What Loup said.
Don't worry - maybe saying "drastic" action was a poor choice of words. I'm not going to say anything bad about SD. Personally, even though I don't approve of some of the things that they have done, I must say that we owe it to them for making Galactic Civilizations. I also don't think my post will piss anyone off. I'm not going to blame, slander, or flame anyone - I'm just going to try and get people back into GalCiv2. I won't (intentionally) do anything to tick anyone off. I just want to see if I can stir some general approval and renewed interest in the game. If you haven't noticed - I really don't have too many posts were I actually flame anyone.
I'm really glad with how welcoming everyone was when I first came to the forums and the MV. I try to make friends every time I post somewhere - I never want to hurt someone's reputation or their feelings by saying something bad about them.
Your idea of starting a new thread is a very good idea. I think that would be pretty cool. As you can see, my stats in the MV are not the best in the world, so I could always have room to improve. Just for everyone's general amusement - I tried my first eer Suicidal sandbox game on TA - OMG I got my sorry little arse kicked. It wasn't even funny. Well, kind of. Let's just put it this way - I lasted 1 yr. and 2 months. I had about 10 military ships, and the Thalan had about 100. Ouch. Once they declared war on me, it only took them 10 turns to overrun me. Again, ouch.
I have nothing but respect for all of you experienced players. I just hope that if I make a post or two, I might get some interest out of someone that's just browsing the forum. There seem to be quite a few people who play the game still, but they just don't play MV. I also hope to spur some of the veterans to maybe post an MV game or two every once and a while. I think my little campaign to get the forums back on track is going to turn out to be more of a refresher on why this game is so incredible. Once again - I'm a pretty toned down guy.
BTW - until someone can find another player who frequently has longer posts and replies then me (besides kryo or mumblefratz), I'm going to claim the title of King of the Long Winded Posts! I do tend to get a little carried away sometimes. Sorry. Best Regards.
~ Cypher ~
Thanks for the link Loup. Much appreciated.
if you post it in these forums, do me a favor and link to the thread in this one; otherwise i'll probably miss it, and i'd like to participate.
with comments like that, i can certainly tell that you're learning some of the forum personalities i'm going to start a thread on the ToE site with links to some of the interesting and useful threads we've had in here over the past. there's a lot of great information archived in the site, but the problem is finding it. as a tip, rather than using the forum search, use google. search for whatever phrase you want, and then add "site:forums.galciv2.com" to the end. it's pretty effective.
Well, DivineWrath's TA 101 post is quite long...but that is a guide, just as is my DA/TA Espionage post. Zyxpsilon often gets long winded...and seems to speak in a different form of english at times... Most of my replies are short individually, but in a span of time you could find a book written by me as I'm more of a conversationalist than a speach writer. Back-n-forth=win.
I tend to gloss over long posts unless it's a topic I'm HIGHLY interested in and it has numbers (numbers=information if it's a heavy-bodied post lol...at least in my warped mind). Short-sweet posts that just get to the point work well for me. I have a busy day of doing nothing, so fitting in reading long posts is hard.../cough
OT here, but should the MVL link be cut from the OP? At least while it's no longer up and running?
Hey guys:
I've done it! I've created my 1st installment of my plan to renew the passion for GalCiv2. The post is named (fittingly) - A Call to Action - Renew Your Passion. If you guys have any suggestions on how to make my campaign go even better, feel free to chime in.
BTW - I'm pretty sure that my title as King of Long-Winded Posts was confirmed with this new post. It's a doozy! Best Regards.
I think GC3 was suposed to be like 2012 ot something like that...a long ways off.
As to GC2 losing it's popularity, of course it is. That's the natural life-cycle of any game. Once new updates, expansions, and content stops being made you will soon see a steady decline in the number of people who play a game. I still play 1 or 2 ZYWs most days, and last night I start another Swindle, but most of my gaming time is being spent on other games at the moment. I recently played through The Witcher twice, and also Starcontrol II. There are other games I am really looking forward to that will be coming out over the next year like Empire: Total War, and Elemental War of Magic by Stardock.
There are some people like myself, that will be around here indefinitely, but people playing and on the forums will keep dropping off. My empire had its best month just this past October, but I doubt we'll ever surpass that month. I appreciate your enthusiasm Cypher and it's good to have you on the forums, but I think there's nothing any one player, or even a group of players, can do that will change that natural process in a significant way. And that's ok, in my opinion. I feel no sadness or regret at the prospect, for we have had, and are still having a great time with this awesome game.
Sentient species taste better...
I agree with you KP. I still made my post because it might be what renews the passion for the game in a few players, and, for me, that's all that really matters. This is really an awesome game, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it, either. Thanks KP. Best Regards.
Once the Mv I fixed I will play a few games butby then my empire will be down in ranks.
@ Seth: I'd be happy to commit a character to your empire to help with the standings, if you would like me to.
Sure
i think its good that there is a core group of us that have formed a pretty close bond with each other as gamers, and still browse the forums asnwering questions as we see them.
For example, I see Sole Soul as the true successor of Mumblefratz and Iztok Bitenc; KzintiPatriarch may one day be able to at least claim parity, if not surpass, magnumaniac and wyndstar; and we still get jokes from Piznit and Dystopic.
And KP is right, I know that there will be a few of us "oldtimers" around to hold down the fort until GCIII comes out.
And I still need to get my 1000 games in that is...once the MV starts working again (will someone please send me a PM when it does, it would be most appreciated)
-Silver-
What about me?
I will be around till Galciv III comes out. Hopefully by the time Galciv III comes out the Kzinti, ToE and Geckodon Alliance will probaly the last of the active empires in the top ten.
@ Silverbeacher: I think you're right. It's great that the true core group of people who enjoy Galactic Civilizations will still be around. Great point. I'm not sure if you consider me in that core group or not, but I can assure you that I'm not going to leave these forums and this great game. Best Regards.
@ Everyone: I'm not too sure about what you all mean about the MV not working. Since it apparantly isn't, should I stop playing MV games and hitting 'Post to Metaverse'? Am I just wasting my time on games that won't count? Every time I post, I get new medals and stats, and my score keeps going up, so I know that at least that part is working. I assume that you guys mean that the MV isn't updating the scores for the Empires, correct? Thanks.
@ Seth: If you're right about us being the last, there is going to be some fierce competition between the empires. I'm pretty sure (for what it's worth) that 'The Raiders' are still going to be around, too. Sorry Seth - I know that you don't like them very much.
the empire ranks and scores aren't updating, that's all. individual scores are, i think, and obviously MV games are still being saved.
Fierce competition has been around sincethe MV began lol, but's it's a shame that most of the competition now are the lifeless corpses of once active empires. The Raiders I never liked.
Also if there is a MV for Galciv III then hopefully the Geckodon Alliance will be one of the vetran empires if there are any.
@ Seth: Considering the popularity of the MV in the GalCiv2 website, I think that even if the Stardock guys didn't want to have an MV for GalCiv3, they know that they would get an enormous amount of angry e-mails from the multitudes of fans that liked the 1st MV. So, long story short, I'm pretty sure they'll have it. I also think that any empires that make it on this MV long enough to see the creation of GalCiv3 will definitely be the top empires in the new GalCiv3 forums. It'll probably be the ToE, Kzinti, Geckodons, and maybe one more empire that will pop up in these forums and this MV sometime between now and the end of the year.
@ Dystopic: Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated.
I thought they shot down the idea of the MV in GC3....Where the post is, gawd knows.
Yeah well in the meantime I will be making ship exspansion packs for the Geckodons, I just uploaded a ship exspansion pack, there will be another one after I finish the Galactic Diplomats ship style and Colonial Fleet ship style, after I release the second Geckodon ship exspansion I will be working on the tech trees for each race except the Geckodons.
You sound like you're going to have a very busy weekend Seth.
All this talk of Galciv2 loosing popularity has suddenly made these forums feel so lonely and empty... SOMEBODY HUG ME!!!
KP I have good new and bad news. Good news is Stardock are getting back to work on the 5th to start working on our problems, that means your issues should come to their attantion soon.
The bad news is that I think they are paying more attention to a distrubtion issue raised by Ultimate edition which was released by Kalypso instead of stardock, something about Kalypso allowing stardock to register ultimate edition on impulse. So at the moment anyone with Ultimate edition cannot do anything but post on the metaverse and play offline games. (I never mentioned anything about it been bad for me )
While I am not going to travel all the way to Australia just to hug you, I can assure you that you don't need to worry about GalCiv2 losing popularity. Well, it is, but you don't need to feel lonely. All of us here are obviously still here (duh). And I don't think any of us will be leaving any time soon. If you need any further motivation, check out my post - A Call to Action. It's under the General Category in the forums here, but I think it might still be up on the main page (if it's popular?). Best Regards.
@ Seth: My 2nd character has been added to your empire. I'll try and give you guys a score soon, even though the MV is still down. Maybe all of the totaled scores will be applied once they fix this mess. Best Regards.
this is the ToE. we don't hug. if you want to feel better, destroy something
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