Captain Data

Okay, lets give it a try. Thanks. I'll post results here in this posting via edit. Errrr ... btw, do they need a copy of that sig.bin?

Either my last post was automatically removed because of this one, or this forum seems to have a serious bug ... but whatever ;) I bought TotA yesterday via Stardock Central (digital version only, 29,... Dollars). After updating GC2 and DA, I installed TotA. The key was valid and Stardock says, the application has been successfully activated. Buuuuuuut ... I would not be here if I could play that game. It's not possible. The sig.bin-file seems to be generated with wrong propert

I think I really want to see my suggestion in GalCiv3 ... I like real battles, thats one of the features missing in GalCiv2. There are battles, yes, but they're not very realistic and not that interesting. To have more simulate weapons, it might be a little bit more difficult to balance the game, but the result will be more exciting than just "ship1ofteam1shots, ship2ofteam1shots, ship3ofteam1shots" --- "ship1ofteam2shots, ship2ofteam2shots, ship3ofteam2shots, ship4ofteam2shots, ship1ofteam1dest

freespace 2 this game owned Amen! Descent Freespace: The Great War and Freespace two are by far the two games I would like to have revived. Though Freespace 2 came out in 1999, it is still a game I frequently play and enjoy. The storyline is what gets me, though. I'll decide one day that I'll go and play a few missions just for the heck of it and end up going through the entire campaign. Oooh...Sathanas Juggernauts *dro

Okay, i tested it again, this time with "Hightmaps" (visual upgrade for DL and DA). Guess what? It was QUICK: 700 kb/s, max speed, no corrupted file. Same try with "Dark Avatar" - slow speed, 30 kb/s, damaged. Same Server (US1). That's not a problem on my side, definatly. The Server is just bad or the game badly requested, whatever. I tried d/l 3 days @ different times, any other D/Ls are fine, but "Dark Avatar" is slow. What's the problem with that file? C'mon boys, I really w

Naaa ... if that's a problem on my site, I'd never downloaded any other files. But Dreadlords + Media & co was just fine @ full speed, Dark Avatar is just slow, damaged etc. Damaging a file is a problem of MY provider, so I can't blame SD-guys for that. But, and thats funny, if I am d/l as fast as possible, there is a nice chance my download would not become corrupted. But I can blame Stardoc only using two servers in USA, but selling a game worldwide with a Feature to download & patch

It's enough to split-ZIP & upload it to rapidshare or something - if it's not illegal, you know It's probably best you didn't do that. Okay, lets say it this way: I paid for the game and I want to play it. And I paid only for the Non-CD-Version to safe another 10 bucks + 2 weeks of time waiting to get it shipped from US to Europe. If you really want that someone is using your SDC-Feature in future it shou

Doesnt work, its allways slow (30 kb) and damaged. Tried it yesterday different times (10:00 MET, 14:00 MET etc, that should be after Midnight in USA ...) We definately need a Server in Europe.

Right ... Stardoc needs to open another server for europs. It's a shame for a publisher NOT giving support non-americans, even when selling the game worldwide. At least give us a mirror to d/l DA (+ patch) without SDC but with some kind of "key-detection" so we can only D/L with proper product key - maybe link it with SDC-Account). That shouldn't be that problem.

Naa ... you don't have to send me the files per CD ... that's too expensive for you and not really necessary. It's enough to split-ZIP & upload it to rapidshare or something - if it's not illegal, you know (don't know exactly Stardocs policy ...) Or I give it a try (8th time) to get it per SDC. But I really want to see some european servers in future, or another file-distribution-system like Bittorrent to increase speed, reduce chance of damaged files and reduce traffic to central serve

Have you changed the settings in SDC to download through another server? Is SDC configured to "resume partially downloaded files' ? (it in an option in the Internet Settings) I removed the flag for "resume partially downloaded files", but that's not the problem. Problem is: its so slow, my connection will damage those files (if they're not allready damaged by its long way from US to Dresden <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles

Sounds nice, but I think, combat system needs to be built up from scratch. Yes I know ... it's difficult to realize. But we know there ARE huge differences between DL and DA in combat, why not changing it another time? Here's my suggestion: 1. Remove that rounds-of-fire-thing. It might be easy to realize to have ships firing in rounds, but this results in a not-very-realistic combat behavior. === 2. Instead of using "rounds" introduce RoF for each weapon. Chea

I know. I tried it yesterday different times - no difference. DA is slow, but ONLY DA (any other patches & minor addons for DL were just fine - 600 - 700 kb/s). DA is the only one taking forever. @ Stardoc: I really want to see an european server for D/L. US is NOT the sweetspot of the world, it's even lesser populated than EU - please give us an european server. That should not be a problem, because - and I am pretty sure - most of your customers ARE from europe. Thanks. <

... and downloading (4th or 5th time). - It downloads VERY slow (30 - 50kb/s), while any other Downloads (yep, Dreadlords too) were just fine (DSL6000, up to 700kb/s) - DA-Package is allways damaged, because I got some difficulties with my connection (baaad provider, I think), because it loads so slow. Yep, that's not your fault ... Any way to get my DA without using SDC? Key is allready confirmed and ready. Or do you fix the server so it's Download is a little bit ac

I hope its avaiable in Germany too ... not only US. Gal Civ 2 is one of the best Games I played, there is only one problem: I really whish, that battlingsystem could be altered to full control by Player and AI (RTS-Battles).

Just a question: When doing this mod, will you: - Do only FULL hulls with Saucer, Engine-Hull and so on, so you can't really "kitbash" your own ships ? - Do only Saucers, Engine-Hulls, Naceles to give your community a powerfull "create-your-own-kickin'-Star-Trek-ship"-tool ? I really want to have that second option BTW: Sabre is SMALL sized, Miranda-Class, Consti

I often use mixed weaponry, mostly beams + missiles. There is almost no enemy using BOTH types of defenses, so its really good to have mixed weaponry or mixed fleets. Hey, I even got now 100+ Custom Ships (for my own race), each with a different job. There are Torpedo-Boats (small sized ships), Patrol-Boats (small ships with phasers and decent defense), Destroyers (small ship again, full of beamweapons, top notch), dozens of types of frigates and so on ... most of them outmaxed and re

Just 3 small ideas, but I think they're nice to have: 1. Derelict after Battles. A nice idea, because you can have "self-made" anomalies. Just use your Survey-Ship to claim that derelict for a small bonus (Ressources, Experience, Hitpoints, new Tech) ... Maybe as an option. 2. Have an option "random respawn anomalies" to do exactly that *g* - spawn each 10 weeks (for example) a few anomalies to discover. I really hate to see your Survey-Ship becomes useless after claiming t

Yes, that AI acts sometimes really stupid. But I think there are other things to do too: 1. AI is - as you said - developing only ONE type of weaponry - OFTEN the same as you. Example: I play against a single AI (Drengin Empire). In one match, I focus on Beamweapons, next match, I'll go for Missiles. Our beloved Drengin Empire ALLWAYS mirrors me! To prevent this, just add some kind of "preferred weapons" to each race. A typical Drengin-Weapon is the Missile I t

Just some bugs with my german Version (Beta works almost fine btw): 1. When trying to build something on a planet, the estimated Time is all the Time "NEVER" (german: Nie), but its possible to build that building wihtin a few weeks. 2. When building ships, there is no way to stop building them. Even if you click "none", the last produced ship will produced over and over again. Atm there is no way to stop building ships except scra