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Reply to Sometimes evil wins.. in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I picked the Yor, since we all know what happens when you form an alliance with the main bad guy. But the Arceans seem like nothing more than a proud and mighty empire there for the Drengin to conquer, so now I think they're actually more likely to get the ax. On the other hand, we know what happens to the guy we thought was the bad guy when the real bad guy shows up, so maybe it's the Drengin whose days are numbered. Plus they were the clear winners in the last campaign, so poetic law

Reply to Petition: Roll KHSM functionality into expansion pack! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

It would increase loading time too much if I had to go through the definitions as they were loaded and decide if they were legitimate for metaverse games, and would be a lot of work to get it to work well. I've never seen your code or even the data files, but it doesn't seem like it would take too much time to ask the question "is this j

Reply to AI "surrenders" to another CIV and the reaction of anyone with reason in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Wouldn't a human player do the same? When I was loosing in a "fictional" multiplayer game - I would give my ast colonies to somebody else as well. Isn't a human player's tendency to bail out on a game when they're losing one of the stated reasons most people in this forum wouldn't use multiplayer, though?

Reply to No mini-expansions, big full expansion instead this year in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Personally I'd have liked for there to be a mini-expansion with new ship parts, so I could opt out of paying for that part and still get the real expansion. Unfortunately my interests run counter to Stardock's in this case.

Reply to POLL: Should FP Calculations Round to the Nearest? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'd say yes, it should, but I don't care about it enough to make the developers search through the code for every place it casts something to an int and change it. But I wouldn't mind if they were going through the code anyway and changed that wherever they saw it.

Reply to CariElf, please "kill" auto-select as it's killing me in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Is auto-focus the new option whose description is "String not found"? I thought it was gone from the latest version, and I really missed it. I'm glad to know it was just hiding.

Reply to Rights to play on a second computer? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't have a reference to cite, but I'm pretty sure Brad's said that as long as both copies weren't being played at the same time it was cool. I think we're on the honor system as far as enforcement, though. (Another example of Stardock treating their customers like customers instead of thieves.)

Reply to errr can sum1 help in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

That could excuse the "mite" (even a spell checker wouldn't notice that error, since "mite" is a word), but "sum1" and "u" aren't the kind of errors you make because you don't speak English very well. IMO, the "Die, die, die" response is completely justified.

Reply to WHY KAVYAA DESERVES ANOTHER CHANCE in Writing JoeUser Forums

She is 19 years old and was 17 when the book was written. She was younger when parts of it were written. <TD class=

The Game in Dating JoeUser Forums

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Conversation vs Dialog in Misc JoeUser Forums

I came across this little quote while reading this essay about essays . Fundamentally an essay is a train of thought-- but a cleaned-up train of thought, as dialogue is cleaned-up conversation. Real thought, like real conversation,

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Reply to Tactical Combat? Did anyone say Tactical Combat? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If included in the expansion I would willingly pay full game price for it. As you should, because it would be a completely different game at that point. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a new game from Stard

Reply to Official Job postings now up in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

How do you guys feel about co-op programs? Meaning, you take a bright young college student, maybe a year or so from graduation, and hire him for six months at significantly less than you would pay someone with a degree. Then afterwards he goes back to school, and you say "Good luck with your classes," and if he was good you can add "Call us next year when you graduate and we'll probably have a job for you," or if he's not you can turn to your collea

Reply to Population growth stopping for unknown reason...? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Population The population doesn't fall back down to the PQ limit if you stuff more people on the planet, but it won't grow if it's over the limit.

Reply to Morning person in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

What an amazing idea. I never would have fucking thought of that. God damn it.

Morning person in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Mornings are better than nights. I usually feel pretty good in the morning. Night time, not always. I should think about why that is some other time. Now I want to write about my weekend. Alpha Beta Volleyball. Probably the biggest ICR event of the spring. At least a couple hundr

Reply to I failed a character string verification in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

I've never gotten a "You failed. Go away, bot." message, but it's been a long time since I haven't been asked to try it again with a different string. I figure it's a testament to how much better computers are getting at simulating human abilities. Maybe one day they'll institute reading comprehension tests. A man went into a restaurant and ordered a hamburger. When the hamburger arrived it was burned to a crisp, and the m

Reply to Social Queue missing parantheses, consuming hammers with nothing to do in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

People complained about social production being wasted. It wasn't a bug. It was intentional but after a great deal of discussion we decided that we would change it. Could we at least say there was a bug in the manual?

Reply to GalCiv II: v1.1 BETA Change Log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

+ Fixed bug where a player could not attack Dread Lord planet with an orbital fleet manager on it This one makes me happy. Not because it was a huge problem, but because I sent in a saved game that reproduced it, and I like to think that I'm partially responsible for fixing this bug.

Reply to Good Sci-Fi novels/series in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

I recently read Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt, which I thought was just amazing. Read it if you like a good mystery. And since we've mentioned Orson Scott Card, I have to recommend Lovelock , which he wrote with Kathryn H. Kidd. It's the first book in a trilogy, but the other two haven't been written yet. I'm desperately awaiting number 2.

Reply to GalCiv II: v1.1 BETA Change Log in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Noooooooo, why? I use that modifier all the time, I need that component, why is it being nuked? No real need to flip the hardpoints around when you can just rotate the components themselves 45/90/71/whatever degrees, is there?

Reply to Two Gameplay Features with Beta patch I dislike. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I'm not using the beta patch, but on 1.0X.1, my home planet, a class 11, had a cap of 10 billion, and a class 12 planet of mine had a cap of 5 Billion. By adding a farm, I've so far gotten my class 12 up to 7 billion. The cap for a class 12 planet was 43.9 last I heard. I didn't see anything about t

Reply to Campaign Mission w/ Dreadlords in Strategies Stardock Forums

That particular mission is meant to be challenging for experienced players. If you can't beat it, just lose it and do the alternate missions instead.