Blaze of Glory

Blaze of Glory

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Reply to eXpand - feels more like catch-as-catch-can then a 4x title in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Inherently, the OP is correct. There really isn't much of a penalty to rushing pop and colony ships and taking every bit of dirt you can. Other factions can't invade you for a looooooooong time. By then, your colony is built up. That said, a clever player or ai could simply swamp your worlds with advanced ships, blow up your shipyards and contain you until invasion tech is available. I think range techs are a little too extreme right now. Especially when it comes to carg

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Reply to Gameplay Idea: gradual planetary invasion in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

While I sympathize with the OP, each turn is a year. A lot happens in a year. The comments regarding most of the conflicts you mention is each city is kind of like a planet in Gal Civ. So to win the war, you have to take several, if not all the cities (planets). I do like the idea of resistance, but in Gal Civ it is a straight up population vs population. You wipe out the planet's population and replace it with your own. I am not saying I like that system. I feel pla

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Reply to How the hell do you play this game? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

When I start out, I tend to build a farm, then the colony hospital next to it. The farm is to increase the pop cap and keep approval up, the hospital to increase growth. Then I build a factory or research depending on the planet's bonus tiles.

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Ted Talks in Movies & TV & Books Stardock Forums

I generally like them, although sometimes they seem like a sales pitch. Today I discovered a new branch on Netflix which I found interesting and I hope you folks do as well. It was called the "Best of Tedx" The first one was interesting and you can have your arguments. After that, it dealt into deeper and deeper issues on each episode. We could probably start a discussion thread on each episode, and I feel that would be awesome. However, I alw

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Reply to [.51 bug?] No xeno buildings in available projects. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="4" id="3502878"] Actually, the math and tests shows that in a starting colony, building the basic and then upgrading it over time is faster then starting with the max available as the game allows you to still use the building while its being upgraded. This is great if you just want to colonize a planet and let it run by itself. The issue comes when you need to jump start a colony, for example, one on the front lines. It would be nice to have an option to buy the

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Reply to Major issues I have with the game design in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Mettius" reply="1" id="3502559"] +1 on Simultaneous Multiplayer. The game needs a simultanious turn option for multiplayer (like Civ IV/Civ V). This is a BIG deal. [/quote] Agreed! The more players, the worse it gets. Then, you don't get much of a notification if you aren't the first player. There are times when I start getting aggravated with a friend because they are micro-managing or designing a ship and I am stuck l

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Reply to Beta 2 .51 Should culture flipped planets lose their shipyards and rally points? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Or you can blow it up! Since the shipyard is kind of a giant, slow mega ship, I lean toward letting the faction that holds it move it or add a sponsor. Perhaps it was one turn away from finishing a ship. Perhaps the rally point is for their entire empire to bring a fleet(s). If the rally point was for only that planet, then yes, delete it.

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Reply to The other civilizations game in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="peregrine23" reply="7" id="3503341"] Problem: Health. There may be some who disagree with me, but health in BE and its Civ 5 equivalent happiness drive me up a wall. In theory, this is a mechanic designed to slow/stop city spam and steamrolling. In practice, what it does is punish the player for active, aggressive game-play. Essentially you are punished for fun. Lesson: Don't punish active game-play. There is nothing in GC3 so far that resembles this mechanic,

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Reply to rename malevolent? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

When you boil it down, it is just labels. It is essentially the lawful/neutral/evil alignments from days gone by. CIV V used Freedom/Order/Autocracy We could call them "Warm Fuzzies, Middle Road, Get off my Lawn". That said, one could make the argument that in some instances the reward for malevolence makes choosing it pragmatic. Say I am in a war and short on cash. By colonizing a planet I get the three choices. One of those choices involves -20 approval

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Well, let's let it rip in Everything Else Stardock Forums

The young think us old foggies don't understand them. However we do. I could post a LOT of depressing or punk songs from our era. Instead, I would rather post a song of hope. Not Obama hope, I see you guys, but real belief and hope. This song is about hope and dreams when America started falling apart in the early 80's (actually the late 70's) . You can give up, or try harder. This song helped me try harder and I was lucky and it worked for the girl, job, kids, etc.

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Reply to [Bug][0.50] Approval artifact WOW! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="7" id="3501273"] Stardock has already acknowledged that they have errors in the calculations from artifacts and they have "corrected them internally" and the fixes will be out in the next patch. [/quote] Yep, it was in the Friday steam. I am a programmer and I hate code review/qa, but seriously? Not to say I haven't had my "wtf was I thinking" moments.

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Reply to First Impressions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Wraith367" reply="3" id="3501232"] Quoting Blaze of Glory, reply 1 Now some comments on your major points. It is just my thoughts, so take them with a grain of salt. Thanks for your views. I understand exact UI values may change, but a general ove

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Reply to It isn't really the Terrans fault. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] The universe and all existence might be destroyed by the Terran's, but the Drengin caused it to happen! When you think about it, we get blamed for a war the Drengin started! It reminds me of a time when I was little and got punished for something I didn't d... Forget it. Lol DARCA [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Ahh, the phycologist's dream. Tell me about your father/mother relationship. Interesting.... Do you fin

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Reply to Please give more info at a glance in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

That would be a nice feature as well. I left off a list of what colonies produce how much hammers, gold, science as it looks like that is "coming soon" in another tab. Well, we can only give our opinions and see what happens. Stardock has usually been pretty good at listening, so hopefully together we can help make this a game of the ages.

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