Boomstick22

Got it, thanks, I unchecked the auto restart.

A vast ye swabs, if you be doing pirates, they should be an annoyance not a major power player with fleets of uber ships. Also, any good pirate worth his salt would not destroy all the bounty, they would run-off with it. If the resources were stolen, you would have a chance to take them back, which would be more fun. If you want to have a mega event of a vastly superior wave a marauders hell-bent on destruction dropping in, fine, just don't sully the good name of pirates.

Got to a point where the super pirates drop-in and start destroying everything in sight. As implemented, it's rather dumb. First off, my civilization was rather advanced at this point but the power and number of pirate ships was off the scale. Pirates should be an annoyance not a major power player with fleets of super ships. Second, there was no recognition among the other races of the problem and no opportunity to cooperate to deal with the problem. Third, pirates should steal resources rathe

Playing Dark Avatar about 3 hours - it's amazing BTW. At one point, it crashed and caused a soft reboot. Here's the report, for what it's worth: Debug Message: Version beta 2b last updated on: Fri Dec 22 12:15:30 2006 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 1/4/2007, 20:10:51 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: EARTH3800 Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5

Thank you. I'll jot down the info on the BSOD as you advise.

Below is my ERR file. Any advice would be most appreciated. Crashed after 30-40 minutes of play at the end of a turn. Debug Message: Version v1.4x last updated on: Mon Oct 23 17:43:56 2006 Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated. Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 12/9/2006, 21:06:56 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: EARTH3800 Operating System: Windows XP

Debug Message: Version v1.1 BETA 4B last updated on: Thu Apr 20 15:53:54 2006 Debug Message: Could not find a TGN Serial No. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 4/24/2006, 20:59:48 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: EARTH3800 Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) Languages: English