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Reply to Getting Rid of Planet Production Wheel Is Going to Make Game More Repetitive in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="mortili" reply="4" id="3586328"] the problem is that in gc2 the best thing to do was to NOT specialise at planet scale but globally, [/quote] *shrug* Worked well enough for me. And from what I saw of a couple AAR Suicidal games, others did the same.

Reply to Getting Rid of Planet Production Wheel Is Going to Make Game More Repetitive in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="mortili" reply="2" id="3586287"] no the next thing they will do is to get rid of building buildings, because.... its tedious and the AI is bad at it. Ahh also its against the spirit of the game! [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] This is pretty darn close to a strawman argument since building things on planets has long been part of the spirit of GC III. I get the winky smilie. But that doesn&#3

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - v1.3 Changelog in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="redviper37" reply="65" id="3586086"] is it on Steam Workshop? [e digicons]:)[/e] (your mod) [/quote] Mods aren't on Steam Workshop yet. ;) Don't want to hijack the thread, so I will simply direct you to the mod I am talking about: https://forums.galciv3.com/469459 (WARNING: To try to keep things a little in check, I crafted it so it would take the TEMPORARY use of strategic

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - v1.3 Changelog in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Removed the Ultra Transformer improvement.[/quote] Um. Not a fan. :( Might be time to plug my "Enhanced Terraforming" mod, though. :p

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Modding in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Potentially dumb question, but was the Ghosts of Abbadon faction mod that Derek Paxton made in the OP ever actually released? Kinda like to play with them in one of my games. :)

Reply to Colonization Random Event Frequency in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

You [u]can[/u] changed the frequency of colonization events, but you'd have to do it as a mod. Specifically in the GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml there is the following setting: 1 According to the schema that governs that, it looks like that is a decimal value that is set between 0 and 1. So if you'd want it to be 50%, set it to .5. 25% set it to .25. And so on. Now because GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml is [

Reply to GalCiv III: Expansion 1 talk in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

This was mentioned as a possibility a while back, but in addition to whatever Campiagn is released for the first expansion, being able to play the Campaigns from the first two Galactic Civilizations would be grand. Being able to "start from the beginning" and go all the way through to wherever the story goes could be aces. Even if it is a DLC along the first exspansion, something like this could be really great for the people who never played the Campaigns in the previous iterat

Reply to Negative Diplomacy Bug (Game Breaking!) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="KaneShade" reply="14" id="3585086"]I don't really understand how the responsibility for investing time and effort into a bug falls on my shoulders. [/quote] In one way it isn't. However, there are dozens to hundreds of little bugs all throughout out the game. [b]Having save files and results from their diagnostic tool makes it MUCH MUCH MUCH easier for them to find the source bug and fix it.[/b] To put this another way, say they have fifty

Reply to The Doing away of the wheel!! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="sjaminei" reply="2" id="3584944"] Maybe ask very nicely if they can add mod support for the wheel? [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Depending on just how much of it is hard coded, how much of it is in XML files (they are all over the place in the data folder), and whether or not they remove whatever schema is involved with the Wheel (if any), modders might be able to reverse engineer it. If I was at all interested, I would make sure to keep a [b]COMPLETE[/b]

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="LordVirtuvian" reply="19" id="3584759"]Thanks, that's good news but for something that should have been present in the base game it's still a let down. [/quote] There was more to it originally (Beta 5.3 ? Beta 6??), but it was pretty broken and unstable. So they released a scaled back version while they presumably are reworking it/making it better. Better to have a scaled back version that works as intended than a more souped up version

Reply to Dev Stream (Friday, August 28th) at 3pm EDT, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Echillion" reply="7" id="3584769"] The audio of the Youtube vid is all over the place [/quote] The stream's audio was pretty borked for the first 10 minutes or so. After that they turned off Paul's mike and just had him speak loudly so it could be picked up by the other one.

Reply to Negative Diplomacy Bug (Game Breaking!) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Did you send in a ticket on this? Stardock is much more likely to be able to do something about this if you do. :) Details on how to send in a ticket are at the very bottom of this linked webpage (reporting an issue): https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/default_import/Knowledgebase/Article/View/496/161/general-galactic-civil

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III 1.21 Update Now Available in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="11" id="3584122"] I'm not sure steam has actually rolled it out. I have no download listed for GC3. [/quote] Downloaded for me. 6.7 MB update. Version 1.2.1.6 now installed.

Reply to [Mods] [1.00] Avenger/Niedzielan's Mods in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Wondering if there were any plans on updating the DeSpecify mod. :) If not, I've been thinking about tacking the specialization "problem" myself, though I suspect I might head in a different direction that the DeSpecify mod. Still, wanted to touch base and see if there were any plans for it. :)

Reply to No UP? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="1" id="3583401"] You have to encounter over half of the major civilizations for the UP to start. [/quote] I am not 100% positive but I think it is actually now 50% of majors [u]and[/u] minors. I've run into at least one game where the UP countdown wasn't triggered even though I had met 5/6 other majors. Only when I contacted a few more minors did it trigger. Might have miscounted somewhere along the line thoug

Reply to Dev Stream (Friday, August 21st) at 3pm EDT, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Avatar137" reply="8" id="3583338"] Seeing the replay still isn't posted on Youtube, anyone that watched it care to share the gist of the stream? Thanks. [/quote] BTW, until the YT replay is posted, the Twitch Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/stardock/v/12075112 http://www.twitch.tv/stardock/v/12082570 It's in two pieces because

Reply to Dev Stream (Friday, August 21st) at 3pm EDT, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="9" id="3583348"]The Snathi will be turned into a playable race complete with their own home system, tech tree etc. They look fun.[/quote] This will be 1.3 DLC, AIUI. And technically it will be a separate faction of Snathi with the vanilla Snathi still around as a minor race. In addition, there will be a Snathi Campaign where one plays as the Snathi and go an a rampage through the heavens. Can't wait, personally. [e digicons]B)[/e]

Reply to [MOD] More Anomalies in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Deathwynd" reply="38" id="3583141"] New Version 1.1 uploaded. [/quote] Changes look good. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Gonna take me a while to finish my ultra-slow research, Gigantic map game I am in the middle of, but when I do, I'll give this a whirl and see if anything else catches my eye. :)

Reply to Mega Events DLC Now Available for Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Seafireliv" reply="105" id="3581893"] I thought the mega events were free. Now you have to pay for it? You Devs are getting greedy and losing once long-term fans. Sorry, this is pure greed and you haven`t even fixed the game yet. Shame on you. [/quote] Ten are free; five are DLC. The DLC also contains art assets for the Dreadlords.

Reply to Zero Gravity Construction Now 60 Turns? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

No, it is quite deliberate, though I am sure it is going to be tweaked further. Quite a few tech were radically increased in base cost, presumably as both a brake on rapid tech expansion and as encouragement to build more research plants. Before 1.2 there was little reason to build many research facilities, at least compared to GC II. Presumably this is being done to force players to spend more time on research. After all, the way to get those tech quicker us to build more r

Reply to Mega Events DLC Now Available for Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="RKade8583" reply="98" id="3581629"] Take a step back and look at how ridiculous you're being. Even if they did all this and even if it was for "malicious" intent, most companies do that now what with on-disk DLC and whatnot. If you wanted to stop that trend, you missed the boat by about 10 years or so. Stop. Just stop. [/quote] The funny thing is, I am not even disagreeing that the stuff was very probably moved from the Game folder to the brand-new-with-th

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="goffries" reply="268" id="3581623"] Is it realistic for me to be 92 turns into a new game and the Thalan's have 45 colonies?? [/quote] marigoldran has reached through the intrawebs and has taken over the Thalan on your computer! [e digicons]8C[/e] Run! Run while you still can!!! [e digicons]8O[/e] <

Reply to Mega Events DLC Now Available for Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="RKade8583" reply="93" id="3581604"]Time to one-up you, buddy.[/quote] *salutes* [e digicons]B)[/e]

Reply to Mega Events DLC Now Available for Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Antilurker77" reply="90" id="3581600"] This is hardly a conspiracy. This type of practice is unfortunately way too common these days. [/quote] I was referring to the utter certainty you have. You aren't even entertaining a possibility in reply #89 where Stardock could give you a reasonable explanation. So I felt the quote fit. ;)

Reply to [Faction Mod Beta] Arcean Empire [v0.3.20150913A] in GalCiv III Custom Races GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Franco fx" reply="12" id="3581588"] I have the Arceans installed with tech tree and ship set and I have not had any errors. Just FYI BTW, that is basically the message I was getting on the Startrek mod after 1.2. [/quote] Was the Startrek mod a fresh install after 1.2? Only thing I can think of is that if the mod was installed before 1.2, then whatever is being checked/created here was already done and is being skipped over. Eith