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Reply to shipyard question... anyway to skip a turn? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You can idle a shipyard. There's a button toward the bottom of the shipyard screen that says to shut down or something like that. It'll stay idle until you tell it to resume. You can also set the production sliders on all of the assigned planets to 100% social, but that's a pain. If you want to shut down all of your shipyards, you can set the global slider to 100% social as long as all of your assigned planets are using the global one. I don't

Reply to What am I doing wrong??? (Empire strength) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You and I were writing at the same time. 1. Food raises your pop cap. It doesn't help you grow faster though. 2. +X Food does one of several things. If it's on a tile, it adds +1 pop capability if you put a farm or other pop building there. If it's on a building, it raises your pop level by 1. If it's an adjacency bonus, it adds +1 pop capability to a farm or other pop building that's built next to it. 3. &

Reply to What am I doing wrong??? (Empire strength) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I like pirates. I use them to protect my planets early on. If you build a sensor ship (a cargo ship with a bunch of sensors), you can see out a good distance. Your colony ships should be a tad faster than pirates and you can go around them. I like to use a fast scout or constructor to move the pirates to where I want them. Just move close enough that they notice you, but just outside their movement range. They'll follow you around like puppy dogs. Just jet ou

Reply to Long turn times inbetween turns (1 Cause Found/solution suggested) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I forgot to mention - I stay zoomed out to the icon level, but not all the way out. That way, I can still see what's going on and also be able to go to an empty map area when I need to. I've read somewhere that zooming in can slow things down a lot. I'll test out zooming in to see if it makes any difference, but in my current game, I'm at the end of mopping up. Most of the ships out there are mine and I don't spam military ships. I never see

Reply to What am I doing wrong??? (Empire strength) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="lsc9x" reply="10" id="3570858"] OK, I get it! Spam nothing but colony ships. Colony ship rush. If that's actually is the only way to win on large maps, then it almost seems like a game flaw... Yes, spamming colony ships as fast as possible is probably a good way to get ahead of an AI on territory, but you still have to actually do the research to get ships and weapons. Hmmmm. OK, I'm going to try both ways and s

Reply to Long turn times inbetween turns (1 Cause Found/solution suggested) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

When I end my turns, I move my view to a blank area outside of the galaxy. There are blank spots on each corner of the map that are outside of the active play area. Sure, it's a pain, but my turns only take a few seconds, even late game. It's worth it as a work around. I agree that it shouldn't be necessary, but what else can you do?

Reply to What am I doing wrong??? (Empire strength) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="sjaminei" reply="4" id="3570795"] No buildings at all? What? Or did you mean not building them? Building Maintenance is a pittance, so surely that can't be the reason right? (I tend to pick the trait that increases it for bonus points in my custom factions ^^) [/quote] It works if you're doing extreme colony rushing. Each new colony adds production that you can balance so it costs nothing while adding research and manufacturing to your empire. Once

Reply to Long turn times inbetween turns (1 Cause Found/solution suggested) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I hadn't thought of battles between turns. I do mine during the turn. Yes, that would be maddening. I'm not a fan of the little time wasting mini battles that happen when you choose "Quick Battle". It's not quick when you still have to wait through the useless animation. I read somewhere that they cut that time down and even thanked them for it, but I'm not seeing any improvement. Why, oh why would someone come up with a delay timer like that? &nbsp

Reply to Graphics Card in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The graphics in GalCiv3 don't seem to be all that demanding to me. They're not exactly high def. I'd think getting more memory would be the key to a faster game here. I started out with 8GB and I also play on a laptop that has 4GB and integrated graphics. The laptop is very slow, but handles the game. I upgraded my desktop in steps from 8 to 16 and finally 32GB. I saw a vast increase in perfomance with 16GB, including no more crashes to desk

Reply to Home World "None" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="wpkelley41" reply="19" id="3569810"] Dan, what exactly is a "soak" game. I know it's using the codes. Explain please, I'd like to see how my various choices effect the game. [/quote] I had some trouble looking that one up, too. Google was no help. Evidently, there's a command you can use called "soak" that makes the machine play the game automatically and without human input. I still don't know exactly what it stands for, but tha

Reply to Any advice on increasing difficulty in Stardock Games GalCiv3 Forums

The AI starts cheating above normal. There's a list of cheats it gets somewhere in the forums. I didn't find it bad on anything below "suicidal" though. With the 1.1 opt in, the difficulty names were changed and I'm using the old 1.03 naming convention. Giving the AI a slight edge is worth it IMO. It kinda needs it now, although I'm starting to see the AI using ships that I designed in prior games against me. It's even using my naming convention,

Reply to My current game in 1.1. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm wondering if they shuffled the difficulties a bit when they added the new one in at the high end. I typically play with gifted AI, but am currently seeing genius AI playing about the same as the gifted ones did prior to 1.1. I'm playing vanilla races against vanilla races. I don't know what to say about the pirates. They seem to be about the same as before on my current game.

Reply to Bug/Exploit planet trading in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yeah, that bug was supposed to be addressed in the 1.1 patch. Are you on 1.1 and if so, did you start the game on 1.1?

Reply to Ok, Which Founder Came up With "CarrotDevourer" as a Star System Name? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I just started seeing founder's stars in my newest game. I'm playing larger maps these days. Gotta say, most seem a tad lame. The decent sounding ones are obviously someone's wife or child. Haven't seen my wife's star in a game yet. I'd be pretty displeased if they dropped it, but there's no reason they would.

Reply to Home World "None" in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="wpkelley41" reply="10" id="3569566"] If I feel it starts to lag, I just save and close out. Then I run CCleaner and restart. [/quote] Please pardon my ignorance, bit can you elaborate? I have CCleaner on all of my computers, but never used it to fix a game. Can you give me your settings as far as what you're cleaning? Mine are just set to clean the internet caches and temp files. I don't have a problem with the game slowing do

Reply to How open 'apple.pages' doc on PC in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I don't have personal experience, but evidently, the .pages extension can be exchanged with the .zip extension and the file should be readable. Just make sure you do it with a copy of the file first. http://osxdaily.com/2014/07/16/open-pages-format-file-in-windows/

Reply to Repair all ships in battle Module : Does it mean in space too? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I've never taken a repair module so far and was wondering the same thing. Good to know. I can't see taking a repair module now if I can squeeze another item on there instead.

Reply to Romulan Warbird? in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Neilo" reply="1" id="3569152"] following. [/quote] Me too.

Reply to Steam Summer Sale 2015 is Over in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote] Just to let you know....no matter what you throw at it FSX is never happy totally. GTX980 ...32gig DDR4... M.2 Harddrive...i7 5960x .... Might benchmark Res Evil 5 at an average of 250.8 fps [1680x1050 DX10].... ...but FSX is another story...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Holy crap! A GTX980? Well, I guess I could sell BOTH of my kidneys. [e digicons]:omg:[/e] My GTX750 seems to handle DCS on its highest

Reply to Altarians: The most aggressive race in the game! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yeah, they're pretty easily provoked. I like that about them, since I know it's a short matter of time before they declare war on me. It leaves the guesswork out. They're usually fairly powerful for some reason too. When I played as them, I thought their tech tree was kinda weak. The Krynn have pretty much the same social skills, although I've seen them smiling before. (A few turns before they started their standard scowl.) In fact, I've seen a go

Reply to Steam Summer Sale 2015 is Over in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="5" id="3567801"] ...FSX is a 'constant runner' on my machine...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Awesome! Perhaps when I get the hang of it, we can go head to head. I was pretty good at that sort of thing in my younger days. About 100 years ago. The wife said I should do a multi monitor setup for it and gave me the green light to buff my system to handle it. I'm thinking 3 monitors across for the view and one below for the ins

Reply to Steam Summer Sale 2015 is Over in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

I picked up a few things. Wolfenstein - The New Order, The Old Blood Dogfight 1942, The Russian Campaign, Fire Over Africa Microsoft Flight Sim X and FSX F-16 Flying Falcon DCS World and Flaming Cliffs 3 Offworld Trading Company

Reply to Game crashing constantly in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I've had a few crashes, all but one were when I was trying to do more than one thing at a time. For instance, I get a CTD when I try to move a fleet to attack while another is moving to attack if I do it several times quickly. Doesn't matter if it's to attack another fleet or a planet. I've learned to slow myself down, but it's a tad frustrating waiting on the movements and what appears to be an artificial long delay when resolving "quick" battles. Pe

Reply to Hiding money: a one step process. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="KD7BCH" reply="2" id="3566222"] I need it because I spill a 2 liter of soda on carpet every twice a week? [/quote] Ah. Too much soda, me-thinks. I suggest ditching it and going with straight up vodka. If you spill it (and you will), it just evaporates and leaves no stain. Easy-peesy. :)

Reply to background nebula on galaxy map in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="a0152570" reply="6" id="3566140"] Why, just wondering? [/quote] I don't know, TBH. I just never have. I guess it's not like I'm allergic to mods. Not that I'm aware of. Perhaps it's laziness. Now I do have that going for me. :)