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[quote who="TanC" reply="158" id="3409119"] Thanks for the tip, charon2112! Either way, I've shied away from Steam except to play the occasional FE:LH. [/quote] Note to be clear the 'do not automatically update' feature only disables updates in the background. Aka if you happen to leave the staem client running and it's idle, it occasinally checks for game updates and installs them. When you run the game, the system ALWAYS checks for the latest version an

Reply to Keep it GalCiv in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="39" id="3409303"] I'm guessing alpha stage is even more chaotic than Beta. I remember in the beta for FE, things changed a lot sometimes on a weekly basis. I don't think its so much a matter of spoilers as it is getting fans excited over a system in the game ... and then a few weeks later after testing, realizing it wasn't working and replacing it with something else entirely, then the folk excited over the system might get miffed.[/

Reply to Map hexes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="chuck1es" reply="22" id="3408983"] I'm curious to know if and how they're doing sectors, quadrants, etc. If the boundries will bisect hexes or whatever.[/quote] Wouldn't they just be boundaries around existing hexes, and be more meaningful since with hexes you can create more fluid boundaries that actually make sense.

Reply to Please vote - GalCiv 3 on GOG in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You wanna play with your kids buy a copy for each of them justify your "theft" how you want it but don't expect me to give you a pass Note Family Sharing is not the same as "playing with your kids" only one copy is playable at a time

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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="146" id="3408721"] However, auto-patching can also be a bad thing, if the patch introduces a game-breaking bug. With Steam, you cannot choose not to play the latest version. Manual patching is in that case superior.[/quote] Certainly auto-patching is a double edged sword. It would have saved me in DragonAge2. But Ive also been victim to the bad side of that too. Civ5 patches were certainly extremely disruptive (though important as they included lots

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="59" id="3408688"] Quoting Viperswhip, reply 56I always see things like big success and so on, but numbers would be tremendous. Still, the devs will do what they will, I am just really curious as to whether it's worth the the dev time, and if I am just hearing a squeaky wheel. What % of mac and linux users show up on forums to ask for things? Because if it's just the 10-20 of you guys, its not really worth it I've read repor

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="144" id="3408706"] What benefits do I have then by having to run Steam in the background? There has to be a reason for wanting this, right? Keep in mind though, that I only play in offline-mode, and am a singleplayer-only guy. I just don't care about the whole social gaming business (like achievements, trading cards, or friend lists).[/quote] Myself I had a personal experience where 'auto patching' of the game would have

Reply to [Suggestion] A map control element I'd like to see, borrowed from Star Trek: Birth of the Federation (Microprose TBS) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Wouldnt an 'alert' mode for units be more practical?

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="RonLugge" reply="134" id="3408544"] Quoting Shardnax, reply 119 Quoting Frogboy, reply 58 in 2008 when games were installing root kits and every game had its own pop up store and DVD in the drive and would crash your computer even when it wasn't running because it had installed drivers and other junk without telling you. I started SoaSE and my computer exploded after I tried to take out the disc, but not before I got dozens of pop ups to

Reply to Gal Civ III Founders in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="18Zulukiller" reply="43" id="3408506"] When i saw i could name a star in a game the first thing i did was tell the Mrs i was going to name it after her. She's very very very pleased with that and has been incredibly affectionate (wink wink nod nod) since she found out i was naming a star after her. Thank you Stardock this is turning out to be the best money I've ever spent o7 . [/quote] Ironically this is probabl

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[quote who="Wintersong" reply="25" id="3406914"] Quoting upsurper, reply 24 We should get a nice shiny steam badge But onto other topics, star names what do you all think will be the filters for star names? "Star names subject to Stardock approval; no vulgar or inappropriate names allowed." Having read the other day about "Fort Gay" issue in XBOX, I wonder if Stardock will find many "challenging" ones.[/quote] nothe when every day you have to deal with a b

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="132" id="3408439"] Quoting satoru1, reply 131Mostly because Steam was initially designed to solve a specific problem. How do I ensure that everyone is playing the exact same version of the game with minimal time between 'conversions'. Everytime you launch a game it checks if the game has a new version. Which is why it needs to be running. Okay, but how does that make sense for games without a multiplayer component (like Overlord), o

Reply to Technical question (64bit, dx10/11 and MT) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="28" id="3408141"] Quoting satoru1, reply 27Wait what link?!?! Maybe the one in this post? Edit: Linking to the post directly doesn't work for some reason. The link to the game is in the first paragraph of Reply #22.[/quote] I kinda see it now but for some reason the link isn't a different color for me (FF 24) so it's not really obvious that there's a link in the OP. So I basically did a human-

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="130" id="3408410"] I care about it, but not because it weakens my computer's performance. That is negligible. My problem is, that I just don't understand, why I have to run the client in the first place.[/quote] Mostly because Steam was initially designed to solve a specific problem. How do I ensure that everyone is playing the exact same version of the game with minimal time between 'conversions'. Everytime you launch a game it check

Reply to Events, and Mega Events in GC3? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

In terms of events: Andromeda Strain: A pandemic starts from a planet and spreads. Either research the cure or slow the spread by disabling trade. Researching the cure gives large diplomacy bonuses. Researching it as a biological weapon gives you huge bonuses to invasion fleets, large diplomacy penalty.

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Hollow Man" reply="125" id="3408251"] I've been a Steam user since day 1...to play Counter-Strike 1.6. If you think it's bad now, you should've seen it then! -HM[/quote] Dunno I miss the 'puke green' GUI ^o^ And it was better than WON and all so... Steam has traditionally only been 'good' because the competition has been 'bad' by comparision ironically. And not like the competition is all 'that' bad. For

Reply to Suggestion: Game changing galactic events when winning in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

@pendrokar1 Shogun2 had a mechanic called "Realm Divide" Which triggered when 1) You took over Tokyo or 2) You gained enough 'infamy' by conquering provinces This triggered massive diplomatic penalties so almost everyone turned against you unless you were REALLY planning things out carefully, and even then you could only mitigate RD so much. Functionally it was an answer to the 'steamroller' effect, especially in a 'closed' map l

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="123" id="3408235"] Quoting Deathmachine-pt-, reply 122 I hate steam and I don't buy games there I made the bad decision of buying Shogun 2 and I regret it. Just curious, why specifically did you regret buying Shogun2 on Steam? I use GOG as well, but it's more of a pain to use. You have to manually keep track of updates and install them. I couldn't imagine managing 120 games using GOG, when St

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Stringer2" reply="53" id="3407717"] Quoting odoniel, reply 51 That would be really nice (I'd pretty much get a Surface 2 just to be able to Play this game anywere I am . Terrible idea since Surface2 is Intel HD driven.[/quote] To be fair, CIv5 is actually fairly playbable on an Surface Pro (note not talking about the ARM based Surface1/2). Sure you gotta turn stuff down but it's still doable. The problem m

Reply to Lead Designer Paul Boyer Interviewed in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Dunno I kinda liked a lot of those events. I find that if I'm 'trying out' a new strategy or civ I'll turn those off. But once I've got a 'groove' going, I like turning them on and seeing what nonsense the game throws at me. Keeps me on my toes and sometimes I learn stuff I wouldn't have otherwise. I recall Sid Meier gave a GDC talk about how Civ was supposted to at one point have a double hump type of empire building. In that you'd build it u

Reply to Technical question (64bit, dx10/11 and MT) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Zydor" reply="26" id="3407791"] Quoting Cryptomancer, reply 25Thank you. I must be old & blind : it took me some time to figure out that one had to click on the word "game". No worries ..... been there done that ..... [/quote] Wait what link?!?! I clicked the profile, googled their username, found a twitter account, then found their homepage, then found the game..... I feel like I did the forum equivalent of solving the fly and 2

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Shadanwolf" reply="117" id="3407869"] The consumer is king.Companies go out of business if they don't satisfy you, and get your purchase. You just have to have the fortitude to say N O ![/quote] http://notalwaysright.com/ The customer is just a customer sometimes.

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Nikioko" reply="108" id="3407426"] Quoting Nathan E, reply 4 Not to flame you but why are you asking for a non-Steam version? Your asking for Stardock to spend probably significant effort on something that 99% of their users wouldn't utilize. Because not everyone is so mindless to agree on Steam's terms of conditions and licence agreements. I cannot believe why so many people blindly accept the unacceptable agreements of Steam, Facebook and oth

Reply to Yes I Know Win 8 is out There ....... grrrrrr in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I jsut tested in IE10 and have no issues

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="97" id="3406989"] AH ok. I just tried it like that and it did that. That gets back to the warnings I gave back in 2010 about Steamworks. If someone wants to create a credible alternative, we'll happily look at it. [/quote] Did you CEG encrypt the executable? The steam launch only triggers if the exe is CEG protected in theory. Its certainly possible to have the game launch without Steam from a purely