marigoldran

Reply to Future Ideas for Gal Civ IV (A Tutorial for the Game Designers: How to Design the Game So It is Not a Nightmare to balance). in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Space pirate monsters! Why not? No, it's more than AI. The reason the AI can't be balanced is because if they were "balanced" to take advantage of exponential growth mechanics in the game, the human player would lose very quickly and it would be no fun. So either the human takes advantage of it and craps on the AI or the AI takes advantage of it and craps on the human. There is no middle ground.

Reply to Future Ideas for Gal Civ IV (A Tutorial for the Game Designers: How to Design the Game So It is Not a Nightmare to balance). in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Anyway, i managed to achieve some good productivity FINALLY, but its way too much!! Its like i am starved starved starved all the first period of the game, then suddenly in a short period i am flooded with productivity and realize the game is pointless because i am now way overpowered for it to be a challenge. (Copy and pasted this from another thread). This is the problem with all of the Gal Civ games. You're horribly underpowered at t

Reply to Galactic Bureaurcracy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Governors are dumb as heck.

Reply to Future Ideas for Gal Civ IV (A Tutorial for the Game Designers: How to Design the Game So It is Not a Nightmare to balance). in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Game's too easy to break. No point in playing. Roleplayers tend to suck at min/maxing, and vice versa. Civilization series games don't use many % modifiers for precisely this reason. The highest %modifiers you can get in Civ games is maybe 100% (where you're doubling your base production) and that's only at the end of the tech tree. In Gal Civ you can get these % modifiers at the very beginning. Too easy. &n

Galactic Bureaurcracy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Make it so new colonies don't automatically listen to you. Every time you expand to a new planet, you have to upgrade a "bureaucracy" building in your capital. Otherwise you have no control over what the new colony does. The upgrade and upkeep costs of your "bureaucracy building" scales exponentially so if you want to micromanage you're going to have to pay with in-game currency. Colonies with large population can become capitals, too, meaning that the playe

Future Ideas for Gal Civ IV (A Tutorial for the Game Designers: How to Design the Game So It is Not a Nightmare to balance). in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I reckon it's a bit early but heck: the earlier the better. Get the developers to think about these issues BEFORE they develop it. Was playing a bit of Gal Civ II again. Drath Tech is HORRIBLY overpowered on larger maps. War Profiteering. (Shudder). Once you bribe the AI to war, the tech generates at minimum 20,000 credits per turn. Gal Civ has several issues in all three iterations: 1. AI doesn't put enough eng

Reply to Honest opinions, please - is the game worth buying during the current sale? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It's worth it for the simple reason that more people buy it the more the modders and developers will work on it. In other words, you buying it would benefit me. Please do it.

Reply to 8 AI colonies by turn 30!? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="thedreamon" reply="9" id="3590149"] marigoldran I agree with you. And i did it with custom races. I read your "colonization" guide. But i must ask, is it possible with vanilla races?!? [/quote] Still do able. Key is rush buy with the constructor to colony ship trick.

Reply to faction power question.... large disparity in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Perhaps Frogboy learned how to program the Thalans.

Reply to 8 AI colonies by turn 30!? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It's possible to get 8 colonies by turn 10.

Reply to I have seen the future and it's GalCiv III v1.4 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yes. We shall see. (Cracks knuckles). [e digicons]}:)[/e] We shall see.

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Periods of turning the tax setting really low followed by tax settings really high is optimum for Breeder. The exact number varies, but you want to alternate between 100% morale and 40% morale. What you don't want is planets with 60-70% morale.

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

1.2^1.1 is an exponential expression. A better mathematical term for Gal Civ economic growth is LOGISTIC (because at some point your economy caps out anyways). It starts slow, accelerates exponentially in the middle, and caps out at a certain limit. Doesn't change the fact that there is exponential growth in the middle.

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="28" id="3587827"] Quoting marigoldran, reply 23 If you guys think my post style is childish and immature, so what? I don't know who you are, and you don't know who am I . Why should I care what you think of me personally? Do we know each other in real life? Consequently, your opi

Reply to Need help with some early game strategy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="thedreamon" reply="15" id="3587871"] @ marigoldran I build hives mostly the first building of my colonies. And yes i got the Hyperion Matrix and the Gaia Vortex. I think i am on the right direction? Now i am heedeing for war, building carriers and big ships while trying to balance Diplomatic research. &nbsp

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The main difference is that in Civ IV you could only build ONE library per city. And that library was freaking expensive to build. You could get like 2 horse archers for it instead and go all Mongol on the other civilizations. After that you couldn't build any other %research modifier building until much, much later in the game. Gal Civ III? You can build the equivalent of 10 libraries on each world. All pretty cheap, and they provide adjace

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Super breeder is 3x pop growth I think. But only at 100% morale. Let's say average tax rate is 25%. Your options are either: 1. 0% half the time and 49% the other half. 2. 24-25% the full time. Which will lead to more pop growth?

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The economic system for Gal Civ III needs an overhaul. The game simply provides too many economic bonuses. Hopefully I have explained my position in a clear and succinct sentence.

Reply to Need help with some early game strategy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="thedreamon" reply="12" id="3587768"] Thank you all for your contrubutions. I started a fresh game with Thalans (even though i understood to pick thalans tech, i wanted to try the wanilla race first) http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=516002877 http://steamcommunity.com/shared

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

That's boring. If you guys think my post style is childish and immature, so what? I don't know who you are, and you don't know who am I . Why should I care what you think of me personally? Do we know each other in real life? Consequently, your opinions of my posting style are unimportant. Consequently I will do as I wish. As long as I do not insult you personally (which I have not done), and keep my statements grounded in fact, all is good. <

Reply to The Fundamental Balance Issue With this Game is Too Many Things Increase Economic Production. It Actually IS Exponential Growth (Before flattening out into Quadratic Growth, and Eventually Flattening into Linear Growth) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Getting rid of the planetary wheel doesn't actually fix the problem. There are simply too many bonuses everywhere.

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It's beating most of the other threads out there! You may not like it but the interest towards this thread is above average if you look at the numbers! [e digicons]:D[/e] [e digicons]:D[/e] Once again, to summarize the major points: 1. Gal Civ III provides too many economic bonuses. 2. Gal Civ III lacks economic maluses. 3. The AI is unable to take advantage of either. But the human certainly can. 4. The

Reply to Need help with some early game strategy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="thedreamon" reply="4" id="3587633"] @ Franco fx AND @ marigoldran Thank you for your tips. I never played with Thalan, but i will try ASAP. @<a id="ctl00_ctl00__Content__Content__Repeater

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="17" id="3587680"] Quoting marigoldran, reply 14 Gal Civ III gives away economic bonuses like an evil step mother handing out apples. Makes the game boring, and repetitive. That's the main point behind the thread. All other considerations are unimportant and secondary. It's

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="16" id="3587621"] You might find people are more attentive to the point of your posts if you firstly didn't write them in an obnoxious and incoherent manner, and secondly didn'the post them 5 or 6 times with ridiculous titles. See, you do actually have some pretty useful feedback from time to time. So it's a shame that many people ignore your posts because they border on abusive spam. Maybe try posting just one th