Lucky_Jack

Lucky_Jack

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Reply to I am worried about what they said about space battles in the interview in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="59" id="3442639"] Quoting Ashbery76, reply 58 The problem with the terribly dull combat in GC2 was not just the lack of any interaction but weapons tech is just a boring numbers game.The difference between laser1 and phaser was nothing but a number.No range,no rate of fire,no shield penetration or anti armor bonus.Games like Dominions4 and gratuitous space battles show that you do not need full control to make it interesting.<br

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Reply to Please keep in the snarky remarks, I love them! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA72" reply="46" id="3442361"]Another example of auto correct spelling and predictive spelling skewing me nine ways til Sunday. and swear you have to be a grammar school teacher Lucky Jack.[/quote] Worse. As a Systems Development Designer and Programmer, one of my duties was proofreading others design documents, and having my design documents proofread. I spent 21 years at it. And you have to admit, the language skills had to be at the post college level, whi

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Reply to Governors and Admirals in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Are you two forgetting that ships in GC2 did repair themselves -- slowly if in space and not so slow when in orbit of a planet. Also there was a module that could be added to a starbase that increased the repair rate for ships. But, what was that repair rate based on? I don't have the answer to that question, but I suspect that the experience level of the ship's crew (which is what the experience level must really represent) is a factor -- maybe the only factor.

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Reply to Please keep in the snarky remarks, I love them! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="39" id="3442097"] Quoting DARCA1213, reply 38 Funny Rudy_102. .our hero/heroin gets food poisoning and has to leave the safety of the basement/bathroom/bedroom for medical treatment. Oh noe! My Heroin can get food poisoning! lol[/quote] Hey DARCA, if your hero overdosed on heroin then he'd die and not be able to save his heroine. Sometimes good spelling becomes very important.

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Reply to Update on Alpha Start? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I just did a search and found what looks like an announcement of the Alpha of Political Machine for April 1, 2008. There is some confusion here, because I had to extrapolate a bit from what I was able to read. https://forums.galciv2.com/305676/get;1666536

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Reply to Update on Alpha Start? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Starbound_Dust" reply="9" id="3441230"] Next he'll be telling us the Alpha will be available on April 1st. [/quote] I think I remember them doing that once before, and it wasn't even an April Fools joke. Or was that someone else's game?

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Reply to Update on Alpha Start? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

The last I heard was from FrogBoy, where he said early March. I never heard the December or February statements except as guesses by the Fans. Before Brad said March, the official date was always sometime this winter. Sorry, I have lost track of all of the links for this, but maybe someone else has them handy.

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Reply to PCGamesN Has a New Galactic Civilizations 3 Preview Posted in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="UnleashedElf" reply="26" id="3440685"]Yeah I'd have to agree with this - sequels rarely see ground up innovation, mostly incremental. The ones that try to re-invent themselves from ground-up invariably mess up. See SOTS2 and MOO3 for examples.[/quote] Actually, I think MOO3 belongs in another category. Someone bought the rights to the MOO series and re-built it, hence it didn't have the guidance of the original creator.

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Reply to PCGamesN Has a New Galactic Civilizations 3 Preview Posted in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="1" id="3440222"]“The AI cab essentially play the game within the player’s [turn]. ...That’s one of the things that we get by having 64-bit that that would've been insane to try to do back then. Basically, you're running two copies of the game at the same time. The other thing is that because we have so many cores to deal with ...every computer player gets their own thread,”[/quote] I think there is a general misunde

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Reply to I am worried about what they said about space battles in the interview in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="44" id="3440224"]The idea that MOO got it all right is highly tinted by nostalgia tinted classes. MOO didn't get everything right. Those fights could get really tedious. Give someone who has never played it a copy of the game today, and opinions will be much less kind than people who played it when it first came out.[/quote] Again, Tridus, you are coloring this with your own personal play style. You should never assume that everyone else enjoy

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Reply to Request: Native support for different aspect ratio's and resolutions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

And here is a need that may make TweetyLeaf's request easier. I prefer playing games in windowed mode, leaving room to view my sidebar and task bar, and sometimes, some of the icons on an edge of my desktop. Having fixed resolution sizes to choose from tends to be clumsy and unsatisfactory in attempting these desires. Instead, for windowed mode, can we just move the window edges without changing the apparent zoom distance? No need to zoom in or out as a compensation for a change i

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Reply to Starbases in Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I have an idea that I think belongs in another thread, but I wanted to give credit to dlapine1 for causing me to think of it. ------- How about passenger liners? Ships with passenger modules instead of trade modules that would each first establish a flight route between two planets then carry passengers between those planets, either within the empire, or between empires. Since passenger liner routes would be patronized by business people and tourists, it would be a cash

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Reply to starbase limits suggestion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="8" id="3439976"]Not displaying them on the main game map would just make the map easier to read.[/quote] From another viewpoint, it can make the map harder to read as well, in that it will become harder to gauge distances. I am beginning to hope that this is all a misunderstanding somewhere, somehow, that when we finally see the first alpha build, the sectors will be there and will be displayed in some manner, maybe in a new way that we will all have to get

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Reply to Thalans in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="1" id="3439888"]"The Thalan, in fact, are actually a race of beings from a parallel universe who have figured out the means to travel to other universes and managed to enter our universe at a point before the humans destroyed the universe"[/quote] WOW. If that isn't a seriously convoluted sentence. Notice the mix of the singular and plural form of the word "universe". And, if you destroy one universe, do you destroy all of them at once? This sentence

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Reply to I am worried about what they said about space battles in the interview in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="30" id="3439753"]The problem is that people would feel forced to micro manage their battles in order to get an optimal result.[/quote] Some people would. And they would be the same people (or at least some of them) that would do saves and reloads to get the optimal result if they couldn't micro manage their battles.

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Reply to A few random questions and requests in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="6" id="3439766"]and trade goods, like galactic achievement only after being built they gave you a product you had a monopoly on, ex. Aphrodisiac, Nano Recorders, Hyper Computers, etc.[/quote] Which you could also license to other races.

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Reply to A few random questions and requests in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="5" id="3439763"]Heck, they could even have some buildings that are limited to 10 per game rather than one - every planet could potentially have one on a very small map, but only the best planets would get one on a very large map[/quote] And the quantity limit of some Wonders that is based on a scaling factor to the galaxy size.

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Reply to starbase limits suggestion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="5" id="3439760"]The Frogboy quote above was posted 3 months after the quoted Mormegil post. It could be miscommunication, or a change in direction, or me simply reading too much into a single sentence.[/quote] Interesting. After re-reading Brad's post, His remarks were based on what he saw at that time . So I see another possibility: the level he was checking out (ok. playing) may temporarily, for some reason, not had sectors in it, and

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Reply to A few random questions and requests in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="3" id="3439733"] I would also like to suggest that along with galactic wonders, a new category be included; regional wonders. Some could be generic, meaning any species could build them. Others might be species specific - only the specific species could build them. [/quote] Regional? Like in a wonder that applies to all planets in a star system? Or one that applies to all planets of all star systems in a specified radius from the s

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