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Reply to Alternative suggestion to Right of Passage Treaty in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

About the engine nerf : I'm mostly playing on large and smaller maps, but it seems the only one one who complains about the engines are those playing on larger maps. I find the actual values correct, as they make for a strategic decision. We need to chose between more weapons or engines, while in DL putting a lot of engines was a no-brainer. My suggestion : Do exactly like for range, and make the engines scale with the map size. This way those who play gigantic (or the even larger plann

Reply to 1.6 game crushes when I try to move on from Galaxy Setup when starting a new game in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I think I found the culprit : When I put choose the "low" preset video options, I get the crash, but not when I take "Med". I found out that removing the "Disable Point Sprite" option prevent the crash. I would guess that it is not video card dependant, but that only those with old cards do use the "low" preset.

Reply to 1.6 game crushes when I try to move on from Galaxy Setup when starting a new game in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I deleted prefs.ini, and I could get to the race selection screen (I couldn't before). But after I put back the option I wanted, it crashed there. I guess I'll have to try every options...

Reply to 1.6 game crushes when I try to move on from Galaxy Setup when starting a new game in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Idem for me, and I also get the same crash when loading an old game. It worked fine with the last beta. I tried desactivating both mixed vp processing and the advanced ship handler (not sure if that's the name of this option), but it didn't help any. Debug Message: Version v1.6 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 6 08:51:50 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 6/9/2007, 21:15:53 Dire

Reply to 1.59[b].098: My ships are... glowing? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had the same thing, just desactivate the textures in the options. (Your 3d card must not fully support directx 9.0c))

Reply to 1.6 Beta 5 is Now Available on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It appears that those of you with the slowdown when ships are on screen may be caused because your cards are running in what is called software vertex processing mode, which means that DirectX is having to emulate functionality that the driver should be handling, but is not. Some of you may be able to force the game to run in hardware vertex processing mode by following these instructions: Yay, it worked!

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

What you have to bear in mind is that as the weapons become more potent, they have that little bit more potential to roll higher than defence and cause some bleed-through hull-damage. Low-damage weapons are invariably going to be spent wearing down any defencces before doing damage. Yes, but at the same time the defense will be higher, what really count for how much damage will leak through the defense is ration between the individual weapon strength and

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I finished my simulator, here is the code (C++) : /* Compare two methods to calculate the effect of off-type defense in Galciv II Dark Avatar. */ #include time.h #include stdlib.h #include math.h #include iostream /* Roll a value in [0,max]. */ int roll(int max) { // Note : I know this is using the low-order bytes, but the simulation is // not sensitive e

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

When the attacker has two different weapon types, how do you degrade defenses? With two weapon types, each are shot in succession. Each weapon will degrade its on-type protection first, and once it is depleted, degrade the shared off-type protection.

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

CodeCritter : That is what I took was your first try at fixing the "bug" (it is more a misfeature than a bug, but still), Frogboy comment made me think that you tried again. This is where I think that your solution fails: - Against only 1 type of weapon, X on-type defense is exactly equal to X^2 off-type defense (like in DL). Let take a totally unbalanced example (which will still happens, mostly with super dominator corvettes) : <b

Reply to A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I didn't realize it was fixed (it wasn't mentioned in the changelog). I will try to check more carefully the numbers I get in battle. What technique did you to fix it? A similar one to mine, or something else?

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm going to edit my original post too, but could those of you having issues with memory, slowdown or graphical glitches please try this build and let us know if it helps? http://sd.stardock.com/carielf/da_1_6_b5_test1.zip I tried with my existing game, and I still got the Governor screen freeze and the slowdown with large ship present. If you haven't already, please try starting a new game when usin

A suggestion to solve the defense "bug" (off-type degradation) in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I got an idea on how to modify the way defense is accounted in combat that would solve the defense bug. Since I found the solution not totally trivial, I'm posting it in case CodeCritter hadn't got the same idea already. The goals of my solution are : - Against only 1 type of weapon, X on-type defense is exactly equal to X^2 off-type defense (like in DL). - Against 2 or 3 types of weapon, no defense has to be degraded twice. A consequence of that is with only one defense,

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I sent an email with my savegame about the Governor screen freeze. I tested with a new game, and I had no freeze. (I just chose the Custom race without any ability, and guess what : I start next to a class 26, with a 300% food, 2 100% approval and a 100% manu bonuses. Arg)

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

About the old video card slow down : I got a situation with a fps ~20, with only one scout and some planets visible. But when I scrolled a little to include a Thalan Freighter (a normal one, not a miniature), the fps dropped to ~5.

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I "updated" my video drivers (I grabbed the latest one for my video card, which was actually an earlier version than the one I had before,...). My framerate is still as bad (~4fps with 5/6 visible ships). When I went to the governor screen, it froze quite quickly. Also, the minimap on that screen was incomplete (it was only a little less than a 5x5, while the map was a medium). Here is the debug.err : Debug Message: Version v1.6 beta 4 Dark Avatar last updated on:

Reply to 1.6 Beta 4 on SDC in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Very strange. My game is significantly slower now that I've installed beta 4. Given how old my video card is (Mobility Radeon 9000 64mb) it wasn't all that fast before, but now I'm getting I am in the same situation, the ga

Reply to Does high performance count as a feature? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I guess that the real feature there is how low you can get the minimum requirement. The lower they are, the more customers with low-end machine will get it. Simple as that.

Reply to Your ideas for the next update! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I want to support the idea of removing stacking effect for starbases. That way they could be balanced both for those who build few (like me) and those who build 16 around their best planets. The only problem with this would be for influence starbases, but you could just put them stronger (but needing more constructors). While talking about removing stacking for starbases, why not making resources non-stackable too? So only your best morale starbase will have any effect... Then

Reply to A more diplomatic AI in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I'm currently playing my first game with tech-trading enabled in a long time. The AI never sent me any acceptable trade. They kept insisting in wanting to trade my Alliance against their Missile weapon theory... And this isn't limited to tech trading, since I never got offered a treaty or an alliance (in all the games I played), even though I see the AI trading it to another AI. So I'm pretty sure that the AI treat the human player differently than the others AI. So my

Reply to Super Abilities questions in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Drengin Super Dominator - this ability is a waste of time and can slow down lower end machines. It will give the player a few attack 2 small hull ships based on your attack rating when you start a war. This happens even when someone declares war on you, or if you decalre war on them. With a decent weapons boost, the super dominator corvettes can go to attack 3 or 4, but they have a base stat of 2. And you have to pay upkeep for them. You can get hundreds of these for f

Reply to Not sure if defense bug is fixed or not in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I would also suspect that the off-type defense is not working correctly too. In my last game, I had medium hulled ships (~10 attack, 15 missile defense) fight alone against fleet of 5 super dominator corvettes (2 mass driver attack). Since there was a lot of those fleets (maybe one hundred fleets) and I didn't had a lot of ships, I saw a lot of those battles. I won all of them, losing 2-3 hp per battle (losing only with almost dead ships). So, the Drengin had a total of 10 atta

Reply to Hearts & Minds of Robots in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Even though I had all trade route to the Yor, all treaties with them, and a 249% diplomacy bonus, I was still at friendly. Since I couldn't raise my relation anymore, I decided to attack the Korath, in the build up to the war, my military rating doubled, pushing it higher than the Yor rating. This pushed my relation to Close. So, my suggestion : Create a lot of ships.

Reply to The reasoning behind nerfing defense? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Well, do all of you realize that you can mod all this? (well, part of) I would be very interesting to have a "fan-balanced" mod...

Reply to The reasoning behind nerfing defense? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

At tiny and small there is now no point in ever talking about defense (a little sad). Even at medium, you would have to be facing a significantly inferior army of small/tiny ships for defense to become meaningful. Not true because 0-defense tiny ships will we destroyed in mass by any large attack ship. It is because each of them will be killed in 2-3 shots, so the big ship will kill a lot of them each turn. Now, if you add defense on them, the big sh