Am I disappointed that a game advertised as "The largest strategy sandbox ever" doesn't have much of a campaign? No, not personally - I have never touched a campaign scenario in any GC game (or any other strategy 4X games if they can be avoided). It is not what such games are about IMO, and I don't believe Stardock have ever advertised GC3 as a scenario driven campaign game.

As to crashing a lot - ~60 hours of v1.0 / 1.01 play for me so far with no CTD's at all. Not saying there aren't any issues that cause crashes - but I haven't encountered any yet.

Not at all upset or see it as a let down for only 3 missions.  Now on the other hand do I think there could have been more, yes, am I going to play the campaign, maybe eventually.  However, my main purpose for playing the game is the sandbox game and multiplayer

Been playing a lot. I keep hearing of people crashing. No crashes at all since 3 betas ago. I literally have over a 100 hours since release, no crashes at all. 

Sand box...largest sand box ever. 

I have not touched the campaign yet. I may do so but I am having fun on Insane with 18 AI. If you are crashing check to see if you have a small page file or its disabled. That and trying to play a game which was from a previous patch can be culprits. 

Re validate all the game files. Ensure you have a page file enabled. Latest video drivers. All will help eliminate most (not all) crash causing issues. 

Oh and I am not disappointed at all. Game runs great and some of the previous issues I had were resolved. 

Happy Friday. 

For me after I beat the 3rd map it was kind of disappointing but then I remembered that when I played galciv 2 it was not for the campaign even though I did go through them all.  This game is a great sandbox game and I know it will give me 100's of hours of fun.  Also knowing how stardock patches and supports the game in the future I haven no worries that most if not all of the critical bugs will be fixed in the future.  Within time this game will be every bit as good as galciv 2 if not better.

not at all ....they're not done by any means. They are 110% more competent than any of us gamers ..and I am sure they know exactly where they are going with this and what they need to do. Rest easy buckaroos.

I finished the campaign in Dread Lords, made it to the mission where the Dread Lords return in Dark Avatar, haven't played the campaign of Twilight of the Arnor. While I think it's kind of short I prefer the campaign of III to the others, it's less frustrating and the missions feel more important. 

I feel a bit disappointed too.  It’s not do to the campaign though.  I enjoyed it.

I’ve been playing Galciv since the OS/2 version. I got OS/2 just so I could play it as a matter of fact. I’m also an elite founder and think Stardoc is awesome developer and publisher.

I hate saying this where the Devs can see since I know they put a ton of work into it but I basically find Galciv3 at this point bland and not engaging. With all the great reviews I thought I was the only one until I found this thread.

One reason I think it’s not groking with me is that I miss Hero units. Hero units are how I connect to the game. The hero units are “my guys” talking on the universe while feelts without them just feel like fodder. I also really want automated planetary governors.  While adjacency bonuses make picking building more interesting, I really don’t care about it.  I really just want planet X to be a production planet and planet y a money planet.  I feel more like a bureaucrat in Galciv3 then an admiral or a leader.

All that being said I look forward to some DLC that will add those things in. I’ll just put Galciv on the shelf for now and go back to Offworld Trading Company, Servo and SK.

Oh they were not but other Games like Endless Space, Elemental and Sorcerer King has them.

I had to learn Rexx for work... Those skills are so useful right now.

GC never had them but so many games since GC2 has.  Stardock's other series Elemental has them.  One reason I really like them is that they make me feel more connected to the game world. I told so many "stories" in my head because of them.  I think I'm the only person in the world that liked War of Magic.  The reason I liked it so much was that you could have children hero units.  I went to war at the worst possible times just because an opposing empire took out of my "kids". You killed my daughter. PREPARE TO DIE.  I don't care about the odds! Wee baby Sheamus must be avenged! 

I can't agree that the game it's bland and not engaging. In fact I got locked into some serious one more turn action yesterday and ended up not eating lunch until about 4pm. I'm kind of addicted now.

But as they say different horses for different courses, we can't all like the same things.

I'm very interested in this, do you have a link to the stream?