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thank the lord. i'd been complaining about the forums here since before the game was released if i remember right. good changes though.

I have a hard time giving props to a game reviewer which allows mistakes as bold as an entire repeated paragraph to slip through. In this case: “ Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is a turn-based 4x strategy game, much like the Master of Orion series or its prequel, Galactic Civilizations.... ” is repeated twice. Talk about an amateur mistake that could be solved by a simple proof read. If I saw this in a print magazine I'd cancel my subscription.

It worked perfectly for me on the mainpage, and I'm using Moz Firefox. No issue. I put Stardock (Other), since I found out from the GC1 page when I was there downloading a patch. I have absolutly no idea what you mean by "I put stardock (other) since I found out from the GC1 page w

And the poll was only usable by IE users as I think that was the only browser it worked with (At least I know I couldnt use it with Mozilla and some one in the comment section suggested that that was the problem) Edit: well actually the poll works in the forum for me but not on the main page (unlike what is stated by the dev in the comments section announcing the previous poll)

The best ad I ever saw was the 2-page ad for Total Annihilation. In the spread it was all in-game action. Like a 2 page mega screenshot of a huge battle with minimal fluff. The game sold itself and the ad let the game do the selling. For our 2 page spread of Galactic Civilizations II, we're doing something similar for

Man... I thought this was going to be about eating babies to curb famine... ...and I was hoping to learn how to make fine ladies gloves out of baby skin.

Great thing about probability is that it's always probable! That above is a false situation as the only % chance is the first 20% one. Each time it is 20%, you can't add them together! And I thought I was bad at maths! While I'm not great at the math I can tell you that the odds of a 20 percent probablity happening 8 times in a row is f

Nice post. Before the games release (or soon after) I posted about a specific place in the forums for stuff like this. Link Frogboy said he liked the idea and was going to implement it but I think that may have fallen off his agenda. A few suggestions. you might try posting screenshots of key points in the game. spices it up a bit. Imageshack <a href="http

Well... the forum seems bugged as well. I've started a thread but haven't managed to find it on the forums... try refreshing after a few minutes. posts sometimes take a few minutes to show up. these forums have a number of usability issues and a few outright bugs. The watch and bonus rating bottons within each thread do absolutly n

Knights of the Old Republic was the best 3d space game I have ever played, you have a long way to go, but keep up the good work. huh.... that's funny. Aside from the crappy mini games I seem to remember just about all of the game play for Old Republic restricted to non space environments (inside a spaceship, planet bound, etc). I hope y

good lord. Not even in relation to the issues at hand you come off as an idiot in these posts indy.... beer pong? way to relate a completely unrelated topic. "LOL", were you really "laughing out loud" when you wrote that? "young in context", I don't even understand how that applies to most of these posts (and to be honest you come off as 13). your posting under multiple names to discredit the game is amazingly clever too. it's a shame you're having problems with the game

Or they simply haven't found out about you yet... The odds of that are amazingly slim. Indeed, and besides, alot of writers started writing fan-fiction, and lea

forum problem. repeat

it terms of writing, mediocrity is the norm. Thus without a good editor, crapy writing is the likely outcome to fan fiction.

just as long as they dont start trying to do dialog. I would rather look at photos of furries in action than read fan fiction dialog (and I literally mean this). Even without dialog, most fan fiction tends to be worse than even the worst B movies. Seriously, if you were any good at writing (as the odds go) someone would already be paying you to do it. Edit: The Paradox forum AAR (After Action Report) section for HOI2 (Hearts of Iron 2) was literaly ruined by fan fiction. yo

oh good lord, no! not fan fiction!

Alliances: These are too difficult to get. I have never had another race ask me for an alliance. Even if they are getting crushed, and they are friendly with me. I can't offer it to them either, becaue they are not "close" to me yet. What the hell is the point? I have to sell my own mom before they even consider it. I agree. <

researching the endless technology tree (it's a persistent world so that tech tree goes on forever) endless tech tree? unless the tech tree turns into +1 road building +2 road building, +3, +4 on into infiniti, I find it very hard to believe that avid players wont bump into a cap. even with constant d

I'll be damned. I never saw that there (and I've seen a decent number of other people post about no search function also). While the issues you mention are certainly draw backs, that should be quite helpful to me. Thanks for the tip Kryo. I will still stick to my guns on my point above though . Anything that falls 3 pages deep isn't likely (imo) to

ok, im starting to get irratated with everyone who says something about the forum. My advice (coming from 7 years of running 13 forums). If you dont have any thoughts or ideas (stupid or otherwise) please just write one post concerning the issues, politley, with intellegence (haha) and sensibility (asking for miracles now) while trying to be helpful. do not how ever repeat

Solar sail works because light particles hit the sail and transfer momentum over. So... when you go into another star system, the light from the star will slow you down. ummm.... I believe it would be possible to make the sails retractable so that doesnt happen <img src="http://images.stardock.c

You would be then stuck in the middle of nowhere because you can't enter another solar system. actually, assuming you didnt run into anything, you would keep floating for quite some time. with the proper setup i'm pretty sure you could easily reach another system, granted you'd prolly be dead by then

I'd say the forum has a few issues: Link

I've been posting in the forums a bit and have noticed a few of what i think are bugs and a few usability issues. In regards to the issues with "broken" features I definitely allow for the fact that I may be missing something. BROKEN (or maybe I'm not getting it....) -The watch button doesn’t appear to do anything: Every time I have hit this button I get taken to a message that says, "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed pr

I was really curious what your budget was for galciv 2. As far as developers go they are infinitely more likely to create a sequel (or even an expansion) if they are either breaking even or making a profit off their game. The pc developers market is an incredibly unstable one in which allot of folks come and go. With that said I would love to see the info that said Stardock was here to stay. Also (I used to work PC game QA at a major publisher so prepare for a rant), it doe