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Reply to Wohoo!!! Espionage Expansion! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ooh me likey.

Reply to Is anyone else getting annoyed with the nasties? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I know I am. It's really sucks the fun out of things when you see people who just seem to get off on being jerks. It's a real shame. I've seen other developers driven off their own forums because they simply didn't want to deal with the haters.

Reply to Frogboy's Quote about the second patch. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've yet to experience a crash in many hours of play. People like Reapy are the kind of people who don't read readmes, don't check FAQs and then scream when something goes wrong. As for "minor" issues, read carefully about what people determine as "issues". Ex, update ship. I update my ships as standard practice. Works fine.

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

I love Civ 4. and this ain't a fair place for this question. But galciv 2 edges civ 4 out in my book. Civ 4 just feels too.. too much like a product. i can't quite put my finger on it. It's like when you play galciv you can feel the love the team put into the game. the little touches. civ 4 feels like it was designed by a committee at times. I still love it and civ4 is far better than any previous civ in my book i just feel at times that it's become such a commoditized pr

Reply to Gamespot reviews Galactic Civilizations II in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

it would be very scary to have to compare galciv 2 and civ 4. Civ 4 was a masterpiece but as I play galciv 2, i am finding that it is simply a better game overall. In the spirit of the olympics, Civ 4 is like Michelle Kwan. Perfect poise and elegance. But GalCiv has nearly the same level of poise and arrogance but has a noticeable edge in what it can do. In 6 months, I think more people who have both will still be playing gc2 than Civ4. The replayability is just a bit bet

Reply to THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just saw the news item on UGO's review and read a post with Gamespot's review. Definite game of the year in the making.

Reply to GAMESPOT REVIEW: Editors Award! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Cool! I already have it. Bought a second copy for my nephew. Lovely game.

Reply to Budgeting is STILL Fracked in GC2?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You mean it doesn't have some highly "advanced" system like CivIV does where you only have only two sliders and have to choose between building an improvement or making a unit? That's your idea of progress?

Reply to *** How was this game Released?*** in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Bullox about the retail version being buggy. I can't think of anything beyond the "typo" level that I've run into yet. With all the people posting and Stardock not censoring, why isn't the forum full of pissed off people if it's so buggy? Check your HW.

THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I can't believe how incredible this game is. I'm at work and all I can think of is the time before I go home and play this game. Do I play as the humans or am I going to create some new race? Who should I play against? The sinister Drengin or the back stabbing Korx or some random selection? Do I go for having huge fleets of fighters or should I go with capital ships? And if that's not enough, I have the excitement in knowing that you guys are making more update

Reply to This game is AWSOME!!!!!!!!!! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I know. I can't believe I've said this but it's true, GalCiv II is actually better than Civ IV which is something I never thought I'd say.

Reply to Shipped to Early, definatly needs improvements in system requirements area in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Your video card is down near the minimum requirements and you thought that you should be able to go at 4X anti aliasing on gigantic galaxies?

Reply to Who Beta Tested This? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I sometimes wonder if people think before they write. Here is a game that runs on how many different setups? Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP. How many different video cards? How many generations of video cards. Out of the bugs that have been posted, how many of them are universal? I have been playing so much this weekend that my wife is really getting teed off at me. Number of crashes = 0. None. Number of problems = 0. It bugs me to be put into

Reply to Yawn. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

"sheesh, MOO3 held my interest longer" This really says it all. Then go play MOO3 and leave us neandrathals to our happy land of GalCiv 2.

Reply to TROLLING over at Game Rankings! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

It is amazing the power of trolls. I followed your link. 2 people gave it a 1. Disgusting.That's not opinion, that's abuse. If you get enough votes, it will cancel them out. But you have to get 20 people to give it a 10 to just get it to a 9. And i agree this game is a 9.5 or better easy which means 40 people would have to vote. Everyone let's vote!

Reply to So Develoers... what is your response to all the bug postings? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Doesn't matter how legitimate your grievance is the fanbois will drown you out. There's nothing legitimate in his greievance. Nobody is drowning out legitimate criticism. It's not "fanboi" to jump on someone who would attack the integrity of the developers who have quite obviously been spending day and night responding to posts, preparing an u

Civ IV and GalCiv II comparison review in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

**********My review************ We are blessed to have two such exquisite entries to the turn based strategy game genre in such a short amount of time. **Background** I thought the original Galactic Civilizations was okay. After the huge disappointment of MOO 3, I found GalCiv and was reasonably happy with it. It didn't hold my interest long term because I felt I was too limited. Too many games ended the same way. I still liked it but would have given it a 4 out of 5.

Reply to STICKY: Player Reviews! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

**********My review************ **Background** I thought the original Galactic Civilizations was okay. After the huge disappointment of MOO 3, I found GalCiv and was reasonably happy with it. It didn't hold my interest long term because I felt I was too limited. Too many games ended the same way. I still liked it but would have given it a 4 out of 5. Good try but not perfect. **Getting the game** I've used Stardock Central before to get Object Desktop which I o

Reply to Crashing... alot in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I've yet to experience a crash. Playted 10 hours last night and a shorter 4 hour game when I got home from work. Flawless. I hate to say it but with this many people with this many hardware rigs, somebody is going to draw the short straw. I am confident Stardock will figure out the issue you're having and fix it pronto. You can count on it.

Reply to BUG: Software mouse pointer disapears after 10min of play in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I wonder if they're using custom mouse cursors outside the game.

Reply to Post here if you have no major bugs in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

No issues, 10 hour game. Some people need to redefine major bug as being well, something major. And more people need to read the pinned topics. How many times have we seen someone post a melodramatic topic name that was covered in the readme or in a sticky?

Reply to Ship building WAY too time consuming in Strategies Stardock Forums

You can just click on a hull and then click on the modules and press place. How hard is that?

Reply to Patch? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I played the game all night last night. I can't think of any bugs I ran into. No crashes. No problems. Just one straight 10 hour game.

Reply to Chat Log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

lol did anyone check out the time stamps on Frogboys statements? he must type like a madman. I counted a couple places where he typed over 10 words in 5 or 6 seconds. that's over 100 wpm between getting the question and having an answer.

Reply to The Skinning Primer in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I had found Skin your screen's podcast through the url that mr. biotech posted and was a happy listener until he had some falling out with Frogboy over their style xp review. When he came on and started saying how awful Frogboy was and that he was going to make it his business to tell the world about it I spoke up. Then he immediately claimed I was a Stardock employee apparently for the sin of living in Canton Michigan (isn't Stardock in pontiac or liv