Stacking Commanders and Admirals

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??? I've suddenly lost the ability to stack commanders with admirals or other commanders. I'm in the middle of a game, that I started a week after  2.7 came out. This completely ruins my whole strategy. I've put a lot of hours into this one game. Fleets I had weeks ago, still have an admiral and commander, but if I take one out, it cannot rejoin. New fleets cannot stack them either. :/ I have all of the expansions, and yes I'm using mods, but I've used this group of mods for two 2.7 games. 

Is this a glitch? Or is how it's supposed to be? I'm a little ticked this will the 2nd big game I've had to stop playing, after several weeks of playing. The other was when 2.5 ruined my 2.33 game.

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Reply #1 from Stardock.net Forums Top

As of version 2.8 Commanders are no longer stackable.

  • Commander ships are no longer stackable in a fleet
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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

OK but I'm playing a 2.7 game, which still has fleets with multiple commanders in them. Besides an admiral is very different than a commander. There's no logistical bonus, no speed bonus either. The new rules make admirals inferior to commanders. You guys when you update a game shouldn't break existing games. This is the second time, and I'm about to move on to a different game, and stop wasting my time and money on GalCiv3!

PS. Thank you for your quick reply. I understand why the changes happened. But it broke my game again. I'm too far along to change my strategy now. The whole plan was large fleets with a commander and an admiral. I've several commanders and admiral waiting for fleets that I've been building. Wasted resources, wasted 100s of turns. I'm pissed.

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Reply #3 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Nothing is wasted. If you built the fleets right they will still be very powerful. You can also get mercs to buff the fleets. Seems like a silly reason to be upset.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Look I get it. But I had a specific design for my fleets, that won't fit now. Huge/large capital ships, large escorts, medium assault ships, and small interceptors, plus transports and guardians. Now I can still do it, but with a lot less assault destroyers. And I don't have room for the medium guardians either. Not to mention my waiting admirals which are wasted, citizens take a while to get.  

I was upset, because they force these patches on us, whenever they  want. I wanted to finish an epic size game before the rules change. I was on turn 243, and was ready to attack two neighboring enemies, when this happened. A war I was planning for since early in the game.

I like most of the new rules, though I wish they would concentrate on fixing issues like station legion, which gets very tedious when you have 70 planets. Patches if they are automatic should not change existing games. 

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Fleets with 2 commanders can actually save the day - particularly in the early part of a game when the AI fires up those mass wave attacks.  Disappointed it's no longer available.

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Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Merlex, 

What difficulty are you playing on? 

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Larsenex, reply 6

Merlex, 

What difficulty are you playing on? 
End of Larsenex's quote
 

 

Varied as there are 74 total empires in my current game. 4 : The Precursors, The Dread Lords, The Vorlon Empire, and The Borg are set at genius. 49 are set gifted. The last 20 I tweeked to be minor civilizations, and set between normal and easy. I also set up 12 starting faction pairs, the Drengen and Korath Clan being one example.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yeah that happens a lot.  I have about 1800 hours of playtime, but only actually FINISHED maybe 6 games. Granted most of the ones that I don't finish is because I just get bored with the game; but many games I have also quit because a patch has messed them up in some way.

 

Reply #9 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Change your strategy. The commanders can still used on other fleets. Win with a different strategy. Seems simple enough.

Still seems like complaining about nothing. I'm glad they make the game harder.