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Reply to Brad’s June Elemental flame thread in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote who="SapSnark" reply="34" id="2662993"]Hark Frogboy, and listen well to these game forum residents – you cannot possibly complete the game in time for release. Forum denizens know of what they speak. Indeed it may appear that your long time experience with PC games, including the production of a handful of the best PC games of all time, would mean you do know what you’re talking about - IT DOES NOT! Neither previous in depth explanations of what the beta is and w

Reply to Brad’s June Elemental flame thread in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Please delay the release! I have a very hard time believing you are ready for this. Elemental's launch quality, not its patched-in-six-months quality, will determine 95% of the buzz around the title. A full year delay will be easier to live down than a half finished game. I urge you to do whatever is required in order to orchestrate a much needed delay. We can't go from having not tested 75% of the game to release this quickly. If money absolutely requires a rushed release then I understand,

Reply to HOMM V won't be using Starforce copy protection in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

This is usually about the time a company developing a bad rep starts trying to "rebrand" itself. Be on the lookout for Starforce under other names now. There will be a "new" form of copy protection called Claria Copycheck or something like that. Oh wait, Claria is already taken. <img src="http

Reply to Suggestion: Red letter techs in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

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Suggestion: Red letter techs in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I thought of a simple change that could be made that would greatly improve the ease of use of the tech trade screens. It is very, very simple: Techs only known to the player are highlighted in red. To me, this would be an extremely worthwhile change, because I often hold back trading any techs that only I know, while I *instantly* trade any tech that an AI knows as well. Anyone second me on this one? I was hoping maybe I could get this rolling and get

Reply to .. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The simple fact is you get these same people on every game that comes out. While this person may not be quite this bad, I find the words "top of the line" to be telling. Often people have a sort of "The oil comes with the car" mentality to computer software maintenance, and there is the problem. They think that you just install windows, and then take whatever drivers come off the CD, and your set. They also think that every little widget they find online should be allowed to start during bootup

Why build factories? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Tell me, oh GalCiv 2 developers and gurus, what is the ratio of advantage for building a given thing (building or ship) with a factory as opposed to just rush buying it? I understand that the factories are essentially buildings that turn income directly into production, but in what way are they superior, then, to just rush buying? I suspect it is because it is more efficient as far as BC's spent, but can anyone clear up just how much more so

Reply to Politican Imbalances in 1.1 Beta in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'll have to stop and think about the rest of the list, but I agree that you really can't go wrong with Populists. I have a particular strategic fondness for the stock-terran populists. I also agree that war party is insanely weak. I would consider giving war party a weapon bonus to go with their HP bonus. EDIT: I would also like to note that I considered the Populists to be super powerful and the War Party to be super weak even BEFORE this patch.

Reply to Bug: Nearly free En-masse upgrades in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It's even worse than it sounds because, lets say me and you are competing for a metaverse score and you *choose* not to use this exploit, I can choose to use it and you may very well be forced to use it or never *win* score wise. So the idea that you can simply not use the exploit yourself and that fixes the problem is naive at best.

Reply to Possible bug - Approval Plummet in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have also spotted this bug. I can't recall the exact circumstances, but I got the huge - approval as a "native ability".

Reply to Multiplayer in Expansion in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A all the way for me. The developers can then focus on the game from one angle. A good example of why A is a superior option: what is a diplomacy bonus for in a multiplayer game? I think that many of you think that multiplayer is "win win" but it's simply not true. I would probably play single player 99.9% of the time, so even a very small detraction from single player would be a raw deal for me.

BUG: Starport deletion. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you have a ship "in the line" to be built, and you overbuild the starport, it will finish the last ship as if the starport still existed. Also, if you re-build the starport afterwords you can see where it has progressed even if it never finished.

Reply to Who Beta Tested This? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I have to come down somewhere in the middle on this one. There are some pretty silly bugs in the game. For example, why is +4 logistics +4%?! What in the world does adding +4 to your logistics pool have to do with percentages? Why do the government types refer to "Colonies of Earth" when I am playing as the Yor? Why does it say "Invading a star system" when I am invading a planet? That being said I love the game but it needs to be polished. So long as the patches keep on rolling I won

BUG:United Planets resolution(cosmetic) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Earlier when I was playing, I had a great stroke of luck. I was the caveman civ at the time, being dozens of techs behind everyone, but that one crazy resolution about sharing came up, and share 5 techs was voted in. The result was that everyone pretty much had all the same techs, which is normal. However, the thing is, after I got all the messages saying "XX perfected", then I got a window that said "The UP passed a resol

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

can the arrow keys control the map view instead of the movement of the ships? I second this particular request. It doesn't even have to be in the options menu, some kind of INI tweak would be fine.