erischild

erischild

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Reply to Dumb newbie question in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Bamdorf" reply="3" id="3525872"] At this point I would recommend using guard rather than sentry to hold a unit in place. On sentry, it appears to me that even the approach of a cargo ship will activate the unit. On guard it doesn't. [/quote] That was the behavior in GC2, so it seems to have carried over into GC3. I have never found a use for sentry in my playing of GC2. Guard is a great thing.

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Reply to Text not appearing on UI buttons in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

There is a GalCiv III Support FAQ here in the forums, and you can use the info there to submit your issue. I have seen text not fitting in the UI boxes, but not heard of no text at all. You may have found a new bug. Congratulations! If so, they will need your support files to find it.

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Reply to Good article about how DLC is good for Games... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Conflating companies abusing the DLC model with the idea the DLC model is broken bothers me. If you don't like what a company is doing, complain about that company. Boycott that company's games. People try to bad mouth Stardock and other companies just because they have DLC at all. It starts up a general DLC hate that is no longer valid or reasonable as far as I can see. Then it just inflates itself. It is similar to many other fan-hate subjects tha

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Reply to Miniaturization - how does it work in this game? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

An update on the Hyperion Shrinker: Upon reading this thread I went a little crazy. Playing as the arrogant Altarians (I love them!), I was just starting to build up my military with maxed out Cruisers in the Age of War. I play a very peaceful game and develop military very late. In GC2, that is very risky. So far in GC3, I am getting away with it. I switched gears. I went through my colony list in my immense spiral galaxy and I searc

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Reply to Some UI questions/requests in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="6" id="3524509"] actually i think it should not redraw until start of next turn green is this turn yellow is next turn orange is 3rd etc the only time it should redraw otherwise is if i choose pass which uses up my movement points (it should just not flag the ship till next turn) at which point the green line would disappear and yellow would start right next to the ship until next turn [/quote]

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Reply to Some UI questions/requests in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I've noticed this. Thanks for bringing it up. The green "one turn of movement" segment moves as the ship moves. So do all the others. This is incorrect behavior. The green segment should grow smaller as the ship moves until it has used up its movement points. The other segments should stay as is. At the end of movement, the line redraws with new turn counters and a fresh green segment to represent the next turn. If you are rea

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Reply to Huge loading times in game in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I have an 8 GB system. One of my gamer kids plugged some Logitech accessory into my system and I can watch CPU and memory used as real-time percentages. (It's got a joystick and programmable keys and maybe a tractor beam.)(I was impressed.) I have reached max usage on all four cores at times. Otherwise, it hovers in the 70s and 80s, with lots of fluctuation on different cores as the games is doing its thing. The memory usage ramps up as my Immense map loads (

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Reply to Hyperion Shrinker in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

If I could have a way to tell the ship designer to pretend this base hull had x% more hull capacity, I could design ships for Hyperion vs non-Hyperion planets. I wouldn't want to; it would be nightmare micro management. I think having the Shrinker as an Empire-wide unique building would be much better. And please keep the feature where we can capture another races Shrinker and have it stack. That is fun! I don't use the individual planet

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Reply to Colony Capitols in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

As far as gameplay goes, I am not bothered by not always being able to use the capitol bonus. I have found ways to use terraforming to help with that. I do find it hard to believe the egotistical control-obsessed emperor I am isn't planning where the capitol goes so as to best celebrate the grandeur of the empire and its leader. Part of me thinks it would become a bother to decide this over and over again on an insane sized map. I suggest tweaking the al

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Reply to More suggestions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I disagree with the initial concept that the Civilization approach to defense structures is inherently better than the GalCiv approach. It is different, yes, for all the reasons pointed out, but it can easily be argued that is a good thing. It is, after all, its own game. This is the Internet. Some of us like it both ways.

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Reply to Adjacency level bonus in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

When I read that description, it says "terrain" adjacency bonus get buffed, not building adjacency bonuses. I interpret that as meaning the random special tiles that occur on planets now provide better adjacency bonus but not extra main bonus. Do I have that wrong? It made sense to me being about terrain bonus because it was in an environment branch of the tech tree.

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Reply to Thanks for the 120+ ships! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I found the three defense ships per planet underwhelming, but I had been colonizing a lot and was as very low on military as I was very wide on empire. It definitely changed my overall military rating. I felt I could spend a little more time building up the truly large ships I was just starting. I am still not convinced they are actually worth the maintenance if it came down to battle, especially in late game, but I felt better owning them. It feels like an exploit, bu

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Battle Viewer Comments in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I love the cinematic mode, but it comes off as stilted against people's expectations from modern filming and animation techniques. I think uou really need to talk to someone who directs animated movies, talk to them about shots and camera angles. You are already doing excellent work on the overall production values. They will know much better what I am talking about. You need moving camera views, pans and zooms and tracking. You need camera paths that l

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Reply to General thoughts in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You have good points. Design a game that is based on those points and is fun. You will be famous, Maybe even rich. Seriously. If it was really fun, I would buy it. In the meantime, I use suspension of disbelief and enjoy the heck out of GalCiv. I have no idea why being reasonable should cause one to have less fun in life, or gaming.

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Reply to possible solution to constructor spam on star bases in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I just have to take a moment to say that I, along with others, think you are trying to fix a problem that is not a problem. I like constructors. I love the idea of huge constructors. I wish I had thought of that. That aside, so far, your replacement doesn't seem intuitive. I follow the logic of your equations but I am not certain it would work out as well in practice. I fear it would feel like "click on a hex and a starbase will appear

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