Would it be possible to add a queue to the ship build window like with the colony build window?  It gets ever so extremely tiring to constantly zoom back into a planet or hunt for planets using the colony list just to change what ship you want it to build. 

For example:  If I want to build ShipA, ShipB, ShipD, ShipA, ShipC  I would need to constantly be going back into the starport to select the ship I want next.  With a ship queue I could just queue up my build order and not have to worry about that colony until it's queue has run out. 

Combined with that could Autolaunch also launch military ships I know you can right click the icons on the right side of the screen to launch ships but when you are playing large maps and have a huge number of colonies this takes forever, just like having to select the next type of ship you want built by a colony.  It's the reason why so many have stopped playing the large maps. 

Well after verification, Impulse doesn't like any of my GC2 installs, it says they're all not installed correctly.  Boogiebac, any idea why that might be?  Is it searching for all the files to be the exact size listed in GC2.xml files?  Cause i've messed around with pleanty of files before as you know.  Does that mean i need to wipe GC2 and reinstall all of them?

First, I gotta say that I absolutely love the way an Immense Abundant Habitable/Frequent Special Worlds map feels. It just... feels "right". Kinda like the first time I played an Immense map during the TA beta. The two new game setup options were a very, very pleasant suprise for me.

Second, passive spying is a great addition and it really completes that particular subsystem. Now if only the Espionage ability itself actually did something useful (*nudge, nudge, wink, wink*) and perhaps Courage too, while you are at it

Third, the planetary governers are a great step forward for the game, and I can't ever imagine not having them. But there are two things I think would complete the feature:

1. A way to set a planetary governer as the "default governer" and would automatically queue up buildings once a planet was intially colonized/taken over. Sure, it only saves a couple clicks.... but hey, a couple clicks can add up quick on an Immense map with abundant habitable planets.

2. Persistant planetary governers among games for each Race, kinda like how ship designs can be saved to disk. Set 'em up once, and forget about them

As a side note, it took me the longest time to find the place to change a Planetary Governer. Heck, I didn't even realize there were controls for changing the auto-terraforming of tiles! 

Also...

This would be an awesome addition to Planetary Governers.

All in all, awesome work on the 2.0 patch!

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"It took some tweaking, but we finally got the Dreadlord and Dark Avatar campaigns working directly in Twilight of the Arnor. (I don't believe this made it in for today's build.)"

Sorry ahead of time for the silly question, but how do you do this?

Thanks

The best and (I would think) simplest idea here might be the ability to tell the AI to use some of the planetary governors at its discretion.

Sometimes the AI makes REALLY horrid decisions in city planning.  I *should* be getting smacked around by the Krynn except for the fact that my specialized focused factory planets are churning out ships much faster than his larger empire composed of "lets make the planets do research/influence/production/economy for each planet."

Is the Minor Races being an actual presence a 2.0 change, or did I miss that somewhere along the line? Early on, one wardec'd me and went around blowing up starbases and trade lanes.  When I got to his planet he had an actual defense there I had to handle - it was very nice.  Also, the Dark Yor and Snathi have been at war for a few years.  Pretty fireworks.

I think in my next game, if I'm doing well enough to allow it, I may give a few planets to the Snathi and set them on some other minor for entertainment purposes.

UMMMM, CALL ME CRAZY, but was the 2.0 beta SUPPOSED to install to the Galciv2 folder DIRECTLY, and not the Galciv2/twilight folder???  Cause that's what impulse did.  And now a bunch of settings aren't right, mods folder being an obvious pick.

I have a few more coments to make and questions to ask at this point in time:

1. Does pasive spies steal techs?

2. The AI doesn't seem to compete well for extreme planet types. On smaller maps, I can nab most of the extreme planets before the AI researches the techs needed to colonize them, or before they try to declare war on me. Either way, I tend to have enough planets to win the war, even if the AIs manage to steal a few planets.

3. There appears to be a bug with the auto build starbase feature. If you have negative money in the treasury, and the next module to be installed costs money to build, it will instead popup a window asking you what to build. Regardless of what you pick (even free to build modules), it will say you don't have the money to build it.

I've already sent in a bug report e-mail for #3. Its much more detailed that what I've mentioned here.

Sorry ahead of time for the silly question, but how do you do this?

Thanks

Seems to be fine for me, Boogie.  Can we make some way to steal techs without attacking an improvement?

Even if I had to "burn" a spy, but if I do I need to be able to pick a tech, not have one pulled out of a hat.  If I get laser I for a spy burn when I'm researching Beyond Mortality, items will be thrown.

Oh, yeah... btw, THAT precious manual is also an excellent reference. I specifically like the pages which gives a thorough compare of races 'buildings'.

Really-really great stuff to consult (for newest players!). I'm officially jealous of their currently available pdf.

When, i had to guess my way to obtain this sort of informations.

Bof, i DO have it now as everyone else.