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Reply to STICKY: Making backups of your stuff in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A CD user can make backups of their CD, but how about patches? Is that the same process as with the download version?

Reply to STICKY: Player Reviews! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

It's slick. The interface is nice, there are many little touches (like the awesome research text), and the game's framrate runs unwaveringly right on my monitor's refresh rate of 60Hz. One thing I found odd had to do with ship upgrading. It works perfectly for the most part, but seems impossible to do individually (not by class) with ships in fleets unless you take them out of the fleet first. This is just a minor thing right right now.

Reply to Just a few...more...hours... in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Took only a minute or two to download the rest of the content. It was " Congrats on the game launch, and good luck with sales

Reply to Oh Canada in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

That was the first thing I was going to do, plop in a nice Canada logo. Awesome

Reply to Get your system ready for GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Pentium 4 1.9 ghz 512 mb Geforce 2 MX 100/200 Your system will run it fine. I'm not sure if I would be so optimistic. I might look at asking someone who has gamma/beta tested with a ri

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

As I said in the chat (and got borked in the transcript):

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

The same error is affecting me, though Stardock support asked if I wanted to merge email address data. I'll just see how it goes on release day. It's just a temporary serial number anyways, since I bought the boxed version.

Reply to So, where are you from? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Canada (Manitoba)

Reply to Wonder what mods they will do....... in Modding Stardock Forums

The game does lack a scripting engine, however, so modders are limited in what they can do.

Reply to Game Size in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Download the RAD Video Tools , and then all you need do is to double click on the tutorial files. They're in \GalCiv2\Gfx\Tutorials.

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

I can't open it right now (XP is acting screwy and I don't want to reboot yet), but there is an option in SDC to "archive" the game. You probably just right click on it and select that or something along those lines.

Reply to Tokens vs "Direct Payment" in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I've looked everywhere on the galciv2 and stardock sites. I can't find the token purchase option anywhere. If anybody knows where the token purchase option is located, I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Thanks Right here

Reply to Ship Building and combat in Strategies Stardock Forums

As far as I know: No you can not make more than one ship per turn per planet. It's not needed, really. The ships are supposed to be more Star Trek-like, as in you have less but each is more important. Besides the cosmetics it's not that different in terms of gameplay, though it may be easier to manage. There is no tactical level combat. The developers went the Civ route again, citing how tactical battles tend to take over games because they

Reply to Does an attack automatically cause a DoW? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Typically in those shows, as far as I can remember, the ships were destroyed by terrorist factions or in bizzare circumstances. Now, if you directly order a ship to attack another civ's ships...

Reply to Wonder what mods they will do....... in Modding Stardock Forums

I'm going to see about modding in some ship parts, probably all just cosmetics. I didn't like actually changing the gameplay of GC1, it was too hard to balance. There are already a few mods floating around for GCII. We have a couple of ones, so far, over at http://thegalacticcore.com Link The Galactic Core <

Reply to So what are YOU doing to pass the time till release? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

thinking about intalling Conquest Frontier Wars again I don't know why I sold that game. It is awesome online, which a friend and I only found out about after I sold the game because of {NDA}, but {NDA} has since removed the game from testing. The game wasn't that great if you didn't know anyone else with it because very few people played, hen

Reply to when does GalCiv II out in the UK in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I got tired of all these delays on European release. I just finished downloading the game files from StarDock and could not be happier Only thing that seemed odd is that I ordered CD version and the shipping costs were 0$ to Finland. Sended email to stardocks sales department, hopefully they fix it soon. If you read the <a href="https://www.stardock

Reply to Borders in GalCiv2? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Borders are not really like Civ 4 at all, probably due to it being space and all. Borders do not place restrictions on ship movement, colonization, or any of that, though the AI may be wary if you start moving ships within their territoy. Borders indicate the area where your influence (culture) score is higher than any of the other civ's. Therefore, enemy planets deeper into your borders will be more likely to switch to your side due to cult

Reply to Anyone playing empire at war? in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

The tactical combat is too chaotic in my mind, it just ends up being about who has the numbers. It doesn't have the same feeling as other RTSs like C&C Generals. And because that section lacks base building and other normal RTS things, you'd expect that the combat would be more strategic to keep the fights interesting. The rest of the game just feels like it leads up to the tactical combat situations, so it's more than a little problem.

Reply to Capture of ships in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

That would be an enormous pain to balance.

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

Stores will have it on shelves (if they have stock) as soon as they can put it there. It's shipping before the 21st, if I recall correctly, and that date is simply the day they are allowed to put it on the shelves. It's pretty normal for games to do that.

Reply to race alignments in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Right out of the game's RaceConfig.xml (which you can change to alter their default alignments, if you want). Range: 1 (Pure evil) -> 99 (Pure good). 50 is neutral. Altarian Republic: 99 Torian Confederation: 75 Drath Legion: 75 Arcean Empire: 50 Thalan Empire: 50 Iconian Refuge: 50 Terran Alliance: 50 Yor Collective: 25 Dominion of Korx: 1 Drengin Empire: 1 Minor Races (besi

Reply to Get your system ready for GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Right now my only PC is a Dell 9300 with a gig of RAM which I bought trying to convince myself this was going to be a work machine not for gaming but I can't help myself. I did get the "trubright" screen. So I didn't get the upgraded video card. I just preordered the game, am I going to be able to run it? Or should I cancel my or

Reply to Star trek mod in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

There's a whole website to that, not just the 2 meters per pixel resolution Link link link link

Reply to Demo Release? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Nothing short of a demo would let you know that, if your computer acts so oddly (which, I may add, is probably something that could be cured with enough persistance ). They've said that a demo release will likely happen some time in March, since they've been focusing on the initial patch/bonus pack first.