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Reply to Elemental Player Input: Unit names and quotes in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

For units with names ending in ".. Infantry". "The (mobile) infantry made me the man I am today." "MEDIC!!"

Reply to Time Time Time. See what has become of me. in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Timout yes, but not after first person ends. I've played a number of board-games where a timer starts when the second to last person ends. That works pretty well, but they are only games up to 6 players. To make that more generally useful, I would suggest starting the timer when log2 of players are left. In 2-3 players game starts at 1 player left; 4-7 player when 2 players are left; 8-15 when 3 players are left.

Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

In Call to Power you build infrastructure points, and then those could be spend in the main screen. So in essence it was a button with "build road to", but first you had to generate the infrastructure points in a city. The points could also be used for other infrastructure such as farms,windmills, etc. In practice it was very simple to use, and sending out workers automated or manually in civilization doesn't really add that much fun anyway. Here is description of differences

Reply to Road Building…Your thoughts? in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Do road-building and improvements in general like in "Civilization: Call to Power". This is by far the best solution I've seen, and it has been really disappointing that the real Civilization series didn't continue that idea. It almost just seems they ignored an execelent idea because they refused to acknowledge Call to Power even existed.

Reply to People of Elemental: The Kingdoms in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="9" id="2538951"]The Kingdom of Gilden (“Ironeers”, sometimes called “Merchants of Iron and blood”) Vikings!!! I mean.. dwarves!!! I mean.. HAMMER TIME!!! [/quote] STOP!! ... HAMMER TIME!!! Seriously, wouldn't they be DUS, Dwarves of Unusual Size?

Reply to Where does the US's obsession with the free market come from? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="MichaelCook" reply="129" id="2523939"]So, if facism is "a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system" then isn't the USA partly a facist country? [/quote] What do you mean partly? The republicans even on this forum are soooo far right, they think Hitler is a lefty [e digicons]\o/[/e]

Reply to Would people want Mega events? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Other then that: revolutions, defections (scientists making off with technology?), minor races going nuts etc. There definitely should be a special "The Snathy goes nuts" event with it's own video

Reply to Regarding Used Copies of GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yarien you do realise that you position will never last in a European court? If anyone cared to take it that far you would be forced to let people reregister... The "license" you send with the game has no legal binding.. anywhere.. outside the US

Reply to So what features in sequels? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Actually I am not sure I want tactical battles as in MOO2, because it is way to easy to exploit, but we definitely need tactical options. If nothing else, to be able to sit through the battle and decide when to retreat. These all or nothing battles seems silly in a game this advanced. Given that the engine already have auto-play games, I think the option of seeing them live and deciding some things during the battle could be very possible in an expansion.

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

I am more worried about PayPal themselves. Simply because they are evil.

Reply to STICKY: Win2K and Europe in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

So,,, Are you going the actually fix this in a patch?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II 1.2 released! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

When the defender actually have fair chance will it even be possible to beat the Dread lords especially in the "Seige" scenario. As it used to be, the only way to defend against them was to detect and attack them before they attacked you. If the defender gets a fair chance then the Dread lords will be unbeatable.

Reply to Regarding Used Copies of GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am pretty sure that if you are in a European country and have bought a used copy you can demand a new serial and a working game. Games and software have been established by the courts to be goods and not licenses many times, and as such they subject to normal sales laws which means that it is resellable. Microsoft have been forced quite a few times to accept transfers of licenses eventhough they claim it's impossible.

Reply to Option to give more CPU to IA in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think the changelog said the option didn't do anything yet. So don't worry about until the next patch.

Reply to Freaky AI Ships in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's a good thing aerodynamics don't matter in space. Poorly placed engines could still send the ship into a nasty permanent spin..

Reply to How to get SmartExpection to work? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've got the same problem. Smartexception doesn't catch any crashes at all.

Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Seems from the formula that defense is most universal at a value of 1. Since wrong type of armor works as the squareroot, the squareroot of 1 is 1, so strength 1 defense is fully effective against all attacks. This way 1 shield + 1 chaff + 1 armor is defense 3 against all attacks. So any well defended ship should use something like 6 shield + 1 chaff + 1 armor or whatever you decide to counter.