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I bow down to what must have been a great deal of work !

WHat can I say? Except Godlike that is

Hehe thanks a lot this is just the beginning!

im unable to view the items

Beautiful work -- nothing less would be expected from I-Mod!

Question:  For those who have customized tech trees, is there a way to create a reader, e.g., Galactopedia, which would allow the development of personalized posters to match our personalized trees?

All the same: thanks for making the game attractive visually!

This will be fantastic for those of us who are not yet fully "paperless!"  Thanks for your contributions.

Happy New Year!

At the risk of sounding stupid... after downloading, how do I "open" the file to look at it?

What does it need to be associated with?  etc. 

It's a    *.RAR     file... and I don't know what kind of file that is. 

Thanks in advance.

It is just better, more options, more compression. I thought it is stadard by now. Just download winrar and you dont have to worry about compression file types most of the time.

I don't like WinRAR or any of those compression tools, and I don't want any of them on my computer, thank you.

It really irritates me when something this useful comes out, something I'd like to use, and it's in an *.rar archive.  Please, give us a *.zip option.

By the way, that tech tree viewer will be amazing.  I sure get tired of opening up GalCiv2 just to look at my tech tree.

I don't think there is yet a "stadard" for this type of thing. Winzip was the first out of the gate, but there isn't yet a clear winner in the compression wars.

I have to agree with you here. It is by any measurable standard superior to winzip. 

Winrar is not shareware. Every time I launch the program it reminds me of such, but it still works. Winzip started out as shareware, if you will remember; then it became begware, then it became demandware, and now it is bloatware.

Winrar has been around for years. It works, plain and simple. Click on the file to dowload it, double-click to decompress, and there you go- every time.

If you really hate sharewares, use 7zip. It unpacks .rar files (but does NOT pack them) and is as easy to use as Winrar.
Distributed under LGPL licence (plus a specific one for the rar decompression)

I still don't understand what's so complicated with optionnaly uninstalling winzip and installing winrar or 7-zip in its place...

I guess to each his own...

if you often begin to download a lot of mods here and there for games, you will often stumble upon rar files

rar saves space and so user bandwith and more importantly server bandwith which might not be important for you but is important for a lot of webmasters hosting free sites which pay for the bandwith ...

7-zip can have an even better compression ratio but is quite heavy on the decompression time department and is less frequent than rar files (which themselves are less frequent than zip files)

EDIT: I'll add that while winrar is shareware it lets you use it for an unlimited amount of time unregistered, 7-zip is free and more importantly both tools read zip, rar and 7-zip while winzip only reads zip of the three