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Reply to Economy Tip/Rant: Military / Social wasted allocation handled differently in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

By recommendation: take out the total spending slider. Create two sets of sliders. One is the research slider, where you set the % of total RPs you are funding. The other is the IP slider, where you set the total % of IPs you are funding. Under the IP slider is a breakdown of military vs. social. The two always add up to 100%.</T

Reply to Civilization captial research and production in Research GalCiv2 Forums

This is where I become confused. If I have 100% spending and enough funds to pay for the 24 industry and the 24 research, why do I still not get them? What is connection between research and industry on a planet? What are the %s on the category sliders (military/social/research) a % of?

Reply to Fuzzy math and game development in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Excuse me, but what's up with that?! If I have 12 bc, why can't I have it produce 12 flasks without completly hampering my military and social production? Is this really how it works? I assumed if all sliders were set to the right (100% spending, military/social/research all rightmost) **and you had enough funds**, that you could get %100 of

Reply to Confused about social production and manufacturing focus. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

On mars I build one factory and two reasearch facilities. While building up to reasearch Academies I leave the social focused. Once I have two academies I destroy the factory, build another academy in its place then focus on reasearch. I too did this, but then I began to wonder - doesn't keeping the f

Reply to Initial colonization rush a bit annoying in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

If they introduced a "max colony" factor that accounted for tech/income/etc., it could be interesting... You mean like a "colony logistics" tech that limited how many colonies you could manage at one time? That's an interesting idea. I wonder if it would be moddable.

Reply to Capturing a Starbase in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. First, when does DS9 come on Spike, and how far into the show are they right now? I miss that show. I always thought it would be neat to have a tech line based on "Boarding Parties" that would use your soldiering (and race) bonuses. Of course, there would have to be a "Repelling Boarders" defensive tech line as well, or you could even rely on defensive techs already in the game. Such offensive techs could require their own attachment to a ship (to use up a weapon

Reply to Collector's Edition in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The European version looks like it comes in an actual metal box. Was that a Limited Edition run? Or for the European version only?

Reply to Ideas for Improving Diplomacy in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I would like the ability to request Surrender. Maybe it could trigger whatever routine it is that the AI checks before it surrenders on its own. Sometimes when you are so much more powerful, it would be nice to be able to call an end to the game.

Reply to So Develoers... what is your response to all the bug postings? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thank you for answering. No, I just thought you meant you'd pirated it. Sorry about that. It seemed like a smarmy way of saying it. Honestly, I'd ignore the fanboys and play the game. Stardock dev posts have red banners. Plus there's a big response on the front page regarding updates. Did you play GC1?

Reply to So Develoers... what is your response to all the bug postings? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

You mean like a heretic that claims he didn't pay for the game? You're not honestly that stupid are you?

So what do you do with Mars? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I usually just throw down a couple of labs, focus on social until they're built, then switch to research, but I'm no expert. So what's the best use anyone has gotten out of this small starting planet?

Reply to arrow keys - bug or feature ? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Yes, I am constantly doing this too. I don't know where I developed the habit, probably from RTS, but I can't seem to break it. It would be great to be able to change these.

Reply to Any other way to Rotate Camera ?....and Any way to Bind Keys to other functions... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I would love the ability to side-scroll using the arrow keys - I don't know where I developed the habit but I keep hitting the arrow keys expecting it to side-scroll and it moves my ships! Actually, it would just be great to be able to assign keys.

Reply to Word of mouth promotion in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Hah hah. Nobody listens to my suggestions about software anyway. I do have confidence that it will succeed on its own merits, though. GC did well enough to support GC2, and so on...

Reply to Tactical combat in expansion? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

To me tactics are something to be saved for multiplayer. I've never played a tactical game where after a few tries you couldn't outsmart the AI. As far as strategy is concerned, I'm still playing chess against the computer and losing.

Reply to Checking in.. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Big GalCiv fan here. Giant GalCiv fan here! Ready for the beta. Can anyone show me the link to purchase GalCiv3?

Reply to Wont enter GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I had the exact same problem (full screen version, plays first video of colony ship construction then CTD). It was working fine until I applied the "49" version using the de-archive option in Stardock. The only way I could get it to work was to uninstall the game completely, then reinstall and use the 1.02 full version patch from the website. After that it worked fine. Go figure. ;p

Reply to Star Trek Encoding Test in Mods Stardock Forums

Actually, they don’t rotate at all. Since I only had his fixed isometric portraits to work from, I just replicated the image 32x in the encoding strip and the ships never change direction when they move. In the last iteration I added a directional pointer so you could at least tell which direction a ship was facing (once I realized it was important to know where they were going). If his pictures were renders, there’s no reason you couldn’t extract 32 facings from the render and actua

Reply to Blockades and Stupid AI relations in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I wonder if it would be effective to have a BLOCKADE button on the ship command list. Then, whenever a ship attempts to move through that sector, it could ask you whether or not you wanted to allow it, and answering NO could alter that empire's opinion of you. Still, I haven't played enough high-AI games to know whether this would even be necessary. Still, embargos would be neat.

Reply to Star Trek Encoding Test in Mods Stardock Forums

I would assume Atrocities is hard at work on his mod, which is why we aren't hearing from him. ;) I wouldn't want to step on anybody's toes buy putting their hard work into a mod. I did get bored last night though and pulled a lot more stuff in. Still can't believe the difference a good artist makes. I have absolutely no artistic talent myself! ;p http://www.imgmag.net/images/xtclingerie/clip3.jpg

Reply to Star Trek Encoding Test in Mods Stardock Forums

As much as I'd like to take credit (;)) it's not my model. All I did was encode it. The person that makes these models has done an incredible job of recreating just about every major race from Star Trek (and some others) for SE4 I believe. Here's a link to his site: http://galileo.spaceports.com/~william/index.html I can't imagine the time he's put into this. All I did was spend 10 minutes encoding one of his models.

Star Trek Encoding Test in Mods Stardock Forums

Here is one of Atrocities models encoded into the game. I hope he doesn't mind me putting it up here, I'm not working on a Star Trek mod myself, just couldn't believe how good it looks. Can't wait to see what some of these guys mods look like! http://www.imgmag.net/images/xtclingerie/clip1.jpg http://www.imgmag.net/images/xtclingerie/clip2.jpg

Reply to Seprate Mod Launching Program in Mods Stardock Forums

Hey Atrocities, just put one of your Federation ships into the game and it looks great! I just wish I had the time to put them all in there. Still, didn't know what to do about the facing (since it's only an isometric render) but it still makes the game look incredible. Of course, I'd never use your stuff without your permission, and esp. since you're probably already doing it yourself. Just wanted to compliment you on the modelling again. Here's a link to his site:<

Reply to Change logs? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thank you! EXACTLY what I was looking for ... :D Knew it had to be in there somewhere. ~SDC~

Change logs? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I love the fact that GC is being regularly updated, even if I do have to archive it and take it home each night. ;) But are there change logs for any of the changes posted anywhere? Just to satisfy my own curiosity, of course. LOL ~SDC~