You can order directly from Stardock. If you order the CD, you get a temp serial number so you can download and play in the meantime. According the frontpage news section of the website here, Wallmart, Best Buy and EBGames/Gamestop have re-ordered already, so they may have had some and sold through their local inventory already. Tony
You can see the stats when you are reviewing the race on the Foreign Policy Screen. Tony
The developers have said the Core ships are a little better than you could typically build yourself when they first become available, but will become obsolete rather quickly as new techs become available to you. Tony
No, just run all your numbers together. You can always verify with your credit card company to see if a charge went through, and when you successfully complete the purchase, you will get an email from Stardock almost immediately. Tony
1. I'm guessing you have it by now. 2. Yes, click "archive" at the bottom of the Stardock window. 3. Yes, you are fully current and good to go. That is not always true of some downloadable software, but it is of Stardock. Tony
A lot of these error reports seem to have Nvidia 6600GT's in them. I have not been keeping track of the actual numbers, but it sure seems that way. For what it's worth, I run a 6600GT as well, and have had exactly two crashes over about 30 hours of game play. Tony
"Does downloading the game give you access to the collectors edition download-able content?"---- Yes, it's included in the download. The download also has the current patch included as well. For a few bucks extra for shipping, you can order the CD from Stardock. They will ship you the cool collectors box which includes a fold-out tech tree and a printed manual. (PDF included in download). You will also get a temporary serial number so you can still download and play while you are waiting fo
They said in the patch info posted here that they had to make some changes to the code to better able support ships transferring with future upgrades of the game. In the future, you should not loose any designs, but I think you are out of luck with this change. Tony
It is very easy as nobody but me built a single colony ship Where you playing a new game with 009, or continuing saved game started under 008? Tony
There is not a way currently. I have no idea if it is planned for the future or not. I know part of the info about the minors says you should do more espionage on them. Tony
1. Just taxes, colonists and invasion troops. 2. Build influence starbases near them. Take over the offending enemy planets. 3. No easy answer to that one. There are all sorts of ways at designing good ships. Some of the ideas you suggested are good, but other ways work too. Experiment and have fun. Tony
Personally, I like the click-drag method so much now I don't care if they do anything for scrolling. My first reactions were like yours, but now I find click-drag faster and more precise than what scrolling would allow. When scrolling, the map will move faster the more zoomed out you are, so you might try zooming out a bit, scroll, them zoom back in again. Tony
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You can also click where you want to go on the mini-map. Tony
They cost less, so you can build a lot more of them, as well as put together large swarms, uh, fleets of them. Tony
That would rock! Tony
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didn't see them informing about a war, although I've been informed when two warring civilizations made peace. May be someone can confirm this... This has been my experience as well. Even when I "know more about them then they do themselves", I only get notifications of peace treaties, never when they went to war. Tony
On your tech research screen, hit the "more" button on the bottom right of the screen. You can now see more of the tech tree, and should find what you are looking for. Tony
It is. That's all they have. If you go to the ship design screen, some of the extra decorative stuff you can place on ships is labeled Collectors Edition. Tony
It is. That's all they have. If you go to the ship design screen, some of the extra decorative stuff you can place on ships is labeled Collectors Edition. Tony
Go into "options". You configure which battles will show up from there. Tony
I can't speak for plans for this game, but they did release a map editor for GalCiv I as part of the payware expansion pack. Tony
Point 3- I have seen them adapt rather rapidly. A couple of games ago I had a minor race on the run. They begged for peace, and I got a pile of tech and money to agree to it. A number of turns latter, they declared war on me and came at me with a large fleet which just tore trough my previously unbeatable fleet. This is just one example. What difficulty level are you playing? I have been playing on Normal. Point 5- Just save a base configuration. Call it Cruiser Protot
I agree with Luv_Muffin. I thought the tutorials were excellent for what they are intended to be, an intorduction to the game. Suggestions for future tutorials would be a deeper look at SpaceStations. What do they do, where do you build them, how do you build them and so on. Perhaps a basic GalCiv Economics tutorial would be good as well, giving some of the basics of population, happiness and so on. Tony
Farms = people and people = taxes/money. Just be careful to not get to many people as they are harder to keep happy as they increase in number. A developer said don't even bother with farms on size 6 or lower planets. Tony
I prefer the abstraction. I dint' want to be an economist. I just want to conquer the world/universe when I am playing this time of game. Tony