Okay, all is well and the opt-in off Steam is updated!

I can confirm this. Unless somebody reports any other problems, the update should be good to go now.

I have no idea whether it's supposed to be there. My knowledge regarding the Metaverse is rather limited (basically what I've read on the forums), but, based on my understanding, the files in both folders are supposed to be identical. Otherwise, the game gets flagged. Considering that this doesn't seem to be happening (at least I haven't heard of it), it's likely that the file isn't needed in MetaverseData (or at least the game doesn't verify it).

Correct. That file has no business being there, and should instead be in Twilight\MetaverseData\English.

That's okay. TotA didn't make any changes to those files, so they are not needed.

If there is a list, only SD has access to it. Well, at least I'm positive that the variables are case-sensitive. We could also use a list for the GC2_Conversations.xml. That one still contains errors (e.g. empty war-declarations by the AI), but I'm unable to figure out what is wrong.

I can see this both ways, so I prefer to keep it as is for now.

What is wrong with those? Based on my dictionary, they are spelled correctly.

Here is the list of change I've made so far (TotA-only):

FlavorText.xml
WordOnStreet_HighPlanetQuality: fixed typo (make's to makes)
WordOnStreet_IsDefended: changed EmpireShortName to ShortEmpireName
WordOnStreet_WeLeftUnitedPlanets: fixed typo (nee to need)

GC2_Conversations.xml
P_REJECTION_RELATIONS_OK: fixed typo (Appologies to Apologies)
AI_CRY_FOR_HELP: fixed typo (Acrean to Arcean)
DECLARE_WAR_ON_PLAYER: fixed typo (mediocracy to mediocrity, cliches to clichés)
AI_TRADE_TECH: fixed typo (Korth to Korath)
AI_PAIDOFF: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
AI_HELPSPLAYER_NOWAR: fixed typos (opressive to oppressive, agressions to aggressions, opressor to oppressor)
HUMAN_WARALERT_NOWAR: fixed typos (pre-emtive to pre-emptive, opressors to oppressors, agressions to aggressions)

Mission1_Text.xml
fixed typo (Acreans to Arceans)

Variables are not case sensitive. 

That's right.

However, internal names (such as of mods, techs, improvements) are - basically anything you can find between "..."

that could be the name of the Drengin homeworld

I think so too.

As far as I can tell, they are valid. I have seen most of those conversations pop up in game, and the variables to do work. The only one I'm not sure about is [yourplayername], because I've never seen the conversations that use it.

Agreed.

Yes, tickler sounds much better.

...driver, obviously. The Quantum Driver is a mass driver weapon after all.

How come I've never even noticed that?

I'm unable to find this.

Yeah, that one is difficult. Both terms seem to get used interchangeably in the game.

I'm not sure about this. Thalan is both the singular and the plural. So "break" seems to be right in this case, because "Thalan" refers to them as a species (plural), not as an individual (singular).

What would you suggest? Precursor maybe?

Sounds good.

I'm only seeing this when loading the file with notepad++. However, when loading the file with the scenario editor, it's okay. I'm not going to changes this, because it could affect the victory condition.

The campaigns all use the TotA tech trees. While it is weird that they still contain references to the old techs, it doesn't really hurt, because those references simply don't do anything. For example, you can't preclude a race from having access to Phasors VII yet, if they don't even have it in their tech tree anymore. What I find more baffling is that the Psionic weapons techs still use their old, wrongly spelled names. I thought we fixed those before updating the campaigns. Yet, it also seems to be the case in my mod, Autumn Twilight. It's possible that we fixed the tech names later, and then forgot to re-adjust the campaigns.

In any case, I tried to look deeper into this (and, if needed, fix the campaigns), but ran into the same issues with the editors I had originally with the GOG-version of the game (i.e. map editor doesn't work, scenario and tech tree editor can't find the tech trees). No idea why that is happening again. They worked fine with the first beta-update.

In addition to this, the debug.err is giving me errors when starting the campaigns:

Debug Message: Error loading map name from mission 16 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/DreadLords/Dread Lords Campaign.gc2campaign
Debug Message: Error loading scenario name from mission 16 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/DreadLords/Dread Lords Campaign.gc2campaign

Debug Message: Error loading map name from mission 10 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/DarkAvatar/Dark Avatar.gc2campaign
Debug Message: Error loading scenario name from mission 10 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/DarkAvatar/Dark Avatar.gc2campaign

Debug Message: Error loading map name from mission 8 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/Twilight of the Arnor.gc2campaign
Debug Message: Error loading scenario name from mission 8 from D:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Data\English\Campaigns/Twilight of the Arnor.gc2campaign

I don't recall that being the case in v2.04. Verifying the game-files didn't help with either problem. Nor did restarting the PC or re-installing the re-distributables (DirectX/Visual C++). I'll try re-installing the game tomorrow, and see if that helps.

Anyway, here is the updated changelog:

Events.xml
MidevilHippies: fixed typo (hippy to hippie)

FlavorText.xml
PlanetPara_OriginalHomeworld: changed LEADERHISHER to LEADERGENDERHISHER, fixed typos (travelled to traveled, fuelling to fueling)
WordOnStreet_HighPlanetQuality: fixed typo (make's to makes)
WordOnStreet_IsDefended: changed EmpireShortName to ShortEmpireName
WordOnStreet_LowTaxes: changed LeaderHeShe to LeaderGenderHeShe
WordOnStreet_WarWithTooManyRaces: changed LeaderGenderHerHis to LeaderGenderHisHer
WordOnStreet_WeLeftUnitedPlanets: fixed typo (nee to need)
WordOnStreet_WeHaveTerrorStar: fixed typo (pre-empt to preempt)

GC2_Conversations.xml
P_REJECTION_RELATIONS_OK: fixed typo (Appologies to Apologies)
AI_CRY_FOR_HELP: fixed typo (Acrean to Arcean)
AI_WELCOME_NEWWAR_WINNING: fixed typo (pre-emptively to preemptively)
DECLARE_WAR_ON_PLAYER: fixed typo (mediocracy to mediocrity, cliches to clichés)
AI_TRADE_TECH: fixed typo (Korth to Korath)
AI_PAIDOFF: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
AI_HELPSPLAYER_NOWAR: fixed typos (opressive to oppressive, agressions to aggressions, opressor to oppressor)
HUMAN_WARALERT_NOWAR: fixed typos (pre-emtive to preemptive, opressors to oppressors, agressions to aggressions)

GC2Ships.xml
Dreadnought: fixed typo (Dreadnaught to Dreadnought)

GC2Types.xml
Plasma III: fixed typo (Terajouse to Terajoule)
Disruptors: changed "itcher" to "tickler"
Disruptors II: changed "itcher" to "tickler"
Disruptors III: changed "itcher" to "tickler"
Psionic Beam: fixed typo (Psyonic to Psionic)
Psionic Missile: fixed typo (Psyonic to Psionic)
Photonic Torpedo: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Photonic Torpedo II: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Photonic Torpedo III: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Photon Torpedo: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Photon Torpedo II: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Photon Torpedo III: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Anti-Matter Torpedo: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Anti-Matter Torpedo II: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Anti-Matter Torpedo III: fixed typo (Norfok to Norfolk)
Nightmare Torpedo: fixed typo (blackhole to black hole)
Space Cannon: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Railgun: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Railgun MK II: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Railgun MK III: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Scatter Gun Mark I: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Scatter Gun Mark II: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Scatter Gun Mark III: fixed typo (persuassion to persuasion)
Quantum Driver: fixed typo (Rail Gun to Railgun), changed "Quantum based mass drivation" to "Quantum based mass driver"
Quantum Driver II: fixed typo (Rail Gun to Railgun), changed "Quantum based mass drivation" to "Quantum based mass driver"
Quantum Driver III: fixed typo (Rail Gun to Railgun), changed "Quantum based mass drivation" to "Quantum based mass driver"
Black Hole Generator: fixed typo (blackhole to black hole)
Admantium Armor: fixed typo (Admantium to Adamantium)
Admantium Armor II: fixed typo (Admantium to Adamantium)
HyperDrive Plus: fixed typo (Ionbased to Ion-based)
Ion Drive: fixed typo (Ionbased to Ion-based)
Colony Module: fixed typo (Transportion to Transport)
Troops Module: fixed typo (Transportion to Transport)
Adv Troops Module: fixed typo (Transportion to Transport)
Constructor Module: fixed typo (Genral Industrial Ltd. to General Industrial Ltd.)
Lite Constructor Module
Weapon Amplifier: fixed typo ("damage by weapons by 25%" to "damage weapons by 25%"
KillZone Computer: fixed typo (damge to damage)
Extention Pylon: fixed typo (Extention to Extension)

InvTactics.xml
Intimidation: fixed typos (propraganda to propaganda, voila to voilà)
Terror Drones: fixed typos (dammage to damage)

PlanetImprovements.xml
Hatchling Mounds: fixed typo ("Watching out hatchlings grow" to "Watching our hatchlings grow")
Galactic Guide Book: fixed typo (travelling to traveling)
Shrine of Tandis: fixed typos (brough to brought, honours to honors)
Stellar Forge: fixed typo (Arcean's to Arceans'), changed 50,000 to 450,000 (According to the GalCiv timeline, that's roughly how long the Arceans have access to space-travel.)
Temporal Entertainment Matrix: fixed typo (technlogical to technological)
Restaurant of Enternity: fixed typo (throught to throughout)
Freighter Command: fixed typo (freigthers to freighters)

PreGameFlavorText.xml
CustomRace_Part1_MidAgression: fixed typo (strived to strove)

RaceConfig.xml
Drath Legion: fixed typo (enourmous to enormous)
Snathi: fixed typo (malace to malice)

StarbaseModules.xml:
Ray-Shielding: fixed typo (Vector based moduled to Vector-based modulated)
Mfg. Vortex Factory: fixed typo (Manufactucting to Manufacturing)

TechTree.xml:
Saurian Intimidation: fixed typo (uppon to upon)
Xeno Anthropology: fixed typo (humanoidic to humanoid)
Stellar Folding: fixed typo (napskin to napkin)
Stellar Streams: fixed typo (attemped to attempted)
Organic Materials: fixed typo (inate to innate)
Robust Hulls: fixed typo (strenght to strength)
Pain Amplification: fixed typo (breakthrus to breakthroughs)
Visions of Agony: fixed typos (breakthru to breakthrough, breakthrus to breakthroughs)
Remedial Engineering: fixed typo (technlogical to technological)
Exceptional Consciousness: fixed typo (Exceptionial to Exceptional)
Enhanced Slavelings: fixed typo (piont to point)
Artificial Slavelings: fixed typo (spinal coord to spinal cord)
Interstellar Bartering: fixed typo (interestellar to interstellar)
Graft of Ages: fixed typo (straight forward to straightforward)
Wretched Cloning: fixed typo (straight forward to straightforward)
Hatchling Mound: fixed typo (life time to lifetime)
Xeno Mysticism: fixed typo (undrestand to understand)
Way of the Dread Lords: fixed typo (disipate to dissipate)
Dark Energy Research: fixed typos (oscilate to oscillate, instananeous to instantaneous, oscilations to oscillations)
Arena of Agony: fixed typo (forebearers to forebears)
Healing Pools: fixed typos (un-guarded to unguarded, slavings to slavelings)
Advanced Charging Stalks: fixe typo (attemps to attempts)
Shrine of Tandis: fixed typo (threatend to threatened)
Particle Beams II: fixed typo (Reengineering to Re-engineering)
Phasors: fixed typo (choerent to coherent)
Disruptors: fixed typo (forsee to foresee)
Ion Beams: fixed typo (passe to passé)
Missile Weapon Theory: fixed typo (targetting to targeting)
Singularity Driver: fixed typo (accomodate to accommodate)
Quantum Driver: fixed typo (Quantium to Quantum)
Scatter Blaster II: fixed typo (componentry to components)
Deflectors: fixed typo (phasers to phasors)
Vengeance Scanner: fixed typo (magnificient to magnificent)
Xalax Defense Coordination: fixed typo (acronymn to acronym)
Advanced Defense Techniques: fixed typos (indepth to in-depth, Mainfrrame to Mainframe)
Inherent Magic: fixed typo (inately to innately)
Starbase Mobilization: fixed typo (technologie to technology)
Starbase Domination: fixed typo (catagories to categories)
A History of Benevolence: fixed (spectrums to wavelengths)
Way of the Drath: fixed typo (cyrstal to crystal)
A History of Perseverance: fixed typo (anquish to anguish)
ToxicAtmosphereReductor: changed Details

Dread Lords campaign:
DesperateAlly.gc2scenario: fixed typo (Drengins to Drengin)
Mission1_Text.xml: fixed typos (Acreans to Arceans, "a army" to "an army")

Dark Avatar campaign:
Bribery and Backstabbing.gc2scenario: fixed typos (judgement to judgment, en-masse to en masse)
In Defense of Drengi.gc2scenario: fixed typos (colonizeable to colonizable, Dregin to Drengin)
Spies.gc2scenario: fixed typo (guerilla to guerrilla)
The Death of the Korx.gc2scenario: fixed typo (Yax to Yux)

Twilight of the Arnor campaign:
06_Rock & Hard Place.gc2scenario: fixed typo (Consolate to Consulate)
TACampaignText_06_Rock&HardPlace.xml: fixed typo (existance to existence)
TACampaignText_07_Conflagoration.xml: fixed typo (malcious to malicious)
TACampaignText_08_Nightmare.xml: fixed typo ("We will hold of" to "We will hold off")

Scenarios:
removed "TotA " from all filenames
removed "for TotA" from all Scenario Titles
(This removes the double-entries in the Scenario-selector.)

Tournaments:
RockAndHardPlace.gc2campaign: fixed typo (Drengins to Drengin)

Ummm... these are empty in the campaign descriptions. Won't removing them, and decreasing the total mission count at the top by 1, solve this? I'll see about debugging the tools, but I'm a complete novice at this.

As for the Tools not seeing the tech trees, I got the TechTreeEditor's error to disappear by making sure HKLM\Software\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2UL contains the string "Path"=%INSTALLDIR%. It still looks pretty barren, and I've no clue how it's supposed to work normally, but the error's gone. So, presumably, making sure the game is run through Steam once, so that installscript.vdf gets executed, might resolve the issue. With GOG, it's often a problem that the installers aren't given enough privileges to write to the registry, leading to errors like that.

Hmm, sounds a tad weird. I'll need to have a look at those, see if it's appropriate enough without mention of mass.

Yeah, will need to run a comb through the files see how many changes will be needed.

Btw, "damage by weapons by 25%" should be "weapon damage by 25%", not "damage weapons" as listed. Also, it hasn't actually been changed in the file.

I suppose I'll keep looking for other errors and see whether the ones we've found are present in other files, or if they're even still present in these ones. Only TotA, naturally. Hope you get to nail down the techs so at least we can edit the files accordingly. At the end, I think we should remove those extra scenario lines in the campaign files, just so people don't notice the errors and complain. I hope we can nail things down so you can send SD a polished and tested patch early in the new year, with a checksum list of the final build, so we can avoid any further mis-applications.

Hi guys,

I have received an email from Stardock and I checked the news on galciv2.com. The CU is finally an official update. Congratulations to all of you for the excellent job, you can be proud of it.

hello, i'd like to ask an advice on what settings to use, mostly for tech trading/brokering (and stealing i guess).

from my initial inexperienced impression, with brokering allowed it seems very easy to trade stuff around, getting most benefits while AI is left to catch up. i wonder if AIs trade between themselves enough?

also i'd like to know if a lot of trading dilutes the differences between races somewhat? would like them to be as different as they can, but maybe tech tree doesn't have that big of an impact, and the truly special techs are untradable anyway?

in general, just asking experienced players what settings do they use and why.

Does anyone know where to download the update or a full client for this?

My Stardock My Products download page only has 2.04.0 listed in the info.

You knew this was coming: More fixin! I'm happy to confirm that the vast majority of the fixes have been applied. And good work on those techs! Anything below is what's outstanding (based on the latest uploaded Twilight.zip)

English.str: Agressor to Aggressor, malace to malice, "a army" to "an army", "a interspecies" to "an interspecies", "once great" to once-great, "a insectoid" to "an insectoid", "a approval" to "an approval" (not sure how much of this file is used, but I'd still like to keep it sanitised, too)
Events.xml: "once great" to once-great
GC2_Conversations.xml: "a illogical" to "an illogical", "light years" to light-years
PlanetImprovements.xml: "increases the planetary economy" to "increase the planetary economy"
screens.str: "once great" to once-great, "a Influence" to "an Influence", Buisiness to Business, existance to existence
TechTree.xml: "ship building factories" to "ship-building factories", "Only the Thalan breaks from" to "Only the Thalan deviates from", "breath on his own" to "breathe on his own", strenght to strength, life time to lifetime, choerent to coherent, quantium to quantum, "by a spy" to "be a spy", "because a any" to "because any", "a increasingly" to "an increasingly", "light year" to light-year, "light years" to light-years,"recognize different light wavelengths" to "perceive different wavelengths of light"
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\A Nightmare on Dithir.gc2scenario: psyonic to psionic
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\Spies.gc2scenario: psyonic / pysonic to psionic
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\The Death of the Korx.gc2scenario: psyonic to psionic
Campaigns\DreadLords\Salvation.gc2scenario: Earth' to Earth's
Scenarios\Battle of the gods.gc2scenario: psyonic / pysonic to psionic
TechTrees\Yor_TechTree.xml: How about "join together" to interface/link?

We're back here. See, unless TotA knows to look into the DA Data for these, it's working with broken files.
PlanetDescriptions.xml: DA contains several extra planet types.
StarTypes.xml: There's an extra parameter that defines stars, LightColor. It seems to be employed only trivially, but it still looks like an intentional upgrade to the engine.
TerrainColorSchemes.xml: DA fixes some typos - Horizion to Horizon, Ground05 to Ground06 (I suggest 01 - this bears some elaboration, below). Otherwise, the game refers to files that don't exist. DA also has sections for all the extra planet types from above.
TCS seems to have a couple of weird aspects: firstly, Earthlike has two InvasionTextures sections, identical. I see no conceivable reason for it, one should go.
For the correction above, DA uses Invasion_Ground06.png, which is clearly appropriate for RedPlanet, but looks out of place for PerfectPlanet (Ground05 doesn't exist). I propose Ground01, instead.

Also, the the scenarios and campaign in Twilight\Campaigns\DarkAvatar refer to loading screens in the main DA folder, and thus not accessible to TotA. These should be copied over to Twilight\Gfx\Loading.

I also gave the racial descriptors some thought and attention:

Dreadlords - not that many cases, so changing over is quite feasible
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\Dark Apocalypse.gc2scenario: Dreadlord to "Dread Lord", Dreadlords to "Dread Lords" (only the Victory description)
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\In Defense of Drengi.gc2scenario: Dreadlords to "Dread Lords" (only in the mission description)
Campaigns\DarkAvatar\Return of the Dread Lords.GC2Map: "DreadLord Observer" to "Dread Lord Observer"
Campaigns\DreadLords\Mission8_Text.xml: DreadLord to "Dread Lord"
TechTrees\Dreadlords_TechTree.xml: change display name to "Dread Lords"

Arnor/Arnorian - it seems most appropriate to let Arnorian refer to anything of Arnor design or likeness. When something is of the race or directly attributed to it, it should be Arnor. Thus, ship classes and armour can be Arnorian, but individuals, worlds, and temples are explicitly Arnor. This makes plenty of linguistic sense and spares us tons of editing!
English.str: Arnorians to Arnor
GC2Ships.xml: "The Arnorian Battleship" to "The Arnor Battleship" (just the description; Arnor makes more sense in this context), "Arnorian fleet" to "Arnor fleet"; Arnorian Ranger? It's tempting to attribute it explicitly, but since the Arnor never actually called it a Ranger, it's better to let the class be just Anorian. Hope this makes sense.
RaceConfig.xml: Arnorians to Arnor
TechTree.xml: Arnorians to Arnor, "Tandis was an Arnorian" to "Tandis was an Arnor"
Campaigns\05_Crossfire.gc2scenario: "The Arnorian Tandis" to "The Arnor Tandis"
Campaigns\DreadLords\An Unexpected Visitor.gc2scenario: "Arnorian home world" to "Arnor home world", "Arnorian homeworld" to "Arnor homeworld"
Campaigns\DreadLords\Darkness Rising.gc2scenario: "Arnorian Temple" to "Arnor Temple"
Campaigns\DreadLords\Mission3_Text.xml: "Arnorian Temple" to "Arnor Temple"
Campaigns\DreadLords\Salvation.gc2scenario: "Arnorian outpost" to "Arnor outpost", "Arnorian homeworld" to "Arnor homeworld"
Campaigns\DreadLords\Siege.gc2scenario: "In their final battle with the Arnor, the Arnorians" to "In their final battle, the Arnor"
Note on homeworld: this one gives me a major headache. The use of "a major Arnor home world" implies several such. This makes the later use of "the Arnor homeworld" unclear. Is it a special, home-homeworld? Is it a contextual reference to Ixith (was the battle at Ixith)? And what about other references to "the Arnor homeworld", without that context? The situation is made no clearer from other uses, where home world and homeworld are used all over.

Korath/Korathian - the same reasoning as Arnor/Arnorian may be applied
TechTree.xml: "Korathian cousins" to "Korath cousins", "Korathian way" to "Korath way" (this could go both ways, but Korath seems better in this case, since it explicitly discusses their behaviour, rather than its likeness, in general)
Tournaments\ArceasLastStand.gc2campaign: "Korathian shock troops" to "Korath shock troops"
Tournaments\ArceasLastStand.gc2scenario: "Korathian shock troops" to "Korath shock troops"

I really hope I've no more occasion for these long posts... aaand I just remembered I still need to go over the quantum-,organic-, and other-based stuff 

Bah, tomorrow...

I, on the other had, prefer medium scale galaxies with rare-ish planets on high difficulty. My games are usually slingshot challenges: start small and fight uphill battles until i've reached critical mass. I also play as the Yor which makes me very unlikeable and hard to make early tech progress. So i keep tech trading on to at least have a chance.