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Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I had to trade even sometimes star systems to get them to ally[/quote] I understand this, as I had to do that last night to win an alliance also.

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]One statement to make things clear, I didn't hack any game ID[/quote] Renegade, thanks for the comment. Would you be willing to provide a detailed description of the mod? If not here in the forum, how about in the Senate Halls?

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Seem to me that there are a lot of us on the forum that want to believe Stardock. Please do. There are some of us who would like a more open discussion of what took place. Why is so hard to ask for?

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I am wondering why this audit has you so bent? [/quote] Because it is arbitrary and without a way to validate what has been said. Do we have a right to validate what they say? No. In this I think you all agree. They can do what they want without explanation. They have done just that.

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]These people have not been removed because they are not cheating.[/quote] True, they have not been removed. Nor have I or you. But we have been examined because we were submitting more than one game a day. Does this imply that they thought we might be cheating?

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]How much clearer do you want it?[/quote] Yes, and both Renegade and Loth said they played every game. Their work aginst Stardock. Not proof of anything.

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]If they had have given us a hex dump of the data transmitted then others could be tempted to follow and try it out for themselves[/quote] This is BS. I am sorry, but if Stardock can say they can detect cheaters, then telling people how they do it doesn't give people the information necessary to cheat. I did not ask for a hex or binary dump. I merely said that they can say something like the following: "Stardock has determined that cheating took place in the following area and

Reply to Should custom events, mods be moved from regular Gal Civ folder to AProphecy folder? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My experience and experimentation shows that AP goes to the GalCiv mod folder to get mods.

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Once again thanks goes out to Stardock for all their ongoing support and dilligence in maintaining the great Game system[/quote] I agree, too bad they don't back up their actions with facts that can be evaluated. What we have is one person's word against another. Somehow that leaves me with less enthusiasm for either side in this controversy. Both sides should disclose in detail what they have done and how "cheating" was determined. Remember, once before, apparently, a person

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I agree... I hate cheats [/quote] Me too, too bad that we may never know the truth in this matter. Renegade says he did cheat. Loth says he played every game. I have not seen proof on either side.

Reply to Good early game/beginners tips? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote] if you're good, you're not gonna get an alliance victory with all evil civs, I'd imagine).[/quote] Actually, I almost always get alliance victories with Pure Evil aliens. The Drengin, when week, often surrender to me, not other evil. I am always working toward Pure Good, but usually end up as Chaotic Good.

Reply to Galciv Library in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The custom map submitted to the library should not be used. Apparently there is a possible bug in AP that only allows submittal of games that use Stardock generated custom maps. My experience after using the library custom map is that no games can be submitted and you get the error message of "This game is using an unauthorized custome map or scenario." You must load a Stardock custome map before any games will be accepted.

Reply to Problem with Map Editor in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I just loaded the Map Editor and according to app, it is GCEditor v 1.0 I didn't see a 1.50.006. Does this thing generate an error report? I can send it to you.[/quote] CariElf is refering to the version of AP, which you can find on Stardock or when you play a game, the main menu has the version number on the top of the page.

Reply to Favorite Library Mods in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Although this comment doesn't help, I like them all!! I have them all loaded. :D LOL

Reply to CTD upon start of game HELP in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]how much RAM do you have? this might also be needed: How big is ur swap file?[/quote] I have 512 MB of RAM. My swap file is quite large, in the Gigabyte range.

CTD upon start of game HELP in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

From time to time I get a CTD when I do the following: Run GalCiv AP and get the screen menu of a circle with boxes for Map Eidtor and Scnario Editor, Campaign Editor, Play Game, and Exit. When I press the play game button, the screen goes dark, like it ususally does, but instead of the main menu appearing, it CTDs. The screen menu is still there. I can press the Play Game button as much as I like and it never starts a game. Often, if I reboot the computer, things will work. But, n

Reply to Bug Reports for Gal Civ 1.20 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is not the second time this has happened in AP. If you play a game, whether you finish or not I don't know, since I did not finish, with a custom map, the next game you play on a normal AP huge, sparce, maso map, the game won't submit. It tells me that I am using an unauthorized custome map or scenario. The last time this happend, it took three games before it cleared up, either because of reloading the game (I think that is what I did) or something else. I will try reloading the game a

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]wot happens if you choose to play several 'different' games off one 'saved starting position'?...not that i have. i iz useless. but i iz thinkin'[/quote] This is what Frogboy has implied some have done.

Reply to Metaverse Scoring Audit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]User created maps would still not have identical values. There are always fluctuations from game to game[/quote] This implies to me that a vaule is created for each map, based on some algorithm of planet location. Also, it implies to me that there is some slight random position of star systems at the start of a game that might not take place if a map is utilized multiple time after the start had taken place. Is this what you mean by value of a map and that values are no

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Given that GalCiv (base game certainly) has random maps, the odds of two games having identical maps are about zero.[/quote] Forgboy, that depends on the seed and other things in the random number generator used to generate the "random maps." If a method is used to always look for similar maps, say centered in the galaxy with a starting Sol of 19+ and a rare, clustered, Huge or larger map, this would limit the amount of randomness to get a playable game for 7 AI and a human play

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Loth has commented in the Senate Halls, Halls of the Guardians, MASO Strategies. He is quite put off (my words). I believe his innocence.

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]The metaverse and the galciv community are better off without them. [/quote] Newfy, I agree with you, IF they were cheating. But, we don't know if they were, or why they were removed aside from the comment from Frogboy. Without further information, I cannot say why they were removed.

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]have the guardians heard anything from lothmorg about this?[/quote] There is no comment yet in the Guardian forum in the Senate Halls, which is where I would expect to hear something. If Loth post in the Empire threads, you can all read what he says.

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]when were these two removed[/quote] Shortly after Frogboy's remarks above in this thread.

Reply to Metaverse cheating - multiple 60K games every day in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

By the way, you can check the Metaverse ranking to see who was at least the top player refered to, if this is true.