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Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]An interface that lets you select and move items in 3d space is not to difficult to get a grip on[/quote]Not for everyone. [quote]Secondly, and this may be the part that may scare our non 3d supporting people, is to select "vacant" location[/quote]Yes, selecting vacant locations is the hard part. What you're saying is that, in order to reach a destination (currently 1 click), I'll have to 1)select the good plane, 2)click the location, 3)move up/down till I'm happy. That's at leas

Reply to Annoying Game Behavior in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'd rather not have my disk cluttered by all the endsavegames. One is already too much for me. Actually, I could make use of an easy way to remove all saved games with a single click.

Reply to Some Suggestions For An Even Better GalCiv ... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Civ's end game replay was great. That of Civ3 is slow and doesn't contain as much information, being overall uglier and not half as entertaining as the original replay. Such a thing would be fun, but one point which I'd like to see is the cultural ebb and flow, but since this is not stored in the savegames, I doubt it would be shown in the replay.

Reply to Research anomolies... in Strategies Stardock Forums

The 25% is either 25% of total cost or of remaining cost. I very often have 0 spent on a tech when I go into an anomaly, and the tech screen drops from 4 turns to 3 turns after I get the anomaly. There had been no research invested yet. I sometimes used this (quite a while ago) to get an expensive tech on the way to tech victory pre-researched while I was actually researching something else: You're researching dreadnought tech, see a wormhole. Stop, switch Research to Near Omniscience. Pop t

Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]KtK: You can complain, but think of the wasted screen space if there was nothing "in the corners." [/quote] Nope, he's right. Let's lobby for round screens. I'd hate whatever interface was used for 3D because it would inevitably be different from what I use everyday at work, so I would always middel-click + left click to rotate, and middle click + left click then unleft-click to pan. Now people use mice with 2 buttons. Can't get CATIA controls in a game. Pity.

Reply to Random or Not? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Espionage prevents the ambassador mishap event: You have to get the first level of espionage in order to avoid the event. I'm not sure about the disgruntled worker one. The ambassador event says how it could have been prevented in the text. Waht does the worker event say?

Reply to V1.12 Starbase issue in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

vincible is right, spamming space with starbases doesn't give prod benefits. However, the trade bonuses did stack and had no limit. S nake, what you do has been considered cheesy and forbidden. Stardock is also considering the creation of a logistics ability which limits the number of starbases, though I haven't yet seen any description of what they intend to do.

Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm sorry but I don't buy it.I'm pretty sure that when I look up at night I see stars in every direction.[/quote] Sorry I ment when the ecliptic crosses the equator (= when the sun is in the equatorial plane of Earth). Planets are on the same plane, except for Pluto which many don't count as a planet. Comets and other weird things aren't.

Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]most galaxies lie on the same x,y plane?I suppose all the planet orbit their stars on the same plane too, right?[/quote] Yes on both accounts. In the solar system, it's called the ecliptic plane. Crossing it defines seasons (autumn and spring). Holding the space button to move up or down? I find this very tedious. Ooops I went too far. Push the button to go down a bit. What visual feedback to you provide so the user knows that he reached Z = 12? It's probably possible to move

Reply to wormholes in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

These catapult existed. Put 20 +2speed starbases in your home sector. You could now catapult your ships up to 4 sectors away in one turn. Since the number of starbases is now causing problems, it cannot be exploited that much, but still exits.

Reply to 3D 4X , or wheres the Z in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I also think MOO1 was 2D, but nebulae slowed you when you got through them. Civ2 ToT could do a bit of 3D: You had up to 4 maps, so it was possible to have a submarine map, an earth map and an atmospheric map. You could get some variations on this, but had to be in the same map to initiate a fight, so the behaviour along the z-axis was very different from the x and y axis. The big point is the user interface. One thing to remember is that spatial location in 3D is a skill not everyo

Reply to Zero Score - Now What? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The fact is that on submission, an explanation for the 0 score is lacking. The panel should tell 'Score of XXX reset to 0 because of (insane +PQ/too rich/whatever)'.

Reply to The one thing I would love for this game to have... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]For me though, calling something advanced AI, implies changes/learning each time it is in action. I haven't seen that with GalCiv.[/quote] I'd like to see a game that does this, too, but don't think there is any. Robots and agent-ai usually tackle tasks far easier than strategy. The big problem in any strategy is that you have to be able to think of something if you want to be able to thwart it or do it. Sid Meier obviously never thought that One City Challenge was possible i

Reply to revisiting GC after some time away... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Sound suggestions.

Reply to Difficulty too HIGH? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

On the easiest levels, you can build up a military to fend off threats. If your military rating is near the ai's they won't threaten you very often. Then trade with them to increase relations.

Reply to The one thing I would love for this game to have... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Just a thought, how AI is GalCiv really? It appears to play the same strategy time & time and doesn't learn from my play (which very predictable[/quote] AI's in most game don't learn from the player. That's a helluva work. Galciv ai learnt from some things that Brad could get through the metaverse, but that's all. So if by smart you mean 'able to learn', the ai in Galciv is not smart. Neither is the ai in any 4X game that I know. The best intelligence we can currently hope to code

Reply to Research anomolies... in Strategies Stardock Forums

I tried this a while ago but the problem is you'd really want to park a survey ship near each anomaly and wait for a juicy tech to be available. For instance, wait for battleship to become available as it is long to research. And that becomes expensive in terms of ships, the ai steals the anomalies, and there are none left when you need them most. So it didn't work for me, but it's worth trying. Probably on a huge galaxy with rare stars it would work better.

Reply to The one thing I would love for this game to have... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]AI is nothing more than strings of code in a file, all the processor has to do is run the code. The only thing that processor really needs to handle is the random rolling of the dice bit. Like if the other civs decide they should tell you about the culture palaces orbiting their planets or if they should say nothing and just lower relations. That and most of the graphics are handled by your video card, if you have a more recent one with 64 megs of RAM then you should do just fine. [/quote

Reply to Inadequate Starting Locations in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]In Civ3, I'm completely anti-spoiler, and so are other Realms Beyond players, but we have softened our stance for GalCiv because the GC AI gets such a tremendous advantage off its full map spoilers, and it's no fun to have the whole game turn on whether or not you guessed correctly about which direction to send your first colony ships! We want strategy, not crap shoots.[/quote] In civ3 the ai knows where the resources are, so why reload in Galciv and not civ3 when civ3 ai has a b

Reply to Toughest Starting Scenario? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A single incredible ai is hard but not the hardest, because you can use the minors to trade with and effectively prevent the major from trading with anyone, except you and only if you like. The real problem is you mustn't let them conquer 3/4th of the universe, so +speed is of help there. I think tight clusters are the easiest setting.

Reply to How to Beat Maso With Only One Planet! in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]Mmm. Yeah, that might get rough. I thought the same for Civ3, but didn't turn out to be the case. [/quote] It can be VERY rough. I have a 'simple' victory in my log, well, that was it. However, you just have to be careful, and trade with minors. On a bigger map, it can be very deadly, particularly with abundant stars, as the major will expand more than the minors, I think even now, but I am not sure. And they tend to beat you in terms of speed to stars. Trade is really key there, as t

Reply to There Appear To Be A Few Problems in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Some games don't get through for some reason. That's a a bug. I've had it happen to me. Cari suggested trying to resend stubbornly the game, it didn't work for me but might for you. Not a big deal imo, but since it's probably a metaverse bug and the metaverse budget is over, I think it's unlikely you'll get a correction to this, as it's quite rare, thus hard to reproduce/debug.

Reply to wormholes in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you look at the anomalies, some of them are called wormholes (those that either teleport you away or bring you 25% of the tech you're researching for free).

Reply to The one thing I would love for this game to have... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote] We should be saying that we wont PAY for games with cruddy graphics, or bright shiny things full of bugs with lousy AI[/quote] That's pretty much what I do, but this has little effect. I came to the point where, looking at the games available at the store, I bought civ3 after having decided a while ago it wasnot worth buying because I hope it will show developpers there is still a market for TBS games. And I don't buy that many games either. I don't think that MOO3 failure is one

Reply to iz gettin' me first zero score..... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Megatron, you need to have enabled cheat keys in the main menu in order for Ctrl_something to work (except Ctrl N). Checking that provides a 0 score.