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Upgrading existing ships to newer ships needs to display more information in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

When upgrading an existing ship, say a scout, to a more advanced ship (a newer scout), I may not want to upgrade to a ship with less speed, or less sensor range, or less range, but with the information currently displayed about the upgrade choices I have no information to make such a decision. Can the tool tip display more information about the newer ships capabilities?

Please save camera data in saved games files. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I am finding it a bit annoying to constantly re-establish the position, angle, and zoom amount of the camera every time I reload a saved game. Please add these to the list of things to be added to the saved game files (if it isn't already there).

Reply to Won't run on Surface Pro 3 in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I looked up MicroSoft's Surface Pro 3 specs, and since MS advertizes this tablet as a replacement for laptops, it sure looks like this one, which comes with 8G RAM, should be able to handle GC3. However, there may be something in it that the SD people haven't seen, so you should report this issue as described in the post " GalCiv III Support FAQ ".

Reply to Game Crashing (Bug?) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I would call any Crash To Desktop (CTD) a bug. The post " GalCiv III Support FAQ " describes how to report them.

Reply to Crappy work laptop takes forver to load GC3 after beta update in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Everyone, re-read the original post and the title. I may be wrong, but "work laptop" can, and sometimes does, imply a company issued piece of equipment. My point is that you should modify only those machines which you directly own unless you have the owner's permission. Another point is that he has not indicated any of the machine's properties. If he already has 8G or more of RAM, adding ram is not likely to do him any good. Stewapet, my recommendation i

Reply to Crappy work laptop takes forver to load GC3 after beta update in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="1" id="3490987"] Buy MOAR RAM online and have it shipped to you're home, then you can have fun again. [/quote] Don't ever modify a machine you don't personally own without the owner's consent. DARCA, I know you like to be sarcastic sometimes but you should really be careful about statements like this. You could get someone into serious trouble this way.

Are you having problems with crashes? Here is something that worked for me. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

After many CTDs in the early game or when trying to stress the game, I ended up deleting "local content" (a Steam option) and re-installing the game. It did huge wonders for being able to play a game without a crash.

Reply to Game crashes .crash file & Auto reporting in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Crashcatz, the plan for crashes was stated by SD to be use of SteamWorks, which, unfortunately, doesn't work with 64bit programs. So they have been advising us to follow the procedures in the GalCiv III Support FAQ .

Reply to Will Gal Civ III be Optimized for Multi Core computers? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

DARCA, I have been watching the processor usage since Alpha 1 (I have the "all core" monitor), and as far as I can tell, it looks like the game already takes very good advantage of all of my I7-4770 threads (4 dual thread cores for a total of 8 threads).

Reply to Is this a bug in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I've seen this too. Could it be hardware or driver related? I have an i7-4770 and GeForce gt 640.

Reply to 0,40 and 0,41 CTD on turn 1 managing first planet. Console command implications???? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I think I have just resolved this issue. It got to the point where I couldn't even start a game without it crashing during the first turn no matter what I did. So I deleted the "local content" and re-installed the game. I now wish I had run the "verify integrity of game cache" option of Steam first, but I didn't think of it in time. Anyway, I am now able to play a few turns with any faction while using the game console, and am proceeding with seeing just how far

0.41 MP -- mismatched levels needs a notice before termination. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Currently if a player tries to join a game and doesn't have the same level code as the other players the game just terminates without any explanation of why. Not knowing why can be very frustrating.

Reply to 0.40 Colony/Transport loading depleats primary shipyard sponsor's population. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Mormegil, I really like this. I have one observation though, and that is a 6 tile limit would just about limit the eligible sponsor planets to only one or two. I can understand not wanting us to seriously exploit this mechanic, but couldn't this limit be scaled to the galaxy size?

Reply to 0.40 Colony/Transport loading depleats primary shipyard sponsor's population. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="6" id="3489371"] another option although annoying would be to build the colony ship empty and then you must send it to a world to pick up population. [/quote] While this may be an annoying solution I think it makes good sense. The shipyards build ships, but why should the shipyards supply colonists or troops? Having to pick up the colonists or troops by orbiting planets would be more sensible and would give the opposition an additional oppor

Reply to Seem to have lost my Avatar in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

They had a large multi-server failure earlier today. They have to bring up each server one at a time, and the Avatars are on one that hasn't been brought up yet. And Brad posted something on the Steam forum and they put something out on twitter as well.

Reply to Seem to have lost my Avatar in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It looks like eveyone's Avatar has taken a vacation. The forum was down earlier today so maybe that had something to do with it. I asked them on chat, but they haven't responded yet. When they do I will post what I find out here.

Reply to 0.40 Colony/Transport loading depleats primary shipyard sponsor's population. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="twilight024" reply="4" id="3489180"] zero - you are right you could abuse far away travel by pulling troops from great distances. I think having supplies coming from cross galaxcy is a bit dumb. I'd prefer only pop and resources to be from immediate planets. [/quote] I think this is turning out to be an "unanticipated consequence" of the hole idea of the shipyard mechanic, It definitely needs some rethinking on StarDock's part.

Reply to [Beta 1] Game is still completely unplayable due to blank UI in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="hroeder" reply="9" id="3489274"] I'm running a Sony Vaio Intel quad core Q8400 @ 2.66 GHz. 8 gig of RAM Windows 7 64 bit professional. GeoForce GT 330 M. And that is a chip in the mother board so it can't be upgraded. [/quote] I checked what I could find on the Intel web site about the Q8400 chip set and it looks like you do NOT have an integrated Graphics Processor Unit (GPU), which was at the root of the problem jorlass was

Reply to Can we please have the "C" key functioning to 'centre on the currently active unit' please ? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Agreed. I am also hoping to see number-pad keys used for movement. Keys 7, 9, 4, 6, 1, and 3 for NW, NE, W, E, SW, and SE.

Reply to Beta 1 performance issues in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

On the chance this might somehow be hardware combination related: I am not seeing these problems with an Intel i7-4770 (without an integrated GPU) with 16G RAM and a GeForce GT 640 GPU with 12G RAM. StarDock has already stated that they are working with Intel about performance issues with Intel chipsets that include an integrated GPU when paired with another manufacturer's Display driver card.

Reply to Negative Income in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I think the word is there will be. Just a bit early I guess. On GC1 and 2 it caused your empires morale to start tanking, but since morale was out, and is now in -- or is it -- I guess we will have to wait another build or two to see what they have planned for it.

Reply to [Idea] Make the North/South zigzag ship path look strait (even if it isnt) in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The StarDock devs have said the ship path smoothing is not ready for external testing yet,

Reply to Map Generation Question in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]So my question is, does the AI get a bonus or able to ignore the rules of the galaxy in their area? Is there something that says there will be this many habitable planets in each cluster? [/quote] You can see exactly what bonuses the other Factors (the AIs) get in the startup menus, where you can select what factor you want to play (for now, What happens when you can select optional bonuses has not been exposed to us yet). And Brad has consistently insisted t

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Beta Patch 0.41 Patch Notes in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]Fixed an issue where Incorrect manufacturing values from sponsors in shipyard wnd in game-within-game, caused by bad preview stats [/quote] It still isn't quite correct. Here are two pictures: From main map with the shipyard selected. From the shipyard view. </p

0,40 and 0,41 CTD on turn 1 managing first planet. Console command implications???? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Here is a question to everyone using the command console: Has anyone tried using the command console in turn 1 before managing your first planet? Did it crash? Then did you try managing your first planet first? Did it not crash? Your answers may become advice to avoid using the command console until the end of your first turn. Maybe.