Tridus

If you make your own template, will the computer upgrade it like it does the built in ones? Thanks.

I didn't get any extra bonuses, but just hitting next turn enough times changed it to close. Strange, but alright. Thanks for the help. :)

++ Our Treaties Togethre ++ Our Millitary Strength + Trade + Our Diplomatic Skill + Ethical Alignment - Our close borders seems to come and go, but its not visible right now. (edit: Now have ++ Trade, but no change. The bar just won't move past friendly.)

I can't beat this level either. Clean up the map, nothing. Bar won't move past friendly, even when I give him a bunch of stuff and his reply is "we're upgrading our relations with you." Highly frustrating. Is there some kind of trick, or cheat, or something to say "you win, go to the next level"?

A related question about good and evil - can you just colonize a bunch of worlds, pick evil for all the events, and then choose good once you research Xeno Ethics?

A new computer seems like the way to go, but it doesn't have to be expensive. An affordible PC with a decent video card can run you well under $1000. Since you're not trying to play Crysis, you don't need one of those silly "gaming" PCs.

I'm running 64 bit Vista and its been working for me, doesn't seem to be a problem there. If you don't have the game at all, the "Ultimate Bundle" is the only way to go.

When World of Warcraft came on four CDs, the first thing I did was copy everything onto a single DVD. It installs quite happily. If you have CDs for all three versions of GC2, you can probably do something similar. In this case you'd have to run three installers still, but only use one disk to do it. (or if you have digital versions, archive them all onto the same DVD)

My understanding is that it changes the random system by lowering the minimum possible rolls. That actually has a very substantial impact. If you look at a 6 sided die, you can roll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The average roll is 3.5. If you suddenly can't roll 1, the average roll is now 4. Pretty nice, eh?

I was wondering about this too, the "upgrade" button didn't make much sense to me the way it works by default. Thanks!

You could "skip" it by never playing it, but if you want to play TA, you have to buy both expansions. The expansion bundle option is probably the best way to go for you.

"Broadband" means anything faster then dial up, so it could vary quite a bit. It took me a few hours to download the entire bundle (including movies, which are the single biggest piece and are I believe optional), but I'm on a slow 1.5mbps line. On a faster cable line, it wouldn't have taken that long. I think it compares pretty well to Civ 4 actually. Colonization stops a lot faster in my experience then city founding does, simply because there's comparatively few planets to colonize (

I wound up making the purchase a few days ago and spent quite a bit of that with no idea what was going on. Its starting to come together now though. Thanks folks.:)

Great, thanks. :)

Hi. Won my first game lsat night. :) I have some questions about Starbases and ship repairs. 1. Whats the range on the ship assisting modules? I had one that increased ship shields, but I couldn't find a way to tell what the range was or if it was actually helping my ships. 2. Is there a way to make ships repair faster? I had some get damaged in combat, and it seemed to take forever for them to regain any HP (and they never did get back to full). 3. What do ec

Cool, thanks. :)

Hi. Thinking about picking up this game, and I've got a couple of questions. If I get the ultimate bundle, can I still play the campaigns from the first two games after installing Twilight of the Arnor? If so, how do I do that (is there another start menu shortcut to run the old game?)? Another person on this forum mentioned a tutorial. How indepth is that? Can a newbie play it and then have some idea of whats going on when they start a game? (One of the biggest problems I had with