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Quote: it took 4 years to win that, 4 YEARS! Damn Americans first you arrive late TO BOTH WORLD WARS and then you have the nerve to state that the war was shorter then it was. ;p WORLD WAR 2 STARTED IN 1939 WHEN GERMANY INVADED POLAND So thats 1939-1945 So using the same idea was the Great War a one Year war? But anyway I think that the game has it right although its not realistic. It does however ensure that the game isn't too overly micromanagement h

As far as i am aware the only way of getting hydrogen in a usable state is by making it from petrol... So as I see it a pretty much pointless exercise the world is running out of energy(in a usable form for machines). Sorry to spoil your day but its true, great social change is coming its inevitable. Wars (more commonly know as bringing democracy to the middle east)are bound to spread. Over energy, space, food and water.Then there is the whole host of natural disaster to deal with.

On a gameplay level this is probably a bad thing to add. Just because of the micromanagement required and the time sink required. Imagining a huge war on a gigantic map with abundant planets! But on a realistic level invasions should take years. I mean even if the attackers do have stupidly powerful weapons like mass drivers and nukes/biological weapons. Then the defender will have similar things. So they have mass drivers so, the defender could have stupidly sturdy buildings or defence

Hi, Recently my copy of Dark Avatar has been suffering from some 'flickering' of the on game screen. Basically it happens when flicking between screens, i.e moving from the diplomacy window to the ecconomic one. What happens is the games gets stuck between the two and flickers between the two very rapidly. During this none of the other tabs work. This also happens whilst zooming out or scrolling. I don't know if this is a new problem with the beta or an older problem as i have

Generalisation is the key to understanding all things. If you brake it down into its components you will find that all things are essitally the same. I read a lot of science fiction, though it is more of the Brave new world type instead of the cheesy american babylon 5 style lets make random stuff up and hide it in fancy language. Which is what i assume you are into. And no it is not like a newspaper. H.G.Wells the founder of sci-fi defined it as a new mythology. Which is what i was ref

Spirtiualist noncenss. I think that these physicists work so hard and are so clever that their mind must react by inventing BS. Hence the birth of quantum physics. Lets get down to the bare facts. 1.Energy cannot live 2.It cannot be a conousness 3.Life is governed by biological mechanicisms without them you are dead even the simplest virus has mechansims. 4. Time is not something you can maniupulate as it does not truely exist only though are percep

Thank you.

Thats a bit long isn't- serves me right for playing it for 4 hours.

Ok here is the debug file Debug Message: Version v1.61 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 13 14:10:36 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 6/30/2007, 14:09:27 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Machine Name: MATTHEW-PC Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205) Languages: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer:

Hi, I have a problem with DA. Basically i have just updated my graphics card drivers to those from lapto2go.com. And the game is running reaasonable smoothly except for these black outs. Every few turns the game will go black and for a minute or so it will stop responding, the after this it will begin responding again. This is not too bad as it does seem to work. However it is very irriating, not only this but it seems to slow my laptop down. Taking almost 15 minutes to shut down and 5 minutes t

One of the things i would like to see as an improvement is the AI ablity to accept defeat. For example in my current game on a huge galaxy am have been at war with the Yor for the past 3 years game time. In that time I have crushed fleets 5x the size of my own(superwarrior rocks)and taken 15+ colonies from them. They have had no significant victories. Yet the AI will not accept a peace treaty unless I offer them half my empire. I don't want to fight the Yor as my ethical enemies grow stronger. <

I am a Christian, not an aethesit but I can understand why you are Aethesits. I blame the American Church, it goes out of its way to be confrontation and a pain in the asses. Jessus said to use that he sends us out like sheep into wolves. or something to that effect, in america it seems the other way round. The main reason I thing the American churches, does damage to themselves is because they are literalist, not fundermentalist. A fundermentalist believes in the fundermentals not the

I find the Ai uses starbases all the time, I play the game on normal/challening(depending upon how much effort i can be bothered to give the game) and on Large maps. I find that they uses all of the starbases. Though not very effectivly. I have seen them build miliary starbases miles away from any planets- not entirly sure why this would be a good idea. Similarly they place Influence bases next to their home planets, which again i don't understand. Though they do seem to have a good id

But in other cases I like movies, the problem with them however that I like SciFi and there are not many of good SciFi available and that is present sometimes primitive or childish or unfinished. Which is why books are better, because without the depth of written prose, it will appear childish. Hell after reading a good book, watching any sci-fi- even the most acclaimed- feels childish. Even when your your watching things such as Babylon 5 and (the firs

I heard somewhere that the rights to MOM had been purchased by stardock. I think i read it a couple of years ago. Does anyone know anything about this? MOM was a proper fantasy turn based strategy game, far better than its lame subsititue HOMM and Age of wonders. Though both are brilliant games but neither were a scratch on MOM.

Their is another thread, with a similar problem i would suggest you check it out, https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=357&aid=156809, you could also check this very good FAQ which helped me out when I first started. http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/925349/41935

Reading is very important. Because a book is so very indepth and presents ideas in a much more intresting way than any movie. For example Dune, the novel is infinitly more intresting and fun to read than the movie. Hell I haven't seen a good movie in the last 2 years. The same could be said for any novel.

My favorite races in DA Are the 1.Torian- and their super breeder ability as it speeds the game a heck of a lot and you never ever have to worry about population numbers. 2.Thalans- because of their cheap factories 3, Terrans- because the super diplomat is basically all the diplomat super abilities rolled into one.

I agree with space dogfighting thing, though i'm not much of a fan of Wing commander, as have never played it- in england it is so damn hard to get hold of any space sims pre-freelance. One game i started playing recently, is freespace 2 this game owned. And even though it is now very dated, I play it and instantly i recall my old days(when i was about 7) playing Descent. As for the diablo front, Blizzard for reasons unkown <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smile

I am still having errors on DA where the game will stop responding. ONLY the ALL powerful Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I am running a hp laptop, with vista and nvidia geforce go 7400. On HP website and using driver detective says that my graphics card is up to date. Though i haven't downloaded the driver suggested in the header of the article. Is there any difference/ is the hp driver differnt from this driver. I've tried editing the video prefernece- ingame, and running it in xp serivice pack 2 c

What i would like in GC is a more detailed game map, with more astronmical features, because at the moment the map is a bit bland, though the game rocks. And though you have the major features, Asteroids, planets, stars ect. Perhaps inclussion of Moons- perhaps an additional habitation space Novas, and supernova clouds- clouds left over from a nova or supernova as these things take millions of year(?) to disperse(could effect the working of ships or something). Nebulas- really just

Hi. Though I haven't read any of the above, hey its midnight and i'm struggling to stay awake. I have a problem with GC2:DA. Every now and then, usually when something big is happening, signing a peace treaty, new tech, colonizing a planet. The computer will stop and go no further, none of the buttons will work, on the interface or off- bar the all powerful ctrl alt delete. I have just bought a new laptop to play this on and it has vista on it, this is the first time i've used the might

Dudes, I was wondering there was a way i could replace the music for this game, i only like the war music- and only slightly then-. However i would like to replace all the music with Holsts' planet suite. Do i just paste the mp3 and rename them to the old musics one, and if so which peice of musice is placed where- for example when is war 00 played differing from war 01. Anywho if you could help this noob I'd be very gratefull

no and i have registar both, soz for the late ness of the reply but i'm in far away england

no i don't get an error everything goes perfectly it just doesn't download it doesn't even appear on stardock central. all that is on the games section is thoses demos