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Reply to 7 Best & 7 Worst PC Games in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Favourite games of mine in a relatively random order: 1) Medieval 2 Total War 2) Rome Total War 3) Command & Conquer Generals 4) Company of Heroes 5) Star Trek Armada I 6) Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots 7) Starcraft + expansion 8) Star Trek Birth of the Federation 9) Civilization 4 + expansion 10) Age of Empires II Age of Empires II was the first game I played. In fact, it was my nephew who introduced me to it when I was visiti

Reply to The MOO Factor in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, Pedx, it's Alex here, author of the Evon Experience AAR! Good to see (hear) from you! To back up Pedx, Moo3 is a great game, what with all the fantastic work that the modders have done for it. I will agree, that out of the box, it wasn't very good. Alex

Reply to How old are you? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

45 here. I, too, am pleasantly surprised that there is a significant number of my peers here. I do play LAN games with my 10 year old son (we have a 2nd computer). He is still learning the ropes when it comes to strategic and timely management of his resources in games like Rise of Nations, Starcraft, BFME or C&C Generals, but he can hand me my butt in Starfleet Command III. This would be an interesting game to play on a LAN against my son. He has actually just started t

Reply to No offense but... in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I, too, voted against multi-player, for exactly the same reason as Chip56. I would only play multi against my son on our lan system. I find turn based games can take an extremely long time when playing against folks that you don't know and it can be difficult to schedule times to complete the game, because playing one game in a sitting is probably not possible.

How do I get him out of there? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, here's the scenario. I own a 21PQ planet, everything is great, have 8 ships in the starport. Along comes one of the other races smaller ships (we're not at war) and somehow he ends up in orbit of my planet. Now when I click on the planet, I see the picture of his lone ship and a second picture with my planet with a number 0 in the box. I can still get "into" the planet and make changes to structures, upgrade, etc, but I cannot get access to my 8 ships that are there, somewher

Reply to Question regarding Minor Race Pop-Up in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

@ Franco fx, Thanks! I believe your response to be much more indicitive of what I feel has happened to me in the game I am playing. I suppose I was just reaching for straws, hoping that there might be something I missed, but, alas, it appears that you are, in all likelihood, absolutely correct. Have a good one! Alex

Reply to Question regarding Minor Race Pop-Up in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I have had this random event occur when I am already extremely advanced in diplomacy. ( I have started with advanced diplomacy as one of my races' special abilities, have already researched the heck out of the diplomatic arm of research, etc.) In fact, when I deal with other races, it invariably states that I am quite advanced in my diplomatic abilities. I assumed ( I know, I should never assume) that this pop-up indicated that this wo

Reply to Best PQ=4 (Ex: Mars) Strategies? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I buy either 2 research and 1 market or 1 research and 2 market, depending on how I feel at the time

Question regarding Minor Race Pop-Up in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

OK, here's the scenario, I am sure all of you have seen this. A pop-up appears stating that some minor race has "acquired" all the techs of another major race and it implies that they would trade all of it, indicating that they are interested in acquiring additional planets. Great! I have immediately tried to trade them a planet for this tech, but can't seem to do it. Is there a trick to going about taking advantage of this? There have been times when I have "o

Reply to Minor Races in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I am playing a game currently where one of the minor races is at war with me, because they kept putting influence star bases next to my homeworld, so I trashed them and started a war. Well, the buggers took one of my planets which I had to take back and then later, when another major civ surrendered to me, giving me one far flung planet on the far side of the galaxy, I lost that one to an invasion by the same minor race! They cert