[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="16" id="3542363"] For instance, if you trade a specialization tech before researching one, you can't research another. But if you do it the other way around, you get both... this is the sort of thing that needs to be cleaned up when integrating a new design choice. [/quote] Oh, I did not realize that this was the case -- yes, I agree that this needs to be cleaned up...
It's definitely a twist from GC2. Thus far I don't think that it's good or bad per se. Just different. I think I'll need to play GC3 a bunch before deciding good/bad. But honestly I'm not all that opinionated on it. Generally I find hard choices to tend to make the game fuller and each instance unique. Most of the time I haven't found myself caring all that much which specialization to choose because it's either
In short, there are 2 main tiers to strategy. Macro long term strategy - what is it you want to do (culture flip, research, diplomacy, economics/tourism/trade, fight etc)? There are two main ways to decide what you want to do, big-picture wise Choose a race that intrigues you, look at their abilities to see what they'd naturally be good at (drengin are good at war, terrans at diplomacy, Iridium at commerce, krynn at flipping, e
Just fired GC3 up for the first time in months. Bear with me, this will be a running thread I'll keep adding to. Initial quality of life improvements for the custom race designer: When going through and changing leader name, race name, etc. One should be able to "tab" from one field to the next instead of mouse clicking. When tabbing (or mouse clicking) onto a new field, please have it auto-highlight the text, so that one can jus
Honestly, 4gb isn't enough for anything these days. Eight is the new four... you heard it here first. ;p
[quote who="RavenX" reply="2" id="3540918"] Should I "really" wait for release though? You know I'm impatient. Also, you know you want me to throw money at you [e digicons]:D[/e] . If you really think I should wait I'll hold off, but I'd rather throw you money now while I have it to spend. I'll be broke again in a few months...lol. Edit: also yeah I'll be getting it from your store. [/quote] If I were me, I'd wait.
[quote who="Xydonus" reply="3" id="3538138"] Can't say the Civ AI has ever left me impressed, in any way at all. They're average at most, in my opinion. [/quote] All I think you're actually pointing out is the difficulty of making a decent AI. Intuition and strategy is multifaceted, complicated and fairly subtle. I would imagine that having a room full of people who have approached the problem from different angles as a huge plus, preci
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="4" id="3537279"] Are we talking about galciv3 or ashes of the singularity? [/quote] oh, oops. Surfed over from the GC3 forums, thanks for the clarification, I'll fix.
*edit, my mistake. Thanks -tid242
Please do not allow the AI to learn to ragequit. That would be annoying..
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It has been clear from the get-go that FB has never cared about, nor respected their users in the slightest. This goes back to the alleged inception of FB when it was tentatively called "the face book" and operated out of his Harvard dorm room when Zuck marveled that his fellow Harvardites would simply hand over all of their personal information: "They trust me - dumb fucks." was his comment on the matter. I'll be the first to say that I said a lot of jerk things when I was
Another interesting twist would be to allow the Minor races to have remnants of former empires. It would add some flavor to the universe, but since they're non-expansionary they wouldn't be much more than glorified pirates with a handful of planets/resources. This would bypass the snowball/steamroll effect of having other races start ahead of you on the exponential power curve (which I can pretty much only imagine that you would want if you wanted some sort of additional c
[quote who="wbino49" reply="14" id="3530584"] Pillars of Eternity has sparked my interest and might be my first crowd funded game, though I wasn't a backer. [/quote] It's out now and has gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/291650/#app_reviews_hash http://www.
So, I couldn't help but notice that there is only one pre-order tier for Servo, whereas your other prospective upcoming titles have had a couple of tiers - the better of which offer a lifetime "subscription" to future content. I was curious what the tentative plans are for additional Servo content later? Obviously not a lot is set in stone, since it is unavailable for pre-purchase? cheers,
[quote who="Frogboy"] Re multiplayer: The plan right now is to have it be client/server with a migratable host. We are building a trusted server system (hosted servers) but will be evaluating early access to determine whether they're needed (i.e. if there's e-sport potential, we'll know during the beta). [/quote] hence: https://www.stardock.com/about/newsitem.
I'm early access and I really don't have any opinion on the above specifically. The bigger issue for me, personally, is that Stardock does good/strong launches of all of your games, and none of them end up getting churned out half-done because everyone was busy on the more important release. Since I've been pre-buying most of your stuff, this could be annoying. So, I tend to like the "it's finished when it's finishe
[quote who="mbar8" reply="3" id="3528477"] I pretty much abandoned Impulse/Gamestop in less than a year. Some games I was lucky enough to activate on steam. [/quote] You can activate them on steam!?? Or you just re-purchased them? Is it still possible to roll those titles over to steam? So terrible, with Gamestop, I stopped being able to even log into Impulse after a few months without doing a bunch of re-registering with gamestop (which I
Thanks for the head's up. You've still got my trust, so I pre-ordered both. Please don't let them suck ;p looking fwd to it, -tid242
It's definitely intrigued me, I believe I stuck it on my Steam wishlist so I could keep an eye on it. If the actual execution gets good reviews after the masses have a chance to abuse it, it'll be a for sure buy for me. It's still wait and see for me at this point - there have been a lot of builders that have sucked over the years, pretty much everything since SC4, as far as I can tell anyway... cheers, -ti
Well, if EA hadn't made all of this studio's games shitty, maybe they'd still be open, and I'd actually buy their games. Their old-school games are amongst some of my favorites. Their newer games are great, in theory, but in practice they're all pretty much crap to play. Too bad, but no surprises here. -tid242
The Mandate (beta will be out toward end of 2015, and full game I think by Dec 2015?) http://www.mandategame.com/ Torment: Tides of Numenera (IIRC q4 2015?) https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/ These are the two that I know of that I'm looking forward to (in addition to the above-mentioned 'Pillars of Eternity').
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="3526746"] Quoting Zuigert, reply 1 Well.. thats a slap in the face for us founders.. Guess Galciv 3 is the last game Ill ever pre-order/kickstart/etc.. Actually, what we're in the process of doing is creating a way for users to hook up their Steam
[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="20" id="3525497"] No. That system you refer to in FE is extensive (that's not a simple thing to do), and results pretty medicore end result (as I say that as the lead designer on FE, so I'm not knocking it). For GC3 we have opted for higher quality (and much easier tech) premade images. You can mix the character and background if you want,, and we will provide a sampling of hue shifted and tweaked versions for you to play with. [/quote]
Any thoughts on a face/race picture creator? (similarly to how one can modify color/face/etc in FE)? cheers,
[quote who="BuckGodot" reply="27" id="3525055"] Super Projects were one per civilization, not one per game. Yes, some races had Galactic Achievements that were unique to them. But they weren't technically Super Projects like the Hyperion Shrinker and whatnot. Mind, the concern about racial Galactic Achievements is a good one. But calling them Super Projects might lead to some confusion. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote]