smjjames

smjjames

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I use ctrl N just fine. it just takes a couple of minutes for the new game to load up. Try waiting a couple of minutes because it will seem like the program locks up or the task manager will say its not responding, but its just because its really busy. If it still doesn't work, then post a debug err.

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Reply to Screen shots? in Game Talk

I think it does have a capture option anyways, haven't used it in a while though. Still useful though.

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true, I've seen that as well. Although there are often certain traits that keep coming up, I've already mentioned the torians, which are notorious for bieng expansionist, the Iconians tend to keep to themselves, and the Snathi minor race in alot of my games, often try to pick fights with others.

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Reply to Screen shots? in Game Talk

any image editing program will work actually, such as Jasc paint shop pro, just push print screen and then paste. May also help to have a program that can capture the image like Irfanview or hypersnap, but not entirely neccesary. Also, make sure you save the image as a .jpg because that takes up less memory and doesn't take as long for the browser to upload it than a .bit or .gif file.

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wow, that looks like either some sort of major memory leak or something wierd is going on. Since your Bios is over 2 years old, I don't know if updating that would help (depends on what kind of computer you're using I think)

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well there is a graphical glitch that causes the ships to look like they are firing on themselves or each other. but the fact that your ships appear to be taking damage is a wierd thing alltogether. I'd suggest posting a debug err, but I have no idea if a debug err would even show it.

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the Torians also tend to try and colonize every single world, they are the roaches of GC2, thier super breeder ability fits them...... as they breed like roaches lol.

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Reply to Bored? in Bug Reports

well there are many factors involved with morale, part of the reason you're getting that are simply the side effects of overcrowding such as pollution, crime, very little living space (although I'm sure the Yor wouldn't mind small cubicles to 'sleep' in), etc. Although its represented by a single factor or a few factors, not sure on the exact mechanics. also, what population size are you seeing this decrease in morale no matter how many 'happy sites' you put up? there is a point where t

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lol, the inspiration are those shadow race guys from Babylon 5! once I saw the race picture, I was pretty sure it was that along with the homeworld name. in one of the episodes where you actually see the Shadow guys (they were called The Shadow most of the time), they appear as black spider/crablike creatures, and thier homeworld was found to be Zha'dum (or something along the lines), plus your ships look alot like the ships they had in the Babylon 5 series.

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I doubt it, theres only so much space to put planets around the stars and there always needs to be at least one square of space between them. at least that seems to be the rule.

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also what about the timing between mega events? last night I had the pirates mega event and was slowly working on it and then the Jagged Knife butted in with thier mega event and messed everything up.

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Reply to Noob Question in Game Talk

I don't think so, not from the planet UI anyways. when you have one or more ships built on the same turn, just click the small green button on the bottom under the lowest popup square to launch all ships. As for launching them manually, I think you can only click them one at a time. Also right clicking on the blue square that comes up for the ships will automatically launch them. Regarding the "sm

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Reply to Noob Question in Game Talk

I don't think so, not from the planet UI anyways. when you have one or more ships built on the same turn, just click the small green button on the bottom under the lowest popup square to launch all ships. As for launching them manually, I think you can only click them one at a time. Also right clicking on the blue square that comes up for the ships will automatically launch them.

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well the bonus for the Eyes of the Universe are mainly aimed at the players. I don't know how the AI would react to the bonus other than the increased LOS, so any kind of benefit that one gives, the player would take advantage of far better than the AI ever could. The eyes of the universe isn't one of the best super projects or something, so its more of a preference thing. As far as modability goes, I don't know anything about modding structures like that, but it might be possi

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There are some good points, but there are also some pretty big problems with it. which are trying to be fixed. despite the couple of bugs in there, its still fun to play.

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I generally use huge hulls to fight pirates because I can put more weapons and defense on them. They won't invade your planets, but you could try to fight a 'war of attrition' against them to try and clear out some of them from your territory so that you can be able to build up a sizable fleet.

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Reply to Am I Nieve? in Ideas

I would say that idea sounds wierd and that you are wierd.... lesbian minor race?? bleh, I know thats not what SD had in mind when they created that one. I think its based on real world species that don't need males to reproduce, or maybe that they are hermaphrodites.

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just posting that there is a fix, and the cause of the bug is apparently because they have no homeworld. So the update to fix that should be up sometime, and don't ask me when as I don't know.

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hmm, I'll have to look at it a little later. If it refreshes after a save game and reload, then that might be cool, but maybe a bit tedious.

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Reply to DA and modding? in Modding

its probably because some files aren't compatible with the expansion and need to be updated by the mod's creator to work with DA.

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usually works for me when I have good approval. As long as the approval is in the green, I don't think you should have an issue. There is one tactic to try and goad them into war. Create a bunch of troop ships and put 1 troop inside them (I don't know if the AI can see how many troops you have on a troopship) and then cluster those around some worlds of thiers.

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yea, Cari is looking into the PQ wierdness. Apparently some people are having the bug and some arent having it, which makes it even wierder and more complicated, plus the fact that they never saw the bug in the last beta testing. Other than the few bugs in there, it really is a cool game You should get Kryo's hull mod if you are familiar with the ship builder because it gives you all the jewlery

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