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Reply to Only half the screen is rendered? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

"Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6693 Driver Date: 10/29/2004 16:50:00" You want to update your video drivers. And it wouldn't hurt to update your audio driver while you're at it.

Reply to My Documents? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have several game related folders in My Docs. I understand that it is common now. I also know how to move it. I do not wish to move it. I just want to decide what goes there and what doesn't. Simply hiding the folder will not work. It is a space issue. But thanks anyway.

Reply to My Documents? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As has been explained in other threads by Brad Himself, Microsoft practices reccomends that you put save files in the My Docs folder. A lot of games do it. Stardock was just following the MS standards. IMNSHO this sucks. I love Gal Civ 2 with all of my heart. But I set my C: drive as a system only drive. I'd like the option of placing these files elsewhere. Others seem to agree. I hope that if enough people speak up about this, that it will be changed. But I don't expect it.

Reply to An idea for easy, logical planet defense in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

4) Finally, in military terms, whoever controls space controls the high ground. Even an orbital platform is a sitting duck, and anything on the ground is worse. Read Niven's "Footfall".... all you have to do is throw big rocks. It's trivial to defeat planetary defenses if I can move around your solar system at will, scooping up space junk and changing delta-V and trajector

Penny Arcade Mention in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Quoth Tycho: Galactic Civilizations 2 might be a very good game, but it has a feature so insidious that I may never find out: in addition to the various interstellar tiddlywinks, it has full ship construction. Grand Theft Auto lets you steal any car, and depending on the car you steal there may be objectives associated with it. I have the same pr

Reply to Why are the AI so poor with their improvment choices? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Realistically, the AI will sometimes build something on a food spot if it has something else in mind. As will I.

Reply to Retail availability increases further in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

So now we're in unknown territory. We no longer have any idea how many units the game will sell. The first one sold roughly 75,000 units in North America and roughly that many overseas / electronic. We've shipped around 50,000 so far and we're starting to run into a back order so availability is going to get tight in the coming days as we're now rush manufacturing anothe

Reply to "I know what you're doing..." too twitchy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As a previous poster stated. I have see it happen and I use it as a reason to take over one more minor race. If you had just kept your mouth shut, you'd still own the planet.

Reply to It's Monday! Have some bugs (and suggestions) :) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

#9 is VERY annoying in the later part of a large map game.

Reply to Mouse Pointer Sticking - Please Help in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

1) NVidia GF5600Ultra - fw 81.98, winxp 2) no 2) no 4) standard cursor Mouse: Wacom Tablet :-/ I feel like the odd man out. Everyone else has logitech mice and 6000 series GFs. . . so why does it (rarely) freeze on my PC? Just curious. I also have a Wacom Tablet. Are you using the stylus or the mouse that came with it? I had

Reply to Can't Rename Star Systems??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think this feature should be added, because people want it, and options are good. Please read the post above yours explaining to the post above that, that a previous post (above that) from a developer states that it's gonna be changed.

Reply to BUG AND ITS ANNOYING!!!! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

certain error dialogs from the ship designer seem to be placed into a background queue. I'll try to remove an object that still has hardpoints attached for example, and nothing will happen. I'll click again, and still nothing, then I'll figure out that something is still attached, and go about removing that and designing the ship. When it's all complete and I exit the desi

Reply to Moving the My Games Directory in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A shame, that.

Reply to 1.0X change log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Any news about resources disappearing when you destroy their mining starbase?

Reply to POLL: Are you playing more GC2 or CIV4? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't even HAVE Civ4. That about covers it.

Reply to Multiplayer in Expansion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A -for all of the reasons already stated. Sorry.

Reply to Tank vs. spearmen? or How to Suspend Disbelief in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I’ve always explained that one away by imagining that the spearman was an entire legion of spearmen and a tank was just a tank. Heh. Not to be picky, but that wouldn't make a whole helluva difference. I don't care if you have 10 legions of spearmen. One Panzer takes them out. Even if it runs out of ammo and has to squash the remaining guys. <

Reply to STARDOCK DESIGNERS - Please consider making a MOM type game for your next enterprise... in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I am holding my breath until Stardock releases a MOM type fantasy game. ::taking deep breath::

Reply to AI stealing my ship class' names?! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It happened to me as well. I blasted the sucker with a fleet. It was too nasty a toy for them to play with. As mentioned earlier I believe it happened right after one of my planets was captured by the Altarians. We made peace. Then they declared war on me again. Lo and behold I'm being attacked by a Retribution MK 2 (same design, different hull) it was the only one I saw all game.

Reply to My friend wants to borrow my game :( in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Let him play it on your computer. If he installs it on his computer that's piracy. "He'll eventually buy it" is a lame excuse. Sorry.

Reply to Stardock/Boxed Order Question in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Heh. I always believed that Priority Mail is like Jumbo Shrimp. A total oxymoron.

Reply to Good vs Evil balance in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

In my last couple of games I monitored my alignment so that I was just a little evil when it came time to chose. Then I picked neutral and paid a few thousand bc for it. It was worth it in the long run.

Reply to The next Galactic Civilizations II print ad design in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

No near naked women falling out of their overstuffed metal bras. It'll never work. Obviously, I'm kidding. If I had never heard of GalCiv before, that would get me to stop and read. Eye catching. Nice work.

Reply to AI isnt very smart.. it Cheats in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

And your quote "...they may release..." is the reason I am posting here. So I am doing what I can to let them know that a multiplayer "patch" would greatly increase their sales. Yet again, I'll say it. Chill. Meaning relax. If you think that you are the only person that has brought this up, you obviously didn't read the (literally) hundreds of

Reply to Does the AI think that I am weak when low military spending? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

AFAIK if you don't actually build military ships the AI sees you as fruit ripe for the plucking. I've used that in a few games to my advantage. I build up a surplus of cash and when the AI declares war on me (the last time it was my "good friends" the Altarians), I pumped out a huge flotilla of large ships on all of my planets. I went from 30,000+ BC to a negative number in two turns. Then I set out to take all of their planets. I just LOVE when I go to the diplomacy screen and they say somethin