Keith LaMothe

Reply to Using "Threat of War", how do you extort money from AI? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've not yet tried extortion based purely on threat... If you have a decisive military advantage, just park strike groups near their big fleets and important starbases, wait for a good moment (or don't wait, if it is a good moment), declare war, clean them out, and offer them peace for a suitable price :)

Reply to Quite a game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I heard about it on IGMOO, but mostly on Apolyton. Oh, and that gigantic game... I only have it on common (not abundant), but I have 5(!) yellow stars in my starting sector, some with more than 1 15+ planet. I thought it would be cakewalk given that start and that I was in the biggest cluster... but I've already met the Altarians and Arceans, so I'm going to have a lot of landgrab competition.

Quite a game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This could be long, so short version: I'm quite impressed by the game and the support from Stardock :) long version: I heard favorable stuff about the game from some people on other forums, and took a look at this site (particularly the encyclopedia), and decided to get it. After a bit of confusion with the online store, I managed to buy the game and download it (took a while, but well worth it). Regrettably I have a very so-so sound card, so I encountered some pretty

Reply to Bug Report Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

(update to #534) Well, the mm download finished faster than I thought it would, so I tried the "whole" thing out... same result, it either hangs on a .bik (the intro, for example), or brings up a completely unresponsive main menu screen if I've disabled all the .biks before that screen. The debug.err file always ends (as it did before) on the line: Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie. Is there anything I can do about this? This computer has previously played .b

Reply to Bug Report Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

(I read the entire bug thread, this wasn't mentioned that I could see) Is the multimedia module really optional? If it's required nevermind this, as I'm still downloading that part. If it is optional, however, why is this happening: When I start the program (version 1.03A.057) it gets to the main menu screen with some panel where the "start game", etc buttons should be, and my computer freezes hard (no response to mouse clicks, no alt-tab, no ctrl-alt-del, no response to soft-shutdow

Reply to Stardock store rejects my credit card in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sorry, I didn't realize it checked the billing address against the card information, it works now... a copy of GalCiv has begun the long migration to my hard drive :)

Stardock store rejects my credit card in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I looked through the FAQs I could find, and saw some threads on this from before, but couldn't find a solution. I emailed the sales@stardock guys in the morning but haven't gotten a response for some 6 hours, so here I am: I'm trying to buy GalCiv on the online Stardock store (so I can download it without waiting, as I lack the ability to get to a retail store), but it rejects my credit card information when I try to submit the order. I've checked the numbers many, many, many times, a