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Everyone,

The server cluster is currently down for upgrades (capacity is being doubled). We hope to have it back online around 7pm Eastern Daylight time.

Online multiplayer may limited or unavailable during this time but should improve as things come up. Thanks for bearing with us as we work through this.

Update: Upgrades done, more servers will be joining tomorrow.

We've been getting a number of questions lately concerning Kalypso's recent release of GC2: Endless Universe. Here are some of the most common ones, and their answers.

1) What is GC2: Endless Universe?
GC2EU is a standalone retail bundle of the Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor expansions. GC2: Dread Lords is neither included nor required. GC2EU is also translated into a number of languages for the areas that Kalypso covers.

2) The box/press release seems to imply there is new content...

For those who weren't with us for the Sins beta, I'll be updating this page (linked below) frequently with the past day's reports, consolidating multiple reports of the same issues and filtering out those that were previously reported. Please consult this page to see if an issue is known before posting about it.

Some things you guys can do to make things easier for the devs and for me:

+ Post your feedback in the apporpriate category. Bugs go in the Demigod Beta Feedback category. If it's ...

At long last, GalCiv2's first mod has been updated for the latest expansion, Twilight of the Arnor. For those not already familiar with it, Kryo's Hull System Mod sports a number of features to make your GalCiv2 ship designing experience even better.

In particular, the two features new to this version are that the mod now provides all of the updated and reworked hull models introduced in TA as jewelry pieces right alongside the originals and those from Dark Avatar, so you can pick and choose those that suit your designs best, and that the mod now offers the galactic resources and ascension crystals as ship pieces as well! Ever wanted to make a ship that looks like a portable mining starbase? Now you can!

For newcomers, these new features are in addition to the existing set from prior versions...

As we all eagerly await the coming Demigod beta, let's liven things up a bit. Since a lot of people come from DotA, and Demigod shares at least some common concepts, what do you guys think about setting up a game day for Demigod fans to come play DotA?

I'll confess that I've never really played it myself (any time I tried there were no newbie games, and downloaders generally got kicked on sight, so I stuck to other maps when I played WC3), but it can't hurt to learn, and some of you might enj...

In order to preserve the sanity of the devs and moderators and help clean up the excessive threads on certain topics, I'm creating official threads for some topics that we consider "Dead Horses", i.e., things that people have brought up, and we've answered one way or another, but people continue to bring up anyway.

These threads do not in any way signify that we plan to implement these things soon (or ever), they are merely a central location to discuss ideas for such features. So long as th...

If anyone wants to stop in and chat (with us or each other) or just wants another IRC channel to idle in, the official IRC channel for Sins of a Solar Empire is accessible on irc.stardock.com, port 6667, channel #sins (if you have an IRC client that supports irc links, just click the link at the bottom of this post!).

If you don't have an IRC client already, Impulse has basic built-in IRC functionality. Just go to the Chat section under the Community tab, select #sins from the dropdown, and c...

Just heard it from Brad on IRC. It might not have made it into 1.3 beta 2, but it will definitely be in beta3/final. From there on out, sizemods are now based on the base hull size, so parts will no longer grow as you research miniturization techs.

I repeat:


Miniturization has been fixed!

The first beta of patch 1.3 appears to be up on SDC as of an hour ago.

Changes list: http://browser.galciv2.com/?aid=125001

Notice: This is a beta patch. Do not download it if you are not willing to deal with any new issues that may have arisen!


edit by Cari: If you are using language settings other than English (US), you may see odd planet surfaces/textures and missing jewelry on some of the pre-canned ships. Changing your language settings to English (US) from Regional and Lang...

For those who don't read Brad's blog on JoeUser, here is the link since he hasn't posted here about it yet:

http://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=124919

If you are unable to activate or register the game (via SDC, or after installing the latest patch), you're likely encountering one of a few common problems.


1) Your game came with NO serials at all.
There have been some reports of legitimate retail copies of the game not coming with a serial key at all. If you are sure your copy is legitimate and it did not come with ANY serials, contact support@stardock.com.


2) You're using the wrong serial.
This is a simple but common mistake. The ...

Question for Pat (or whoever else would know):

Are there any plans to provide an easily machine readable metaverse syndication system for GC2?

I'm looking at adding some statbot-like capabilities to the upcoming v2 Jedi Republic site, and this was one feature that was wanted in GC1, but unfortunately it didn't arise until after retail and the MV budget didn't allow for it. If we can get such a system that publishes MV data every 6 or 12 hours to XML files or some other easily readable fo...