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Reply to Tips on ship design (functionality) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I usually play on whatever is the first difficulty the AI starts getting benifits (The one above intelligent). I typically have speed 7 ships (2 or 3 engines) until I research hyperwarp, then go to 13. I generally do put defense on ships for the simple reason that if you build a massive dreadnaught with 200 attack and fight ships with no defense and 20 HP that means that ~180 of your attack is wasted (This reflects my play style. I don't like to manage large numbers of smaller craft so my battle

Reply to How come the enemy has better ships? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

And events. Ethical choices can give huge benifits to ships constructed on a given planet. I have seen up to a 51% bonus to ships from these events

Reply to G4's XPlay gives GalCiv II 5 out of 5! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hmmm, I just looked at their web page and didn't see GalCiv2 mentioned. Did I miss something? Thanx for the info Frogboy

Reply to G4's XPlay gives GalCiv II 5 out of 5! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Dang it. I always miss it when they review the games I want to see them review

Reply to AI Cheat: Starports on unuseable squares in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have seen the Torians do it on 4 of the 8 plants I have captured from them

Reply to Races you love to hate... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Torians first. I always seem to be leading a coalition against them because their influence keeps getting to strong. I did learn never to let them build any of the influence wonders Acreans next - I always seem to start next to them I always seem to war with these two and never really have good relations with them - ever

Reply to One starport, or more ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I second that beta bug. I've currently conqured about 6 Torian planets and have found 2 starports of 3 of them

Reply to They should tell us in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, if it was just a 'war started with someone' then you could just go and look at the treaties in the diplomatic screen to find out who

Reply to omg at this activation crap (v1.1beta) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

About activation that confused people the 'O' and the '0' look the same I would think copying and pasting from the registry would take care of that problem.

Reply to omg at this activation crap (v1.1beta) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I as well am having problems. I copied the serial # right out of the registry, then tried copying off the back of the cd case about 12 times - I keep getting "Invalid Activation"

Reply to Did Take2 (T2) do a secret buyout of Stardock? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Stardock develops and pubilshes Galactic Civilizations II. But it does not distribute it to retail in North America. That's done by Take 2. The article is in error for the same reason a lot of places get it in error - many people don't realize that Take 2 is actually one of the larger distributors in the world ala In

Reply to why are you mesing with me in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Go here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp choose "graphics driver" and go from there

Reply to I bought the game on principle in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Heh, Newsweek reported that almost 90% of software in China was pirated, 72% in India, and somewhere around 70% for Thailand

Reply to Notebook graphics cards are scarce! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As someone who does PC repair work for Circuit City I will tell you that some laptops are easy to upgrade, about as hard as changing your laptop ram (assuming the ram is not located under the keyboard and a piece of metal thats soddered to the motherboard) but others will have the graphics card soddered and basically cannot be upgraded without risking damage to the mobo. There really isn't anyother way to find out but to remove the keyboard and/or case

Minor's Influence Starbases in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have only seen this in my most recent game, but one of the minor races (Jessuvians (sp)) built two influence starbases. One was right next to their home plant, the other was close to mine. It just seems like a waste to do so since they don't produce any kind of Influence that I am aware of. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a benifot for them doing this?

Reply to Battle Screen in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

and the ships wheeled about in a chaotic manner, as if they *had* to keep moving instead of standing still to fire if that was an optimal firing option. I get that too. It seems like all the races' helmsmen (helmsthings) are a bit on the drunk side

Reply to The WORST review ever in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Am I missing something about the score? I clicked on the link and there it said 8 out of 10.

Reply to Planet Bombardment in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Also, advance troop modules will allow you to carry more troops

Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

When you build a accidentally build a farm on a +400% manufacturing square

Reply to Farming Barbians.. uh, Minor Races in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ha! Thats....an interesting strategy. "Here, you hold my old toys so I can smash them!"

Reply to A pictorial history of the Templar Navy in Game Talk Stardock Forums

What hull styles and colors did you choose?

Reply to 1.0X Preview in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

yeah, some people might say that you already released two patches and weren't prepared but since its in response to problems reported after game release, I just think it shows that you guys are trying to be on top of things and responsive to the gaming community's needs. (and I certainly don't expect you guys to test every possible system configuration and come up with every possible way concievable to try to exploit the game) Keep up the good work!

Reply to The Nano Ripper and you... in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Ha! Just like the Borg (which in a game is a good thing. I like having to redesign my fleet of ships that have been terrorizing the galaxy for years because the Torians are now using armor plating) Its not too powerful if the AIs are already using armor

Reply to Techtrading the bane of a good game. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

You can always click on a tech to see what it does

Reply to AI Balance> Unfair AI-to-AI Tech Trade in Trade GalCiv2 Forums

I've noticed that before I go in for a round of ship upgrades I will talk to all the other civs to see if I can get anything else to add to my ships. But it just kinda seems wierd to be able to trade for Laser V and then build/upgrade a fleet of ships with it immediatly even though I've never researched any laser or beam techs before.