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Reply to AI Intelligence in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="15" id="3507285"] I'm not talking about anticipation but catogorising as much stuff as possible and averaging how you played over all the previous. This won't predict anything new it would do what you have done on a regular basis on your previous games. This would look at game mechanics. Instead of actual stradegies. This is more like surveying instead of predicting. It would only implement when it's tactics fail against yours. The only

Reply to AI Intelligence in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

This was from the old GC2 manual. There was a better breakdown from Brad a looong while back somewhere IIRC, but I'm having trouble finding it... In short the AI performs more complicated tasks at higher difficulty settings. Also, worth of note: it does not cheat, (apart from economic bonuses?), it has to scout blindly for planets/resources, has to scout other AI and the human player's assets, etc. It does not "know" anything that a human player wouldn't kn

Reply to How the hell do you play this game? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Yea, sorry about all of that. Proper documentation is something that Stardock has said is a goal of theirs for this game. Most of the people in the GC3 beta are old-school GC2/1 pros, thus most of us "know" how to play intuitively already, and there hasn't been a big community push for better documentation. However, as stated above, there will be better documentation before the final game ships. I'm sorry to say, but GC2/1 has even worse docume

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 2 changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Tohron" reply="8" id="3500334"] ... Event Frequency & United Plants Frequency Plants of Galactic Civilizations! For too long have we been oppressed by the terraforming of the major races! Now is the time to unite, to rise up and throw off the yoke of our non-photosynthetic masters! [/quote] <p style="padding

Reply to Would love to see a resource-based-economy (RBE) in the game in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I'm really confused about what you're talking about. If you look "Resource Based Economy" up on wikipedia (which I did, because I've never heard of this specific definition of the term) the definition is, it states: "A resource-based economy is the economy of a country whose gross national product or gross domestic product to a large extent comes from natural resources " Ie, it is the same as what's termed an "extr

Reply to Oh burn in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="satoru1" reply="5" id="3494287"] I've got your 'Diplomacy' right here. Just look carefully at this plasma cannon.... [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjbmOybFWeg and... for the best part of the episode... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5JqQLqqTc &n

Reply to God Rays in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="2" id="3493840"] Please be very careful about such special affects, or with wishing for them. You may be very sorry if you get what you wish for, "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: Into Darkness" went so far overboard with the idea of light reflections and refractions that they made the movies a pain to watch. [/quote] I think that if you go back and watched any star trek movie (or show) with a half-critical eye - they would

Reply to Somewhat bummed out - question... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

runs just fine on the 2013 razer blade for me...

Reply to More Ultra violence.....guess its good? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

The same is true of violent movies. I haven't read the above study, but with movies the inverse relationship is somewhat tenuous IMHO. Basically with movies, this is measured by looking at violent crime rates on weekend when blockbuster violent movies come out - the theory being that the kinds of people who would be committing the crimes are all busy watching the movie instead. These studies do very little to inform policy about whether this is true over

Reply to A more realistic future in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Yes, and no... "productivity" is still a quotient denomonated by individuals in the labor force. You are right, that the productivity of individuals have increased largely due to technologies that augment labor, but fundamentally, labor from the population still takes place and thus is the basis of production. In a fantastical setting such as GC3 - your observation is likely correct that the concept of "population" itself is somewhat p

Reply to #GamerGate–the free ride is over in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Wow, this whole post and ensuing conversation reminds me why I post so little in public forum anymore.. Back to the OP: it all reminds me of the strange nexus of voices back in the day trying to "ban" Marilyn Manson. People do not care much about reason or truth. It's simply about power and the imposition of power upon those who are less willing or able to fight back. There is very little regard for internal or external consistency; or adhere

Tech Licensing? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Given the recent conversation of tech trading vs tech brokering. I was curious if there has been any consideration of "Tech Licensing"? By this I mean that I can "trade" or "broker" a tech on a short-term basis - either just maintain an ability to revoke the use of a tech that's been licensed, or allow the use of a tech in exchange of a resource/money per tern, or otherwise place conditions upon a tech use, etc? (Also, in this vein - wit

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III Beta Patch 0.42 Released in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Did you fix the crash when an Iridium player tries to construct a starbase?

Reply to Post Questions for 9/12 Dev. Stream Here in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gilmoy" reply="27" id="3493024"] It's already like that. The XML can specify any labyrinthine prerequisites (as a flat text list of any combo of prerequisite tech levels and buildables). The tree-based UI just doesn't draw what's in the XML. ... [/quote] That's great, exactly the information I was curious about. I've played and

Reply to Post Questions for 9/12 Dev. Stream Here in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I might have missed it, but there was talk originally about technologies on the tech "tree" possibly requiring multiple prerequisite technologies - or at least the ability to mod them in. Is this still in the cards, does anyone know? -tid242

Reply to The world’s best strategy game developers are teaming up in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 2015 New IP RTS game announcement New Stardock 4X 4X game released New IP game announcement Galactic Civilizations III release New IP game announcement [/quote] I might be dumb, but what does "4x 4x" mean? Also, does "IP" mean something different from "Intellectual Property"? Anyway, sounds like an exciting schedule to follow - looki

Reply to 0.42 BETA Feedback in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="5" id="3492063"] With the Iridium I can get it to happen in a new game on turn 2. (Rush build constructor then construct starbase... boom!) [/quote] Iridium here too - turn maybe 150 or so? 1st attempted starbase, so I haven't gotten any to be built without crashing. -tid242

Reply to My first input on these here forums. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 2. I'd really like to see Espionage as more than an afterthought as it was in GC II. [/quote] Agreed, and in fact - the powers that be agree as well... It was announced that Espionage would be done as a separate expansion/DLC (it wasn't clear exactly which). So the good news is that it'll get a lot of love, while the bad news being that it won't ship in its full glory in the initial game re

0.42 BETA Feedback in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Finally have a moment or 3 to get a bit into the beta - I'll edit/update this list as I find things.. 1) - Playing Iridium Corp. when meeting the Drengin they say "thanks for the hyperdrive" -- should this comment only be for the Terrans? 2) - On the planetary management screen - mousing over the "buy" button, the popup says "Requires XXX BC, Income XXX BC" ... it shouldn't say "income" rather it should say "available" or something similar. <p

Reply to Will Gal Civ III be Optimized for Multi Core computers? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Ahem,.. 8 core processors, ..... Will Gal Civ III make use of all those idling extra cores or threads? I really want the game to make use of all the resources it (potentially) could have available. [/quote] There was a dev journal post by Frogboy a while back on AI coding for Fallen Enchantress where he specifically talks about how nice it is to have multiple cores so that the

Reply to Star's name. Everythings gone wild? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] However, I'm a bit worrying now that the "names your star" award, which is an EXCELLENT initiative IMHO, really, is going to give awkward results. [/quote] Personally, it remains to be seen how much this bothers me. One solution that I would prefer would be simply a UI toggle when you see a star name that bothers you that allows you to rename it (either from the random pool of star names

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - The 100 Player Game in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="2" id="3490648"] I don't want it to always be a blood bath where I research weapons. I like a economic approach then I buy a blood bath. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] I am hoping that various diplomacy functions can address this issue. One of the things that always bothered my about GC2 was that I was always interested in making a race whose strength was just doing research and then selling it to stay out of fightin

UI comments/questions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

After starting a game and playing for a short while I have a couple of questions/comments on the UI Research UI - there are 2 screens for looking at research options, the default one and the tree. I'm curious what the point of the non-tree option is? It seems to make it really confusing as to where specific tech paths lead to and it doesn't help me decide what I should research next. Maybe I'm just used to the tree a la GC2 - but the tree s

Reply to Newby to the series needing some help in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] To increase (movement) range of your ships do you have to either colonize a planet or put up a starbase? only way i have been able to increase my movement range so far by using those two methods! [/quote] Welcome aboard. I didn't see anyone address this question other than saying that you can add range modules so... The "range" of your ships is the distance from your territory (u

Reply to What are you going to name your star? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I'll probably name my star "Double Bacon Triple Quarter Pounder XL with Secret Lipitor Sauce!!!1!" Sounds very ethereal and space-like. Especially the punctuation at the end.... -tid242 (ps yea, this is a joke)