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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #9 - The FAQ in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I'm confused. In both this and in dev journal 9, all the features you list as "new to supernova".. are in fact in GalCiv IV "base game" on Epic now. Except possibly for the "deeper tech tree" which is a bit vague. Can always be deeper. I didn't particularly see any of the flaws sited here, my issues were things like.. MP effectively didn't work... Which is just a feature fail for bugginess. Also had this problem at certain points in time in GalCiv III, as various

Reply to News on MP Pirate fight bug? in GalCiv IV Support GalCiv4 Forums

Thanks !

News on MP Pirate fight bug? in GalCiv IV Support GalCiv4 Forums

I convinced a friend of mine to buy GalCivIV so we could play together, and of course, we immediately ran into the disconnect when the AI fights pirates bug. This happens... all the time. Given this is a well known bug, I noticed it wasn't fixed in 1.12, does anyone know (SD?) when it is slated to be fixed?

Reply to Sponsoring Starbases in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Er, I said starbases, but I meant shipyards ;)

Sponsoring Starbases in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

I can't seem to figure out how to sponsor a starbase in this version of galciv. Is it just not implemented yet? Or is there a tech wall or some such? Seems like Mars ought to be able to sponsor your starting starbase as well as Earth, for example. Anyone know?

Reply to Troubles with Weapon Components Anomalies in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Thanks :). Was just looking for confirmation that this was a bug, and not some feature I didn't understand ;)

Troubles with Weapon Components Anomalies in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Not sure if anyone else has had this problem, or maybe I'm missing something, but... Not infrequently, I get anomalies that reveal some broken down weapons technology that is not a module. The options on this event are typically, "get +2 to {some} weapon stat on your ship" or "research this tech". The latter option starts a quest to research the tech, which thus far I've never seen the option for, but I assume that's just because I don't have all the prereqs yet.

Reply to I bit the bullet in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Not to derail this thread even further... if this thread really had a meaningful train of discussion to begin with, but... Has anyone played Reign: Conflict of Nations? I keep vacilating over getting that game...

Reply to Anyone still have Master of Magic 2.0? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Wont' run on a 64-bit os though :(

Reply to I bit the bullet in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Pvthudson" reply="1" id="2771435"]http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9553042 Should have waited for CIV 5 it will be awesome...and work[/quote] That is evil. You make me cry.

Reply to front page of Gamespot in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="5" id="2763923"] Quoting the_spyder, reply 2I haven't purchased yet. Still waiting on fixes ... As of 1.07, most major issues have been resolved and the game is really fun. If the game had Sid Meier's name on the box, it would be pulling 8's easily.[/quote] As of 1.07, the game seems to be playable. It is, however, quite boring. The world is bland. The mechanics are simplistic and lackluster (or w

Reply to 1.08 - MULTIPLAYER (can we have a new Poll Plz) !!! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="57" id="2764350"] I appreciate and understand your comments, but I cannot support the idea. You walk into a place like Wal-mart, right on the back of the box it says there is multiplayer up to 16 people. There is no excuse not to have this feature in the game yesterday. It's listed as a feature, and it's simply not there. I want you to consider what this industry would look like if every publisher put out a game with bullet point features and just left them off

Reply to 1.08 - MULTIPLAYER (can we have a new Poll Plz) !!! in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Not to invite people to yell at me, but... For my 2 cents, multiplayer functionality is secondary to making a fun, interesting game that people want to play. For me, for the moment, Elemental is pretty boring. It tantalizes only as long as you don't know the game logic behind what's happening on the screen. Once you work it out, you quickly find the mechanics to be childishly simplistic, stilted and/or artificial (not all at once but in turn for various features), and the ga

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Well, somewhere between patching, chkdsk'ing, virus scanning, reinstalling, rebooting, etc., etc., etc. the game now works again. Yay :). No idea what was wrong.

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I haven't been that I am aware of, before or after these problems began. I do have the Nvidia graphics utility installed and it is capable of doing that, but it is not configured to do that at the moment, as far as I know, and I have not altered its configuration in any way since in the interval between when Elemental worked and when it stopped working. I did try to run Sword of Aragon in that interim, which I couldn't get to work, but in the process of doing that I tried to force

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

On the grasps at straws level, it occurs to me that I also updated Flash and Adobe Reader in the last few days.

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I put one up in the drop.io collection above. I could put another up if you like? The trouble is, the game isn't "crashing", it's simply not rendering any video feed. So I get sound, and sometimes (although not as often/where you would think, which makes me wonder what resolution it's trying for) I get the mouse over sound for buttons, I have the feather cursor, and a blank, black screen. The game only exits when it gets

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Alright... I uninstalled everything. When by hand and erased the Elemental directories in the My Games folder and the Program Data folder. Reinstalled with fresh reboots in between (harking back to Win95 days of installation/uninstallation paranoia). The game still loads to a blank black screen and the feather cursor. Now with no sound until I hit escape or space bar (skipping past the initial non-player media?) then the theme music starts up. Again, the only thi

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Hrmm.. reinstalling has not worked either. Is there some sort of conflict between Elemental and Visual Studio 2010 or Expression Blend 4?

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Oh, and that's the most recent .zip file I have there. No dmp files at all. I'm assuming that's because it did not crash gracefully.

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I added my debug.err, but like I said, it seems to get reset everytime you launch Elemental, and I tried launching Elemental about a dozen times working around the corruption issue. Edit: Trying to work around the corruption issue :/. I didn't succeed.

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

DXDiag data is in the head of every debug.err file, but I uploaded it anyway. I also uploaded the 64-bit version, because, honestly, I'm not sure if it contains any additional useful information, and I am running on Vista 64.

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I skimmed the debug files sticky, missed the "Game Data" vs. "Game User Data" directories. Presumably, this is the correct crash file. http://drop.io/corruptcrash

Reply to [1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

A quick PS. In the interim between the two events, I installed Vis Studio 10 and Expression Blend 4 and built/ran some Silverlight apps, if that potentially makes a difference. Nothing else of significance was done on this machine.

[1.06.19] Corruption Bug in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Unfortunately I do not have a debug.err file for the initial event because I didn't think much of it at the time and debug.err gets overwritten every time you launch Elemental. Where I am now: When I try to launch Elemental, the game "starts" with a black screen. I hear music but nothing else. It will continue like this indefinitely (longest I waited was 12m). I have rebooted, Verified my installation from Impulse, exited every oth