bradzoob

bradzoob

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Reply to Is there a way to play Multiplayer through EMAIL (or other method)? As in make your turns in your own time and notify the next player when it is there turn? in GalCiv IV Support Stardock Forums

This is interesting, i remember playing Barren Realms Elite with 24 hour turns on my BBS's back in the day and at midnight everyone would try to login to my bbs at once to smash the enemy before the other guys got in to use their strategy. good times. So the idea of limited "actions" is kinda cool, to suit the game setup and time to play available.

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Reply to Start11 v2 2.1 Arrives with ARM for All in Start News Stardock Forums

This sent my workstation into bonkers mode with start being blank, taskbar intermittently blank, desktop windows sort of phasing in and out with parts drawing and other parts not, a serious issue, i thought i'd been hacked :P Had to manually remove it then reinstall 2.0. Win1164Pro

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Reply to Taskbar Preview Thumbnails appearing even though I disabled them in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Sonyaa" reply="17" id="3916676"] I have the latest version of Start11 and Windows 11. The taskbar preview is driving me nuts. If Stardock can't fix it, I'm going to have to stop using it. Is this going to be fixed? [/quote] Me too, but not sure i can survive without Start11, nor with these previews driving me crazy, the slightest hint of a cursor travelling toward them and BAM they cover all other options in the vicinity until you slide over

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Reply to Introducing Start11 v2 in Software Blog Stardock Forums

Just bought this, good job, but I've tried multiple paths but i can't find a way to customize how the Taskbar Pins are shown, the folders (3 yellow folders in pic below) are just generic and don't have a label and they don't show an alt text when hovering over them either, so i don't know what these are until i click them, are we able to alter how they are displayed, like include a text label defaulting to the name of the folder we used. I wear multiple hats and since win7 i've been hacking i

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Reply to Introducing Start11 v2 in Software Blog Stardock Forums

Win12 will be SaaS, you're not fixing those bugs with local s/ware because it'll interrupt the design MS has in mind for 2024+ which is to move everything inhouse, remove functionality sprawl and convert support into an in-house support team as a Managed Service Provider. Everyone should be writing s/ware for Linux at this point because any s/ware house relying upon MS shortcomings in locally installed features for revenue is going to see a sharp decline in users needing those services.

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2.2 bugs with mod manager in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Dorsai won't work, throws errors, can't fix it via mod manager as there's no "check for update" function i could see and on the mod page none of the links work. Does the Mod Manager update itself? https://www.galciv4.com/mods/manager << Dorsai 2.2 update here doesn't respond when you try to click the green button (was logged in with active session). The only way i could get 2.2 to work was by disabling modding

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Reply to Modding in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

The post i made 15 months prior, above, could probably be saved by adding "Def" to the end of that, but without knowing that you may as well have no information at all.

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Reply to Modding in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Trial and horror and finally made this make sense. Here's an example of how you modify only a single item, in this case 2 single items, without using an entire XML file and basically blocking updates from the game. For some insane reason you won't find a reference to this _anywhere_, i'm not sure why. ~\Documents\My Games\GalCiv4\Mods\ \Data\Gameplay\ModDefsList.xml Had some problems with this due to throwing errors numerous times, it's not as fluid

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Reply to Changes to Def files not working in GalCiv IV Modding GalCiv4 Forums

mods work, but i don't know how to make proper overrides, so your xml files are basically a static game def and an update won't include any of the changes from their end. Still waiting on instructions for that to work, or even an example.

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Announced Today! in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

is it tho? is it DLC? sounds like, and literally cited as in the months since, a replacement of the unquestionably incomplete gc4 that i swear we already bought and are being asked to buy again. lol. Sigh, you shady devils are lucky we know how rare and precious 4x like galciv is. :P I mean it's fairly obvious 4x is an EOL genre, i'm just happy one of the pioneer companies is still doing it, though I'd recommend being real careful with the AI, there's a lot of fire and sparks up in the

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Reply to Modding Guidelines and Rules in GalCiv IV Modding GalCiv4 Forums

yeah, i mean i found my way to mod gc4 to my liking but it takes time and i have no idea how to make it stick so that it would just integrate my changes, which was a pain, so i went back to playing 3 since gc4 without modding was painful for me to play. Found a gc3 mod that overhauls immense maps perfectly. Since it's just XML modding maybe it could be done by a recursive data editor instead of by hand. Any tools you can recommend?

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #9 - The FAQ in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I love this post so much, more of this. I love the partitioning of maps, i know it seems like a simple choice but man if you're huge into 4X this is a massive change, for my conquer-driven brain it helps break up the conquest wonderfully, except for one problem; the implementation. Clusters should have names, like cmon, obviously. :P due to the pacing of the game when unmodded it takes me 2 weeks play time to get from one corner to the other so i need a way of knowing what

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #1 - The 2023 plan in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

ooh i like that tech idea, i've been playing with that one in my head for a while. Creating a sort of meta properties for techs so they can automatically be associated in a network for adjacency and using simple cyclical graph distance to calculate distance to techs you've already researched. I suppose the one armed bandit approach to extraneous techs would work as an additional zinger too, techs that are just boost techs or esoteric bonuses that appear once a combo of intentionally researche

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