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The pbem concept would work nicely for professionals. I didn't really think about it until now. The last time I considered pbem was when X-Com had the pbem thing. These days, I'm on a tight schedule. I get an hour of leisure time per day and it's not always for GC2 as much as I wish it were. I'm getting about 5 hours a week with this game. My friend is of equal skill and equally strapped for time. As I've voiced my political opinion on the matte

The OP needs to shove it.

Stardock has a bolt of lightning in its hand. Galactic Civilizations 2 has the potential of being among the greatest games ever. Don't waste resources on multiplayer IF it interferes with perfecting the game. I still want a thruster module for Starbases. I still want to load a saved game in exactly the perspective I left it. Passive defenses like minefields for resources would be nice. Counter-intelligence is needed. Scout ships need to

Grammar fascism serves THE ONE TRUE GOD!

S247, you're a dork. Try focusing on why people that see "morale" 50 times per hour insist on spelling that word as "moral." I really don't give a flying fsck about how people in the ghetto spell anything.

Military starbases are really defensive & coordinating units. I keep them between my planets. It's the influence bases that I'd like to see with a thruster module.

Because your list is long and I agree with most of it, let me outline what I don't like: --Scrap your entire ethics suggestions. Not sure of your age but there's no such thing as "good" and "evil", just the context. That means that your status of "good" and "evil" should be the perceptions of the other races. Stardock developers clearly understand this. Play Knights of the Old Republic for a great primer on existentialist philosophy. If

Didn't it have something like this in earlier versions? I seem to remember something like "Freighter, 3 techs required"... in some instances, the list of future technologies and the other technologies required looked confusing and intimidating but it's clearly useful to intermediate and advanced players. Is it still around? Maybe I didn't notice it until this post.

If you haven't played IG2, do it. The franchise died an untimely death. The spiritual heir is Hegemonia: Legions of Iron. If Stardock wants something absolutely spectacular for a sequel, they should lock Galactic Civilizations 2 and Imperium Galactica 2 in a bedroom and develop whatever comes out of it. IG2 failed on multiple points because they didn't have the dedication or, more likely, the code ownership that Stardock has.<b

EB et al. want nothing to do with PC games. They didn't have GC2 and their personnel becomes nauseous at anything on that shiatty excuse for a PC section. They are in the middle of an exit strategy for the PC platform and no amount of reason is going to change their path. Death to brick & mortar. I have no love for Microsoft but the xbox360 will be a hard lesson for game retailers. Microsoft is in position to kill retailer console sectio

If it wasn't for the fact that I _know_ Stardock is manually updating the AI, I'd swear I have HAL living in my computer. Because the AI is not scripted (meaning it's closer to a true AI), I wonder if more processing power--like an Athlon64--makes it more lethal by giving it a better capacity for decision making.

Did you even read the original post? Get the spelling for game mechanics right and nobody goes to the gas chamber. Morale and moral are not pronounced the same. The phonetic excuse doesn't work. Everything else after the original post is just banter. As for errors in my original post... yes, there are a couple. Ho

Spearthrower, Lighten up, brother. This all started with a hyperbolic rant against people that cannot spell basic game terms correctly. I thought we were building up the greatest debate since Lincoln-Douglas. I totally respect that you are deeply offended by people who joke about death, especially jokes about death to litera

Wounded prey? Excuse me for not caring enough. I'll tackle Spearthrower's other points for fun: 1) The message getting through to me doesn't disqualify the messenger from being illiterate. 2) See point #1. You are an apologist for the illiterate. You see yourself as a sort of Che Guevara locked in urban combat on Sesame Street in a war for a more egalitarian, lowest common denominator, "pan-ignorance" society. <

Let me get this straight, Spearthrower: I have yet to make any errors in this thread. Therefore, it "sounds like" I don't know another language? Exactly how did you reach that assumption? I'm not against the concept. Basically, people who can't spell "sound like" they can't speak English. This just in... Scourg has anno

Re: Griffin Properly versus correctly?! You jest. Ones? That's not a pronoun. The people that use "ones" as a pronoun are politically-correct ivory tower lemmings with terminal cranio-rectal inversion. Furthermore, I believe it's "one's" as in "one's intelligence". Don't quote me on that because I never use that pseudo-pronoun. You're the English expert. To the growing community of illiteracy a

This thread is hilarious. Thank you all for coming. Especially those that have taken it way too seriously. To my colleague, svalin, for whom college has made strong in the ways of the aggregate, I concur with the gentleman of post #24, LuXinhui. Moral and morale aren't pronounced similarly so your Chomsky meme doesn't apply. To the rest of my opponents, this is about standards. I've upped my standards. Now up yours.

Skyjack, how dare you wish lymphoma on native English speakers that massacre the language! I was thinking about an all-American, mom & dad, apple pie kind of problem solver: Bullets Lymphoma would make them play and post more as their clock ticks to zero. I can't really wait for lymphoma to run its course. <img s

If you want to type idiotic stuff like "worth wild", "your awesome" or "don't be a looser," then that's fine with me. I can't stop you from being on life support. BUT FOR FRAK'S SAKE... get the spelling right for basic game mechanics. If you're writing a 500 word post about MORALE and you write "moral" 27000 times while complaining about how you can't beat the game then consider this: Maybe it's because your attention to detail

Wow. A pointless observation. Here's the short: If you test the peace of this forum, a bunch of vigilantes will get your IP address and blow up your computer. It's your choice to decide if I'm serious or not.

That's a pretty good theory, Megavolt. If true, then Stardock should allow the benefits of capturing such a planet without reverting it to what players without xeno ethics would see.

Maybe the AI is smarter than you give it credit for, Frogboy. The singularity is near! Today Galactic Civilizations II innocently greases the game. Tomorrow, SkyNet kills us all.

Moz--I didn't think of that. Sneaky, effective and eliminates the cost of buying wine & cheese for the diplomats. Still, shouting back to the AI is necessary for these situations. I want to warn them, have the bases move and turn people against them.

Maybe they put it there to just extend their ship's range? Remember the AI doesn't cheat, so it'll need a way to get across the map. Getting across the map can be done with economy bases. I am cool with economy bases coming into the territory. Those are progressive bases. Military and influen

Keeping my cool would have served me better, yes. I lost my armed influence base and an economy base because of the war but... I learned to master the domestic policy screen which was still a bit of a mystery. Going to war actually lowers the learning curve in my opinion. One learns quickly about what technology is important and how to adapt during the conflict. Even if I brought the Altarians down with the Mohammed Ali rope-a-