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jpublic

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[1.0] [UI] Mouse doesn't lock to window in FE Support Elemental Forums

If the game is going to have edge scrolling and a windowed mode, them we should have an option to lock the mouse to the screen to make better use of it. It's irritating to have to play 'hunt the scrolling zone' when trying to play in a window.

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Wrong Resources Spawning in Campaign? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

I'm on a campaign I started, and I'm at the point in Book 1 where I have to remove an ogre, build a town, get 25 crystal and trade it to Carrodus (I think). However, the mines by the ogre's camp are both Iron mines! Is my campaign hosed? Thanks.

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Reply to Stardock response time? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've sent them a couple emails with roughy ther following: "I'm a beta tester. How can I order the OEM final CD?" I've not gotten a response, and I've sent 3 emails over the past 3 days. Given, I use Hotmail so any one of them could have been lost in the ether, but I'd still like a response. So I'm asking how long is reasonable to wait before I get irritated?

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Reply to FAQ: SDCentral registration and other issues in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

T-Man, you're missing his point. No matter WHAT you put into SDC's proxy settings, it just uses the IE ones. So if I have a proxy set in IE, but NOT in SDC, it uses the proxy. If I don't set one in IE, but I do in SDC, it doesn't use the proxy. I don't use a proxy myself normally, but I set one up on my home network to test this problem, and I verified this. The proxy settings in SDC do nothing - the program ignores them in favor of the ones set in IE.

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Reply to FAQ: STATUS REPORT (3/25) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

ACTUALLY.... The Pools of Radiance problem was multifold, but worked as follows: 1) You had insufficient space for installing the game on the C: drive, since the game wouldn't let you install it anywhere else. 2) When the installed failed due to insufficient space, you then tried to use the uninstaller, which then got confused and started erasing stuff it shouldn't. This BY NO MEANS happened to everyone. In fact, based on several polls (given, online so suspect),

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Reply to So if we pre-ordered... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was under the impression that if you purchased GC through Dregin.net you had the option pay to get a DVD-cased CD delivered to you. At least, that's what Frogboy's been swearing up and down on these forums.

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Beta testers get CDs or what? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Okay, I think this has been answered before, but in the latest round of press releases I'm confused again. I purchased a beta test. Upon March 25th, I assume I will be able to DL the GalCiv release version just like I currently can with the betas. (BTW, why can I download it with Game Manager but not Stardoc Central? Weird.) Will we still be getting a CD+Manual+box sent to us? Or are we going to have to pay a small premium? Thanks for any answers. I'm really looking

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Reply to Speed of your computers in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Guys, I think it comes down this: 1) The requirements can probably be lowered to probably a p2-400/128M for most gameplay. 2) The recommended machine should be somewhat higher - say a p3-800/256M? Nonetheless, there should be a warning in the readme.txt of the game that on the largest galaxy sizes turn times can rise dramatically, even on a top-of-the-line machine.

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Reply to Two Annoying Domestic Economy Bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've reported that second one before. Basically, it ends up that if you have cartloads of money coming in, NEVER save & reload, because if you do you're screwed. I suspect it's because some aspect of the economy gets off-kilter in the game as you play, and when you reload it recalculates and fixes the problem.

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Program exit/cleanup - neat race condition. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I found a rather interesting race condition on my PC when quitting the galciv.exe program. If RIGHT when you get to desktop you immediately try to start another process, the new one doesn't start properly or the last one hangs - I'm not sure which, I just see a galciv.exe sitting there in my active processes that doesn't go away. Is this just my machine, or does galciv drop back to desktop before doing all of its process cleanup?

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Colony ship slider bug? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but if it isn't it should be. Here's how you can reproduce the bug - get a class 26+ planet, get the population to the 20+ billion range, and then build a colony ship. By manipulating the slider, you can only get roughly 5% of your population on the ship at a minimum. You use the arrows to lower that, but going from 1000 to 200 is _really_ tedious. Can we get a little more granularity on the first step of that slider?

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Is this a bug, feature, or just coincidence? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've been playing on-and-off for the entire beta 4 series, and I'm noticing something odd that keeps on happening. Basically, it seems that I'm having a lot harder time finding "good" planets (class 17+). It's not that they're particularly _rare_ in the galaxy, its that all I ever see seeded around my starting location are class 14, 15, and maybe 1 or 2 16s. I'm playing on "common" habitable planets in a medium galaxy. In at least 2 recent games, I've had more then 12

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