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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="45" id="3440275"] Quoting Tridus, reply 44The idea that MOO got it all right is highly tinted by nostalgia tinted classes. MOO didn't get everything right. Those fights could get really tedious. Give someone who has never played it a copy of the game today, and opinions will be much less kind than people who played it when it first came out. Again, Tridus, you are coloring this with your own personal play style. You should n

Reply to Please let the fleets be epic! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Keeping everything the same only making one ship be 10 ships does not make it more epic. I swesr this this exact same conversation happened on the elemental forums years ago. :)

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[quote who="sleepyx732" reply="4" id="3440235"] “For all those sliders, the player actually had remarkably little control over their empire,” Boyer says. “They ended up with a lot of waste. ...In GalCiv III, we switched that to having a dial. It looks like a color wheel. Essentially, what is your civilization focusing on between wealth, manufacturing, and research? It's like they're blended together. And that, in turn, tells your citizens what they should be wo

Reply to I am worried about what they said about space battles in the interview in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="YvainM2" reply="37" id="3440063"] Everyone groans when MOO is mentioned, but the reason it always comes up is because in so many years it is one of the few games to ever get it all right. I understand you want to make a game with deep strategic options first, but a huge opportunity is being missed. Plenty of games since have done the same and they are easily forgotten. The same people that would feel forced to micro manage things are the same people that will save and reload

Reply to Looking for my Founders badge in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="16" id="3440012"] Hmmm. I backed, have no badge but don't want to make my own in paint. So now what do i do?[/quote] If you used your forum account to buy the founders package, the badge will show up after a delay. If it's a different account, the badge won't show up on its own. You can email [email protected] about that.

Reply to starbase limits suggestion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You can read that sectors post two ways: 1. There's no sectors in the game anymore. 2. There's still sectors in the game, but sector lines aren't drawn on the main map because they were just visual noise. I tend towards the latter. Sectors IIRC were used for things like map size, they're likely not being thrown away entirely as a concept. Not displaying them on the main game map would just make the map easier to read.

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[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="23" id="3439069"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 20 What I don't agree with: The idea that tactical combat has no place in a strategy game. I don't think anybody here has ever actually said that; most (including myself) old the position that it is poorly suited to this series in particular. The examples you mentioned (90's Era GalCiv, MoO, Civ) did not/do not have the same sort of strate

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="11" id="3438904"] One thing I don't understand. If you had options for different levels of combat that you could change at any time, such as: Level 0 -- Absolute auto resolve Level 1 -- Combat viewer -- like GC2. Level 2 -- Some combat control -- like the devs have described for GC3. ' ' Level x -- Ship by ship total control combat -- like MOO2. If th

Reply to I am worried about what they said about space battles in the interview in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'd expect the ship roles to be able to emulate something like that, yeah.

Reply to Multiplayer Steam Notifications, Pitboss, 'light' Pitboss server, in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Good questions! ATM I don't think any of that info has been released. Hopefully Stardock will enlighten us. :)

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You ever get the feeling that you're trapped in an endless loop of tactical combat threads? [e digicons]x_x[/e] Machiavellianism - the game is going to have some form of combat, with some kind of ship role system. It's not going to have a system where you pick ships each turn and tell them what to shoot at, but it's likely to be closer to Endless S

Reply to GalCiv III visuals in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

There's lots of little differences buried in there. It's pretty likely that it's going to work, but saying "it'll probably work" and officially supporting it aren't the same thing. Supporting it means adding a test suite for Vista, and if it breaks, figuring out how to fix it. Not supporting it means not worrying about that, and is thus cheaper. Since Vista is going to be on older hardware at this point with potentially dodgy drivers (the thing that plagued Vista t

Reply to Alpha Testers Need a Dev Console! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'd love to see cheats for things like revealing the entire map. It's much easier to talk about things like the AI behaving oddly if you can see what it's doing. Cheats to speed up the building and research would make it easier to try things out, but can hinder testing the overall game flow. Still handy for testing certain scenarios. Most of your list is pretty good, honestly. :) The code lines thing wouldn't help us, though, as we don't have code. Their debu

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[quote who="Sanati" reply="49" id="3438485"] I'm also still under the impression that whoever wrote that answer in the FAQ forgot about Vista or the fact it has a 64bit version and DX11 support. [/quote] I doubt its that. Vista is out of mainstream support at Microsoft, is falling back to 4% on the Steam hardware survey, and is generally irrelevant. Most likely they just don't want to have the expense of supporting it.

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[quote who="Sanati" reply="43" id="3438401"] Quoting satoru1, reply 20DX11 would more or less force users into Windows 7 or Window 8. I don't understand what you mean by this. Vista supports DX11. XP only goes up to DX9. Either way, DX10 or DX11, Vista or higher is required.[/quote] The bigger issue is people on 7 with DX10 but not 11 hardware. Vista isn't supported as an OS by the game, although it's possible it'll work. [quote]It will require

Reply to Alpha Testers Need a Dev Console! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

What you mean is cheat codes and diagnostic tools. "Dev kit" has a specific meaning in game development, and this isn't it. (Admiral - a console in this case is a box to type commands in to the game, like enabling cheat codes or tools to debug the current game state. It's not a piece of hardware.)

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Yeah, some of the old UIs are really bad. "Fun" is subjective and eternal, but UI has taken major leaps forward.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations 3 Community Interview with SpaceSector Part 1 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Looking at other games in the strategy genre, the general rule is that DLC adds content to the existing game. Things like races, leaders, scenario maps, new ship parts, and such. Expansions add or change game systems. Things like espionage that change how the game plays. They also tend to contain things that could be sold as DLC. That is pretty much exactly how the divide worked in Civ V (some maps and Civs as DLC, others came in the expansions along with espionage, religion,

Reply to Galactic Civilizations 3 Community Interview with SpaceSector Part 1 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The thing with DLC is that on an AAA game, not all the teams are working at the same time in development. Instead of idling a team or laying people off, you can put them to work on DLC while the main team works on something else. The content in question is usually small enough that they can sell it relatively cheap, but it's got a high profit margin since it's relatively easy to make. Full expansions don't work well for a game like Call of Duty anyway, since the goal isn&#

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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="29" id="3438044"] Quoting DreadDendy, reply 28 Hello, I am a 23 year old student. Please visit this post on how to load an avatar and comment when you are done. https://forums.galciv3.com/450987 [/quote] There is no need to keep repeating this every time someone comments without having uploaded something. It's not a requirement.

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Probably, yes. Unless there's a pinned post right at the top that says "latest update on when the alpha starts". People who aren't regular visitors here don't have an easy way to find the information right now.

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[quote who="GalCivius" reply="29" id="3437811"] One thing I hated in GalCiv2 was that the AI was able to make even the nicest ship design look ugly by placing weapons and other components in absurd sizes and positions onto it. If something could be done to remedy this it would be great. [/quote] There's been talk about the AI harvesting designs used by successful players, which means this should be somewhat alleviated.

Reply to Part 1 of the Galactic Civilizations 3 Community Interview is Up at SpaceSector in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="24" id="3437547"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 201They don't charge for using Steam. They make their money on sales from their site. Granted, it doesn't mention whether Steamworks is free or not. You guys could just ask Brad and he would probably tell you.[/quote] It is. Brad said this : [quote] It's one of the many reasons why I have

Reply to Part 1 of the Galactic Civilizations 3 Community Interview is Up at SpaceSector in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="23" id="3437538"] But Valve spent something to create it. Any developer spending time integrating his game into Steamworks, no?[/quote] Valve did, yes. It wasn't free for them, it was an investment. But if I go pump some water and then just give you a glass, it's free water to you (and not free to me). The time spent integrating it is time on features. Take achievements: 1. They could not have them, which costs no time. <

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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="21" id="3437474"] Tridus, Please understand something. I have spent the better part of 74 years hearing about how this is free, or that is free, and finding out that the words are false. Buying something off the shelf instead of re-inventing it yourself may provide savings, but the cost is still there. It has to be paid for somewhere, somehow. Buying it may result in a savings somewhere else, but that still does not make it fr