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Reply to Where do I go to learn how to play GalCiv? Plus some gameplay questions inside! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you give a trade good to another empire, do you lose the trade good? (I haven't tried this yet.) Or do they get a copy that they can then trade to other empires?

Reply to Wanted: Best solution for "wasted" resources issue (Slider allocations to non "active" projects" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If they went with (B), bonuses specific to that type of project shouldn't be transfered obviously. I don't particularly mind if the *money* that would've been spend on military gets transfered to social/tech in equal amounts. It definitely shouldn't be cash back or stored. I think that would be possibly unbalancing. Also, I'm very wary of creating more sets of sliders. I'm really digging the elegant simplicity of the game mechanics and its interface. An off your subjec

Reply to JavaScout's Galactic Civilizations Database 1.01.029 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

What do you use to generate the website? I imagine it'd be handy to be able to run this on my own machine locally so that 1. I wouldn't have to be connected to the net to browse it. 2. I wouldn't waste your bandwidth repeatedly going to the same stuff. 3. The information would be tailored to what I have installed.

Reply to Alliances & Relations? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's difficult to get them to ally with you. Given that it's a victory condition, it ought to be. I think it's generally something that has to be built up over time, not something you can just buy. Giving them all your stuff probably marked you as a sucker rather than a worthy ally. Obviously, having incompatible moral outlooks will severely hinder any efforts at warming relations.

Reply to Does minor race AI play fair? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A minor race has much fewer expenses I would have to imagine. For the most part, they're not interested in rapid expansion or conquering other races. So they don't need to crank out colony ships, survey ships, scouts, or any military ships. It all goes back into that one planet. Or if there's excess, into the bank. They really don't need to do too much tech dev because everyone is happy to sell them tech for probably far less than it would cost them to research it. It might be interesti

Reply to How long until your credit card is charged? DL question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Typically, your "credit limit" for your debit card is whatever you have in the account. So if you don't have enough money right now, the transaction won't go through. If you do have enough, it won't deduct the funds immediately but will put a temporary hold on your account for that much money until the actual charge comes through a couple days. So, money won't actually change hands for a few days but as far as how much cash you have access to, the effect is usually immediate.<b

Reply to Anomaly, event, ship, tech file format/variable values in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Frogboy said they'd be releasing info on all the file formats eventually so it's probably just a matter of waiting a little while.

Reply to Increasing Approval Rating..... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Lower taxes. ;)

Reply to (Review) The Orion Sector Takes On GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Epic has also done a pretty good job with updating and improve Unreal Tournament 2003. (They did the same with the original UT.) The free bonus pack they released about a week ago is very very cool. Some very cool new gametypes and maps. Not to mention the patches have been steadily making the game better and more polished.

A dark day... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

for my wallet. The Legend of Celda AND Galciv within a day of each other. ouch. :D

Reply to What is the "Final Frontier"? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The final frontier is a technology that allows human beings to transcend time and space and travel to the mysterious realm that socks at the laundrymat disappear to. With an eternity's worth of socks recovered, complete and total domination of the universe will be possible.

Reply to Yet another ignorant bonuspack question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So, in the above poster's case, he wouldn't need to install the game? He would just: log into site, get the e-mail with the generated link, download the file, burn it to a CD and take it home, run the file on his computer at home? If so, why didn't you say so in the first place? ;) I think this allays a lot of the concerns people have been having in other threads...

Reply to Question about your anti-piracy scheme and downloading the game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I would have to imagine that downloading from different IPs would be fine. Dial-up users are almost always going to get a new IP address. I'm guessing what they'll be looking for is downloads for the same serial number from multiple IPs addresses within a short period of time. That would indicate that it's been spread on the net. It likely wouldn't catch people who give the serial to a friend or two over the course of a couple months.

Reply to Library up in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Should there be a graphics file that comes with the Dinos event? Gfx\\Event_Dinos.pcx Or is there a Dinos event already in the game...?

Reply to Submit Ideas for Battle Techs Here. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So, if you have multiple lines Tech_Requirement "blah blah" Tech_Requirement "blah blah mk 2" Tech_Requirement "blah blah mk 3" You'd have multiple tech requirements? What about Tech_Category?

Reply to Absoultely last post about the big download. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As I understand it, if you have your serial number, no matter where you purchased the game, you can download the game from the website as well as the bonus pack and extras that comes out in the year ahead. Absolutely positively free. If you pre-ordered from Stardock, they'll e-mail the serial number to you when they ship it. If you pre-ordered from somewhere else, they probably won't e-mail you the serial ahead of time.

Reply to Simple one line responce to help developers know. Where did you hear about GaCiv? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I remembered the OS/2 version. Heard a windows version was in the works. Popped in on the official site every once in a while to see how far along it was. Started paying close attention a couple months ago.

Reply to GalCiv difficulty levels in gold version in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is it possible to turn off the production bonus/penalty and just adjust the AI on pure intelligence? If not, is it possible to add a flag for it in a patch/bonus pack/expansion? I'd like to know whether I could beat the fool AI all things being equal. Probably not. ;)

Reply to what happens when you cut an enemy civ in half? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Slicing his empire in half might impact trade routes, though, right?

Reply to MOO 3 blood bath continues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I like the macromanagement concept. The viceroy AI is actually pretty good once you get the hang of the dev plans. Unfortunately, like most of the more complex aspects of the game, setting up good dev plans isn't documented at all. Plus, there are some pretty bad bugs related to dev plans. You can only create about a dozen dev plans and there are about three times as many planetary classifications. After you create so many dev plans, you can't create any more, even if you delete existin

Reply to MOO 3...what the hell happened? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I actually like the macromanagement aspect of MOO3 and working through Dev plans. The AI is really quite intelligent at doing what you tell it to do. Unfortunately, the game failed to ship with a manual that tells you how to work with the AI. I think the bulk of the complaints with MOO3 could be addressed if there was a real manual and a real tutorial. The already steep learning curve turns into a vertical learning cliff that countless people are falling off of. Hopefu