Dan Greene

Reply to How do I stop races from stealing my technology? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is one of the areas of the game that could use some more depth, again I don't wanna go down the MOO route, but you can't fault excellence, obviously there should be a chance on each roll to... stop a steal and spy gets caught point finger at originating empire (best case) stop a steal and spy gets caught points finger at wrong empire stop a steal but spy gets away dont stop steal byt spy gets caught points finger at wrong empire dont stop steal spy gets away b

Reply to How can I speed up game performance? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

another 512 ram would really help, and a geforce 6 series card, works great for me in my system which had similar specs to yours, keeps it current for about another year or so and then you gotta seriously think about a new system for sure with HT, and probably a Dual Core rig. They should be about $750-900 in a year or so, and that'll make your system real happy. If you have 1.5 ghz processor that means you got like just over a P 3 in terms of processing power, one of the earliest Pen

Reply to Starfore attacks GC2 in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

What r you guys all worried about? Software piracy is really just free advertising. Just ask microsoft, about how they plan to see copies of Vista in China, you know the ones with the hardware protection keychains, Great stuff.

Reply to Rise of Legends: Case study in multiplayer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Well I can explain why the game's not doing well from your own statements "The forums that ttalk about the game are having a riot about connectivity problems, crashing, performance during multiplayer." "I might find a couple of 2 on 2 games if I go on during prime time. Games that almost certainly end with someone quitting or crashing out." "I have only managed to get one game to actually start due to lack of people to play and that game crashed." But you have to

Reply to GalCiv2 and WIndows Vista? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ha windows Vista, why doesnt MS fix XP's security holes FIRST!

Reply to Pros and Cons with GalCiv2 incl. Updates. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I agree with the idea of multiplayer, whats frustrating is people not on board with the idea, who have no imagination, and are completely missing the point or dismissing it outright. It seems so easy and quick to point out on here for no good reasons, oh cost, thats brilliant, when it already costs hundreds or thousands if not millions of dollars to develop software anyway, whaver the cost, it can and should be done, if you can make a profit, that's all that matters really, the profit motive, an

Reply to REMOVE ALL GAME CHEATS!!! [EDITED] in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

last post lol haha.

Reply to N00b questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

On mars you can build a single factory and then build a farm or two and then once you got those farms build another farm after you demolish that factory or perhaps a happiness center, you can use it for a tax base and make some money cause you cant make much else there, if you use a colony ship buildt on earth, obviously you'll be building em there at some point, you can ferry excess ppl from earth to mars cheap and easy, just move em 499 million at a time, once you get to mars the other 1 milli

Reply to Going broke in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Wouldn't it be a bitch if the microprocessor really has an intelligence and has just decided that ever 1 in 1 quadrillion numbers it crunches it's going to switch the 0 to a 1 on you just to fu k with ya. LOL

Reply to I had a plan, see? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah the Torians are like the Federation, sticking their big, and I mean big and dumb looking heads in everywhere, you could just take a baseball bat to em and see if they'd pop off. LOL ROTFLPGC2

Reply to No ship textures, just flat, solid colors in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Not sure on this but, since noone else has posted... I believe you have 512 ram and an ancient graphics card with only 64MB or ram. I say, ancient, and only because I had this same card, up until I upgrade to a GeForce 6600, with 256 on board RAM, The fact that you only have 512 system ram means that it can't help out your grahpics card with any of the textures or drawing whatnot cause the operating system is using about 192-mb of ram + the game (128-384mb of the rest of the ram) Then the rest i

Reply to Game is Buggy in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

You're a whiner, and beyond that, you're not a very detailed whiner, consider resposting with clearer, specific, detailed examples of what you call bugs. If all you got is bitching cause you dont like how the game is setup, well it comes with an uninstaller, put it to good use and S T F U.

Reply to More noob questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

If you break it down in stages it's easier to understand whats happening and what you should be doing in the galaxy. Most RTS games are designed to come to a conclusion in less then 2 hours, because the time contraints and attention span demands beyond that aren't realistic for a majority of players. Real Time Strategy games are almost always about building up an economy thorugh harvesting, while simultaneously building a military. In that a turn based strategy game is very similar.

Reply to REMOVE ALL GAME CHEATS!!! [EDITED] in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Oh and by the way stop trying to ruin the game for others by thinking your influence is stronger then any others. I.E. A much better slogan would be for you to get on the MP bandwagon so that stardock takes notice, and allows me to whip your cheating ass, online.

Reply to REMOVE ALL GAME CHEATS!!! [EDITED] in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Shadow tek you need to grow up and stop offering money to people to fix your problems, learn your lesson as it is taught here and in the world, cheating is an unsatisfying way of completing a goal in the entertainment realm its as simple as that. The reason cheats exists is not for your dumb ass but for those others who are looking for easter eggs and who truely need the help. Offering money to stardock might be better spent on getting yourself some therapy.

Reply to Starting to get bored. in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think you guys would agree some additonal depth in some areas would make the game more enjoyable. i.e. entertaining, throughout the gameplay.... Such as more depth in the UP, the Espionage area, random galatic events, random anoymalies, maybe some tactical combat, or even some ground combat, maybe more options in the ground attack arena.

Reply to About planet rotation and moon revolution in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

To Stardock You know what, DONT SPEND TIME FIXING THIS! To the dude who noticed, Turn your monitor upside down if it bothers you or do a clean install or Windows, and reformat your harddrive while you're at it and let the developers develop something worth while. It's a game not a space sim.

Reply to Newbie thoughts on Galciv (long) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I agree with your comment about the UP this is another area that the game could use more depth. I think the type of things you end up voting for are silly and at random, pointless. It would be much more interesting if you could choose or at least "influence" based on your influence points, via allies, which topic to choose from. A brilliant idea, which would encourage the player to do more wheeling and dealing anyway goes like this... Have a human player go around asking the other AI

Reply to Brad hates it when people say "something needs doing", but... in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Falcon 4.0 Allied Force is the best supported game in the world. Originally developed by companies no longer in existence, for Windows 98, back in 1995-1999, includes multiplayer support for peer to peer, host only, and a combination, a sophisticated simulation of the Avoinics and flight model for the F-16, allows you to play in single player execute missions like a real pilot, missions are created dynamically and are the real world equilavent of actually flying a mission. The latest developer t

Reply to AI building Starbases all over my "territory" in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

This would be a great situation to take advantage of some sabotage or covert action against starbases that didn't fit your fancy for being inside your area. I suspect they are trying to see what kind of ships you have in those sectors but you're right it's annoying. Are they of all different types or military or economic bases? I think you said economic bases but that doesn't make sense to me unless they are trying to recoup more freighter bonuses. I like the idea of them building starbases but

Reply to Earth 2150...2160? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

so would that be a thumbs down for 2160? I remember it not making it's target release date and I wondered When they started talking about infinte polygon counts, and I remember uh see ya.

Reply to Rise of Legends: Case study in multiplayer in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Just cause you got a bad exprience with another game, doesn't mean that this game can't have both a multiplayer system that works, and a good multiplayer exprience at that. Just cause the AI cheats on their program, they may not have had the time or the budget to make it work and just rushed it out the door. What I've read about Stardock, is they do have the funding, and the desire to create a quality product as well as the know how to make a product work, also should they make a monster of a tu

Reply to 1% military production = enough? ("social fund transfer"-syndrome) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was under the impression that if you're actual spending if you don't have any mil production ships quered and no social projects underway that all of that money goes back to taxiation? If you have a mil production project then it gets the social bonus if there's no social project, if you have both then they work like normal gettin the % shown in the national level. In order to grow the economy i.e. the population I generally keep my overall morale level about 75-85% this means my income taxes

Reply to 1% military production = enough? ("social fund transfer"-syndrome) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

How much production are you losing on average over 10 turns on a percentage basis with not doing this vs doing this as you've described. I'm curious as to how it plays out over 10 turns. I'm curious because... what you do at the beginning effects the next 100 turns for sure, and the 20 turns the next 120 turns, and on and on.

Reply to Pet Peeves and Likes in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I get that weird drawing of ownership too when I zoom in, and thats' ok as long as it works when you zoom out, but it's hard to not zoom in too much when you want a regional look. As for tactical combat, if it's something "most" of the posts seem to indicate would be a good meld for the game, then that's a good indicator for a good profitable project for stardock to work on, or a good idea, a "NEW FEATURE" for an expansion pak. Obviously if it's massive new code well that's what a software compa