tid242

tid242

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Reply to A Way to Communicate Quest in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Now that I'm thinking about it... The quest cost should probably be scaled by two factors: Research Rate Progress in the game. I realized after typing my reply that it really only applies to the types of games that I play, whereby I generally meet the first AI civ in the first 10-20 turns (sometimes sooner, but always by turn 20, I'd say). At this point in the game I usually have no money, no cash flow and can research Univ Trans in <1

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Reply to A Way to Communicate Quest in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="SchismNavigator" reply="3" id="3851842"] I do see where you're coming from in regards to the cost value of the private option being poor. Would reducing the cost be the way to go to make it more appealing? [/quote] That's probably part of it. IIRC it also takes 10 turns to get, which is longer than it takes to research it yourself. I don't find myself ever being in a position to be able to afford the 600bc and even with slow research pacing i

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Reply to Small Sector Size and Lack of Promethion in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Wanted to see if others have noticed this, or if its just an anomaly. Last 3 games I tried small sector sizes, even with normal nebula rates. I had 0 promethion sources in all 3 games for the entire sector, had to use the bazaar for my entire supply, was even rarer than Elerium. Anyone else experiencing that? [/quote] Promethion tends to be one of the rarer resources in my experience. Not sure about the sector size aspect of it.

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Reply to turn 365 in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] After Turn 365 i was unable to continue the turn. uninstalled game reinstalled load saved .. same out come [/quote] Do you have a savefile of this game? - hard to do something with this bug report without one. Dropbox, Google Drive or Discord (if you have nitro) are convenient ways to get your file to the devs. cheers, -tid242

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Reply to Starbase bug? or works as intended?! in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Okies9691" reply="2" id="3851225"] that's correct. Not all modules are on the build list for the military base, and for the mining bases, it's only the Support Field Stabilization that's missing that gives +2 to your zone of control, and I can't see the reason to why I can't build it. I had to settle for building a culture starbase just to be able to nab all resources between an AI faction. [/quo

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Reply to [CANON] - [SCREEN] - The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

Turns 60-65: Turn 60: Before continuing on with this relationship, we should have a serious discussion about money. It was bound to come up sooner or later, but when our population is an endless sea of criminals who are prone to stealing ... borrowing things it really makes our relationship with money fought. It should be clarified that the Xeloxi are a c

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Reply to Starbase bug? or works as intended?! in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

Not sure about the lack of support field stab for mining bases, that might be intentional. There was (is?) a bug with military starbases where they cannot build all of the correct combat modules. I suspect that this is what you're experiencing..

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Reply to Runs like a dog :-( in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="SAMarcus" reply="10" id="3850831"] Have you stress tested your GPU recently? It could be failing. Not anything anyone wants to hear, but it's a sad reality of computers. Most testing software is free so you might want to look into that and see if there's a physical issue affecting your gaming experience. And before you say other games run fine, also remember that each bit of software out there will run somewhat differently than another. So maybe GC3 runs smooth as silk on you

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Reply to [CANON] - [SCREEN] - The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="SchismNavigator" reply="15" id="3851100"] Really solid stuff this AAR tidi. Definitely going to be sharing on our socials this week. Note: I have added some tags for screenshots and canonical play. Feel free to change them if they're inaccurate. [/quote] Ah thanks Schism, yea that's cool, I didn't realize that's how the tags were to be utilized until other people started doing it the right way. I'd inserted into the 'search tags' area of the post

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Reply to [CANON] - [INT] - [SCREEN] - Dungeons and Drengin in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

Definitely "J" - It's been bothering me for some time where the mouth is. Hopefully at the conclusion of this game we will know the answer to this, either via autopsy or a fantastical revelation! As an aside, I'd vote for Fred, but don't think I actually want to know what he's been up to... oo

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Reply to [CANON] - [SCREEN] - The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="eride" reply="10" id="3851000"] I've really been enjoying this, especially because I haven't had much time to play the game because of work. This is a fun way to learn some more about the mechanics and ways to approach a game versus reading the guides and explanations that have been posted. I just wish Frogboy would post some more of his, so we had both of your content rolling in. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Yea, I hea

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Reply to [CANON] - [SCREEN] - The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

Turn 59: Similarly, it's useful to see what war tech the Altarians are investing in also. It's nice to know that my own fleet of a single ampu-toad and single jock-strap ship isn't really outmatched by the Altarians. All of these types of information may possibly be useful as the turns roll onward - because this type of intel can inform yo

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Reply to [CANON] - [SCREEN] - The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. in GalCiv IV AARs GalCiv4 Forums

Turns 49-60. note: so there's a bunch of post overlap here for some reason. I must not've saved it at the end of turn 50 last playthrough? I'm usually better about this. Anyway, I must've queued up the next tech at turn 50 last time too, but I haven't been reporting every one as some have been just fillers.. It was several days ago that I last played this game. Anyway, no big deal, we'll just play it out... <p

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Reply to AI cheating/overpowered hardcore? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="gypsy2299" reply="8" id="3850960"] But, but, but, collecting "Goody Huts" is 99% of the fun in 4X games😁 [/quote] Actually, when they're "off" there are actually still a small number just around all the homeworlds. The survey ships are all done collecting them all by turn 50. It actually works pretty well. I also think it spawns no yellow or red ones. I actually like it...

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Reply to AI cheating/overpowered hardcore? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="gypsy2299" reply="6" id="3850955"] Quoting Zuell, reply 4 Did they fix AI surveying Red nodes with no survey just scooping them up with single medium ships? Those are like +10%manufacturing reward each. There are several rewards from Reds not just the one. Rewards of th

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Reply to AI cheating/overpowered hardcore? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Dirty Jack7410" reply="2" id="3850948"] Thanks for answering. Ok I'll take that into account but I feel like i have to restart again :weary:. What exactly is the trick to it? Enemy on the right has a tone of planets so I thought that might be it, but the one on the left doesn't have that many and still have power in the thousands wheres I'm only 400. (i only have 4k money cause one random AI just gifted it to me. I only now managed to make profit o

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Reply to AI cheating/overpowered hardcore? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] So I've restarted a game like I don't even know how many times and was constantly trying to improve my game. I'm playing on Normal difficulty but it always seems like the AI is sky-rocketing leagues away from me in terms of basically everything. To the point where were some were not only 10s but 100s of times stronger navy, already have planets making resources in the 10s and are travelling across the systems before I even completely surveyed my own syst

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