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maybe a screenshot would help show just how crammed into a corner you are talking about. also, a debug.err would be nice, so we can see just what the game is doing.

You know I never understood what the game ment by "specialized ships". you'd think it meant things like constructors, but no idea. here we mean something specialized as in other than the usual constructors, colonizers, and freighters, ships that are meant to have a specific function and do nothing else. I gave a good example of a specia

other than the usual colonizers, constructors, and freighters, sometimes when needed I create specialized pirate killer ships. For the pirate killer ships, I use the largest hull I have (usually Huge hull), smack on the appropriate attack and defense depending on the pirate fleet stats. Then I create a few of them, maybe 5, enough to make a small fleet, and send them at the pirates. These ships are a highly specialized class, used only for eliminating pirate fleets, and they are very po

what are the game settings you are using? setting it to scattered or tight star clusters or having abundant or few stars will have an affect on it. It also has a tendency to stick the civs in corners, its especially bad on medium and smaller maps when you are playing with alot of civs, like 8 or 9 because there is not much room. Although I'm doing huge maps and in those games the civs are pretty well spread out. sometimes one or two end up near a coner or in a corner, but It is not happ

LOL, its either some clever screenshot editing or you have some very strange graphical going ons the jupiter with sunglasses is definetly photoshopped as they say. pretty funny stuff

wow the new lights look way better and love the fact that they are accurately placed on the continents and that they increase as your pop grows. Great job! I do have to point out one small problem however. Its actually the same one that has existed for a while now, and that is the fact that not all colonies get the lights. In a given game with lots of planets I'd be

kewlness on that fix!

congrats on the new daughter Frogboy!

also I think there is a PDF version of the manual somewhere, possibly already with the download. and Moosetek is right, it is pretty outdated (although if they could release an updated online/PDF version of it....), but ok for the very basics. It'll be alot easier and much more informative to ask for newb help here on the forums. Sure there are going to be variations in opinion for some things, but stuff like economy, ship building, etc, ppl agree on in general. Also, experimen

damn, sounds like you might have problems. Hope your wife's labor goes well anyway Brad, sounds like you are going to be pretty busy tonight and sounds like you should be with your wife and I'd understand if the beta update was delayed due to all this because you should be there to enjoy the moment <br

there are hints of something like that MAYBE appearing in DA or GalCiv3, but I don't think there has been any official word on that.

they are going to release the fix for it sometime today.

We expect a new beta tomorrow. I just knew you guys were gonna do a beta update tomorrow

Well... i dont know... there have been a lot of 4x Space turn-strategy games.... for instance, one of the first was "STARS!". very old, isnt made anymore, cant even find it on "Google" (though the name explains why i think!)! they tried to remake it, but the project was scrapped. yea, Stars! Genesis looked like it had promise, but for some reaso

I would like to have much more MUSIC in GalCiv2 Expansion! there are ways to do that without the devs doing it for you, also, even if you want more music, it may end up bieng not what you want. as for planetary defense, I don't see it bieng very useful, or the effect is difficult to notice, even the AI doesn't build them very much. Stil

yea I'm waiting for the beta update. that fleet bug is getting annoying. anyway, I bet they are going to release it tomorrow sometime to give ppl a chance to use and check out a fresh beta version over the weekend. It certainly won't be today as it's 6:30 PM where they are now (at the time of this posting), so just about everybody would have gone home already.

they had probably all gone home by the time the topic was posted.

wouldn't the epic generator do something like that? it's already suppoused to record the games, so it shouldn't be too big a step to have it record the score and victory conditions.

hmm, for some reason I can't vote, when I look at it, it acts like I've already voted but I didn't. edit: actually it seems to happen only when I go to the homepage, but when I go to some other part of the site it's normal edit: sometimes when I refresh the main page it shows as normal, dunno what's going on. and I use IE 6

yea its hard to choose a color that both can be seen easily when using constructors and won't be confused with other races colors because the set race colors are all over the rainbow. What I usually do when setting a color for a custom race is that I try to set it to something I like and then I do a quick game with all of the races so that I can compare the colors easily (click the empire view button for the minimap) and I try to adjust the color so that it can be distingushed easily from other

Heh... The Dregin... splitting into 2 factions... Heh.. Sound Familiar? Hmmmm... now where have I heard this story before? Golly Jee Wiz... think.. think.. think.. think.. If I could only place the.... NOW I KNOW.... errm.. wait.. nope that wasn't it... The American Civil War? the reason why they (the Drengin) split into two factions is pretty m

its actually pretty hard to lose the very first campaign mission, just wait long enough and the Altarians could do the dirty work for you. Although it might be possible to force a 'you have lost the mission' by surrendering to the drengin.

yea, the name is likely to change anyway. as far as the two races that are bieng killed, well the story is that there is alot more evil in the galaxy, and some races won't be able to survive. The main races which are integral to the storyline such as the Terrans and Drengin won't be killed off. We already know that the Terrans won't be killed off, the Drengin won't even though they have split into two factions, and thats about as much as we know at this point.

the diplomacy screen and espionage are going to be greatly improved with the Dark Avatar expansion, there won't be any major changes to the diplomacy screen as pretty much everything you mentioned is already bieng implemented for Dark Avatar.

You sure? There's two new races... but I don't see anything about how many races are getting eliminated. Where, exactly does it say that it'll be two races destroyed? Could you quote it for me? I believe Brad (Frogboy) said so somewhere.