Magnumaniac

Reply to v1.1 found issues in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

1. Maybe the fleet commander has realised you would not (on average) get a guaranteed kill if you attacked the big ship, so goes for reducing the numbers of attackers who can strike back. 2. Possibly you just researched a tech that gives a building upgrade and all your planets started building it? Never noticed this happen myself. 3. It is not "your" territory, it is contested territory that is under your influence. There is no concept of "space ownership" in GC2 - only pla

Reply to 1.1 Scoring Change in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I consider it an exploit too and was surprised that it is possible. The corresponding option should be replaced with a choice of moral alignment if you ask me Moral alignment would be better, but only if the cost for choosing an alignment other than your "leaning" when researching Xeno Ethics is significantly increased (by a factor of at least

Reply to Metaverse (Website) Update - April 26th in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Any ETA on the score recalc - it kinda hurts watching my total score go down every time I submit a new game

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II 1.1 has arrived! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Great news, great game - any update on when the meta recalc will happen now? The new scoring system is likely going to frustrate a few people when they see some of the huge v1.0 metaverse scores and compare them to what they just scored in v1.1 It's going to hit my scores badly, but the sooner it's done the better <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Congrats.gif" border=0

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

The robot guy keeps saying a few more turns won't hurt, but by look in wife's eyes, I think the robot guy is sadly mistaken. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Laugh.gif" border=0 ALIGN="

Reply to possible 2 stop ai-surrenders ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Can plz someone give me an historical example... No, you're right, I can't think of a single historical example where somebody surrendered an entire planet to another alien race, in order to prevent the complete genocidal destruction of their own race! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/sm

Reply to This game sucks! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

suddenly I realize its past midnight... Oh, a part-timer then! I don't think I've managed to get to bed before 3am since the day the game was released. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/C

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

and Magnumaniac is sitting on a pile of to-be-submitted games, I guess No - all my games with the betas have been submitted under my second character (Vigilante). Not had much chance to play for the past week or so due to reasonably dry weather here in the UK and a wife armed with a garde

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Beer is on me! Just got to get to England to drink it :lol: I'm here already!

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Party at DG's!

Reply to What race to you find yourself hating? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

All of them (except the one I'm playing at the time). Toasters are always top of the hit list though, with the green fishy @$%!s a close 2nd.

Reply to The AI is hopeless in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

While I don't think future patches will make it brilliant, I do think it will get slightly more refined and avoid things like the lonely transports or lack of sneak attacks. At least we know there will be future patches that refine the AI and improve gameplay - unlike certain other high profile TBS ga

Reply to The AI is hopeless in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

OK, have fun fortifying your axemen in a forest outside an enemy city and watching them send an endless stream of single "city defense" archers out to graciously increase your xp. Oh, yeah, it doesn't matter what diff level you do that on, because the AI is the same at any level - you just get xp faster at higher levels due to the obscene AI cheati

Reply to Crashing after five to six hours of play in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds like the GPU over-heating. You need to upgrade to v1.0x and ensure the "Throttle GPU" option is enabled.

Reply to Good reviews, bad reviews.. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

There needs to be a way to give build orders to multiple planets (not governers... what if I have 50 planets building constructors and I want 25 to start building warships). Well, it's pretty easy and quick to do from the F2 planet list - I can't think of any easier way to implement it, how are you s

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Nope. For 5 and 20 wins from the looks of it. I thought you got one for achieving each victory type - but you don't, it's for a victory with each race... go Moser

Reply to Good reviews, bad reviews.. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Don't take it too personally. It is not easy writing reviews and keeping your own personal biases out of the content. The reviewer assigned to write this may not be a fan of TBS, and their only previous experience is a tiny map rush strategy on Civ4 - you are not going to get a very objective review from that person. I regularly write reviews of CDs, DVDs and live concerts and it is really difficult if I'm sent a promo copy of an album by a

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Got game 4 in... that's one win for each type. Nice one Moosey - I just can't get myself to accept a tech victory after playing the game for long enough to get there. Don't you get a new medal for that?

Reply to Invisible ships, invisible planets. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

How am I supposed to know about this? Try reading the "README" file that comes with the game - it's in there muppet! But then I suppose you also ignored the countless warnings you got about updating your old video drivers, and will be back on here complaining when something else doesn't wo

Reply to Influence spikes and something peculiar in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

They've probably just discovered an influence resource and put a mining starbase on it with a few extra mining modules. Happens all the time.

Reply to Unable to start game in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

There is a sticky in the bug reports forum about dual core CPUs - might be worth reading that.

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

I was reading the flyer graphic there and unless I missed the meaning, I need to point out a spelling error. Dependency should be dependability. Dependancy means that you depend on others, dependability means that others depend on you. Good spot! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles

Reply to The Galactic Diplomats in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

No one will be happy with the low socres that they are going to be getting Well I've already got a 100K game ready for submission with the new scoring system, and a 40K 3 year cultural victory - so decent scores are very possible. It makes far more sense than the unlimited score potential that is curr

Reply to Beta 4 bug VERY annoying in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This is not a bug - it is a fix to a bug that existed in v1.0. See the thread below. Link I'm quite sure you are much happier having to take a few seconds going through the startup again, instead of playing for hours only to find you can't submit the game because you used ctrl-N.

Reply to Incedible+++ in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Solution? Kill the Torians first. Always. I'll second that! @*%&ing green, fishy-looking alien slimeballs Breed like rabbits, and then some. If they're close to you - don't hang around, squish the