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Well, the military and social changes are easy to explain- you completed the tech capital, and I assume you had no other social projects after that, so spending was diverted from social production to military production on that one planet. Again, like focusing, this divertion bypasses your bonuses. Another major factor where GCII differs from other strategy games is that if you aren't using your military and social production on a planet (no social projects and no ship being built

I think what you're seeing is the input/output difference. Your "input" of basic research spending remained the same once you built the tech capital, but your "output" of actual Research Points increased. You should have another item listed in the domestic stats screen, "Bonus Production/Research", which uses a different spending mechanism to add on the extra RPs (I think it's a 2 for 1 deal, but I'm a bit rusty on the exact numbers). As for the tech tree, the val

Well gents, this place does indeed look to be the right place for me. I just had my top bureaucrat, a right good fellow by the name of Auditor, send off the paperwork for approval, stamping, and filing in the proper folder. You good chaps were quite hospitable towards me over in The Metaverse Recruiting Center, and I cannot fault anyone who supports a relaxing afternoon nap. I'd even do a merry jig to celebrate joining if my back wasn't liable to act up.

One helpful tip in regards to those plantary bonuses is to rename the planet so you can identify it easily. All bonuses and penalties will be listed on the Details screen of the planet, but trying to find just one planet when you can have hundreds gets really tedious. As for the serial issue, that's a common problem with all secondhand games with online components. They usually get tied to an account, meaning the secondhand sale doesn't actually transfer e

Hmm, I have been known to grumble about young'uns, though I've never had to chase any off my lawn. Now deer, those I've had to chase off a few times. There were two at first, but it's been a few years and now there are five of the things. Lovely, they are, and they come right up to my window if I don't give them a start, though they've given my poor heart a few jolts when I look up from my reading chair and see a big head of antlers all of five feet off. I wou

You'll probably want to upgrade to GCII 2.0, it includes a considerable revamp of the Spy system so you can have passive intelligence gathering without needing to sabotage buildings. As for the search feature, that's been broken for a while. Luckily, you can use Google to bypass it entirely. Just enter "Espionage site:forums.galciv2.com" in the bar and you'll get some good results. The "site:" limiter is a great asset that's generally unknown. Off-type

That's usually the case, but fleet modules change the targeting order. IIRC, all ships with fleet modules and at least one weapon will be targeted before any other ships. The weapon is important, because the "no-offense" ship targeting (or would that be non-targeting?) rule takes precedence over the "fleet module" targeting rule.

All the game technical settings are saved in a Prefs.ini file, located under \My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\, at least for for plain Dread Lords. You'll want to open that up in Notepad, or whatever text editor you prefer, and go down to the section marked [Video]. There are three lines there, which should read DisplayWidth=1024, DisplayHeight=768, and Fullscreen=0. Change the DisplayWidth and DisplayHeight values back to the original 1280 and 800 (or whatever you choose.&nbs

Alas, it seems there is no place for one such as I, who believes in the path of good. Somebody should do something about that.

Remember Murphy's Law- If something can go wrong, it will. I've been fortunate in this respect. In several decades of computer use, I can't recall having picked up any malicious programs on my machine (Except Windows, hurr durr :3). Tracking cookies are as bad as it ever got. How was this possible, you might ask? Well, there are several factors: 1) I'm really, really lucky. I don't count on it, so I also have... 2) A firew

Heh, looks like my kind of thread. Let's go diving into the quote bag and see what gets caught! "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison again "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain "Just drive down that road, until you get blown

As the words of wisdom go, "If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer." A .rar file is a compressed archive file- in essence, it takes several other files, combines them into one, and uses a compression algorithm to reduce the total space they take up. It's useful for two reasons- first, it saves some space, always handy when transferring or storing files for an extended time. Second, it's a nice way of collecting and organizing related files so you only need to

[quote who="tjcooper" reply="4" id="2002809"]What do starbases do? I had some around a few planets pretty well equipped and the enemy still invaded teh planet without the starbase firing a shot. WTF!! What good are they?[/quote] Military starbases, I take it? They don't do anything on their own- you need ships in their area of effect. Friendly ships will get various enhancements, enemy ships can be slowed down slightly. If you want to defend a planet, you'll need som

While your ship is busy blowing up the empty ships, it's not somewhere else. Another one of their planets might be cranking out that attack ship, or they're calling in one from outside sensor range. Or you might be up against a low-level AI that doesn't have a weapon tech yet. As for large ships with a ton of defense and no attack, they're dead meat. Defenses get worn down in later versions, and in earlier versions they can simply roll low. All it takes is one

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[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="5" id="1999135"] Out of curiosity, what hardware are you running?[/quote] That's the funny thing, my hardware is actually halfway decent thanks to a lot of scrounging and a few choice buys. Soyo SY-KT500 Dragon Plus 2.0 motherboard, Mad Dog 550W power supply, AMD Athlon 2.4GHz, NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, 512MB DDR RAM, Maxtor 55GB GD, and a boatload of almost-current I/O equipment I snagged from friends who were upgrading. GCII runs beautiful

FF 2.0.0.20/IE 6.0.2800.1106. I'm aware of FF's incompatibility with the forum uploader. Yes, they're outdated, but my OS is Win98SE and neither one has further upgrades under it. As for Flash, it's at 9.0.151.0, which is about ->|| I guess you could say that my Purchase Procrastin

Or worse, they get it backwards and wind up like Wimp-Lo from Kung POW!- "Face to foot style!" "I'm bleeding, making me the winner!"

Well, the starbase modules are listed on the research screen's tech tree- you can simply poke around there to see what you have available. It'll get to be second nature after a little experience. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any other methods beyond that one and what you've already listed.

It's still a bit too early to welcome in the new year where I'm at, but it's never a bad time to give out the best wishes for it! May your new year be filled with opportunity, good cheer, and the ability to remember it!

Heh, sounds like my parents back in the day, except they were worried I'd wind up using violence to solve all my problems. Long and short of it is that your friend probably isn't going to get to play any shooters until his dad changes his mind, and that's unlikely to happen. The best advise I can give is for your buddy to stick it out for now, and move out once that becomes an option in a few more years. Alternately, he could ask his dad "What would I need to do to be allo

[quote who="Teal" reply="10" id="1951847"] My understanding of physics is probably average. And though coming from an industrialized nation tends to make us pessimistic realists who discount extreme points of view, i wonder how valid "science" can be? Not technology, but science. Remember when everyone thought the world was flat? It was an accepted view. But science and everyone was wrong. [/quote] Good point! This is actually where a lot of people have a miscon

Hey, you could be in my boat, and be outright unable to upload any pics. My dang Flash version is out of date, and Adobe adamantly refuses to give me an upgrade because my OS might not like it, so this forum is out. The metaverse uploader at least runs, but then hangs every time I try and submit something.

[quote who="CaptainYar" reply="15" id="1998300"]I still have never seen a Ranger... I want one[/quote] Funny thing is, if you don't already have ships more powerful than a Ranger by the time Rangers can appear, you're not doing it right. You can play with Rangers if you drop back to vanilla DL, along with all the other old ships from GC I. About the only thing they all have in common is a complete lack of useful application- they're slow, underpowered, and really onl

There is no such law. There may be such a clause in a person's employment contract, but that's an employment contract, not a law. Thus, it's usually a breach of contract lawsuit that's used when there's suspicion of improper IP use, and even then most general development is far too vague to provide grounds for the suit. Otherwise, programmers would be stuck working for just one company forever , because working anywhere else would leave them vulnerable to getting the