leiavoia

leiavoia

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How To Blitz a Galaxy With An Anvil in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

This is not a bug but *might* be considered an exploit. Try it and let me know what you think. I started a new Medium galaxy with Mercenaries included. Found the Bazaar reasonably early. Bought "The Anvil" mercenary ship which gives you a transport ship with 5 legions before you have the Planetary Invasion tech. Subsequently made a bee line for and then wiped out 3 minor civs and 2 major civs, taking 7 planets in just a few turns. None of them were defended, even thou

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Invasions. Am I Doing Something Wrong? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I brought 8 legions against the Altarian's 5. It said I had overwhelming technological superiority. The odds were something like 28 to 6. When I choose manual invasion and place my legions all around the capital I get totally obliterated every time, hardly doing a scratch. Yet when I choose quick battle I win easily. What gives? I repeated this several times by reloading the game and get the same results. It's almost like the odds numbers are reversed when I choose manual invasion. Am

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Reply to Day one Crusade bugs (post them if ya got them) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="131" id="3676510"] 1. The notification list on the left side of the galaxy screen tells me I need more Administrators to build more starbases. I had plenty of Administrators and got more later. The notification never went away. [/quote] Confirmed. I clearly have 14 extra admins but the message has been stuck there for 150 turns.

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Reply to My biggest hope for Crusade in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Bad news. Line of sight calculations are expensive for the CPU. With the size of galaxies that people expect to play on and with the number of units running around the map, it would cripple your machine. Then people would whine about the game being slow.

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Reply to What works to open, change, and resave an .xml file in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

When editing any kind of data file, including XML, you need to use a "text editor". On windows, at a bare minimum, you should use Notepad. ( not Wordpad, and definitely not Word). If you want a better tool, i would suggest installing Notepad++ (free download) or Visual Studio Code (also a free download)

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Reply to newb question about Gal Civ 2 ultimate edition in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

They were the three separate expansions for the game that came out over the course of it's lifespan. You should treat them as three separate games. That said, ToA is the richest and best of the bunch and recently got a massive fan patch that got integrated into the main branch just recently (v2.20). Definitely worth playing.

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Reply to Tech Snowballing in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

I can see that as being potentially frustrating for players. When something says it gives you X% bonus to research but actually it doesn't, it will cause confusion. on the other hand, you can alter the exponent number via technology or race trait to customize the scalability of the empire's research. ouput research = raw research ^ modifier

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Reply to DEV DIARY GalCiv III v2.0 preview in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Taslios" reply="53" id="3664041"] well not to split hairs with you but name me one piece of gaming software that actually follows that "standard" my previously mentioned Apple OSX and Apple iOS are application level software and they don't even follow that "standard" [/quote] I get that. For (more or less) self contained software apps, the app makers can call it whatever version they want because no other piece of software depends on it. Howeve

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Reply to DEV DIARY GalCiv III v2.0 preview in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="34" id="3663724"] Quoting leiavoia, reply 13 SemanticVersioning Pedantry> Is this update big enough to be called "2.0" or is it actually "1.10" ? /SemanticVersioning Pedantry> The current version is 1.90.

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Reply to DEV DIARY: AI Walkthrough of 1.84 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Taslios" reply="34" id="3659283"] GC2 Did not have minimums... it did however have maximum number of starbases built in a sector.. I think if they went back to something like this.. and make it so that you could have say six starbases in six adjacent hexes.. but you would not be able to build that 7th base. That would be a much more balanced improvement. [/quote] The difference is that GC2 had "Sectors" whereas GC3 does not. The geo

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Reply to DEV DIARY: AI Walkthrough of 1.84 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="neilkaz" reply="23" id="3659246"] "Starbase minimum distance reduced from 5 to 3 tiles" Please NO!! A billion times NO!!! This one change will go far to make sure that I will rarely if ever play this game again, which in its current form I have nicknamed Age of Starbases. [/quote] Agreed. I think it started out as 4, then everyone complained, was increased to 5, and still many say it's too close. 3 would be a nightmare.

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Reply to Get ready for a lot of bitching in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

On food: totally agree. You would think space-faring races would have figured out the food issue by then. I think it's a hold-over concept from terrestrial strategy games. On multi-race colonies: agree, but this is very, very difficult mechanism to design. In doing some similar design work for another project, i've decided the only "good" way to implement this is the MOO2 method using discreet population units you can move around. Otherwise yo

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Reply to Six Economic Starbases per planet is not fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Horemvore" reply="32" id="3644735"] Quoting leiavoia, reply 30 Now you can't have 1000 starbases because you can't afford 1000 starbases. I actualy added a 0.5 Maintenace cost per additional Starbase after the first 4. 5th cost 0.5, 6th 1.0 7th 1.5 ect. It makes little impact on my Economy,

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