Shivetya

Reply to Opening Strategies in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

It is far more important to jump out there immediately with colony ships. Take whatever you come across as your opponents certainly will. I blow most of my money on buying colony ships each turn as the galaxy is usually settled way way too fast. As far as planet builds, I always buy a factory first. Other than that, techwise I get the universal translator and try to minimize the AI's penchant for trading techs with abandon by

Reply to Can I move the installed location? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

thank you

Reply to STICKY: Player Reviews! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

3 out of 5 stars. I won't cover bugs, I haven't experienced any really nasty ones. There are some playability features that I would like. First being a way to id which ships I haven't moved! It should appear as an icon similar to planet/starport icons do. As I stated on another post this game is seriously lacking in some areas considered standards of the 4X genre. First and foremost there really isn't expansion/exploration exc

Can I move the installed location? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like having all my games in the same directory, can I move where the game is located? I didn't see an option to using the Stardock Control system. Does the CD version offer this flexibility? Or did I just miss something?

Reply to Yawn. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Not trolling. Just expected more from the hype. The game has so much potential yet at the same time has some features which don't work for me. I like the exploration aspect of these type of games but even on the larger galaxies everything is picked over very quickly. Simply put, with the ranges we get at the start its not hard to get anywhere. Tech is now my sore point. No matter how I play everyone has more than I do, even races that

Reply to Whats the point of 0 size planets? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

.... posted back on wrong thread

Reply to Game 'cheating' in ways I dont know? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well I did a little test. I put two ships between myself and another empire. Behind me I let a world that could be colonized. The ONLY ship to come that direction was a colony ship that left his homeworld and bee-lined to it. Only because I had something sitting on it did I deprive him of that world. Not one scout or other ship even came this way. oh, just luck I guess

Reply to Game 'cheating' in ways I dont know? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I've seen the same. What irks me is that the AI seems to know where they are.

Yawn. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is more like a 2x game than a 4x game. Even playing on larger galaxies all I seem to be able to do is. Expand. Usually by the 2x I found in the game, see below. Exterminate. Provided I get around to the technologies to do that. Seems the only real way to expand as the game quickly devolves into a war. Someone is always going to want to throw a punch. Research. That seems to be the majority of the game for wha

Reply to Whats the point of 0 size planets? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well one thing I noticed is that the opponents seem to always get a better playing field. I have to play a game where I got a planet beyond size 10 but regularly encounter races with them. They also seem to have lots of resources just near them. Is this part of the system generation to make them more viable?

Whats the point of 0 size planets? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Are different planets colonizable only by specific races? If so I have not see it but I still want to know, what good are these planets? Why have them? Do they become usable later? If so what technologies allow me to use them?

BUG: Cannot upgrade 0 week ships in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If the ship requires 0 weeks to do an upgrade it won't. A minimum of 1 week is required. I had to build a slightly more expensive ship to upgrade one of my colonies to construtor type.

Reply to Movies NEVER download in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

download just stopped again. No error given, just doesn't proceed. This is damn ridiculous. Nothing is wrong with my internet connection, I am able to surf and even transfer files to my webserver (both directions) and yet the one component that won't download is the game movies.

Can ranges of ships be reduced? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Especially on smaller maps, it just seems as if the whole galaxy gets colonized too quickly. So, can the ranges of ships be reduced? I would like to see more of a requirement of building starbases to extend range and taking of closer in systems. As it stands now I can move ships almost all the way across the smaller maps with the ranges as the game stands.

Reply to Movies NEVER download in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

tried it, all out of servers. the download just keeps resetting back to the beginning of the file without any message to that effect. It seems to get stuck at the same point no matter where I source it from. I have now caught it stuck twice at 47% which is 270,408kb

Movies NEVER download in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

gc2_Movies.sdc I have left my computer many times now to come back and see this damn thing still downloading. Worse it just seems to automagically restart over and over and never gets anywhere. I can see the files in my doc/settings/temp/sdcontrol (names shortened) and the biggest it every got was around 50mb that I saw. Just what is it doing?

Make the Tutorials stand alone in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think making the tutorials, maybe even just a few, available as stand alone items for download by anyone would go a long way towards promoting the game

Reply to STICKY: Getting the game Downloaded! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Also, the movies seem to take forever to download. I come back and on occasion see it back at 1% or so. I have changed servers to see if that fixes the problem. If its downloading multiple movies then can it at least make that obvious. This download has been going on nearly 6 hours at 150kb/s and never seems to complete. I stopped it twice to force the other items to download but still, even after hours it seems to revert to 1-3% OK. Twice it stopped at 270,4

Reply to Can't stand "buy it now" mechanics in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I have no problem if I were buying something "off the market". Even then I would expect a little bit of time in delivery and setup. Yet we are not doing that in this game. I am not saying GC2 is a bad game because of it, I just am expressing my dislike for a game mechanic that doesn't make any sense. If it takes 30 weeks to build something then I would expect to be able to hurry them up with wads of cash, not just have them plop it dow

Reply to STICKY: Getting the game Downloaded! in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I checked your account Your password is: 3 numbers and 3 capital letters. No weird characters. Please tell me you cannot look up passwords and see them!!!

Can't stand "buy it now" mechanics in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

One thing I always dislike seeing is the ability to buy stuff outright. It seems a curse of games which have monetary systems. It doesn't seem to matter what I want to buy, big or small, if I have the cash someone mysteriously pops up with a matter transmorgrifier and "poof" - instant I prefer to see money used to overdrive production, buy off rebellious citizens, and even to buy your opponent some headaches. <b

Reply to GUI Suggestions (it's all about reducing the clicks!) in Game Talk Stardock Forums

My beef is the placement of the done buttons on game setup. Put them on the dialog box itself, not the screen border. This is more annoying at 16x12

Reply to Modding is coming in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

When B5 like designs come along my humans will be all so complete!