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Reply to How do I get a key? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="4" id="3458125"]Perhaps if one got their key off of the store before the e-mails were sent something was recorded and the e-mail got sent to only those that had not already gotten their key?[/quote] Nope. I got my e-mail, and I did use the key before hand. It might be that people have not signed up for the Stardock advertisement e-mails, or did and discontinued the service. Might also be in the spam folders, this of course is all speculation.

Reply to Founders Vault: 'Planet_Sceen_Beta_1b' in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Not so... [e digicons]:-"[/e] I've agreed with you on the rectangular view port of the planet map. It's not likely that Stardock would take my advice over yours anyway. They are making design decisions with other things in mind that we do not know what will come of the future. For example, The header for the planetary projects might be useful depending on how many projects vs. improvements we can do. Right now with basically 4, it makes no sense. But I can envision having 8-1

Reply to Founders Vault: 'Planet_Sceen_Beta_1b' in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I like the grayed out tiles. It provides a very nice contrast to the entire map. Good job there Stardock. The colored sections really point your eyes to the important tiles. I wonder if a rectangle planet view would be a better, look. Since you are graying out and using green hex tiles to represent important tiles. Currently, the jagged outlines are providing a visual distraction. --- Just read the other replies, guess there are few that don't like the grayscale version of

Reply to Tall vs Wide in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I think this should be implemented by a particular race. It would be nice to see a devourer race, one that where you can choose to settle a planet, or destroy it for goods to your other planets. Send a colony ship or send a devourer to eat the planet reducing the class by 1 every 10 turns, your chosen planet a large bonus to production during the process. This will allow for a tall vs. wide empire.

Reply to Terraforming (Some) Dead Worlds in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I wouldn't mind seeing the ability to send a terraformer ship to one of these planets (Shake and Bake Colony) with a percentage chance of success. Something around 5% chance of successfully terraforming a dead planet. Building these terraformers shouldn't be cheap and you would fill these things up with colonists .5 billion, with the planned effect of them possibly dying on the planet. Brings a little gamble in the game. Once terraformed you can transport colonists to this newly creat

Reply to What Age of Wonders 3 has Taught Us and What LH Can Teach AOW in Legendary Heroes GalCiv3 Forums

Both games are war games, but you do not have to win via conquest. aka The losing civilization is laid to ruin. AoW follows more this mentality than LH, so much so it makes AoW seem more like a War Game, where the main focus is on tactical combat and domination of the strategic map, vs. LH where you do not have to seek domination of the strategic map to win. You need to be powerful, yes... do you need to lay every civilization to ruin to win... no. (Does LH encourage you to lay ruin to every

Reply to What Age of Wonders 3 has Taught Us and What LH Can Teach AOW in Legendary Heroes GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="33" id="3457289"] I disagree. While LH has multiple win conditions, they are all a function/variant of the conquest victory. So, LH is really a war game too.[/quote] Of course they function like the conquest victory, but how does the Master Quest fit into that variant of the conquest victory? You don't even have to have contact with the other civilizations to win this way. Similar to the spell of making. I would claim co

Reply to [POLL] Production wheel Vs. Sliders. (Alpha 1) in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Production wheel is a better format for controlling three inter-related sliders. It's been done before and it was just fine with that game (Sim Ant comes to mind). If you move to a 3 slider version you need a locking mechanism as you cannot control the direction of the other two sliders. The production wheel removes the absolute NEED for a locking mechanism. There do need to be some shortcut keys or some lines drawn on On the other thing about polls. Unless there is incent

Reply to The Galaxy and Useless Objects in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Cataracts - waterfalls, ideal for dams, and hence hydro-electrical power, or other forms of production methods. A consistent source hence a bonus to manufacturing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataracts_of_the_Nile PlanetFalls, I'm not sure what they are referring, but I can suspect it is something along the lines of like Niagara falls. Something beautiful to see. I also think these might be too large t

Reply to Extreme Planet types... in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I do like the concept, but I'm not sure if this change would change the overall dynamic of GalCiv... in other words, would the game you describe above be GalCiv or a new game entirely. We don't want them to change too much of the character that makes Galactic Civilization - GalCiv. Do not get me wrong. I would love to see this concept realized in Galactic Civilization. Of course balancing this so there are a sufficient amount of colonizable planets close enough to any ch

Reply to Elite Founder Star Naming is Live! in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="satoru1" reply="85" id="3456840"] I wish my GreaseMonkey skills were better. I tried making a script to sort the planet list alphabetically. It went.... poorly.[/quote] I've already alphabetized into a .txt file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75549875/GalCiv3/Alpha/starnames.txt This is accurate up to 11:24 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) edit2: Up

Reply to Keep an eye on the founder's vault in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

Depending how they implement ship combat. They could use adjacent fleets to join in battle... they have been pretty mum on the subject (Begin engagement, send signal to nearby fleets for help, couple turns fighting have your adjacent fleets join the battle from hyperspace. It would look nice). So adjacent star-bases would yield a problem in this type of system. But the grand doughnut of shipyards.

Reply to The Galaxy and Useless Objects in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I would call colonizing a planet equivalent to a deep scan of the planet. Your sending millions / billions of people to the planet, I'm sure they will find anything that was there.

Reply to Keep an eye on the founder's vault in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I suppose there is no real reason to force the restriction. Depends on the mechanics on the shipyard. I suppose players might have fun building a wall of starbases / shipyards around their important planets.

Reply to [Bug?] Ship Pass removes all movement points in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I'd call it a bug... because it bugs me that the ship doesn't move into a guard mode or sentry mode. Something productive. I would even be happy that if the ship is put into those modes that the ship gets increased sensor range.

Reply to The Galaxy and Useless Objects in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

That would add a clever twist to the survey ship. It would be interesting that the survey ship explores what is thought to be a class 0 planet and finds a fledgling race of whatever on it. Or find a precursor ship or a special mineral. Or maybe a explosive device that explodes and destroys the planet and damages the survey-ship. I would also agree that it the survey ship should take a turn to explore said planets.

Reply to Keep an eye on the founder's vault in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I would expect that if a shipyard is within 1-5 hexes of a planet that there will be no distance penalties from that planet. But if we start exceeding this distance, say around 6 - 10 hexes, a 10% penalty, 11-15 hexes a 25% penalty, 16-20 hexes 40% penalty, 21 - 30 hexes a 60% penalty, More than 31 hexes a 80% penalty. I think the goal of the shipyard is to provide building ships for star systems with no penalty. Once you leave the star-system, then we are talking about some penalties

Reply to Coverage on Youtube and the like in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Hi, as with the release of the Alpha several Lets plays / look at have sprung up on youtube. I was wondering wether those people actually are "Elite Founders" or did they get kind of a "Press access"? [/quote] I know a few of them are Elite Founders. I cannot say if any of the others have "Press Access". At this point I don't think the dev team would provide "Press Access" as the game is no where near complete and "Press Access" usually com

Reply to summary of bugs and fixes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Good luck getting this to happen ;). I think the bug and fix list might be too cumbersome to be useful. Not to say that I wouldn't want to see one, but just saying they probably won't.

Reply to Dev Stream Tomorrow (Friday, April 4) at Noon PST in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Since it is an alpha build, could you play a multiplayer game ;) or somebody else. It's not like you are showcasing the AI at this moment. :)

Reply to Dev Stream Tomorrow (Friday, April 4) at Noon PST in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

It's running now... Noon PDT :)

Reply to Dev Stream Tomorrow (Friday, April 4) at Noon PST in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Is the interview at noon PST or is it noon PDT?

Reply to Elite Founder Star Naming is Live! in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75549875/GalCiv3/Alpha/starnames.txt an alphabetized version of the list as presented at 2:25 Eastern Time edit: updated at 5:05 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) edit2: updated at 11:24 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) edit3: Updated at 11:47 EDT (4-7-14) edit4: Updated at 8:40 EDT (4 - 9 - 14)

Reply to [0.0.2.0][Bug] Start-up Warning and nVidia Optimus(tm) technology in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="12" id="3456425"] Quoting Elfenires, reply 11After the alpha 2 update, when I launch the game it says that my drivers may be too old. I've got switchable graphic cards ( intel and radeon ). I can download drivers only from the HP site ( I've got a pavilion dv7). The newest driver hp gives has been released in 2011. What prevents you from downloading the drivers from Intel and/or AMD directly? As a side note, I used to b

Reply to Elite Founder Star Naming is Live! in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

EvilMaxWar If you are that desperate, open up a second steam account / second stardock account purchase and elite founders edition again and name another star. I don't think they would mind if you did. Plus it is multiplayer and you can use it for friends and family that visit to play you. :) I would help out, but I already named my star... I was torn and wanted to name it after my daughters... but I have 2 and couldn't just choose one.