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Reply to Do "good" civs actually act good? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yes sometimes even good people have to choose the lesser of two evils and to do nothing is also a choice. If I'm out giving food to the homeless and I see a man beating a little girl what is the good action to carry on feeding the homeless and ignore them; or do I stop him physically if necessary? Which is the good action there? Calling someone else to physically stop him is just abdicating responsibility, and choosing to do something is still a choice if I could have chosen to st

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Bamdorf" reply="17" id="3557164"] The existing wormholes are one way and not controllable. And it seems to me so far (could be wrong) that only survey ships can use them. Not so sure I think that's a good idea either...it allows one to contact other factions that you ordinarily wouldn't meet for a long time. It's a sticking point for me that the "feel" of the game ought to reflect the fact that you are dealing with galactic distances. &nb

Request for stardock in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Please can we have the excel sheet you generate the tech trees from. I have a great idea for a new faction but they need a very different tech tree and modding it purely in the xml is painful. I know you've mentioned you might make this available before.

Reply to Do "good" civs actually act good? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

As the dregin you have slave pits, you eat and torture your slaves. Should a good empire stand by and do nothing. Just because you have not attacked them yet. All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.... Winston Churchill I believe.

Reply to 1.02 opt in, abundant stars. So where are the stars? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I don't necessarily like this new change either, though actually it did kind of make tight clusters more like islands as I believe was originally intended. It also made range more important and changed the nature of the game. I actually like the idea puff having the base number set on a slider as it has a huge affect on how the game plays out. I imagine once steam workshop integration is online that there while be hundreds off easy to download

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Thinking about it I don't think you could repurpose worm holes since you'd need game code to allow you to set the endpoint. I think they could be good though as a late game high level tech strategic option. I don't think they would work well in the early game they should be a major tech achievement.

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Fair enough but since wormholes do exist in the game and allow instant transit over huge distances. A technology to generate a wormhole type stargate remains a possibility.

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Stargates in lore are inefficient because you need to build one at both ends with ftl constructors that is not an issue.

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

That's what I was wondering would we be able to generate one somehow, don't know is the answer but might have a dog at the xml see if it looks possible.

Reply to [Bug?] Ideology traits that create planets in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Will it does say a previously unknown planet, that could apply to all equally. Why it was hidden is a good question but hey that would apply to any system.

Reply to 1.02 opt in, abundant stars. So where are the stars? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Osbot one good thing about this game, if the eventual released patch isn't to your liking you can easily mod it back to the old settings.

Reply to Warp Gates and Range Attacks in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I like it warp gates are lite friendly and could be an interesting option for making your planets work more efficiently together and for invasion staging posts on the edge of other players territory. I wonder if they could be modded in by hijacking work home system in some way.

Reply to 1.02 opt in, abundant stars. So where are the stars? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I think it probably does go to far in this opt in, though I think reducing it is a good idea it has a big impact on how the game plays. Mind you it makes range a lot more important on larger map sizes. I'd say go for mid way between the old value and the one in this opt-in and try again.

Reply to Xeno factory improvement upgrades strange behaviour in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Although this is a "Feature" not a bug, I did point out before the release during Beta 5/6 that only allowing building of the base building then auto-upgrading it was certain to confuse a lot of new players.

Reply to Question about ship templates in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

You actually need to reference them in a mod to do that and it's a bit complicated.

Reply to Gal Civ 2 Minors in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Install GalCiv2 they are in the directory structure as .png

Reply to 1.01 and opt-in options in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I've only had one hang where it locked up completely and I had to kill it in the task manager and that was when entering combat after about 4 hours of play, so in that respect I haven't had a particularly bad experience myself.

Reply to Request to the Powers that Be for more animated background and leaders art. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Actually I think lobbying RAD Tools who make bink is a good idea, they can only say no , (and from what stardock say probably will).

Reply to [Mod Tool] Batch Star Namer in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Good tool, thanks.

Reply to Can someone please explain how invasion success/failure is calculated? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

This fascinating though the discussion of Vietnam is, doesn't resistance actually effect how likely a planet is to resist culture flip rather than invasion? I would love to know though how defense is worked out in planetary invasion, I also think they need to do a lot more work to make that aspect of the game more interesting. I too have never failed to invade a planet.

Reply to Request to the Powers that Be for more animated background and leaders art. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I can't actually see why RAD Game Tools are so stubborn about not producing an encoder for no commercial use to support game modding communities. Commercial Developers would still have to pay a license fee and it would only make their tool more popular. Commercial developers using the no commercial version would not be an issue as RAD could easily check their license status and tell if video in a game where bink2 encoded. It could only make their format more popular I really don&#

Reply to Armor and approval usefulness? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Agree Yes to both, defenses should be tailored to deal with you opponents weapons of course, if fighting an opponent who uses missiles there is no point in putting armor and shields on the ships.

Reply to Request to the Powers that Be for more animated background and leaders art. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

In fact there is an animated PNG format isn't there with full color support, of course Stardock would have to build support for it you can get an APNG plugin for GIMP.

Reply to Request to the Powers that Be for more animated background and leaders art. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

true, isn't there another animated image format though that supports true color, I'm going to look it up sure I happened across it a while ago.

Reply to Do "good" civs actually act good? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Being good also doesn't mean sitting back and doing nothing while the Dregin murder, eat and enslave others.