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PDF Manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I realize that the manual is online in HTML, but will we be able to download a PDF version with it; or does the download come with the manual already? Thanks. /ds ~SDC~

Reply to Logistic Questions about the Download on the 26th in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Frogboy has stated in multiple threads that at midnight on March 26, 2003 you can download the game. In each and every post he has neglected to mention the timezone. I think someone said they are in CST, though. /ds

Reply to Is There Any Reason to Purchase the Boxed Set? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm gathering then, that the answer is possibly "no"... (but there was some wavering in a few of those posts). Cost isn't the issue. It's $45 to download versus $43.30 at the local gaming store (after tax). Wee. /ds

Is There Any Reason to Purchase the Boxed Set? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Howdy. Is there any reason to purchase the boxed set? Will there be anything in it that is substantial (manual, tech layout, etc.)? Cheers, /ds ~SDC~

Reply to IMHO, I like the Stardock Central client... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Except that it crashes and/or makes my system unstable. If I leave the client up overnight, usually my box is unresponsive in the morning (Win98SE). And, the other day when it updated followed by a restart of the client, it asked for my username/password again. After I entered it and clicked OK, it crashed again. /ds

Reply to Where do you reside? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Austin, TX, USA

Reply to Does anyone know how to get MOO1 to work on Windows XP? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Power to Win98SE users! ~SDC~

Reply to Random event ideas here... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

SHHH! Don't tell. Or if you do, make a spoilers thread. :) /ds ~SDC~

Reply to News events in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This would have to be toggleable as you noted. I loathed Civ3 telling me all the time what was happening in the world. If I want to know, I'll get a status report myself, dangit! /ds

Reply to Random settings? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sten, I had a similar thought yesterday. For the intelligence settings, an upper and lower bound on the random setting is sufficient to solve this problem. That way, if you are an "normal" player, you could set the range to be "normal to bright" and then randomize it. /ds

Reply to AI Interface in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

One approach would be to do it ala Quake mod SDK. Header files are supplied. DLLs are written and loaded into the existing game at run-time. Thanks, though. /ds

AI Interface in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As part of the ongoing support by Stardock, I would like to see the AI interface opened such that players can replace the human player (or another race) with their own, custom AI. It should be flexible and extensible enough that the writer can delegate behavior to the existing AI. This prevents them from having to write a full-blown AI and can start small. It's a pipe dream but worth mentioning. /ds

Reply to Random event ideas here... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

#9 Gravitational Anomaly This anomaly can be in the form of an appearing black hole, star going supernova, or some tech side effect. It's effect, if not countered quickly enough by a technology, is that all planet's rating shifts over time to n-1, n-2, ..., n-X (the X can be fixed or randomly determined). Researching the "tech" before a shift has occured will counter all shifts across the galaxy. Once a shift has happened the "tech" will stabilize all planets at their new level by n

Reply to About downloading the game (answers) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hrm. What time on March 26th? You should probably use AU Eastern Standard/Summer Time (GMT +10:00) at 12:00AM. For those in the USA, that would be March 25th at 9:00A EST. :) You are, afterall, going for a global market, right? /ds