General Pants

General Pants

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ANNOUNCING: General Pants' Bulk Freighters Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Later in the game it can be a pain trying to cram everything you need into a regular cargo hull. Fortunately, your empire's commercial interests already have an answer, the "bulk cargo" hull. These hulls are used to carry extra-large loads, including spacedocks, mobile refineries, and even starship hulls. They can carry more, but they are no less fragile than their smaller counterparts. These hulls become available after you successfully research Large Scale Building. NOTES: -

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Reply to Notice: Pending mods now under review! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Kryo, When you get a chance, would you mind reviewing a couple items for me? I just posted a minor update to my political parties mod (typos), and a new "Bulk Freighters" mod. Thanks, GP

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Reply to Can anyone recommend a combat mod for DA? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Caldari, I don't know of any such mods, but I am not sure they would do what you want anyway. I think maybe the real problem isn't the power of the systems, but the all-or-nothing nature of combat... regardless of how powerful weapons and defenses are, combat continues until all ships on one side or the other are gone. A refinement for a GC3 might be to have a chance of disengagement for both sides after each round, with the probability of each side attempting to disengage bein

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Reply to Gauntlet's Race Mod 3.0 Feedback Please! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Okay GP, I guess i mistook your tone, somewhat easy when speaking through this textual "series of tubes" (ha) I am sorry and will add the new line to the read-me right now... Oh, hey, I'm no angel... my tone WAS annoyed. I was annoyed at having to do the "housekeeping" to keep up with the mod... i.e., I was being a brat . But not about the "proprietary" issues... e

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Reply to Gauntlet's Race Mod 3.0 Feedback Please! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Hey, since we're sorta on the topic of mod crossovers and such, could you please explain what you meant by the changes Logic made to the race config and such General Pants? Last time I checked, the only difference was in the graphics! I think it had to do with the planets themselves, but I'm not sure. It is realtively simpel to compare LS's RaceConfig to the original, I just haven't done it (I'm on baby duty today, so I'm not likely to get to it <img sr

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Reply to Dread Lords Red Lightning Effect in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

@General Pants: Thanks a lot for that! Do you know if it would be possible to have it specific for a custom race, like how the effect is only specific to the dread lords, or would that require a hard-coded rewrite (which is impossible right now)? AFAIK, it is hard-wired. You can use the effect for weapons, though. I imagine it'll look something like the "force-lightning" from Star Wars. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" bor

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Reply to Gauntlet's Race Mod 3.0 Feedback Please! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I'm a little upset by your response. [...] if this turns out to become an argument I would prefer PMs rather than de-railing the thread. Hold on there... I'm not trying to be an ogre; I've made the same mistake too. The very mod you used only exists because MrKorx was cool about the whole thing. If you would please, just add the following line to the readme: "This mod contains elements modified from General Pant's Implement All Racial Abilities

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Reply to Gauntlet's Race Mod 3.0 Feedback Please! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, here's some feedback: 1) IMPORTANT: It isn't considered proper ettiquette to include files from other people's mods without their permission. I refer specifically to your inclusion of "my" (really MrKorx's) Implement All Racial Abilities RacialAbilities.xml file... It's pretty easy to tell that it is the one I wrote, because it has the same flavor text I used; 2) This is relatively minor, but it would be a great help if you would stop changing things around quite so much. W

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Reply to ANNOUNCING: General Pants' Political Party Proliferation in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Of course, now you're mod outdoes mine, making all my work go to waste... Sorry about that. Like it says, though, I don't recommend mixing, so they'll stand apart just fine... I tried at one point (before your mod) to get permission to incorporate all the parties into one mod, but none of the original authors replied to any attempts to contact them (over several media). Failing that, I added parties that are similar to the other authors', with

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Reply to ANNOUNCING: General Pants' Political Party Proliferation in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Agh. Sorry about that I thought you were going to use some of that other guy's political parties? Didn't get permission. There are some similar ones in there, but they aren't the same (Ecologists is similar to Conservationists, Totalitarians similar to Authoritarians, etc.). Thanks for the feedback, you have sharp eyes! <img src="http://images.stardock.

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Reply to ANNOUNCING: General Pants' Political Party Proliferation in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

There are a surprising number of bugs in this, though nothing that can't be fixed easily. Not too surprising to me... it has been through a LOT of changes. 2. Social Darwinism it says "Social Darwinists believe that a sosiety(a with a thing on top)(Euro sign)(tm)s..." Good catch! This is what happens when you spell-check with MS-Word. It converts the straight single-quote to a slanted single-quote, which

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Reply to Dread Lords Red Lightning Effect in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I found where the sprite graphic for the beam resides in: GalCiv2\Gfx\Weapons\WFX_PlasmaAndBlast.png but I cannot find the .X file for the Dread Lords style beam, I would think it would be called something like WFX_Blast01.X but it isn't there. I am pretty sure it is WFX_SubspaceBlast01.X

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Reply to ReHash of the Mods in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks to a lot of help from a lot of people, most especially MrKorx and Kryo, all three of these mods have been reworked, and are now posted, with some additions: Lights: Light Jewels Mod Neon Lights Mod Abilities: Abilities Mod Penaltie

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Reply to Notice: Pending mods now under review! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Kryo, When you get a chance, would you mind reviewing a new version of my Penalties Mod I just posted. There was a type in the .xml (caught by Mongo64)... I don't know if it affected play or not, but I fixed it anyway. Thanks, GP

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Reply to ANNOUNCING: Implement All Racial Penalties (Negative Bonuses) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Dan, Sorry, it isn't a stand-alone mod... you need to extract it into the folder of another mod. A little confusing, I know, but most people who use mods seem to have a catch-all mod folder anyway. Try extracting it to the default folder (or manually move the files), then activate the mods folder through the options screen (I think you'll have to restart). Let me know if this still isn't working for you. Thanks, GP

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