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Reply to How the hell do you play this game? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Play the game...Ok Ill start some suggestions and others who are better can add... Take your first colony ship and DO NOT settle your small world near your home planet, instead set it off on one path and see if you can find another planet to colonize that is larger and farther away (thus extending where you can search/look and colonize!) Take your scout and go 90 degrees from where our colony ship is going in that direction if stars are present th

Reply to Ship Upgrades/Ship Repair Limitation Request in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

This would be a 'limiting' feature. Players do not like to be limited. I see the 'flavor' of having it but when you are managing 12+ fleets or more in a gigantic galaxy...trying to get those ships to a star base AND back can make full tedium. Damaged ships will have to 'go on' and keep fighting. I would rather have a tech you research that expedites in the field repairs that you can put on a support ship.

Reply to Question about Current AI in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Again this is a placeholder AI. I know that this time around we have been asking for more/better AI that does not need bonuses to compensate for its lack of creativity in tile placement or planet specialization. I suspect that Brad will likely do a good job but Modders like MarivinKosh and others will greatly improve it. Of course all this hope is laid AFTER we go gold next year....

Reply to Major issues I have with the game design in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Well for one this game is not finished, however this is a detail oriented game. Personally I enjoy it a bit too much. It is more of everything that GC II was. HUGE maps are a hoot as will be the far larger maps. All of these features have been asked for, for (years) on the GC II forums. Better AI, LARGER maps, more more more.. Its good to have different opinions about what you like or dislike. I can respect that. If you do not like the game now, you definite

Reply to Question about Current AI in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Ok, Thanks for the information. So they will always pull ahead early game, its completely possible to crush them but they will be ahead of you. Knowing this I may restart a game and disable research victory.

Question about Current AI in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I know we have a 'placeholder' AI. Does the current AI get 'bonuses' to Research/production/pop growth when set at higher levels? Assuming all things equal, I find it very hard to believe that the AI is capable of getting 12 techs ahead of me without research or production bonuses.

Reply to Declaration of War in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

>>>> Concur...

Reply to Dev Stream Today, Friday 10/24, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Thank you for answering both my chat and forum questions! Black hole placement will get addressed.... Yes to more Snarky AI...

Reply to Does anyone know why... in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Well for starters, don't worry about being out pace by the AI, I am playing with GENIUS lvl and they always have 10-12 tech and I got 4. No worries you catch up fast. They will spend or approval themselves into the toilette eventually. Also get trade asap and send some freighters to their planets. They will love you and that will help you make tech trading a bit easier.

Reply to Dev Stream Today, Friday 10/24, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Will we be getting more interactive pop ups or responses from AI players? For example, I want the AI to pop up and ask me for just about anything. I want him to pop and say, "Give me Earth or we will destroy starbase X357 near our border" The Drengin had similar threats and I LOVED THEM...please put them in!

Reply to Major issues I have with the game design in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Brad will be writing the 'Ai Code' and with that he has previously done a very good job with flavoring the personality of each AI. Today we have diplomacy which has issues BUT is being addressed every day. I knew dipomo would be a turning event in the games development and I was right. More people are posting with bugs and complaints more than we had prior to Beta 2 and truthfully this is a great thing. The game currently is fun (for me) and I am resisting investing a lo

Reply to Major issues I have with the game design in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="econundrum1" reply="7" id="3502611"] Colony management, while I like the bonus tile/adjacency system in theory it doesn't really work well in practice. I tend to build the same things on every planet and most of the specialty buildings fall by the wayside with few exceptions that I build on large worlds. Why even bother with colony management beyond using the production wheel for optimization. The placement of tiles on most wor

Reply to Not clear on how to articulate this to Devs.. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

That would really help Charon. A similar set up like Distant Worlds (change cost of research to go up to increase time spent) or an over all pace adjustment like in Civ 5, Quick, Normal, Epic and Marathon.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Beta 2 Patch 0.51 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

This is what I was expecting. Thanks Dev Team you all are Tops!

Reply to Possible bug-patch update tomorrow (hopes) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yea, I am getting to like 'uncommon habitable and tight clusters' WAY more than even spread of stars and lots of habitable ones. Its just my personal preference. I really like an 'island Empire' with med to large voids between the next island of stars. This allows me (and the AI) to build infrastructure inside the Empire up before going out and conqueroring/Culturizing the next area. Has anyone used Culture Star Bases y

Reply to Not clear on how to articulate this to Devs.. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Still the technology pacing seems off somehow. I am nearly done with Age of War and only 1/2 of the map is explored. Hmmmm

Not clear on how to articulate this to Devs.. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I am several hundred turns into a HUGE map game and only met Iridum, Drengin and Altarians.... I am nearly done with Age of War. I feel we are either moving too fast through the tech tree on larger sized maps or we need a better pacing in Age of War. I like feeling i have milestones of achievements in getting techs in this age. Its so so. Also at this point I only have at most HALF of the map opened up and I have Hyper warp! Hats of to making BIG maps..I love it.

Reply to On the fence in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

On the fence, well the game is not a remake of GC II. Lets clarify this up front. From the beginning the game is going to be GC II with more of everything and better. It will still be the same gameplay and still have the same players...but. Better. Hexes instead of squares. 64 bit for maps that are mindbogglingly big! Multiplayer enabled (something never before in GC I or II.) Dx 11 (beautiful awesome visuals) A

Possible bug-patch update tomorrow (hopes) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Just wondering if there is any word on a minor bug squashing patch coming up? I started a game and I am enjoying it but I am going restart a new one as 'Evil Humans' and was wondering if I should possibly wait for a patch.

Reply to Out of character messing with immersion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Keep the jokes, Keep the brevity. I love it. Its what makes this series from Day ONE. Who says that its immersion breaking? I would be surprised if we met another species far from now that and it did not have laughter/humor.

Reply to [0.50] More Diplomacy Abuses and 2 CTDS in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Willy, in the UP you can put up a resolution to stop tech trading and one to stop tech brokering. Both will likely NOT pass but its an attempt. I do know for a fact that the option to disable tech trading/brokering will be in game in the options area.

Reply to Fellow Alphas and Betas, tell me your thoughts on the different ideaologies... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Also I would like a hit to diplomacy for opposing idealogies and a 'slight' buff to aligned ones.

Reply to Something wrong with Farms, Ships, in Terran start? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Well they changed the tree for Terrans. I always research farms first off to get that tech which you do not have at start. Early on I made a templet of both Colony and Constructors and built only a shell with no life support and no engines and just the constructor or colony module. I called it 'cheap constructor/colony. This thing is short ranged and not very fast but can be cranked out fairly fast. Because its a templet it has been saved over to all my games as Terran and I

Fellow Alphas and Betas, tell me your thoughts on the different ideaologies... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I have tended to always get the Benevolent tree. Its just too damn good to not grab. I tried playing Pragmatic but some of the 3rd tier choices are not worth the investment of point vrs what they give. Malevolent, now I can see this really helping a warmonger...but..you would be crushed by benevolent fleets as they have the higher production against your stronger ships. Some of the Malevolent ideologies should be reworked to change how unhappiness affects the loss

Reply to How to place a rally point and some observations in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Still I do think the Drengin need a slight motivational buff. I would LOVE for them to come onto the scene and say, Hey, "Give me your lunch money or we are going to send a fleet and destroy your starports" and I would love even more a snappy reply like ' I'd like to see you try' with the end result ONLY being a decrease in how they like me with war not likely unless we are already hated and/or weaker in terms of military.