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Reply to Over colonizing and map size in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I played on Gigantic/Immense and most of the time not building on the new planets was enough to keep the economic balance. It is hard to rush out too fast to be able to afford it. Once you have a planet, you have it. Getting it from the AI can be quite tricky. So the colony rush should be your first purpose, no matter what it may initially cost. And for critical periods there still is the production slider, that can save you from economical death. Actually a good game just slides at the

Reply to How to flip a planet in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="1" id="1961848"]You shouldn't have built the Mind Control Center. [/quote] This STILL has not been fixed in 2.02?? Or are we talking about DA only?

Reply to Frogboy - My real life hero. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Sammual" reply="10" id="1963431"] Quoting di55ec7ion, reply 7There are no heroes, only role models. Having heroes is quite an excuse not to work on yourself. Think about it. There are Heroes, you just can't sit on your ass and wait for them to do what needs done. They should inspire you to go out and do it. Sammual[/quote] That is what i meant. The word "hero" just implies what he has done is quite "inhuman"

Reply to Smoothing Out the Steep Learning Curve in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="whismerhill" reply="1" id="1962418"]I can see what you mean, though I didn't have any problem [/quote] I can not see what you mean, at least not until i have highlithed it. Btw, i have started the game and my first thought was the same. It was quite complicated, i had myself in debt too far, i did not win anything. But i said to myself "There is no game that can be too complicated to beat. Damn, youve read the good reviews, you go

Reply to Frogboy - My real life hero. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

There are no heroes, only role models. Having heroes is quite an excuse not to work on yourself. Think about it.

Reply to Pictures from Stardock's Halloween Party in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I wonder what it might be like to be a beautiful woman sometimes... I close my eyes now and what i see now are a huge bunch of drooling, boring guys throwing the same set of compliments at me and waving their tail like a dog all day, every day, the whole time. Yeah, dogs appreciate you for nothing too. If you tell your dog you are engaged in an successful company and doing great things in your life - the only thing he cares about is you stroking him. Might be nice some

Reply to GC2 Endless Universe 2.0 update in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I am german and luckily i bought the us original of the Gold edition + Twilight download. What i have read this far EU is not very good in terms of translation. The parts of the german manual i read on amazon.com were awful. Stardock, you may criticize your european publisher for this, one reason that GC is not that well known here in germany surely is, that the german localized versions are very bad. I know that you did the localization not for your own, so i can say this openly without conf

Reply to Change log for 2.01 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Psaldorn" reply="14" id="1957695"]Has anyone noticed a big change in economy since this update? I bought a copy of TotA but it turned out to be illegit, since I own all the others on impulse I decided to legitimise and bought it again through impulse yesterday. Having played the game a few days ago [old version] and again today and last night after purchase and newest update.. it seems like the starting economy is different. <br

Reply to Screenshots of Galactic Civilizations II: v2 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="5" id="1957157"]Speaking of screenshots, is there a good way you all recommend taking screenshots while running Galciv in non-windowed mode?[/quote] I dont know how you would do it, but i simply press "print" on my Keyboard when in game, alt-tab to Windows, open a program like paint and then press ctrl-v (or select "paste" in the menu).

Reply to Change log for 2.01 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] + TWEAK: Eliminated Orbital fleet manager + TWEAK: Added Fleet Command Center super project that gives all planets the ability to use what’s in orbit to defend planets [/quote] This little change affects gameplay a lot. In the past the OFM was quite useless to me, therefore i had most of the time no ships in the orbit, trying to defend planets rather by intercepting the enemies transports before arrival. My

Reply to Change log for 2.01 in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="2" id="1954702"] + TWEAK: Terror Star techs substantially less expensive A welcomed adjustment which may allow me to finally give this feature some attention or at least enjoy what the gimmick does - gameplay wise. Mopping up a weak opponent with it is certainly what fun is all about... but the previous development loooong steps were a kinky obstacle to its basic use. [/quote] I agree - the TS is quite usele

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: New Frontiers! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Assuming one year of work planned for this - i think it will be a commercial fan-Addon, or am i wrong and it will be downloadable 4 free? ?

Endless Universe Review in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

http://www.honestgamers.com/systems/content.php?review_id=7433&platform=PC&abr=PC&gametitle=Galactic+Civilizations+II%3A+Endless+Universe I found a new review of the european Endless Universe game (for those who didnt know:

Reply to Getting up with few planets in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

So the colony rush is definitely a need to get up? That means i really need to get everything at getting out colony ships @ first. Okay maybe i have to improve that part of my game. Is your initial territory one that is connected or do you try to get as many planets as possible in different patches to melt them together later in the game? Actually my other games were based on getting as much planets in the neighbourhood as possible but the extreme planets setting makes that a bit hard.

Getting up with few planets in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I am just returning to TA with the new patch and recently started a new game on crippling. I wanted to try the new feature with the extreme planets to get a bit of a new experience. So i ran into the problem that all my enemies seem to progress in technology way faster than me (although tech brokering is off). Which means they have sped up colony ships, they rush the planets really fast and they even get the extreme colonization techs at horrendous speed so that the result is me owning a few

Reply to A german view on history and terrorism in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Inches" reply="14" id="1821684"]Does anyone else think the name of this thread is funny? America isn't perfect, but we sure never had death camps.[/quote] Actually that was funny. Why is everyone pointing the finger at someone else? Why are you pointing your finger at people not even born when the thing happened you are mentioning?If i wanted to point fingerst too i would suggest u to visit this: http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/native-americans.html<

Reply to GCII 2.0 - Let's Take 2.0 for a Spin in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] All Campaigns Playable It took some tweaking, but we finally got the Dreadlord and Dark Avatar campaigns working directly in Twilight of the Arnor. (I don't believe this made it in for today's build.) [/quote] Yes it made it into 1.99 rc, i tried it. And its great, the DL campaign is now playable with new textures and the new techs of TA. Maybe i`ll try the campaign now, i did not do it yet after getting TA be

Reply to GCII - Espionage in a more Customizable Galaxy in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Is it right that the update is 240MB in size? btw i did not have to uninstall it

Reply to Cheaters in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Just tell me how u can get military victory in 0 years on gigantic map witout cheating... The top players almost all seem to do that.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v2.0 Preview in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I remember a statement about the metaverse getting attention in 2.0 too... What is with that?

Reply to GCII 2.0 - Of Starbases and Ships in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]And one of the big reasons for that is that every time the sales start to slow, we release an update, a meaningful update that gets people excited again, and the sales go back up at retail. So that was another thing. We thought, "Well, if people start doing that they'll see their sales increase."[/quote] Thank you guys, that is exactly the point, i have stopped playing TA for a while now but expecting 2.0 just excites me for the game again and i cant wait to play

Reply to Endless/Ultimate Edition? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Does the EU (is the abbreviation coincidental? ^^) release miss other features than the Dread Lords single player campaign? Never played it though...

Reply to GCII 2.0 - The Planetary Governors in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="23" id="1876396"] I am german but i think "planetary governers" is wrong, am i right? If I'm understanding how the feature will work, I'd agree that the name is a bit of an exaggeration; the term "governor" does imply that the thing would be making some choices on its own somehow, at least through a set of decision parameters that BoogieBac already says are too tall an order for 2.0. But the more accurate alternatives might have just sounded

Reply to GCII 2.0 - The Planetary Governors in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I am german but i think "planetary governers" is wrong, am i right?

Reply to GCII 2.0 - The Planetary Governors in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

sry, you wrote you hope to get all the new features in the beta, question answered