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Reply to Buying New Comp - Need Advice Please!!! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

There are some higher wattage power supplies, and that might be something to look at again. For instance I happened to come across a couple on newegg that were 750w. It's been my experience that power monitoring in PC's, all I've owned at least, is non-existant. If a power supply is not providing what is needed, there will be no warning or assistance, just low performance, burned-out components (like video cards) and stuff like that. For my next machine I plan on making sure I don't get blindsid

Reply to The most dangerous people alive. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

For example the myth that, sooner or later, we all have to kill each other in some kind of ultimate orgy of violence called Armaggeddon. Very interesting. From what I can tell, most older religions have some sort of deity destroying the world - the idea that man does it to himself seems pretty recent. It seems that the new Armageddon is global climate change. Yes, like Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, from India. You ar

Multiple "Vegan" minor races in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I noticed while playing DA that I saw a minor race (Vegans) come up twice. You know, this new race has appeared and colonized such&such a planet? I thought it was a little repetitive, and couldn't see them on the map. A short time later I got a quarterly report with five "Vegans" listed, and then I noticed one Vegan planet on the map. Just thought I'd mention it.

Reply to The most dangerous people alive. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Mysticism is only one small part of a mythology. For example the myth that, sooner or later, we all have to kill each other in some kind of ultimate orgy of violence called Armaggeddon. It's all bs, of course, but for someone who chooses to believe that, it kind of limits them to ultimate self-destruction, so they become a victim of it. An example of a mythological result mentioned here prior to my post would be the vietnam war, where the "western mythology" and it's expansionism small-print aut

Reply to Less politics please in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well, let's just steer the conversations to how it relates to GCII ... or better yet, how GCII relates to the real world we live in. Polly-ticks (poli want a cracker?)is a part of the game, unless I'm mistaken? That is my impression, anyway. If you can't see the relationship, why not try playing as some famous politician in one of your games, and use the same strategy you see them using (from the news or whatever) in your game? You might be surprised to find you can. Dunno if you'll win, though.

Reply to The most dangerous people alive. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

This may seem a bit off-topic, but it isn't. I just can't resist any opportunity to share something with people any chance I get. I saw a few indirect references to what are actually the results of mythologies at work in these posts. The people that are so denigrated here are perhaps victims of a particular mythology they chose to follow that encompasses the destructive instead of the constructive. Sympathy for them? No. Compassion, yes. Here is a link to a website (clean and useable) that gives

Reply to Stategy, helpful hints for Normal difficulty? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I also had a few rebellions below 50%. That was worrysome. Is there a strategy to keep the populace under total control? Besides TV ... oops I meant Multimedia Entertainment Centers?

Reply to Eve online -- Is it worth it? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Well, actually, I did. Somewhere in the hype that little bit of bait was thrown out and I went for it. You know how it is. Of course, there is strategy of a sort, I might point out. When you join a corp and they get you on teamspeak, you get to play all kinds of useless mind games while chatting with a bunch of boozers and tricksters. That's strategy, isn't it?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations: The case for no multiplayer in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well! What a lot of input. My memory banks are getting overheated. My 2centsworth is that GCII is an excellent strategy game (for those of us who use our minds for something besides stopping virtual projectiles) and the challenge is comprehensive. In fact, my first impression (call me crazy) was that GCII would be an excellent teaching tool to help provide students a solid foundation in economics, sociology, diplomacy, humanitarianism, and other key components of human society. I even dreamed up

Reply to Stategy, helpful hints for Normal difficulty? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Excellent tips in these posts - read carefully they have helped me a lot. Recently had my first normal win (huge galaxy with 3 opponents, which I felt more comfortable with due to my Star Trekkie youth). During play I developed a startegy of building each colony to be self sufficient re: income and approval. Then if I lost one to the rush of attacking transports in mid-game I wasn't hurt quite so badly that my economy did a terminal downward spin afterwards. I didn't build any farms at

Reply to Eve online -- Is it worth it? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Eve-online is total waste of time. I played for a long time before I realized it was a dead-end. It has nothing like real strategy, just a good basic storyline. The items suk, the ships suk, the players are either total starry-eyed newbs or professional money-makers that manipulate the game to make profits on eBay selling the items they pick up from killing newb ships. Don't Use The Farce, Look.

Reply to Buying New Comp - Need Advice Please!!! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

This is my first post here, started playing GCIIDA a week ago (love it!) Was very bummed to have the crash to desktop problem when playing huge maps... so I would first advise you - take a hard look at not getting any dual-core "SX-style" (anyone remember the old "SX" processors?)system. After all the problems I've had with CTD on GCII my opine of dual-core is cheeped-out "SX" crap. (See posts re: video/dual-thread crash problems in these forums) None of the fixes posted here work for me BTW.<br