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[quote]If you want my honest feedback, Twilight should've been pushed back two months. Numerous bugs that were never fixed from the beta that have been around for months, brand new game-stopping ones that showed up in the last couple weeks in that 'big crunch'...[/quote] I agree. Stardock has the luxury of self-publishing and are therefore not at the mercy of another company's marketing department. GC2 also doesn't have any (current) direct competitors (Sins would be the close

[quote]Q. Also, I'm not sure how to use a custom portrait/logo ... I tried putting a custom JPEG in the ...\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Gfx dir but that didn't seem to do the trick. A. You have to convert the image to PNG.[/quote] Ah... PNG for transparancy - of course. Should have thought of that. Tnx! Works fine now.

The "Create Custom Ship Style" on the Customize your Civilization page is greyed out. I'd like to be able to do this as I play custom civs all the time. Also, another problem I'm having is that the favourite ship parts are storing the correct parts. Seems like an internal index number is off or something. Also, I'm not sure how to create/use a custom portrait/logo. Is there a thread or help somewhere that will point out how to do this? I tried putting a custom JPEG in the .

I'd like to see a new rally point type added to the existing Normal, Fleet and Auto Attack: Forward . All it would do is simply assign another existing rally point to the autopilot of any ship sent to it. That's it. No special patrol/attack logic or anything of that sort required - just a simple redirect. With this simple mechanism we could implement basic patrols (have two or more waypoints forward to each other) or just define more specific/controlled paths in general. It w

I still hope that the ideas for gravity wells and nebulae and considered by the devs. But, upon further reflection I can see that mechanisms like these are not realistic for DA at this point. I'll chalk it up to a brain-fart and leave it at that. DA is in beta, not pre-alpha. Nonetheless, I really like the idea of more varied space terrain So, that said, my $0.02 would also be: <tabl

The second part of my post was perhaps not as clear as the first... My additional space-terrain ideas are not meant as an *alternative* but rather an *addition* to speed reduction. I was hoping the new *max* speed might stay higher than 15-18 (say 22-25 maybe?). I'm aware that, due to the exponential nature of the problem, a speed of 22 may be effectively just as impossible to deal with as 80+. But only Brad would know that for sure. G.W. you are right in that the sp

There has been quite a kerfuffle regarding speed issues now that there has been an indication that some form wing-clipping is forthcoming. For those that may have missed the particular post: AI computations increase exponentially as the number of possible moves increases. Net result? Super-fast ships are not something the current AI has been designed to deal with and can unbalance the game. Proposed solutions to this involve reducing ship speed in one way or another. From the posts

Whoa!!! Holy eyesight charts Batman!!! Sorry about the MEGA FONT. Perhaps a moderator could help me with that as there is no EDIT POST option I can see. Didn't mean to shout

So far I've played two games (large & gigantic) with the Dark Avatar beta 1a and I really like what I see! The game feels not only fresh again but overall just more interesting. I had to stop both due to technical issues and I've already submitted bug reports and suggestions via email. Rather than repeat those reports here, I thought I post some of my general feelings about the gameplay (not UI or technical) additions and see what everybody else thinks too. These thoughts acknowledge t

This just happened to me too. But it was the Altarians who surrendered to the Drengin. No evil of course but the point is that they were friendly with 3 other civs including me and I also has economic & research treaties with them. Normally, they would have surrendered to one of us. I'm sure it's all part of the AI tweaking but it's not behaving as we have come to expect in previous versions.

The fact that planets don't have a sensor range of 15 like ships/starbases when you have the Eyes of the Universe used to really bug me. The reason some of your planets probably seem to have a range of 15 is because you have ships in orbit. Regardless, the planet itself has only short range. However, it is what it is. FWIW, I rationalized this by thinking that only in orbit modules have the ability to sense that far. I think of it like the Hubble telescope. There is too much atmosp

Bravo. These sound like very good design decisions to me. Of course, the ability to balance them and get them feeling "right" will be critical but I'm sure that's just a matter of time/tweaking. Glad to see the game balance priorities heading in this direction!

Ship design and upgrading is easy. Just obsolete designs that you know you won't use anymore. There's a big button that says "OBSOLETE." Try it. Managing ships is not as easy as it should be. Let's take an upgrade example: Say I have 35+ fighters that I want to upgrade to a killer new design. I select a single fighter to upgrade then c

With all extras being added to GC2:Dark Avatar, my comment is to be very careful about feature creep and bloat. GalCiv2 is without a doubt a fantastic game. Don't break it by enhancing it, so to speak. Before the obvious rebuttals to that comment come, please understand: I want cool new features too! I just think care needs to be taken to refine what is there before taking on too many new things. The UI of a strategy game is critical! As these games are complex by nature, without

I have not read the entire current list 145 posts but I imagine that they all echo the same sentiment of approval and support. Regardless, I think it's important to add my voice to the crowd because attitudes such as that of Stardock towards (or rather against) hardware copy protection needs to be applauded!!! Treating paying customers well and not as potential criminals DOES help your sales and offset piracy! However, the real proof is in the pudding. While supporting comments are