Sorry couldn't locate a lot of information about this DLC, So if I'm understanding correctly I think it has the following items?

• Extra ship parts from factions from the Korx, Drath, and the Altarians from Galactic Civilizations II.
• No New factions to play with just, able to play against them in a new campaign.
• New 3 level campaign where the Terran's will ally with the Altarians and battle the Korx and Drath.

I'm sure I'll be able to see more when I get home today and get to see it in action but, sounds great wish you could play as the Korx or Drath but, maybe eventually

Just noticed the Steam update and wondered what it was. The life of a Founder is a magical mystery tour! Thanks.

It was only a bad deal in the sense that it went away right before I could buy it.

Buuuut that's forgivable.

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Just noticed the Steam update and wondered what it was. The life of a Founder is a magical mystery tour! Thanks.

 

Heh.  Yep.  Remember way back when that people were trying to say the $99 Lifetime founder edition was a bad deal?

Seriously.  Those conversations had a whole lot of totally unnecessary heat.  Stardock was a home for heretics and blasphemers.  Anybody who fell for the deal was a fool. Fortunately, I like heretics and blasphemers.  And my Tarot card has always been The Fool.

Yep. Rock solid material, especially compared to more recent "Season Passes", from certain other companies, which turns out to be less than half of what you expected, more than half of the time. It's the new way to package the DLC concept, without any accountability, apparently. This from some of the "big guys".

Makes you more appreciative of the real deal, somehow. 

I was disappointed with this DLC and the recent Rise of the Terrans DLCs. In both cases, "new factions" were offered that only exist in the campaigns. In a game that is capable of 100+ faction scenarios, but only comes with a dozen factions*, you would think the developers would go the extra step (one step) to put a generic alien foreground on these factions and put them out there. Yes, I CAN mod them in, but that takes time, and frankly, I was buying DLC so I could enjoy the game more and mod less.

So, why did I just pay $5 for the Korx and the Drath when I can't immediately play as either the Korx or the Drath? Or the Xendar or the Haven? Heck, "United Earth" itself was a bust, since you cannot realistically use both them and the Terrans in the same game. I am not used to this kind of parsimony from Stardock... in the past, the goal has always been to put MORE into everything, rather than less.

Of the last four DLC, only the builder's kit was satisfying to me, and I even felt the expansion was a bit oversold. It isn't like I'm going to stop buying new content because I'm very committed to the game, but I don't feel I recommend the DLC to others, and I've stopped buying them as gifts. 

* Please don't even mention the factions available on Steam... they are, at best, a reservoir of (badly edited) foreground and background pictures. Nexus has about three dozen much better factions, but even then we are still well short of the 'promised' 100 faction game...

According to my faction list, I have found 120 different factions that appealed to me when I was being picky about establishing a wide diversity of different looking characters.  I have no idea of the care people put into trait and ability selection.  I know I posted a couple with carefully selected or edited pictures and lore and a good deal of play testing with the traits.  I figure the end result of all those arbitrary and unknown factions is as good as an RNG generated faction, possibly better.  

Like any crowd sourced content, it is a very mixed bag and it requires abandoning laziness to do your own curating.  However, the criticisms "at best" and lack of promised 100 factions are both incorrect, or exaggerations at best.

So, I am mentioning the Steam Workshop. GRM is indeed on Nexus, and is the best looking and crafted content ever offered for GC3 bar none, (except maybe the Colonizing events) but I know I put up a couple of at least "okay" Workshop factions myself, and so did a lot of other people.

Ah, yes, I have several of yours, I believe. I can't seem to search on your handle right now, so I can't figure out which ones, but you are quite prolific. Thank you!

Also, I have the same problem... most of the factions I have collected are good or neutral.

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Like any crowd sourced content, it is a very mixed bag and it requires abandoning laziness to do your own curating.  However, the criticisms "at best" and lack of promised 100 factions are both incorrect, or exaggerations at best.
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I agree that, like much crowd-sourced content, Steam factions cannot be relied on. Most of the factions I have downloaded from Steam have terrible graphics (usually a hack-photoshop job and/or one of the included race pictures), the descriptions are so full of poor grammar and typographical errors that I can no longer suspend belief, the background is hit-or-miss (almost always miss), and a great many of them of them are just an excuse to post pictures of half-naked ladies.

I don't know about lazy: I am a very ill person who sleeps sixteen hours a day, and I have still put in almost every waking moment (sad, I know) into editing Steam factions so they can be used. I'm not complaining about editing and curating the factions I want... online content is WYSWYG, and I don't mind putting in the time every so often. The points are thus:

• They should not advertise a feature and then depend on crowd-sourcing to fulfill the "promise." Or, they should have made it more clear that a significant portion of the game was going to be crowd-sourced.
• If they are going to do that anyway, the very least they could do is provide us with a few new factions, especially ones they have already more than half created for DLC.
• I should not have to spend months (literally, months) editing when I should be playing the game.

 I paid for a game that made promises (or at least advertising claims) and cannot back them up. I am displeased.

And I agree, GRM is fantastic. I use the vanilla version with modified minors, because Gauntlet's minors use some of the old logos that I want reserved for the old minor races, and I can't take an alien faction named the "Huron" seriously.

What do you do when you edit Steam factions?  This sounds like a totally worthwhile project.

That seems a little disingenuous, at least on their part. And it isn't quite accurate anyway... the Steam page says:

So, if I buy a cable package that says I can "watch over 100 channels," I emphatically do not expect to have to make up all the content on every channel for myself, and it I certainly do not expect to have to rely on crowd-sourcing to make a feature work.

Now, do I really expect Stardock to provide me with 100 factions? No. But I think it would go a long way if they provided more than THREE in DLC and expansions (United Earth doesn't count, since you can't play them against the Terrans without modding or suspension of disbelief). We still have the Drath, the Korath, the Korx from GC2 (although they told us the Korx wouldn't be back), plus they could have done the Stellar Guild (more humans, yawn) and the Xendar.

In short, I see little commitment from the developers to support this supposed feature of the game (as listed on Steam, see above). Just because they didn't promise to release 100 factions doesn't mean there isn't an implicit commitment to provide a more expansive experience. Again, from Steam:

Clearly, this is not true in one very important respect.

Not a true comparison, one can not add or think about adding channels to their cable or sat provider.

More of a comparison would be like purchasing a roku or any android device.  Download 1000's of apps, they only provide the tool and a handful of apps themselves the rest are provided by other people/companies.

I would personally love additional factions provided by Stardock and, they are offering more over time as DLC's.  The problem is this isn't the highest requested feature to be added.  The core objection here is false advertising, which they aren't.  As stated you can play 16 to 100 factions, meaning that one could play a game with included features in the game that meet this criteria.  This they have met.

Name a strategy game that has the ability to play that many players against each other?

I would like to see the edited versions, I agree it's hard to correct typographical errors in the faction editor.  (Note if Stardock is seeing this please allow us to correct these easier with a copy and paste from clipboard function or other easier editing tools.) 

Thanks.

My question was not about method, but what aspects of the factions were changed in what ways.