It depends...if you're playing the campaign, then certain techs are unavailable during certain missions... if you're playing sandbox game, you should be able to research all the mass driver techs under space weapons

thats just weird, maybe a debug err will show a reason why, but ive always been able to and i dont think anyone has ever mentioned that as being a bug so send some info and a saved game to stardock or something

That's just it - none of the mass drivers that I research ever show up in the weapons list. The lasers and missiles show up in the lists like they're supposed to, but not mass drivers.

I'm thinking something maybe got permanently screwed up a long time ago in applying all those beta patches. I'll probably just do a full reinstall and put on the last patch, after I finish my current game.

I'm thinking something maybe got permanently screwed up a long time ago in applying all those beta patches. I'll probably just do a full reinstall and put on the last patch, after I finish my current game.

Do it, old files from beta can cause all sorts of weird niggles.

Heh... no nano rippers?

Dude! You gotta get that fixed!

Dunno what the problem might be. I've never had any difficulty.

To see if it's possible to use mass driver weapons, or if your game is somehow crippled, start a new game. The first screen is Galaxy Setup. In the upper right, chose Scenario 'Battle of the Gods'. Then continue to start the game normally. This gives you all techs from the start.

Then get to the ship builder. Create a 'new' ship, select a hull and then select weapons. There are three choices under the weapons tab, Beam, Mass Driver and Missile. Select Mass Driver and you should see things like Black Hole Gun, Neutrino Bullets, Spike Driver, etc. Scroll down and you would see Miniballs, and Nano Ripper etc.

The game is stored in two places. First I'd try to Uninstall via the control panel. Uninstall both Stardock Central and Galactic Civilizations. Then go to c:\Program Files and delete the Stardock folder.

The other part of the game is stored under My Documents\My Games\Galciv2

I'd delete that whole folder too.

Then re-download the game and re-install.

I dunno. Good luck though!

To see if it's possible to use mass driver weapons, or if your game is somehow crippled, start a new game. The first screen is Galaxy Setup. In the upper right, chose Scenario 'Battle of the Gods'. Then continue to start the game normally. This gives you all techs from the start.

I just tried this, and it looks like I have most of the weapons available to mount on a ship, but am still missing some. Miniballs and Mass Drivers are not in the available weapons list.