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Reply to drool factor increasing in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Kyro, we don't have a good/evil/neutral scheme right now for the interface. We may, however, change portions of the interface to reflect which race you're playing as.

Reply to Modding in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

e to find a model converter... Currently most of our textures are in .png format, but we may convert them all to being a type of .dds file, which is why I said that you might need DXTex.

Reply to The Beta's Release? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, you will need to pre-order GC2 or a TG.Net subscription to get the beta.

Reply to Mod Generator GCII in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

s (%s, %d, etc) with tags like [CIVNAME], [PLANETNAME], and [MONEY]. This will make it easier to tell what is being changed by the event.

Reply to GalCiv: Battle of the Alpha releases in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

I would be very happy when it runs on my Athlon 500 with Matrox G400 and 192MB. I'm confident that I will have the budget to buy GC2 but unfortunately I don't have it for a new PC. If your video drivers do not support DirectX 9.0c, you will not be able to run GC2 because, among other things, you wil

Reply to The Beta's Release? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The GC2 website will be publicly available the first week of February. The beta of the game won't come out until the end of February.

Reply to Over another milestone in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

I don't really have a problem having fun on the weekends. Plus, if we think that we're going to need to work on the weekend, it gives us a chance to do so. I actually didn't work this weekend, but I got a good portion of my stuff done today.

Over another milestone in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

The primary thing that I worked on this week was decreasing the loading time when starting a new game. I had discovered last week that the graphics were what was taking up the most time to load. So the first thing I did was to create a background thread to pre-load the models so that they would be cached in system memory when the actual objects were being created.

Reply to Slow Ship Graphic On High-End Graphics Cards/PCs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

RAM would probably help because 2D graphics are stored in RAM until it has to start swapping hard drive space. Also, while I admit that I could be wrong, there isn't really any hardware acceleration for 2D anymore, at least not in DirectDraw, which is what GC1/AP uses. Please note that when I say DirectDraw, I mean DirectDraw7, the last version of DirectDraw. DirectDraw doesn't really exist anymore in the latest versions of DirectX. Does anyone remember

Reply to Identified something that makes 4X games fun/tedious in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

planets, but you can if you want to micromanage them.

Reply to Different Starbase Types in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

p; It's also about requiring the player to actually make a strategic choice when building a starbase. There isn't a lot of strategy involved in just building everything.

Reply to First week back from the holidays in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

although the event list will have to be something that is brought up by a button because we left it out of the main interface this time.

First week back from the holidays in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

Our current focus is to get the early part of Gal Civ looking and behaving the way it should, as much as possible. This includes the intro, more finalized versions of the setup screens, the ship design screen, the planet management screen, and more of the graphics in: more ships, anomalies, resources, and a variety of planet textures. We also have to make sure that

Reply to Tell me your reasons: Why must Church and State be separate in Politics PolMach Forums

The point of separation of church and state is not to exclude all religion from the state. It is to give equal rights to all religions. If there was a Muslim version of the boyscouts, they would have the same right to hold after school meetings as the boyscouts. It is ridiculous to say that the goverment favors one group over another if it lets a group like the boyscouts have meetings after school. If you're a Muslim and there isn't a Muslim group

Reply to Different Starbase Types in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

ive modules other than the modules for that type. So no more Water Slides of Doom. (And that last comment is a lot funnier if you're familiar with Steve Jackson's game Munchkin.)

Reply to A Short Week and a short update. in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I mean the diplomatic trade screen.

A Short Week and a short update. in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

Well, I finally managed to get the tiling code done this week, so I should be able to hook up the pictographs on the planet management screen that show the production values (military, social and research) at some point when we get back from the holidays. I started working on the trade screen so that we could get some diplomacy back in the game. Apart from th

Reply to Metaverse Submission Problem in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Not that I know of...I'll ask Pat about it.

Reply to I have bonuses I don't deserve?! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sounds like you might be using an earlier version of Gal Civ. You can get the latest version from Stardock Central. http://storage.stardock.com/files/stardockcentral20.exe

Reply to Update patch unzipping problem in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Can you unzip it, though?

Reply to More sound problems and mouse input to some menus in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Interesting. Check to make sure that you have the Multimedia update installed, and if you do, check to see what the other mp3s are sampled at. The Korx and Drath are probably sampled at 128 kbps 44 KHz (stereo)

Reply to Modding in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I might need to install the extras. But I believe that there are other free tools out there.

Reply to One nation, Under God, but lately pretty divisible in Religion JoeUser Forums

And, that statement would also hint that non-christians are not typically good people. Ethics and morality are not tied to religion I didn't mean to imply that. I was trying to say that the Pope and Mother Theresa were misjudging a lot of people.

Reply to My Favorite Board and Card Games in Gaming JoeUser Forums

I like Scattegories also but it doesn't cause as much hilarity as Taboo or some of the other games I listed. Also, I want to know why they couldn't just leave that Q off...

Reply to More sound problems and mouse input to some menus in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Interesting. If you try playing the mp3s in Windows Media player or some other media player program, do they play correctly? And you get sound for other apps, so it's probably not that you don't have the digital output only box checked in your settings. What kind of sound card do you have in the new machine? I see that it says integrated on that list, but if you check in system->Device Manager does it list the manufacturer?