I just went and started a gigantic galaxy game, but it was obvious fairly quickly that I was going to have a huge confrontation with one of my own custom races since their territory roughly backed me into a corner

The worst part, they are the early military expansion custom race, whereas I was playing a bunch of isolasionist pacifists... :88) I was doomed....

D'OH! oh well, win some lose some :D

I'm currently playing the Dark Avatar version. i wonder if normal is any different? I've never played the original.

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What is up with the Snathi? Crap! Little evil squirrels that breed military ships like rabbits! Got to knock them out fast now. They are spreading way too far!

Been using them for free money from old technology that I sell them. They somehow know how to rake in the cash fast! Much faster than me, yet they only have one planet and a bunch of starbases?

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I think they are limited to only 1 planet so you can dispose of them. And I love the event when they steal the technology of the most advanced race and sell it to everyone. It's these small details that explain why the game stays interesting even long after the mid game.

The Snathi. LOL.

http://www.galciv2.com/screenshots/g...y/PowerD59.jpg

Dark Avatar here too, normal misses out on some features like the toxic/radiated etc. planets. In the original I've also never had one of my own custom races appear as a random opponent.

Get Twilight of the Arnor, it adds a lot in terms of gameplay and visuals, I also heard there is a new expansion aroud the corner.

Just ordered Twilight of the anor.

\o/

You bloody lot made me though.

Also:

GalCiv2: 4.5 Hours spent designing ships, .5 Hours spent smashing end turn.

Look at the bright side - you get an auto ship designer in this one and it even automagically names it!

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I turned it off because its annoying and unnessesary.

Besides building your own ships is the best thing about Gal-civ 2.

Usually I just design a few base designs and then I can easily retrofit them for other uses and upgrades.

For example both colony ships and Freighters would be required to make atmospheric desents (trading and colonizing) so refitting a colony ship into a cargo ship wouldn't be hard.

Also an early Variation of my Screamer Class Frigate, the wings (In rp theory) twist around and allow the ship to fight in atmospheric conditions like a Helocopter

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...ghtfrigate.jpg

I love this game from stardock. I enjoy creating my uber ships hehehe. Overly large killers hehehe.

Great game cheap and Free from DRMs!!! :rock:

Any reports? All I have is Dark Avatar. Wondering if I should upgrade, especially with a new pack coming out?

Eh?

I haven't played much tbh, Impulse said my install was ****ed up so I'm doing a full reinstall and even having a hard copy of the main version of galciv2 I still have to do a 1.1 gig download, which is even more of a pain because impulse likes to disconnect.

1.1 GB is not a whole lot. Should take you what? 10 minutes unless they have really slow servers. I never tried them. I hate transmitting my IP along with a serial over the inet. Its like a tag. MS started this. Everyone else is jumping on.

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1.1 GB is not a whole lot. Should take you what? 10 minutes unless they have really slow servers. I never tried them. I hate transmitting my IP along with a serial over the inet. Its like a tag. MS started this. Everyone else is jumping on. GC 2 Gold came with version 1.5 anyway which is or was the latest that I saw.

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Your thinking that everybody has your connection though

I have a 32KB/s connection, I can download about a gig a day. (thats full throttle for 24 hours)

Also my Galciv2 CD is GalCiv2 Vanilla, not gold, GalCiv2 1.0