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September 7, 2006
Another race logo. Leave a comment if you enjoy! Thanks!
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September 7, 2006
Ya know, sometimes, you just have to be happy!! And besides you can SEE this symbol against a black background. Maybe I just need some happiness and this is cathartic, or it's just funnier when you blow the hell out of something when you are flying the mighty yellow!!

Copy the following into My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\Logos folder. It should work! Please let me know if you have any problems!
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September 4, 2006
My take on the Saurians from Starfox Adventures. Imagine a race of spacefaring dinosaurs! It just screams awesome.

Pac includes: race config file, portrait, custom ships

NOTE:
- all ships use very advanced tech
- I do not own this name, or image, the saurians belong to Rare Ware and Nintendo
- READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!
- The race currently uses one of the included symbols, if you have an idea for a symbol, drop me a line at lucrup@shaw.ca
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September 4, 2006
This utility change the cost(duration in weeks) that takes you to build things and research.
1) Just Drag and Drop the .xml file over the executable.
2) Enter the ratio of Cost compression.
3) Done.

The program will guide you...
How it Works?.Well, it searchs the value of Tags and multiply it for a ratio that could be between 0.000000001 and 9999999 more or less, you decide. So, you can use it whit any file you want, even from another mod...
NOTE: It will not set cost values lower than 10.
NOTE2: Remember to backup your original files.

Well, that's all, sorry if my english was too bad.
Good bye and Good Luck
BluesWolf
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September 4, 2006
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BETA VERSION 0.2
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press the picture for new larger image

Do you want to have a different Earth? something more... specific? a custom made earth raw terrain and a new map for earth! be sure to backup customplanets.xml file and this is the beta earth so for ANY FUTURE REQUESTS OR WISHES you can post it here or E-mail me, my E-mail is in the Readme file, PLEASE MAKE REQUESTS FAST!, enjoy!

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Requires v1.0 or later of Galactic Civilizations II
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5140 dls
August 31, 2006
Transformers Conversion for GCII
Beta 2

by Darth Griffin

Thanks for downloading the Beta2 version of my Transformers mod.
At this time i am looking for people to load in the mod and let me know if there are any obvios errors that pop up.

Please post any 'bugs' you find in the following thread in the GCII forums:
http://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=348&aid=128840

Install instructions included.
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August 30, 2006
Transformers Conversion for GCII
by Darth Griffin

INCLUDED IN MOD
New Title image
Trade Route Established image
New major races inc. minor offshoots
New race logos to suit new races
New planets
A new sound effect for the title screen menu
New Title music

This is currently the BETA version of the mod. As far as i am aware there are no major issues with the mod. This version is designed to be run from the mods folder! It is possible to use the files contained to overwrite the game files, and in doing this the games played would be submissible for the Metaverse. This mod was designed with that in mind.

Please post any issues or questions you have in the thread in the GCII forums: http://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=162&aid=125753#980007

Updates to the mod will be posted at: http://blog.thegalacticcore.com/ before being uploaded here

Thanks for downloading the mod and enjoy!!

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File size = 18.8 MB
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August 29, 2006
Replacement logos for the two minor races that were not updated for galciv2.
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3511 dls
August 23, 2006
CIS logo pack, a portrait and a race logo
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August 23, 2006
For marathoners only! When you play a game past the end of the Tech Tree, your scientists kick back with a cold one and never work again! Not so with this mod!
At various points during the game the scientists will celebrate their achievements with an Office Party. Once the Tech Tree is fully researched, the party ends when all of your research facilities will be demolished to make room for productive improvements.
(Notes: Modifies the Tech Tree by adding "Office Parties". These are in place to determine when the 30 "research lines are complete". There are four "Office Parties" because an individual tech can only have 8 prerequisite techs. An alignment specific final Party confirms the tree is completed, which enables a Planetary Improvement to upgrade the research facilities as if they had just been Terraformed.
The "Office Party" techs were given a cost of 300 to keep them from appearing as optional techs during character creation. If you finished the Tech Tree, I believe this cost is negligible. The cost to "upgrade" to a blank square is the same as demolition, which means you can get the same effect manually if your patient enough to go through every planet. Because of these two factors, I don't believe this mod adjusts game balance.
Some of the Tech Tree display graphics get a little squirrelly - some new techs appear behind every prerequisite tech and some appear on their own line. It doesn't seem to effect their function or dependencies. Enjoy!)
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August 19, 2006
Eight portraits of various alien-esk beings for people to populate their custom races with.
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August 16, 2006
Ever Tire of playing the game with too much technology to research and end up beating the game with attaining only mediocre weapons such as graviton beam? Well here is the solution, a fix created to reduce the time it takes to achieve technolgies and yet still having fun researching the best technologies possible. This was a very tidious expedition. It took over 5 hours to complete, with taking many averages between technolgies in there same category and so forth. By the way this was created with version 1.2. but can be played with all versions(see notes below)*
Thus, it is all accurate and holds in my opinion the best technology tree possible. No manipulations in any other code are needed to do with the game whatsoever, only to the techtree.xml file. All you do is make a backup copy of the old techtree.xml(in case you want to use it again) and replace it with this one in GalCiv2\Data\English folder. The only change I have made is changing hyperwarp III to the new name: "Ludicrous Speed" -from Spaceballs(it seems to suit the title well). Everything else comes from Stardock's configurations. Have a go at it and see what you think of this. Good Luck and enjoy!!

* NOTE!!!::: There has been some confustion and here is the clarification: Make sure that you only copy and paste the file "Techtree.xml" inside of the folder I labled -Techtree mod-. Reason: Because the game will crash after you delete the main techtree.xml file if you only copy the "TECHTREE MOD" into the directory becuase the game is looking for the file I made and not the folder I put it in. Also do not put the file in the mod folder that stardock created, because if you just deleted the file in the main directory and put my creation in the mod folder the game will crash because its searching for the main file that you deleted. Remember this also, do not load a saved game with this techtree.xml file because the game might create another copy of this file and or not work because this file was not with your old saved game!! YOU MUST START A NEW GAME WITH THIS FILE. Hope that clears up the confusion, if any.

Layman terms: After download, inside the folder -Techtree mod- copy the file "Techtree.xml" and paste it in the main folder GalCiv2\Data\English and nothing else but sit back and enjoy this!!

PS> Remember if you update the game to a new version you must either re-download this file and put it back in the directory or just put the file back in, otherwise you wont have this techtree!!

PS2> Remember I said to put it in the main folder, but you can actually put it in the mod folder to, that way you don't have to lose your original techtree.xml file...either way it's up to you, the user to decide!! have fun -Viithtrump
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August 16, 2006
Will you be: - The Daleks, The Cybermen or the Timelords

Contains:
- 5 logos
- 5 race pics - (no timelord)
- 3 race configs

Credits - Dalek29, Federator, Steve Redfearn
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August 12, 2006
This mod is fairly extensive and fixes or re-balances many long standing issues within various points of the game.

Each xml file is relatively well documented but a full description of the the most heavily modified files now follow:

GC2Types.XML
This file has been modded extensively. A few things to note in particular are the removal of sizemod from weapons, the overall rebalancing of all weapons and armor relating to Space vs Damage vs Cost, the hull changes (sensors are now all 1 for every hull, and tiny and small hulls get a slight speed boost, hp's for all hulls are doubled and a new hull has been added for starbases giving them a base 200 hp's). In general, there is now no huge difference between any of the beam, missile , or mass driver techs, they all give the same ratios at the same research costs. None of them are "better" than any others except when relating to what techs your opponents are using.
Sensor and Life support values have all been reduced overall as well.
Nano Ripper's have been removed since Mass Drivers overall are much better than before and Subspace Annihilator is an actual weapon now.
One final note
All sizes have been increased by a factor of 10, both as a miniaturization fix, and so that weapons and defenses can be scaled accurately

StarbaseModules.XML
Quite a few changes in this file.
New ability Starbase Range given to the influence modules from the diplomatic tech tree.
Starbase Range also given to two military modules. A few more ShipSpeed boost modules and SlowEnemies modules are given as well, available along the Engine techs. More Defensive modules available.
All modules now scale much better than originally.
Generally speaking, there are a lot more options with Starbases now, and they can hold their own much better than before. The main reasons these got such a beef up is because the ai actually uses Starbases quite well

AbilityBonuses.XML
Range as an option has been removed due to the way this mod works, refer to Raceconfig.xml for the full explanation. Luck, Creativity, and Courage have been left here as options, even though through extensive testing I've yet to figure out what *exactly* they do, but if you really want them, they are still available.
The rest of the abilities have all been given 4 options...3 small upgrades and one huge upgrade.

Anomalies.XML
Most of these have been beefed up quite a bit, so that the money bonuses aren't the only ones that are "good".
Feel free to tone them down if you feel they are TOO good as is. Personally I like them this way

PlanetImprovements.XML
A ton of changes here.
The emphasis here was to keep the ai from crippling itself (soil enhancement changes, industrial changes etc) Orbital Fleet manager is also cheap and available immediately, meaning the ai will usually have these built on their planets. Yes it's one less tile they can use for other things, but as a side bonus, their planets are quite a bit harder to kill now.

Farming improvements now start out quite small, but scale up as you get furthur into that tech tree, and the tech tree is a little longer than before. This change was made to give farm tile bonuses greater emphasis and to limit planet population size if you don't research better farms.
Other changes have been made here and there to make a little more sense.
Example: Hyperion Shipyard now gives a 5 speed boost and is avaiable earlier
There's really a ton of stuff like this here, too many to list them all, it's better if your curious to just look through the file
or look through the Galactopedia to see what changes have been made.

TechTree.XML
Most techs have been changed: their costs scaled, their ai values tweaked, etc
Several big changes to point out though.

The last two Diplomacy techs, Majesty and Total Majesty...are now "Good" only techs
The last Defensive techs are also exclusive to "good" races
The last weapons techs are now exclusive to "evil" races.
Neutral didn't get a huge boost, but with those NLC's I didn't feel they needed one.
Trade got a huge boost in the + trade bonuses category but got a nerf in # of trade routes given.
This was made to overall boost the value of trade and also to give value to taking extra trade routes as a race pick.
(Maximum hardcoded limit on trade routes is 12)

The Planetary Defense tech tree has been removed, all it did was give the player even more tech to boost soldiering
far above what the ai had. The first tech on that line has been integrated into the invasion tech tree, and tidal
disruptors has been put into the tree as well (no longer a branch).

The Starbase Fortification tree has also been removed and the modules from that tree have been moved to other techs.
Mainly the appropriate defense and weapon techs. As it stood before it was just confusing and added little to the game.

Researching up the tech victory tree gives you bonuses to your civ's research ability as well. Overall this makes
tech victory a little easier to achieve than before, but also gives a use to these techs if you have tech
victory disabled. The cost for those techs may need to be tweaked furthur, but as is are still quite expensive.

There are other minor tweaks and changes but most are pretty intuitive and given explanations within the game.

RaceConfig.XML
All races have been rebalanced and most have been boosted.
What I was aiming for was to have free bonuses that equate to about 10 customization points without using those points at all (they don't match the AbilityBonuses).
Generally this makes each civ more powerful overall, but I prefer boosting "bonus poor" races than nerfing "bonus rich" races. They should all balance out.

A Note on Range.
Range as it stands in the game is a little bit *wierd* for lack
of a better definition. Not a bug exactly I don't think, but a little un-intuitive. I've included in here a series of mods to counteract one aspect of range that irks me. Namely, that what you see in the ship designer is not the range that is displayed on the ship. To correct that, you can mod each race to have a negative range to start with which removes the "extra" range that comes from the code doubling the galaxy range bonus.
Unfortunately, since this range bonus is related to galaxy size, the range mod must be different for each galaxy size.

For example and explanation:
If you build a ship with no range modifiers on your civ and no range modules in a large galaxy, the range listed on your ship will be 0.7 sct, but once built the range will be listed on the ship as 1.4 sct, with this mod the range will now show 0.7 sct correctly after it is built, and this does affect the actual range of the ship.

For clarification:
1.0 sct (sector) = 1 large square = 15 parsecs (small squares)
Actual range of a ship from the nearest starbase or planet is calculated as:
range displayed on ship (after it has been built) listed as x.x sct
plus 0.66 sct (10 parsecs)
so a range listed as 1.0 sct will actually be able to travel as far as 25 parsecs
(15/1.0) + 10 if you follow the math.

To use this mod simply use the replace function (ctrl-H in Notepad) and replace all instances of this line

-33
(I play large galaxies)

with whatever size galaxy you normally play with

tiny
-6
small
-10
medium
-15
large
-33
huge
-50
gigantic
-65

other files that have to do with range are in TechTree.XML (removed the +range bunses from the range techs)
GC2TYPES.XML (lowered the amount of extra range with each new life support module)
and ABILITYBONUSES.XML (removed RANGE as a race pick)
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August 12, 2006
This is the Drakh Tanker from Babylon 5 as binary compressed X-File.