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Reply to PREVIEW GUIDE: Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="16" id="3674815"] Hmm, so GC III citizen = Civ V great person [/quote] Civ V great people are, for the most part, someone who gets retired almost immediately to provide a nice benefit. Crusade citizens OTOH provide nice bonuses or spy on someone, invade planets and can be retired for what could be a rather large bonus.

Reply to PREVIEW GUIDE: Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I think I find the "Galactic Tour" promotion a bit unrealistic. When have you EVER seen a celebrity retire after a SUCCESSFUL tour? [e digicons]o_O[/e]

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 7: Conquest in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Unless you only divide it into early and late, in which case you have a couple more weeks [e digicons]:grin:[/e] I was actually looking for a late birthday present at the end of March [e digicons]:([/e] Still, it will be out Soon(TM) [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Reply to Diplomacy Screen (indicators) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] It would be great since you are redesigning the diplomacy screen to include some additional indicators. One that I really feel is missing is "active" trade agreement, not a trade route, but trade agreement. Otherwise you need to open up communication with the faction and see if the "Let's see if we can come to a trade agreement" is greyed out or not, too many $#*^& clicks.... <br

Reply to Diplomacy Screen (indicators) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

@Syrkres Above the minimap there is a tab labeled "power". If there is a yellow symbol next to the name you can trade with them. Clicking the name will even open the screen to talk to them.

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 7: Conquest in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

TBH, I really don't see any invasion information that wasn't touched upon in last weeks livestream. I do appreciate that they are giving the info out for ppl that haven't seen/ don't know about the streams (or don't have the time/patience to watch 2 videos for a total length of about 5 hours) [e digicons]:grin:[/e] @CrankyMoe IIRC Brad did mention that you could skip the battles (Don't quote me on this [e digicons]:)[/e] ).

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 7: Conquest in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="ScrivenerOfLight" reply="4" id="3672865"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 3 A starport is in orbit like in two it tAkes up a planetary tile. In three it is in space not more than six parsecs from the planet. It sounds like they are putting it back on the planet instead. I don&#39

Reply to Questions for GalCiv 3: Crusade Streams in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

One question: If there are any citizens on a planet that is conquered are those citizens lost/killed? If so this could make losing your capital to be crippling, especially late game on large maps! Especially if your capital is relatively close to the disputed border and can be taken early. Make sure you have lots of Legions there [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Because trolls have to be trolls? [e digicons]O:)[/e] Seriously, pretty much all ideas have been used at one time or another. It is the differences that make a difference. After all Amplitude isn't the first to use space amoebas either, Star Trek used the concept at least twice (with two different monsters) way back in the 1960s. I doubt they were the first to use the concept either.

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="43" id="3671021"] Quoting Ascaloth, reply 42 If each civ starts out with only one ship, that's indeed a significant nerf to the colony rush tactic. But assuming the Ideology system in Crusades is the same as in vanilla, and I want to try a colony rush anyway, I can still;<b

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Unless something new is going on, I don't see why you couldn't (indeed, you should) pull all of your ships out of the fleet just before the fateful moment. I suppose that it is possible that adding a commander might lock ships into a fleet, but I doubt it, why hobble an early commander with tiny ships that you could replace with larger ones later? Even assuming a Commander MUST be part of a fleet, just remove all but one ship (that it would be the smallest, most outdat

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Which is another consideration, how many of your 20-25 citizens do you want to sacrifice for a one-time thing like this? Better return if you give your commander a better fleet so they can beat them conventionally (multiple times). These abilities may win you a battle, but if you can't beat the rest of the enemy empire, you are just kicking and screaming on the way to the gallows.

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Suomi Sotilashenkilo" reply="15" id="3670869"] Although most of the stuff I've seen from the Crusade journals is pretty great, there is one really big thing that does worry me: I've always hated abilities that disregard everything about the game and everything you've been trying to do; I hate auto-win buttons and abilities, no matter how expensive or potentially damaging their use might be. I can appreciate heroes making a fleet better or giving i

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 5: Spies & Saboteurs in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I wouldn't mind a small chance of my counter-spy being killed, espionage is a dangerous game, after all. But it should be more dangerous for some than others. Yes, the spy can set traps which could possibly kill unfriendly visitors with bad intentions, but the counter-spy can openly call upon the resources of an entire government, two completely different levels of ability.

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 5: Spies & Saboteurs in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Is this correct? Do I want to train my first citizen as an administrator to get 5 more administrative points? In an earlier journal it was stated that each citizen trained as an admin would add 10%+1 admin slots, which should be 1.4 for the first citizen for a total of 5.4 (including the original 4) To add 5 would be the original number + 10% + 1, more than doubling admin for each administrator we train [e digicons]:O[/e] I could

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Hopefully, the admin of 4 is for tiny maps and will be adjusted for larger ones, otherwise playing on an insane map will be ... interesting :)

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Frogboy said that the resource settings were going away (reply #5)

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Additional thoughts. Will we still get a colony and a survey ship in our starting fleet? If so are they free (don't take up admin), reduce our admin to 2, or is the actual admin start cap actually 6 (reduced to 4 by starting ships)? when we train citizens as administrators I imagine that the +10% is from the maximum and not the current admin score, thus our first administrator would raise it to either 5.4 (rounds to 5) or 5.6 (which would round to 6).

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Admin cap of 4? I hope that scales up on larger maps, otherwise playing on insane maps will be VERY interesting [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Reply to Removed in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Since I had the same problem when 1.9 dropped, I would suspect he is referring to an unreleased build that he is currently working on. No reason for him to release a build that doesn't work yet.

Reply to Not a benevolent modding bug in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Done. Even us peaceful types have to defend ourselves occasionally [e digicons]:grin:[/e] At least when we pick up survivors we don't add then to our food stores ... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Not a benevolent modding bug in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Not sure whether to put this here or in the modding section, but I'll try here 1st [e digicons]:grin:[/e] I have been playing with merc abilities Created a ship component like that on the Praxis (which grants merciless points after a victorious battle) Had no problem with the merciless component or the pragmatic, but when I put in the benevolent one (which is a copy-paste of the other 2) the game CTDs when creating the game.

Reply to [Question - how to get backgrounds to work in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Thank you. One and all :)

[Question - how to get backgrounds to work in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Ok, I have placed a few pictures into the games gfx folder, foregrounds, backgrounds and logos. Logos are working, and the backgrounds will work with Stardock's foregrounds, but my foregrounds willl not show ANY backgrounds, just a plain black, is there something else I need to to do to the foregrounds to get the backgrounds to show up?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 6 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Perhaps wishful thinking on my part, but it sounds to me as if they may be making extreme worlds different tech choices, instead of specializations of the same tech.