Wh1te Out

Greetings all, from a fellow strategy lover. Problem is, lover does not always equal master. I am, to the say the least, militarily challenged. This holiday season will be spent playing Gal Civ II, though, in an effort to improve my game. Hopefully I will gain some great tips from you savvy veterans. My goal is to win diplomatically or culturally. Either way would be fine, but military might has never been my strongest asset in any game of this nature and GCII is no different.

Where is this library of pre-built ship packs you speak of?

Doesn't the United-Galactic-whateveryoucallit-propose a moratorium on building starbases? Oh yes, they certainly do. I was spamming Influence Starbases across the galaxy and rather early in the game the Council voted that a maximum of only TWO mods would be allowed on any Starbase for a period of 3 years. Talk about throwing a monkeywrench in my

I've played two games now, on one of the relatively easy modes, and dominated (of course). I prefer playing an Economic/Influence/Research focused civilization and I used the Drath, tweaking the abilities a bit to maximize help for my playstyle. The first game was on a small galaxy and I used military force to win. The second game was on a medium galaxy and I managed an influence victory (despite that annoying council passing a law that I could only use TWO modules on my starbases). I really enj

I cannot seem to upload a personal icon image. The image is 50 x 50 and in .jpg format, yet it won't upload. Instead I get a new screen that shows me the following error info: Server Error in '/' Application. The process cannot access the file 'E:\StardockForums\!!Temp\Wh1te Out-615-1-bessel.jpg' because it is being used by another process. Description: An

The only reason I can think of to use a branching scenario campaign is if theres an ironman mode where you can't save the game and must play through to get a "prize". I think this is an excellent idea.

Granted, I'm new to Gal Civ II, but not the genre. I noticed while starting this campaign that I just didn't enjoy it much. It wasn't the story, but rather the fact that the entire reason I play these games is for the sandbox mode. In the campaign I become limited and forced into certain actions and decisions that reallly take away the feel of actually running an empire, at least to me. Does anyone else feel this way? Did others skip the campaign entirely?

Okay, I'm new to Gal Civ II. I am a MoO vetaran, though, and am somewhat familiar with the different conditions of victory. What I'd like to know is, how possible are trade/economic victories? I'd much prefer to win via these methods and diplomacy rather than by having a strong military. If anyone has any links/tips that discuss good strategy for these type of victories I would appreciate it very much. I tend to ignore my military a tad too much and need to find a happy medium of produ

Mike... WOW! I'm thoroughly impressed with the customer service you've shown me in these two responses. I did get the file and am happily up and running. I appreciate the merger of the e-mail addresses because I did want the gmail address to the one on record anyway, I only switched it because I was confused. Again, thank you for solving my problem quickly and so professionally. While I've got you on the hook, one quick question. I upgraded to v1.2 before I activated. Will I need

My frustration is overflowing at this point. Sure, it's a great idea to give us a game that we don't need the discs to play and that we can play on multiple systems, but this activation crap is ridiculous. On to my problem... My installation computer is not online. So, I choose the e-mail method. I follow the instructions, but here's the kicker, I cannot send the e-mail from the e-mail address I used to register. See, my e-mail is forwarded somewhere currently as I am out to sea on a Na