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Reply to After Battle Repairs in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Director" reply="15" id="3541454"] I haven't even tried repairing a ship in months. As far as I know, ships repair at 1 point per turn no matter where you send them. In GC2 you could put them in a planet's orbit and they would repair at (I think) 6 points per turn. [/quote] I've tested the repair mechnaic extensively for the Community Update, and won't go too much into detail here, but with a racial repair ability a ship there will repair with +1

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="kestlstw" reply="138" id="3545853"] The AI does trade technology and does go for multiple specializations, why if given the chance to research multiple specializations can't it? [/quote] he can, but he is inept to utilize it the same way a player could. he is simply not coded smart enough. [quote who="kestlstw" reply="138" id="3545853"] Also I have seen the AI use a sensorship I designed in 6.1 so they are capable of using sensorships [/quot

Reply to A.I Warning me to stay out of his ZOC when it is the one with a bunch of stuff in my ZOC. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="14" id="3545635"] the point is not that i need to wait until a certain set of conditions need to happen before i can declare war but that i can communicate with the ai that the actions it is taking are making me consider declaring war, this should cause the ai to reevaluate its location of starbases or ships in order to prevent war if i am stronger then the ai or to choose to ignore my pathetic whining if the ai deems itself to be more powerful <br

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III Launches May 14 in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="econundrum1" reply="48" id="3545766"] I'm sure that's true, just saying that they aren't stardocks traditional GC audience since the previous game hasn't supported it and they will be a smaller section of the market than than the single player fans who have followed this game series so far. [/quote] to be fair, multiplayer was requested by alot of fans back in GC2 times as well

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Nadiox" reply="132" id="3545688"] For example, previously I could choose to get all hyperdrive specialisztions and have really fast ships without making all the engine components involved becoming too expensive or using too much hull space. The tradeoff was that I wouldn't have much research left over for weapons or other tech. Or I could choose to focus on weapons, or I could spread my efforts and be a jack of all trades. Now we are basically forced into the j

Reply to A.I Warning me to stay out of his ZOC when it is the one with a bunch of stuff in my ZOC. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="JacquesGauthier" reply="9" id="3544987"] Quoting JacquesGauthier, reply 8 Quoting BigBadB, reply 7 I don't see that there's any need. The AI complains when the player does it to let the player know that it's damaging their relationshi

Reply to AI Gifting Specialization Techs in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote](one reason why my auto-save is every other turn, so I can reload prior to such things): [/quote] quicksave before pressing turn might save you some time here, yeah I know it's cheesy but we all forget some stuff here and there. (actually the ability to reload is a only-player bonus and that's why I'm universally fine with (hidden) AI bonuses most call "cheating") [quote]which, while nice of them, is *not* one that I wanted & now I

Reply to Beta 6 Moral is broken in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I think the morale penalty is ment to act as a throttle versus growing empires in order to prolong the game (ie. make it more difficult for a strong AI to swallow a weak AI) but if this leads to the situation that all or some AI cannot develop their colony rush (25 to 30 planets is nothing on an all abundant big-size map) then the penalty creates more harm than good....

Reply to A.I Warning me to stay out of his ZOC when it is the one with a bunch of stuff in my ZOC. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

the thing is that you as player don't have to rely on a diplomatic-evaluation system which will determine if you can go hostile versus someone or not. you can do whatever you want, all options are there for you even against allies or good relations, even if it's harming your own gam emore than supporting it. the AI is in a totally different position. these popups are ment as an info for you that their relationship with you is somehow suffering. hypothetically, if you would giv

Reply to Specialization and gifting techs in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Well even if you gift them the weakest of some of the 3 choices, they still will get some bonus, and, at that, will get it earlier than if they would research it on their own, which really means their game is stronger not weaker. And you don't have any guarantee that they never get the other bonuses as well traded from some other factions. The thing is that this might happen anyway via Ai-to-AI trade in alot of games with the player having absolutely no control over it...

Reply to [6.1] The new influence vs resistance model in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Franco fx" reply="2" id="3543316"] I played a small game with the patch today and I won a culture victory on T 159, which seems about right for a average player on a small map. I found the AI planets to be fairly resistant to flipping, but theoretically you can win a culture victory without flipping a single planet. All you have to do is surround them with your influence and you win the game. [/quote] what always irritated m

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Technologies that come with penalties are problematic in that these techs can destroy/harm stuff that already works well enough and it might even cause bugs. For example, a ship-design could become unproduceable if the penalty of a price-reduction bonus would be increased space. Suddenly, a frigate could only muster n-1 attack modules, and this design (which would have less attack) will become the best new design and the AI might upgrade ships to this, making himself weaker. Even if t

Reply to Warp field discovered by accident? in Everything Else GalCiv3 Forums

this is just NASA trolling, what has a laserbeam to do with a warpfield? and it's not even confirmed that the beam was faster than light and the test wasn't even setup to determine that and no care whatsoever has to been taken to avoid pausible faults. we already know that there may be particles at the edge of the EM field around neutron stars that are slightly faster than lightspeed, but this, the above NASA fail "experiment" or the fictional Alcubierre drive brings us practi

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="alphaprior" reply="79" id="3542674"] no matter how many games you play you always choose the same thing, the best one. [/quote] your games must be very boring then. the way I see it is that, as each game progresses, it should present a various array of difficulties which have to be addressed correspondingly. granted, the current ways-to-win are too much the same because of some mechanics that still need balancing, but I'm sure this will change in the near fut

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Holy crap, I'm being forced to play with one race at startup I cannot stand this limitation anymore. I want to be Yor and Drengin and later on Humans and maybe some Altarians... whatever that might be good for... so many options and choices but no penalties of corpse.

Reply to Sensor Range in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Illauna" reply="6" id="3542089"] I'm not sure if it's bad for the game. You could do the same thing in GalCiv2 and the mapsizes were much smaller. I usually have scouts in the early game with engines sensors and range modules because they are cheaper. After mid game I have big Cargo ships loaded with sensors. I usually stick with tiny and cargo though. Although I might try a sensor battleship. @Dumhed there really is no reason to pickup starbase sensors.</p

Reply to Disable Tech Tree Specializations! in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="erischild" reply="16" id="3542046"] I strongly disagree in every way possible. It is the job of the game to give the player challenges. This decision point is a very good challenge. Its consequences affect the value of trade and diplomacy. That is a big win for gameplay. As far as I am concerned, this is genius game design and I hope to see a lot more touches like this. You should never be able to get everything in a game. You sh

Reply to [Bug 6.0] Damage never overflows as long as defense is bigger than 0 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I wonder were the remaining damage goes when it's not subtracted from either defense or hitpoints. The update seems more like a bandaid fix to me. It would be better if each weapon module would be calculated separately.

Reply to AI Terraforms EVERYTHING?! in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="erischild" reply="1" id="3536861"] I forget which one, but there is a race that can make class 4 planets out of class 0 planets.[/quote] I'm afraid this is not true. It is not possible to colonize a PQ0 planet (no AI + player are able to do so), furthermore, all AI are coded to ignore all PQ1 planets as well (as they wouldn't have any starports without terraforming) The only thing that can change PQ0 to something higher is a galactic event. Gor

Reply to The problem with Sensors, the Sonar Buoy in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I have no idea how probes would be helpful here considering these probes will have to transmit their data back to the mainship and EM signals travel maximally at the speed of light. It will take years for such a signal to pass from one solar system to another, and with those absurd high sensor probes which can show half the galaxy it would take +10.000 years. Yes, it's true we can almost see at the edge of the observable universe, but what we see lies 12 billion years in the past

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III Launches May 14 in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

The release of a game might be based on a economical decision, ie. upfront-money is more worth than late-money (even if the late one is more altogether). That's why there is stuff like Founders, Name-a-star, buy Beta release (I remember times where you were invited to play Beta for free, because actually you are doing their jobs; "hi" Blizzard). Nevertheless, it worked well with GC2, and if you look at the history of that development you'll see it stopped at the final release

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

I doubt that the CU will be released any time soon, since GCIII is currently in the make (with the release date now set, and even afterwards I suspect they'll have to cater for it alot) The OP can only be changed by Marvin, and he didn't post for some time...

Reply to [5.83] - The AI apparently counts Starbases and Shipyards as military units in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I think the military might should be based on actual power, not on a potentual one, because the potentual one is/can become part of the actual one IF the specific AI/player decides to use it in order to build military. However, there are so many factors available which could disturb this process and that renders a potentual MMR useless. Besides, if I go to war versus someone that already has an actual MMR, and if I'm successful in destroyin ghis fleets (without conquering pla

Reply to The problem with Sensors, the Sonar Buoy in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The problem with sensors is that you generally don't want to put them on any warship because this will reduce the chances of you winning the battle as you'll be producing less ships for the same amount of production. Especially when there are way better option available, such as non-combat sensorships who accompany warfleets, and which are far more effective in granting sensorrange. First, a sensormodule should give a ship an attack bonus on a low scale. This should be a one-p

Reply to My love–hate relationship with tech and fear of AI in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="5" id="3538856"] Back in the 1970s, automation was creeping into many of the systems associated with large airliners. One day after the boffins and engineers had laboured mightily for many weeks, a fully-loaded Convair 880 took off from Heathrow bound for New York. The cabin crew did the normal safety demonstration and the aircraft taxied out to the active runway, lined up and took off in the usual manner. As the Convair climbed through about 26,000 feet, an an