doctorfrog

While Brad has many a relevant point, there's a user side of things as well, and it isn't just the unwashed blind masses that feel this way. Here's a truth: not all software companies are ethical. Not all shareware was released with magnanimous intent. Some of it timebombed. Some of it deliberately went out of its way to annoy you for not registering. Some wouldn't uninstall all the way, leaving scattered detritus across the hard drive. Some left its hooks right in the system, phoning p

Thank you, CraigHB.

Just a quick question here: are factories, and their abilities to produce, linked at all to population? Actually, this could go to any planetary improvement, but in my particular case, I'm in the early game, populating planets here and there, plonking down factories, but with low populations. Does it make any difference how many people are available to work in a factory (or research center, or commerce center), or are the buildings magic, working at their max (as determined by the sliders in a d

In addition to unbalancing the game, the patch seems to have inflicted an emotional imbalance in at least one user.

Right around the decontamination gel rub down scene in the first episode or so, I realized that they were going after a demographic that was not me and lost interest in the series. OTOH, I recently started rewatching all the episodes, in order, from TNG. Major nerd out. Netflix is a luxury I just can't live without.

Would it be against your NDA to display some screens of the new invasion animations? I'd really like to see a few sample shots, even if, as static movies, I'll eventually just skip through them anyway.

I wouldn't mind some higher res graphics myself, particularly on the world maps. Linky?

Maybe a better way of phrasing the OP is to say: "How do I coordinate an attack with my allies?" In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, you could convince an ally to join you in conflict with another faction. Once you were both in "Vendetta" status with the same enemy, you could contact the faction leader and coordinate your attack on a specific city, or tell them to engage the enemy as they saw fit. Based on your relationship with that faction, and their own goals, they would either comply or

I won't be able to try the beta for about a week, but I just wanted to say thanks for aggressively developing and supporting this game! I just was able to get beta 3 and its performance is significantly better on my creaky old machine.

That, or a really dark blue. The gray looks very much to me like the "distance fog" that used to plague 3-D games in years past.

Early on the in orginal campaign, you only get laser weapons and mass driver defence. Which means the defense will always be square-rooted (I think). In this case, is it better to play the whole original compaign with a weapons-only strategy? I'm very new to the game and playing through the original DR missions. I'm at about the third or fourth mission, and the game is giving me shield technology. However, this t

I'm not entirely sure about this one, but I think that I took over a planet and then the manufacturing tiles that the AI player had built were queued up to be auto-"upgraded" to a lower rank of factory...because that is the highest level of the building I had researched. (I have to verify this since I may have just manually done it accidentally and then not realized it until later. If this has happened to anyone else, please confirm.)

Is there a way to change the color of the fog of war? The gray is pretty ugly. I'm on a pretty good monitor with good contrast; I'd like to change the color to something more befitting dark, unknown space... some dark, unknown color.

I can confirm one of those: there are a lot of trailing periods (.) in the GUI. The period should be considered part of previous word, and 'pull' it to the next line, rather than be treated as a new word, allowed to shift to the next line by itself.

Can't you already open up those files and edit them? (I would make a copy first though, and then edit the copy). Thanks, maybe I'll pose a question in the Mods forums, see if anyone is interested in the idea, and start a framework if there's enough interest.

Screenies?

This is my first time through the game, but here's what I have to offer for suggestions so far. I have no expectation of them being adopted at all, or even appreciated, but I do appreciate the open ear of GalCiv's developers: Improved Flavortext : The techs' descriptions have a lazy, first-draft feel to them that is jarring when compared to the polish of the rest of the game. It robs some of the satisfaction that should be derived from probing into the secrets of the universe. I d

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I hope support is as quick as you've been!

*bump* Hilariously, this didn't work. I was prompted to activate, but when I entered my serial, I got an error message stating that the serial was an invalid length. What do I do now?

Thanks for the quick reply! Bit of a kludgy workaround, but addresses my concerns nicely enough. Very glad to see Stardock, et al. taking a thoughtful approach to game authentication.

I just bought GalCiv II: Dark Avatar, and I'd like to patch it. Problem is, I don't have internet at home, haven't for over six months, due to cost issues. My girlfriend, however, does have internet connectivity. Can I install the game on her system, download the patch, then transfer it to my machine? Does Stardock 'lock' a serial to a particular system, the way Windows XP activation and iTunes music does? I sure hope not, b/c not only is this massively irritating, it would keep me from playing