Shamgar

A very Merry Christmas to all!

I'm afraid not. There is no way to get around the cost of upgrading. If I understand your idea correctly, you want to "pay" for the upgrades with factory production, but you can only do it with credits.

Yes, I have done it as Ledzeggelin says. I've never messed around with mod folders, thought that may be another way to do it.

Calling the OP's game style choice "stupid" might be described as ... well, stupid! (No offense). [e digicons]|-)[/e] The game is designed to allow players to experiment with different "universes," and this variety can make for very interesting gameplay. I also usually go for the "abundant all" on large maps, but I have had a lot of fun trying the minimalist setups such as the OP describes (in my case, I did it on the largest maps possible, but I DID include minors ... giving me somethign to

Civ IV (BTS) and SOASE. Maybe the 2.0 beta release will get me back into GalCiv II.

That was interesting to read of the public perception that associates gaming with drugs in your country! I don' think it has that connotatin here (Upstate NY, USA). At least, I hope not! That would not be good for my reputation in the community! Nice to have you posting in the forums. I wish you the best in your education program.

I've got to agree that the present spy system is not the greatest, and I also liked the original better. Wasting a precious tile on every planet with a counter-espionage center is not my idea of an attractive solution ... especially since it does not remove the spies that are already there. I look forward to this aspect of the game being improved.

Impulse worked fine for me yesterday, the only problem being that it showed T)A as not installed ... so I just let it install it again (on top of the one I already had installed) and went to do something else for a while. Then, today, I got the update for TOA with no problem. It is a nice looking program, and I hope that the bugs are worked out quickly for those who are having problems. I agree with others, howeve, that SD should be kept active alongside of it at least for a while, if that is at

I agree with treborblue, the entire proceedure for upbrading starbases is way too cumbersome. For me, they are such an important part of the game that I force myself to go through the hassle, so revamping this would be a most welcome improvement to the game.

I think this is pretty low on the priority scale for "things to tidy up on" in this game. If "realism" is an issue for someone, Maudlin's exercise above works just fine.

[quote]Release a build that doesn't crash to desktop.I've played an awful lot of Galciv2 builds and not one of them has been without CTD errors. I understand that the game is complex, and that complexity breeds errors, but consistantly releasing new patches, all of which contain fatal errors is a shockingly poor effort and works to undermine Stardock's entire anti-piracy policy.I remember reading the origional Stardock-Starforce drama just before I bought a copy of Galciv2 and hearing "By releas

Really a good job, SD people. We appreiate your efforts and skill. 1. Balance the ethical alignments. Fixing the MCC (as per many above) should be taken in context. Since the "evil" players understandibly want the nerf reversed, how about beefing up good and neutral to approach something closer to parity? 2. Starbase management can be really tedious. Boy, it would be nice to change the way they are upgraded. Maybe that is too big of a change for an update. 3. I had not

Hey, Magus, you're a genius! I just tried your suggestion and now it seems to work just fine. No more "string not found" errors so far. Thanks again.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I hope it works, because they just keep coming and coming ... [img]http://www.frontiernet.net/~rcklueg/images/error5.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.frontiernet.net/~rcklueg/images/error6.jpg[/img]

I am getting a ton of "String Not Found" errors in TA. Yes, I uninstalled the Beta. In fact, I uninstalled *everything* back to the beginning of GC2 (including deleting everything in "My Games"), and re-installed ... a tedious task, made worse by the "infinite loop" problem in SDC that I see others ran into as well. After a couple of days of fooling around and finally getting the game all reinstalled, the "String Not Found problem is none the better. I am running Windows Vista. <

I think you may find occasions to use them. One time, playing in the beta, I was deadlocked with an enemy empire. It was larger than I was, and could produce ships as fast as I could blow them up at my borders, and neither of us could get ahead. Enter the terror star: I built it near the edges of our respective empires as I moved the focus of battle over to the other side, and then moved it up to the farthest-away enemy star system. I got three or four star systems before he managed to get to me

The great power of the MCC is mostly an issue for those who want to play the metaverse, with the idea that this is supposed to reflect some kind fo a balanced comparison of player's scores. I am on the verge of not playing the metaverse anymore, because I generally like to play "good," and the imbalance in the ethical alignments makes that a strong liability. As for saying that the MCC is "not actually overpowering" ... you would have to be pretty poor player for it to *not* be a tremendous boos

As difficult as it may be for some of us to admit ... there are indeed some things that are impossible for science to overcome. In the protesting words of Star Trek's Scotty, "I cannot change the laws of physics!" Of course, once we get into *metaphysics* the rules change, but I think the OP was speaking from a purely physical point of view, in which case we need to fall back on the "fiction" part of "science fiction" for a lot of the content of the GalCiv universe. Enjoy it for what it is, but

Yeah, I had this happen to me and I reported it way back in November. I guess it is still happening sometimes. [link="https://forums.galciv2.com/168650"]WWW Link[/link]

In addition to Stormkeep's good advice, you may want to try a different setup. Using the biggest map possible, set planets/habitable planets/stars to "rare." Have the maximum number of opponents and minors. Basically, everyone is going to get their capital planet and their "Mars" to start with. There will be *no* colony rush at all, and you will likely not build a colony ship the entire game. Develop your two planets wisely, and concentrate also on exploration. You will want to especially find a

I have had the frustration of seeing a starbase destroyed while a guarding ship was left untouched, but not the additional frustration of having the ship morph into a starbase! I kind of like your idea of allowing ships to occupy resource squares as a matter of course. I also think that all attacks on that square should have to take out ships before engaging the starbase.

Yes, that would be wonderful. I have been glad to play many TA beta games, but I miss being able to post on the metaverse. It's not like I'm getting any spectacular super great scores on TA ... pretty much the kind of scores I get in DA ... and I'm wondering if the experience of others is the same.

I have both, and would agree with much of what has been said above. Much of this is personal preference, but from my point of view, GC2 is likely to provide you *years* of consistent play, while SOASE is more likely to provide a nice "change of pace" from time to time when you want to play a shorter game. Another factor which must be mentioned, which there is no way of knowing ahead of time, is how each game will play on your machine. I'm not criticizing Stardock here, they do their be

58!! But I I have seen at least a few older guys here ... :)

Sounds like fun. I once won a conquest victory without firing a shot (except once when the prisoners hijacked a ship and started wreaking havoc). I did have a big military, as a deterrent to being attacked. Over the course of the game, planets flipped to me and empires surrendered to me little by little (cannot remember the exact size of the map ... I think it was "large"). I was getting impatient when the last planet would not flip, so I built my first transport ships and sent them toward the s