Quick aside... GRM seems compatible with 3.81 Probably just some very minor UI conflicts.

The new shipset is for a Terran corporation called "Indri-Tech".

Indri-Tech is a bit of a hodge-podge conglomerate and due to it's good relationship with the Terran Sovereignty has special permission to operate independently of the government. 

Indri-Tech has begun producing some interesting ship designs, whilst also having access to the military hardware of "Sovereign State Industries", the civilian subsidiary transport company "We Haul", and aging designs from the recently bankrupt and purchased "On The Mark" manufacturing (OTM).

We-Haul's premier freighter, perfectly capable of fulfilling any contract.

The Hammerhead is Indri-Tech's heavy fighter frame of choice when quality is a must-have!

Borrowing design elements from proven ships from Sovereign State Industries, and applying an eye for stealth and speed, the Shadow Sight and other variant destroyers given Indri-Tech a unique edge in the market-space.

Wonderful work -- as always! 

People, arthropods, squids, and robots... lend me your data collectors...

I present GRM R-1.5, now compatible with GC 3.9 and adding a new shipset and faction, the Indri-Tech (INC).

This is my 29th shipset... and when you add the mercenaries, bazaar, anomalies, and resource mines, I think it's fair to say it's 30 shipsets... and I must confess, it is very likely my last.

Would you like to take a trip down memory lane with me?

I began with Galactic Civilizations with GC2 back when I was in college... and being a bit of a creative type, I immediately fell in love with the ship editor. Probably because when I was a pre-teen I would draw spaceships and alien races on index cards and give them hypothetical stats and attributes and make little card games out of it for my friends... so finally given an opportunity and a tool that would allow me to do so and share that work... well I couldn't resist.

Thus GRM was born. You can still see the ol' GC2 version out there... and boy... does it look dated lol... using screen caps from Doctor Who episodes?! But hey, that's 2007 for yah.

I loved working on GRM back then, and it really taught me a thing or two about modding and basic graphic editing. Eventually time moved on, and the mod quietly became abandoned. I never bought Twilight of the Arnor, even though I was very excited for it's custom tech tree editor... (least that is what I remember being advertised). I moved on... and for modding, I dabbled with Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, etc. I graduated college, I entered the mediocrity that is the American workforce... but I never forgot GRM and the excitement I felt every time I saw the number of downloads tick up!

Then one day, Galactic Civilizations 3 and Stellaris were announced. I did a lot of research, and ultimately, as a game... Stellaris was far more appealing to me from a gaming standpoint... but I saw how creatively limiting the ship design would be, and perhaps with more than a little nostalgia hitting me... I bought Galactic Civ 3.

Ohhhh 2015... you held such promise! GC3 was new, there were promises of mod-support on Steam, and I just KNEW that GRM would be THE source for awesome ships again! In part, I decided to start GRM again as a learning experience in self-promotion... I decided to upload YouTube videos, I rigourously patrolled the forum here and on Nexus (and tried to do Steam as well), I gave out my email for customer support (I'm trying to help someone today even!)... etc.

Some of it was a great success... some of it less so (Okay I'm no YouTube star and I'm lazy lol). I learned from the experience. 

Some of it was a failure though. Mod support never came... and the remnants of that broken promise lie forgotten in tiny corners of the floor, having been swept away by exciting prospects... that also never truly materialized...

• Mod support on steam
• A working map editor
• A campaign editor
• Fleet editor
• A Flavor Text editor

Most of these were delivered on in some form... all of them are flawed, and several are so lacking that honestly... someone should be giving me some money back (Map Editor).

It's not really that important, it's not really a big deal, but these false starts and half-promises, as well as the continuing limits of the game (really? Two ability points? That's it???)... ultimately convinced me that I either had to take the mod to a new level and do more than just ships, or, reduce my commitment to creative quality and load everything up on Steam... with each race being a lot more generic.

I chose quality over popularity... and for a long while... it was Worth it. 

GRM was doing so well, that I even had the gumption to redo whole shipsets, re-save every single ship to remove the Floating Animation I had PAINSTAKINGLY ADDED TO EVERY SHIP that no-one EVER thanked me for... and start getting hot and heavy about ability modding and the like!

I even got on Patreon and started getting paid (I've been paid roughly 120$ for my GRM work) Good times!

(I still don't know how I should ever pay taxes on that... Pssst don't tell anyone!)

Then there was the great Wheel Debacle... and then the great Food Debacle, the Durantium Shortages (which continue to this day), and even the Star Shrinking... events that didn't directly affect me or the mod, but largely agitated the player-base.

Then the fleet editor came out... and I was excited to finally be able to offer my work through Steam, I was going to maintain the mod, but surely I could keep things going and reach a broader audience.

Then the Fleet Editor was bugged... and incomplete... and it STAYED INCOMPLETE. It broke my heart... but I'm stubborn, and I try to be a completionist... so I stayed off Steam (again) and doubled down on the mod. That was probably a mistake.

But life went on...

Or did it? I don't mind sharing, that around this time, my personal life took some serious hits... and the past two years has been less than ideal... and unfortunately the mod has suffered (Hey shit happens, we all gotta take our hits now and again). I've had trouble focusing, and the continuing need to update the mod for the pettiest of changes, began to wear very thin... and I'm not going to lie... while I appreciate the new ship parts somewhat... the Star Control DLC has especially felt like a lazy cash grab to me. Oh, and most of those ship parts are so low-res texture-wise I consider them off-limits and nigh-useless.

So we come to today. GRM, if I'm very generous, has 200 followers (hard to tell, more likely it's 150) who still download the updates. The great work lies incomplete, with not EVERY shipset having it's own unique drones, star bases, or flavor text... but in many ways my offerings have been very thorough, with continual expansion of citizen portraits, recolored logos, backgrounds, abilities, technologies, and ship variants... I don't know how much people really use the custom ship parts, but I put a good deal of effort in creating creative parts, even without any clear purpose (the Cryo Chamber, Hot Rod Engine, and Sparkly Power Core come to mind).

It's ultimately a much larger, more ambitious, and more successful project than the original GRM... and it allowed me to share some of my personal vision for a Space Opera universe... going so far as to get me off my ass and to build the wiki.

So I'm proud of the work I've done... and while I hope to continue updating the mod for compatibility... and who knows... maybe new ships and sets will get made one day... I think it's only fair to reflect and acknowledge that the mod has run it's course.

Therefore... this mod is in sunset mode, don't expect much from me going forward... and...

THANK YOU

• To Stardock for creating a game we all love. We beat on you because we care!
• To the GRM fans for downloading!
• To those of you who took the time to comment and compliment or criticize... I'll never forget... I'm weirdly proud of it all!
• To those of you who were so grateful and considerate you even paid me money through Patreon or PayPal!

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Scaling errors on ships off the shoulder of Larsenex. I've watched a great wheel gleam in the sky and disappear before the hyper-gates. I've witnessed the departure of Horemvores and Nasseluses, whilst AegisWolves roam and the great Jabberjaw howls, but Deathwynd cannot be found. All these modders will be lost in time... like tears in the rain. Time to die."

PS: See you in Galactic Civ 4?

Thank You Gauntlet!! 

I've been looking forward to a new GRM release that I could start playing GC3 again.  I've tried to play without the mod and it just seemed bland.

Now to download it!

Again, thanks for all the work you have put into this.  I have an inkling of the effort, time, and creative genius that it takes to do something like this (I lack all three).

Gauntlet & Friends

have you improved the AI or is the retrib AI better now , I have not checked or updated the game since 3.4 so I am far behind .. just asking if its worth it and what improvements would justify updating - yes there is a durantium shortage

thank you for your hard work and patience

JJ

Hey there! Thank you for the kind words!

I never try to be salty or for that matter chipper... I just try to be exactingly fair. But when saying goodbye to something I loved for a long time, it felt necessary to include some of the frustration that defined my experience.

That being said, I share your feelings about GC3 ultimately it did not stand up to my expectations. I think there are a lot of reasons for that, most of them pretty reasonable (we do tend to put these things on pedestals). I've now circled back on Stellaris after leaving it alone since just after it's release and I'm finding that to be a far more "complete" experience... but I already miss designing ships!

I look forward to GC4 and I'm already excited for the changes that Brad has mentioned (though none of these are guaranteed). I'm holding out hope that we'll somehow be able to import ship designs and I won't necessarily have to rebuild 2000+ hours from scratch lol!

Anywho... thank you very much for your patronage and we'll see what the future brings!

Gauntlet,

Thank you for the work you've done. This was a lot of fun for me last August. The choices were a bit overwhelming but it was like an overhaul almost, at least in terms of the setting/fiction.

Quick note... working on an update. It won't include any shipsets, but will update some files, clean up some typos, and add some new backgrounds, race pics, and add citizen pictures to a lot of races that only have one.

Gauntlet's Race Mod at Galactic Civilizations III Nexus - Mods and community

New version is uploaded R-1.6

This version is plugging some of the gaps in GRM by doing the following:

• Updated files as always.
• Adding citizen portraits to all race images... an increase in total portraits of about 200.
• Adding custom citizen names to all races that didn't already have them. (Some are rehashes of other races)
• Adding some new dialogue variants.
• Adding 10 new colonization events.
• Adding 17 new backgrounds.
• Adding 10 or so new race images.
• Adding 25 new logos.
• A new Home System or two.

All in all, it's a solid if un-sexy update.

PS: The Wiki has received some love, particularly, you will find new entries for the "Lesser Worlds" and "Renowned Locales" pages, and very minor edits to the timeline.

https://sites.google.com/view/stellar-codex/home

1) Thank you for contribution, that's awesome, very much appreciated.

2) The Star Trek mod you are thinking of is most likely GST and you can contact Horemvore, he has a thread and I believe he hosts his mod separate from nexus or any particular mod hosting site.

3) There isn't really a trick to installing... if you placed everything in the right folders... all you do in-game is make sure "mods enabled" is checked in your game settings and restart the game.

Common problems is usually not replacing the right files in the game's directories (and they are not super-important to 95% of the content)... even if you mostly screwed up installing, you'd still see new ship designs and new portraits/etc. and the like.

Feel free to post more detail/screens/etc. or email me/PM me as you see fit and I'll help as much as I can.

I've tried the re-sync command early on, would deleting the pref ini cause problems or would it make a new one? is it a hidden file? 

So I am confused as to how mods work or which ones are active. The only button I have concerning mods is the re-sync button. Other than that there is no indication of anything.

@ Crom - My thread is here.