Stromko

1) Context-sensitive 'view battle' option. Right now I keep having to turn 'view fleet battles only if both sides are fleets' on and off, because for taking on precursor ships or fortified starbases I want to watch and see how my ships are actually stacking up. But when I'm taking out freighters, transports, that sort of thing it's a total waste of time. What I'd like to see is a 'View Battles if Close' option, that would have you watch fights where both sides(or just yours) are liable to lose s

Nope, I give one race a few techs, and in less than a dozen turns ALL races have those techs. There's no reason, there's quite a bit of animosity and warfare going around and they're completely unwilling to trade many techs; even if my diplomacy is superior to theirs, I'm unable to get the same sorts of techs that I'm =giving= to various races, and yet, races that I'm diplomatically superior to are able to somehow get those things from others. How, praytell, are they cutting the

When you trade technology with an AI civilization, they generally require (in my estimation) 2 to 8x the value of the technology that you're asking for. I'm quite positive however that the AI civilizations through some quirk are trading technologies in an overall equitable and constant manner; as a result, their research is pooled, making it almost impossible for the player to compete on Normal difficulty. I say this based on the game I'm running right

Lacks a little subtlety but defnitely not trolling. Too much effort, and it's not like they titled it 'download GalCiv II now!!!!111' Fairly humorous I thought. Gah, doublepost

I believe I read that the attack 'dice' are all put together, so if you have three 1d2 fighters, the result of their attack will be a number between 1 and 6. I'm almost certain I read that somewhere on the site or perhaps the manual. I'm fairly sure that will be against only a single enemy ship's defense. If true, that would be why being the attacker is advantageous, because all things being equal an attack is more likely to succeed han fail. Actually if the difference between attack

Btw if you want to get any classic games from The Underdogs, make sure you aren't using any download accelerators. I just got banned from downloading off that site for a week, and all I tried to do was download Darklands while browsing with Firefox. Got banned in about 2 seconds. edit: I'm fairly clueless as to networking and such, but using netstat -n it appears that when i first begin to download a file it will open a crapload

Love the Master of Magic reference, that really was a great game and I hope someone does a proper remake someday. Was playing it via DOSBox a few months ago and other than the lack of build queues, it really holds up on fun factor thanks to all the innovative features. Though HoMM is the closest modern descendant I think MoM still had far more raw game mechanics which added to the experience. edit: Do excuse that this post doesn't seem to have much to do with GalCiv II, although you c

I can't find any way either on Stardock or this site to modify my "cart", and yet, it seems I have a quantity of 2 electronic-DL preorders for Galactic Civilizations II. This probably happened because I clicked on the "Buy This" button on two separate occasions and it seems to have stored the previous occasion. While I did wish to preorder it, I'd rather not pay 84$ for the honor of doing so twice. Note that my browser is Firefox, but the p