Galactic Civilzations II: 21 Feb

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-16 11:54pm

Yay, GalCiv 2 is mine!

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2006-03-17 12:13am

I just got the game, but haven't actually had a chance to play it yet. And there were two things I was wonderings.

1) I noticed you can save custom races. Can you play against them? (Or alternatly, can you customize your opponents.)
2) The tutorial makes it look like your just watch battles. Do you get any control at all? (I.e. "focus attack here", "retreat!", "stay out of energy weapon range", etc)

Sorry if these are silly, RTFM type question.s I won't get a chance to really play it for a few days, and don't want to wait to know the answers.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-03-17 12:19am

There's no tactical control whatsoever. It's basically very pretty Civ combat.

Congratulations Vympel

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-03-17 12:23am

CelesKnight wrote:I just got the game, but haven't actually had a chance to play it yet. And there were two things I was wonderings.

1) I noticed you can save custom races. Can you play against them? (Or alternatly, can you customize your opponents.)
2) The tutorial makes it look like your just watch battles. Do you get any control at all? (I.e. "focus attack here", "retreat!", "stay out of energy weapon range", etc)

Sorry if these are silly, RTFM type question.s I won't get a chance to really play it for a few days, and don't want to wait to know the answers.

No, if you make it using the Custom Race one.

However, there is a workaround. If you modify one of the Nine basic races and then save it you can. The downside is that now you've lost whatever race you just changed and can't use it while still having your custom race AI Controlled.

To reset that race to the "factory default" standard stats, go into "My Documents", "My Games", "GalCivII", and delete the Custom Race File for it.

Um... did my explanations make any sense?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2006-03-17 02:20am

GalCiv-mon! Gotta catch them all!

This game knows humor.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-03-17 02:36am

Is giving the people what they want so evil?

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2006-03-17 07:47am

MRDOD wrote:Um... did my explanations make any sense?

Yes. Thank you very much.

Master of Cards · Post by **Master of Cards** » 2006-03-17 08:36am

in the manual It has some about having defenses so a snub fighter won't come and blow it up with low tech (any bells)

Malfeas · Post by **Malfeas** » 2006-03-17 08:23pm

Why did I have to read this thread yesterday. You guys made the game sound so good, that I downloaded it yesterday afternoon. Then I started playing.........and playing and playing. I thought I had only played for a few hours when my alarm clock went off at 4:30 IN THE MORNING! Yep, time to get up and go to work. Which is where I've been all day thinking of the game. I'm so sleepy.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-03-17 08:41pm

This has got the be one of the most 'natural feeling' TBS games ever. In my last game the Altarians went to an early lead on industry and tech, with the Iconians having a massive sphere in a corner full of shit planets. I was sandwiched between the Yor and the Torians as the Galactic Terran Alliance (a slightly modified Humans). The Altarian lead got larger and larger, and there was much grumbling about: the Iconians eventually paid the Arceans to attack the Altarians, crippling both their militaries. In a very brief campaigns I captured the Yor worlds and a few core Arcean worlds: both groups sued for peace, to the point of offering me planets to stop the war. The Torians ended up almost entirely inside my area of influence: a few planets that defected showed 50% of their tiles were cultural! The Torian-Drath-Iconian war drew me in, and I eventually negotiated peace for all and recieved the Iconian homeworld. A series of quick alliances and the game was over. Neat.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2006-03-17 11:08pm

Mac version? Please say theres a Mac version? PLease? Plretty please? I have a first born I'd sacrifice for one just as soon as I had one

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-17 11:19pm

Anyone got a problem with the mouse cursor disappearing? What happens is the cursor as I can see it stops where it is, but the real cursor, which is now invisible, can still move about the screen. Even when I go back to desktop, the cursor is gone, so I have to restart my machine. It's happened twice now.

EDIT: It's a known issue but they don't know how to reproduce it. Apparently it's nvidia cards only.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-03-17 11:38pm

Vympel wrote:Anyone got a problem with the mouse cursor disappearing? What happens is the cursor as I can see it stops where it is, but the real cursor, which is now invisible, can still move about the screen. Even when I go back to desktop, the cursor is gone, so I have to restart my machine. It's happened twice now.

EDIT: It's a known issue but they don't know how to reproduce it. Apparently it's nvidia cards only.

Did you try switching off GalCiv's cursor in favor of your normal, less pretty one in the Options menu?

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-18 12:29am

Yeah, that did the trick. Still annoying.

Fucken 6600GT card, worthless bane of my existence.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-03-18 12:30am

I had that too: 6600GT as well. Fuck well.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2006-03-18 03:51am

Nothing like that on my old Ti4800.

I've heard little problems and iffyness about the 6600.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-03-18 04:02am

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Mac version? Please say theres a Mac version? PLease? Plretty please? I have a first born I'd sacrifice for one just as soon as I had one

yes, and it's on the same disk as the PC/Linux version

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-03-18 05:34am

It's not just the 6600. Had the same thing with my 7800, so I guess it's more of a Nvidia issue

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-18 06:39am

Well, I've been playing the game for absolute hours. How time flies.

In my first game (I started it right on Normal, none of this beginner shit) I chose a Small galaxy (which is actually large enough for me, surprisingly- always used to shit me in MOO2) with 5 opponents, all of Normal intelligence.

I had the good fortune to find three resources- two influence, one morale.

Fast forward three years, and my influence truly rocks. I turned off influence victory however, because I think it's lame. The Korx surrendered to me because the Yor- the other bastards who managed to get a lot of resources, were wailing on them- my huge influence instantly was made known in former Korx and current Yor territory. I'm the only civilization currently operating medium warships, and I've stuck with missiles because I like the feel of them.

Haven't engaged any opponent in battle yet. I'm not the strongest military, but I have the most, and the richest, planets (including one Class 19).

I think I'm going to take over the Drengin. Those losers only have two planets, both in the same star cluster.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2006-03-18 02:31pm

I got it a few days ago.
As yet, I've done about 5 turns and have spent most of my time pimping out my Colony Ships.
Curse ship-builders, they mean I never play the game.

The Prime Necromancer · Post by **The Prime Necromancer** » 2006-03-18 03:38pm

All right, where the hell can I get this game? I've been to Circuit City, Wal-Mart, 3 EB Games, 2 Best Buys, and 4 Targets, and none of them have had it in stock.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-03-18 04:12pm

The Prime Necromancer wrote:All right, where the hell can I get this game? I've been to Circuit City, Wal-Mart, 3 EB Games, 2 Best Buys, and 4 Targets, and none of them have had it in stock.

Try the downloadable version from their site.

The Prime Necromancer · Post by **The Prime Necromancer** » 2006-03-18 04:26pm

MRDOD wrote: Try the downloadable version from their site.

Does that require a credit card? If so, I'm afraid it isn't an option. But thank you.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2006-03-18 05:52pm

I've been having a problem with snagging resources when I colony rush. By the time I've gotten enough colony ships to grab all the threatened planets, all the resources have been taken up.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-03-18 06:17pm

Question; is ship building actually interactive in this version, IE you can actually build ships with weapons, and suchlike; rather than the stock ships of GalCiv 1?