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Reply to TO STARDOCK: Delay GalCiv! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think a few weeks delay could, and should, be well used to polish the game a bit. It seems like there was a big push here to "get the game out" and polish the little things later, judging from the replies to many of the issues brought up by the beta testers. If the intent was to beat MOO3 to market, it was a good strategy. Given that MOO3 is out now, I think remembering how long it was delayed while being polished and play-balanced would be a good thing. When GalCiv comes

Indications of War in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Question: Is there some way to tell who's at war with me on the mini-map? Other than scanning the Foreign Relations screen, memorizing the colors "ok, pink, yellow and light blue are at war with me", then scanning the mini-map "there's a pink, nope that's orange, whew, ok there's another light blue"? 'cause if that's the only way, then it sucks. Sorry for the lack of sugar coating! SD

Polish issue? - crazy large numbers posted in score in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sorry if this is old, but I'm still seeing extra large numbers reported where they look out of place. Two places I can remember for sure are the foreign races screens and the victory screens. Example: Victory technology scores; 7847, 273, 1259589847, 268, 269, 2014146009. I won the game and had 7847! I have screen shot, etc. if desired. -SD

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Possible polish item: sometimes I can't get a fleet of ships to attack another ship/planet until I ungroup, then regroup them. I'll try waiting a turn or five, but that doesn't seem to help. Once I ungroup, then regroup it works great. I haven't (purposely) used Sentry mode, so I don't think that's responsible.

Newbie questions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Like riding a bike, its hard to remember not knowing how. 1) How can I see what cultural effect my starbases and planetary buildings are having on another race's planet located in the same sector? I want that planet! I could invade their puny little selves, but they've spent the whole game building up their fleet. I've got multiple starbases decked out with all the cultural advances I know of. Now what? Where can I see if they're wavering on defecting to my empire?<

Galciv.com website so slow? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is anyone else experiencing slow page loads on this site, especially in the forums? I know the forum pages have to load all the messages. So what I would call a "fast" page load is about ten seconds. A slow page might take up to a couple of minutes to load. I was curious if others are experiencing similar performance, and if so, has it always been like this? btw, this occurs on at home on my dsl and at work with multiple T1's. Thanks.

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

To: Lucky Jack Re: SmartException tool and "original" post of this thread. Question: Why didn't you simply put a link to the tool in your reply? Are you chastising me for not searching every other post on this forum? I tried looking but could not find another thread named "Beta 4B Available". I found a number of 4B related threads, but couldn't find the posting/tool. Please remember non-developer playing the game is a customer who paid money to be here. I paid m

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Polish Related: 1) How can I tell what special wonders have been built and which race built them? 2) The Space Sharks detailed description is screwed up. Clicking information on a Space Shark brings up the usual info screen, but the information presented looks like it was mis-formatted for the screen. 3) Where can I see all my trade routes, who they're with, and how much each one makes? 4) How do I find a minor race's home planet without manually searching the m

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Crashing bug: :sniff!: I invaded a minor race's homeworld (Dmer) and took it over. I continued to receive notices the Dmer were doing bad things and should be put down. When I try to view the Minor Races and scroll to the Dmer, the game quits to the Windows desktop. Is there some logs or files I can send in? I read about some crash util tool in another post a while ago, but the file had been removed by the time I tried it. Hey, what about included that utility in the

Reply to Beta 4A glitches in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I see the auto-pilot bug quite often in larger games.

Website still says Beta 3 coming in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm wondering why the crawling banner on the bottom of the Forum website is still anouncing beta 3. Three questions: 1) When did beta 1 first come out? 2) Is there an expected release time? I guess when I saw beta4 and 4a being released, I made the mental assumption the game was a couple of months away from being finished. Can anyone enlighten me on this? 3) Where can I find descriptions of the various research project benefits? Its pretty hard to