Okay, let me first officially say loudly that some of you really need to get a grip. Always a good way to get on a good foot with someone (in this case, customers.) As Zoomba explained, last night (middle of the night) there was a hardware failure. In an effort to keep all sites up, a backup was restored but caused a DNS configuration error which caused -- for a few hours until this morning -- for galciv2.com to point
It's unfortunate and I accept that it was accidental. But I think we can all imagine how we'd feel if we went to CNN.com, Disney.com, Amazon.com, etc and the content we expect was instead replaced with articles about everything from how wonderful "God" is or why the "Anti-Christ" is a Jew, to why our personal efforts to reduce global warming are in vain because it's a myth. I accept it was accidental. I accept that this situation is very possibly one that was never foreseen or considere
I bought civ4, liked it enough to recommend it, then abruptly stopped playing it. I don't recall why I stopped playing it, off hand. Maybe it just didn't have enough long lasting fun factor. One thing I disliked a lot of Civ 3 versus earlier versions was the compensatory research system where techs became cheaper and cheaper for other civs to get as more civs had the tech. While realistic, it really cut into the point of going research heavy, which was my preferred playstyle.
To respond to two posters: Thank you for the information and I can appreciate the fact that many of the views may not be from Stardock employees. However, some were and they conflicted with my own views. Secondly, I don't know how the blogs on the front page are selected, maybe it's random and they all just shared a common theme, but that would lead me to believe the "JoeUser" community is heavily weighted in one direction if so. And finally, even if someone not affiliated with Stardoc
It appears that the www.galciv2.com website has been (I assume inadvertently) overwritten with a personal blog. Unfortunately, an apparently quite conservative personal blog with everything from accounts of visits to Jerry Fallwell's church, to why global warming is a farce and everyone who thinks global warming is real is wrong. Now, I'm not making this post to talk about those issues. Nor am I posting to bash Stardock. And, I know the people who run the company and the site are human
No, it's got all kinds of personal blogs and comments on it. It's a mistake apparently.
Oh, look - more Bush-bashing. How original. Something doesn't have to be original to be worth saying.
The amount of money spent on the Iraq War could have solved the social security issue for 75 years into the future. The amount of money spent on the Iraq War could have doubled the amount of money the entire world collectively provides in aid to developing countries. Think about that.
To be fair, we can have as many politcal parties as we want in the process. Candidates don't have to be Republican, Democrat or even Independent, they can be whatever they want and run for any office. The thing is that they won't get many votes because people are accustomed to working with a two party system. That's tradition, not liberties being hampered. That's like saying people only seem to ever buy Coke and Pepsi, and therefore those two companies need to be penalized for not allowing other
What I love most about this guy is how he labels the topic like it's something really important we need to read about, rather than him whining because he can't read directions and decided to let multiple people use his retail discs. WTG, champ.
The AI gives -way- too much value to some things. It absolutely will not trade away ships, influence points, or starbases unless you give an unbelievable offer. Even with high diplomacy, it will expect what seems like 10x (or more) bc for a ship than the ship cost to build. It's easier to buy planets and techs to build your own versions of those ships than to buy the ships themselves. On the flipside, the AI will trade off trade goods like aphrodesiac and micro repair bots for peanuts.
Some ways to get money: - Set taxes so low, initially, that you maintain 100% approval. Your population will build twice as fast (even more if you have super breeder.) - Work on the bio tree to get bonuses to pop growth. - Work on achieving a government quickly for the economic bonuses (of course even more than normal if you choose the economic party.) - Make sure you're surveying a lot. This can be a lot of initial cash. - Always keep an eye out for
What PQ planet did you have that tech capital on?! 16,000 RP from one planet is just insane.
Personally, I'm more likely to quick buy a factory than a colony ship. I basically don't buy colony ships unless it's a very unusual situation. I focus on social / research and get some factories up and research planetary improvements and space militarization, which totals out to +20 on military production. It's dangerous, IMO, to buy colony ships like this, because colonies have maintenance costs immediately and they add up fast. It can be a good way to bankrupt yourself, unless you ca
Tonight I had the opponent attack me with a ship with 0 troops twice. Worse, they actually killed off 50 of my troops (and I had higher soldiering!) and I of course killed, well, zero of theirs. It's made me wonder if the whole scheme might be off and perhaps sending many transports with a tiny force might actually be more effective than one would think.
That's still protecting them! Yes but It is not the same thing as the direct protection of a fleet parked on a starbase. It is indirect protection which is a very different thing. To me it's basically the same, because I wouldn't try to micomanage a game so much that I actually keep an eye out on every starbase for approaching invaders every turn. The game takes long en
I'm of the opinion that GalCiv2 requires a pretty high end machine for those really big galaxies. Not necessarily a high end video card, but processor and RAM. Your system definitely isn't high end. Your CPU speed is reasonable, though a bit lower than a lot of modern systems. Your real sticking point, however, is in RAM. You don't have much. Windows XP Professional uses a minimum of 64MB with some disabled features, etc., but is recommended for 128MB. Between what XP uses and other pro
What bothers me is that I like to have random opponents but want to exclude custom races from the pool of possible randoms (this is in metaverse, I don't play normal single player.) Is there a way to do that?
While I can't say I disagree with your points, Wheeloffire, you're borderline flaming with a post written like that.
BTW I experienced the minor race crash and I did send in a report from SmartEx. The crash occurs when negotiating for planets, if you list more planets than they would agree to trade for something, once you add that "something". For instance, if they'd sell 5 certain planets for 100,000 in cash and you offer that, you're fine. But if you remove the money and offer 1 instead, or keep the money the same but add more planets so that they would then turn the text red and refuse, this causes a crash.
There's another bug. I designed a race in a prior game then later played as someone else. The race I designed popped up as an opponent (how I wish there was a way you could have random races but NOT a chance to face your own designed races!)... anyway, a while into the game after I'd met them and interacted, they popped up with the standard welcome, nice to meet you sort of message and the major races screen has this race listed twice. The second version seems to be a copy of the first from that
Kinjiru-san, When I criticize somebody's grammar, it's not to help them. It's to make them miserable. Duly noted. But, I don't know that your actions necessarily put you on par with that of the Nazis. I'll let you decide just how you'd like to go to make those with poor grammar miserable, I suppose. <img src="http://images.stard
Grammar Nazis: I don't think they have a proper place on this forum, or on almost any forum. I've never seen a single person suddenly go from inability to write properly to fully educated eloquence because someone corrected them on a forum. If you go about correcting someone's grammar or spelling, you're probably just going to offend them, if anything. The word Nazi: I don't think we should fear the word. There have been many groups of people who terrorized others in our history, and no
Reanor: The game is fantastic, but the storyline / campaign stuff isn't the strong suit or focus area, as others have mentioned. If you're looking for a game where the campaign essentially is the game, I can see where GalCiv2 could be frustrating to you. Most players of the game are more interested in the strategy, ramping up their challenge to outsmart and outmaneuver the AI, etc. That's where GalCiv2 shines, in the AI.
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