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Reply to GC2's greatest shortcomings or "Why I want to purchase Dark Avatar but will not" in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I love this quote And in my best Troy Maclure voice (from The Simpsons) "We'll keep making expansions for GalCiv II as long as it's lucrative enough to do so." Not to put words in anyone's mouth, but by logical extension, the fastest way to get a new game with an entirely revamped feature set is simply to skip purchasing expansion packs

Reply to 100% out of memory? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

As near as I can figure out, there are database pointer issues that cause it to consume all available RAM. I notice it consistently using 512 Megs for what? Come on guys, I can run Oracle 9 or 10 in half that. For comparison sake a full blown install of Solaris and running a near real time rendering engine takes less ram than Windows and GC2. It's not video, so it's gotta be poor application design. I'm getting sick of it running out of RAM and having to save every time I do something significan

Reply to The Dread Lords, the Arnor, the humans and the Altarians in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

A chicken and the egg scenario. Huh. Don't give away too much, the plot as much as anything drew me in here to the game. You got my 40 bucks and I got a good story and a game that works like MOO 3 should have. I started reading the information on the races and a lot of it struck me as being very much like (and different from) Babylon 5 ...cool. So keep the games following a story in an ARC. It will keep people coming back to the franchise as much as anything else. Hell, approac