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Reply to Game Freezes in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I have the same symptoms, since going to Beta 2 [.50]. I also have lots and lots of hangs (need the task manager to kill the game). No dump files, either made by the game or by windows, are generated. I have tried playing a small map, but after 78 turns and more than 100 hangs i finally gave up. During the previous Beta the game was rock-stable on my machine, except for identifiable bugs (and crashes). So the only time i now spend on the 'game' is not playing it, but g

Reply to The Sorcerer King is misunderstood in Elemental Dev Journals SorcererKing Forums

Leo in WI and others, You people are far too kind. I find these forums to be populated by civil, helpful and funny people. That is why i decided to make these 'story' posts. And the enjoyment i get from just a few nice responses is more than enough for me. Even in my more serious posts i occasionally put some humoristic e

Reply to Stardock VS Steam? (For downloading) in Stardock Games GalCiv3 Forums

You can buy it directly from Stardock, in which case you receive a key with which you can register it at steam. Or you can buy it via steam in which case it will be automatically registered (into your library) with them. From thereon you download (and update) it from steam. You can not download the game without using steam. So the only difference is to who are you going to make the payment, because everything else is the same. You need a steam account to register and play it.<

Reply to turnactions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Updated my previous answer with new insight. The nerf is less severe that i originally thought.

Reply to A gripe on Star Bases in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Blaze of Glory" reply="2" id="3501258"] Also, I would like to be able to cancel when I choose a module. There are times when I accidentally click the wrong upgrade and I am stuck with it [/quote] I believe Paul said in one of the - recent - dev feeds that he would look into a "undo" button for this, because he himself has made the same mistake in the past. So it might already be on their list.

[.50][Bug] AI ships can enter player occupied tiles. in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The ships controlled by the AI can cross and even end their turn in the same tile as in which a player controlled ship is located. It does not matter whether there is peace or war between the two involved races. What i did: i parked a scout on ship graveyard, because the Krynn had a survey ship near, and my survey ship was still far away. However the Krynn survey ship simply entered the same tile and obtained a lost survey ship. The screenshots: Bottom-left the ship in

Reply to The Sorcerer King is misunderstood in Elemental Dev Journals SorcererKing Forums

[quote who="Borg999" reply="21" id="3501205"] You know, some of you should try fantasy writing as a profession. [/quote] Nay. This is about the limit of my language and story telling skills, so that is nowhere near good enough to be a professional writer. I simply couldn't help myself, with a thread title like "The Sorcerer King is misunderstood" and a dialog box header in which your evil opponent states "We are your friend", it screamed for a humoristic response

Reply to turnactions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Blue_Oyster" reply="3" id="3501135"] Instead of wasting that production, you choose one of these instead: money, babies, approval, or war. Wiser folks here can tell you what the conversion cost is, I do not know that. [/quote] From the PlanetaryProjectDefs.xml file the relevant values: ProjectEconomicStimulus 4 <Effe

Reply to The Sorcerer King is misunderstood in Elemental Dev Journals SorcererKing Forums

"Good morning, Gracious sir." "Who are you and what do you want of me?" "I am Psy Cholog from the Ist Society." "Ist Society?" "We evaluate and mediate when there is a problem with the functioning of an employee." "So?" "Please don't blame me, but we received a complaint about your work ethics." "My work ethics? Who made this complaint?" "We are not allowed to disclose this information." "Tell me who complained about

Reply to Ship Upgrades Not Debiting Account in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gilmoy" reply="2" id="3501057"] Beta 2 is now a bug hunt, and it's a target-rich environment. [/quote] Enough bugs to overwhelm everything.

Reply to The Sorcerer King is misunderstood in Elemental Dev Journals SorcererKing Forums

The grey, dreary, massive arch looms over him when he approaches the gate. Feeling insignificant and tiny, swallowing bile and ignoring the terror that creeps up his spine he reaches out and pulls the rusted chain next to the entrance. Telling himself 'I am brave, i can do this.' over and over again to gather whatever courage he can muster he waits for the gatekeeper. With a groan of tortured iron the door opens and the gatekeeper looks down on his visitor. "What

Reply to The Sorcerer King is misunderstood in Elemental Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

After entering into the Sorcerer King lair, the visitor is confronted by the Sorcerer King who states in an annoyed voice "I am in the process of casting the spell of making. It will transform all life on the world into pure, magical energy." "Ah, i see, but can i supply you with any magical artifacts to help you in that endeavour?" "Excuse me?" "I am a salesman of great repute and it came to my notice that you are in the market for some magical products. I have a ston

Reply to Update??? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Derek did say it was planned for today, barring QA issues. Clearly they are in a bar having issues with the Questions of the meaning of Life, and trying to think of an Answer. Everybody already knows the answer is 42, so come on in and release the Beta. Or does QA means something other than Questions & Answers? Because it is clearly not Quantum computer Algorithms, nor can it be that there are any problems with Quality Assurance since the people at Stardock don't make

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="satoru1" reply="130" id="3500615"] Quoting Thecw, reply 124 1) Galactic Civilizations III is 64bit. How many Linux/Mac home users are already on 64bit. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey For Mac/Linux it's basically 'everyone' [/quote] @ satoru1 , XavierMace , The short answer

Reply to [Suggestion] Stop putting the word Suggestion in brackets people! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="12" id="3500231"] Are you sane enough to eat my nuckle sandwich you delirious bracket lover! [/quote] "Galactic Civilizations ]I[" will henceforth be called "Galactic Civilizations Closing Bracket I Opening Bracket" or "GalCiv CBIOB" for short. [e digicons]:D[/e]

Reply to [Suggestion] Stop putting the word Suggestion in brackets people! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="raelalt" reply="10" id="3500206"] [NOTHING] [/quote] [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Warning: Mind bender ahead! NOTHING is not nothing, it is a word. Therefor you did put something between brackets. Which proves that nothing is something, and therefor can not be nothing. Nihilist conclusion: nothing does not exist. Therefor something does not exist, and since something can be anything, anything can't exist either. Which in turns means everything wh

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I did not say it is impossible, but that is impractical at this moment. You realize that your statement just proved my points: [quote who="steve7253" reply="125" id="3500142"] hiring Aspyr or some company to do the Steam for Linux port [/quote] Proves my points 3 & 4: only to have another company do that actual work means there are still costs (time and effort) involved. [quote who="steve7253" reply="125" id="3500142"] Steam OS is just Valve&

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Normally i ignore discussions like this, but this irked me. [quote who="steve7253" reply="123" id="3500111"] There is no legitimate reason why Galactic Civilizations III sould not be ported to Ubuntu Linux 14.04 64 bit via Steam for Linux and Steam for Mac [/quote] 1) Galactic Civilizations III is 64bit. How many Linux/Mac home users are already on 64bit. 2) Galactic Civilizations III uses - as far as i can see - the Granny, Miles, and Bink libraries va

Reply to Game allows forced overpopulation in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="2" id="3500107"] It should be proportional to the population, the death rate that is. Like 10% of population or whatnot. I guess if they factor in growth, population, and the limit i think a better equation could be made? [/quote] It should be far beyond 10% if the population massively exceeds the population limit - see the formula i proposed in the initial posting in the other thread. For example if you stuff 200 billion people on a

Reply to Game allows forced overpopulation in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="eviator" reply="1" id="3500102"] Wow! In #3 do you mean just go well into debt buying improvements? If so that would clearly be a limiting factor. [/quote] @eviator, you can not buy an improvement if you don't have the gold, but by having an overpopulation you can have sufficient production power on the planet to build improvements 'naturally'. Imagine the production of 200 billion people on an 8 billion population world. Th

Game allows forced overpopulation in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

At this moment the game allows you to forcefully overpopulate a planet and thereby generate more production, research and/or wealth on that planet than otherwise possible. Since the overpopulation-death-rate for a planet is a fixed 0.1 pop per turn the workforce does not diminish rapidly. These two facts give rise to the following 'cheat' /strategy: 1) have a large planet generate lots of population: Birthing subsidies; 2) conquer/colonize a planet, and overpopulate

Reply to Beta, Planetary Improv bonus tiles do not show what bonuses in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Green upward arrow: Bonus for the improvement on the tile. Orange 'Diamond' - actually 4 outward pointing arrows: Bonus on the adjacent tiles if a building (any will do) is build on this tile. [quote who="reck75" reply="6" id="3499964"] So if this is correct you'd be looking to put a wealth producing building on the tile and military tiles around it? [/quote] So military on the tile, wealth improvements around the tile. But in this case ignore the

Reply to Diplomatic relations and relative military strength in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]It would also be kinda cool if the disposition of civs - or of societies, ruling classes and individual rulers if they were going to break it down like that - changed over time, whether suddenly in response to events or more gradually. [/quote] In GalCiv II there are events that alters governments, diplomatic relations, and their moral code. Therefor i suspect that these will make their reentry into the game. Examples of events that are in GalCiv 2: Leader

Reply to Diplomatic relations and relative military strength in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Found the following faults in the above posts: [quote who="DARCA1213" reply="2" id="3499306"] (DARCA is not a representative of the human race and its affiliates in any way and cannot definitely claim all humans are smarter than any AI.) [/quote] This should read: DARCA is not representative of the human race in any way and definitely cannot claim to be smarter than any AI. and: <

Reply to Fastest first successful invasion challenge in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

@eviator: I just had to beat you. And to demonstrate my superiority: i did it with a large margin. [e digicons]:P[/e] But seriously, very well done: with only a population of 35.65 and a minor debt of - i think it says - 63 finishing in turn 79 is not an easy feat. I had to pull out all the stops. With a population of 109.17 i still ended up with a debt of 128 just to finish ahead of you. I had some bad luck: my survey ship did not find any res