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Reply to Is everyone starting off using missiles more than the other weapon types? in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="tid242" reply="2" id="3844710"] Quoting , quoting post Maybe it's just me, but it seems like missiles are the best due to high dmg and the long range attack ability. kinetic seems to be worst because it's got the high cost of missiles, the low dmg of beams, and doesnt equal up to the other 2 until you've done a lot of

Reply to Full typo list 0.90 in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

Thank you for doing this. I fixed every single typo you reported. It won't be in tomorrows update but they will all be in before release. Thank you so much for doing this.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations IV 0.9 Changelog in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

0.90 has been release on the test branch

Reply to Galactic Civilizations IV 0.9 Changelog in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="gypsy2299" reply="1" id="3843689"] Thought background Nebula option was going to be in patch, very disappointing. [/quote] It has been added.

Reply to Ive been playing stardock games since 2004, Gal civ 4 is so broken in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="slarjy" reply="43" id="3843894"] Quoting DerekPaxton, reply 35 Let's talk about civilization differentiation for a moment. I'm not asking for a perfectly balanced game, particularly at release. I can do the math. I know it is impossible. I just want the

Reply to Ive been playing stardock games since 2004, Gal civ 4 is so broken in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Basilisk83" reply="37" id="3843836"] Quoting DerekPaxton, reply 35 Let's talk about civilization differentiation for a moment. The best way to balance a game is to make every civilization as similar as possible. Trying to balance for one civilization in a game like this is incredibly difficult, tryin

Reply to Ive been playing stardock games since 2004, Gal civ 4 is so broken in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Let's talk about civilization differentiation for a moment. The best way to balance a game is to make every civilization as similar as possible. Trying to balance for one civilization in a game like this is incredibly difficult, trying to do it for 18.... is crazy. Sometimes you get a crazy idea for a civilization, "what would it be like if you could....". From a balance and AI perspective these ideas are trouble. But they are so much fun. And I want players to have a differen

Reply to Ive been playing stardock games since 2004, Gal civ 4 is so broken in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

I also think the anomaly rewards will always be tweaked as well. 300 credits from an anomaly is a lot. It's also worth noting that in my last MP game I won not because of my command ships (I was playing drengin and tried to lean into them as much as possible), but because of my manufacturing base. It was an all out brawl, arena mode war from turn 1. but he tore apart my Commanders with normal fleets, but I overwhelmed because the sweet sweet volcanic furnaces of Drengi produced wave a

Reply to Ive been playing stardock games since 2004, Gal civ 4 is so broken in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Thank you for this feedback. There is certainly lot's of balance adjustment that will take place. It is the sort of game where changing a 3 to a 5 can make or break the game (and in a game with tends of thousands of values set, that's a lot of balance). We are constantly in the process of balancing. It happens in every update, it will happen in release, it will happen in every update after release. And we are always trying to find a happy medium between what is fun and

Galactic Civilizations IV 0.9 Changelog in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

*** RELEASED 3/31/2022 *** Features Civilization Creator - You can now create your own civilizations, set their citizens, art, personality, ships etc. Play as them, or play against them. Leader Events - Leaders can now have their own storylines, event chains and quests. The following events and event chains were added. Governors may ask for help when something is going wrong on their worlds. <u

Reply to 0.81 a few random comments in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock.net Forums

[quote quoting="post"]for the record, I still hate the UI overlays. They're too big and cover too much up. They need to be able to be toggled off (or better yet a UI setting to display GC3-like planets instead)[/quote] I will take a look at a game option for this. Maybe some hotkey to toggle them on and off. [quote quoting="post"]I really like the "First Anomaly" video. The camera snap-refocus gives it a nice touch.[/quote] Thanks, the cinematic team

Reply to GC4 Feedback Live Branch | VERSION 0.81.280177 in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="34" id="3842522"] Colonies or Not? Here are four examples where "colonies" is used. Does it really mean "colonies", or does it mean "core worlds" or "all planets"? Also, two of them refer to "growth". If it really means "colonies", then "growth" is meaningless. Reduced 35% <d

Reply to GC4 Feedback Live Branch | VERSION 0.81.280177 in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="33" id="3842521"] D rath Growth Makes No Sense There are three versions of it. Here is version 1. Reduced 35% Original 1920 x

Reply to AI teams not working in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

This has been fixed internally. You will see it in the next update.

Reply to how fleet tactics/setup would be enhanced under a new weapon/def system in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Basilisk83" reply="16" id="3841861"] i also think that the firing rate of weapons should be equalized for now (considering all the base and % boosts, this is easier and makes sense for now). this way you can think of the dmg as total dmg each weapon can do in the few secs it takes to fire and reload a missile. i think this would simply things nicely without taking anything away from combat. [/quote] You are right. Im going to normalize rate of fire and accuracy.

Reply to Sovereign Starting Stats in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

I agree. I'm going to give sovereigns +5 in Int, resolve and diligence to go with the +10 they already get in loyalty so they are a good example of their species.

Reply to A 0.81 game after 77 turns in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="slarjy" reply="9" id="3842131"] Derek, Just letting you know that I read this and am placing top priority to answering your follow-ups (above further gameplay). Alas since we are out of the weekend, I'm not sure when this will happen. I'm glad I was able to help with the blocked tiles thing, even if it was completely accidental. > What are the advisor messages that might be more helpful for new/medium level players? Hard to say, but I would

Reply to Planetary Spawn Locations in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

I think it should be easy to not spawn resources on special tiles. I'll ask the team about it.

Reply to Multiplayer Discussion in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

I appreciate the feedback. We will add sandbox mode for MP in the next update.

Reply to A 0.81 game after 77 turns in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Thank you for this feedback. I love the scrrenshots in particular. [quote quoting="post"]When a ship is destroyed, it shows in the "battle log" as having 1HP.The battle viewer is a joke. Here is a short video showing the first three problems. The "damage taken" doesn't match the battle log. (4 vs. 3 in this case)

Reply to Onyx Hive, fleet repair isnt working in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv4 Forums

The Onyx Hive cannot repair normally. They recieve 3x the amount of hit points to compensate for this.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations IV Strategy Guide in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Thank you for this., and I especially love the screenshots. Your strategy is generally similar to mine in gameplay. I do some deviation with printing money, which I generally don't do. Instead if I'm playing a faction with a survey commander ship I usually get that out as quickly as possible to get that sweet sweet anomaly money. The big change you did here that put the game on "easy mode" was combining Xenophobic (massive research bonus, massive influence penalty) with pushin

Reply to WAR !!! WAR !!! WAR !!! in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

That's interesting. I bet Old-Spider is right and the war declaration is happening, it's just being mistaken for the AI being chatty. I'll add some highlight color text to those dialogs specifically saying: (War has been Declared)

Reply to Orbital Harvesting in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Currently, every world can have 1 upgrade. And precursor worlds all start with an upgrade, so they can't get an additional one. If I was going to change anything here I would have future techs able to increase the number of upgrades a colony could have.