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The Corporate Machine - Playable on XP? in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

Hello, I recently purchased The Corporate Machine (I recalled reading many favourable reviews of it many years ago), however I have been unable to get it to work on XP. It loads OK and the start screen comes up, however, it stalls on the game setup screen. I have set it to Windows 95 compatibility, but still no joy. I am running a dual core CPU, which may also be a problem for this software, however after setting the affinity to one CPU the game still stalls on the

Reply to The 20,000 bc limit officially sucks in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] Is it possible this limit is intended to simulate inflation caused by having a substantial treasury? I've been told it's technically "graft". This used to be specified in the Wiki Tax Article . This is the malus referred to in the following equation. At one time I thought a value of 10% was mentioned but at high levels of income (> 1 million bc/week) this seems closer to 20%. 34.5 * sq

Reply to Newb Questions in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Another type of ship I've found to be useful --- This baby normally sits well behind the enemy lines. I normally build this on a small or medium hull (depending on galay size).... Park it behind the AI lines in guard mode and wait till you go to war. When at war use it to knock out the enemy's mining bases, miners, freighters, unguarded troop ships and other unarmed ships and starbases.... [/quote] On instance where this strategy will be of n