Silent Archer

"If the gamer doesn't hate the A.I. then the A.I. isn't doing it's job." I nearly fell of my chair hearing that. I'm a big fan of Battlestar Galactica, and the Tigh Fighter

@ Ghandi and Armando : I believe you will be able to buy the shirts from Stardock in the not so far future. By the way, congratz to all the winners and other participants. @ Jeysie : Nice work Liz, your list cracked me up.

Bump 1. True, but perhaps this is by design ? Just like Superior hulls tech is required for Large Scale Bulding, but doesn't have benefits itself. Although if that is the case, the Annihilators tech description is quite confusing. 2. True, but this isn't a huge problem imo. SD is aware of this I believe. 3. True, this looks like a bug.

I saw this happen before as well. Only, I didn't receive the ships... I had to fight them ! Coincidence(sp?) or not, it was the Yor that received those fleets. I was in luck though, I had 2 squadrons of medium hulled ships with 9 beam damage and 4 shields in the vicinity. Although those precursor tiny hulls are dangerous when combined, they only have 2 mass driver per ship. Even my non-optimal defences absorbed most of th

It is not a bug when it is intentional. Indeed Besides, I like it the way it works now. I used to manually remove all functional components so that I could start outfitting with newer components anyway . And now it's easier to recycle cool designs.

256x256 png And it's ...Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\gfx\race not racepics

Nice tips bovine. Though I don't really need them myself. 8 fans keep my tower cool and they run quite silent as well. Plus blue and red LEDs look good I never thought of lubricating fans before though...maybe something for the future.

I doubt the scores are influenced by this because they are calculated in-game. Could be wrong though.

They make me feel inadequate Sorry ship designer, for my lack of creativity.

Advanced planetary defence actually. It's certainly in the game.

@ Orophin : You have exactly the same hardware as I If you download the latest ATI drivers ( troublesome process, it also installs ATI control center which I didn't want ) and have at least 1.0D 1.0D1 1.0X you should have no problems with graphics. Btw, I can't imagine GalCiv cooking your GPU unless you rem

If you have two fully upgraded military resource starbases, your ships' attack and defence ratings DOUBLE. ( twice +50 give or take a bit ) In a game today, my enemy was adapted to my weaponry, and had a similar tech level. My large hulled Vindicators still ripped through his M4 Frigates with such ferocity that I felt sorry for his crews.

The color scheme you use there kinda reminds me of the Protoss Brad. Only uglier Getting ideas for a custom race here. En Taro Adun

To their credit, however, Stardock seems fanatically dedicated to tweaking and improving their game, interacting fervently with fans in the forums .... Amen

You CAN actually disband fleets inside a stack by using the U keyboard button. Just select the fleets you want to disband and work the U magic.

Click the Metaverse tab on the top left of the page, then click the Library tab / button. You should see mods from "all categories" listed, and you don't even have to be logged on. It seems that right now rogerano hasn't posted his designs yet though.

Very nice article Trent Let us know next year where the game ends in your "top ten of 2006"

You can submit modded games like that to the Metaverse but they will be flagged as "cheated" and earn you an amazing score of 1 point. So nope, not Metaverse friendly.

Sharing ship designs shouldn't be that hard... Just a couple of xml files.

Quote from the Manual - Draft 3 : These Starbases can extend bonuses to ships or colonies up to eight parsecs away. Edit : Off course, the manual already has some erroneous statements so I wouldn't bet on it

Here we will let you test the Gamma but if you say squat about it in the forums we have the right to: a) Poke you twice in one eye. b) Flick your nose. c) Flick your friends nose. d) Spank the bottom of yer feet. Oh mercy

The good people at [link=http://www.gamerevolution.com/]Game Revolution">Link posted a nice preview of the game. Its not as extensive as some previews at other sites, but its good to know GC2 is getting a name out there. I really like the intro : "In space, nobody can hear you strategize." Here's a link in case the artic

Sorry Leviathion, the game doesn't feature tactical combat. Once the battle starts, you can't influence it anymore. I don't think that's a bad thing, since in many other games you can repair stupid strategic decisions by simply owning the AI in tactical. I have yet to find a game where the AI defeats me when numbers are equal (or even in his advantage). No such cheap tricks here. It's truly a strategy game. There are a few factors besides numbers that determine th

Hello all This is my first post here, so I'll swiftly introduce myself. In the past, I greatly enjoyed TBS games such as Age of Wonders and space sims like the Mac game Escape Velocity. Unlike many of the MoO2 oldbies in here , I have little experience with other games from smaller devellopers, or with the 4X genre for that matter. When I wa