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Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Custom Factions in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Derek Paxton" reply="12" id="3524868"] Techs will probably always a modding thing. We have an excel editor that writes out all the XML for us that we are happy to share. One of the nice parts of this is that if someone makes a few cool tech trees they can share them and every can place them as mods and then allow their custom factions to use them. But make no mistake, there is a huge amount of things that can be modified in XML, and if you really

Reply to From the no big deal, it's just a game, category in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Well, I guess what I was getting at was that if there are multiple extreme planet types, and the research required to colonize any of them is the same, then logically one would think that they should appear in equal amounts (so there's no reason to research, say radioactive worlds rather than barren worlds, unless you randomly happened to start at a location where there happened to be more radioactive worlds than barren worlds). Otherwise, the

Reply to From the no big deal, it's just a game, category in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] If you want to include the hundreds of moons, Titan is toxic and all the rest seem to be barren or ice. In GCIII there are at least 4x as many toxic and radioactive (there is bound to be a radioactive planet somewhere in the galaxy) as there are water, ice and barren combined. If they mean cosmic rays when they say radioactive, all barren planets are also radioactive, I suppose, but somehow I think they mean radioactive in a different sense t

Reply to DirectX 12 and Mantle: Can they deliver movie quality? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Informative post[quote quoting="post"] You want >30FPs (or better yet over 60FPS) so then it’s just a matter of how many batches can you shove into a scene and keep it at that speed? [/quote] Informative post, but you really need to fix the color on this line as I can't read it without highlighting it. <p align

Reply to Can't attack Drengin in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

yea, you need to allow the stardock.com and stardock.net scripts/cookies, they intermingle both since all of the forums for all of their games are all on the same server and use the same back-end resources, as near as I can tell anyway.... cheers

Reply to Can't Declare War on Terrans? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

They spent the Ideology Points to prevent it x100 turns I'd guess.. -tid242

Reply to Offworld Trading Company Revealed, Beta Coming Feb 12 in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

I believe the embargo is lifted now? (if not let me know, and I'll fix this post). Anyway, I haven't played this for a while now. I hopped on very early in the alpha/beta though the "more expensive" tier pre-order option. Played it quite a bit for the better part of a week or two immediately when it was released to the people who had opted to do the alpha/beta test - which was maybe last summer or thereabouts... It's pretty cool and definit

Reply to More ramblings and how I fixed being able to play Immense maps. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Out of curiosity, how much physical RAM do you have? Also, it can sometimes be useful to install high-use game files on an SD card if there seems to be a bottleneck with HDD throughput (since the SD card slot on laptops and the like don't use the SATA chain). This was something people were doing to get Diablo 3 to be less laggy (which worked with varying degrees of success). Unsure if GC3 is ammenible to performance improvements with this type of strateg

Reply to Starting locations and Altarians have Deeper Knowledge about turn 70 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="kestlstw" reply="4" id="3518307"] I thought the higher levels of the AI were just bonuses to well everything, not free techs and even then it seems excessive, ... It could be they were following the enlightened path and got some help from artifacts too. [/quote] The difficulty settings aren't finalized yet. Right now there are no strong AI functions that the higher difficulties can draw upon (such as Gal Civ 2, most of

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 4 changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Scary- No penalty from sharing borders with another civilization. [/quote] Sorry if I missed it, but could anyone fill me in on what the "sharing borders" penalty is? cheers,

Reply to Technically fun, Playably boring in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

"GA3" = "GC3" ? Otherwise, having read your post - I really like it. Not because I necessarily agree with most of what you said (which isn't to say I specifically disagree, I'm just not that opinionated about most things), but because it's an excellent summation of what needs still needs work for it to be presentable to non-GC2-veterans (which most of the people on this forum are). A lot of what you mentioned are known issues (an

Reply to Battle viewer, first look OMG! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The one thing that I really noticed that could be improved, functionally on ships - and this is really brought out by Paul's Titan battleviewer demo is the inefficiency of they way that weapons fire and are prioritized. I used to notice this quite a bit on GC2 where your ship would "waste" a lot of firepower to blow up a ship with only 1 hp. Note that the Titans took a complete volley of 3 separate weapon types to wipe out a fleet of minor ships. I'l

Reply to Engadget Shows More of the Star Swarm Demo of the Nitrous Engine in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3515737"] You will need DirectX 12 or Mantle to get much out of the demo. Your Nvidia card will make use of DirectX 12. But DirectX 11 is kind of crappy. [/quote] Oh, that's good to know, that is helpful... Also: you might be interested to know that the Oxide forums really need to be cleaned up. I hopped over there after posting the above and they were all filled

Reply to Engadget Shows More of the Star Swarm Demo of the Nitrous Engine in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

So... Haven't heard much about this since the original demo splash when this post was made. I didn't realize until today that it was available via steam, so I loaded it up and gave it a try. On the one hand, it's quite nice. On the other hand, I'm a bit underwelmed. So.... I have a latest gen i7 4790k, and a GTX 970, my framerate prob averaged 60, but would bog down to the mid/high teens during th

Reply to Request: Seat Time in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gilmoy" reply="2" id="3513910"] Steam shows total game time per game you own, without subdividing it for each separate instance-of-game you've played. I've played 296 hours of GC3, but that's either one long game or 540 very short ones, I don't remember which ... [/quote] That's because you probably fell asleep fool! Anyway - would be an nice touch. Maybe along with the end-of-

Reply to DLC in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="erischild" reply="4" id="3513789"] I'm an old geezer who just went through a quintuple bypass. At this rate, my GC3 deal may outlast me. [/quote] That's terrible... Best to you. On a topic-oriented note: They've stated that an awesome Espionage system is one of the already planned expansions. The ambitions/ideas that they had for it were too big to fit into the original release (recal

Reply to Lords of Xulima. in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

wish-listed (is that a word?) for now, tsm for the recommendation! -tid242

Reply to Bad, false terms given with the latest update in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

That's interesting, I wonder if this is a problem for others as well. Many laptops are set up like this, where they use the Intel HD graphics chip for regular stuff, but then will switch-over and use the Nvidia/Radeon/whenever when the user needs more horsepower (like firing up a game).

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III: BETA 3 arrives in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="3511980"] Quoting jmccrea, ... hear the lamentations of their...umm...females. People are really unforgiving about visuals these days. Even Conan approves. [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] post pix here plz.. On a more serious

Reply to Dev Stream Today (Friday, December 5th) at 3pm EST, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="9" id="3510008"] In reference to Paul's question from the stream: Yes, "Gummisternchen" is a real word. It's German for "little gummy star". My best guess is that it's meant as a pun on "Gummibärchen" (little gummy bears). [/quote] I was honestly a little miffed that Paul hated that star name so much - I quite like it (and I don't even speak German). And, needless to say, it's a far cry from a star n

Reply to Did you pickup anything in the Thanksgiving Steam sale? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="19" id="3509607"] I saw that deal, which was a great one. I picked up on a previous Steam sale for around $20 and have enjoyed it a lot. [/quote] Yea, I have to agree. I grabbed it a while back via HumbleBundle and immediately regretted not buying a cp earlier. It was on my radar as "compelling" but I've purchased so

Reply to Did you pickup anything in the Thanksgiving Steam sale? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="4" id="3509515"] Did you not see anything you wanted, or didn't go on sale? Just curious when dealing with sales. [/quote] Bought a couple of copies of Prison Architect for some friends, otherwise I wouldn't even know what to want for myself (which is why I work at Initech to begin with...). -tid242

Reply to The Autumn Sale is upon us! Up to 66% off in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="3" id="3509406"] Plenty of reasons to get Trinity instead of Rebellion, you're after a mod from Entrenchment or Diplomacy that never got updated, or you're getting it to play a buddy that doesn't have Rebellion. You might just not like Titans, I don't. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Really? ---- Heretic! - You must be purified by PAIN! Well, I guess those are legit rea

Reply to The Autumn Sale is upon us! Up to 66% off in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Good sales, if anyone left in the world doesn't own them all already... I am legitimately curious though - why do you guys even still sell the Sins franchise stuff in addition to the "rebellion" expansion??? For anyone thinking of buying them, it's just confusing, and if I were to buy, say "Trinity" and then later found out that "Rebellion" is like 2x the game that Trinity is and that I should've gotten that one instead, I'd just be really pissed

Reply to Limited time sale: Get ANY Stardock product half off in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Thanks... Should've known not to buy that extra copy of start8 last week. ;\ Agree w/ above post though, good time to pick up SK.. -tid242