LordFu

I play in 1440x900 on my 19" Viewsonic widescreen, and the only glitch I've ever noticed is at the main menu. On my game, there's a strange "line" in the background image where the menu would be at a standard 4:3 resolution. "Line" doesn't really describe it, but it's harmless, regardless. When playing the actual game, everything is flawless. The game's UI scales perfectly. Whether or not a game fully supports widescreen displays is a big factor in my buying decisions now, and GC2 is

I think that the threshold for surrender was tweaked for 1.1. People were complaining that the AI surrendered to easily. One race, the Arceans, surrendered in my current game, and they were down to two low quality planets.

Hmm...interesting theory you have there.

Yeah, change a few settings, and the game plays very, very differently. It's a great feature.

Build entertainment buildings, be careful building farms, choose the Neutral alignment, and if a planet's pop. gets to high, load the people onto troop transports.

What's everyone's favorite new feature? It's a toss up between rotating/resizing ship components on the fly, and the pop. growth/economy changes for me.

I continued my 1.1 B4 saved game in 1.1 final, so, as far as I can tell, your beta saves should work fine.

Yep, game saves fine for me, too. Stardock isn't responsible for the condition of your PC. There will always be PCs that have problems doing things that they should be able to do just fine. I work on enough PCs to know, even if you do everything right on the software side of things, you're going to run into hardware and O/S issues on some configurations. It's one of the few downsides of an open platform. As self-proclaimed, experienced PC gamers you don't seem to be very understandin

Anyone who claims this game is "the buggiest ever" or isn't properly supported either knows nothing about PC gaming or is trolling. I'm guessing it's the latter. LoL @ Pools of Radiance. [Incredible Hulk Voice]Grrr...D: drive makes Pools of Radiance *ANGRY*...Pools of Radiance *SMASH*...[/Incredible Hulk Voice]

Great patch!

You have to research the more advanced gov't types. You always start with an Imperial gov't and can research Federation and Democracy.

I voted for it, just because it would be cool, and it's losing so badly. I'd rather see the first expansion focused on extra SP content before they work on MP, personally.

With the low system reqs. and niche genre, GalCiv2 has staying power. I wouldn't be suprised to find it's still selling a respectable number of copies this time next year.

It's gotten to be such a regular event that the dog will come and check on me around 3am. That made me LoL.

I know of at least a couple friends that would buy the game if it had multiplayer. They just don't play single player games. I don't have strong feelings either way. I'd recommend saving it for the second expansion pack. I'd personally like to see additional SP content before you guys tackle MP.

Yeah, I'm not suprised by the poll. Don't gauge user satisfaction by the forum. The forum will always be skewed towards the complainers and people who have technical difficulties. A game's forum has little to nothing to do with my decision to purchase a game, because I'm aware of the bias.

Yeah, I love this game more everytime I play.

You need to design your own ships to be successfull. I make my research decisions based on the time it takes to research the item, it's benifits to my future design, and how soon I need the new ship. For example, my first ship was made after researching space weapons and impulse drive, the two components I planned to use. These ships were effective enough that I didn't have to design a new ship until after I had researched up to Sensors IV,

Your power supply could be failing, or it could be a bad BIOS setting. Both are common and hard to diagnose problems. The game shouldn't cause your pc to restart, period. If you're getting a restart, it points to a hardware issue.

Yeah, you need to act, not react. You want to always be ahead in technology. Your economy is probably the only thing more important, IMO. The first thing I do is get my economy growing, then get my research into high gear. You might want to examine why other civs are targeting you. Weak military? Poor diplomacy skill? Both conditions are easily solved through research or production. If you're behind the tech or military curve, do

Medium hulls hold more, so you can put on some defenses/sensors/lifesupport/larger weapons/etc. Miniturization helps bring out the advantages of the medium size hull, too. I find that medium hulled ships tend to survive where a small hull vessel would be lost, too.

I also used to be a heavy multiplayer gaming, passing on single player games altogether, but I've noticed myself more drawn to a well done single player experience in the last year.

I'd be interested in a ship pack, too. As long as it contained a good amount of content, sign me up.

There's some full-conversion mods in the works. As for individual weapon models and such, I haven't seen any yet, but they're certainly possible. People have put movie-quality ship models in the game, already. I don't know what Stardock plans on adding officially. Right now it seems like they're tightening up the gameplay and AI code, along with fixing bugs and better supporting mods. They might add some new models/techs/etc. in a free upda

I usually start with two factories then two labs, research 50%, social and military 25% each. I like a balanced approach leaning slightly towards research.