I won. The Peacekeepers screwed up everything, so I went for a tech victory instead.

Someone beat this for income. My average income was not even positive! I had a negative: -1738 bc credits per month income! :D :up: I bet I might be one of the few that ever managed to win with negative income the entire game!

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After reading through this thread, sounds like GC2 is a hoot. I see I can get the GC2: Ultimate Bundle Pack as a d/l for $60.00...

If the game is a good as you guys make it out to be, I guess I'll be a bit poorer by morning... ;)

Well you guys convinced me to buy it today...played it for a few hours tonight and had fun. I probably still don't know how the play the game, but it was still fun to have free reign over my empire :)

Let's see if anyone can match my massive negative income and still win! Talk about doing things backwards!

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I found that if you have some nice research going on you can do fine (sort of) by selling the technology to the pathetic lesser beings for big moolahs

Don't think I could deal with -1700bc/m though

Whats up with the Peacekeepers? They showed up with unstoppable ships. Massive in scale with 10 to a fleet? Utimate Logistics only allowed 5 for me! They had more Disruptors mounted on a ship than I could, giving them massive firepower. They also backed it up with over 1000 in shield defense? This ship is cheating! I will take a pic in a second! The best technology could not take out these massive fleets! They even could move massive numbers of turns per turn, and destroyed everything regardless that they were only supposed to destroy military ships outside of their scope of space? Starbases, and frieghters were on the list even!

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Curious, Stardock's new title, "Sins of a Solar Empire" http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/ sounds a whole lot like GC2. Anyone playing SSE?:hmm:

Except the music and graphics style they have next to nothing in common. GC2 is turn based, sins is RTS, which I hate. But it seems to be a pretty popular game among RTS fans.

When they make a campaign for SSE, then I'll get it. Right now, its basically an online RTS game.

I like Homeworld so I like this kind of game. I didn't get into Homeworld 2 though.

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I still consider Homeworld and Homeworld 2 the best space RTS I have ever played

Hmm.. thx guys... Yeah, I'm liking the "turn based" game play of GC2 already... :up:

Think before you move. Its chess.

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I've got Twilight installed. Going for another go at it. I have an immense universe rolling this time.

Patched to 1.96. I refuse to use Stardock though. Thats a terrible way to force people to use your system.

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Are you nuts? I checked this only once, and got like 200 billion stars, so no thanks.

I hate that stuff too, and the praise stardock gets for that is undeserved. The bloody thing doesnt even let me specify where to store my damn files so I always have problems when my C: partition is full. Same with Impulse. Very stupid, superfluous programs.

My C: is nothing more than a swap file with a boot sector. There is no room for crap on my C drive - maybe less than 100 MB.

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Just a quick note: Impulse will let you specify where your install, temp and archive dirs are located. Click the round "stardock" icon in the upper left hand corner and choose preferences. I had the same problem as GE the first time I used Impulse... filled up my C drive...

BTW, as much as I hate using programs like Impulse (I'm old skool "download and install" kinda guy), it works pretty well. I purchased the GC2: Ultimate Bundle, paid through Paypal. Stardock sent an email with all the appropriate links and info. Then I downloaded, installed and ran Impulse, plugged in the serial numbers to register. The UB consists of all three games, Dread Lords, Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor as three separate download/installs, each with it's own serial #.

Last note: Impulse currently downloads and installs only. The "Archive" feature is disabled so it's not possible to just download and burn to disk. It's supposed to be working in the near future...

Cheers!

Thanks that will be handy in the future.

Same here. C is 6144MB and it's a necessity, because I use an old image program that backups whole partitions including empty space. One of the most reliable pieces of software I have seen my entire life.

If you haven't bought Twilight of the Arnor, you're missing out on some cool stuff. Stardock added Map, Scenario, Campaign, Tech and Ship Editors along with an "Improvements" editor (don't know what it does yet), all of them accessible from the menu screen... :up:

Playing it now. This time out, I'm not top dog tech wise. I opted for a planet grab this time. When the money starts rolling in from all my planets, then I will crush them on the tech tree!

I hold more planets than any other race so far.

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I used to do that too (settle as many planets as possible) but then there's always a dangerous point early on when you run out of funds (if you dont happen to find any cash anomalies) ! It's painful if you must lower social / military production in order to get some meagre 20bc/a extra.