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Reply to Twilight and previous Ship Designs. in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

[quote who="GmOOnii" reply="5" id="2265987"] @Kryo, it is possible to bring a DA ship to ToA ship. How do you update your ships desin files in the notepad. What is it you actually do?[/quote] I can imagine what Kryo means vaguely, it would just take a lot of copy and pasting with some editing to change numbers and stuff. But I wouldn't dare try without more information. [quote who="GmOOnii" reply="5" id="2265987"]@Spearthrower, 267 ships in t

Reply to Twilight and previous Ship Designs. in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2265708"]In TA the race-style numbering system was changed and many of the cosmetic pieces were remodeled to improve symmetry, fix hardpoints that did not quite point in the right direction, etc. While this is a good thing for ships designed within TA, it means that a lot of models from DA or DL can't be directly copied over without either completely overhauling them or replacing the old models back into TA (which while it'd fix the ones you're copyi

Reply to Twilight and previous Ship Designs. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry to reply again to my thread, but I still seem somewhat devoid of responses! [e digicons];P[/e] I can't believe I have a unique problem, so I am sure that this has been asked and answered before. If no one has a solution, perhaps they know of a place where I can post my problem and expect a more immediate response? I have to say that I am pretty surprised at the lack of official response too - do the Stardockians no lo

Reply to Twilight and previous Ship Designs. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Did I not provide enough information.... or is there no known answer.... or has no Stardockian seen this yet? [e digicons]o_O[/e] I'd really appreciate some answers. I bought and downloaded the game 3 days ago and it's still sitting there unused because I really don't know what I can do about all my ship designs. I've got pretty much all classes of ship designed for all the races - starting from scratch is a bit disenheartening. [e digicons]x_x[/e]

Twilight and previous Ship Designs. in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Sorry if this has been covered in the past, but I couldn't find anything from a brief search. Having not played Gal Civ for some time, I just bought Twilight of the Arnor and started up a game to find my ship designs were missing. So, I copied over the ships and shiptemplates from Dark Avatar but the majority of them do not cross over. They work fine in DA I just checked; they are all barebones models with just hull pieces on. However, in TotA they are missing numerous

Reply to Which would you rather do -Read a book or Watch a movie- and why? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Not really,,, lets call it.... 'observational science'. You see a pattern, in this case, how so many book worms wear glasses and then look at what all book worms have in common, IE they read allot, and since you use your eyes to read... aha, aha (Mystikmind points his figer in the air expressing an idea) Reading must be bad for your eyes. There is no escaping statistics, they always point directly to the cause unless God is playing a practical joke or somthin

Reply to Which would you rather do -Read a book or Watch a movie- and why? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

That's good. But since so many 'book worms' wear glasses, it easily gives one the impression that reading must be bad for your eyes. I think that might be a stereotype rather than being a fact.

Reply to Which would you rather do -Read a book or Watch a movie- and why? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I've read an average of 2 books a week for the last 20 years.... and my eye-sight is perfect! I'd be surprised if reading actually caused any more damage than staring at a brightly lit screen!

Reply to Which would you rather do -Read a book or Watch a movie- and why? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Another important point for me is that you can carry books(important for me as I have spent a considerable portion of my life travelling)! You can also read them in the toilet..... you can take them on a boat..... you can sit on the beach with them..... you can while away the hours at an airport... you can give meaningful ones to people you care about.... you can find hidden treasures, snippets of the wisdom of the ages in them.... you can learn and grow from them. Books, even more so t

Reply to Missing Precursor Libraries? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Until recently, I thought they were an elaborate conspiracy designed to make me think I was missing something..... but then I finally found one the other day! They seem a *lot* rarer than the precursor mines. Does make me wonder though, so many AAR's I read seem to have one on their homeworld!! Then again, I never use CTRL+N unless on a gigantic map, I am wedged in a corner with a coup

Reply to Which would you rather do -Read a book or Watch a movie- and why? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Funnily, I dont have the attention span to watch films.... I'll get bored and wander off (if it's at home) or just fidget incessantly if it's at the cinema. Books are, and always will be, my first love. Only food and sex are equal for me! I'll cut an inevitably long tirade on the wonders of books short here! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 align="a

Reply to How do I get better at designing ships? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

First of all as you said, like anything in life, practice is the key to getting better. People who make good ships have probably spent many many hours tinkering in the Shipyard! Aside from that, I find that it helps to think about structure. Dont just go for form immediately as you may find that you dont have the hardpoints underneath to place outer parts correctly. Turning parts 180 degrees can

Reply to Where do I begin in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Here's some basic ideas to work from. On the military front, you need to fairly quickly work towards having a basic defender. This just needs to be a tiny hull (or even a cargo hull if you want to be really cheap) with 1 weapon on it..... make sure you start producing these fairly quickly and put 1 into orbit around each planet. This will give you enough of a military rating to keep the wolves from your throat for a while. Naturally, you need to follow this up fairly soon with some smal

Reply to Why do I suck at this game? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

(why dont custom races get a special ability anyway?) They do! Look on the right hand side when making your custom race. I suggest you try Super Breeder with Speed + 2, Morale and Econ. With a bit of room to expand at the start, you are guaranteed to have a very healthy economy which can be used to power your research and military.

Reply to All-tech and all-industry--should it remain in game? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

MottiKhan: If you would excuse me, I think you are not really following the argument very well, your replies don't seem to tally well with the points made. This idea would not in any way indicate an "I win" button, no one remotely suggested it would or that they wanted one, nor is it about achieving reality (again only you said that).... it's about fixing an in-game loophole that allows people to play the game in a way that one must presume the designers didn't intend. If the

Reply to Suggestion - be able to set trade route path in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There's an illusion of quality. There's also more profit, or it wouldn't happen.... especially the China-America example. The real reason why Americans buy Chinese products is because China produces and ships them for cheaper than American companies can manufacture them at home and still make acceptable profit margins. People go to a shop and see a T.V. for 25% cheaper.... a lot of people will buy it. Thus, the local industry becomes redundant a

Reply to Quick question about race picks in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

The strongest custom is, I believe..... Super Breeder Speed + 2 Morale Econ With any political party to focus more on a desired area, but I prefer Technologists to make up for the one thing I feel I am missing - Research! The only downside is that, as long as you have a bit of breathing space at the start, you are pretty much guaranteed to win! My personal race of this build is called The Hive. They are a mostly insectoid assortment of semi-sentient sp

Reply to Be smarter than everyone else-have the facts on your side! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

You mean to keep them in? Thereby altruistically saving the world from certain doom? Hmmm... I like the cut of your gib... I'll do it!.... although my students might think I have actually finally cracked when I walk into their class later with cotton protuding from my ears!

Reply to You have just entered Romulan space! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hehe playing by principles is MUCH more fun!

Reply to You have just entered Romulan space! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I always happily leave the low PQ planets for alien races to pick up. Ultimately they are going to flip to me anyway and I wont have to pay for their maintenance in the early game. When it flips, I get a fully developed (if poorly so) planet and my economy is strong enough to support it.

Reply to Mars in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Not that long ago they seem to have found water welling up from under the earth, so if that's found to be true, then no - Mars isn't a barren planet.

Reply to Be smarter than everyone else-have the facts on your side! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The evil little bastards!! Actually, I have a real termite problem here at the moment.... perhaps they are hatching some evil plot? The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men gang aft agley..... but what about termite plans? Perhaps they're super strategists and I am doomed to ignominous, magical, roof-head crushing!!

Reply to Be smarter than everyone else-have the facts on your side! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

You've obviously not had many dealings with termites.... canny wee buggers they are!! Perhaps one of the termites was the witch! Dystopic: Bruce Kapferer, the phenomenological Anthropologist, always used to call me Foucault in lessons then expect me to defend myself while he tore Foucault apar

Reply to Be smarter than everyone else-have the facts on your side! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Relativists do it in a relativist position! Actually Dystopic, looking at your link, I really should have credited my story above to Michel Foucault... for while Evans-Pritchard was the field anthropolgist, it was Foucault that gave the data its true home!

Reply to Where do you get your news? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

BBC news mostly for general reading in front of the computer. Various sites for more specialist news (on my job, interests or academic subjects) The Bangkok Post for my lunch-break and coffee-time newspaper... the best international English language newspaper in Thailand. What is laughably known as "Thai news" - should be careful or I might get blocked!! /agrees w