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Reply to Social Queue missing parantheses, consuming hammers with nothing to do in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Frogboy -- FIrst, if it was in the manual it was not reconsidered after complaints. Period. Second, calling this a rant is uncalled for, as is the preemptory tone. I was never treated this way in the first galciv forum, in which I participated for a year or so. It is inexcusable for the stardock moderator to post like this

Reply to Regret buying the game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As for the forums, they're a big part of why I bought the game. And they're slow, buggy, user-hostile, and frequently down. Like I wrote about, I expect better. Like what? Civilization4.com's forums? Do they have forums? I can't even go on there because the site says I don't have Flash installed even

Reply to Regret buying the game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

So what strategy game AI do you find sufficient? If GalCiv II's isn't good enough for you, then what is? When people speak highly of the computer AI, they speak of how good it is compared to other games. I can't think of another game that is even remotely close. Why not simply turn up the difficulty level? And I hope this doesn't sound rude but complaining about the forums seems petty and has nothing to do with the g

Reply to AI is CHEATING COMPLETELY! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks all for the tips and cyber next time please try not to be a lets see how im gonna treat this guy person, forums are made for helping people out You didn't ask for help though. You came on and claimed the game was "cheating completely" A very serious accusation on a game that is well known for

Reply to MOO3 = FUN in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Master of Orion 2 fans.Galactic Civilization 2 fans.You might be interested in the upcoming Space Empires 5 scheduled for release in stores and online in June 2006.(www.malfador.com)Malfador company is well known for the previous Space Empire titles bought online.Also renowned for continuing tech supprt/patches and unhinderd "mod

Reply to Space Empires 4 v. GC 2 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

There's only one killer flaw in the SE games that always put it in a class below GalCiv for me - it's virtually impossible to lose. The game's AI is so weak as to be non functional. It's easy to have lots of options and "depth" if you don't have to bother making a computer AI that makes use of them. SE 4 just wasn't challenging in the slightest and I don't consider myself a very great strategist.

Reply to Stardock: The Deli in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

WTF_Chuck, sorry but you're just one of those miserable people who make nice forum communities suck for everyone. You really think 3 out of 4 people who played GalCiv 2 had a bad experience? You're insane.

Reply to Feedback and ideas from a *mostly* satisfied user in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

GalCiv isn't MOO. Some of us were not MOO fans. I didn't care to mess around with 20,000 ships where a planet was making 40 per turn. I like option #3 but then why aren't you playing in strategic mode at that stage?

Reply to Games on TOUGH difficulty. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Tough is just the difficulty level where the AIs are set to intelligent. Tough means they're playing at the same level. This is the equiv of "Noble" in Civ IV. It's worth noting that the "fair" AI in Civ IV stops at the 4th level whereas in GalCiv its equal level is the 6th level. Most seasoned Civ 4 vets play at Prince or Monarch for a challenge (two levels above the fair level in Civ IV) and that's after 5 months of patches.

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

Mmm. Master of Magic. that would be sweet.

Reply to Thank you Brad Wardell - a letter sent in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Piracy is a cop out. It assumes that every pirated copy is a lost sale. I don't like being treated liek a criminal. That's why I like Stardock. They make it easy and worth it to buy their games.

Reply to I realy realy love this game. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Worm h ole swould be cool but I'm not sure they'd reall add to the 'fun'.

Reply to The Iskavarians: Society, from a Terran perspective. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Very cool!

Reply to Same type of crash many of us have in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Seems like the peopl who have the problem ahve the same CPU/MB combo: Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.3GHz

Reply to Fans don't like complaining, so I will constructively complain. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There's not much that's constructive in that post, imo. Sounds like he's played teh game maybe an hour.

Reply to Help! game wont install! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The installer isn't working for you? I think they'd need to knwo a little bit about your computer. They use a pretty standard installer.

Reply to Game locks up system in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yea, if the dev lead can't figure it out, i don't think anyone else will.

Reply to Total freeze in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Do you have any tools to measure temperature? Maybe the GPU is getting hot?

Reply to Get rid of the insanity in this game in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Go play Moo then. Sheesh.

Reply to Multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Loudness of the few doesn't equate to largeness in numbers. I've seen a few people post over and over and over demanding the feature. Civ IV has multiplayer, hard to find people to play on Gamespy.

Reply to Major Bug -- Buy Projects Freezes Project!?! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Not seen or heard of this.

Reply to Fuzzy math and game development in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Wow. So many armchair game designers.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: 1.0X released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

was just saying that big brand-names get flamed down real quick when they release a very buggy game - though they still sale. Stardock's saving grace is that they are an indie developper who have a great fanbase supporting them and spreading around the word and also their customer service/dedication to patching it up real fast. I unders

Reply to Wow... I can't believe the negativity in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I would like to see Stardock better staff a QA department, though; even if that means simply paying several high school kids minimum wage to play games. SD's response time/support is good, but the frequency & severity of bugs is abnormally large for a mainstream commercial product. It's like we're the QA department. LOL. What mainstream game h

Reply to Unrestricted Tech Trade Ruins 4xTBS Games in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I totally don't agree with you. It's my game. I want to be able to play it as I like. I hated the fact Civ IV restricted how I could play the game. I agree the AI should be more careful but so far from what I've seein in 1.0X they've taken care of this. I support having an OPTION to eliminate tech trading. But I don't support crippling it like they did in Civ IV.