Hi. New to Impulse / Stardock

I bought Galciv2

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Hi. I just bought Galciv II, well, I bought the ultimate edition retail copy few weeks ago, but only just got around to installing it.

 

I recently got bored of PC games, and was stuck with my favorite titles being Civ, Alpha Centauri, and Imperium Galactica II, plus various RPG's, and then I found GalCivII, and read some reviews and it seemed to be really good.

 

I have had a look on the Impulse store, and was surprised to see a new space / strategy game called Sins of a Solar Empire, which also has really good reviews and Game of the Year awards as well, so I will look forward to buying this after I have played GalCiv II and I'll also wait for the expansion pack to be released on retail.

 

I wish i had heard about these games sooner.

 

GalCiv II just finished installing, off to start my first game :)

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Welcome to the forums :D

See ya again in a few days when you finally got some sleep after playing GalCiv2 for too long :P

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

NO WAIT! DON'T START IT YET!!!!!

You must first inject yourself with increasing doses of pure awesomeness in liquid form for 2 weeks or the awesome shock from playing a Stardock game for the first time will kill you! The human body just wasn't meant to handle such high doses of awesome!

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

thankfully i was dropped into a vat of awesomeness when i was born .

i can only hope Bhavv's had a similar accident or at least see's you're advice first. other wise my god have mercy.

re: Sins of a Solar Empire (soase for short)

just the ticket when you want want to paly galciv but haven't the time. my mentally means i have to do galciv in one sitting, and i don't always have 12 hrs to spare :'( . soase is truly epic and well paced RTS that avoids the clickfest of most other RTS's. entrentchment (now out) is great too.

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

You will like Sins. Resistance is futile. :borg:

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

8C

 

I just spent a whole hour customising a race

 

:(O

 

How ???

 

o_O

 

No way ... that was not one whole hour.

 

(I had to stop play after starting to read the manual first). I think I had better go have some food before starting again ...

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I just spent a whole hour customising a race
End of quote

Have you started playing with the ship designer ? }:)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

cool, seems like you're having fun. then head off and play. and drop by in the forums once in a while. the people here are usually a friendly lot, joking around and making suggestions here and there.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

joking around and making suggestions
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I hereby put forth a motion that Zubaz be required to wear a pink tutu in the office every Friday, and that pictures be taken and posted on the public forums for each occurence.

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Download the demo for Sins before you purchase. From the sounds of it you're not an RTS gamer, so you'll want to make sure you find it different enough from other RTS's to be worth your while.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Hehe, ya the ship designer... You will spend quite awhile in that if you spent an hour customizing your race.

The biggest problem I have is that I can't stand to play strategy games on anything but the largest of the large map sizes. This combines with my large amounts of classwork (17 semester hours and 2 high school classes) to give me a large number of unfinished save games. X|

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 8

joking around and making suggestions
I hereby put forth a motion that Zubaz be required to wear a pink tutu in the office every Friday, and that pictures be taken and posted on the public forums for each occurence.
End of Annatar11's quote

be careful. by the way business practices spread in the it world, we'd have a gay friday before the year is over. not that I'D mind, but the colours, oh the colours ...

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

not that I'D mind, but the colours, oh the colours ...
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The colors would mind? I'll take two of whatever you're on :D

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 12

not that I'D mind, but the colours, oh the colours ...
The colors would mind? I'll take two of whatever you're on
End of Annatar11's quote

they're not that strong actually and shouldn't affect my mind. at least that's what the voices in my head agreed upon after some disucssion.

Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Peace, reply 6

I just spent a whole hour customising a race
Have you started playing with the ship designer ?
End of Peace's quote

Heh.  That's what I was wondering.  If he took an hour just to design/customize a race, he'll spend whole days designing ships....  :P

 

Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Martok, reply 14

Quoting Peace Phoenix, reply 6
I just spent a whole hour customising a race
Have you started playing with the ship designer ?
Heh.  That's what I was wondering.  If he took an hour just to design/customize a race, he'll spend whole months designing ships.... 

 
End of Martok's quote

Fixed.  ;)

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Hello Bhavv!

 

How are things going so far? As other's pointed out, you most probably will be quite busy, now. Guess we won't hear from you for a while...

Have fun!

Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

I hereby put forth a motion that Zubaz be required to wear a pink tutu in the office every Friday, and that pictures be taken and posted on the public forums for each occurence.
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I usually go for yellow on Fridays but I guess I could swith it with Tuesday. :rofl: :karma:

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

Well, yellow would work I guess. But only as long as it's a tutu!

Reply #19 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 17

I usually go for yellow on Fridays but I guess I could swith it with Tuesday.
End of Zubaz's quote

Good thing we have Friday off this week.  Nobody wants to see that, man!

Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, yellow would work I guess. But only as long as it's a tutu!
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Nobody wants to see that, man!
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I see a fundraiser in my future . . two groups . . bidding for opposite goals.  Some charity wins  :grin:

Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This game is awesome, and really really hard, its very similar to the Final Frontier official mod for Civ IV, but the gameplay is a lot more complex.

 

Now, I have a major problem that is ruining all of my games very early on - the camera keeps on getting stuck into auto scroll, and keeps on scrolling in one direction and I cant figure out how to stop it.

 

Anyone know what to do?

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

I see a fundraiser in my future . . two groups . . bidding for opposite goals
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Not really, since CrazyC0330 doesn't need to pay you money not to wear one. He just has to close his eyes :P

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Bhavv, reply 21
This game is awesome, and really really hard, its very similar to the Final Frontier official mod for Civ IV, but the gameplay is a lot more complex.

 

Now, I have a major problem that is ruining all of my games very early on - the camera keeps on getting stuck into auto scroll, and keeps on scrolling in one direction and I cant figure out how to stop it.

 

Anyone know what to do?
End of Bhavv's quote

 

stop leaning on the arrow keys! =x

Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Welcome Bhavv to the forums

   You can have fun making ships like this one:

Angel

   ;) Ooops wrong ship, I am sorry, like this one I mean:

I-Nuri- -

    You should check out the empire threads in Metaverse like my Empire Adepta Sororitas (click link below) and the other top ten empires like Knziti.  If you are interested in joining an empire and getting answers to your questions, please check it out even if you don't want to join an empire the people there are very helpful in answering your questions but then again it is your choice. :thumbsup:

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

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