CaliforniaBill

CaliforniaBill

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Reply to Can't start a new game in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Game crashes to desktop when "building map". I deleted GalCivIII and re-installed. It still crashes when "Building Map". I tried QUickStart option. Crashes when "Building Map". As mentioned above, "this game is unplayable".

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Reply to Game Crashing since Patch in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Still crashes to desktop after selecting the game parameters (opponents, galaxy size, etc) ... the game crashes right after I delineate the parameters and launch. I just re-installed the game to see if that would take care of the bug. Nope. It played fine for about 130 hours. But this is a new wrinkle.

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Reply to Experience so far in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Non-aggression pacts buy lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of things. Things such as resources, ships, stardocks. Non-aggression pacts are powerful powerful powerful trading chits.

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Reply to yor bad colony spam in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

"The Yor absolutely detest organic life. It is their long-term mission to exterminate all organic life where they find it. There is, however, one other irony -- the Precursors designed the Yor such that they would use as their main energy source the same thing as the Iconians. The Yor "eat" in a sense; they have farming of a sort." The advantage of the Yor might be that they can settle on sub-standard planets (?). The disadvantage

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Reply to Different Colonization Events For Synthetic Races in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Great points. One wonders what colony improvements would satisfy a Yor. But if the GalCiv wikia is canonical, then farms are part of their colonies: "The Yor absolutely detest organic life. It is their long-term mission to exterminate all organic life where they find it. There is, however, one other irony -- the Precursors designed the Yor such that they would use as their main energy source the same thing as the Iconians. The Yor "eat" in a sense; they hav

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Reply to Something About the UI in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Great idea: [quote who="luh-koala" reply="2" id="3530602"] Well, green slot was saved to End Turn... It would keep blue until you have no more orders to issue, then turn to green after youre good. [/quote] It is attention to details like that this that make a great game the best. (just remember those folks with red-green color blindness when choosing shades of blue and green). Keep up the good work!

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Reply to issue with afk in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Donagh55, you deserve an award for perseverance. I'll give you a karma point for patiently explaining your tribulations so that the developers can make a better game.

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Reply to Game Balance: purchasing alien ships too cheap in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote] I like being able to buy enemy colonizers when they are approaching high quality planets in an area I have claimed as my own. I could see making it a bit more expensive though. [/quote] PogueMahone, that is an ingenious exploit. From a personal point of view, how would you like to be one of the colonists who is notified right at the time of planetfall, "We just got notified from headquarters, we've been sold to a race of hairless apes."

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Reply to Balance Suggestions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Good suggestions regarding the Pragmatic tree tier 1 powers. Perhaps culture and influence can be balanced by some sort of counterweight...the more culture a race has, the more X (don't know what "X" is yet) the other races have. Or have a cultural "drafting" (like cars do in NASCAR) Other races with lesser culture are pulled along by the leading culture, then sling shot ahead. A nice little game balance that the game has is the Galact

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Reply to Game Balance: purchasing alien ships too cheap in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Good point about limiting (or even eliminating) the option to purchase alien spacecraft. Perhaps a solution would be to make the price of alien spacecraft > than it costs to buy at home. Or introduce some other difficulty or disadvantage when obtaining alien craft. As for the balance issues, I'm guessing that the designers are making sure that the big pieces work and then they will refine the small bits.

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Reply to Post Your Gal Civ III Ship Designs! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Nice design and creativity ... the non-linear approach introduces styles beyond the WWII motifs. The 3-armed stylings is perhaps a homage to Erik Bethke's Taldren (Starfleet Command's Orion Pirates--may it RIP)!? <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxQSERQTExIVFhUXGR0bGRQYFxcdGxgZHBcdGxYcHhwdHygiIBolHBccITQkJSorLi4yGh8zODMsNygtLisBCgoKDg0OGxAQGiwmHCQuLCwsLC0sLCwsLSwsLCwtLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLC

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Game Balance: purchasing alien ships too cheap in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Suggestion: Increase the cost of purchasing alien ships. It is very easy to buy ships from other races. Voila! instant colonizers, scouts, and survey ships. Buying other teams' survey ships typically deprives that race of the ability to grab all those goodie huts. Also, purchasing other races builder ships (I forgot what they are called) allows you to immediately command them to make a star base. This expands the player's frontiers. &

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