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Reply to The Alpha arrives in 17 days from now in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="127" id="3451192"] I have a horrible, crippling feeling gnawing at me, telling me that the game is going to become my new obsession and consume my time like... a time-consuming thingy. Thousands of hours if GCII is any indication. I can see it now, dashing and/or limping home from my classes to see if a new build is released, only to see that there's nothing :'C [/quote] One ... more ... turn

Reply to Elemental Status: March 2014 in Elemental Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Since snaking to forests to build a logging camp or rivers for a dock is no longer allowed, the only purpose of snaking at all anymore is to put nearby resources in range of your city, and that's kinda weak tea considering your borders will expand anyway, so makes sense to give up on snaking altogether.

Reply to GDC: Lots of VR News from Sony and Oculus in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="7" id="3450987"] LOL, misread the topic name and thought this was something about Vasari Rebels and jumpable Orkulus...again.[/quote] SONEHSONEHSONEH!

Reply to GDC: Lots of VR News from Sony and Oculus in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="5" id="3450740"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 4 Setting aside the "we've heard all this yakkity yak before about this tech for decades," Sony is on my permanent boycott listanyhow due to their rootkit fiasco. Hackers that aren't incorporated get years or decades in prison, but because Sony is a corporation, it got little more than a slap on the wrist despite, essentially, willfully infecting millions of computers with what amounted to

Reply to UTC± in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

UTC-0800 [PDT] Unfortunately, availability is very limited ... I work the night shift which has me gone from 1730 PDT to 0600 PDT (0130 - 1400 GMT) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights into the following mornings, and occasionally Wednesday nights. 1-2 hours between work and sleep is woefully inadequate to play a TBS, so these nights/mornings are generally not good for me with the exception of Saturday morning after work, as I can stay up several hours since I don'

Reply to Star naming? When? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I am pretty sure none of the game text will be finalized at the alpha stage.

Reply to 7 things to know about Major Depressive Disorder in Health & Medicine LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Kudos to you on this, Brad. Rare is a person who understands it isn't just feeling bad. I was officially diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder in 1999 when I was 23, after having been "pre-diagnosed" in kindergarten in 1981 when I was 5. Unfortunately, I presently cannot afford even office visits to get prescriptions for the SSRIs that I do, indeed, need to cope -- along with treatments for my migraine, anxiety, psoriasis and hopefull

Reply to GDC: Lots of VR News from Sony and Oculus in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Setting aside the "we've heard all this yakkity yak before about this tech for decades," Sony is on my permanent boycott listanyhow due to their rootkit fiasco. Hackers that aren't incorporated get years or decades in prison, but because Sony is a corporation, it got little more than a slap on the wrist despite, essentially, willfully infecting millions of computers with what amounted to a rootkit virus and essentially hacking their paying customers' computers for their own

Reply to GDC: Lots of VR News from Sony and Oculus in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

This is hardly something new or revolutionary ... VR headsets have been forecast as the next big thing for a couple of /decades/ now, as has 3D, but the fad comes and goes. I don't see any particular reason why it might /really/ take off this time compared with all the previous fizzle-outs. I definitely wouldn't throw out your PC-with-a-monitor game development studios just yet (and I certainly hope you don't), but I'm certainly not an expert.

Reply to How popular is that game REALLY? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="4" id="3450256"] I can't access your link or the images from work, but you must be mistaken. There is no way Sins could be more popular than LH. [/quote] It doesn't seem that surprising, actually ... Sins is more multiplayer-oriented. I'm glad singleplayer-oriented games are still being developed. I like Sins okay, but the AI is definitely lackluster for singl

Reply to How popular is that game REALLY? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Brad: Just out of curiousity, since you seem much more relaxed about sharing details other publishers would probably be appalled by ... have you ever seen significant bumps in sales of older games (like GC2) that correspond with fan-made mods? More than just a few dozen or so participating on a thread about a mod, do mods actually generate a significant bump in the baseline sales for the game?

Reply to Is anyone really interested in TESO? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="NelsMonsterX2" reply="13" id="3449344"]Well don't worry then, TESO's engine doesn't approach the quality of Skyrim's. That's another issue I have with MMO's: they typically dial back the graphics so the game can run on the most machines.[/quote] Skyrim greatly impressed me for how good it looks even on lower-end machines. It looks good with a decent framerate on my $500 homebrew PC, whereas Dragon Age: Origins looked less good and had a

Reply to Your top 5 4X games of all time. in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="54" id="3449301"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 53 Has no one else even heard of nor tried Mechanized Assault & eXploration (M.A.X.) from Interplay, circa 1996? Ive heard of it but never played. But Is it a 4x? Looks like a Turn based version of starcraft. Well, I guess that might count as a 4x.[/quote] While there isn't much exploration, per se, you have to survey for minerals, gold and fuel. There's a g

Reply to Your top 5 4X games of all time. in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Has no one else even heard of nor tried Mechanized Assault & eXploration (M.A.X.) from Interplay, circa 1996? :(

Reply to Is anyone really interested in TESO? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

I am curious to see a Skyrim-level engine's render of the parts of Tamriel we haven't seen since Morrowind, but my curiousity isn't strong enough to pay an MMO subscription. I'll probably sate myself watching TESO fans' "Let's Plays" on Youtube.

Reply to How to define a good mechanic vs. a bad one in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

A mechanic I find missing from TBSes is an overlay showing the last turn's moves (or replay). This is very frustrating when you can place a unit on 'sentry' mode to awaken when a hostile unit enters its sensor range, but the hostile unit scoots out of sensor range off-screen, so you don't see it -- but you get hassled to do something with your awakened unit, but you aren't allowed to know what it was your unit saw to wake it up. Some sort of overlay would help,

Reply to Is anyone really interested in TESO? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

I'm no fan of MMOs, either. I gave a couple a try -- namely, Anarchy Online and Star Trek Online. Got bored quickly with AO, and quickly became disgusted with STO as well. I have enjoyed the Elder Scrolls games ever since Morrowind. I hope TESO won't mean an end to single player Elder Scrolls games, the way The Sims brought an effective end to the SimCity series (sorry to die hard fans, but SC5 is a pale imitation of its predecessors).

Reply to Never thought I'd see the day in Star Control GalCiv3 Forums

Remains to be seen. Its one thing to sculpt your own 'verse, like GalCiv or Elemental. I think trying to further the creation of someone else and retain the creators' vision expressed through various nuances its fans will go for is harder, and you won't know whether you've succeeded or failed until release.

Founder's Elite Edition still shows as being available in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Clicking on the "Store" link from the galciv 3 site still shows the Founder's Elite Edition as being available for purchase. Wasn't it supposed to no longer be available after March 2?

Reply to Your top 5 4X games of all time. in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="27" id="3446797"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 24I'm just going to agree with everyone else here. LH does not seem to be coming up very often... Ocassionally I see it 5th....3th....a few 2nd....but not often. I'm hoping that LH 2.0 readjusts everyone's list to 1st. [/quote] FE and LH would make my top 10. Nothing really wr

Reply to Beta in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

My guess is beta would start no sooner than half a year after alpha, maybe even longer. I think Stardock learned its lesson with War of Magic on rushing things. I seem to recall the beta for WoM lasted a long time as well ... I was an early adopter of WoM so I got all the perks when Brad took his hat in hand to all of us. Lots of developers/publishers push out bad releases, but so few have the decency to make it right.

Reply to More are coming. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I have been elitessimilated.

Reply to A Role For Gas Giants. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="48" id="3445631"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 46Molecular oxygen is a gas. This is only true if the molecular oxygen is maintained within specific temperature and pressure ranges. Since this thread is about Gas Giants, within which temperature and pressure can vary greatly from its outer edge to its core, this can become an important aspect of the technology required for mining the gas planet's resources. While tech A may work for mining

Reply to Government contradictions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Democracies can be evil, especially when they degenerate into a tyranny of the majority over minorities, and dictatorships can be good.

Reply to Your top 5 4X games of all time. in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Master of Orion II Civilization IV (the apex of the Civ series thus far; V just doesn't measure up though I really like the hext tiles) M.A.X. (Mechanized Assault & eXploration) Galactic Civilizations II Sword of the Stars Not sure if b