130 empires playing on an insanely huge map?

YES PLEASE!!!

I just hope it runs and doesn't choke on its own tongue while processing turns like Civ V does. lol

Wonderful. However, with what I have seen so far, I am becoming suspicious that 4G of RAM will not be enough to support them. Are you planning to include code to check how much RAM is available before permitting some galaxy sizes?

This could become quite interesting and challenging, but what is the memory cost going to be? Again, will 4G RAM support this without serious performance degradation? Will the start-up code check how much RAM is available before permitting any particular maximum number of opponents?

Fleet Battles

The marketing team is struggling in how to describe the fleet combat in GalCiv III.  My suggestion has been to describe it in terms of Hearthstone.  Your fleet is your desk and your ships are your minions that you crafted.  However, where the analogy fails is that the actual "tactics" of fleet battles are handled AI vs. AI.  So your skill is about how you design ships and assemble fleets. Looking closely at what your enemies are designing with their ships and organizing them and countering it will be crucial.  

^^^ This makes me happy! NO TC please! Will the combat viewer be working?

This would be great.

Perfect!

The TC whining just has to stop.  Moo2 was a tactical game to begin with, X-com was also...Galciv was not.  They aren't changing or watering down GC by removing TC.  It was never there, and shouldn't be.

In Civ I can throw a unit or stack of units at a unit or stack of units.  In GalCiv, I can throw a ship or a fleet of ships at a ship or fleet of ships.  What is the difference you are trying to illustrate as Tactical Combat?  I can understand someone wanting TC, even if I don't, but this is not a valid argument for it

If there were really MILLIONS of you, some marketeer would have found you a long long time ago.  But they know baseless exaggeration when they see it, being masters of the art.

Really HAPPY I'll finally get to see all the shiny goodies we've gotten looks at on the devstreams, AND a week before I was expecting it. Now, what will really make me extra happy is when we finally get the diplomacy in. But I would rather see that start in awesome mode than just get something imperfect.

There are millions of us, greying leisured fellows with a history of gaming that spans the last few decades, any argument to the contrary is just a bit silly, hell even Mr Wardell is one of us and we aint dead yet . Who are these high powered marketers you're talking about? they don't exist, you might as well mention the illuminati, at least not for 99% of the games released these days and especially not strategy games (except CIV). And just how are most games of this genre marketed? They are not advertised on telly, I don't think its really in the budget. Industry magazines sure, but to do really well these days its gotta get the reviews and then advertise on the sites with the greatest subscribers, IGN, Gamespot, Games radar etc. Then you have the emails to the userbase you have from previous iterations an similar games, not to forget Steam, a lot can be done there to raise the profile of the game, and then there is good old WOM, thats word of mouth to all you good folks at home. 

Oh and marketing is an art if done right. Love me a good bit of baseless exaggeration

I gave civ as an example of legacy and I gave X-com as an example of how good tactical combat can be. Masters of Orion 2's (MOO2) tactical combat, while pretty easy was hugely entertaining, (cost me a module in my degree back then). I say again, Galciv is the true spiritual successor to MOO2 and THAT had tac combat, AND it was a hugely successful game...so it might just be an idea to add it in

As you seem to be averse to tac combat, Im sure they can have an option to disable it from the game, just for you....and the millions of people jus like you

Anyway...Cant wait for the release tac combat or no

Cheers

Gal Civ's AI crunches numbers in the background while you do your turn. When you click the turn button it almost immediately commences to your next turn! In GC2 it would take 10 seconds max in late game for the turn to advance (for me on huge maps with about 4 or 5 AI).

To quote Mr Wardell..."Galactic Civilizations is not Master of Orion"

http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/88762/Galactic_Civilizations_is_not_Master_of_Orion

And I believe that erischild's point was simply that the TC people are a very vocal minority.  

Ugh

Have I mentioned recently how great I think Stardock is?

"Truly insanely large." --Brad Wardell, 2014 AD