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Reply to The History of Galactic Civilizations posted in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Thanks

Reply to Linux support? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

...it's not the Windows programmers who should be the ones to make sure their product works on "alien" OSses Aw, come on. Didn't you see the movie "Independence Day"? We all saw how easy it was to write a computer virus which disabled the alien shields. Can't be that hard!

Reply to No sound in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Did you download the multimedia content too? If not, try expanding the Galciv 2 category in the Stardock client. There is a separate multimedia package.

Reply to Ship component sizes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Can you give an example of components that do this? It makes sense for engines to get bigger, since there is greater mass. Or life support, because of the greater volume that needs "supporting". Do sensor components, or weapons get bigger as well? I can't think of any valid reason to explain why that would be.

Reply to Suggestion: Add "Random" to more game start settings in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I second that motion. How about also adding a random setting to which races will be in the game, or even random per-race difficulty? I made a similar post last week, but I think it got lost in the haystack

Reply to How is defence calculated? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

There is quite an awesome post by one of the devs explaining in great detail here Link In your scenario, improved armor will make some difference against, say, missiles. But the optimal defense would come from the chaff/ECM family of defenses. This is where the strategy of developing defenses appropriate to the kind of weapons your neighbors, or enemies have, gets fun. Kee

Reply to Trouble in Paradise!! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Regarding the first issue, the game doesn't feature multiplayer. There may or may not be a multiplayer add-on later, depending on demand and other concerns.

Random race selection in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

If it's not too late in the game, I think it would be fun to have a random option in the Choose Opponents screen. For instance, to be able to randomize which races will be in the game, as well as perhaps randomize the difficulty of each race. IMO that would really add to the replayability factor and make things interesting. Apologies if this suggestion has been made before. The lack of a search button in the forums makes it

Reply to Let the Space Shark die and be forgotten in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Claims of Galciv being childish have been branded about on popular forums many times. What is the context? I have never heard or seen any posts claiming Galciv to be "childish". Space monsters are FUN! Maybe the idea of a space shark is lame, but not much worse than the colony-eating space crystal from ST:TNG. I, for one, vote to keep t

Reply to Realistic Sol system??? in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Jupiter is PQ0 (it is by far TOO large to be sat on) Venus PQ Is 4(it can be surived but is EXTREMLY Hostile) In the current beta, all gas giants are always 0 - that would include Jupiter and Saturn. As far as Venus goes, it's also got to be 0. Come on, the surface is hot enough to melt lead! Nothing can survive that. <img src="smiles/Smile

Reply to Beta 4 delayed to next Thursday in GalCiv II News Stardock Forums

Thanks for all your hard work. I'm looking forward to trying beta 4.

Reply to Cloacks?? in Ideas Stardock Forums

One of the selling points of Galactic Civilizations is the computer does not cheat - in other words, the computer players do not know all, like other turn-based strategy games. I expect that GC II would share that same design ideal. I agree that cloaks would be cool.

Reply to long wait to start game? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have also experienced this. I started seeing it with Beta 2. At first, I thought that perhaps DirectX was to blame, but installing the latest & greatest version of DirectX did not resolve. I have since upgraded my video card to double the memory I had before (now 128 MB), but the problem persists. I had hopes that Beta 3 would fix it, but it has not. Any ideas for troubleshooting this? The rest of my specs are P4 2.5 GHz w/ 512 MB RAM. The video card is an Nvidia. I forget th

Reply to Checking in.. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's been a while since I've been to the forums. I am absolutely THRILLED about GalCiv2. I pre-ordered the CD yesterday and am downloading the beta as we speak! I hope I can make a positive contribution to the final product. Frogboy and the gang do such great work, it feels good to see them succeed. The big gaming companies could learn a thing or two from this bunch. [Edit - took out the rude remarks about MOO3 and certain dishonest publishers - heheh] If only there was a L