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Reply to Screen Fuzziness in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is this a laptop or LCD screen?

Reply to BUG: Multiple Economic Captials (and other capitals too!) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm. Agreed. Otherwise, if your empire can support two manufacturing capitals after taking over a planet, why can't you build and support two at the same time on your planets?

Reply to Creativity ??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In the first game I played I chose Creativity because it sounded cool. I noticed that I had access to the Benevolence and Cure for Depression techs that normally require an alignment score of 70, but my alignment was only 55 or so. I believe I also had access to some of the "evil" techs, but don't recall what they were (Xeno Manipulation?) off-hand.

Reply to What do the number of trade routes mean? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Your trade route number is total number of trade routes. So if you have 3 routes, you can only have three total -- doesn't matter if they all go to the same planet or if they're spread out over three empires; you only get three.

Reply to Increasing No. of Trade Routes??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Keep researching tech. There are a number of technologies that give you more routes. Also, there is a UP resolution that you might come across that increases the number of routes by 2.

Reply to Question about Specs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, there are many of us running GalCiv on machines lower than the "minimum" specs. At worst, you will only have trouble (i.e. slowdown) on the largest maps. Stick to the small or medium maps and you'll be fine. You can run the larger maps if you don't mind the slight slowdown between turns. I'm running it on a 550 MHz system and have no complaints. I have no idea why the box lists 600 MHz as minimum. ~SDC~

Reply to How Do You Get A Ship To Do A "Sector Sweep" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've only tried it once, but it seems like the ship zips around the sector in a cross-hatch pattern. Not real useful as far as I can see unless maybe you have very low sensors and are trying to make sure an enemy ship doesn't slip through your sector.

Reply to GalCiv AI Cheating at all diff levels? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm. The Hubble Telescope must've been destroyed or broken at some point between present day and 2178 since we can look at stars all across the galaxy today and see what "type" they are. ;)

Reply to What exactly is the differance between setting a ship to Gaurd and Sentry? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, but it doesn't intercept (at least not that I've seen), it just "wakes up".

Reply to How Do You Get A Ship To Do A "Sector Sweep" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Double-click on the ship to bring up the detail screen. There will be a number of options down the left-hand side of the screen. One of the them is sector-sweep.

Reply to GalCiv #1 Most Searched Game at Gamespot! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wow! That's huge; it must be getting a lot of attention. It's even beating out Zelda and all the other console games. Congrats all!

Reply to Need advice on purchasing game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Make the drive. The manual isn't that special or anything, but being able to install off the CD seems to be a much easier process. Besides, a 50 mile trip isn't bad at all -- unless it's all city driving.

Reply to What's the best planet class you've found? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In my current game, the Yor are buried in a corner of the (small) galaxy with only two or three planets -- none exceptional. An event occured (discovering Precursor tech or somesuch) making one of their planets base 35. With their existing improvements, it became class 42 immediately. Now I'm worried that they're going to begin to dominate, so I'm trying to decide how to prepare...

Reply to bonus pack? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Here's the bonus pack info: http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=9414

Reply to Ship Orders in Strategies Stardock Forums

Each sector is 12 parsecs across, I believe.

Reply to Pentium IV an absolute must? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Athlon 550, original GeForce, 256MB -- and no complaints as to performance. Runs perfectly...haven't tried the larger maps yet, though.

Reply to What does the Spending Slider actually do? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This doesn't totally add up, but it's close: Total income = 1197 Govt Expenditures = 1197 * 53% = 634 So we're spending 634 on military, social, and reseach combined. Reseach = 634 * 41% = 260 (actual number is 276, why the difference?) Social = 634 * 18% = 114 (actual number is 94, why?) Miliary = 634 * 41% = 260 (actual number is 420 -- is ship maintenance included here? If so, that could account for this difference.)

Reply to Balance with Trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, plus the ability to seed more starbases along those longer trade routes would let them bring in more income.

Reply to Sample boxes have arrived! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Elrikk: I think the keyword there is that she's now your EX-wife. :)

Reply to Do you wish to help the developers ? Buy the game DIRECTLY! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yes, Stardock will make more $$ off a direct purchase than a copy bought at a retailer, but think of this: if the retailer doesn't sell very many copies they may remove it from their shelves, hampering sales in the future. Additionally, it could also discourage them from stocking Stardock games in the future. Whereas if the opposite happened (i.e. retailers sold a ton) then it could make Stardock a respected name among retailers and could help with future game distribution. Just a thoug