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[quote who="joeball123" reply="14" id="3449201"]Moreover, the same document lists some benefits and penalties for each viewpoint, and in my opinion Benevolent seems less beneficial than either Pragmatic or Merciless/Malevolent (see pages 10 and 11 of Brad.pdf).[/quote] As far as I understood it, those are ideas as for what mechanics each ideology could affect, not what they currently do.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="9" id="3449189"]My problem with Galactic Civilizations II Twighlight of Arnor was that being good, I always found myself at war with all the evil and neutral races very early on, and most of the "good" races were so weak that they were no help and were easily exterminated. [/quote] Sounds like you didn't build a strong enough army. The AI will exploit this, no matter your alignment.

From what I remember, Good was supposed to suffer short-term, but gain long-term bonuses by having much better relations with the other races. Evil, on the other hand, was supposed to have short-term benefits, but suffer in the long term by having terrible relations with the other races. This was very apparent in GalCiv 1. The other races quickly dogpiled on you, if played Evil. This made playing Evil much harder. Although, maybe that was just my experience. [e digicons] In Ga

The last thing the devs said about it was in the Q&A : [quote]Parrotmath: Will there be tactical battles on the ground (planet)? -- controllable / watchable? Paul Boyer: We have a new planetary invasion system in the works, but we don't want to comment on it until we are happy with it.[/quote] So, expect to hear something new about it, when you hear something about it. Also, whatever they ca

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="7" id="3448280"] one thing i felt was painfully missing with techs was the ability to set more than one pre-requisite[/quote] Actually, that was possible. You just couldn't do it with the supplied Tech Editor, because you needed to add additional Requires-tags in the TechTree.xml. Plus, you needed to make sure, that the racial tech trees didn't have different requirements set, because that would override the ones in the TechTree.xml. To

From a pure monetary aspect, Frogboy had this to say about it: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="75" id="3423135"] The Founder's Elite edition is going to be, by far, the best deal. We have planned 2 or 3 major expansions plus god knows how many DLC packs over the next several years.[/quote] However, I would say, that the Founder's Elite Edition is primarily for GalCiv fans. If you don't hav

[quote who="Iggore" reply="2" id="3448007"] Creating custom techtrees was a giant pain and I hope this gets fixed.[/quote] I didn't find making custom tech trees that hard, but I used Notepad++ instead of the Tech Tree Editor. The Editor was too restrictive for my tastes. You couldn't edit the TechTree.xml directly, only the racial ones, nor could you set the Editor to use a modded one, for example.

[quote who="Fate" reply="59" id="3448013"]But really, how does one imbed a link like that Gaunathor?[/quote] I already told you in my previous reply. Not sure, how I could make it clearer than that. [e digicons]:S[/e]

I have to agree. It really was a pain to manually adjust the categories. However, I think the biggest problem in finding the right category was often the likes/dislikes of the AIs. Those were too extreme in some cases (e.g. AIP 8 and Manufacturing techs, the Korath and Invasion techs). If categories get created dynamically, then it would probably be best, if everything a tech unlocks gets taken into consideration. For example, if a tech provides a +10% bonus to Hit Points and unlocks

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="57" id="3447890"]Nice, On a related note, this is what this made me think about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg4a5ZVMW-w [/quote] Who gave that song a thumps-down? Are they out of their mind? That's a great song!

[quote who="Fate" reply="55" id="3447859"]I'm quite fond of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTwBF7dM7g as the theme for the Terran fight back, it has that nice slow build up until the portal opens then bam! Added bonus, it's from Halo 2[/quote] Not bad. If we're going into the game-music territory, then this fits even better: War it's now or never we shall stand togethe

[quote who="Strategist" reply="52" id="3447825"]May this be transmitted to all the Drengin to all fleets, during humankinds counter attack. [/quote] I think a variation of this at the start of the battle would be better.

[quote who="Darvist" reply="48" id="3447747"] Im sure he had to already be a professional military general already or he never would have been in charge in the first place. [/quote] He was a colonel at the time. It was mentioned in the DL campaign, and you can still see that rank on his badge. [quote who="Darvist" reply="50" id="3447796"]The only thing saving you is a see through barrier that you are unshure were it came (this detail may be r

[quote who="xmattwillisx" reply="3" id="3447750"]I was also wondering if anyone thinks the GalCiv guys should allow people on the forums to contribute in some way to the story.[/quote] No. [quote who="xmattwillisx" reply="3" id="3447750"]like where did the Drath go[/quote] The Drath homeworld got exterminated during the Drengin/Korath invasion (first mission of the DA campaign). Frogboy hinted

We already know who's going to be in the base game. From the Community Q&A : [quote]ParagonRenegade: How many civilizations will be in the game (not counting custom races)? Raymond Bartos: Currently we have eight factions for launch: Terran, Drengin, Altarian, Thalan, Yor, Iconian, Iridium, and Krynn. Several unannounced minor factions will join them as well.[/quote]

I have to disagree as well. The humour was funny, and really helped my immersion. Most importantly though, Frogboy had this to say about it in a similar thread: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="3409526"]GalCiv II had some great humor but the game was very inconsistent in it. I don't mind a game being serious OR a game being humorous as long as it commits to it and is consistent. The problem

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="13" id="3447452"] elliot, elliot who?[/quote] You never played Jagged Alliance 2, did you? He is the primary punching-bag henchman of the villain, Deidranna.

[quote who="xbogey" reply="12" id="3447186"]I think I remember reading that there would be two human factions?[/quote] They are mentioned in the databanks .

[quote who="adrencrow" reply="6" id="3447157"]maybe being stuck in the void he could not get a new badge[/quote] That would only explain the rank, but not why his name changed all of a sudden. [quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="4" id="3447149"]What do the initials in his name stand for?[/quote] I've been wondering this for years. [quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="4" id="3447149"]And is he the same person as Alan Bradley, the default leader of the Ter

[quote]Admiral D.A. Bradley[/quote] According to his badge it's Colonel DL Bradley. Other than that, great read. It's makes me even more curious about what the Terran are about to unleash. Besides the Crusade, of course.

[quote who="12cfoster" reply="139" id="3446975"] I download just fine with firefox.[/quote] Same with Opera.

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="42" id="3446831"]the same thing I said![/quote] It's not the same thing. Frogboy didn't say, that they are against having thousands of ships. He said, that they are against having to individually control thousands of ships during combat. Edit: ...and ninja'd.

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="26" id="3446199"]Stardock has said it doesn't want thousands of ships[/quote] Please read again what Frogboy actually said : [quote]We don’t want to turn it into something like Masters of Orion, where you have like fleets of thousands of ships and you have to command every ship in the fleet and tell them what to do every turn[/quot

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="19" id="3446702"]In GalCiv 2 That is definitely not true for Research, the excess research points get carried to the next tech. For production I am not sure but I believe the excess is returned to you as BC. Would need to run tests to confirm. [/quote] Excess research points get fully carried over, if there is a tech next in line. If the researched tech is the last in line, then part of the excess points may get carried over to the next tech. Sole Soul e

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="156" id="3446240"]In the case I'm thinking of, the player is up against a Mithrilar that using a mortal avatar.[/quote] Does that mean, that the game will take place shortly after Destiny's Embers?