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Reply to The revenge of the Terrans, starring D.L. Bradley in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Bring on the gameplay. I'm glad people get into this stuff but for me, it's fluff. Perhaps I get into it on some subconscious level while fighting the leaders in sand box games but I don't play campaigns ever in GalCiv, Civ, LH, etc - just sand box. I might do campaign mode in AOW3 since it's more RPGish (or not since it has sand box too) but even in LH I have no desire since the sand box mode is so good. [quote who="Rudy_102"

Reply to The New "Prototype Feedback" in the Vault! in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

Overall, it all looks pretty amazing. On fluffy numbers - I like them as they are now and think stripping off the meaningful suffixes would be a bad move. If you have a pane summarizing a planet with all kinds of different numbers it's nice to see the suffixes to help you quickly differentiate between the values. If I'm looking for my population and glancing at that panel, I just need to look for "10b" because my brain knows the only

Reply to Update on Alpha Start? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I could've sworn I saw Feb officially mentioned somewhere, but I never really expected that to be the date and of course, it's all moot now. I think they should've just gone for Apr 1st since that's about the same time, and would've been great fodder for messing with people.

Reply to Mac Users... in Star Control GalCiv3 Forums

Current market share for Mac OS is maybe/roughly 10%. Linux is about 1.5%. (those figures are generous since last time I looked and it was 7% and < 1% and this info is probably guestimate at best anyways) Out of those users, it's likely that many are NOT gamers (gamers buy PCs or consoles - if you were serious about PC gaming you'd buy a PC). Win XP is still at 30% and mostly won't be supported for this game (the chances of someone having 64 bit Win

Reply to PCGamesN Has a New Galactic Civilizations 3 Preview Posted in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Actually my biggest fear with GC3 is the MOO3 syndrome. MOO2 is one of the best, if not the best, space 4X ever, but they screwed up with MOO3 by changing too much. GalCiv2 is one of the best, if not the best, space 4X ever, don't screw up GalCiv3 by changing too much. All I keep reading is about how fundamental parts of the game are going to be different. I also see a lot of forum posts from

Reply to GalCiv III visuals in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="15" id="3437240"] Too me GalCiv2 still looks fantastic today. Will be exciting to see what these new artists come up with to improve upon it. [/quote] Yeah, same. I've been playing GC2 lately and the graphics and UI stand up fine for me, except for my 2 pet peeves about stardock UIs in general - ESC key behavior and textbox entry. I really hope my first threat regarding GC3 alpha doesn't have to be about the E

Reply to Founder's Vault Love in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Kantok" reply="3" id="3433919"] quoting post It has been almost a month since the founder's vault has had any new content. [e digicons]:'([/e] I would like to take this opportunity to point out that some of us are suffering from withdraw symptoms and will need another hit soon. A picture of colony management or government management or something. More music. Concept art. *beg*Please p

Reply to Researching Multiple Techs At Once? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I kind of like how this is done in horizons - it's kind of like everything is researched at once but you can focus on a particular area, and further focus on a particular tech if you want to. This kind of system gives some flexibility. It's an interesting approach. Moreso I'd like to see something less rigidly predictable. I guess it works well for games but the idea of knowing the future in advance (knowing the tech tree) and knowing

Reply to What Games Are You Looking Forward to in 2014? in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Steam has altered the way I look at games, sort of. I credit Steam here because it makes obtaining so many games easier and convenient. Plus, the sales...oy, the sales! IMO, Steam is a factor in whey PC gaming is so strong these days. I mean, there are games like GalCiv3 that drive me nuts with anticipation but that's partially due to the fact that there just isn't anything else like it, just a lot of pretenders that fail to deliver or games to

Reply to Valve Unveils the First-Gen Steam Machines in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Not interested and kind of hoping it flops and dies out. PC gaming is strong right now - on PCs - we don't need some other wonky platform screwing up what has returned to being a good thing. Plus as much as I like Steam I think Valve has enough of a hand in PC gaming as it is.

Factorio - a fun builder/strategy game in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

www.factorio.com - there's a demo with enough in it to show you what the game is about. Slick little alpha game that's kind of a mix of gathering, building, sim, strategy, rts. It's damn solid for an early release. They're going for steam greenlight and it's not a widely known title, but it's a crazy fun and different game. You basically build a factory...which sounds...simp

Reply to PC Gamer's First Preview of Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Such a tease! Looks great.

Reply to Retarded AI behaviour in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="2" id="3415609"] This behaviour might disappear at higher intelligence levels but the point is, it's retarded behaviour at a normal level. That just doesn't make sense.[/quote] The AI in GalCiv II scales in that it's not fully active until you play at a certain difficulty level, and "normal" isn't it. It's either tough or challenging. It's weird, since you might THINK normal would equate to no

Reply to Sound Effects in Space in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Anyone else generally bothered by sound effects that seem to universally exist in space games? [/quote] You added the keyword. Games. They're games. Not simulations of reality. Games are meant to be fun, not anally retentive - leave that to reality. So no, not bothered, unlike some who seem to be posting here, I can differentiate between gam

Reply to Green stars are a no-no! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Just a heads up, GalCiv is a game, not a simulation attempting to portray realism.

Reply to What are you going to name your star? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

Wishupona Err...no...either Voqar (ahem, course that wouldn't be too different from my GC2 games with my race, leader, home planet named Voqar) or I have a name I use in a lot of MMORPGs that's a reference to my wife (mashup of her first and middle names) that's unique and sensible. Kind of dreading seeing some of the stuff people come up with, actually, and hoping the quality control is pretty tight on this.

Reply to Investigating GalCiv 3 - What are your concerns with Steam? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

My concern is that there are still thinking people who probably claim to be sane that don't like Steam. I used to hate Steam but I got over it. It's ok to stop hating Steam and instead embrace the best way to buy and manage PC games. All of the arguments against Steam are completely silly compared to all the positives of the platform for both developers and gamers. The DRM argument is the most comical of all.&n

Reply to Finite, Depleteable Resources in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

My problem with this idea is this. This type of game has a massive scope. That requires a certain level of abstraction. Depleting resources doesn't really fit that scope. It's something more suited to RTS or something (say Jon Shafer's game that's in dev where using, finding, and relocating around resources is a focus of the game). I wouldn't say it's really appropriate for a game of the scale and scope of GC3. &nb

Reply to Other platforms in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If you look at market shares for operating systems, for ex: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems Obviously this type of chart isn't optimal.&nbs

Reply to Stay Out Of My Space!!! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'd like to see some kind of "border control" such that you can allow/not allow people thru "your" space. It's a bit annoying in GC2 to have AIs and minors tromping all over "your" space. It would add more diplo options, since you could negotiate/charge/tribute access to "your" space and stuff like that. You could have an extra wrinkle of not having this magical all knowing boundry too. What I mean is, if you d

Reply to What 4x game are you playing while we wait? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="amrbean" reply="49" id="3412144"] How do you people find the time?[/quote] I don't "find" time, I have time, by design.

Reply to Rethinking the food bonus tiles in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm not all that fond of the food colony idea, nor the idea of building housing structures since that adds more micro and the game is complex enough. An alternate solution would be to make it so that you can't just build ONE farm to get an ideal population (15b in GC2). I'll admit I'm pretty lazy about this in GC2. I just put ONE farm on a non farm tile on planets where I want the easy to manage 15b (at max tech) and that's that.

Reply to Tactical combat. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="2" id="3404552"] Please god no tactical combat. combat viewer all the way.[/quote] I'm fine either way but I like to play large maps and end up in a lot of fights and the thought of micromanaging hundreds of tactical battles per game is oppressing, so I lean towards no tactical due to the scale of the game. Tactical is good in a game like FELH or Eador where you mostly use hero-lead armies, it's m

Reply to Under powered Tech trees in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Eh? In a game with a lot of different races, each with their own techs, there are bound to be diverse opinions on what is strong or weak, since different races have different themes and will be strong/weak at different things and have tech to reflect that. Variety and diversity are good. Making everything "strong" for every player of every race of every style is pretty much impossible.

Reply to AI Tech taunts in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="1" id="3409923"] It's flavor text, I love it. It adds personality to the other races.[/quote] Yeah, I like it too, it adds a bit more flavor and life to the game.