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Being the lead developer on a successful project of this scope for someone so young (27) is a major accomplishment! Congrats Cari! ... I created a Barbie race because the irony was so hilarious," she said. The race is complete with pink and white spaceships emblazoned with the Mattel logo, ... Wasn't it said somewhere in the forums that i

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... the governer should auto-upgrade other research buildings to Neutrality learning centres, after you have researched them (as a Neutral Civ). I totally agree! I'm glad to hear that NLCs are in v1.1! No one one has commented on the neutral AIs! Do they research NLC right after choosing Neutral alignment and then upgrade their

AI Improvements It's just as well that I'm going because I've already thought of some new things for the AI that I think could make a difference in how it plays. And the engine team got my new option in -- "Allow AI to use extra CPU time" that people who are willing to wait (or have really powerful CPUs) can set the AI to use algorithms that are more tim

Between Thanksgiving and mid March I had worked every day (including Christmas) to make sure things got taken care of. So it'll be nice to get away from the computer and such for a couple weeks. Enjoy your well deserved break! <TABLE cellpadding=8

The government types only provide economic bonuses but the descriptions in 1.0X.010 report production bonuses too. Frogboy says they are only meant to provide economic bonuses so has the text been changed in v1.1?

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Granted Stardock's methods aren't perfect, but like with most things in the world, there is worse out there. Stardock does not use StarForce DRM which causes problems for many, they do not require the CD to be in the computer to play the game, they allow you to install the game from the CD without your serial number on multiple computers (as long as

Currently the Diplomatic screen you can't do much more than trade. It would be nice to be able to submit proposals to the UP. Also many of the UP proposals should be broken up into two parts. For example, instead of "How many trade routes should evil races be limited to? A: No limit, B: 2, C:4, D:6" ask "Should evil races have their trade routes limited? A: Yes, B: No" and if Yes wins then ask "How many trade routes should evil races be limited to? A: 2, B:4, C:6"

Does it show the PQ as well? No. In GalCiv I (the human always played Terran) and the AI knew where all the best planets where but this is not the case in GalCiv II. The non-Terran races start with Stellar Cartography which only shows the planets but not their value (you can't even tell if it is PQ 0 or > 0) and it doesn't matter if the race is hum

Now, I'm relatively old (old enough to have started on an Apple IIc I guess I got you beat Mooncusser since my first computer was a Franklin Ace 100 (a clone of the Apple II+ but added lowercase characters) which I bought in 1981. I recently turned 40 and I

The Asimov Robot books are awesome Never managed to find the last one in the series though . . . . . . and so to are his Foundation novels. In later novels he tied together the two series. Asimovs Foundation Trilogy

Attack value (weapons and logistics), speed, and sensors are the key to victory! Speed and sensors allow you to fight on your own terms (out flanking slower superior fleets) and get in that important first shot! A survey ship can score a lot of cash exploring anomalies required keep your spending at 100%. The Eyes of the Universe is the most valuable super project! All throughout the long beta period of v1.1 I have been asking if it now values senso

Lot's of great changes! Removed a lot of player discovered "exploits" Which ones? You have made no tech trading an option which many considered to be an exploit. I consider the HUGE attacker shoots

I'm glad you made single player the priority; as you said there are many choices for multi-player these days but few great single player games. When I clicked the link for Stellar Frontier I realized that I had played it years ago. Like a trip down memory lane.

There is, indeed, no love for the single player gamer these days. Thanks for being the exception. Seconded! However, there seems to be strong demand for multiplier so you might as well create a paid expansion pack for it.

I'm more interested in changes that affect game play such as AI improvements, dipolmacy improvements (e.g., allowing submissions before the UP, etc.) than more eye candy. My concern is this will fragment the community further. Already there are ship designs using the CE content (I purchased in Dec. 2005 so I have this extra content but others are not so lucky). I would save the ship pack for the expansion pack (and include the CE content)

If it was not possible to roll a 0 on a defense roll then if you had an attacker with attack 1 (any type) and defense >=1 (any type) and defender with attack 1 and defense >= 1, then the combat would never end since all attacks would be blocked.

Starting spend rate changed to 67. "New" users will hence see the game pace improved (i.e. the "I just keep having to hit the turn button over and over" issue where people who don't increase their spend rate end up waiting a long time should be helped a bit). Why not set it to 100!? I rarely drop mine belo

I say bundle the expansion with the original game for $10 more than the original game price. Allow current customers to download the expansion from SDC for $10. This solves the retail space problem of not having to stock both the original and expansion without leaving existing customers out to dry. Also it will prevent potential customers from waiting until the expansion comes out before buying by making it easy fro them to upgrade.

I love these dev. journals! Prior to your first peace treaty with the Drengin, you each had defenses against each other's weapons. Why would the Drengin accept your peace treaty in exchange for singularity drivers, unless they planned to: (1) build fleets of ships with singularity drivers and armor (2) redeclare war (3) crush yo

There has been a lot of discussion in the dev. journals about game balance. In v1.1 the logistics cost of large and huge ships was increased for the sake of balance. However, there remains a much bigger combat imbalance. The attacker gets a HUGE advantage! In v1.0X.010, I was able to complete all the Dead Lords campaigns up to and including Exploitation (the one after Apocalypse), playing at level Tough, without losing any combat ships (just scouts,