GalCiv II: DA Beta 1 of 1.6 in here

So what was loaded up in SDC last evening wasn't the 1.6 beta?

Yeah, what was this "mystery update"???

Strange for sure as those two files from the above zip are just the same as I got from the SD update....

Kyro, please don't tell me you took Good Friday off??? Where are you!!!

Merci.

Merci??? I am not French. What does this mean!!!!!!!!

Sweet update is working like a frakking charm!!! Wardell and the rest of you frakkers are all frakking right with me!

Is there a list of changes somewhere?

If you have Stardock Central set to SD2, then you should see the beta. But most people probably won't see it.

I just tried setting Stardock Central to the second server, and yes, a beta appeared for download, but when I tried to download it it said my account information was invalid. What are the possible causes of this?

The changes were announced in the Dev Journal here.

It mean "Thank you"   

I get this too.

Skyjack adn rma - don't worry about it. There are some issues with beta modules that are causing that.  Just use the ZIP I put up.

Gotta say i love the new changes! The game is now running faster even when using the excellent High def mod

Grats to the devs, this update contained some much needed improvements!

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Q. To Frogboy

Is there a chance of having a button to allow us to revisit the last news update please. Sometimes you just want to go back and refresh your memory on what events happened during the turn.

Also has the game been changed to stop it using the normal customrace files. I only ask as a couple of times i have found myself playing against my previous version of myself Is it possible to get the game to read the customrace info from a different folder other than the standard location? That would save me having to delete the custom races all the time.

Thanks and once again a great update   

The Chicago Stardock Central server listed the Beta as available (over the Easter weekend) but caused an invalid serial number error when trying to download. The California (dont ask me why one is a city and the other a state name) Stardock Central server did not list the Beta update but functioned normally to reinstall while I was troubleshooting the serial number errors. At any rate, the entire issue should resolve itself in a few hours once the SDC servers have the update they think they have.

As always, appreciate the fixes. The game was crashing alot more pre B1.6 at the end of turns, and the changelog lists that as a fix, so that'll put things back to stable normal again. Look forward to testing out the defense changes and game speed improvements / crash fixes.

Just purchased GC2DA (Gold Edition) this week, so very much a newbie! I downloaded the 1.6 beta from the link frogboy gave above. I played the beta for 8 hours without any serious problems.

However, there was a couple of strange things that happened. i have checked the forums and cant see these have been previously reported as bugs--but as i said i am a newbie!

First. Whenever another race questions me about the closeness of a starbase, they never give the name of the starbase, it appeares in the speech as 'starbasename.'

Second. A ship has appeared in the bottom left corner of the galaxy. It does not move or effect other ships in the area, it just sits there! I am running the JK-Anomaly Mod Pack v1 and wondered wether this ship appeared thru a wormhole and is too
dumb to find its way way to its mother planet.

Awesome game by the way! And great that you care about the gamers who buy it! Live long and get rich!!

I've had this one myself. Never seemed to change anything about my game so it isn't a big deal to me... thought I was crazy at first. I don't know what it is and can't recall if I've seen anyone else mention it.

Thanks Evilstormbringer

Its nice to know I am not alone!

As you say its no big deal, just annoying at first--not knowing what the pesky thing MIGHT do!

By the way are you running JK-Anomaly Mod Pack v1 as well?

No, I don't use any mods (used Kryo's hull mod which is awesome BTW) since I have a hard time running a game that stays stable and doesn't crash... figure not using mods would decrease the chances of game crashes so...

Nope, you guys aren't crazy. I saw what looked like a crappy defender ship (you know one of the early core design ships that has like 1 beam attack and no defense) in the bottom right corner of my galaxy. This was in a metaverse game in a medium galaxy with all abundant settings. It would just sit there. I didn't pay much attention to it.

I'm betting the pilot of that ship is some dodgy guy who'll try and sell you plans for an engine that lets you cross the galactic barrier

still get invalid thingie. i'm gonna cry

Does anyone have a saved game that reproduces this 'ship in the corner of the galaxy' bug? And is this new to 1.6, or have you guys gotten it in previous builds?

Keekles: Sounds like you have an account management problem. Have you switched computers or something?  I suggest emailing [email protected] they can help you better than we can

Oh, and hope you ear infection is feeling better...my wife had that reciently...not fun

The ship in that corner of the galaxy thing is probably not entirely a new bug.  We found a crash that was caused by ships that were out of bounds on the map.  We don't know what causes them to get out of bounds, but to stop the crash we made them in bounds, so now it's visible.