JediLow

JediLow

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Would you purchase a multiplayer expansion? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Brad has already said that they'll make a GalCiv III - it'll just be a couple years before that happens (Society's the next thing to come). The thing people don't seem to realize that want multiplayer - a single turn will take ages. A single turn for me longer in the game probably takes 2-5 minutes on average (just guessing). If you add one player, it means that you just *sit* there for 2-5 minutes after each turn - most people don't have an attention span for something that long beca

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Would you purchase a multiplayer expansion? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

So many posts have just been idiotic. People that are fanatic about wanting multiplayer keep on coming up with senseless arguments about how horrible it is that GalCiv II doesn't have it. Here's the summary of the points I've seen: 1: People only buy games with multiplayer. A: The fact that GalCiv II has sold so well shows that people want a game that they can play by themselves. Not a single person has bought the game because of multiplayer because the game has *never* supported

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Would you purchase a multiplayer expansion? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

My opinion - multiplayer in a game this large really isn't worth it. I've tried doing turn based multiplayer before and it got old really fast (you end up waiting forever for your next turn)... unless there's a way to make it so you can play full games in an hour I don't see it as something which is worth pursuing. As a thought what I would like to see is an increased military strength for starbases. Unless you manage to cram every module onto a starbase, its easily destroyed by enemy

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Reply to Whats up in History? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Heh... what am I learning in history... Right now some intensive stuff on the War of 1812... and about the formation of the American republic. (I'm a history major - taking the last two electives to finish up my degree) Previously: Medieval European History, Chinese History (overview), World War I (thesis topic, focused on the American homefront attitudes prior to the war... though we did look at the entire thing), West African History, United States Civil War, United State

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Reply to Cloaking or Stealth in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

There already is cloaking in the game files... but the devs chose not to implement it because of balancing issues (to my knowledge).

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Reply to Trying to post this one more time... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I should have reread the post (originally did it a while back, but saw some of the problems when I was playing my last game on 1.1 beta)... I believe that #2 was one of the corrections that Stardock was looking to make in the Beta - the main thing that really bugs me is #1... since it makes the game slow down quite a bit (and I'm running a relatively powerful system), and also skews the diplomancy like mad. Simply put, when races at are war they shouldn't be able to continue the same

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Trying to post this one more time... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

(Odd, first time I posted it got deleted, now its in the 'My Posts' but it wasn't in any of the boards... second time was the same... third time is a charm?) Here're a couple of issues I'm finding with the game... (I do quite love it though) - even with the 1.1 beta. 1) Arms Race - Instead of actually going to war with one another the different AI races will just build a ton of ships so that nobody will attack them... and they rar

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Reply to What am I missing? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What map sizes are you playing? I personally love the larger maps... things get a whole lot more complicated and a lot more fun (and normally I'll have far fewer planets than anyone else but then pull out a victory because I eat them up piece by piece).

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Reply to Ironic and kinda funny in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Correction: you fight the entire tax-paying population. I would assume that children are not included, for how much that matters. In the future everyone will be a tax payer (ha, it'd be funny if it wasn't so likely to happen)!

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Reply to Andromeda's Logo Wanted in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Probably a easier understanding of fair use: Link Using it for something like thing would be 99% sure to be ruled fair use - the only thing is that you never know for sure unless you get sued (its not one of those areas where there's a it is or isn't... its really only determined by a suit).

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Reply to Question: Ship Design vs. Core Ships in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It takes a variety of techs to be able to get a premade ship... but the ones you make by hand will always turn out to be better. What I'll normally do is wait for a tech which is a significant leap above what I last fielded and then slap it on a new design.

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