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Article #82350

Re: GalCiv II: Computer AI debugging

#82350
From: Kilgaard
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:09
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"Brad Wardell" <bwardell@stardock.com> wrote in message 
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> "Mr. Limpet" <nobody@nothanks.not> wrote in message 
> news:XLidnYzEnt2ujkjenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> "Jeremy Reaban" <jer@connectria.com> wrote in message 
>> news:11t9063mftegcf1@news.supernews.com...
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>>> "Bateau" <Bateau-is-a@MAN.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:hnt8t19fffcl03sk2itb1fbs64e8jh3g15@4ax.com...
>>>> Ooh a sequel. I played the first one, and right now I am tediously
>>>> slogging through Arcanum so I can uninstall it and start playing Gal 
>>>> Civ
>>>> 1 + the expansion.
>>>
>>> I just hope it doesn't come with that Stardock Central thing
>>
>> Yes, that was confusing.  Plus, I still can't seem to get it entirely 
>> uninstalled.
>>
>> I'd like to buy one game, please.  No, no fries thankyouverymuch.
>
> A lot has changed with Stardock Central in the past 3 years.  It was 
> pretty "bleeding" edge when it first game out.  But it's matured quite a 
> bit since then.
>
> You don't need Stardock Central to play the game or anything, it's just 
> for updates. And it works really well nowadays.  Much of the changes made 
> were spawned from feedback from Usenet.  For instance, you load it up, if 
> it sees a new version it'll tell you and start downloading it. So you 
> don't even have to really mess with it.
>

I really really hope you meant to say:

"You load it up, if it sees a new version it'll tell you and provide the 
option to download it. (You can set an option to automatically download 
updates.)"
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:09:19 +1000
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