My first noticed errors

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Hello all, spent the last couple of hours playing Alpha 3, here are my thoughts...

(Edit some other minor thoughts are the galaxy settings are broken, I chose abundant on everything.  The stars were spread out, many stars had 0 planets, and if they had planets most were not habitable.  My thoughts are if I have it set to abundant almost every star would have at least 1 habitable planet if not more, most stars would have several planets, with very few with none.  Stars would be close together.)  Others thoughts on this?

1.  The ship builder allows me to add components that I can't build.  After I designed the ship wasn't available to build.  (no cheating)

2.  The one Altarian hull is broken...

3.  The planet icons are blank on the right side of the screen...

4.  Planetary bonus icons still broken, wrong mini icon for wrong bonuses.

    a.  the orange icon should be for manufacturing to align with GalCiv 2, instead shows economic bonus.

    b.  the red pyramid icon should be for research to align with GalCiv 2, instead shows influence.

    c.  the blue water droplet should be for moral/happiness to align with GalCiv2, instead shows production bonus.

5.  waivey lines in mini-map, appeared in last alpha build as well...

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Glad to see i am not the only one that has noticed colonized planet icons are missing from menu.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

All in a day work, yes? Although the "lines bug" that's is going around is very concerning to me.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

4.  Planetary bonus icons still broken, wrong mini icon for wrong bonuses.
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They aren't broken. Those icons are just used as placeholders until the real ones are finished.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The bad hulls have been removed, and will be gone in the next patch. We have not decided if we will be replacing them, or just letting the player use the template hulls.


The only reason you would not be able to build a ship is if you do not have a required resource, the tool tip in the shipyard should say, but we need to make this much clearer to the user, and will be a high priority to address before beta 1.


Planet thumbnails are broken, because they are getting overhauled to auto generate with the new planet system. this will be fixed shortly.


I have been putting off fixing the Planet feature Icons, as they are getting some major overhaul with the new terraforming system, but I will bump this up in priority as well, this is a prime example of not seeing the trees for the forest, on my part.  ;)


The lines in the mini map, is just a flat out bug, seems to be a driver issue, we will hopefully be able to track it down before long.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for the explanation mormegil!

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting mormegil, reply 4
The only reason you would not be able to build a ship is if you do not have a required resource, the tool tip in the shipyard should say, but we need to make this much clearer to the user, and will be a high priority to address before beta 1.
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Sorry I figured out my issue, I saved it as a template and therefore wasn't available as a ship.  Added the components and re-saved resolved issue.

With that being said here are a few more issues found this morning...  Some of which may be in progress and just haven't been added I understand.

6.  Edge scrolling would be nice instead of having to click on the map and hold to move.

7.  Have the option to auto upgrade buildings.  (if it's there haven't noticed it.)

8.  Auto move the screen to where the battle takes place.  (Or at least have this as an option so you know where you lost a ship.)

9.  The Tech Accelerated Agriculture does not have any bonus tied to it according to the discription, see picture.

10.  The ships looses the selection on the map sometimes after a ship auto joins the fleet or if a ship is destroyed from the fleet see pictures below...

    a.  This shows the ship selected but no indication on the screen.

    b.  This shows the ship selected with a clear indication on the screen.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The missing ship on the map bug is also something I encounter as well. It comes up more often when I form fleets also. 

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Larsenex, reply 7

The missing ship on the map bug is also something I encounter as well. It comes up more often when I form fleets also. 
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I've seen the missing ship as well but, in this case it wasn't missing just the blue circle around the ship showing it was selected.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for the feed back, all your request are already on the list.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting mormegil, reply 9

Thanks for the feed back, all your request are already on the list.
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Thanks mormegil.

Another which I do have a screenshot for but I don't believe it's needed.  When the Altarians find a survey ship they find the terrian survey ship.  This should be either a different looking ship or an Altarian survey ship.

Just my thoughts.