[quote who="Stringer2" reply="20" id="3430176"] Quoting kryo, reply 16 Quoting antibor, reply 15If you have VS 2003 on the same machine, can VS 2012 2012 requires Windows 7+, but 2003 is not supported on anything above XP. That is why the God invented virtual machines.[/quote] And that is why another God (MS) keeps deleting VMs from their OS.
Glad to help. [quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="3" id="3429829"] there was another post specifically about the starport building that I haven't been able to locate again. I'll keep looking.[/quote] Willy, I think you are looking for "ship designer" or maybe just "ship design". I did a search on "ship designer" and could not find what I was looking for (ship designer now includes texture choices), but maybe something there will click a m
[quote who="Alstein" reply="25" id="3430158"] I think the Drengin are pretty much Stardock's mascot at this point. [/quote] Many times in the past I have seen posts from Brad saying Drengins were his favorite.
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[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="79" id="3430095"] For many years I had rather weak PCs, so even if I could launch more modern games, their performance was slow and their settings were put on minimal. I say if game is good, I ignored "flaws" and enjoyed the gameplay. Maybe that's why I prefer to dwell on GoG, where you have good old games, not beautiful new ones? [/quote] Unfortunately, many of those GoGs will become unplayable in the near future as more an more of us migrate to
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="1" id="3430069"] I too hope Stardock maintains its focus and keeps to being a company of integrity. But only time will tell.[/quote] My experience is that this changes only (or almost only) after the originator of a good company sells out, gets bought out, or otherwise leaves. Since Brad Wardel is the company originator and still is in control, With all the stories I have seen about how good the ethics and integrity of Brad and StarDock are, I
[quote who="Stormer9742" reply="6" id="3429903"]Wow... that fits with GalCiv perfectly. I like it! I just hope there will be a way that you can make a certain ship always have a certain role. Like if you make a support ship that gives weapons bonuses and increased warp speed, it will hang back, and try to avoid the fray, while the big bad dreadnought will go right into the thick of it. Basically be able to setup behavior profiles for each ship which will be applied to them automagically when
Yes, it is an interesting question, but there are too many variables even after we get the final code (without all of the debug stuff). Variables like the GPU and any assist it can provide, and how effective that assist is to either AMD or Intel come to mind. I can well imagine that there are partnering tradeoffs to consider. Add to that the way GeForce keeps trying to improve their game performance by providing game settings that match their GPUs. (Do other GPU manufacturers do that too?)</p
[quote who="Stormer9742" reply="2" id="3429889"] Tactical battle system that IS OPTIONAL AND CAN BE AUTO-RESOLVED, which in my opinion would be more entertaining and enjoyable than just watching the ships fly around and pew each-over with pathetic animations. (the weapon effects were bad in Galciv2 and will be improved, but still)[/quote] [quote who="Tridus" reply="1" id="3429886"]1. Already ruled out, and then discussed to death. It's not happening. <br
As with any forum, you are going to see people making statements in such absolute terms in ways that make them sound like they are StarDock employees that you have to take their statements with a grain (or more) of salt. This time, since StarDock has told us that GC3 is being re-written from the ground up with a brand new custom engine, and has mentioned that some of the things that were hard coded in GC2 are going to be in XML in GC3 (including the random events), Willy is most likely very a
[quote]And I really hope you put some extra effort into the AI, that was the main weakness in the last edition IMO.[/quote] We have heard from Brad that the AIs will be better this time around.
I see the problem. He is using MS Visual Studio, which can see everything, including misspellings in comments, which it decided to comment about by lancing the comment, but hit his home instead due to a bug in Visual Studio caused by someone at MS misspelling "function" as "fucntion" in a comment of their own (MS loves to include bugs in its products). (MS) -> [e digicons]:wc:[/e] <- [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] (but why did the ambulance take a singed frogboy to the fire st
[quote who="Tridus" reply="14" id="3429570"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 9 Tridus, My point is that I want confirmation from StarDock that they are dropping what has 'till now been a very major philosophical point, separate build queues for buildings and ships. The screenshot showing one queue was in the PC Gamer article, and the last time this came up Stardock didn't say anything to refute it. So that seems fairly concrete to me, unless they change their mi
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="3429448"] Ironically, performance will probably be really really good. The new engine is a little over an order of magnitude faster than Kumquat (the Elemental engine) which in turn was a lot faster than the Pear engine (GalCiv II). It's a multicore engine so the one thing that will probably go well is perf. Stability...on the other hand. That remains to be seen. [/quote] Wow, Brad. That says even greater things
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Willy, take your proselytizing elsewhere please. This forum is DEFINITELY NOT the place for it.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="8" id="3429431"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 5 I am bothered by the idea that seems to be building here that there won't be separate colony queues for building improvements and ship construction. IIRC, didn't GC1 (or was it GC1 for OS2) introduce this as a basic tenant? It is one of the things I really liked about the entire GC string of games. There's been screenshots put out that show a single queue per planet for both buildi
I am bothered by the idea that seems to be building here that there won't be separate colony queues for building improvements and ship construction. IIRC, didn't GC1 (or was it GC1 for OS2) introduce this as a basic tenant? It is one of the things I really liked about the entire GC string of games.
Happy holidays to those of religions that have major holidays that happen this time of year. And let's not forget to extend the same wishes at the correct time for those of religions and other ethnicities that have their major holidays at other times of the year.
[quote who="satoru1" reply="32" id="3429061"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 31 This is my first Alpha to I think I know what to exqect. Well it's an alpha so just be mindful that bugs will be plentiful, the game may be incredibly unoptimized, features will likely not exist, the game may crash, the game may not even run on specific hardware platforms, etc. It is the proverbial "seeing how the sausage is made" and its generally pretty ugly process
Before this gets into another heated discussion, let me say that my questions have been answered. I can see that each MP method has its own advantages and disadvantages and their own requirements. Thanks for your explanations.
I have never used "hotseat" or any other form of multiplayer. The game descriptions of the MP for GC3 under the "games" tab above describes the MP for GC3 as being "asynchronous". So the question is: does hotseat allow asynchronous MP? A corollary question, if the answer to the first question is no, is: Isn't asynchronous MP better?
"Patience, my friend, is a sterling virtue. I wish I had more of it." (Paraphrased from "Pockets" in the movie "Hatari".
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Another thing to remember, quite often, security programs may not mix well (keyword, "may"). Some security programs put hooks into the operating system. Any two such security programs can, and usually will, cause severe performance penalties if installed together. And some such security programs require special procedures to uninstall them completely. Different security programs check for different things. Such as: Norton and McAfee check for true Viruses, Trojans, etc. Malwarebytes c
Are you talking about the money and influence sliders in the diplomacy screen? Had you ever tried keying in an amount? And I have noticed that the latest GC2 gives you the max the other side will trade when you click on the money or influence buttons to get the sliders.
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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="61" id="3428116"]You have been watching that recent Steve Jobs movie![/quote] There is a recent one? The one I remember is "Pirates of Silicon Valley" from 1999.
[quote who="Tridus" reply="32" id="3428041"]Space mines, again? That's already been debunked, guys.[/quote] Debunked? No. Outshouted? Yes. If you don't believe space mines won't add to the game, fine. Many of us do.