My manual for GalCiv is JavaScout's website, a truly awesome bit of work. After you run down the links enough you'll have them cached on your drive and then you can access them while working offline. Is it as good as a 300 page textbook-sized manual would be? In some ways no, in some ways its better, as JavaScout updates his page with each patch whereas a manual never does.

If big manuals are a must for you in gaming then be prepared to stop gaming, because only the largest companies can afford the reduced profit they get by making and including a large manual. And even the biggest companies are shipping games now with no more than booklets.

If you don't have a decent online capability, then you need to drop PC gaming and switch to consoles, because the online community is where the patches, bug fixes, workarounds, mods, and other goodies are at. If you pay by the minute for your internet connection then you either need to be able to afford it or just move to another type of gaming.

Bob, which ships?

~SDC~

Dearmad, are you running an SB live card, too?

Morelyn, if you disable the game port for SB Live in the device manager, do you still get the Alt-Tab issue?

Also, you're not trying this when loading a new game or the screens are creating (the loading bar is up), are you? It also happens just during the normal course of a game?

Anyone who is having this problem, please come onto our #galciv channel in the chat area. We have not been able to reproduce this on any machine, any OS, any config. To use the old saying "It works fine here.."

~SDC~

Also, are you playing Gal Civ on a laptop?

I am playing 1.03 and it says Im getting +50 bc per turn, my net income is like 671 and expenes are 620 or so. But everytime I click turn my my money drops and the numbers turn yellow. then when I open the gov screen and it still shows +50 bc a turn and the numbers go organe again. Some turns Ive been losing like 120 BC's. The whole games been fine till maybe 15 turns or so ago when this started, pretty far into a game too.

Yes, same thing happening here - I was losing about 10 early on and now it's 100 as my Economy has ramped up. This is a new game started with 1.03.

Ok oddly enough, I the glitch hit me after I invaded a planet and won then when I invaded another and won it went away.

If you are seeing a misreproting on income, please send me your saved game (Bwardell@stardock.com)

~SDC~

I have yet to see that. Which ships?

I haven't been able to reproduce it so I am currently at a loss as to what would cause that.

~SDC~

Ok, I'm using:

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.
MSI GF4 4400 latest drivers (like just a week ago)
WinME
512 MB
MSI KT3 ultra MoBo
Not a laptop.

Happens during normal course of game- with or *without* another app in background (SDC, etc).

Exiting the game is slower now than it was (returning to desktop in a controlled fashion that is). Now that doens't lock me up 100% of the time anymore.

When I get home I'll try alt-tabbing somemore under varying circumstances to see what's up.

Oh, AMD Athlon 1800, so not a Pentium

Just updated to 1.03. Started a new game. Choose Universalists. played for a few minutes, then got an event. It was the precursor workshop event. The only problem is that the Neutral and Evil options both gave +7% production bonus. I think the evil is suppose to be +17%, but I could be wrong.

Kuno

OKay.. I was playing along.. My I League friends declared war on the Drengin.. and then the theme to Morrowind started to play.. It was on my playlist (am not on custom music atm) but still

~SDC~

"The only problem is that the Neutral and Evil options both gave +7% production bonus. I think the evil is suppose to be +17%, but I could be wrong"

Some random events seem to have random variations in what bonuses they give, so evil may not ALWAYS give a higher value.

"Some random events seem to have random variations in what bonuses they give, so evil may not ALWAYS give a higher value.".

I think ALL the RANDOM events ARE RANDOM, so the benefits/penalties are everytime different. As it should be.

I don't have an SB Live gameport in my Device Manager. I'm not trying to alt-tab out except when nothing's happening in the game. This is on a desktop system.

I am very gratified, however, to see that Stardock is trying to help me, especially since I seem to be in the minority in having this problem. How many other companies would say something other than "make sure you have the latest drivers"?

when the standalone 1.03 comes out, can I assume that it will have addressed all the little bugs that folks are reporting here? Silly question but had to ask. Thanks

I've seen a couple of cases where a ship was invisible but that was with 1.02.

In 1.03 I have a case where I cannot select any ship to build at one of my planets - it just doesn't stick.

when starting new games, the Torians are flooding the galaxy with constructors. 15-20+ on a screen at once. this is at fool/beginner settings for all AI and it is within the first 50 turns of the game.

I think that evil races think that -400BC = 400BC some major race keeps trying to extort money from me while I am in the hole.

Are Battle transports and combat transports the same thing.

Found the Torian bug. A "==" was a "=" in there.

So on constructors it was supposed to be a if(pShip->ulSpent == ulPointsNeeded)CompleteShip();

Instead:
if(pShip->ulSpent = ulPointsNeeded)CompleteShip();

#$@! C programming language!

I've had a problem in 1.03 with scrolling in the Economics screen...not matter where my mouse is pointed, the mouse wheel scrolls the political party sentate seats display, rather than incrementing tax rate, spending, or allocation.