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Reply to Is there a Way I Can Challenge the Developers to a Multiplayer GC3 Game? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Wait... you build and upgrade the colonial hospital in vanilla? Combined with you insisting on trying to keep approval up, that's pretty sub optimal play...

Reply to Not going to buy GC3 until... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

To be honest, I like to think of the ship and colony management tools under the govern tab as being a good sign for things to come. It's clearly under-developed at this stage, but does show great potential; I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a lot of improvement in that area fairly soon.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="maniakos" reply="211" id="3577967"] funny how GC3 is supposed to be supperior AI wise. [/quote] It actually is. That's the problem. The AI is actually playing the game, which is waaaaaaaaay more complex than most of the competition (Total War, for example, just hands out goodies to the AI rather than have it playing by the same rules as the player). The problem is, until it gets good at playing, the net result is weaker than if it just cheated

Reply to Leasing shipyards to allies in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

It'd add nuance to the diplo game, which can only be a good thing.

Reply to Replace research trades with a 'tech license' system in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gauntlet03" reply="23" id="3578148"] The US loves to sell weaponry, we all know this, but the US doesn't love to sell weaponry to what we perceive as our rivals. Hence my reference to China. But why don't we? Because they know, that if you sell valuable equipment and expertise to a rival, they will develop their own independent capacity to use such technology and enhance upon it much more rapidly than otherwise.[/quote] I don't really see ho

Reply to Replace research trades with a 'tech license' system in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

The US military happily sells all sorts of stuff to other powers - the entire UK nuclear deterrent, for example, is a combination of US-built equipment and US-designed equipment built in the UK on license. This happens all he time. Germany sold Japan seaplane licenses immediately after WW1, a conflict where they were on opposing sides. Germany later licensed Japanese carrier technology. The British embedded scientists and engineers in both the US and USSR armed forces during the war; vast amo

Reply to Replace research trades with a 'tech license' system in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Franco fx" reply="17" id="3578023"] Maybe realism is unimportant to some when it makes the game arguably better but licensing tech? Please, it is one thing to license a resource that you control, If the license expires you can withhold the resource. Tech is science, an idea, not a product. It must be understood and applied by your people. If you can use a tech, you must understand the tech and no one can stop you from using it as long as you have the resources to build it.<br

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="208" id="3577815"] Ohohohohhohhohohohhohohoh. OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHO. [e digicons]:D[/e] [e digicons]:D[/e] [e digicons]:D[/e] Colonizer is quite amazing, especially in combo with Prolific. Main advantage of colonizer? It allows me to QUICKLY build up my research and economy worlds (literally twice as fast) which generates the income and research for FURTHER expansion. Turn 60, 60

Reply to Production Cost/Maintenance in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You can implement a stacking penalty on engines pretty easily tbh, though I'd instead suggest just giving each hull class an extra -20% speed, so you need more engines to get the same speed from a big hull.

Reply to Production Cost/Maintenance in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Production Cost lowers both the buyout cost and the number of turns to complete. The cost of an item is expressed in manufacturing. Every 1 point of manufacturing generated by a planet is 1 point it can put toward building a building or ship etc. So say we have a planet that's churning out 50 manu per turn. It wants to buy a 300-manu ship. It takes 6 turns to do so. If it wants to buy the ship, then it has to spend 10 times the manu valu

Reply to No direction in playing in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Get rid of all life support stuff, it's useless overpriced junk. Your general colonizer wants to have 1 colony module and an engine or two. Don't add anything else to the hull after that. Make sure you have everything set to 100% manufacturing and 100% military production. Rush-buy as many colony ships as you can until you run out of money. Point them directly at the nearest unexplored star and let them go. And never put more than the minimum number of people on a ship.

Reply to Lost production points in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

https://forums.galciv3.com/469475/page/1/#3576664 See this thread - it's basically exactly the same topic as this one. The OP initially thinks it's lost, and then checks and finds the tooltip which shows excess. A thread like this shows up most weeks. Hovering over the empty bit of the build queue shows any accrued points that are waiting to be spent. That said, I'm

Reply to Star Distribution in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I suspect it just runs through the star list over and over until it hits the base number tbh.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="205" id="3577446"] Harmony crystals. 100% approval on every planet. [/quote] That requires you to have harmony crystals, which isn't guaranteed. Besides, it requires a full colony ship to get the most benefit... which requires taking population from where they are likely to be much more productive. But as I say, I'm a bit concerned with any of the things which give yo

Reply to Lost production points in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="SeerRus" reply="2" id="3577400"] It's useless for planets with big production output. And not realistic. If you have a number of small tasks for a week, will you do only one in this week? Or will do all which you can?[/quote] Not really. If I have a planet with 200 production, I can spend 1 turn dedicating the whole lot to social production and then put everything into military production. Then I still get a building every turn even though I'm n

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I've done most of the big corrective stuff I was looking to do at this stage tbh; I think the next couple of patches will be general bug fixing and bringing the AI up to date with the changes that have come in since 0.7 or so.

Reply to Replace research trades with a 'tech license' system in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Wer900" reply="7" id="3577269"] This is an excellent idea. Any way it could possibly be modded into the base game? [/quote] I don't think so. Near as I can tell it'd require dev intervention.

Reply to Lost production points in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

It's not lost, it carries over. As outlined in the other 30-odd threads with exactly this title on exactly this topic.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="200" id="3577256"] Ok, but if you leave it at 1% there will be balance issues regarding certain buildings like Power Matrices and Krynn Coordination temples that rely ALMOST ENTIRELY on adjacency bonuses. The adjacency nerf makes those buildings effectively worthless. I'd nerf adjacency bonuses down to 3%. 1% is a little too low. And change those coordination buildings to provide some raw production bonus or something. [

Reply to Does anyone on this forum play the unmodified game anymore? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="The Sisko" reply="5" id="3577308"] Also throw in that I can't be bothered to learn about mods and how to get them working, which I'm sure the majority of players feel. [/quote] Exactly this tbh. As I said, 90% of the players of any given game can't be bothered to figure out how mods work for it. It's not because they're willfully lazy or anything - they just don't really care enough about mods for any given effort to be wort

Reply to Windows 10 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="7" id="3577248"] Would that explain what I saw with the "get Windows 10" app, and its icon disappearing from my task bar on all three of my PCs, one of which doesn't have a NVidia driver? And why the icon suddenly re-appeared after I tracked down the driver and installed it? At this point I am completely in the dark and am asking for any informati

Reply to Information Warfare issue in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The obvious answer is that they picked up the tech which makes them immune to info warfare. I suspect it ought to be shown in the invasion screen, though.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="leiavoia" reply="198" id="3577208"] This was asked previously in the thread, but things have changed since then: Would this mod be useful for Medium/Large/Huge size maps? I won't ever play Insane or Abundant, but i like all the changes going on with this mod. Anyone with experience with this on smaller maps? [/quote] Try it. To be honest, I suspect it's not too bad on smaller maps now; the game has b

Reply to Replace research trades with a 'tech license' system in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="leiavoia" reply="2" id="3577196"] Creating the often requested 'no-tech-brokering' game option would create and use this same exact data, so why not make it more interesting? [/quote] Yup, the actual effort to do this would be pretty minor - and no tech brokering is already in the game. It's a cool addition which can be put in reasonably easily and has many benefits.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Stalker0" reply="196" id="3577181"] technically higher tier buildings are stronger now overall imo. adding a new building gives you less overall bonus than it once did because of adjacency. So the extra bonus of the higher tier building is worth more. it may not be ebough to make them competitive, but they haven't been nerfed [/quote] Exactly this. As I'm shifting things to make production more plenti