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sh as a first language wanders into our chat room and needs help with one of our products and I have trouble without the necessary vocabulary.

le that it would take to implement that boggles my mind. That'd be like putting an entirely different game inside of GalCiv2.

p in beta. I don't want that to happen with GC2.

Yes, TotalGaming.net subscribers will also have access to the beta.

o, if you haven't been reading the dev journals, I suggest that you check them out. They're a great way to keep up with what's going on with GalCiv2.

hat we want to test mods.

ime being dead. Anyway, we haven't started work on the events yet, so maybe we'll revisit this issue then.

d you keep to the title.

way so that people can do that too.

d help.

actual game engine. That way, you can completely change the graphics without affecting the core game.

I'm using a windows API to get that folder path, so it should pick it up. You'll have to let me know if you have problems.

Yes. You should be able to use DesktopX to mod the UI. The minimap is a specific case where we would need code to make it work both as a square and as a diamond. It wouldn't be a high priority, but it may well be worth doing.

the first beta before do it though, and you really should try it before you make up your mind to hate it.

be able to change it.

We use C/C++ and DirectX. GalCiv1/AP used DirectDraw7 and GC2 is using DirectX 9.0c.

t people really do recognize them as placeholders. I'm more worried about placeholder text getting into the game.

to fine tune it. And depending on how many modules you can fit on a colony or transport ships, I was thinking that I could make the button values change to be -1000 and +1000 if necessary.

Kyro, we don't have a good/evil/neutral scheme right now for the interface. We may, however, change portions of the interface to reflect which race you're playing as.

e to find a model converter... Currently most of our textures are in .png format, but we may convert them all to being a type of .dds file, which is why I said that you might need DXTex.

Yes, you will need to pre-order GC2 or a TG.Net subscription to get the beta.

s (%s, %d, etc) with tags like [CIVNAME], [PLANETNAME], and [MONEY]. This will make it easier to tell what is being changed by the event.

The GC2 website will be publicly available the first week of February. The beta of the game won't come out until the end of February.

planets, but you can if you want to micromanage them.