DigitalJams

Ok, I've posted twcie before about exploit cheat bugs. Most of these have been resolved. However, there is an exploit that will give you as many logistic points you want and you can have an increase of up to 40% social and military production during custom character generation. The exploit works in this fashion. Simply create a custom race without any social or miltiary bonuses. Save it then reload it. Then save it again as the sa

Given some of the advanced technology that this game has in it, yeah eventually every sq. inch of a planet could be used. Oceans with underwater cities and farms, deserts with vast hydroponics, mountains with massive factories harvesting resources (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had city domes & farms on ocean tiles). Such technology to completely utilize a world would not be unreasonable. In literature what comes to mind is Earth (Trantor) in Isaac Asimov's series Foundation. Every inch had been

I bumped my post from Beta 3 but it has disappeared. The following is a way to excel your social productions on your planets. This was a problem in Beta 3 and still is in Beta 4. Every turn you are given the option to buy out a social production (such as a farms, virutal reality centers ect.). The exploit is easy but really is beneficial once you start building expensive buildings (like Omega Projects). Ok, here is how you do it. Build your social project, such as Inventio

This is still an issue in Beta 4. Able to give myself 500% planet quality bonus and other amazing powers at the beginning of the game. It gets kind out of hand.. nice to have a research bonus of 1000% ... you get all those nice features alot faster.

Cloaking an option in this game. Seems the computer had it but I never had the option to cloak.

The options to show battle options are not working. I unchecked to see battle animation and still see it. Also quick battle (or whatever the option on) didn't seem to make any difference checked or unchecked. When you make adjustments to the number of background stars or nebula the adjustments dont occur until you save and reload your game.

I know this has been reported however, I've been able to repeat this process a few times and it could be beneficial. 1st what do I send the developers (save game, error logs ect) 2nd where do I send it to. Notes I tested this quite a bit last night, occured well over 40 times. It would almost happen every time a system was envaded more than once per turn. Upon clicking the turn button after such an event nothing would happen. You can still navigate

The cheat/bug/exploit works in the following manner. You will need at least one availble free tile and some cash on hand (not much 100). This method is only good to build instantly items that cost more than 100 (suchs a industry centers and other high end items which run in the 1000's) 1) Build the social item you want (bank,factory,research center ect) 2) Now build a farm or other low end item on the spare tile but go ahead and purchase it. What occ

1st: I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I'll ask again anyway. Will we have the ability to stack ships? 2nd: When you have a starbase at a resource and you want a constructor to upgrade the starbase it can be difficult to click just the starbase without getting the resources as an option. Consequently, if you do click the resource (and the option is turned on for constructors to automatically build) you can get multiple starbases at the same resource. I wasn't wa

There are options to remove the auto-save and build notifications. Interested to know if there will be an option to remove other notifications such as Council Meetings (except when you actually have to vote on something) and Top Civ reports. It would be nice to be able to click the next button repeatedly without having to move the mouse around to click on notifications. Sometimes I click 100 times just waiting for research or a project to complete and the notifications become annoying. Not a

When I've obtained enough planets that are defenseless the AI will send combat ships in to take over the planet. Once they are successful the turn option is no longer available. The enter key will also not move the turn forward. I've seen similar posts reguarding issues with invasions but nothing specificly similar to the above. I've "re-created" this problem 3 times now.

MODS: Im not sure on the policy of reporting such bugs. So (of course) delete this post if you see fit to do so. One thing I do really like in GalCiv 1 is the ability to give yourself that little extra kick to get over a hump, or to address the 'what if' scenario. Often games do not come with 'cheat features' built in so you have to work the system. This happens to be one of the things that I enjoy doing, manipulate a system (without hacking) to my advant

Its very spuratic, I'm having difficulties recreating it.. but I did CTD twice after clicking the turn button more than 40 times (one right after the other). Sometimes the system hangs while its calculating but that is to be epxected. Not sure if its the number of clicks or just clicking at the right time that is causing problems (such as the colorful notificiations, auto saves or other factors). I'll just keep on clickin hopefully I'll be able to make some kind of c

Being the impatient person that I am, I have the habit of clicking the turn button repeatedly. Occasionally the system will not re-display the turn button. Saving the game and reloading it also will not return the turn button. Pressing the enter key ends the turn and the turn button is re-displayed. This also appeared to be a problem in beta 1, but I was late in the game to reports bugs so I figured someone might have come across it. Disregard of c

Thanks for the stepping up to the plate CariElf. Now that I've been offically labeled as a troublemaker, (with my own personal file at Stardock don't you wish you had one maybe not. I have to report that todays release fixed the issues that I was seeing for activation . Uninstalled GalCiv2 Beta .. installed the new SDC version Rebooted Instal

Cough... hhumm.. CariElf My comments about the google search was a joke/sarcasm as were other portions of my post , not to be taken seriously and certainly was not a threat. However, I understand now how sensitive the matter is and will refrain from making references in the future about the forementioned topic. I still reserve the right to be scarastic, witty, stupid, ignorant, tenacious, and meticulous. By the way thanks for answering my

Upon Fresh deinstall of SDC. Installed v2.05.319 build 83. I have no GalCiv2 Directory to speak of. I set my internet settings to point to Cali Servers I start to download GalCiv2 0.20[b].005 The install bar says validating product registration proceeds to download the files after it downloads gc2.sdc it explodes the files out finally last but not least it says activating product then you get a window that says Gal Ci

To answer your previous question CariElf .. "do you have a sig.bin file in your galciv2 folder?" the answer to that question is no I do not. Hope that helps, Andrew

Andrew who is still waiting for support to write him.... has done the following ghee wiz after I start SDC it tells me to upgrade I do.. and guess what no GalGiv2 to uninstall or install. But lucky for me IBNobody clues me in that the "new improved" version is faulty humm in the famous voice of Gomer Pile .. "Surprise Surprise Surprise!" Well after deinstalled the new version of SDC I uninstalled the GalCiv2 and DELETED the directory. So I have new

Ok CariElf .. I've followed your example to the T. I've archived the application uninstalled the applicaiton and restored the application.. Now, right after it restores I see that it registers the product and then it says installation successful. HOWEVER, upon running the application it prompts for the Activation Key. Now what do I need to do? -Thanks Andrew (who is still waiting for an email from kwilas and two from support).

I have uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times now. As ALWAYS it asks for the activation key when you go to run the application..

Ok, I emailed kwilas waiting a response. I also checked to see what server I was pulling from. I was pulling from the Chicago Server. So I have reset this to Cali. I've uninstalled the application and reinstalled. Same problem, but this could be do to the fact that the activation code needs to be reset (per CariElf note above). So I will wait until I hear back from support or kwlias. -Sigh...... Andrew