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Reply to Tokens in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Kryo, So i'm out of luck on twilight? It isn't 3rd party is it? Thanks, Brian

A couple of wishes for GCIII in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm sure there are many threads about this already, but my wishlist for GC3 would include a few things that I thought would be useful for strategy. In no particular order: 1. temp/gravity/radiation/atmosphere/etc properties on planets that would make them more habitable to one race vs another. This would increase the complexity of terriforming code because a class 20 planet for the terrans might have the following properties: temp: 20-35C, radiation: 80-100, grav

Tokens in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

When i bought GC2 awhile back i bought it using tokens that i had purchased. I had heard that this new expansion, twilight, was coming soon. So i bought extra tokens in anticipation of buying it. now i've been away from the game for awhile and have returned and i cannot figure out how to turn in my tokens for twilight. I bought the 10 token(or was it 20) pack for specifically that purpose. What am i doing wrong. Thanks, Brian

Reply to Farms vs. Economic Improvements in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

So if one was modding the game and wished to have morale buildings give more morale output(maybe late tech upgrades), one could reasonably increase above 12B the suggested cap and allow for large population planets? Brian

Reply to Farms vs. Economic Improvements in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

This is because of the morale penalties for having large populations? Brian

Reply to What makes an individual planet lose money? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I notice that you say "a few". Unless you're at the begining of the game and only have "a few" more planets, this means that overall your empire's economic health is probably sound. Brian

Reply to Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Didn't help. *sigh* Thanks for your help Kyro. I guess i'll have to go buy a new laptop. Any suggestions? I want one powerful enough to play all the good Stardock titles as well as Oblivion on medium+ or high setting. Brian

Reply to Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Going to try this tonight. Thank you for the suggestion. Brian

Reply to Fantasy strategy game will be announced this next week in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I don't mind the anticipation after they announce something and tell me that the new game will be available by Christmas 2010. Just the announcement of the announcement. Brian

Reply to Fantasy strategy game will be announced this next week in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Don't you love the announcing of announcements? "Mayor calls press conference to announce he is running for higher office." Huh? Didn't he just announce it? "How what you're having for dinner will kill you. Story at 11." We have so many news channels we choke on mediocrity. Stories about boring news items are discussed for 24-hours a day. I just don't understand announcing that you'll have something important to say later, esp

Buying a Gaming laptop in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I have a gaming desktop with all the bells and whistles, but i'd like a laptop to play my favorite games while at lunch at work. My current one is having problems. Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone bought something recently that works well on both GC2 but also on other games such as Oblivion or FC? I do have a discount from my job at dell and HP, but if there are other places with good gear at good prices, i'd like to hear about it. Specs please.

Laptop Lockup in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

I used to be able to play GC II on my laptop. Now I am unable to. I am wondering, is it possible that it is caused by a heating issue? If so, does anyone know if those after market laptop cooling stands work? They blow air up into the laptop. I would have thought it would work the other way and blow the hot air expelled from the bottom of the laptop out away from it. Thanks, Brian

Reply to Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

i downloaded what looked like newer drivers, but when i tried to install them, it said that the drivers were not relevant to my current hardware. I examined the configuration files for the update and my video card wasn't listed, so i'm guessing that's why it didn't update. Even still, the "new" driver was from early 2005, only a 6 month newer one from what i am using. I'll try running off the battery instead. Tthanks for the suggestion. Doe

Reply to Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I will give this a try. Brian

Reply to Mechanics 2: Choke and Capture Points in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

In order to impliment choke points, you'd need to impliment something along the order of stargates between local systems or warp points such as found in Space Empires V or Galactic Imperium 2. Otherwise, there are no real choke points. Of course, you could build a large quantity of battlestations to make a choke point, but it is otherwise irrelevant. Brian

Reply to Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Kyro, Thank you for responding. Here are the contents of this file: Debug Message: Version v1.5 last updated on: Thu Jan 11 13:39:19 2007 Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated. Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 10/24/2008, 13:32:41 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: PC988720711140 Operating System

Game locks up laptop in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi all, This isn't really a game bug, but it still prevents me from playing. I have an HP Pavillion zx5000 w/ 2GB of ram. Does anyone have a reason why the game will lock up a few minutes into it. I've tried fresh reboots and still nothing. Any clues? Thanks, Brian

tokens in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

Why can't i purchase my expansion to GC2 with my tokens i bought. The only reason i bought the tokens was so that i could use them to buy GC2 and the expansion when it came out. Am I doing something wrong ? Brian

Reply to Twilight in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Kyro, Ok, well if you change your mind, please feel free to look up my email address. I'm willing to help. Brian

Twilight in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Can we download the beta and provide help testing if we are a member of total gaming.net? I have plenty of tokens left. Brian

Reply to Bombs in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

That was kind of the idea. Brian

Reply to Minefields in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Well if they need another AI programmer, they only need to ask. Brian

Reply to Ship Yards...and some other stuff....please read in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Yes good idea here. When can you get this to us, Devs?? Brian

Reply to Bombs in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Also.... Perhaps an invasion fleet couldn't attack until another new planetary defense tile was removed, the planetary shield. This could only be accomplished by having a bomber type in the fleet. Depending on your bombing type, scanners, etc, you may hit other buildings or the shield generator. Brian

Bombs in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

How about some new techs that can affect ground invasion. One of the options for ground assaults are mass drivers. Why not have an orbital bombing invasion tactic that is based on the current technology in bombing. You'd start with small bombs that do little damage to people or structures. You get more and more destructive until you got to the "nuclear" type bombings which modified PQ as well as were quite massive in damage to structure and population. Then you'd also have precision bombing