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I hope some of the pics (thumbnails actually) are from GCIII escpecially the hexagon map looks nice and clean design. I really hope to see the GC new version to be a strategy game where the visuals get an upgrade eg. what you build on a planet is not an icon but a 3d building, and not one city but several megacities, terraform and the planet atmosphere, waters and ground change completely and you see that.. not just soil enchachment or habitat imrpvement tiles... no tiles... at

Well it's not surprising.., have you noted how violent people became the last 20years? Murders at schools, or very violent actions for no important reasons and mostly from young people who are affected by abundance of media violence. Now think people who are addicted to gaming their perfect virtual world, game release date is postponed, an update changes the rules or worse creates bugs and they freak out. They will harass game devs for something not working, ruining

Well I did it! [e digicons]:D[/e] First technology for upgraded capital, is an expensive one so it becomes available later in the game. Its a Super Project and once the technology becomes available auto-upgrade begins (expensive too). This is the imperfection here is that you can stop it and build it somewhere else. Now on the upgraded colonies.. I made a trick so the colonies will not be available to build in capital planet. I gave 2x tags to capital upg

Thats exactly what I did but the game sees the upgrades as a new improvements that can be built along with Colonies and Capital City! I understand that cities are hard coded to be built by the game and not the player, but upgrades do not have this limit! [e digicons]X|[/e] Of course there is the appropriate tech but I like to keep it unique for 1 race (Humans) if they lose their capital so be it! Here is what I wrote for improvements: <span style="colo

After 4+ years I started playing GCII again. Need some help if any modders still visit here! [e digicons]:|[/e] In the last 2 weeks I'm working on a total mod. Now I'm stuck... I made 2 new upgrades for cities one for the capital (CapitalCity) and one for the other planets (InitialColony). Unfortunatelly game sees the upgrade of Initial Colony as a new improvement and it appears on capital planet! I tried to think ways to avoid this but doesn&#3

A 24" DELL 2401WFP. And looking for better one at the same size. Also a 15.4" laptop which is very bad watching a movie. Both monitors have problem with motion and black is not real black.. Still wait for the OLED monitors..

[quote who="Freeman43" reply="6" id="1885726"] two three and six are pertey good but i hate Jar'Jar NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! [/quote] I loved Jar'Jar! I even created him in Spore [e digicons]|-)[/e] Star Wars all were good except the new ones. But when compared to old ones for video/audio quality the get a big +. On the first episode I always use the scene Landing on Naboo to test speakers fav! [e digicons]:P[/e] I ha

1. 3D map the more realistic the better. 2. Explored area should depend on telescope/radar technology the more you advance the further and more detailed you can see. Ship exploration should be only as extra. 3. Planet development should have much more depth. Build many mega cities with specific role like science, food production, industry, tourism, etc. You can always zoom in your planet and choose where to build a special building or check an incident. In the later stages

My taste in music is very wide from pop to jazz, from rock to ambient and whatever kind of music I like always to hear a melody soft voices or melodic instruments like violin mixed with a pop beat.. my best. Sarah Brightman is one of favourites soundtracks from LOTR and Gladiator are great too and a Eurovision 1995 song.. Secret Garden - Nocturne :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3a189vcVc

OK Twilight of the Arnor is finally here. But what happens with the editors? They are not what expected. 1. Map Editor : It crashes very often and it's maps are not always playable in the GCII which they crash the game.. Minimizing at the taskbars and restoring it back it often causes a D3D error. Creating a map with pre-defined home planets for players crashes the game. And I dont know havent checked yet but the names on custom maps are not the normal ones

[quote]36 hours before release date you move it again. (By the time I got the news, it was less than 24 hours.)I know it's going to be good, but dear god, this was originally supposed to be out in December! You had a poll asking if people would prefer to wait until January. The majority (myself included) voted yes. Release date after release date has been missed. So very disappointed with Stardock. Yeah yeah, I know all the fanboys will start on at me now. Well sorry folks, I didn't get my compl

[color="#FF0000"][B]forum problems... I posted the first message and it was lost I posted this one and both are shown now..[/B][/color] Allow me to add that.. MOO3 was a crap! A very complex and boring management game. But hey not a game this was torture.. after sometime you have many colonies and you have to manage all of them one by one giving orders for the next building and thats what you are doing for the most time in this game. All the magic of MOO2 was gone. Colony ma

[quote]Master of Orion 3...if you're ready to try it (learning curve is very steep) you'll discover a universe...so many options and so much room for your imagination.It has to be patched though to be good (official patch + Bhruic's patches at least).CheersGah! Do not listen to this madman! MOO3 is the spawn of the very devil, I tell you! The devil!! (Sorry Anguille, you know I had to say it.) Yes I jest, but only in part. I largely agree with Artysim's assessment of the game -- Master of Orion

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[quote]Graphics, especially high quality graphics, really just make the game unplayable by more computers than if they had normal quality graphics. I won't play a game that drops down to 1 FPS. I would rather play a crummy looking game that works.[/quote] But GC2 or Sins are not so heavy, Crysis yes. Games that demand new expensive hardware to be at least playable I think is a bad joke. Who wants to spend 400-500$ to play a game?

In a game most important thing is always playabilty, how good it works,if its funny doing it or boring.. The graphics have a 2nd role but also very important. Special effects, visuals, sounds etc. is always the sugar in the cake. Nobody eats cakes without sugar, and definitely these days with so many impressive graphics in other game genres like Crysis, everybody wants graphics. Like I have said many times in previous posts a game is funny when you see something you created. Why ship des

I use a different earth map for GCII. Its quality is much better and more realistic as it comes from sattelite images. There are several high quality earth images on the internet here is a good link with terrain, night lights, clouds... would be great if Stardock adopt these and not in a mod.. <IMG alt="earth terrain" hspace=0 src="http://www.oera.net/How2/Plan

aaahhhh I hate you...! custom races, AI design ships, updated graphics, and again custom races! Well I was modifying human race to my taste before but now its much better since I can give them specific tech too. I hope custom maps will work too and map editor wont crash. Have to say I didnt expect so much stuff in a beta a little before final.. love u guys..

lol very cheap indeed and since I use euros and not dollars I can find many good stuff to buy and download very cheap. Knights of Honor its definetely a conquer game but lots of diplomacy and its the key if you want to play and win e.g. marry the princess with prince with another kingdom and your relationship get a boost. Very interesting and very different aspect of strategy game. I think I played Imperialism years ago but I dont remember it now.

I had a look at Europa 1400.. very interesting.. ;)

I tried Corporate Machine but it was very difficult always bankrupt.. Europa Universalis I liked this one but it was very difficult too perhaps because I was trying some impossible scenarios.. :p Knights of Honor is similar and looks much better. I dont know Victoria or Europa 1400 I will have a look. Have to say that some of my fav games were Caesar and Zeus Master of Olympus.. Nice graphics creating a city and also have many different missions like killing a monster

err.. I had enough with tycoons they are fun on the begining but later they become boring. Strategy games indeed are designed for fighting but GCII for example its a lot more than that. Thats what Im looking for.. games that are rich in content and you have to create a lot not just resource management and fighting..

Ok I GCII is great but I want to try some other strategy games too. I have played a lot unfortunatelly the last versions of strategy games are being too simplistic... just build the army and fight. e.g. Empire Earth III. I dont like fighting never did I prefer creating something like an empire and yes when its needed I will fight to defend or conquer but as a part of the game not a main concept. I like to research, build, expand etc. Probably Spore is the best example of

Ok I changed the server I did before also but didnt work. I got an update for GCII but not the beta 006. There is a problem on this one be patient Im sure they will find out.

I dont see 0.96a[b].006. Im still at 004 and refreshing xml data does not change anything. :NOTSURE: