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Reply to Lets make a list in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

TBH devs should have just taken up the game where TOTA ended, as of now, it's much mor eincomplete and who really cares about 64 bit or better gfx for a strategy game?

Reply to Core ship design and other in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The only instance I've encountered when an AI did break an alliance with me was when he was at war with a strong third faction and was asking me for help (*) - which I refused, so he replied something along the line that this alliance is useless and canceled it. The statues is then reduced to friendly and you usually can ally soon again. Your influence doesn't bother your allies - as such, an alliance can be a legitimate prequel to an influence conquest without triggering wars

Reply to Some things I miss after playing a while in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Thank God the american faction never builds into foreign ZOI, like their McDonald's econ buildings or Monsanto farming [e digicons]x_x[/e] [quote]but it leaves a slightly unfinished expression.[/quote] it's really just in the beginning phases. frequent updates are to come over the next decade with additional DLC, and because alot+the AI as well is datadriven, the modding capabilities are enormously. So it can - and will - get better if you just give it some time

Reply to Core ship design and other in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Kivara" reply="2" id="3570574"] the AI values ip=to credits in my games. [/quote] Yes, I think this is spot on. No idea why it never got fixed...

Reply to Core ship design and other in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hello & welcome [quote]I'm no good at designing ships so I usually use the game generated ships. [/quote] Give it another try some day, the player can design so much better than what the game offers. [quote]1. I seem to be able to trade influence points for Techs from Ai majors and minors, is this working as intended or am I 'cheating' by doing this? Another way to ask this is, are my influence points worth techs? I consider ip useless am I w

Reply to How to send transports through another civ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think you'll get the diplomatic penalty regardless of this, the only thing that seems to matter for the AI is the proximity of them to him. Although I cannot rule out other factors weighing in, such as the diplomatic trust. I remember getting the hit (and the AI informing me to remove my troop ships) even when these were located in my own ZOC, actually in orbit of my own planets to be more precise. It's kinda better to not cross AI territory with troopships, and/or try to ex

Reply to Is this forum really sluggish or is it on my end? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Currently browsing these forums on a labtop via a mobile connection whose max download rate is 7kb/sec. Loading time per page is 3-10 sec if no huge pictures are present. However, I'm using Opera12 with an improved cache management and alot of addons in place that are disabling all that Google/Facebook/Twitter, also all SD adds aren't loaded in. So practically only text & html has to load with the exception of a few new avatars. Without disabling the social networks it tak

Reply to GalCiv III AI: The challenges in GalCiv III AI Talk GalCiv3 Forums

I don't think that the ships are landing on that rallypoint "at once" - but rather one by one, because the calculations for each ship is done individually as well. What we need is a RallyPoint that creates a fleet when 2 or more ships stand on that point, and everytime a new ship enter this point the game has to check if there's still space enough available in those fleet(s) and if true, add new incoming ships to them. If untrue, create a new fleet and put the ships there. It should f

Reply to Who won? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Presto1914" reply="6" id="3568618"] But, it should just say 'player 3 won by ascension'. [/quote] it should even warn the player a few turns before an AI can complete certain win conditions...

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="30" id="3567687"] Yes, but that's not the implication I'm making. I'm not claiming you can fall 'through' a black hole (like somne cheap 1950s pulp novel ), but rather than as you enter a black hole the laws of physics break down. [/quote] What laws exactly? That photons are pulled back? The curvature of spacetime allows for greater values than c, this is not a contradiction of Einstein's theories. This also explains the i

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="27" id="3567631"] As to whether the laws of physics can be altered, well, yes, they can. That's how Black Holes work. The laws of physics change once you cross the event horizon. It's arguable if you're still in the universe at that point, And with regard to 11 dimensions, we exist in 11 but only perceive 3 (4 if you want to include time, though really we don't have any free action in it). [/quote] Alot of this is debatable.<

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="22" id="3567537"] Irrelevant. If you are genetically modifying the organism, you can specialize it to the point where it attacks metal preferentially. We're working on a nano-scale at this point. 'Organic' is just carbon compared to silicon at the scale we're looking at. IF you insist that biologicals must be organic (which they really don't, as it's arguable just how alive some micro-orgnisms are - prions, for example, are basically ju

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="peteincary2" reply="18" id="3567351"] Completely unrealistic? Are you saying that it is has to be something in existence today for it to be realistic??? There also is not a single antimatter torpedo in existence today, would you suggest that be removed from the game too? And no Zero G Arenas that I know of either. Not sure how far the government is into developing the Doom Ray, but I'm pretty sure we are at least several years away from that being realistic too. Etc

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Just that this explanation is completely unrealistic and would even further drag away from the immersion of the game. There is not a single biological or chemical weapon in existance which has been designed specifically to kill humans that would also kill a tank or an airplane. Now you could say that immersion is totally irrelevant to the balance or totally irrelevant to a TBS but on the other hand having some specific techs or mechanics not working against certain factions or races e

Reply to Biological warfare & synthetic factions in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I'm sure Yor aren't made from simple metal but alloys which don't rust, otherwise they couldn't go outside during rain, and also an atmosphere may hold water anyway that will corrode them over time. And because they don't need to breath and can withstand pressure much better than carbonbased landlifeforms they shouldn't have difficulty surviving Tital Waves, just like Data in ST they sink to the ground and walk back to land. Guess they don't have openl

Reply to Game Pacing Thoughts in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If you are that kind of person that plays to the very end your map is going to look like that all AI planets are taken, all their ships defeated, you get it.... I'm not sure what exactly you're asking for - but are you asking for a mechanism that will do that automatically for you? Such a thing usually features a high risk of getting out of hand in some scenarios... just like AIs at one point all surrendering to one another... maybe it could be that influence/cultureflip could

Reply to This is How I Would Program the AI for War in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Well, one thing is for certain, if you specialize an/the AI to pick a certain strategies, a human can build a tactic around it and exploit it sooner or later. It usually just a matter of playing a few games a realizing that specific patterns always show up. For example, you've proposed tat the AI should flee from unbeatable forces and give planets up in order to regroup, which, consequently means also that the AI should engage hostiles if the chances are great he is going to destr

Reply to Star names...suck to be honest. :3 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Not at all [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] . The first list I took manually out from a software called "Stellarium", which makes you see the sky on your computer screen. Wolf 359 is very hard to see there because it is brown dwarf star. Good to have wikipedia around for this :)

Reply to So did GalCiv II have good AI or not? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="59" id="3562414"] The difference in Gal Civ II is that you couldn't expand as quickly because your economy would crash. As a result the AI APPEARED to be stronger. [/quote] then you did it wrong, you could either (a) techtrade/broker (b) rely on anomalies with add. surveyors (c) breeder SA (d) build only market center/ fertility clinics initially to take you up any of the above methods worked a

Reply to This is How I Would Program the AI for War in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="18" id="3562584"] Would you rather have the AI run away from superior fleets it can't beat or TOWARDS superior fleets it can't beat? [/quote] they should fight because then, there's at least a small fight that transports are destroyed and the conquest of planets is delayed. keeping planets (=production) is one of the main goal in a war, because a war ultimately is a comparison of military prod output with technology level act

Reply to Introduction to GalCiv III AI Talk in GalCiv III AI Talk GalCiv3 Forums

think it would be nearly impossible for an AI to be perfect the game has too many possibilities of what to do. but the AI should not cooperate when being exploited by the player. surely this is or can be frustrating for new players when they don't get what they're asking for, but such things could be part of higher routines that aren't used for beginner, normal diff. another prob is with engines and range. the AI put so much range on ships sometimes they fly in regions com

Reply to Let's Play Game: How to Get a Gazlillion Colonies on Larger Map with Standard Amount of AI in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote] If you hate dealing with lots of colonies, why do you play large/abundant maps?[/quote] [quote who="erischild" reply="103" id="3562295"] For me, and many others, large maps are the primary attraction of GalCiv. There are a profusion of issues being raised in this thread. This one is the lack of efficient empire management tools. GC2 had such tools in place. They weren't perfect, but they helped a lot. I like the shape and

Reply to GalCiv 2 Ultimate Edition Community Update in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

there were alot of tests done to eruate on the consequences of the changes done, the game became a step or 2 harder to defeat. all changes are documented in the "changes" folder. as of now, you can treat it as a mod and toggle it on/off easily.

Reply to What's the Difference between an Exploit and a Strategy? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I just think that a colony ship without any colonists shouldn't be able to create a colony at all. Such a ship should stop at a planet with an error warning. Because, it's perfectly fine if someone upgrades a ship to a colony ship and takes it to a planet to load some people in.

Reply to So did GalCiv II have good AI or not? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="My Views and Muse" reply="49" id="3562010"] Oh, one other thing having said the previous. I was surprised that Brad did not feel the Twiight of Arnor AI was as good as DA. Any particular reason for that? [/quote] TOTA introduced alot of new stuff (mostly from new technologies, example: Atlas modules, stuff that enhances your attack/defense fleet- or shipwide) and the AI was never coded to use it. In that particular case the ship designer would totally