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Reply to GC3 indepth Part 2: The Economy in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Interesting points on the economic front. The one issue with the colony hub is how do you reflect the fact that initially a colony is draining on the overall economy until the colony itself becomes self sustaining. One thought (based slightly on how SoaSE handles the issue) might be to penalize the colony as a whole in turns of money and production drained from the overall economy until the planet's population reaches a certain level as well as having certain structures included. Maybe, a set

Reply to GC3 indepth Part 1: ships, art and fleet battles in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

On the rock/paper/scissors aspect of the game, while it is true that smaller, faster craft will have an advantage over large, slow capital ships, what would be wrong with expanding on the current missile/beam/gun design trees? You have smaller, higher fire rate weapons for targeting small craft and, as the weapons themselves get larger, the ships they are effective against are the larger ships. To keep balance in the system, maybe an addition to the computers research tree to give ships speci

Reply to XP SP3 issue in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks. Never would have thought about checking resolution in the .ini file. BTW, the SP3 installer apparently checks for fixes that came out between SP2 and SP3 and installs the necessary ones. KB lists the hotfix as an update for XP SP2. It seems to be part of the reason the SP3 install lists a variable size for SP3.

XP SP3 issue in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have recently purchased and installed GalCiv II GOTY edition on my system. System specs: Athlon dual core 64 bit processor, NVIDIA 8600 GT Video Board, 3 Gig RAM, system controlled paging file (over 2G), all essential drivers updated (verified at mfr web sites), running Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (w/latest updates to DirectX 9.0c). I have encountered the issue of the game starting switching to a large black square in the upper right hand corner of the screen and progressing no f

Save and restart problem in Technical Sins Forums

I have noticed when I am playing as the Vasani (Vasari?) and save a game to come back to later, it loses the benefits of broadcast communications (extra supply). What happens is I will go from a positive supply remaining to a negative supply remaining of approximately 1/2 of the previously saved positive amount. It only happens with the previously mentioned race, making me think that on reloading a save game, the game is not checking all sources of supply.