That system worked well. I "borrowed" my acct to my friend and his dad and they went out an hour later and both bought their own copies because they were impressed with the game and the company that made it. We've enjoyed many MP games since then!
Could you image if people started saying "$50 is too much for a cell phone" or "$500 is too much for a computer" or "$6 is too much for a meal" (all US based pricing)? All of those things could be much much lower in price and the companies would still make outrageous profits. Gaming companies generally try to keep the prices of their products consistent. I mean come on, games have been coming out brand new at $50 for 20 years now. Thats almost 0 inflation in that market for 2 decades. Be gratefu
nono, I know, I've gotten 2 different errors at different times. One says minidump and the other is the C++ runtime error. We are both using nvidia drivers which may be the issue. Unfortunately this OS was through HP or whatever and it wont let me update drivers directly for some odd reason. I go to install driver and it just crashes out saying it cant install. But anyway, the minidump only seems to happen at an autosave. I know this because the prior autosave is almost exactly
This is what I did to learn most of the functions. I went through the interface and click on every button starting at the top left. Then I went through the menus and such and clicked everything in there. Finally I read a lot in the manual and the forums on functions or features that I didnt know about. The best way to learn is to play a small map on easy to get the hang of the UI and move up to medium for basic game mechanics. Then hard games to hone those skills. Thats what I did anywa
Hehe, I think you want spore when it comes out in september. That game is going to kill off alot of games for me lol. Probably not this one because it has MP and spore doesnt, but we'll see.
Meh, not really my forte in a game, but I might get it anyway to support stardock. I just have one question... Can you make up your own crazy parties?! I think it would be cool to have the ultimate extremists balanced into green party rhetoric and a hint of idealism. Lots of screwy stuff happening on the campaign trail! Just be sure to advertise this among the real politicians so that they might learn a thing or two!
More diplomacy as always. Buffs to orbital processing facilities. Superweapon button in the planet menu. On huge random maps, it would be fun to have each star populated by 1 or 2 factions rather then 5 factions in one star and 5 in another and 3 open stars. In game real time clock and alarm. So often I lose sleep because I've lost track of time! More setup options like starting funds/ships/etc. Make the migrator not act like a combat ship (i
Artificially inflating another races economy creating an imbalance in power. The way it is now is "helpful"; anything more would be excessive. Say 2 friends got together against 2 other players, but the other two players dont know they are friends. So one friend builds an economy specifically for transfer while the other friend increases his military prowess artifically large and have the means to wipe out the two opponents quickly (even if the other friend is wiped out). At least I think thats
I'm just in one of those moods where I'm sick of people complaining without constructive feedback. It's well known that selling credits is a pain, but IC has said that it is an intentional feature to prevent exploitation in MP. It's really not a big deal clicking the button a dozen or so times.
Ok, first off, basic grammar skills people! Spellcheck FTW! Secondly... ahh, its so nice having 20 super cannons firing off in succession while set to autofire. Opponents = No More!
You can, hold alt & press F4.
Bestbuy.com FTW! They deliver it right to your door step and you get the fantastic price, save for a mild shipping cost. An clearly you can get online to purchase it as you are posting in these forums so there is no longer an excuse! Latah! I should add that most stores will price match another large retailer. You just have to go in and ask if they will price match this and bring the bestbuy ad from this week (or a printout of the website). There are lots of options available f
FYI, Bestbuy has it on sale this week @ $30. Enjoy it, cause it will be a while before they put it on sale again. I've never seen GalCiv or GalCiv2 on sale at bestbuy or any other retailer so this is a real treat. If that price is too much for you, then you should really look into another hobby. Gaming just isnt for you (and neither is any other hobby worth its medal).
Awesome to hear. I do wish the minidump error would contain a bit more info on what may have caused the problem, but as long as ironclad has some idea of whats causing them in the majority of users, thats good enough for me. Now had the same thing happened in a game developed by, say EA, I would end up having to solve the problem myself or give up trying.
Thanks! It was so suttle that I hadnt noticed it before. Hopefully now I can utilize that to increase my profits 10 fold! Now, is there a correlation between the trade ports and orbital processors? Like does one affect the other? Or are they their own entities?
What is meant by planet health other then when the number gets to zero, the planet becomes neutral again? Does it represent the infastructure on the planet? In which case, what is happening is mass genocide. Basically wiping everything off the face of the planet. Anyway, it seems "population" is gone long before "planet health".
So I was playing, but I didnt see a line of trade route. Am I missing something? It would be nice to have a handle on the economy because, even with economy setting on fast and build and other things on slow, economy still comes in incredibly slow. Anyway, thanks for all your help thus far :)
Normally it would, but this one just comes up as a "Visual Studio C++" that says "runtime error..." and no links or file paths to speak of. It only tells me that there was an error and nothing about the error specifically. It's an oddity in Vista that I've seen a few times on different programs (not the same error, but the fact that it comes up with a window telling me that there was an error). Any other suggestions?
Got an odd runtime error last night. Game locked up and window came up saying runtime error. No other information. As for the minidumps, what am I supposed to send? I dont see any log files or such. Maybe I'm just missing something. The minidump window doesnt give any more info then "minidump error" and an "ok" button. Finally, after a while the side scrolling seems to lock up. Now I've attributed this problem to zooming way out and scrolling to one of the sides as far as the g
As it turns out, that was the problem! The third save was set to normal fleets/resources/etc when they had been fast and large prior. It's good to know this is known cause it had me befuddled. My friend continues having minidump issues even after reducing his graphics settings. I suppose I could try reducing mine, but the game runs perfect 99% of the time at full settings. The only time it lags like a mother is when the advent bubble ships are present. I found another oddity i
So yeah, 3 times in the last 15 mins either myself or my friend would get minidump issue in MP online. It worked fine the other day when we were playing. Got about 5 hours in and then saved. We came back to it a day later and played about an hour and it worked fine then too. Now we are picking it up again and getting a minidump every few minutes of play. It's really really really annoying! I mean sheesh, I have 4Gigs of RAM and 500 Gigs of HDD space. I dont see the problem! Most background pr
I'm not sure if this is what you were experiencing, but I found an ingame situation that nukes my FPS. Basically, the advent have these ships that create a bubble around the fleet. When they are in play and I zoom in (especially when there are multiples of these ships) my framerate goes to heck. It is the only time I have ever experienced a drop in framerate. I have tested this over several games and its always the same situation. The advent come in with their bubble ships and my FPS goes to hec
Well, to take the pirate planet over, I found building multiple siege capital ships (like 6 or more) along with a slew of carriers worked fine. Basically the siege cap ships go straight for the planet and decimate it. Then pirate reinforcements will stop coming. Next is the clean up of all the pirate fleets. The fighter squadrons work well for this. Can also throw a battlecruiser in there as well. The key is to take out the planet before anything else to prevent futher reinforcements.
It would be nice if they worked like the trade ports and had cargo ships that travelled between planets. But as it is right now, they are more expensive then trade ports and produce far less income. I hope these get buffed soon. What do you mean by jump nexuses? Like Hub planets that have multiple prongs of jump lanes? Or planets near the star? Or something entirely different? Also, does the distance from an asteroid belt affect how many resources are brought in? Logically it w
