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Reply to What do you listen to while playing? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Doves, The Verve, Crystal Method, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Wilco and some Fu Manchu during wartime to give it that "Heavy Metal" feeling. ~SDC~

Reply to Assigning Names To Planets in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The ability to rename planets within a system would be cool. That way when you look at your colony list it means something to you. Naming the stars is great but planet naming would be better. Besides Stardock did it in the Sol system at the beginning. I HAVE seen my planets revert to a Sol I, II, III scheme with no intervention from me. ~SDC~

Reply to political parties? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't know. I didn't read it either. :) I learned it on the message boards. ~SDC~

Reply to political parties? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

They took these out for balance. ~SDC~

Reply to Can't get MP3 Player working properly in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I dropped my Musicmatch playlists right into the root of my d-drive. Made for a really short path and everthing worked perfectly. ~SDC~

Reply to Bandwidth increased! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well the bad news is ... you have no bandwidth left, but the good news is... you have no bandwidth left. ;) ~SDC~

Reply to Whats up with my tax rate? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Build a colony ship and jettison half of your population into space. This seems to make the masses happy. If you colonize another planet with these people you will have 0 morale. What I'm assuming is that the troublemakers and criminals are the first one that "volunteer" for colonization duty. Sort of like France's Devil's Island. :) ~SDC~

Reply to Bandwidth increased! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are you at least at 49? ~SDC~

Reply to GameSpot Review is Out in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I like Gamespot. The guys there always seem to give indie devs and small devs a fair shake. They are the Fox News of the game review industry. BUT, make sure game doesn't suck--> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/godsgenerals/index.html Worst review score ever handed down by Gamespot. (Check out the videos if you can, they are hilarious.) LOL ~SDC~

Reply to What Do Civilzations Want? (Diplomacy Suggestion) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

They will usually take a system with a morale of 0. I am usually ready to be rid of them. :D ~SDC~

Reply to Bad behavior ... too bad in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Who you calling sweety? :D ~SDC~

Reply to A sure sign of a company doing things right. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This happened to me as well and I was not a beta tester. To be honest, because of my support background, I thrive on stuff like this. The one criteria I had for keeping my temper was the involvement, not of mindless support drones, but of Brad himself. He was with us until the end last night and thus he has become one of my most respected developers ever. No harm...No foul ~SDC~

Reply to FAQ: STATUS REPORT (3/25) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wise installer is bad about stuff like this BTW. Tell the person making your installs to ALWAYS watch for these issues. I've been using Wise for about 6 months now and I have seen it quirk out in a number of ways. The price we pay for it's ease of use :) ~SDC~

Reply to ATT: ALL WINDOWS 98/ME USERS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just for the record I was not a beta tester. I laid down for the drengin account tonight in order to get Galciv (and corporate machine). :D Brad, you can thank all of your great AARs for this. ~SDC~

Reply to ATT: ALL WINDOWS 98/ME USERS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks for the help Zachary. I'm back in business. Now, let me get this out of the way... [begin extortion] You owe me Brad. ;) You have all of my contact information. [end extortion] Here are the recovery intructions for WinXP (thanks to Zachary) 1. Pop in your WinXP installation disk 2. Choose to repair using the recovery console. 3. Choose your installation (1 for a single-boot machine) 4. Have the 3 files mentioned above on a floppy disk (NTLDR, boot.

Reply to ATT: ALL WINDOWS 98/ME USERS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I can't blow the system away because it will get rid of a lot of stuff I need. Where are these files exactly?

Reply to ATT: ALL WINDOWS 98/ME USERS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Giving it a go...luckily I have 2 Xp machines side by side on my dsl connection.

Reply to ATT: ALL WINDOWS 98/ME USERS in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If I hadn't been reading your stuff since that article at IGN 2 years ago I would be cursing and spitting right now ( actually I am cursing and spitting but I will get over it). Now!!! Here's the story... WinXP Pro (been running since October 2001) NTLDR missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart Anyone wanna help me out? I restarted just to verify the claims of others. Well..guess what?...they were correct. SDcentral hosed my OS

Reply to SECOND SERVER ON-LINE in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I just scrolled up and actually read Brad's instructions about switching servers. 125-150 now!!! ~SDC~

Printed Manual? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Will the Strategy First edition come with a great manual or just a lot of reminders to check the pdf manual. ~SDC~

Reply to SECOND SERVER ON-LINE in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Mine fluctuates alot but I do see 45-50 every once in a while. Just dropped the extra cash to get it tonight (i've been wanting The Corporate Machine anyway). Kudos to Stardock for a very cool experience. ~SDC~