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are you using any mods? or just the base game?

This is why speech audio is not present in turn based strategy games. but By comparing KOTOR and GC2 I meant that you can have ALIEN language-not english so you always have speech no matter how much dialog you have

hopefully, 3) use new forums... [link="https://forums.stardock.com/?forumid=162"]https://forums.stardock.com/?forumid=162">Link edit: i just tried putting a smilie into a new post using the new forums, and no luck... maybe i just have too restrictive of settings on java/javascript?

There ought to be an alternative to murdering every man, woman and child. MOO had the same problem. moo2 and moo3 didn't have the problem. in moo2, you could xenocide a captured planet... but if you didn't, then the captive population would be less productive slaves for a while, then gradually convert to normal citizens.<b

yeah, me too. i click the smilie button, it expands to show my options, i select once, the screen moves up and down a little, and then nothing happens. this is with IE 6.0, so it's not some firefox thing... but maybe it is browser or browser version specific? the new forums can't come soon enough, for me!

if we loved him, we'd already know, and wouldn't have to ask? i mean, seriously, how does anybody expect anything to get fixed if they can't explain what they think is broken? at least, make a list of the things you're talking about?

WipeOut was great on the old playstation... and it's pretty darn good on the PSP too! it's anti-gravity sled racing , with airbrakes for the tight corners. basicly you learn the courses by braile for a while, then once you can stay off the walls and not come in last, you can unlock new couses and better sleds. even before you are any good at it, though, you still get to choose your sled model... things like, do you want good acceleration and cornering? or hig

the forum software is clunky and weird and lately has been giving me increasing trouble in firefox, but the content and sense of community and connection to our favorite developers is important. i think some of that would be lost, switching to a 3rd party site. switching forum software to something that works a little better (like maybe the software used by the sites you were thinking about switching to?) might help to cut down on user gripes?

here is the link for the latest drivers for the intel 82865G: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel865g/ (1) it took about 30 seconds to find this, using google, seaching for, of all things, "82865G". (2) it's not a real graphics card. it's a motherboard chipset that does, among other things, graphics. poorly. since you could play pre-1.2 on it, it will probably do fine for 1.2... but do expect serious taunting when you buy your next game

i found buying transports to be extremely effective in the campaign game, since the other empires on my "team" would build them and never use them properly. of course, first thing i did after buying them was usually to upgrade them to have enough speed to reach the battle before it ended, but that's just a detail...

the new ship components will hopefully also come with some reorganization of the Extras menu in the ship creation screen? there are already so many things in that list that it takes forever to scroll. adding more to the list is just going to increase the pain. the "Your Style" tab is a nice start, but who decides what MY style is? is it just the style of jewelry suggested for the race's hulls that i've chosen? maybe instead the "Your Style" tab could contain ju

if we had tactical combat, where there is a concept of Range, the extra size of weapons on larger hulls could perhaps be offset by giving them better accuracy at long range, or less damage fall-off with range, rather than increased raw damage?

Star trek came up with a reason though why humanoid races are so common though.... yeah, it was a Precursor civilization that spread DNA all over the galaxy, so it all ended up developing into setient beings with variously crinkled prosthetic foreheads. but where are we going to find ourselves a Precursor civilization to use as an e

how about Traveller? or Star Frontiers? mmmmm... dralasites!

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yeah, try to get at least get part-way up the econ tree and get better econ buildings started before you have to reduce production % for the crunch... and try to keep morale up above 75%, so your people don't slow down their breeding, even if it means you need to reduce production even further. when the crunch gets really bad and you can't even keep the 75%morale, at least try to keep it above 50%! the farms and entertainment centers advice is key, as you need to breed up taxpayers,

@ Skyjack : thanks for taking that all the right way! i wasn't sure if i got the tone right... That's a lot of words blame the caffeine monkey on my back. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF3

If you don't like the poll DONT ANSWER. or answer in reverse? (or imply that others might...) internet polls frequently suffer from self-selection and dishonesty/pranksterism. although, i'm not seeing any motivation for the ladies to pretend to be blokes... results are interesting, though... but i wouldn't have

heat, mybe? i think the new NVIDIA control panel (comes with the very newest drivers, looks very different from the old one) lets you track GPU temperature over time, even if the control panel isn't open. but i'm not sure if it would preserve the record after a full system crash... does your whole system go down, or is it just a "crash to desktop" of the game only?

SFB rocked! now that was a rule book! numbered sections like 1.2.3.0.5, and lots of This Page Intentionally Left Blank and stuff, that you kept in a fat three-ring binder (thick enough to stun an ox) so that you could replace sections and pages with errata and expansions! oh, and the check-boxes on the ships for marking off damage to different systems... bliss. i'd love to see that done up right, in a computer game. i missed out

MOO3 sucked and continues to do so. bah! yes, "bah!" i say! and "feh!" and had i a webcam, i would bit my thumb at this assertion! well, ok, fine the UI does suck. and some, if not most, of th

well, that's why there's stuff like the "Q field" that gets described in one of the hull tech descriptions... most of the tech work of making larger hulls, according to the descriptions, isn't in how to build the hull, but in how to keep it from tearing apart while at speed. also, i can easily imagine that the warp (or whatever) field around a hull would encourage small obstacles to part in front of, flow around, and then come back together again behind the ship. yeah?<br/

Imho it should give you the max number of people allowed on this planet based on the PQ of the planet. agreed! otherwise, it isn't giving you new information... just the same information you could get from looking at food. i can imagine a new player who doesn't know about the PQ cap just sitting there and getting upset because they

a good idea, but only if GC3 has them return, take over the galaxy, genocide every back to just one planet, then mysteriously withdraw to just one system themselves, leaving a power vaccuum into which the players can expand and build up enough force to finally kick them out for good. alternately, i'd like the option of personally crashing a ship stuffed full of nukes into their capital city... that would be fine too. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" bo

"the nail that sticks up gets hammered down"