

Reply to Midway game ends abruptly - debug.err in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Umm...this could be the problem with the rotating planets. Do you have a saved game where this is reproducible that you can e-mail to [email protected]

Reply to Can't get GalCiv... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm assuming that you entered your user info by clicking on the button on the bottom of the screen, then hitting update once your info was entered, and that you do have an internet connection when running the DGM. Did you buy the galciv beta or the entire drengin network?

Reply to Balance in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The planet setting doesn't affect how many planets you have in your system, it affects the quality of planets in all systems. I've noted the others.

Reply to Lemmings, Schools, and Wabbits....... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I added the threatening messages bug to my list...it might just be getting the wrong variable passed in or something easy to fix like that. The AI players do tend to get into multiple wars...I don't think that they check to see if they're already at war before declaring war on someone else, which should be a consideration, although not an absolute limit. Obviously, some of the time the Drengin will be able to take the Arceans and the Yor at the same time, but others it should reconsi

Reply to Naming 2 stars the same renders a game unrestartable. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This has been on my list forever, but it never reaches the top priority stage. :( Before I can put in code to check for duplicate names, we're going to have to have a list of default names that contains no duplicates...we need at least 1000 unique names for the default list with the way the code is now. When we do get more names, I can always import the list into a MS Access database, do a query to filter out duplicates, and then export the updated list. It's just coming up with

Reply to Crash to desktop when clicking on a tiny freighter of a dead race. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, I'd like the saved game. Jack sent me one ,but I couldn't reproduce it with his. --Cari [email protected]

Reply to Game Won't Start in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, apart from upgrading to Windows XP because ME is evil incarnate, does removing the Intro.bik file work? --Cari

Reply to No Pay by Check (electronically or otherwise) Option????? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

ah, just saw Brad's post...so you'd only need to e-mail sales if you were having problems with the order.

Reply to No Pay by Check (electronically or otherwise) Option????? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You could try e-mailing [email protected] and asking them if you could pay with a check or money order. It would probably take longer to process the order, but it might be possible.

Reply to Ships with movement points that don't move in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Brad, there had been another instance of what was causing the shiplist crash, which I finally reproduced last week and fixed.