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Reply to Thinking of cancelling my pre-order in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

Frogboy did post recently about how the retail cycle worked for Elemental HOwever I've never heard anyting about GalCiv1/2 not making any money.....

Reply to Ask the team your questions! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I suppose a few 'broad' questions 1) How will you handle DLC vs expansions? In a broader model of should we see something like Game->DLC to fill time->Expansion1->few more DLC->Expansion2 kind of deal (yes I know on steam 'expansions' show up as DLC, but for sake of clarity I'm referring to them in the 'archaic' sense of the term) 2) What kinds of MP modes are expected to be at release? Mostly since Civ5 took 2 expansions

Reply to DLC control for GalCiv3 with Steam in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Phaedyme" reply="6" id="3425980"] Also, re: Civ V, I believe it also uses an iteration of the same engine as Skyrim. I could be confusing it for Civ IV, though.[/quote] Civ5 is an engine built from the ground up for Civ5. It couldn't possibly be using the Creation Engine from Skyrim especialy given that Betehsda and 2K are bascially competitors. Civ4 used Gamebryo a once popular 3rd party game engine that was also used in Oblivion. This may be what

Reply to Derek Paxton explains why 64-bit gaming is a big deal in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Of course having limits can have it's 'advantages'. I recall that for Fallen Enchantress (I think...) there was a point where there was debate as to whether the largest map type would be available due ot memory contraints for certain users. But after some hard optimization, that it was announced that said map size would be available. In that situation the hard limit of the memory forced them to do some memory optimization. Without that 'wall' would they ahve bother

Reply to Thinking of cancelling my pre-order in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="46" id="3425959"] . It's usually a console issue, but it's not hard to predict a "Steam Exclusive" version, and "Gamestop Exclusive", a "Steam Competitor #17 Exclusive", etc.[/quote] PC games already do that. Steam may have TF2 items, or the 'tiered' rewards system for pre-orders. Amazon/GMG gnereally match that in some way by orffering a free game or such. Retailers generally want a 'bestbuy' vesrion of the game

Reply to Thinking of cancelling my pre-order in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

Here's the reality 1) Stardock is not going back to physical retail. The cost to do so is high, with zero benefit to them. Sins of a Solar Empire 2 has unequivoacbly shown that their need to be in retail to move even 100,000 is moot. 2) PC gaming in general is moving to digital distribution. Consdiering most stores don't bother to carry PC games at all, or if they do only 'big' things like 'concrete knee high wall grey dust simulator 2014', the retail s

Reply to Questions about NDA in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="16" id="3421944"] There's no hard information on NDA information right now. I know in the past we haven't placed any restrictions on videos, it was always recommended to make note that the game is in an alpha/beta state and not to be presented as a final product. [/quote] Do you have any official monetization policy concerning videos as well? This seems to be a 'hot' topic with people who are streaming and wan

Reply to Questions about NDA in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Alfapiomega" reply="13" id="3421459"] So will there be an NDA on say Youtube videos? I have a Youtube chanel and I plan to share this game with my viewers in a form of Let's play. I did manage to get a bunch of strategy lovers together and they are already asking me about this. So will that be possible in Alpha? Beta? Or only with the final product? In any case I am certain that (as with any other game I did) a flock of my subscribers will go and buy the product so earli

Reply to Do I get a Steam Key if I become a founde? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="11" id="3421160"] Actually, waiting untill the game (including all it's add-on's/dlc's) is on Steam for just a few bucks a bunch of years later is the most cost effective [/quote] This is kinda sorta true but not necessarily. Now that 'GOTY' 'Uber' 'Gold' 'Platinum' 'Rust' 'Diamond' 'Gravy' versions of games are done post release, you have to wait a LONG time now for a

Reply to Do I get a Steam Key if I become a founde? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

As per the store page [quote]All game code will be delivered through Steam when available.[/quote]

Reply to Founders Elite Meet & Greet in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="14" id="3420471"] Rochester, NY. Toronto would be fun! Just keep the mayor away from me. [/quote] Who would bring the 'entertainment' if we don't invite the mayor. Priorities! Priorities! Plus we can pick up some good ramen between crack houses. It's a win-win!

Reply to PC Gamer's First Preview of Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

@Seilore While an astronomy nerd like myself might love that, it's a tad too abstract for most people.

Reply to PC Gamer's First Preview of Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

I like the cleaner UI

Reply to The system requirements **speculation** thread in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Hamshank" reply="8" id="3417896"] Hi, I am hoping for clarification whether a Surface 2 RT will be able to play Galactic Civilizations III. Clearly, the system specs alone can, but whether the operating system will be supported is my main question. I will only have the Surface 2 RT for the next few years while I am abroad, so I am really hoping. Hope Brad is listening, and if it is not supported, I am curious from the technical standpoint for why. <br /

Reply to Derek Paxton explains why 64-bit gaming is a big deal in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Just a bit of a random poll concerning RAM limits. Would you prefer 1) Soft limit. Game will run no matter how much memory you have. But will begin to beg for mercy on turn 100 of your immense map run 2) Hard limit. Game detects your RAM. Below a certain amount, it says BZZZZZT get more RAM! (note this is causing some pretty insane cognitive dissdance with the COD:Ghosts people, and I use 'people' rather loosely for some of them) 3) Soft serve ice cream limit.

Reply to Derek Paxton explains why 64-bit gaming is a big deal in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Seilore" reply="16" id="3416351"] Quoting Omsad, reply 14Is the aspiration to make galciv3 scale to the amount of memory the computer it's running on. For example if I have 16gbs I'll be able to run a game "x" large but if I have 64gbs I'll be able to run a game four times larger than "X"? I hope that they don't go too big as the most I will have is 32gb's as I'm not spending more than 2k on my new system but I'm sure looking forw

Reply to Retarded AI behaviour in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="11" id="3415741"] The AI poses a threat right up until I start winning. I find that toppling one race and taking their planets is enough to tip the balance overwhelmingly in my favour, through sheer force of economy - I can afford to field more ships than the other guys, and I can afford to continuallly manufacture more or upgrade the ones that I have. The alliances which spring later in the game up can prove to be a challenge, but essentially

Reply to Stay Out Of My Space!!! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="michaelwhittaker" reply="13" id="3412838"] This reminds me of Civilization 3 and 4. I like the 3 version better, so I can still walk up to cities and take them at the start of a war. The 4 version was annoying; because, U would either have to have a treaty to go into someone border or when u declared war all your forces were forced out of the territory.[/quote] That was to address where for some 'odd' reason my large armies are all parked otuside your cities.

Reply to So how can you start a Steam game without Steam ... in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Timsup2nothin" reply="27" id="3415847"] I'm not concerned about data theft. I just 'grew up' in an era when computer resources were always stretched thin, so having stuff running in the background disturbs my peace of mind. Especially so when what is running in the background isn't something I have some use for. Point of fact no matter how strong your hardware there always comes the day when you are running a game that pushes its limits, and

Reply to So how can you start a Steam game without Steam ... in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

There's not real sure fire way to know ahead of time. The best you can do is 1) Quit Steam 2) Launch exe manually 3) See what happens

Reply to Brad Wardell Talks to Strategy Informer about Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

No offense but people with SLI rigs should be used to stuff NOT WORKING all teh time. The fact that many many games have some weird issue in SLI rigs, yet people keep insisting stuff should work with SLI. I've got no real sympathy for those who dive into that pit knowing full well what it entails and yet complain when it does. Also no one complaing about teh DX11 or memroy requirements is actually looking at teh quality. They just want to run the game on their rinky dink systems a

Reply to Derek Paxton explains why 64-bit gaming is a big deal in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Ironically the 64 bit requirement for COD:Ghosts is causing all the COD people's heads to explode... The Ghosts forum looks like a bunch of luddites arguing over which rock looks better.

Reply to Brad Wardell Talks to Strategy Informer about Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I wonder how the '64-bit' requirement is going to go over with galCiv3? The 6GB of RAM check on COD:Ghosts, as well as the DX11 requirement, is literally causing FPS gamers on the PC side of al lthings, to lose their marbles. There's a weird irony of calling the game "PC unfriendly" when it has requirements that only PC rigs could meet.... People have so much cognitive dissodance sometimes. At least he admits the tech tree is kinda 'lame' [e digicons]^_^[/e

Reply to Investigating GalCiv 3 - What are your concerns with Steam? in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="102" id="3414864"] I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but the game mentioned in that article is now for sale on GOG.com . It was released earlier today. Its currently on sale for 50% off for the next week.[/quote] The unfortuante truth is that Steam is more or less the 'benevolent dictator' on the PC gaming side. Not being on Steam is pretty much a death sentence for sales. Note that Steam could have been like a walmart, crushing di

Reply to Investigating GalCiv 3 - What are your concerns with Steam? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DaPowerTaylor" reply="99" id="3414614"] If anything steam in its own way cuts down on piracy by requiring purchase through a third party vendor that is (reasonably) reliable and requires retail keys. [/quote] There are shady cd-key resellers that sell low priced retail cd-keys from cheaper regions online. However this won't be an issue wiht GalCiv3 since there is no retail product to 'unbox' and get a serial from in a cheaper region.</p