planetidiot

planetidiot

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Reply to Starting a Game Tactics/ideologies/stuff in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I've never been able to play deeply into a game, due to crashing issues. But I never build the default ship types. Everything is custom (I wish you could make the built in ones obsolete). I usually make one with tons of speed, one with tons of range and one with more of a balance, depending on what I'm trying to do. It will be great when upgrading works, because then I can spend time making the ships look cool, and reuse the same design.

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Obsolete ship improvements? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm hoping this is just a known beta issue, but it's kind of annoying that all the old outdated armor and weapons & stuff stays on the ship designer. I mean, why would you put a big weak expensive laser on a ship when a smaller, better & cheaper one is available? It's just clutter.

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Reply to Galaxy Sizes in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Download Stardock central on new computer, goto options put in your name serial codes/ emails and passwords. Yeah, but is that legit? Most software has a "you can only use it on one computer" type policy in the licensing agreement. I'd rather have Stardock's blessing and an official way to do it.<br

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Reply to Ship Design in Ideas Stardock Forums

Oh, I got excited for a minute there. How hard would that be to add? Custom decals, colors & such.

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Reply to Colonizing planets in Colonies Stardock Forums

I think the way it is now is fine, so long as by the end of the game you can colonize all planets. For example, a mars or venus like planet should be terraformable to something decent. But what about gas giants? Gas giants (and all class zero) should either be removed from the map (since they are useless to the game as-is) or given colonizable moons. Colonizable moons presents an interface challenge however. If there was more spacing o

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Reply to Cloacks?? in Ideas Stardock Forums

if you'd put on ship a 50% cloak, then a range 10 scanner would detect that ship at range 5, and range 20 scanner at 10. Yeah, that'd be the way to do it. So you de

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Reply to Diplomacy Credit Slider in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, oh please fix this. I would play with my Wacom tablet on GalCiv 1 just because it was easier to tap while hitting the double click button on the pen than to click the mouse 70000 times. Anything would be an improvement, even if it just lets you input the number with, I don't know, the keyboard.

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Reply to Females in Diplomacy Stardock Forums

It's a good suggestion, but please don't start adding insects, (more) robots and other random aliens with boobs. Most mammals don't even have enlarged breasts unless they are nursing. Humans are just weird like that.

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Reply to Let the Space Shark die and be forgotten in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I never had a personal problem with the space shark. It was annoying at times, but you know, he's part of space so you kind of have to accept him. In fact, scientists have proven there is no way for space to exist without sharks in it. Here's a diagram: As you can see, the space shark is a fundamental part of the universe. You can't be any more angry at it than say, gravity or time. All these things can suck, b

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Reply to Horizontal vs diagonal tiles --- vs hexagonal tiles. in Ideas Stardock Forums

I like them personally, but the argument is that they are harder to do and if you give diagonals a greater move penalty, it doesn't really matter. Plus with squares you have 8 directions as opposed to 6. But I don't know whether galciv has a greater move penalty for diagonals. I am betting though, that there is no way we are going to see hexes in GalCiv 2.

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Reply to Rethink Wormholes in Ideas Stardock Forums

I'm going to go ahead and suggest (again) that some of the worm holes be permanent (or semi-permanent). Losing your ship to the other side of the galaxy might be annoying at the beginning, but later on would be a great short cut. Plus you could add a new vote to the council as to whether stable worm holes should be taxed. This would make maps (and custom maps) much more interesting.

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Reply to Mouse pointer in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I've had problems in the past, also sometimes when switching to hardware mouse, it disappears entirely causing me to click around and try to find a button or something. I seem to remember this being an issue in the first game too. Such a simple thing, why the problems?

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Reply to Zoomable technology tree? in Ideas Stardock Forums

Or at least make the tree nodes smaller. It's hard to scroll around and find what you are looking for. It would be good too to wrap the mouse cursor so you don't have to keep doing the click-drag-let go-move-click-drag dance.

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Reply to Galaxy Sizes in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I've been playing with as large a galaxy as possible, with stars set to rare and planets abundant and habitable planets abundant, also, stars scattered. This gives the game a more realistic feel, since the outer most planet of one system shouldn't be three feet away from the next star system IMO. And stars are REALLY far away in real life, so it should take a while to get out there. Plus it limits expansion since your ship ranges don't change just b

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Reply to Ship Design in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I think the ship designer is great, and shaping up to be a really cool extra for the game. My only complaint is I can never seem to fit enough parts onto a ship to make it good. The parts are always just too big to add more than 2 guns and 1 defense or 1 gun and 2 defense, and if I try to add engines, forget it.

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Reply to Beta 4: BUG REPORTS HERE in Ideas Stardock Forums

Just upgraded to version .77[b].009 (is this beta 4?) I am running windows XP on a pentium 4 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700. This is a two part bug, and smart exception doesn't report anything at all when it crashes. First, when running Trillian, any Trillian status message will be clickable when the game is running. So if I hit a button on the GalCiv 2 interface that happens to be where a Trillian message is on the de

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Reply to Save/Load works - sort of in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, this happens to me. I haven't actually quit a game... I usually get an Alt-Tab crash, and when I reload there are no borders, so everything is out of range.

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