Aluroon

Sadly I have to inform you all that against my will this will not be continuing. My hard drive suffered catastrophic hardware failure two weeks ago and everything I had on it, from my games, to my music, to my documents was lost . I do eventually have plans for another (similar) story, but as I try and recover from the loses and prepare for midterms it isn't prioritized. Sorry to all who were looking forward to it's continuation.

[quote who="mambaman" reply="8" id="1953101"]whens the next installment Al?[/quote] Not sure. Not this week in all probability. I had a bunch of things happen in the game, not the least of which was going through and setting all my 100+ worlds tiles in order so they were all in use... and then I had the game crash at 60 months. Well, not crash, but I couldn't save and lost 4 months of progress, about four hours worth of play. And it really discouraged me. I have the scr

I love AARs like this. Great job.

Thanks for the complements guys. I'll try to get a chapter up this weekend, but no promises. I'm buried up to the gills in school work and I've got to get my long term projects finished this week. Honestly I'd intended to document the war more then I did, but the Thalan's were so utterly passive I don't know what all to say about them.

Wasn't there supposed to be a map editor attached to Twilight? How's it work? Anyone have any comments on it and how it works?

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[quote who="Ackos" reply="2" id="1908163"] quoting post Just like the title says. About half the time my Gal Civ II gold edition running the latest patch crashes when I alt tab. It's particularly frustrating when I'm working on my AAR and I have to Alt Tab to save screen shots. Any thoughts or suggestions? Anyone else have this problem? Always has afaik. I always quick save before.[/quote] I usually do, but I occass

[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="1907616"]There is a bug in Firefox which causes very long pages to cut off at a certain point. Mozilla has been aware (for a few years, at least) but has neglected to do anything about it as yet. Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done aside from using another browser or editing the thread to shorten it.[/quote] Ah, well, at least now I know, I can swap over to Chrome for your site. Thanks for the quick reply! That's why I love y

Just like the title says. About half the time my Gal Civ II gold edition running the latest patch crashes when I alt tab. It's particularly frustrating when I'm working on my AAR and I have to Alt Tab to save screen shots. Any thoughts or suggestions? Anyone else have this problem?

I was busy working away on my AAR here https://forums.galciv2.com/326833 when I ran into a serious bug on the forums. Basically, it locked me out of replying further, editing my last post, or doing anything really relating to the thread. Here's an example of what I get when I try to respond or scroll all the way to the bottom of the thread. [IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/ForumIssue.jpg[/IMG] Understandably, given the time I've put i

Krynn Extortion [IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/FuckingKrynn.jpg[/IMG] <span style="color: #fff

Things are getting really complicated really fast. Suffice to say war with the Thalan's is imminent. Allowing them to expand any further will result in them winning this game. Their relations with me are going downhill fast. I've got some screenies of the buildup to the war, and a dozen or so things to write up before I start the war though. I'm the big underdog going into the fight as per the stats and graphs, but I do have some advantages. My ships are equipped with the proper weapo

[quote who="Freeman43" reply="19" id="1907380"]thats why i don't use Breeder i use diplomant or the trader ability[/quote] I don't plan on leaving the other races here alive long enough for trader to be worth anything, and diplomate has never seemed worth it to me. Usually my diplo is sky high anyway due to advanced goverements.

Too Late [IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/TooLate.jpg[/IMG] OOC Dammit. Dammit Dammit Dammit. The damn Thalans are expanding into my cluster because they are bastards like that. I doubt that they have fully colonized their cluster, but being the Thalans they have to be difficult. War is going to come much earlier then I thought. Worse then t

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="17" id="1907058"]Xeno Entertainment took several months? I'm used to playing on very fast tech, but still, judging from that, I'd say you might want to up your tech output. Also, if you get the next level of morale tech (cant remember what it is at the moment), it will allow you to build the Ultra Spices wonder which should help you out a lot. Probably a silly question, but did you build a morale structure on Earth? An

Fifteen Months [IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/16Months.jpg[/IMG] OOC My super breeder is officially nonfunctional. It's pretty annoying that there is nothing I can do to improve earths happiness. I started with +20% Moral, and spent several months researching up to Xeno Entertainment for the added +15%, yet even at 0% taxes I wasn't able to keep my population at 100%

[quote who="General Homsar" reply="12" id="1903402"]1 question about the maps: are the countries in kakhi not part of any alliances? by the way, great story. [/quote] Correct. Red is the Russian Federation, Dark Blue the remains of the United States, Green the Islamic Alliance, Yellow China, and light blue countries that while not united are largely indepedant, mostly on account of military power. Pink are primarily muslim but independant nat

[quote who="Freeman43" reply="7" id="1902816"] 2050's people started calling him the anti-Christ. you took the words out of mouth... i was thinking the same thing but what is this empire called? the impreim of man the Terran Empire what?[/quote] The Empire. In later games (assuming I make it that far, I intend on doing a number of AARs to chronical it's expansion into other sectors) it may become the Empire of Humen or the Empire of Man. They couldn't come up

[quote who="mambaman" reply="5" id="1902691"]Bring it on this is a really well thought out and researched AAR and has me gripped already where's the popcorn? [/quote] [IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/Popcorn.jpg[/IMG]

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="2" id="1902478"]Wow, you put a frakk-load of thought into this! I love all the strategic geopolitical detail in the backstory. While I disagree with the likelihood of some of the overall trends and events (such as larger & larger political entities), a very entertaining read! Great job with the maps, pictures, and screenshots too. I was going to say something about how unlikely

[IMG]http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii50/Aluroon/TenMonths.jpg[/IMG] OOC I've reached the 10 month mark but only added planetary improvements, xeno communication, universal translator, and xeno entertainment to my researched techs. Split as my empire is between research and production I'm not hitting the research total's I'd like. My population is growing, though even at zero taxes I'm having issues keeping moral at 100%. I think the problem is Earth, which should

As a note, this game is still in progress and it may take a long time to finish, especially since the next month or so is a nightmare for me, and the month after that is going to be comparative blissful heaven, but not the kind of heaven I'll have time or incentive to spend much time on Gal Civ with. Expect periodic updates. The flavor/story at this point hasn't begun to develop because... it's a pain to write much when nothings happened. Colonization is boring. I'm having to work to stop and

General Note If you are having issues scrolling all the way to the bottom, commenting, or seeing this thread in its entirety I'd suggest using Internet Explorer or Chrome. Apparently Firefox has an issue with very long pages (which this is) and won't display them in the

That's odd, because I don't seem to have it in that folder or any other and that map name doesn't show up... Ah. Apparently the game didn't update when I told it to last week... well that explains a few things.