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Reply to Patch 1.4 :) its coming in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

A console game has one set of hardware to deal with across the board. With a PC you have such a wide variety of OS's, video cards, drivers etc etc that the game has to run on.

Reply to lots of forum bugs... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Suggestion: Scrap this forum and pick one of the many open source freeware versions available. QFT. Love the game, but the forums are some of the worst I've seen. I have yet to get the watch button to do anything either except give me some kind of pool error or timeout and the search

Reply to Is too much weight put on trading....?? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Another thing to think of, especially in larger maps, is to outfit a frieghter with more engines. Push it to the limit in speed to get routes early for an economic edge. I usually pump out diplomatic translators first thing, trade that for starting money and freighters of other races. If you trade a

Reply to stupid crap in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It definately shouldn't take you that long to build ships. I recommend checking out the Databanks link to the left and reading the basic strategy guide and game play examples sections. Some important things: Production slider- starts at 50%. Try to crank it to 100 move one and keep it there the whole game. Factories- are your friend. They let you build stuff faster. Social, Milit, and research sliders - also your frien

Reply to i tried.. but i just dont know how to build figters, and heavy fighters.. PLEASE HELP in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure what brings the few default designs in there but you are much better off just designing your own ship to take advantage of your techs. If you aren't worried about looks it only takes a couple mins. Grab your hull, skip to engine throw your best engine on there (more if you feel the need for better speed), then pick weaps/armor (up to ship capacity) and optionally any additional components you might want then save the design as something.

Reply to Keyboard shortcuts change in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just to double check, you try the mouse scroll wheel as well?

Reply to Brad's "Did you know you could do this" thread in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Agree on the keyboard scroll thing. Please implement an option that lets us switch scroll to arrow keys. Using keys for my ships tends to just mean I accidently move ships I don't want to. I would much rather use those for map use.