Wizzykin

[quote]I remember reading years ago someone bought a Microsoft product, didn't agree to the EULA, and took it back to the store to demand a refund. They wouldn't give it to him. Microsoft did clearly state you could return it for a FULL refund if you disagreed, and eventually the store capitulated.Thing is though, it shouldn't be like that. It's not legally enforceable to say to someone "Okay, now you've bought this TV, you can only watch channels 3, 5 and 16." I once got into a debate with the

[quote]Marvin Kosh posted this in another thread:Navigate to My Documents\My Games\GC2Twilight\ and open the Prefs.ini file (it's text, so it'll open in Notepad).Under the Interface heading you should see a line like this:StripComponentsWhenUpgrading=0If it doesn't exist or the zero is a one, change it.Hope this helps[/quote] edit: Wait just a minute. I decided to try it again, just for the hell of it. This time I started a new game (before I loaded a save and tried it). Guess what? It

Well this pretty much sucks balls. That's a pretty important feature to me - because having to go figure out all the components that were on a ship previously so I can see what I should upgrade is a pretty big hassle. That option was a life saver in the first expansion. Why the hell would they remove it?

[quote]When humanity can colinize planets, and wage space warfae how will the world react, will we form one great nation of the world, divide up into diffrent alliances, or go of on are own in a world wide space race. Will that day be the beggingi of a new age or just another age where countyrs try to out do each other. Basically I am tyring to say is what do you think is going to happen earth and countrys when we reach Galciv2 technology? whenever that will be. [/quote] What will happe

[quote]The option mentioned above is called 'Remove Functional Components...' and you can check/uncheck it to see the designs with/without engines/weapons/modules etc. Also, you may have to scroll down in the menu somewhat to see it...you may not even realize that you could scroll as it is hard to see. So...look to the right side and see if you have scroll arrows or a scroll bar.Secondly, there is a known issue in the auto-designer that allows it to create ships that exceed the space limits for

[quote]You may have to scroll down a bit, depending on the resolution at which you are playing. It's not very apparent that you can even scroll on some of the menus, but you might want to look to the right side of the screen and see if you have scroll bars or arrows. I didn't know it was there, until I read about it in the forum Hope this helps[/quote] I appreciate the help, but I don't think you get it ;) It's not there. It's in the DA expansion, but it's not showing the Twilight expa

[quote]It's on the second tab, right below the option for the part rotation.[/quote] The problem is, it's not there.

This is a little frustrating. I'm playing the TotA expansion (decided to re-give the game a go, so I bought the newest version) and I'm messing around with upgrading ships. The problem is, all the functional components are all being removed when I enter the upgrade screen. I cannot for the life of me find an option to keep the components on, so that I can see what's already on the ship and simply upgrade as I feel necessary. There has to be a way to do this, but I'm just not finding it. I've

OK. I've got two questions here. Is there a screen somewhere that shows all of the bonuses that I'm getting? I can't find a place where all the numbers come together. I know there's the one screen that shows all your stats - like +10% Research, -5% Trade, etc, etc... But even factoring in those numbers, some of the numbers on my planet make no sense to me. So I'm wondering if there's somewhere that I can see exactly what's going into the Military/Social/Research fields on a planet?

Here's my scenario: I've just started the game from scratch. I quickly grabbed a class 10 planet that was just a few spaces away from Earth... So, now I've got two planets. Planet two has just the colony building on it. Earth has a factory and the Civ Capital building. I want to pump out ships as quickly as possible, but I also want to be doing research. So I can't set the military slider to 100%. So I've set it to 50%, 50%. Since I'm buying all my buildings for the start of

Hi! So by "no", do you actually mean "yes"? With no I mean NO. Populatin limit is defined by available food. You can have on a class-3 planet with 2 best farms 20B people forever, if you bring them there with transports. The only thing that will decrease their amount there is a approval below 21%. If that happens, 10% of them will move away, until approval will be again more than 20%. Well, if you

This is the most idiotic post I've seen on this board. Solution to all your bitching: Remove the check next to "Mega Events" in the game setup... Problem fixed.

Does PQ influence the maximium population? No, each PQ has it's own pop limit, to which the pop will GROW by itself, but above PQ-17 it is 100. Check Wiki under Rough numbers. BR, Iztok So by "no", do you actually mean "yes"? Because that's what it looks like. PQ does determine max population (well for Growth - you can transport extra peo

Maybe not focusing on a main objective is one of my big problems. I always research all over the place, and never really focus on a single place. So if I want to be a war monger, I should probably skip the diplomacy techs and what not - and build on fleet size, and weapons. I suppose I should probably look at the techs and decide what's even worth researching if my main goal is to kill everything in the galaxy (peace is boring to me in these games).

I'm trying to play on normal now, with the default settings, and 5 enemies... I just have one problem. I suck. I never know what to do. I always take research as the top priority - which leads to my planets being very empty, because I never know what to build on them, and I'm putting 70-80% of my funds into research. On top of that, I always forget to start trade routes, build a little army for protection, and things like that. My problem is, I just don't know how to h

What exactly is this Metaverse? The instructions don't say much, and the sticky info thing gives almost no information at all. I'm somewhat interested in it; but I really don't know anything about it. What are the rules? Do I have to use specific settings? A Race? Do I have to join some sort of specific metaverse galaxy, or is it an overall thing? What on Earth is it, and why should I play it?

You know those new planet types? The ones where you have to research something to be able to finally colonize them. What file do I have to edit to remove them? I like a lot of the additions in DA, but I absolutely hate this one, and would love to be able to just remove it. I assume it's in one of the XML files that I can change... Thanks

I can't do it either. I've tried different browsers and different computers. I always get the "invalid characters". Even when I just try a name like "gdfgdsf".

I grab it and just toss 3 marketplaces on it... Why not make that extra money?

I'm confused by something on this page: http://jeffpinard.com/planet_management.htm Step 7: So you'll want to click the All button and make sure the planets are sorted by class (size). Step 9: I'm looking for the largest planet that's not occupied by anyone. Easiest way to do this is just look for that has no shipyard and no social projects (the space beneath the shipyard). The first planet we see is Shard IV. And it looks like a grea

Why is slower better on bigger maps? Wouldn't faster be better? So you can get to exploring quicker, and not way way slower? It seems already slow enough as it is to me.

Can anyone explain what it really does? It doesn't really say in the manual except that it's an important setting... Does it increase how quickly things are built, and how quickly research is made? Does is just give a multiplier to my research, military, and social bonuses? Or what does it do? I'm just curious. I'm trying to find the right settings for me - and I'm thinking of turning it on, because I get really tired of taking so long to research some things... I prefer to get into act

Linux can be very annoying; depending on what you're doing. For instance - in windows to install flash, what do you do? You click on something on the web page and it installs. In Linux? I had to download a special package - then go into the terminal and type out a series of commands to unpack it and install it. It can get annoying.

Windows 98 is a steamy pile of crap. Why someone would choose to run it is beyond me. Anyway, I've got Vista, and luckily I've had no problems with running any programs on it at all. GalCiv 2 worked right off the bat. I just keep different OS's on different drives. I've got XP, Ubuntu (Linux), Server 2003, and Vista That way I've got lots of choices for different things.

so - how do we remove the fog?