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Great expansion. Wish other developers would put this much effort into them. This is the first expansion i have played in a while that actually adds to the original game rather than just tacking on a new, slightly inferior campaign.

Anyway, I'll just point out some things that you may want to be aware of.

Custom opponents (favourite new feature by the way; will add longevity to the game): for some reason, my custom player race starts out completely evil, and has all the descriptions associated with an evil civilization. This seems odd as you don't get the opportunity to customize the personality of player civilizations. Infact, the whole interface for this is rather confusing. Why not just have one screen with all the races on and the player then chooses which one he plays on. Ie; you get to determine the personality of all races, even the player one (it's just ingored when you play).

I have experienced CTDs (inconsistently) on loading, saving ship designs and on returning to the game after alt-tabbing out. I'm sorry I can't be more specific.

Also, does anyone know how to activate the cheats for DA? i tried the same thing as in GC2 with adding " CHEAT" onto the end of the shortcut target, but this doesn't seem to work (or if it does, perhaps the shortcuts have changed?).

Finally; it's nice to be able to build ships from scratch (with no base hull) but it's difficult to tell if your ship will be the appropriate size for a vessel of that type. I'm not sure how you'd go about dealing with this.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also, does anyone know how to activate the cheats for DA? i tried the same thing as in GC2 with adding " CHEAT" onto the end of the shortcut target, but this doesn't seem to work (or if it does, perhaps the shortcuts have changed?).


It works the same--make sure the shortcut is pointing at GC2DarkAvatar.exe.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The custom opponents allows you to set how Good or Evil they will lean towards. It's the last screen, I believe, where you set their AI levels, CPU usage, finance levels, etcetera.

Truly a most wonderful feature. I immediately created four races from my Sci-Fi stories and watched them all behave rather predictably.

Apparently, until I relearn playing the early game (which is vastly improved and requires new strategies), I now suck as a leader of my old custom race for the same set of stories.

I used to "pretend" the Drengi were race X, and so on. It's great to set their names and exact personality the way I want, and ship design. It's fabulous, I love it.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had a CTD alt+tabbing back into the game too, and alt+tabbing back into the game takes forever in general, which seems kinda odd. (AMD X2 4200, 2g XMS, X1800XT, game res same as desktop res (1920x1200), latest drivers, Dx, and all that)
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
and alt+tabbing back into the game takes forever in general, which seems kinda odd


The game clears all the models from memory when you alt-tab out and has to reload them all when you come back, which can take a while. If you need to switch in and out a lot you're better off playing in windowed mode (even if that window is set to desktop size so it looks like fullscreen) as it does not do this in windowed mode.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmm... this isn't a custom opponent race though, it's a custom player race. Which means that the final "personality" tab is deactivated. So why does it assume I'm evil? The message that come up on starting a new game/loading refers to me as The Korx. What the?

Thanks for the help guys.