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i think its good that there is a core group of us that have formed a pretty close bond with each other as gamers, and still browse the forums asnwering questions as we see them.

For example, I see Sole Soul as the true successor of Mumblefratz and Iztok Bitenc; KzintiPatriarch may one day be able to at least claim parity, if not surpass, magnumaniac and wyndstar; and we still get jokes from Piznit and Dystopic.

And KP is right, I know that there will be a few of us "oldtimers" around to hold down the fort until GCIII comes out.

And I still need to get my 1000 games in that is...once the MV starts working again (will someone please send me a PM when it does, it would be most appreciated)

-Silver-

What about me?

I will be around till Galciv III comes out. Hopefully by the time Galciv III comes out the Kzinti, ToE and Geckodon Alliance will probaly the last of the active empires in the top ten.

@ Silverbeacher: I think you're right. It's great that the true core group of people who enjoy Galactic Civilizations will still be around. Great point. I'm not sure if you consider me in that core group or not, but I can assure you that I'm not going to leave these forums and this great game. Best Regards.

@ Everyone: I'm not too sure about what you all mean about the MV not working. Since it apparantly isn't, should I stop playing MV games and hitting 'Post to Metaverse'? Am I just wasting my time on games that won't count? Every time I post, I get new medals and stats, and my score keeps going up, so I know that at least that part is working. I assume that you guys mean that the MV isn't updating the scores for the Empires, correct? Thanks.

~ Cypher ~

@ Seth: If you're right about us being the last, there is going to be some fierce competition between the empires. I'm pretty sure (for what it's worth) that 'The Raiders' are still going to be around, too. Sorry Seth - I know that you don't like them very much.

~ Cypher ~

the empire ranks and scores aren't updating, that's all. individual scores are, i think, and obviously MV games are still being saved.

Fierce competition has been around sincethe MV began lol, but's it's a shame that most of the competition now are the lifeless corpses of once active empires. The Raiders I never liked.

Also if there is a MV for Galciv III then hopefully the Geckodon Alliance will be one of the vetran empires if there are any.

@ Seth: Considering the popularity of the MV in the GalCiv2 website, I think that even if the Stardock guys didn't want to have an MV for GalCiv3, they know that they would get an enormous amount of angry e-mails from the multitudes of fans that liked the 1st MV. So, long story short, I'm pretty sure they'll have it. I also think that any empires that make it on this MV long enough to see the creation of GalCiv3 will definitely be the top empires in the new GalCiv3 forums. It'll probably be the ToE, Kzinti, Geckodons, and maybe one more empire that will pop up in these forums and this MV sometime between now and the end of the year.

@ Dystopic: Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated.

~ Cypher ~

I thought they shot down the idea of the MV in GC3....Where the post is, gawd knows.

Yeah well in the meantime I will be making ship exspansion packs for the Geckodons, I just uploaded a ship exspansion pack, there will be another one after I finish the Galactic Diplomats ship style and Colonial Fleet ship style, after I release the second Geckodon ship exspansion I will be working on the tech trees for each race except the Geckodons.

You sound like you're going to have a very busy weekend Seth.

~ Cypher ~

 All this talk of Galciv2 loosing popularity has suddenly made these forums feel so lonely and empty... SOMEBODY HUG ME!!!

KP I have good new and bad news. Good news is Stardock are getting back to work on the 5th to start working on our problems, that means your issues should come to their attantion soon.

The bad news is that I think they are paying more attention to a distrubtion issue raised by Ultimate edition which was released by Kalypso instead of stardock, something about Kalypso allowing stardock to register ultimate edition on impulse. So at the moment anyone with Ultimate edition cannot do anything but post on the metaverse and play offline games. (I never mentioned anything about it been bad for me )

While I am not going to travel all the way to Australia just to hug you, I can assure you that you don't need to worry about GalCiv2 losing popularity. Well, it is, but you don't need to feel lonely. All of us here are obviously still here (duh). And I don't think any of us will be leaving any time soon. If you need any further motivation, check out my post - A Call to Action. It's under the General Category in the forums here, but I think it might still be up on the main page (if it's popular?). Best Regards.

@ Seth: My 2nd character has been added to your empire. I'll try and give you guys a score soon, even though the MV is still down. Maybe all of the totaled scores will be applied once they fix this mess. Best Regards.

~ Cypher ~

this is the ToE. we don't hug. if you want to feel better, destroy something