Frank Leon

Frank Leon

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Reply to Why AI, WHY! Why do you love farms! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think the computer players specialize planets much more than human players tend to. Given that the AI plays a pretty good game, the fact that it doesn't always use planets like we would doesn't mean it's doing something wrong. Also, it uses the special tiles pretty well in my experience. Sometimes it's better to put a factory on a specila food tile though or a research center on a morale tile. Just because you could get some extra benefit from a tile doesn't mean it should dictate

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Reply to GalCiv II: v1.1 Full Change Log in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

what the hell... hi, i'm from germany and i've bought the game - but used. i have the cd, the serials in the back of the manual (also a seriual for the collectors edition) and i know want to update the game but i can't activate. it seems that the owner before me has activated. he didn't liked the game and has sold it to me - but now i'm very angry. what's that for a shit i

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Reply to Regret buying the game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI kicks my butt at Normal. Sorry, your majesty, that you are so great and intelligent that even GalCiv AI can't live up to your lofty expectations. To the guy who said Civ 4's AI is better, that's insane. Even I can beat Civ 4 with lots of players quite a few notches up. It doesn't allow me to trade very much with it and so restricts what players can do that it takes a cop out. Were the borders put in because they're cool or because

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Reply to Who Beta Tested This? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Um, I was in the beta. I found beta 5 to be pretty stable and the final game is working flawlessly here. There is no way in hell a game this complex could have been released with it working perfectly for all people. If there is some huge major bug going on that everyone else, I sure haven't seen it. The closest thing I've seen to a serious problem is the losing mouse pointer problem and, surprise surprise, hardly anyone runs into it. I've got a Geforce 6600 and I've never

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Reply to Konfabulator pretentious or what? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I agree with what the other posters said. The Konfabulator guy is incredibly arrogant. Today's panel is a good example http://www.konfabulator.com/cartoon/partSix.html He really tries to pretend that Konfabulator somehow originated something new and unique. Pretty insulting to the DesktopX developers who were doing what the Konfab guy was dreaming years before.

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Reply to Stardock best game company EVER! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Ya, I just got my email today too. Simply incredible. Almost ridiculously generous. I have always supported Stardock even back years ago but this really takes the cake. I hope everyone who gets that email tells two of their friends to buy something from TotalGaming.net. This is just incredible support.

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Reply to New blood for skinning in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I will tell you: WinCustomize needs a permanent "Essential library" of articles that is on every side-bar on every page. A set of must-read articles like the newbie articles, icon-a-day series, and other such things. There's a lot of information on WinCustomize but no easy way for would-be new users to get to it.

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Reply to Longhorn Skinning in New Releases WinCustomize Forums

From what I have heard, Longhorn skinning will be a lot less flexible than it is under xp. There's no skin format, just bitmap replacements. Unless you have something like WindowBlinds.

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Reply to Anyone here use DX consistantly? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I use it all the time here. I basically replaced my desktop icons with DesktopX objects. I have little need for the much-hyped widget nonsense. If people wanted widgets so badly, they'd have long since switched to stuff from 545 Studios or Samurize or whatever where such little gizmos have been available for years. For me, DesktopX is about building desktops. Not for finding out what the temperature is outside or having other crap on the deskt

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Reply to Konfabulator for Windows vs. DesktopX in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The complaint that someone from Stardock wrote this on WinCustomize, a Stardock site seems odd. It's like going to say MSN and complaining about a Windows vs. Linux article. Except in this article, no conclusions are made. Brad never implies one is better than the other. He just spells out what they have in common and what's different and I've seen no one say that it's not accurate. If this article were appearing on PC Magazine and it was written by B

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