Zarkov

Zarkov

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Reply to DA: Custom ships moving in weird ways in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Greetings. That block actually comes with a direction. Make sure your ships follows the arrow at the front of the block, or else you might end up with a "sidewinder". Use the ship views, to confirm that your front is where it should be.

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Reply to Tell us what you'd like in Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

As previously mentioned, upgrading numerous starbases can be a bit overwhelming as your empire grows. A "technology" that can automate this process at later stages, would surely help. The time sink should of course stay. I fondly remember a very old game called "Deuteros", where similar tasks tended to be automated when they started to become truly tedious. I am of course against too much automation, as the game should not play itself. But when you got a certain number of starbases, yo

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Reply to Ascendancy? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ascendancy had a wonderful direction, and feel. And as mentioned, not much of an AI. A very charismatic game, without a brain. Loved the weird aliens, they came with their own little tunes as well. It was worth it just to see the artwork and hear the music at the time. Elite is a chapter of it's own. A true classic. It is more of a "space simulator" than anything. Without much "real" physics of

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Reply to Gal Civ 2: Dread Lords Takes Honors at GameShark GoTY Awards in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

This is an incredibly important task. To preserve a most worthy and venerable genre. And Stardock came to save the day. Hip hooray! This person always, ALWAYS continued with the turn based strategy games for much MUCH longer than the real time strategy ones. Most real time strategy titles lacks depth. And if there is any, it's drowned in "blitz und glitz". And lack of support. Not to mention atro

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Reply to Stardock.com re-designed in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Nice and clutter free, with some air. And not a lot of fansy-pansy jazz, that detracts too much from the actual information. Good work, methinks. Do not get sore eyes.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Announced! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Digital distribution is great, if you got a credit card. And live in some remote part of the world. No shipping, no delays, unless you count the download time. ( Which takes an hour or something for me. It's a no-brainer with a fair internet connection. ) This is good stuff. Will buy.

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Reply to Scheduled Downtime in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

To make a true successor to X-Com: UFO Defense, you need aliens. No living human have the ability to recreate that one, because all their nifty ideas, based on contemporary influences, leads to a bad execution. Even the original creators started to drift... It is not possible.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.2 Betas targeting this week... in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The negative comments are just hilarious. The most you get in the ways of support these days, is one or two patches, and these usually do not add content, but fix game breaking bugs. And maybe address some cheats and rather obvious oversights. Then they will tell you that the "patch limit" has been reached, and move to the next project. There are exceptions, but do not expect it. <img src="http

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Reply to Results: Where did you hear about GalCiv II from? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The truly negative posts, can mostly be sorted out as trolling, and may often exhibit a total lack of research on the writers part. Everyone can access the net, and it shows. These forums can however be considered calm waters compared to the storming oceans out there. I have unfortunately used heavy criticism myself in the past, in other gaming forums. And it will sooner or later just end up as flaming or trolling. These days, it's better

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Reply to Good Sci-Fi novels/series in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

You even included Stanislaw Lem in the list. What am I to do? But surely, "The Cyberiad" by this author, was not mentioned? It's the stuff of legend. At least alternate legend. Hehe. Involves a giant calculating machine that goes crazy. It's retro-tech, but quite hilarious. It's another classic I say! Yes, sadly... S. Lem is now one of the writers that wrote about the future, but left us in the past. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2

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