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From: Owner-OS2News@teamos2.org

Subject: OS2News: GalCiv 2 News

Just a quick update on what we're doing:

Stardock has been spending some time with internal IBM builds of Fixpack 17 to
ensure that it is compatible with Galactic Civilizations 2.

Once Fixpack 17 is out we will begin working on Shipyards 2.0 and GalCiv 2 for
hard drive usage.

the update to GalCiv 2 will allow you to run it off of the hard drive while
still playing the music and graphics off the CD so that you get the best of
both worlds (super fast performance without the disk space hit).

While we are at it we're going to make the following changes:

1) Excalibur's will lose their unlimited range due to severe performance
   issues it caused.

2) .ini file will no longer placed on the root directory.

3) Saved games will default to the hard drive directory that GalCiv is in.

4) Governors will do the following:
    You can have governors choose your social projects for you.  There will be
    a global list of social projects that you will select which order they are
    developed in.  You will be able to choose on a system by system basis
    so that you still maintain control if you wish.

5) Status reports will be enhanced where it will list all the changes from the
    previous turn in a single dialog instead of it bringing up dialog after
    dialog of news.

6) We will be modifying the way music plays so that you won't have music
    playing at the same time that graphics or other info is being loaded from
    the CD (for obvious performance enhancements).

7) We thought of a programming trick that will make the AI smarter and faster
    when dealing with ranges (it won't cheat still, just a different 
    philosophy).

This update will be available freely on all our support channels.  We haven't
decided whether to call it GalCiv 2 (v2.1) or GalCiv hard drive runnable
version or something like that since we were always planning to have a free
update that plays from the hard drive but those of you familiar with Stardock
know that we always add features when we have to write code anyway <g>.

This update should be available in early February with any luck.

Shipyards 2 will come shortly after that with the enhanced GalCiv plus some
new
features specific to Shipyards 2 (to be determined).

Galactic Civilizations 2 is $59.95 from Stardock Systems and is a CD ROM only
game right now.  It recently won "Game of the Year" from IPC-Games.

Shipyards 2.0 is $19.95 and will be out in February.

Here is our standard order form for those of you who haven't bought GalCiv 2
yet:

Choose Which Products you Want

Consumer:
[ ] Galactic Civilizations 2.  $59.95
[ ] Star Emperor Advanced.     $49.95
[ ] Avarice Preview            $29.95

Corporate:
[ ] Object Desktop             $89.95
[ ] OS/2 Essentials            $39.95


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