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Reply to GCIII New ship component in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="11" id="3411249"] I am kind of wondering why he would say mass drivers would do the most damage. apparently I would say the missiles would do the most damage too. Maybe it is best we leave this discussion for another time. Information is so scarce right now on the actual game that it hasn't even made the alpha yet.[/quote] Perhaps reflecting back to GC2 will help. Weapons were divided into three classes, 1) Energy (or Beam), 2) Missiles (self

Reply to Discussion on systems in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="6" id="3411243"]Well even if we lost our engine, we have most of our weapons in tact, open fire![/quote] "What do you mean we can't fire our weapons?" "Without the engine, we have no power for the weapons."

Reply to Discussion on systems in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="3" id="3411235"]Because this is now considered a 4X game, then that completely changes the series from a TBS to RTS.[/quote] So how does being a 4X game make it an RTS? Aren't GC1 and GC2 4X games? Those are most definitely TBS games.

Reply to Deemphasize Starbases. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="31" id="3411187"]Spamming constructors and then having a fully upgraded Starbase just appear out of nowhere is silly. Also, constructor spam is tedious and annoying, not good micro.[/quote] IMO, spamming constructors was the only way to keep a new Starbase from getting destroyed by your enemy. If you destroyed an enemy's resource SB and wanted to use that resource right away, you had to be able to build up its defenses FAST.

Reply to System requirements in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

At this point I don't think even SD would have an answer for that one. I do know that Civ V and AoE ran rather slow and generated a lot of heat in my GPU on my previous PC, and GC3 has minimum requirements already listed that implies to me that, like any strategy game, using its maximum potential (such as large maps and maximum graphics detail settings) will probably push any system that only just meets the game's minimum requirements, Also, I know from experience that we (the

Reply to Needs better tech _tree_ than last time in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="baldbill46" reply="55" id="3411170"] I know I seem to be at odds with most of the posters, here but I really thought the GCII tech tree was a good one. Could it have some improvement, sure but I liked most of what they had. There was lots of it, so you never ran out of stuff to research. I don't want them to throw away all they had before.[/quote] I agree.

Reply to Fighters/Drones, Command modules and carriers in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Zydor, I really think rants for or against an idea are poor form. Please permit us to put forward our ideas as well.

Reply to Did GC2 have a "list of rally points" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="5" id="3411163"] The best you can get that I know of is under the "governers" tab in the "civilization manager" window. There, you can assign ships to travel to different rally points in many different ways. Since the window is bigger, you can see more rally points at once. The individual rally points there even have that little "i" in a circle that will bring up rally point details (much like how you can get more details with ships). It might not be what

Reply to Did GC2 have a "list of rally points" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Oppps. Corrected. Thanks.

Reply to A couple questions regarding the story parts in the databanks in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="5" id="3411159"] On a related note, and pursuant to some of the discussion that's been going on about random events, does the fact that the Dread Lords have been defeated permanently storyline-wise mean there won't be a Dread Lords event in the sandbox game? I assume there still will, but I'd like some official confirmation as "evil super-race suddenly (re)appears)" is one of the more "classic" random events - and sci-fi plotlines for that matter

Reply to Did GC2 have a "list of rally points" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="1" id="3411140"]Also, fix spelling please[/quote] What spelling? I do see a grammatical error and will fix that, but I don't see a spelling error.

Reply to A couple questions regarding the story parts in the databanks in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="jrdufour" reply="3" id="3411132"]Makes sense that Terror stars won't be in the campaign, as it's restricted by the storyline[/quote] Please note that Frogboy said "at the start of the campaign."

Reply to Save more environmental game settings in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I guess I wasn't very clear. Yes, there are a lot of settings that are saved in .ini files, which is really intended generically for options that might persist from game to game and wouldn't change once a game was started (such as galaxy size). The views or settings I am talking about are those generally manipulated during a game and would be saved with a game in the same file the saved game was put into.

Did GC2 have a "list of rally points" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I often wish to see a list of the rally points I have created, but was always selecting a ship or starbase and telling it I wanted it to give me a list of rally points I could send it to. I would rather have the list accessible similar to how accessible planet lists and ship lists are so I can see the RP names I have already used when creating a new one. Did GC2 have this? I would like GC3 to do this.

Save more environmental game settings in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

One of the things I found lacking in GC2 was that any time you reloaded/restarted a game you had to re-establish so many settings, such as: The zoom depth and view angle of your galaxy The selection of which "Civilization Manager" you were viewing (F6) and which list item you had your colonies sorted on (i.e., colony name, planet quality, population, et al.). Minimap zoom factor I think the number of environmental variables saved should be increa

Reply to Micromanagement? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="28" id="3411071"] Being able to filter the list of colonies instead of just sorting it would be really helpful. Maybe I want to see just colonies that are specialised in research, or the ones which haven't been specialised yet, or the ones which are in danger of flipping to another civ.[/quote] I remember the planet list having a lot of sorting options, but not any filtering options. So how would planets be assigned specializations? Would

Reply to Suggestion: Diplomacy: Coalition in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

This sounds a lot like the declaration "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". The idea that a coalition is dissolved once the agreed upon objective is reached is appealing. Alliances tend to be between generally like minded entities, Coalitions tend to be between entities desperately looking for a means of survival against potential annihilation. I have had a difficulty with strategy games that has been very difficult to find a solution to, and this idea may be it. The problem is that

Reply to GCIII New ship component in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]If this is true, then we must start with ship component ideas on this forum, I been reading too many post that says do this better or do that better, we need more specific ideas that actually mean something other then saying something needs improvement.[/quote] I think that saying " > needs improvement" should be OK. Stating that something "feels like it is lacking somehow but I can't define what it is" can be a wonderful springboard for discussio

Reply to Deemphasize Starbases. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="wuphonsreach" reply="14" id="3410911"]- Starbase tech didn't keep up with ship advances. A starbase (in my mind) should be competitive with even the largest ship hulls if you invest the constructors into upgrading it. In my mind, a military starbase should be able to fend off multiple of the largest ships.[/quote] Why do you say that? GC2's Starbase hulls were much bigger than the largest possible ship hull to begin with. And I have had starbases fend off multiple

Reply to Needs better tech _tree_ than last time in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="48" id="3410985"] GC2 did that, as long as the tech was in the same chain. If you overkilled Laser II, the excess would go into Laser III, then Laser IV, etc. The only time it would matter is when researching a terminal tech in a chain. That's not to say it wouldn't be nice to be able to redirect the remainder to something else if I wanted to end at Laser II for some reason.[/quote] And if you generated enoug

Reply to DirectX 10 support or not? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tridus" reply="11" id="3410864"]If you're limited to DX 10 because you're on Vista, than you're stuck. The game doesn't support Vista.[/quote] I had Vista and it had DX11.

Reply to Deemphasize Starbases. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The only thing about starbases I didn't like in GC2 was how expensive they suddenly became in GC2. When people kept asking for them during the GC1 test cycle, I didn't want them at all. Now I think they became a great well done feature.

Reply to Pre-Order Cutoff Dates in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="amrbean" reply="4" id="3405329"] Founder's Elite here. I can't believe I spent that much on a single game at one time. Totally worth it though.[/quote] You didn't. You also bought several follow-on upgrades that will cost others to buy.

Reply to Needs better tech _tree_ than last time in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Weidbrewer" reply="7" id="3405454"]Well, yeah, that's what it says now. You've obviously never worked in software development and had to present a pre-alpha feature list. [/quote] I have, but the feature list was required long before coding could begin. We had many stages in our development cycle, and Requirements was first, followed by Design, then Code, then several levels of Test, Integration, System Test, Final Production, another Test, then delivery.

GC2/Ultimate locks up traiding with carinoids in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504) Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz Memory: 16384MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 11 Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Display Memory: 11918 MB Driver Date/Size: 6/21/2013 05:06:36, 15144928 bytes The above