Hi Mumble!

Been gone a long time and came back to the game a few months ago for a return. I do remember when the forums here were alive with posts and half of them were metaverse empire threads lol.

Hope you are keeping well yourself.

What a great idea for a thread Mumble!

Drengin, good to see you checking in.

I don't play competitively anymore, and in fact haven't played any game, mod or meta in some time, though i am looking forward to just playing some fun games!
Well gone are the days of the Diplomats/Browncoats/Overmind/Quorth and HCH talking up a storm on here, this community was (is?) one of the better online forums i've ever been apart of, and ive stuck round in some sense (other SD forums) ever since.

I'd like to hear from some names that have been quite for some time.
Hope all is well and we might all get together again if Brad decides to do a GC3.....

I too was introduced to the joys of forums from here. I now lurk in the Sins of a Solar Empire as a modder for Distant Stars. I still occasion this place just to see if things have changed as Brad said he might fix a few of the issues that were introduced by the Twilight expansion.

I've been active or lurking over at the Elemental boards since the day they launched. So far, the 'community' there has never come close to what was happening around here when I finally started posting, which was not too long before the DA beta. I'm stumped as to whether that situation is because the Elemental code is still so rapidly changing or whether the social climate on the inter-tubes in general or Stardockia in particular have changed.

Re the GC2 forums, I've noticed LTJim as a regular 'old newbie' who often takes the time to try to answer basic game questions from really new players. I'd try to do more of that volunteer support stuff myself, but I've been playing so little that I'd need to do some actual work to reply with confidence. If the Elemental sequel/alternative disappoints me as much as the War of Magic title has, I could easily end up playing GC2 regularly until Stardock puts all that engine work to use to build GC3.

Mumble, re the Impulse forum topic, it looks like the sale to GameStop has gone through and the topic is no longer listed at GC2 or Elemental. With searches, I can find some old Impulse topics at the domains, but they display as Home and not Impulse. I still hope to see a Stardock alternative for folks who just want an installer/updater (Reboot Stardock Central? Please!). But I don't miss the clutter on the boards that the Steam-competitor project created.

It's nice to see a few lost souls check in. It won't take much to keep this thread going given the limited traffic. Just an occasional post by a few people would be enough.

Good to hear from all of you.

GW, yeah I know that Impulse was sold off and the forum no longer exists here but I'm just going on my old impression of how the forums have devolved. Call it literary license.

I did eventually install Impulse and update my games to the latest versions as far as I know (DL v1.53, DA v2.01, TA v2.03) and I've actually started so many DA games that I've lost count.

My problem at this point is one of extreme perfectionism, I start a game, spend a few weeks to a month on it and then I get to a point where I realize that I could have done something better or earlier and I'm damned to start over. It's been a few months since I last even tried to play the game.

I do figure at this point I have one year left until I retire and then I'll finally have the time to play the game I want to play.

I actually find that the games I enjoy the most are where I have to fight a larger empire, which tends to happen when I start in a corner and don't expand far or fast enough.  Letting another empire swallow up half the star systems is not exactly playing on my best form.  However, it does make for a more interesting game, right up until the moment I start winning.  There aren't very many surprises in store after that.

Plus the rate I go through mod versions, doesn't give me much chance to actually finish a game.

I haven't played GC II in over a year - kind of surprising since I don't think I'd ever gone more than a month without playing GC since the OS/2 days.  I was just thinking about starting a new game, dropped in here and found this post.  Nice idea, Mumblefratz!

Like GW Swicord, I was active on the Elemental forums during the beta, but was ultimately disappointed with the game and haven't played it since it shipped.  Since then I've been spending most of my gaming time on Dragon Age: Origins and the somewhat disappointing Dragon Age II.

An aside to MarvinKosh: Of all the GC games I've played, over all the different incarnations of the game, the one I remember most fondly was a GC for OS/2 game where I started out in a corner, had to attack the Drengins in the diagonal quadrant to expand beyond my first two systems, and then found that I then had to fight my way across the galaxy since all habitable systems had been colonized by then.

I know that there are many others out there that pass by now and again so I'll take the liberty of bumping this up every so often to make sure every one sees it.

Just thinking out loud...its been over 5 years now since most of us played GC2 for the first time....Other than C&C Generals and Rise of Nations, i don't know of any other game i play that has kept me around for so long.

I'm not sure if that's a testament to the game or to the community. I suspect a little of both!

Cripes, so many memories... GC2 was my first ever Stardock game, and although I don't touch the actual GC2 threads any more it's still my favorite site from which to access the off-topic section.

I really should get back to the modding forums some day.

I was never that active on the forums. I still haunt the forums occasionally, reading threads, posts and whatnot. It is odd, because I have been thinking about starting to play GalCiv 2 again.

Scoutdog, my first Stardock game was Galactic Civilizations I.

GW Swicord -

An "old newbie" - I like that!

I started a project, left my on-going suicidal games on hold, and vowed not to start another until I finished.  Also, I swore not to start any other pc game or even load one until the project was done.  It's just too easy for me to lose hours and hours ....

I do check in here every week, though.  Many of y'all helped me when I started the game, and I enjoy passing on that knowledge, along with the few tidbits I discovered myself along the way.

Yup same here LOL

Nice to see some familiar names still kicking around.

I would play more and submit more games if I had the time... sadly this is not the case.

I think the last game I completed was back in October of 2010 and immediately started up another but got derailed at some point and haven't been back since.

I occasionally check the forums and the AltMeta for signs of life.

So good of you Mumble to open this thread.

Cheers to you and all GalCiv2 alumni.

I just love this game and I hope it get more popular each day! 

The story-fiction is great and intresting. My first SD game was also GC1.