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NO StarForce protection in Gothic III, which imo has good potential to become a nice game. Congrats! Now I can actually buy the game :)

I suppose they'd rather play Doom 13 or 14. I mean it's 2225, isn't it?

Heh I couldn't imagine playing anywhere close to SUICIDAL. I'd get crushed like crazy. Way more practice needed.... Thumbs up to everybody who's playing these settings. BladeVenom & nullspace what are your preferred map sizes?

btw aside from that the game is very stable, it crashes infrequently on using the ctrl-n command (restart game with current settings)

Hey everybody! This questions goes to GalCiv2 newbies as well as grand-masters who play gigantic SUICIDAL maps for breakfast... I just advanced to the TOUGH setting and the game is becoming more interesting now. So what was the 1st difficulty setting to get somewhat challenging to you? I'm not at the point yet where I have to consider EVERY move to make. IMO it's not necessary on TOUGH. Which setting is really "painful" to you? I haven't tried these yet LOL. :)

This occured in v1.2 on TOUGH difficulty with 5 opponents on a LARGE map. When my civ researched enhanced factories the BC counter suddenly jumped from about 2000 to MINUS (!) 214.7 million credits. Maybe I got "sabotaged" by an opponent civ, I highly doubt it though. What's going on here??? :NOTSURE:

are you sure you're talking about GalCiv 2? Five-minute loading times?? Weirdo. Did you accidentally install one of the betas? Because this game runs perfectly stable here, which means not a single crash so far. Prolly there's something wrong with your machine.

I suppose their site is down, the link doesn't work for me. .... OK, fixed.

Wow, awesome! Despite v1.2 with another huge list of improvements is not done yet, you're already talking about v1.3.... guess GalCiv 2 is one of the very very very few games that will be updated to "perfection". Too bad I don't have enough time to play this great game

and then bought it on EBgames.com got my copy of GC2 today. Does anyone know how to register it? Thanks!

I tend to focus on online sources for trial versions (or demos) because as soon as you rent a CD/DVD you can easily copy it - and the black sheep will copy it, unless it's copy-protected. But that's not what we want, is it? An alternative would be web-downloads of demos that are not too crippled, meant to excite the potential gamer, yet they miss quite a bit of the full version game code. The missing code could be downloaded from a source that requires

somebody would come up with a feasible way to legally try out the full version of software for a short period of time basically, that's what Stardock did: nobody had to reverse engineer the software to make it work w/o a copy protection. People could download and try it from certain unofficial sources. That

Interestingly, the developers of Spellforce 2 announced that the American version of their game will NOT be protected by Starforce due to the recent incidents. Good news, isn't it?

That russian SF developer is just so near-sighted, it's incredible. I've never bought a SF protected game and I never will. With my money I will not finance the development of copy protections - and that's basically what people do if they buy copy protected software. I admit I downloaded Galactic Civilizations 2 from P2P, evalutated the software and then bought it on EBgames.com (this is not a lie, I will register the game as soon as I have the box and