Doom Ray

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The doom ray has no picture, it uses the laser as its default graphics, and no icon shows up when you place it on a ship,
I appologize if this is already known, too lazy to do search.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's becuase its so top secret, you are not allowed to see it.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
heh.

We could show you, but then we'd have to kill you.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It wouldn't be a doom ray if you saw it coming...
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Good thing nobody mentioned this before the patch came out, eh? Otherwise it'd be another trivial, five-second problem that wasn't fixed with the patch!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Actually, it has been mentionned. I even posted a debug.err file because when I put an ultimate weapon on a ship and then save the design, it crashes.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
it dosent crash, the gun works, fires a totally cool beam, but there just is no graphical representation in the ship builder, icon wise and on the ship itself

Considering it is 1.1, i thought i would research everything and see how it works. One other thing is where do the super computers come into play? I have them but I dont know what I researched to get them.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You mean Hyper Computers? You get them when you research Aeron Missile Defense.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Which for the life of me I cannot figure out why. What does the most ultimate missle defense system have to do with computers? It's such a pain in the rear to have to research all the way through a bajillion missile defence techs to get a +20% research bonus.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Psyonic Beam has the opposite feature. It has an icon in the ship designer, but it does not have any sort of beam effect. You get that somewhat sinister sound effect, and then enemy ships start to explode.

I say, as long as the enemy ships explode, its all good.

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Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is a workaround for this.

Delete the following file:
Galciv2\Gfx\Thumbnails\s0_doomray.png

The game will then generate a new icon for the doom ray.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
alright, so now it has an icon, what about the graphical representation? was there a graphical representation of the doom ray before 1.1 and you just took it out? Will there be a quick update patch to put it in the game? I would be nice to have a different representation for the doom ray rather then using the plasma gun. I know how this sounds, there are more important issues such as making the A.I better, but I would still just like it fixed

thanks for your time.