I'm interested in pre ordering Dark Avatar but I live in Britain and all the prices seem to be in dollars, will it be available in Europe or will I have to convert between pounds and dollars?

hmm, for some reason I can't vote, when I look at it, it acts like I've already voted but I didn't.

edit: actually it seems to happen only when I go to the homepage, but when I go to some other part of the site it's normal

edit: sometimes when I refresh the main page it shows as normal, dunno what's going on.

and I use IE 6

I may be a lone voice in this request, but I would really like an internal recorder for game scores other than the metaverse. If I mod the game, I can't submit the game to the metaverse, so I must hand record the victory conditions and score. How difficult would it be to add an internal recorder such as other games have? It is not a priority, I understand; it is just a matter of convenience and ease for keeping track of ALL games played, not just metaverse acceptable. Thanks for all Stardock is doing to keep your games interesting. (I still play GalCiv 1, too, by the way!)

You shouldn't make a "Drengin UI". What you should do is do it like the last game, make UIs based on alignment. Obviously if i'm good drengin or evil altarian i shouldn't have the same atmosphere.

Or you could have both, which would be a surprise. UIs based both on race and alignment.

I have three suggestions for Dark Avatar:

1. I would like to see some sort of replay, which shows all of the civilizationsand how they grew throughout (and collapsed) throughout the game. This feature is present in the Civilization games. With it, you can show stuff like at which point power was shifted between various civilization, population growth, etc.

2. I would like to see more varied government types with different abilites available, depending on your moral alignment. For example, if your an evil civilization, the government you would have would probably be a dictatorship of some sort, while good civilizations would probably have some sort of democracy.

3. I would like to see a more realistic approach to how you conscript military troops on invasion fleets. Currently, you could potentially conscript your entire population without any costs or limits whatsoever. I think that there should be a maximum amount of people you, and your opponents, can conscript and send into invasions. This could depend on population, government type, industrial output, etc. I feel this would be interesting when planning invasions, because you would also have to consider not only the type of ships, but also the amount of manpower you have to wage war.

That poll lacks some more options... like "I don't know which one is more interesting." or "Others". I cannot choose just now because it's too soon to be sure of what can be really more interesting for me as player.

-Special world environments: that's very nice and a great addition.
-Asteroid fields that can be mined, armed: not sure, i have read about it and seen a screenshot but... doesn't seem of the most interesting things to me (yet).
-New ship parts, hulls, better graphics: yes! As long as those new graphics doesn't affect users with lower end videocards, right? Not that i'm one of those. It would be nic if each civilization had a different hull style. I know it's a lot of work (and expensive) but it would be cool.
-Epic Generator (finished game exported as a story): one of the best ideas. Unfortunately, it won't be so easy and i think that the result won't satisfy everybody. I suppose it'll be based on predefined texts (with placeholders for names and such) that will record events, some GNN news/reports... I think this idea has a great potential but i don't want to let my imagination fly with it. The results will never be like the human writting it (and people should understand that too). When you are in the beta, make sure you post an example so people can judge and hint.
-Spies: i hate spies.  Surelly i'll spend most of my time using them just for protection.  But it's a good idea considering how plain the actual system is.
-User-Designed opponents: Yay! Snathi, here we come!  
-More detailed AI options (set int/bonus/etc.): a very good idea indeed. I'll love using this option.
-Playing as the bad guys in the campaign: Evil/bad guys are overrated. I don't really care about it although i'll play the campaign and hope to find some of the classical Stardockian humor in it.

I suppose that i'm between Epic Generator and More AI options. In the long term, More AI options is the best.


From the previous users, i like the idea of being able to create ships out of the game. One of the reasons why i don't spend too much type making cool ships is because when i'm playing, i tend to focus on other things. But it would be nice to be able to create ships when i'm not in the mood for another conquest.

Drengin UI???? NAH! I want an Altarian UI! Pretty pretty please! One UI for civilization would be cool but... time consuming to do and all that stuff. So i suppose i'll just support that idea previously mentioned of a UI for each aligment. It won't be the same but it won't cost Stardock so much, right?

Some kind of Highscre screen would be nice. I use Metaverse for that (although i know that with time, the scores lose points   ).

By the way, could we have a screen were we see the avatar we are using in the game? I know it's a unimportant petition but sometimes i wish i could see my avatar somewhere.

Before i forget it as usual i'll use this post to ask this: official map editor? (with campaign creator, mind you) I miss this option but i can understand that it won't be done.

For now, i'm done. Keep the good work and bring us a wonderful Dark Avatar.  

For those not in the US, you should at the least be able to buy TGN tokens via PayPal then use the tokens to get GC2:DA. Pretty much any other option would require you to have a US credit/debit card (You can't pre-order directly via paypal as it doesn't support the delayed transaction).

Damn all this paypal and credit cards, whoever invented this stuff in the first place needs to go to hell, damn all this digital stuff, what happened to times when you used dollars and you weren't at risk of getting your identity stolen.

What about the new treaties feature ? I want to vote for it

"New Treaties. Diplomacy will get beefed up with the additional of new diplomatic treaties. These treaties not only provide mutual benefit but give players more tools to forge their relations with other player"

out-of-game ship builder.

The big things I want:

Events that can do something other then effect just me- effect other races and relations...

More political diversity

More gameplay options

I'd like to be able to do something with those class 0 planets!

I'm most excited about the planetary environments and the AI options although other features such as an evil campaign also seem appealing.

I do have a question though (and I apologise if it has been answered elsewhere). Once the expansion has been installed, will it be easy to "disable"(and "reable") it/parts of it. Could I, for instance, disable spies or play a game without the planetary environments but with the new AI options? If these options exist, are they part of the "new game process".