Ahoy! Tis been a long time since I last stopped by this thread.

Hey Seth

It has been along time since anybody has???

What have you been doing? I am waiting for "The Hobbit", Company of Heroes 2 and Total War: Rome II.

We are looking for players to join to become aggressive Admirals to lead your fleets across the Galaxy!

Empress Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

A long time indeed Seth!  What have you been up to?

Sentient species taste better...

Hey KP or anyone else; I have a question:

I'd like to fire up some GCII in my free time here, but a new computer and two new OS's later, I don't have GCII installed anywhere anymore. Now, this used to be an easy fix cuz I would just fire up Impulse and download it.  But isn't Impulse gone now? Anyone know how I can go about downloading the game again?

Thanks!

~Silver 

update: figured it out; just went to Stardock.com and logged in LOL; they have a tab for "My Downloads" and it was listed right there.

Hey Silver!  It's still easy to re-download old games you already bought, so I'm glad Stardock made sure of that.

I recently downloaded Fallen Enchantress, but I havent had much time to look at it.  The original Elemental was so bad that I'm having trouble approaching FE with anything but hardened skepticism.

Sentient species taste better...

I've played a handful of games recently, not for score, but just for fun.  Huge or Gigantic abundant maps with everything but influence or conquest victory turned off, and foregoing any of the exploitative tactics that have been used for scoring in the past.  I played until it was obvious I was going to win, then stopped.  The cleanup part at the end of the game becomes too tedious to play til the end.

Good fun!

Sentient species taste better...

I guess I should do the same but then focusing on military victories that I haven't sufficiently pursued in the past. It's often fun to revisit a game after a few years... and notice that you still know the workings

so true, I remember back in the days when I started GalCiv2 playing straight just to win against the AI in different setups was the most enjoyable period here - esp. some of the campaigns and also those campaigns you can upload (some are pretty hard to do actually)

however it's really sad that the game has so many "holes" which you can exploit and which become obviously clear if one just plays alot - patterns will emerge.

that said, I'd like to reinstall the game for some midsized maps but in the meanwhile I've become an ardent MMO player (currently deep in TERA) and these games consume alot of time I can tell, lots of geargrinding to do )) but it' a hell of fun, too

Prost!

btw what's up with the char- or guildpics in the MV, don't show up anymore...?

edit:

currently installing the game was watching some Youtube and forgot how enchanting some of these soundtracks were (spacethemes) !!

Y'know, I still hope for a GCIII.  I may end up being gray-haired with a walker by then, but even so.  Just doing my roughly 6 month visit.

-Silver- 

It's here.

It's good to see all of you again.  In particular, it's wonderful to have you back, Maiden.

Happy days are here my feline friends!!

Ah, excellent.

I hope it's not like the Elemental release...that was a disaster!

Sentient species taste better...

Ohh, the mighty patriach of the Kziniti empire, i hereby humbly request to be a part of the Kziniti feline family, i wish to dominate the galaxies and eating the good and the neutral alike. do show me how to genetically mutate myself into a part of your own. na, i am just joking, i don't even know why i am even here, i do like Kziniti's moto, it reflects my own. too bad a man can never become an evil power hungry inconceivable horror that rules the universe nowadays. maybe i will reincarnate into a ruling unspeakable evil that may one day take over the current galaxy.