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Questions about the idol in Demigod Stardock Forums

according to the readme, to get war rank 10, you need the idol. Does this mean the idol is useless to have up until you've hit 9, and you just need it to go from 9-10? (and to keep the enemy from doing so). or is there any early benefit to having it, like a faster progression from 1-9. If I grab it at any point in the game, the AI seems to ignore it as unimportant and never tries to take it from me. And is your war rank indicated somewhere? What units you

Reply to Question in Demigod Stardock Forums

I get a brief pause, not nearly that often. only several times a game. Everything pauses for a sec, then continues on. 4 gigs ram, 8800 gts 640, amd64x2, vista 32b. Hasn't interrupted my ability to play the game, it literally only lasts a second, didn't even think of it till I saw this post, but might as well add my 2 cents for information's sake.

Reply to How do I set my controls? in Demigod Stardock Forums

and is there a way to rotate the camera? hard to see around the rook, hehe. have only played one game so far so w/enough experimentation I'll probably figure it out if its there.

Reply to Why Starcraft II will not live up to the greatest RTS of the past decade. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

RTS's I've liked: the myth series the total war series, especially since they added the TBS grand strategic mode. that's pretty much it for rts's I've *really* liked. I *pretty much* liked the kohan and dow series' because they stepped away from some of the things I don't like about all the zillions of warcraft clones, making unit strategy a bit more important, focusing the action more on the battlefront and managing units in battle and less on the making of bu

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

We don't need new technologies, we have an old one that'd work just fine - horses. Buy your horse now while you can! I'm off to start up my horse breeding farm! My horses will come w/cupholders!

Reply to Neverwinter Nights 2 BotD2 in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds interesting, I'll check it out this weekend

Reply to Stardock being purchased? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Move on out to Redmond, I work there, I could be the annoying weird nerd guy who keeps trying to hang around and get free glimpses of products to come. I'll bring muffins!

Reply to Agents - how is this a good addition? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't had any problems, but I haven't played the latest patch yet, and I haven't played past normal yet (next game I'll be upping the difficulty though).

Reply to Does anyone one else find that they play the game zoomed out far enough for icons? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I adjust it so it doesn't switch to the icons unless you are much further out than the default. This way I can zoom out pretty far and still keep things in the normal graphics mode. Then I occasionally zoom all the way out when I want icons (easier to find certain kinds of things on an immense map via icons). I like being able to switch between the 2 so easily, only a couple spins on the mousewheel and you're all the way out, boom. I use the minimap to move the view around. Wouldn

Reply to Fog of War & Curiosity in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

wear those old glasses you'd wear for 3d-movies, one side red, one side blue.

Reply to Fog of War & Curiosity in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There was a game, I think TA: Kingdoms, where there was an option to make the fog look like . . . . wait for it . . . . fog. Was pretty cool. Of course, TA:K in general was a flop, mostly because I think it was a bit buggy and had high system requirements so many just couldn't play it, had some good ideas though and I normally dislike RTS's.

Reply to The power of the consumer - copy protection in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

DRM is the suck. W/that scheme, I'll probably still get mass effect, because I'll probably only be interested in playing it once anyways. Or maybe I'll wait till I get a ps3 and get it as a 'greatest hit' for 10-20 bucks a couple years from now. But I'll avoid spore if it has it because I might be interested in it for a long time if I were to have it, and the hassle of re-authorizing is just somethin' I don't wanna have to deal w/the hassle of. I'm an adult, I have enough hassle w/out having

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I might be repeating some things others have said, I only read half the posts, but: 1) I think the yor economy is fine and like how different they are. Their buildings are fine too. I'm not requesting that they not be changed. I'm just saying, when 'fixing' races due to complaints, fix things that aren't operating as intended, add whatever ya feel like, change 'em up in whatever ways ya feel like, but I request those doing so just keep in the back of their mind the need to avoid tak

Reply to Some minor bugs - TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Holy crap, I just realized I was more confused than I had ever thought. Just went back to an old save game to see if they were still alive and I do have one old enough. Guess what? There was both another Yor, *and* the Dark Yor, all to confuse my poor Yor self. Damn replicating machines! hehe The dark yor *did* have a different symbol at least, I thought they were the same race being referred to in different ways at different times. (for instance, in the screeny I posted above I'm

Reply to Some minor bugs - TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Curious question: Did you enable ascension victory, and if yes, how was a (relatively) quick ascension victory prevented? [/quote] No, I did not enable ascension victory. Avoided too early ascension that way. Avoided too early tech victory as well. Wouldn't have really been an issue anyways, however, as I had the best research goin' according to the charts, and won before anyone could have gotten to an ascension victory anyhow. Disabling tech trading probably helped

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Another is that if you don't have the techs to build (or is it that if it isn't in your tree?) and flip/invade/buy/inherent a planet all the destructible improvements that you don't have those techs for will be demolished.[/quote] Just did a quick check in the editor, there's a flag for 'destructable', so anyone who doesn't like this could probably easily mod it, down to the specific improvement. Didn't know it also happened w/friendly transfers.

Reply to TA 101 in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Just played a game as Yor and they aren't that bad. Like you said, you have to play differently, not use up all your tiles. But keepin tiles empty can cause you to have a bangin' economy (no maintenance cost for all your unused tiles). Combined w/good pop growth and the money comes in nicely to support a giant military. Some of the buildings have big effects for one building. Plus, smaller planets others don't care about are fine for you, you don't need many tiles, don't need to spam a bunch

Some minor bugs - TA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

My first game in TA is coming to a close (immense, so it takes a while). anyhow, noticed the following things, a couple of which are minor bugs, and the rest of which are probably not bugs but just me not understanding something: 1) when I put scouts on auto-explore, they group together and all go explore the same place. on an immense map when I want to see what's out there, having half a dozen scouts scouting only in one direction in a swarm doesn't seem right. hehe&nb

Reply to Treaty Penalty Question in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

On page 34 of the manual (which it seems is actually the dark avatar manual, despite its name and cover) it says: War Alert: Players who start wars with those they have a treaty with end up with a diplomacy penalty for the rest of the game. The other civilizations will look darkly at what you have done and raise the terms of any future trades. *** So it sounds like: 1) if you aren't the one to start the war - no penalty 2) but I can't tell from the la

Treaty Penalty Question in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I understand that if you go to war w/someone that you had a research/econ treaty w/, you pay a penalty, everyone gets upset w/you. The treaties are one way, you only have 2 to give out, but you can diplo your way into getting several where you are the recipient, far more than 2, as many as you can get. So the question is, does the penalty apply to *you* when you are merely the *recipient* and you are not reciprocating? Does it apply to both the giver and taker, even in a on

Reply to TA Manual? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Solution: Had no manual, it *said* I had the latest version, but after seeing other posts here regarding things other people had that I didn't (such as a manual, a campaign, etc..) I began to suspect something was wrong. Uninstalled via impulse, deleted the docs/stardock/twilight directory, reinstalled via Impulse - and this time I had an even *older* version - 1.80.something. Impulse though said I was up to date w/1.9etc.... Still no manual, and now an even less functional game.<br/

Reply to DeskScapes Does Nothing in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

I had a similar problem after the last update, and then, unrelated, I tried out Impulse. Decided to uninstall deskscapes and reinstall again (had done this once already using Stardock Central) - except this time I did it in Impulse. have no idea why, but now it works again. Vista 32 bit home basic. geforce 8800 gts. drivers 174.74. And now that its working, I've archived it this time, lesson learned.

Reply to TA Manual? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm, I thought perhaps the manual just wasn't done yet, didn't realize till I saw this thread that I was supposed to have it. Perhaps I just missed a step when installing. i get a 'could not launch Twilight manual at the expected location', then it says where it expected to find it. Upon looking in that directory, no pdf exists. Did a search of the entire drive for TwilightManual.pdf, still nada. Did a search for *.pdf, and no GC2 manual (neither vanilla, DA, nor

Reply to Ground based tactical combat games in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]. Oh, and instead of burning money on graphics, make it run on "normal" PCs, too. A new X-Com in Stardock/GCII quality? I'd immediately pre-order with the next three expansions.[/quote] I'd love a squad based tactical game for the pc, not nearly enough of them except for x-com clones. But please, somethin' other than x-com, got enough clones of that out there. UFO:ET is fine for me on that front. Maybe somethin' fantasy based, a la final fantasy tactics, tactics ogre, disgea,

Reply to What game are you playing? in Community Stardock Forums

ps2: god of war 2 *** psp (which I play during my lunch hour at work exclusively): god of war chains of olympus final fantasy tactics (have played through it multiple times on the ps1, back in the day). *** laptop (macbook): Geneforge Dominions 3 (I use my laptop all the time for utility stuff, but rarely use it for games so I don't play them very often, but if I happen to be w/my laptop and in the mood f