Lucky_Jack

Lucky_Jack

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Reply to Unable to colonize a planet in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

At this level (alpha build 1) I can't imagine not being able to colonize a planet as long as it is listed as habitable. I have had the same problem many times, sometimes I am able to colonize it next turn without completing any research, sometimes it takes a few turns, and now I have one I can't seem to colonize after several turns after trying it with several ships. I checked with the devs and they see this as a bug. Do you wish to report it to support, or shou

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Reply to Do you miss the dual build Queue? What about having the Starports separated from the planets? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="113" id="3455601"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 112Quoting parrottmath, reply 100 The building of colony / transport ships on the shipyard would be an interesting problem. I do like taking a little from each colony connected to the shipyard. Building freighters in a shipyard is another interesting problem. How would you designate the origin planet for a trade route? Or would sending the freighter to a trade partner world be handled diff

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Reply to Do you miss the dual build Queue? What about having the Starports separated from the planets? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="100" id="3455327"] The building of colony / transport ships on the shipyard would be an interesting problem. I do like taking a little from each colony connected to the shipyard.[/quote] Building freighters in a shipyard is another interesting problem. How would you designate the origin planet for a trade route? Or would sending the freighter to a trade partner world be handled differently than in GC2? Or how is trade going to be handled in GC3? W

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Reply to Options Menu Feedback in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]Diplomacy 1. It would be awesome if the portraits showed some emotion depending on their relation to you or their current status in the game. i.e. anger/joy depending on relations or despair if they are close to losing. This ofcourse would be pretty hard to do convincincly [/quote] I think they did it quite well in GC2. Of course, it is a bit early to have implemented it in GC3. I was waiting for a later build to see if they were going to do it again.</p

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Reply to I had a crash that automatically uploaded to steam? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="satoru1" reply="4" id="3455247"] Crashes are consolidated onto a devs STeamworks page The steam crashdump call generally tries to group dumps in terms of the faulting module and the error given to the dump. The dumps are not really used to identify users but more to group crashes into groups that are similar.[/quote] So what do the devs do if they can't reproduce the problem without a save file? I tried to open a ticket but it barfed on me. I t

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Reply to Do you miss the dual build Queue? What about having the Starports separated from the planets? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="80" id="3455223"] Current thought is to move ship production off world. You'd build a shipyard and multiple planets can send resources to them (with distance affecting efficiency).[/quote] This would work for me. One of the unique things about the GC series compared to other games I have seen (and particularly the CIV series) is the separate queues for manufacturing and ship building. It would be a real shame to remove this uniqueness.

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I had a crash that automatically uploaded to steam? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I just had a crash. In checking the debug.err file I found these messages at the bottom of the file: Debug Message: Uploading crash report Debug Message: Considering sending report to Steam Debug Message: Really sending report to Steam Debug Message: Sending data to Steam Debug Message: Completed sending data to Steam This is the first experience with a Stardock game crashing on steam so I just wanted to kn

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starbase list vanishing icons in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The icons for starbases randomly fail to show in the starbase list. the disappearance is random and unpredictable, and a later switch to the starbase list will have previously missing icons show again. <img src="data:image/bmp;base64,Qk0YlAQAAAAAADYAAAAoAAAAkAEAAPoAAAABABgAAAAAAOKTBAASCwAAEgsAAAAAAAAAAAAAeJChZ4KVbYWWeYuSeYuRb4aWaYSYbIWZbYWaboaZhZilh5qohZimhZqmiZ2niZyniJuqh5qqip6sgZaldoqaoq+5rbnBqbW+qba/rLnDrbrDq7bBq7a/rrnCp7G6cIiabIidbYidbYiebYiebIeebYiebYieboifbo

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Reply to CPU usage in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Main menu? I missed that. So in looking at the screen for the main menu for anything happening, I see a light that scans across the letters "Galactic Civilizations" about once every 5 seconds and taking about 1 second to scan across the letters. I also see some light near the top and behind the "III" that are pulsing. To that, add the background music. Now, can that really cause so much processing? One thing StarDock is partially smart about is that when you change which window has th

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Reply to Upgrades from anomolies: only the survey ship gets them. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="1" id="3454843"] This is like the anomalies in GC2 that gave your ships experience; only your survey ship got the experience and the HP (lol, useless), because apparently the captains burn every artifact they get their hands on. They also run auctions in the middle of deep space, and regularly find coins worth a billion dollars.[/quote] No, this is like in GC2 when a survey ship found an anomaly that improved the repair rate of all ships in yo

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Upgrades from anomolies: only the survey ship gets them. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I am not sure I understand the intent of "a much needed upgrade for all of the ships in your fleet." It seems to be directed to all ships in your empire, after all, who would combine a survey ship with other ships into a fleet during the early part of the game, when you are not at war with anyone? If a lone survey ship or a survey ship "fleeted" with other ships are the only ones to get the upgrade, then at least the sentence makes sense consistent with the results, but if an enhancement is l

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Unable to see edges of main map when zoomed in. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

After changing resolutions in windowed mode from 1280*768 to 1440*900, exiting and restarting, and choosing the new game option, I found that I could not view the edges of the map with the camera directly above. Here is what it looked like: <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4SBmRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgABwESAAMAAAABAAEAAAEaAAUAAAABAAAAYgEbAAUAAAABAAAAagEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAExAAIAAAAmAAAAcgEyAAIAAAAUAAAAmIdpAAQAAAABAAAArAAAANgACvyAAAAnEAAK/IAAACcQQWRvYmUgUGhvdG9zaG9wIEVsZW1lbnRzIDExLjAgV2luZG9

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Reply to Game crash at 249th turn in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

A program exception code "05" is an addressing exception (the program tried to access an address it did not have authorization to access). This needs to be evaluated by the Devs. You will find instructions in the support FAQ for what files to sent to the Devs and how to send them. The last paragraph lists how to submit the files to support.

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Reply to CPU usage in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I think it is good to mention here that the decision of which core or thread gets which task really ultimately belongs to the OS. I think there are some things that the SD devs can do to influence those decisions, but the control they have is not total. In short: I would never expect the load imposed by any game on any system to be totally balanced across all cores/threads.

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Reply to Windowed Mode Crashes 100% of the Time in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I have also tried the smallest resolution and it starts up fine. So I have to wonder about the line in your debug file that gave me an incorrect conclusion, the one that says "Popup Manager Update: Unhiding FullScreenBink" and made me think you were running in full screen mode. Have you tried it in full screen mode, just to see if it works. After that, I think you need help from the stardock people, because I have run out of speculations on what may be the problem. Try what th

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Reply to [Crash] On Game Start in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Intel drivers? Actually I see two GPU chips listed above. One is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M, and the other is a Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, which is much too generic to give me a feel for what it really is. Could you have both an integrated GPU with your CPU chip AND an NVidia card? The debug.err portion of your post lists the Intel GPU as the preferred display driver. Is that the one you wanted to use? I know people have successfully used multiple GPUs on their PCs, but they had to be careful

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