Oh I still love this 'discussion'. Go play Sins if you like multiplayer and leave my GC2 alone. Gamespot still harps on the no multiplayer crap too. Some of us happen to like our games to be single player, k thx.
The only issue I have is that I can't get SmartException to install off of SDC. It sits at the Downloading 0% screen and remains there indefinitely. Once I figure that out, it'll be too late anyway, so why am I posting really?
A lot of loud mouths here like to say the game crashes a lot (and it did for me at one point until Brad personally helped me find out why). But once you have your drivers updated to a reasonable point, the game will only occasionally crash. Name me a game that has -never- crashed and I will personally come congratulate you in the future for finding said game. I have played a lot of games. All of them will crash. Such is the nature of PC
That's my personal crash bug that I introduced to Stardock a couple weeks ago. I call it the 'Knightsaber Trade Bug'. (lobbies to have that put in patch notes)
SDC weighs in at a whopping 18.95MB install on my PC. Yeah that's a lot of overhead. /sarcastic remark end
I sold my liver, kidneys and lungs to research to buy this game. I have a pretty rough time actually playing it, but it was worth it. I think.
This is all planned for GC 3. I just made that up, really.
When I bought GCII (about a week after release via SD Central) I could play for days straight without issue. One game I had would crash every three turns and both Brad and CariElf were excellent with personally helping me figure that one out. I started a new game on their advice and uninstalled/reinstalled the game entirely through SDC. The first time you see, I applied the first patch via the site download and the second via SDC which may have caus
I'm tossing my hat into the 'have no idea how the sliders work' pool. I simply leave them where they are except for moving the tax rate when I start to lose money. This is quite obviously, a bad way to play, and likely why I cannot win a game above normal.
A heat related crash would be a sound like *bwwwweewwwww* as Windows shut the machine off for you.
It's always been sound for me in all my other games. It got to the point that for Civ 4 I tore out my Audigy 2 and gave it to a friend of mine and started using my onboard MB sound. Sad, eh? But I haven't had a sound related crash since. Hmmmmmm? Just so you're aware, I had a bug that crashed my game too, and Cari figured it out, I had updated the
If you have a 6 year old PC, your motherboard definitely does not have a PCI Express x16 slot, and it does not have an LGA775 CPU socket. You're going to end up building or buying a whole new machine.
Like he says. The button is -hard- to see at first. There's two red buttons by your character if you're in an empire, pretty sure, and under those is an almost black 'Set as Default' button.
Yeah yeah it's all cool and great until the Yor fire one at your manufacturing capital...then 'the game sucks'.
Oh boy it was posted to Slashdot. The Internet shall now be set aflame. Link
Look at the top ten empires and the top 30 or so players. What are the odds anyone is going to catch up...ever?
It also won't show ship designs if you created them in a Metaverse game and then play a non-Metaverse game.
I could, but I don't want to have to factor in Galaxy Size and Alignment as well as the difficulty. I also was discussing medals and such...to keep up morale.
Not to mention this was supposed to be in the Metaverse forum but ended up here instead. Even though I picked 'Metaverse' as the forum. Ah well.
I've come to two conclusions on how one gets a high (100k+) score. 1) Play on a Gigantic map. 2) Set difficulty to 'Suicidal' or whatever is higher. Then you get to be in the top 50. Woo hoo! Good for you. Unfortunately, there are those of us that enjoy 'competing' on the Metaverse that are not good enough at the game to win often (or at all) on settings above 'Normal'. Therefore we will never be 'competitive' and may as well just forget about the
I usually go for Mini-Soldiers and if I'm thoroughly outnumbered that seems to help. I try to avoid inflicting damage on a planet. Going for mini-soldiers also gives you tons of + Soldiering which means you're likely to win anyway. Of course, the downside is that it takes quite a long time to research to that point.
50% diplomacy and then 50% research usually. Take the Economy +20 for my political party. I can sit back and research tech to create massive armies that are funded by my boosted economy while keeping everyone sweet-talked into leaving me alone. At least in theory.
Much public appreciation to Brad for replying in like 5 seconds and working with me to find the problem. And sending me -screenshots- of the code. (Some of which I actually understand, having been an old-school C++'er). And then pointing out that it is a code bug and not my fault. Much love in the air. Now I await the next patch which will hopefully sort me out. Yay! My own code bug! Name it after me! The Knightsaber Bug.</
I read all the stickies too, nothing is working, I need help I'm sending Brad an email now too. Everything worked great until today.
You're now the highest rated turn based space sim of all time guys. That's something. Gamespot doesn't give 9.0's to just anybody. Especially if it's not a first person shootem-up or an Xbox game
