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Reply to Is the tech tree available for downloading? PDF in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If the tech tree can be printed off, doesn't that defeat the purpose of including it with the Collector's Edition? A nice foldout, colourful, tech tree poster from the CE would still be better than a multiple-sheet 8x11 printout from a PDF file. But for those of us who preordered the DL-only version, the latter would still be better than nothing.<br/

Reply to Coups, and leader heads in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Is the head you see that of the leader, or that of the Ambassador to your race from that species? It's less inconceivable that an Ambassador/Emissary might be the same after a coup d'etat. - Ash

Reply to Oh Canada in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Also Canadian, also very much enjoying that screenshot. Thanks Brad! - Ash

Reply to Humans disadvantaged? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

It's been said before, but the manual is out of date in this regard. The AI no longer has this advantage. - Ash

Reply to whats a Parsec,anyways? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

But you're not going really fast until you've done the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs. - Ash

Reply to Hi everyone in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

29.5 hours, based on Brad's previous comments. - Ash

Reply to Galciv 2 Preload activation issues? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The message in SDC, when I got it, did say that things would be fine for now, but that at some point "in the future" it would be necessary to merge e-mail addresses. Beyond that, I'm not going to worry until I have an actually runnable game tomorrow afternoon. If it doesn't work then, I'll figure out what's wrong. - Ash

Reply to Game Backup for Download only? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

What Consumed Crustacean said. Right click on the GalCiv 2 listing in SDC, and you'll see an "Archive" option. Right below that you'll see a "Restore Archive" option, for when you've taken the Archive home and want to get it running again. - Ash

Reply to Game Size in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The total game size is just over 1GB. If all you got was ~100MB, you just downloaded the core game files, and missed the multimedia/movies/tutorials. You need to click the "+" icon beside the GalCiv2 listing in Stardock Central to see the rest of it. The game will run (come Tuesday) without the rest, but you won't have any movies or sound. - Ash

Reply to DVD Style Commentary petition in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Either way, it's great. Looking forward to it. - Ash

Reply to DVD Style Commentary petition in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

From the IRC chat that was done on Friday: [19:29.52] (GreenReaper) (Grohyt) Q: do you plan on releasing anymore gameplay videos with commentary? [19:30.07] (Frogboy) Yea. We want to do one that has more of the team involved. [19:30.17] (Frogboy) Just have to figur eout the logistics of mxing all of us in. <img src="smiles/BigSm

Reply to Hello in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

Welcome. Don't mind the cats - they're Suralle's. - Ash

Reply to Naming your ships in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You score more SW points if you name your flagship Chimaera , though. - Ash

Reply to So what are YOU doing to pass the time till release? in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

Well there's work, and reading threads like this, and playing other games (mostly baseball sims, with a little WoW mixed in). Primarily the work though, unfortunately. - Ash

Reply to Anyone have a Icon of CGII? in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

And you would be right. That doesn't change the fact that it seems to be being used as the primary icon for GalCiv2. - Ash

Reply to Available IN STORES... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Don't even get me started on how frustrated I got trying to get my hands on a copy of Civ 4... the memory of that experience had a lot to do with why I've already preordered GalCiv and predownloaded most of the game files. Then Brad had to go and half-ruin the effect by deciding not to release the final download files until mid-afternoon Tuesday. He's a horrible, horrible man. - Ash

Reply to Release time? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Mid afternoon EST on Tuesday. You'd better have one mammoth gameplay example queued up to keep us all distracted throughout Tuesday morning. Otherwise the number of "is it out yet?" posts will probably break the forums. - Ash

Reply to Demo in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Everytime someone asks the question, the responding post gets like 50% shorter. It's actually kind of entertaining. - Ash

Reply to Demo Release? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

What the guy with the polysyllabic way of saying "eaten seafood" for a nickname said. From the IRC chat with Brad yesterday: [18:43.20] (GreenReaper) (noodle) When is a demo going to be be released? (paraphrased) [18:43.45] (Frogboy) Probably mid March. [18:43.51] (Frogboy) Typically game development goes like this: [18:44.11] (Frogboy) You go gol

Reply to Tutorials aren't all there. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

If you need some video goodness to tide you over, have you seen the gameplay video that Brad posted a couple days ago: https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=101010 It covers some of the same ground as a couple of the tutorials, and even has Brad doing the voiceover work himself. - Ash

Reply to Anyone have a Icon of CGII? in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

This is a copy of the logo for GalCiv 2 that shows up in Stardock Central, at least: http://cthol-murgos.net/RaceLogo01.png The same icon is used for the launcher EXE that's included the game files released so far. So it seems likely to be about as close to an "official" GalCiv 2 icon as you're going to get. (Hmm... it occurs to me that official folks might have a problem with me posting that file publicly. If so, feel free to edit/delete this post, and I'll remove the file

Reply to Available IN STORES... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

The intent is for it to be on store shelves on the 21st, as far as I know. That said, what stores (and stores' distribution warehouses) do with the game once Stardock sends it to them is up to them. So expect the 21st, but as with any game, it would still probably be a good idea to phone before you head down (unless you have lots of spare time and gas ). - Ash

Reply to Hi remember me? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Can't say as I remember you, but then again, can't say as I was really paying attention. And this game had a beta test? Geez, I sure wish the developers would be more open about these things. It's like trying to see behind the iron curtain or something. - Ash

Reply to Tutorials aren't all there. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well what about my question? That would be a "no", sorry. I think someone asked this before (just after we figured out the preload made them available ) and one of the Stardock staff responded that it wasn't possible to get them separately. I don't know if there are any plans to make th

Reply to Poll about game mechanics in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

No tactical. - Ash