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Reply to Does anyone else find the lack of elerium crazy? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Fortunately, Monsatium is just a bonus. It lets you pack more food in fewer tiles. Kim's Refuge is the big deal. If you still have more monsatium after that, upgrade a few farms Techapods is like, everything if you are Arceans. Big difference.

Reply to Suggestions for a new game in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

If you're afraid of godlike, try 1:1 on a Tiny map. Take out his colony ships with your starting survey ship. Which means declaring immediate war, but who cares; there's a Steam badge for declaring war before Universal Translator anyway. You should be able to take out godlike AI that way in a couple hours. Once you do, work your way up from there (say, Small map with two godlikes).

Reply to Suggestions for a new game in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

I've been trying to tell them that Godlike AI is too easy. So it hurts my cause when someone else posts on here that they like to play with Gifted AI.

Reply to FreeOrion in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Thanks for the info. I eventually decided not to dive into FreeOrion because it uses starlanes. The lead architect has been adamant that he will stick with starlanes instead of hexes/squares because the AI is easier to code. For me, though, if I wanted starlanes, I would just stick with Sins..Solar.

Reply to Why Sid Meier's Civ is the best 4X game and others fall behind and what GalCiv could learn (let's talk 4X) in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

I like that Galciv3 has random events but Civ 5 does not. It's just a design decision; not negligence on either game's part. The Galciv series has always decided to take on much more variety in their games, at the risk of it being unbalancing. Civ plays it more conservative, which means with their better balance they can have things like the Hall Of Fame and Map of the Week. Metaverse is pretty meaningless--you're not comparing apples to apples. I can zip righ

Reply to New here need help in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

It took me awhile to figure out the ascension gate, but it is possible. There's several late-game techs you need to get--not just Beyond Mortality.

Reply to Does anyone else find the lack of elerium crazy? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

But the things which depend on resources are disproportionate. Power plants, prototype hyperdrives, and missiles burn gobs of antimatter. Kinetic can burn gobs of durantium, but who cares--just don't build kinetic weapons. Besides, you want starbases next to asteroids anyway. I was never well into a game where I went, "ouch, I want to do this, but I just don't have enough elerium or thulium."

Reply to Does anyone else find the lack of elerium crazy? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

My reason why I believe promethion is precious is because scientists and admins take loads of promethion to promote. And key starbase modules burn a lot. You can make pretty much anything plentiful in the map settings, though. But resources are supposed to be scarce--otherwise why have resources in the game at all?

Reply to AI need to do a better job with fleets in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]And I get the Mercenary ship which gives me 250bc in salvage credits for every combat that it survives, and pick up 250bc for every individual ship that I pick off. Makes back my money before too long.[/quote] [quote]Sometimes I will trade (give really) a bunch of my older ships to a weak AI ally. They never seem to just form them into fleets, and the ships end up dying one at a time.[/quote] I'm getting an idea, and it doesn'

Reply to Does anyone else find the lack of elerium crazy? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I played a Tiny galaxy that had 1 promethion planet--that's it. And guess who grabbed it first. Not me. This last Tiny game I played had 1 durantium.

Reply to Galactic Civilization III v2.32 Patch (Released 8/1) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]I started a new game yesterday on 2.32 and noticed what appears to be a bug with the AI. A couple of the AI races, while tech trading with me, would trade away their entire fleets of ships to me at no additional cost on the cost bar. The other AI's would not trade a single ship, showing the cost of adding a single ship to the trade as very high (the whole cost bar).[/quote] Known problem. Check the AI's money balance: most likely you wil

Reply to A bit annoyed about AI difficulty (cheating) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

AI not being a priority for a single-player strategy game just makes zero sense to me. A RPG, maybe, but...a STRATEGY game??

Reply to AI need to do a better job with fleets in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

And I get the Mercenary ship which gives me 250bc in salvage credits for every combat that it survives, and pick up 250bc for every individual ship that I pick off. Makes back my money before too long.

Reply to A bit annoyed about AI difficulty (cheating) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Funny thing is, I'm taking to a pro gaming friend of mine, and he's saying that there's a glut of AI guys in the job market. Which surprises me, given the mind-bending nature of the problem to be solved. He says the gaming companies are more starved for artists.

Reply to A bit annoyed about AI difficulty (cheating) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If an AI is "godlike", I think it is fair that it be omniscient.

Reply to GRM Ideology 1.2 Now Available in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

p.s. What in the world is Slave Trade? GreedTrait4 PlayerChangeTradeRouteType SlaveTradeRoute SlaveTradeRoute SLAVE_TRADEROUTE Slave &nb

Reply to GRM Ideology 1.2 Now Available in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I see that now. There is an "Action" keyword on a lot of them. e.g. Pragmatic, Negotiator 5, "Upon someone taking your homeworld, all races not allied to the other guy immediately declare war on him." The way it's implemented: DeclarationOfWarByNeutralPlayers Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Actions correspond to C++ routines. Looks like we have some power to re-balance the Ideology trees, but we are s

Reply to Ground Invasion Demo in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]Thank you Whatever else you want to tell me with that ... [/quote] You're hired.

Reply to GRM Ideology 1.2 Now Available in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

So we are able to mod the ideology trees themselves, and not just the events? I couldn't find the XML for it under Crusade.

Reply to Ground Invasion Demo in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

I think you have an awesome demonstration of your knowledge of JQuery. :)

Reply to Arcean funness in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Would it still be ridiculous if there were only one of these buildings, and not three of them? Well okay, yes. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Reply to Arcean funness in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm surprised you put all that on the Navigation Center, and not on the Singularity Power Plant.

Reply to My Crusade 2.31 balance issues in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

In my experience, I get "You know what you did" diplomacy hits the minute I spy on somebody. Anybody--does not have to be that civilization.

Arcean funness in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I haven't gotten a chance to play all the races yet, but I just got done with a godlike Arceans game and I had to share. These guys rock. It's like their bonuses are all in areas that really matter, and the synergies between the abilities are just lethal. You need to get your hands on Techapods to really use Arceans. And as much Xanthium as you can get. Rare black holes in your map settings help make it a more decidedly Arcean game, because that makes your spe

Reply to My Crusade 2.31 balance issues in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

New balance issue: The diplomatic penalty for Espionage looks too high. Getting diplomatic minuses from EVERYBODY for "You know what you did" simply because I took my one free spy and spied on one race is a bit much. Espionage's usefulness is already on the fringe as it is; so incurring penalties to something as core as diplomacy is enough to make one simply not want to do espionage, or pick the Onyx. Espionage is a cool, fun feature: you get to see wh