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Founder's Edition Off Sale, Beta Coming Thursday in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

First off, a big thank-you to all our Founders for their assistance in Galactic Civilizations III's successful alpha program! The pages and pages of feedback, bug reports, ideas, and discussion have been invaluable to us. With the beta's imminent launch, the Founders' program is no longer available. The Galactic Civilizations III beta will be available for purchase very soon (Thursday August 14, if all goes acco

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Reply to Dev Stream Today (Friday, August 8th) at Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="4" id="3485165"] For the user of the founder elite, will we need to do anything, remove the alpha copy and install the beta copy, will steam automatically do this for us? Or will we get a view of 2 Gal Civ 3 in our steam games? [/quote] Nope, Steam will handle it all. You'll get an automatic update and be good to go.

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Reply to Dev Stream Today (Friday August 1) at Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

It's not that I don't want to answer all your questions, Gaunathor. It's just that I haven't yet! I honestly don't know if I want to put that first dev stream up. I'm pretty embarrassed about the technical issues I was fighting for a lot of it. Hell, I was just watching some old ones and getting all angry at myself for somehow not having the game quite full-screen. Maybe at the one-year anniversary I'll post it and we can a

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Reply to Legendary Heroes 1.7 Now Available - Patch Notes Inside in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

[quote who="FroBodine" reply="6" id="3481763"] So, how do you get these new commander only items? Do you find them randomly? Can you buy them from your cities? Something else? [/quote] They're random drops. Re: modding the XML and achievements -- Yeah, you still get achievements. I can personally confirm that, as I like to play around with the XML myself when Derek isn't fast enough on the balance changes for my liking ;)

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Reply to N/A in FE Multiplayer Elemental Forums

No I mean pausing the game is useful for taking screenshots. Though I may be confusing your question with a pause cheat I use for taking screenshots. I use the built-in screenshot function (PrintScreen key) because I can tell it to save as .png, which is much preferable when I'm generating promo material like the screens that we send out to press etc.

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Reply to City Level Up Choices in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Great thread. Also, TIL that everyone plays LH very differently ;) For instance, Guild Warehouse is stupid powerful if you can make yourself not build every building in every city -- a town with only the food it needs to grow plus market/tax office/well/inn can generate an insane amount of cash off of Warehouse/Produce Wealth from a very early point in the game. Anyway, like I said elsewhere I'll point this discussion out to Derek. I don't think any radical revamps of

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 BETA Now Available in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Love the city upgrade discussion. I'll definitely point out that thread to Derek if he hasn't seen it already. On champ XP sharing -- the problem with having everyone get full XP is that with how limited (easy) XP for heroes is, it becomes the obvious and overbearingly powerful strat to always stack your champs up to maximize the (easy) XP you can farm off of quests/lairs/wildlands. And on a thematic level, LH is more about having heroes lead armies rather than D&D-style b

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 BETA Now Available in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

FWIW, I don't actually know if Derek has the tall/wide contrast as a design priority in LH, and even if he does it's much less of a focus than in Civ. I tend to agree that the most advantageous path is to grow as wide as possible within reason, even with the bell tower/townhall nerfs. I do think it's less overwhelmingly strong now, though, which is good in my eyes as it evens things out a bit between empires -- which then leads to more awesome wars. On city level-up upgrad

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Dev Stream Today (Friday July 18) at Noon Pacific Time in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Swing by the Stardock's Twitch.tv channel for the latest on Galactic Civilizations III development, live from Michigan at 3pm Eastern time (noon Pacific, 9pm CET). Lead Designer Paul Boyer will take your questions while showing off an internal build with some stuff you guys haven't seen before. If you can't make the stream, drop your questions in the thread here and we'll try to get to them on the air. All of

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 BETA Now Available in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

[quote who="Alstein" reply="47" id="3480276"] We need a high-end unrest reducing building that can be built in any city with all the nerfs you are doing to unrest. (requiring Alliances or some unused civics tech) [/quote] Granted I mostly play on Medium maps, but I haven't had any issues with the unrest nerfs -- but then I always prioritize growing Fortresses into Prisons. Are you having issues on small/medium maps, or larger? I ask because I genuinel

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 changelog in LH Support Elemental Forums

Beta patch up on Steam. Changes: Increased combat rating to XP multiplier from 0.06 to 0.45 Reduced Harbor production cost Town Hall unrest bonus reduced from -20% to -10% Master Archer chance to crit increased from 0 to 0.5 Misc. conversation fixes And some bugfixes. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone (seriously, it's hugely helpful) and let us know how the patch treats you!

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 BETA Now Available in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Beta patch up on Steam. Changes: Increased combat rating to XP multiplier from 0.06 to 0.45 Reduced Harbor production cost Town Hall unrest bonus reduced from -20% to -10% Master Archer chance to crit increased from 0 to 0.5 Misc. conversation fixes And some bugfixes. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone (seriously, it's hugely helpful) and let us know how the patch treats you!

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Dev Stream Tomorrow (Friday July 11) at Noon Pacific Time in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

We're back from the Stardock summer break (USA! USA!) and buckling back down on Galactic Civilizations III development. Join lead designer Paul Boyer on the official Stardock stream to get your questions about the just-released alpha patch, future Galactic Civilizations III development, and the impending beta answered. Point your browser at http://twitch.tv/stardock at noon Pacific time (3pm Eastern, 9pm CET) to send your questions divi

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Check Your Email! in Offworld Founders Offworld Forums

I highly recommend that all proud owners of the Offworld Trading Company Elite Founders Edition or Gift Edition check their email. Including their spam folder. Just sayin'.

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Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 1.7 BETA Now Available in Legendary Heroes Elemental Forums

Arguably the biggest patch to date for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is now available for opt-in beta testing. Frogboy has made huge improvement to many areas of the AI, Commanders get new class-specific items, rival sovereigns are a lot chattier, and balance has gotten a hard look across the board. Patch notes can be found here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/455808/page/1/ LH 1.7, like all of S

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