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Reply to Futher Drengin propaganda in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Love this. You captured the Drengin voice really well—especially the unapologetic harshness in their announcements. I think the best propaganda reveals how societies justify extreme measures in the name of security, and you've definitely nailed that here. Would be interesting to see something similar from the Torian side—how would they respond to this portrayal? Now, the Drengin themselves (which separates them from the Korath) is that they want to enslave everyone as oppo

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #97 - The Lost Generation in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

Great breakdown of the Manti! They're one of my favorite Civs precisely because their playstyle really rewards careful planning and territory control. I've always found it interesting how their backstory—losing an entire generation—feeds directly into their paranoid, defensive traits. From a design perspective, it’s cool when lore and mechanics line up naturally, and GalCiv IV does that really well with the Manti. <p class="" data

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Endless Legend II thread in PC Gaming LittleTinyFrogs Forums

So our friends over at Amplitude have announced Endless Legend II. It's due for Early Access late Summer. My good friend Kael (Derek P who was the lead designer on Elemental: Fallen Enchantress and did the Fall from Heaven mod) is working on it.

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PC Gaming in 2025 in PC Gaming LittleTinyFrogs Forums

These days I'm mostly playing our stuff. There's just not a lot of time for other games. So lots of Ara: History Untold, GalCiv IV, Sins of a Solar Empire II and even some Ashes of the Singularity. But what are you guys playing? Anything you would recommend I should check out?

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Reply to We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals LittleTinyFrogs Forums

If anyone wants to do the math on how long it takes to download 34,000 gigabytes at various speeds here's a table. Mind you, this is just downloading. It doesn't include scanning the data, extracting the data, and re-uploading the data. <thead

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We're back! What happened? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

You might’ve noticed we had a serious outage that took down our website, forums—everything. Some people have speculated on what could be so catastrophic as to take us down for WEEKS? For legal reasons, I can't get into the details other than to say it wasn't ransomware but it was a total data loss. This catastrophe wiped out everything at ou

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GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #96 - A Preview of Galactic Civilizations IV v3.0 in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

At long last, Galactic Civilizations IV v2.95 is here and it's a big one. I'd like to think it addresses most of the high priority feedback we've gotten on the game since launch, especially in terms of map generation. But well beyond that, v2.95 is a major improvement in everything from performance, balance, multiplayer stability, late game stability, AI, and more. Seriously, this is a big update. Assuming there's no issues with it, the next big update will be version 3.0, whi

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GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #93 - An Essay of the History of the Galactic Civilizations Universe... in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

My office has a lot of printouts in binders regarding the history of the universe (The Mithrilar Cycle) that both Galactic Civilizations and Elemental come from. I once had the opportunity to write a book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Elemental-Destinys-Embers-Bradley-Wardell-ebook/dp/B003F3PKO0/ref=sr_1_4?crid=SZWZTQ6AH4H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.07mfMiMyQ52YbPI1WbnunhcoUiCvCzFvC2VuFD1K3HprY24_94PXFb5xYigM6EX7_YsJLThf7xmslMpEc1PNZRcylJpG_4noGvyS8u59s6-Q7Z6pxwDaHXjrb5aebAwUFejzrP1z

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GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #92 - Of the Nyx in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

With the benefit of hindsight, Tales of the Arnor should have been handled as a full expansion pack. It just has such a massive scope of changes in it. For me, personally, it's the first GalCiv IV DLC I've got to work on since Tales of Centauron which I thoroughly enjoyed. But this one...this one is just so much bigger. This will probably not be the last post I make on Tales of the Arnor so I will probably miss some things here. <span style="font-siz

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GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #91 - The Yor and the Arnor Thoughts in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

So I'm working on the upcoming DLC called Tales of the Arnor and it's going to go pretty hard into the background on the Yor. To do that, I really need to explain a bit about the background of this game which, since it's a 30 year old series there's a lot of bits involved. No pun intended. In the beginning... So at the start there were the Mithrilar. These were beings that we would consider to exist outside our universe.&nbs

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Modding Ara: History Untold in PC Gaming LittleTinyFrogs Forums

It's really amazing how easy Ara: History Untold is for modding. The first thing to know is that all the source data files can be found (if you're on Steam for instance) in a directory like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Ara History Untold\assets\SourceMods So say you don't like one of the balance of say...Recipes. Let's go find that. Recipes0.zdata is where all the recipes are. Now I happen to be a bit unhappy that the Feast recipe is defa

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ChatGPT 4o vs. o1 vs. o1 Pro testing results in Artificial Intelligence LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I went ahead and sprung for the $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro as I do a lot of data analysis on very large and complicated data sets. The first thing I through at it was last month's full Perforce logs with diffs and and all so that I could get a nice friendly report of the various developers, how many CLs they did and an evaluation on the type of work they did and how much work they did. Here are my results: ChatGPT 4o. Basically useless.

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #76 - Making Money in GalCiv IV Dev Journals LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I always run into challenges with money. Really, trade is my main way out. I kind of think we should make Entrepreneurs something you can get sooner but that doesn't really help new players. People who are good at the game end up with lots of money while new players struggle. I have sometimes thought we should make the economic districts provide a small, flat credit amount just to help.

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Forever Internet and GenX in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

When I look at the people who have gotten "canceled" over things they posted on the Internet, it's disproportionately GenXers. Why is that? I think it's the awkward timing. GenX grew up on BBSes and Usenet which were a free for all. It wasn't until the Millennials and later GenZ came on the scene that the raunchy, insensitive, or intentionally trolling behaviors of GenX got us into trouble.

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