Done & done.. Because you asked, and because you definitely deserve it. I don't usually review anything... On a related note, I see that it's now 80% "very positive" congrats. I'll be posting again if they get wiped out after release. cheers, keep up the hard work & have a beer after crunch time (you guys have some great brewers in MI)..
It was confirmed in a chat earlier this week that they have plans to add a "random" button for opponents. (which I took to mean, randomly generated to fill, say, a 100 player map). Won't make it into the initial release, but it's coming sometime. Hope this helps.
[quote who="Meglobob" reply="2" id="3548380"] Really, you should of been destroyed and the AI, Altarians should have won. [/quote] meh, there's always been a healthy element of crap-shot-ary in the franchise with all of the AIs messing with everyone's plans. I'd just say that he got lucky and survived the gauntlet. hah
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3547037"] Great stuff. Your name and deeds have circulated around the office. thank you! [/quote] Yes, Rhonin has always been a sage on the forums... Some of what he's pointed-out though I haven't noticed (grids extending outside of influence, smushed snuggler, shipyard blank). I wonder if they're not system-dependent? I did post the "small galaxy" RAM warning a couple of hot-fi
[quote who="Mohobie" reply="43" id="3546491"] I had never thought of turning those into colony ships... I might have to do that once just because but that to me just doesnt seem right. [/quote] que the Kasparov quote about Deep Blue possessing an "alien intelligence"... I hadn't thought of that either until now - especially with the Benevolence Ideology skill that starts all colonies with 5b population - they don't even nee
I'd flag this as spam if you weren't such an upstanding member of the community. VPN's are VERY important in the age of internet surveillance and snooping. Cheers if this is a good deal, can't say I've felt the need to price out a VPN, but then again I'm fairly boring in an ostensibly hospitable country for boring people. cheers, -tid242
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="3546115"] I doubt anyone is beating the AI on suicidal with the new patch. This was the first build with my main AI branch checked in. Post release I want to add several new difficulty levels so that there's a more gradual ramp up. Gifted is now too tough. [/quote] I'm glad to hear it's been ramped up! Thank you! Also, as an aside, having the highe
[quote who="apitman" reply="14" id="3544835"] I understand. It would be nice to be able to play with family over LAN without buying more copies. I already did buy more copies, however. For me I just don't want it to CRASH after several turns in MP. I have purchased 4 copies for myself and my kids. I really want the game to succeed. Every time I play with my neighbor (who also bought 2 copies), it gets stuck after several turns. Make ya not
New splash screen is pretty similar to this crappy movie from 1985 though. Took me forever to remember the name of this stupid movie, hah. Oh yea, and there's even this from the wiki.. [quote]In the late 21st century, an interstellar<
[quote quoting="post"] Battle Viewer is much louder then the rest of the game. [/quote] YES! Also since it transitions from serene beautiful universe music to the middle of a war-zone sounds. This is most apparent when my brother is playing in the next room over, where I don't hear anything, then I'll hear a random space battle, then nothing again until the next battle . :)
[quote who="Achronous" reply="3" id="3544499"] Upgrading to more RAM is an option, but since the min requirements for the game are listed as 4 GB then it should still work (albeit with not all map option for example). What about other people who don't know how to upgrade or can't afford to. [/quote] This is a very valid point, if it is indeed memory constraints that are leading to crashes. -tid242
Glad to hear it. Appreciate the updates.. -tid242
[quote who="Praw004" reply="2" id="3544476"] ^^As I said, I made room for the data, and my experience with playing Insane maps vs tiny/small maps is equivalent on the same computer - both take approximately the same time for turn completion and all other activities. Such suggests that my computer could handle "all of the data that is required of a large map" and that, perhaps, this claim by GC3 that my cpu could not do what it is clearly able to do is a bu
[quote quoting="post"] 6) non-competitive AI: I can't say if it is the lacking balance, exploitative gameplay on my end or a weak AI, but on the second most difficult AI setting i do not expect to eclipse the ai by at least an order of magnitude (overall points rating). [/quote] Your points are well taken. On this one though, I think the AI will get a lot better as time goes on. I feel lik
[quote who="Ryat" reply="4" id="3544348"] You need to meet at least half of the races for it to trigger. [/quote] Ah, that would explain it. That does bring up an interesting dynamic in the larger maps with a handful of civs. Although, personally with 9 empires (one of which is me, so 8 other empires), I've definitely come across 4 of them and not had any meetings either. Is it half or "more than half"? &nbs
[quote quoting="post"] 3) Even if I could not experience high performance on larger maps, I would still like the option to play on them (I'm fine with lag time - GC3 is a turn-based game, so nothing that I could otherwise prevent will occur between turns - also I get other rl tasks done during said periods). [/quote] It's only "performance" insofar as your computer cannot physically handle all of the data that is requi
Crashes and running out of memory should probably be separate issues. You can always open your task manager and see how close you're getting to using it all up though in any event... Unfortunately 8GB is sort of the new currency these days, 4-6GB just has trouble cutting it... Of note, Stardock did insert a setting that would keep you from starting a galaxy that is outright too big for your memory - unsure how good it is at the edges (ie
[quote who="Hamilmac" reply="3" id="3544436"] What do you have your pirates set at? I am noticing a similar effect on an insane map where I am outpacing the AI. However, I have pirates set to common and I've noticed that the AI powers have a lot of trouble with pirates. Wherever pirates are common, the AI d
I've played a few games as Krynn on a Gigantic map with all races enabled plus one custom faction that I made a long time ago. Tight clusters, common planets, common habitable, common extreme. Research pacing and game pacing "very slow". "Normal" difficulty. I generally have been playing as expansionist influence/research turtles (spam out colony ships then make all of the planets generally just produce research and influence). What I've been find
[quote who="Illauna" reply="1" id="3544365"] You don't need to have too many ships to take out the pirates. I think of it as a little mechanic to make sure I have at least built up the minimum defenses for my civiliziation. Besides, even if you go peaceful you should have a military. Otherwise, you will be taking diplo hits for having a weak military. [/quote] Well, this kind of gets back to another issue that I've run into - playing a gigantic m
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/mlnnz8.jpg[/IMG] it always says "small maps"
GC2 was like this too - the AI valued credits a lot more than it should have in many instances, but not when you were offering credits for their techs. The AI was pretty stingy in GC2 generally, come to think of it. The only really favorable trades that a player could make were ones where a lot of higher level strategic work was at play, since a lot of their trading seemed to be more anchored in the trade itself at face value. For example, you could convince
Is the only solution to pirates just blowing them up? Does anyone else think there should be alternative solutions to dealing with them, particularly non-militarized empires: Economically/trade focused empires -- just pay them money. Diplomacy focused empires -- research some "pirate diplomacy" tech tree stuff Research/trade -- bribe them with techs Influence/moral -- I dunno, converting them sounds cheesy - thoughts?</
Same, I have been too busy steam rolling everyone for me to notice tho. Thought maybe they were giving me the cold shoulder..
[quote who="Taslios" reply="2" id="3542734"] Click mouse in minimap and then move mouse while holding mouse button down.... seems to move just fine for me. [/quote] ditto that, I've never had a problem..
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