William Hogg

Reply to OT: Any of yous just finish watching the new episode of Enterprise? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Wow, I'm surprised other people actually got to see Firefly since it got canned so quickly. My father and I both really liked that show for the...what, 8 episodes it had? It had alot of potential, though it had an obviously low budget for some episodes.

Reply to GalCiv Writer in Mods Stardock Forums

Hey, HawaiiFive-O, I just tried to install the general public version and it didn't work. I got to the part where it has the default install directory, C:\GalCivWriter I think it was, and it wouldn't install. It said that directory was in the source directory of setup. I then unzipped to some random directory in C and it worked fine. Apparently you just can't run setup from your C drive or else it won't have anywhere you can install.

Reply to Nice Job By Bill Sheely in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As someone who also enjoys modding this game, I'd like to say thanks for working on this software, I'm sure it'll make things alot easier.

Reply to Hope you add this in next patch in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm...I still like the idea of governor sliders, one set of econ sliders for each of the 4 governors so you can split up your planets into specialties.

Reply to My Critique of Stardock's Policy on "Modding." in Mods Stardock Forums

In all honesty, I think the reason why they're not putting up alot of *serious* user mods to the library was hinted at in a post by Frogboy where he said that alot of the ctd's and bugs that are being sent to him are the result of people including user made mods. I think they consider GalCiv to not be stable enough yet to encourage massive modding. There's plenty of bugs and ctds that are happening for real reasons in the normal game, and I think they want to be able to sort out what's real

Reply to CTD: Senate elections in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Are you using *any* additional political party mods? If you are, that could be the reason why.

New Mod: A little dash of Melange in Mods Stardock Forums

Hey, I've finished the first batch of technologies for a mod I'm doing which is incorporating elements of the Dune series into the technology and society of GalCiv. Should I just post the technologies and such files up here on the forum for now, since the library doesn't seem to be accepting new techs? I'll be adding some more ship designs and improvements to the game too, but I haven't finished all that yet.

Reply to Good, Evil or Neutral? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Darnit...now I wish there was an edit function. I was going to add that I used to always take the "good" route, pretty much for just roleplaying reasons. It fit what kindof empire I wanted.

Reply to Good, Evil or Neutral? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I often end up chaotic evil because I take the "best for my people" route. I always choose the good options when my own citizens are on the line, but when it comes to aliens or inferior species...screw 'em.

Can't get additions to be built in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm working on a rather long mod, which I'll upload once I'm finally done, and I've been having a problem with my own wonders and tradegoods not showing up on the list of choices for social production on a planet. Does anyone know why this might be? I'm stumped.

Reply to Fundamental Strategies in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I seriously reccommend just sticking it out and trying for a little longer. Set the AIs all to fool to start with, and then once you've won a game that way, gradually move up. Everyone else has had the same problem at first with learning how to run their economy without ruining it, but you'll probably develop your own strategy as well with a little more time on the easy levels.

Reply to Dear Frogboy.... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

As I've said before, Frogboy is the reason *why* I bought this game. I saw the kindof helpfulness and support that he was giving in answering questions even before the commercial release of the game, and so I bought it the day it came out, believing that he and his team would still be putting forth that same effort. I haven't been disappointed. So thanks to the entire GalCiv staff for their good work.

Reply to 1.03 BUG THREAD: in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think I've noticed a bug. I've started seeing planets population increase without proper bound, regardless of the morale. In other words, Earth is at 8 something billioin, 39 morale, and the population seems to be increasing...if no one else has seen this, I'm going to recheck and make sure I'm not messing up something up.

Reply to After 20 hours, I give up...the UI wins. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It looks like they are planning for UI changes though, if the new screenshot of the new Tech screen is any indication. To me these are really mostly minor problems, but collectively I suppose they do bog things down a little.

Reply to metaverse problem in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, as far as I can tell the people who handle metaverse don't come on the forums much. That doesn't mean Brad or someone else doesn't let them know something is up. I don't think Metaverse itself is broken because for the majority of people it works fine, but rather that the problems are on a case by case basis. Maybe taking it to e-mail rather than the forums would be better so you could work it out personally with tech support?

Reply to 1.03: Notice on saved games in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

So am I one of the few people who has never had a problem with SDC *ever*? I personally rather like SDC and think it's rather useful. It's one of the better updating systems I've seen for a game. I've also never had trouble downloading a patch after I initially figured out GalCiv was under Drengin.net...which took all of three minutes of random menu clicking to figure out.

Reply to Political Parties in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You can modify the political parties if you want, but it's pretty easy to send balance out of whack if you do.

Reply to MOO 3 slips to < 2 stars at amazon in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree with SeanB for the most part. My issues with MOO3 were the bugs and poor documentation. I still think it *could* be a very good game, but it will take some time for everything to get sorted out. My theory is still that they rushed the game towards the end because they were afraid of the backlash from another delay in the release date...though honestly I would have preferred if they had waited another 2-3 months and polished everything up more.

Reply to Metaverse scoring out of whack in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I agree with the comments about galaxy size affecting scoring a bit too much, and it's not just sour grapes becaues I've benefitted from galaxy size far more than I think I should have.

Reply to Sci Fi references in Gal Civ in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There's at least one quote from Agent Smith in The Matrix. I got it when a race declared war on me...

Reply to Drengin way too powerful... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My strategy for dealing with the Drengin is like most people's I guess. I make sure that everyone else is at war with them too. I usually rely on other races to "screen" their ships for me, while I pump out tech advances as fast as possible, providing support for those friendly to me. This does backfire though. In my last game the Torians turned against me after I gave them and the Altairians Battleship tech. Eventually the Torians and Drengin ended up allying against my team with the Altai

Reply to If the AI doesn't cheat, how does it get so many techs in the first few months? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The race definately works differently depending on galaxy size and planet distribution. I normally play on "giant" with "common" habitable worlds in "loose" clusters. In these cases I've found leasing is rarely necessary and that I don't even need to have military over 50 in order to carve out a good enough chunk of the galaxy. In very large galaxies the time before first contact tends to be very long, and so you have time to churn out your colony ships legitimately rather than selling your s

Reply to How do I build an artificial planet? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I do think the Dyson sphere thing would be cool for those systems that don't have *any* habitable planets at all, not even a class 1. Then it'd be perfectly okay to build a giant sphere around the star.

Reply to I demand you fix the automatic micromanagement. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I got the reference. You were quoting the two philosphers that were protesting the supercomputer Deepthought's attempt at discovering the ultimate answer.

Reply to When should I NOT build Social Programs... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My rule of thumb is that I don't build anything that has less than a 10-20% bonus to either the economy, morale, (or research if I'm lagging behind). I usually don't build the really high end research facilities on more than a few planets though. I only rarely build influence boosting buildings on alot of my colonies, since you get enough influence boosts from the high end technologies.