First, I gotta say that I absolutely love the way an Immense Abundant Habitable/Frequent Special Worlds map feels. It just... feels "right". Kinda like the first time I played an Immense map during the TA beta. The two new game setup options were a very, very pleasant suprise for me.

Second, passive spying is a great addition and it really completes that particular subsystem. Now if only the Espionage ability itself actually did something useful (*nudge, nudge, wink, wink*) and perhaps Courage too, while you are at it

Third, the planetary governers are a great step forward for the game, and I can't ever imagine not having them. But there are two things I think would complete the feature:

1. A way to set a planetary governer as the "default governer" and would automatically queue up buildings once a planet was intially colonized/taken over. Sure, it only saves a couple clicks.... but hey, a couple clicks can add up quick on an Immense map with abundant habitable planets.

2. Persistant planetary governers among games for each Race, kinda like how ship designs can be saved to disk. Set 'em up once, and forget about them

As a side note, it took me the longest time to find the place to change a Planetary Governer. Heck, I didn't even realize there were controls for changing the auto-terraforming of tiles! 

Also...

This would be an awesome addition to Planetary Governers.

All in all, awesome work on the 2.0 patch!

No as a fellow aussie I had a few problems but the following seemed to work for me:

* Open the twighlight install folder

* Rename the executable

* Select the 'verify installation' item (results the verify error)

* Select the DA icon (results in '!' next to twighlight icon)

* Do update

Hope this helps

NVM Delete

My problem is that i downloaded the beta and impulse is saying i got 1.99[rc] but when i start it the game still dipsplays 1.96 as version number and no new feature are available.

EDIT: Even verifying my installationof TA(even when i displace the exe lol) gives the result that its installed correctly. While DA and DL semm to be installed incorrectly.

"It took some tweaking, but we finally got the Dreadlord and Dark Avatar campaigns working directly in Twilight of the Arnor. (I don't believe this made it in for today's build.)"

Sorry ahead of time for the silly question, but how do you do this?

Thanks

Stardock,

I love you guys since you started doing games.  I'm currently working on modding Sins and I have all flavors of GalCivII.

Just wanted to say thanks for continuing to improve on your already great games.  You really are a model of what other gaming companies should be doing.  Support, Modding, Updating.  Can't wait to see what kind of game you guys come out with next.  Downloading GCII 2.0

The best and (I would think) simplest idea here might be the ability to tell the AI to use some of the planetary governors at its discretion.

Sometimes the AI makes REALLY horrid decisions in city planning.  I *should* be getting smacked around by the Krynn except for the fact that my specialized focused factory planets are churning out ships much faster than his larger empire composed of "lets make the planets do research/influence/production/economy for each planet."

Is the Minor Races being an actual presence a 2.0 change, or did I miss that somewhere along the line? Early on, one wardec'd me and went around blowing up starbases and trade lanes.  When I got to his planet he had an actual defense there I had to handle - it was very nice.  Also, the Dark Yor and Snathi have been at war for a few years.  Pretty fireworks.

Not a 2.0 update.  1.92-1.95, somewhere in there, if memory serves.

And yeah, minor races that can fight are badass.

I think in my next game, if I'm doing well enough to allow it, I may give a few planets to the Snathi and set them on some other minor for entertainment purposes.

thanks for this.

evil (another aussie)

UMMMM, CALL ME CRAZY, but was the 2.0 beta SUPPOSED to install to the Galciv2 folder DIRECTLY, and not the Galciv2/twilight folder???  Cause that's what impulse did.  And now a bunch of settings aren't right, mods folder being an obvious pick.

Suddenly, the Iconian super ability isn't so useless.  With mostly extreme worlds they were more powerful than everyone else put together for the first half of my last game.  

I have a few more coments to make and questions to ask at this point in time:

1. Does pasive spies steal techs?

2. The AI doesn't seem to compete well for extreme planet types. On smaller maps, I can nab most of the extreme planets before the AI researches the techs needed to colonize them, or before they try to declare war on me. Either way, I tend to have enough planets to win the war, even if the AIs manage to steal a few planets.

3. There appears to be a bug with the auto build starbase feature. If you have negative money in the treasury, and the next module to be installed costs money to build, it will instead popup a window asking you what to build. Regardless of what you pick (even free to build modules), it will say you don't have the money to build it.

I've already sent in a bug report e-mail for #3. Its much more detailed that what I've mentioned here.

Loupindour's done some research that says, "No." It looks like you need a saboteur unit placed to get your tech-steal roll.

Sorry ahead of time for the silly question, but how do you do this?

Thanks