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Reply to GAME IDEA!!!! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

With 4 exclaimation marks in the title, how could it be a bad idea?

Reply to Extra Moves in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

it's pretty marginal as exploits go.

Reply to Are some AIs better at tactical warfare? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

No, but that might make for an interesting racial ability.

Reply to AI scripts in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oh, and saying the computer isn't playing smarter than you shows you don't know how the GC2 AI works. It's currently able to beat Frogboy (who writes the AI itself) on Tough, sheerly by capitalising on his mistakes. There's no evidence to suggest Frogboy is unusually good at playing GC2 - we only know that he's pretty good at programmi

Reply to AI scripts in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The point of this rather long digression is that GCII is not 10^6 times more complex than your chess program from days gone by, it's probably closer to 10 times as complex with beautiful graphics and a gui interface. I strongly disagree. I'd guess that GC2 is, from a computational point of view, vastly more than a million times as complex as a ch

Reply to Terrans and Thalans...do they ever win? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

hard to say... I always end up playing the Thalans.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Availability in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Until then its expansions Same argument applies. If they're netting $23 from my online pre-order of DA rather than $8 or $12 from a store sale, then my money is buying me twice the "votes" in favour of more work being done on the game I enjoy. Cost to me is the same.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Availability in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

BTW there's one part about buying online that is important to me now: All the money goes to Stardock. So all the money I spend contributes towards them deciding to make GalCiv3.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Availability in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Empath, seems like it's your connection that sucks, not downloading. Hardly Stardock's fault your ISP isn't so good... PS Broadband is great! hah!

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Availability in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think I can get Dark Avatar now. I have no means of buying online. Bad move, Stardock. Do you know anyone with a credit card who you can give 25 bucks to...?

Reply to Signature list for Deleting "Want Carrier" Posts in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Agreed. Can't they take no for an answer?

Reply to Star System EULA in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yggdrasill is the Tree Of Life from Norse (Viking) mythology.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Availability in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Well I've already pre-ordered it, so... But perhaps when you've finished 1.4 you could release a "Total GalCiv" retail disk with GC1, AP, GC2 and DA all on one disk for those who don't like to download. It would probably have to be a DVD but I don't think that's limiting your market much these days. I guess this would be susceptible to warezing since there wouldn't be a need for updating, but by then everyone who wants to buy GC/GC2 online will already have it. It might make a nice

Reply to GalCiv to GalCiv II - should I do it? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Nope, I like GC2 better is just about every way. Except that I wish there was an autolaunch option.

Reply to Interesting AI Strategy in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Most AIs in this style of game think they can push me around because they have a big military - and often I have a smaller one because I focus on economics. Then, when they declare war, I turn every planet into a war machine and proceed to show them who really has the larger military capacity. Usually, because of my focus on techs and economics, I actually have a larger ca

Reply to AI so clever but so THICK! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

" We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas,

Reply to Help a Civ veteran / GalCiv newbie in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Put in several good races and play evil, or vice versa

Reply to Galactic Civilizations 3 wishlist in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A race of six-breasted blue-skinned alien women who need someone to teach them what this thing we call "love" is!

Reply to We have Projectile waepons, Energy Beam weapons, and Missile weapons. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Wouldn't pulse weapons be good also? Energy pulses. What kind of energy? There's no such thing as "pure energy".

Reply to AI bullys... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Uh, yes. That's called intelligent self-interest.

Reply to Xeno Entertainment vs. Stock Exchanges in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Do they work on Stock exchanges ? Morale resources are independant of stock exchanges or any other morale buildings. That's why people are saying it is far more effective to build a dozen constructors and get a 44% morale bonus on every planet than spend the same amount on morale buildings that give a 5% bonus.

Reply to How tough is your video card?! in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I've just bought a 7900GS. They're insanely good value for money (basically a 10% faster 7800GT for the price of a 7600GT, and they'll overlock to 7900GT speeds).

Reply to Heroes of Might & Magic V: The game with an ultracheating A.I! in Turn-Based GalCiv2 Forums

Meglobob: Only played campaign Then you've only played about 5% of the game...

Reply to Random Pirate Encounter in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If it's on a planet with a big industrial base it can be well worthwhile - I've seen bonuses as high as 60%, which is beefy.

Reply to this may be considered whining but in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I consider my navy huge if military support is around 20% of my budget. Your economy sounds like it must be pretty tiny, not "going through the roof", if 5 ships make such a difference. V1mTip™: An economy budget surplus of 100BC / round is not "going through the roof". It is "eating government cheese and watching free cable".