Sorceresse

I'm much more an exxxtreme fanatic of fantasy strategy games than science-fiction strategy games. I've played almost all of them : [I]Master of Magic[/I], all the [I]Heroes of Might & Magic[/I], all the [I]Age of Wonders[/I], all the [I]Disciples[/I], all the [I]Warlords[/I]. I'm also a huge fan of the Stardock approach. I can't wait to pre-order the beta of that enigmatic sword-and-sorcery game. In what concerns the [I]Galactic Civilization[/I] series, I s*ck. I just

My dad pre-ordered that TA expansion, and I tried it (beta 5) this morning. I created a custom race with the super-isolationist ability, in an « immense » universe (vast, with a lot of « scattered » stars & planets), with 6 competitors (on « normal »), to have some space & time to grow without interference. Look what happened : The universe generator put 6 of the 7 players in the same half of the map (the right portion of the losange), and put only 1, totally isolated

Gotta love NWN ... right ??? Eternal Winter Night : that's in the direction of my witchy tastes.

by El Conquest Saturday, June 10, 2006 5:58 PM : [...O]ne thing that most girls don't do is think about things on a continual basis making sure things suit an outcome that is great. Whatever that means...I doubt that it is based on any scientific research in cognitive neuropsychology. It is just an opinion...formulated in an odd, t

I'm a 20 y-old girl. At the moment, I alternate between GalCiv 2 and Heroes of M&M 5, and between the forums dedicated to those two turn-based strategy games.

by Kosty Sunday, May 28, 2006 5:08 AM : I am a very experienced strategic gamer and have a lot of historical education and military experience and training. Oh...wow! We are soooo lucky that you take the time & trouble to grace us with your presence & wisdom.

The goofy Goodies should remain as they are now : weak & pathetic, easy preys for the Dark Side. And the same goes on this forum in what concerns all the timid nice-guys who feel the need to add to their posts : "Please don't flame me"... accompanied by those naive yellow smileys & their dumb thumbs-up.

by dthought Monday, May 22, 2006 7:42 PM : " [...T]he only way I could see around that would be to restrict saving to every X many turns [...] Well, don't reload if YOU don't want to...but don't make your personal ethical code a totalitarian Order for all players.

On the Metaverse, a racial victory is when you have won at least once with each and every of the default (non-custom) races.

Oups...you're right : I jumped the gun to do some easy humour on a pseudo-typo. He did write 1,7 GHz. [blush] Strange : the edit button vanishes after a while, so I can't go back and edit my previous reply, even though I could edit this more recent one.

" [M]y notebook is not top-of-the-line (PM740/1,7Ghz [...] " Well...if your notebook's processor runs at "7 GHz", you do have an above-top-of-the-line computer!

Mr Neural Jizz is soooo overtly ignorant & unfair, concerning GC2, that I cannot understand why you guys have taken the time & trouble to answer his obvious provocation.

just talked to dell for 3 hours and now its fixed and i can play all my games again "Dude, it's a Dell."

by Franco fx Monday, May 15, 2006 12:34 PM : "As usual the war monger gamers are starting to dominate this game and I suppose that is to be expected since they are the majority. I have played my last big map. I just don't have the patience to take out every single planet." I totalllee agree. This forum is too dominated by warmong

by THEBESTAINTYOU > Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:44 AM : "[...] I was l[o]oking for a way to climb the metaverse ladder as I am frustrated watching my ranking drop every time I post a suicidal military victory. " No comment.

by JamesACG Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:27 PM : As [a]person with a large collection of military theory and history books and having spent a long time studying it [...] My mom has a large collection of cookbooks and has spent a long time studying them. Everybody in my family (except her) find her cooking quite amateurish. <

Avatar Draginol : " That is why in 1.11 we added a new option (which needs to be renamed) "Intense AI" (that's what I think it should be called later). If that's selected [...] " Where is that new A.I. option selected when starting a new game with version 1.11 ? Does anybody know ?

And even if a hack used the forum to send a covert credit-card number request...how could it find that number? If you do not store your credit-card info anywhere on your computer, there is no fish to phish.

by Precursor10 Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:47 PM : "[...] Suggesting someone enlist for duty in Iraq within the context of this discussion is idiotic. That's a very serious topic and I'm sure you're not qualified to understand its implications. Respect that situation and those who are involved." Considering what you just wrote, recei

I am very confident that Mr Wardell and his programmers could design & code a smarter warmonger A.I. for the higher levels of difficulty...but (correct me Stardock, if I am wrong) there is a question of economics to consider : Is it worthwhile, in terms of time & expense, for the Stardock business to invest in many personnel-hours of design & coding to satisfy a small minority of customers who insist on an extremely competitive gaming experience? I suppose that Stard

I am a new player, and I have trouble understanding this thread, especially since you guys do not seem to agree. For the moment, my basic concern is : If a planet is attacked, do all oribiting ships defend it at the same time, during the same battle? The logistics of fleet organization is less urgent for a new player, especially if one does not know how to obtain a "orbital fleet manager". I have not played a long enough game, yet, to see one of those on

Frogboy (Stardock) Monday, May 08, 2006 9:18 PM : The other thing players should do is keep upping the difficulty level. The A. "I". doesn't get any smarter then : it eventually "cheats" by getting quantitative bonuses. It's only a quick fix, a superficial substitute for lack of heuristic metaprogramming (no offense intended). T

Its kinda like Girlfriends Can't kill em, or live without them As a girl, I find that kind of off-topic, sexist sarcasm somewhat distasteful : grow up, kid...and join the IIIrd Millennium.

A "geforce 500 video card"?! Such a thing does not exist : be more precise, and indicate the card's driver-version number. Your drivers might be too old. I did experience a black screen (with cursor & voice, like you), but it was limited to the intro movie and the short in-game movies. I pressed the escape key and landed on the game's main menu : but later, the in-game movies were black. It was a problem with Bink video-compression . I solved it by downgrading the anti-aliasing, in th

[Removed. My very first post on this forum and nobody cared to answer in the first 48 hours.]