The description of the Krynn counter-espionage tech has several typo's in it.

The drath got healing pools, which seriously seems as a filler. Since it has no connection/lore with the drath + the drath already has got their temples.

Also, it would be very nice, if you put your miners on automate, they will upgrade mining stations automatically. Which they dont atm

I am playing my first ToA game as Terran: medium map, 5 opponents, crippling.

1) I am also experiencing CTD when minimizing GalCiv window. (see Kiaren's post).

2) Some new automatic designs allow me to build ships that I normally would not be able to build due to limits of miniaturization. When trying to update the designs I am told that the ship uses. e.g. 60 spaces out of 40. The designs also include non-functional components some of which should not available (e.g. plasma weapons when my highest level beam weapon is laser). This can be confusing. For instance, I updated terran basic colony ship and deleted one (of the two) colony modules only to discover that the ship cannot colonize anything ( the other module was non-functional).

3) An AI colony ship is stuck to a corner of the map. I am not certain whether this is a real or bogus ship (have not tried to move into its space)

4) Number of issues that relate to game play but I am not sure whether they are bugs or features. For instance, trade routes appear to provide exactly the same amount regardless of the position of the minifreighter.

5) Personally, I would prefer that the AI did not trade its unique techs (so easily). I very much like the new tech-trees and the resulting uniqueness of each race. However, the willingness of AIs to trade their * techs sort of counteracts it - in the end everyone is still very similar.

P.S. ToA is definitely a great addition to Gal Civ II. Especially, the unique techs-trees, contextual help and new graphics rock! Thanks a lot Stardock!

Oh, I noticed some of the special new buildings like the arcanean navigation centers miss a description of what the exact bonus it gives. It would be nice to be able to see how much speed increase the ships get.

Hmmmm - interesting observations!



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2- I really do believe the Ship_Design_Focus option will eventually become centralistic to any Macman enhancing feature in this game. All or any upgrades to this essential tool should be given high priority by SD. It's a rather tough intuitive undertaking to say the least - cuz it would involve player's choice and/or pre-defined deterministic needs as it also relates to;
a) What tech level has been reached in numerous areas,
Which preferences could be made common or relative to emergency design switching,
c) Restrictions applied (or not, btw) to certain Hull-types or categories when & then upon selection by the player.
d) And, plenty more possibilities.

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3- This has been known to me for a long time and i never cared much about asking why here. I suspect this 'idled_ship' is a code loop indirect tapper of map conditions devised by the coders as either, a bug trap, or a calculated risk toward monitoring specific gameplay issues. But, that's my guess only. It may prove to be just a simple glitch. All i know is that the thingy isn't selectable, my ships could simply go on that tile and share the location with an indirect 'invisible' ship, etc. It's there. Bof - for some unclear reasons. Doesn't interfere with my games though.

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5-Nope, it is sooooooo funny & weird that i find the extra-element of back&forth distribution of almost exclusive stuff a welcomed challenging situation. There are, in fact, some untradable items... but, in these cases it actually makes much more sense.

Sooooo, all things being said - i figure the complexity introduced by the multiple trees is the core feature which may keep us all busy for a loooooong time. And with the editors we can always inspect values to satisfy our curiosity. Kudos to SD for daring that much, btw.

Interesting. In my game the Torians failed the colony rush miserably. They only control their home system and one low quality planet. The others control at least twice as many. Maybe they just had very bad starting position. (The home system is in a corner)

OK, the launcher widget doesn't show up on my start menu. Just seems like since I went through the install routine, the installer would have put those items on the Stardock Games Menu for me.  

Once you install the game, the only thing it will put in the Start Menu is the shortcut to the launcher (TALaunch.exe).

-HM

First, I want to publicly thank Travis in Tech support for helping me with my SDC issue. It was an on-going annoying problem, and he fixed it once and for all!


Here are some minor issues:

The first line of various screens is hard to read. On my computer it shows up as yellow text against a white background.

This occures on the screens that pop up the first time you colonize a planet, investigate an anomoly, and the random events.

The "volocano" random event.

The "good" option ("save all of the people regardless of the cost"), only cost 106bc but the "neutral" option ("try your best to save as many people as you can, but don't strain yourself")cost 496bc and you loose 100 million citizens. Shouldn't the cost be reversed?

Usually the "good" option is more expensive than the "neutral" option.

I'm only part of the way through the game, but I think it's great!

The only real feedback I can offer at this point is its a shame not all improvement icons got the makeover (the Spaceport being the most obvious offender - I know its been confirmed it will be "updated" eventually I hope).

Same goes for the textures. The new ones are so nice compared to the old ones, hope some time is devoted to spiffing up the rest of the old textures.

I'm not sure if this is feedback per se, but why exactly has research become so cripplingly slow?

I don't know if this has been mentioned but creating a fleet with a ship and a terror star causes a crash to the desktop. Are you supposed to be able to create fleets with terror stars for escort? I.E. is this a designed feature of the game or does Stardock not want us to be able to fleet with terror stars?

I got a CTD on full screen due to Windows defender running at it's regular scheduled time.

I figured no matter and switched to window running as I usually do anyway. The only minor problem is that the 1280X1024 screen runs just a tad to the left and this cause the game mouse pointer to be off just enough to aggravate me.