Lucky_Jack

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="8" id="3418450"]Other then that being able to look at others planets just be clicking view when there is no spy or ship in sight, that is a no no.[/quote] So you are saying that we shouldn't be able to record an image of the view and retain that image?

Yep. I misunderstood that part. However, I think the reasoning holds for any/all reasons anyone would want to see a planet's tiles. I also think the code simplification is a strong reason to request that SD does this.

Did you see the link in another thread about an interview with Brad Wardel? He said pretty much what you just said and hinted that this was going to be different in GC3.

As far as I am concerned, this whole thread is a non-issue. I don't care if a mechanism is included in the game that prevents one's ships from entering another's space borders. If the game includes it, I will adapt. If mines are included in the game I would insist that countermeasures of some sort also be included, perhaps including the ability to destroy the mines at stand-off ranges (which means adding ranged attack capabilities to ships, and might make the whole idea us

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="3" id="3418333"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 2 Since we can already scan our own planet today, I see no reason why any ship with even the minimum default scanners shouldn't be able to already support this idea. Gameplay reasons?[/quote] Interesting. I just checked on GC2 and if you have reached an espionage level of "high" on the race owning the planet, you can see the planet's tiles and what has b

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="11" id="3418205"]My cat always reminds me that the only reason we are not slaves of her species is she has no thumbs...God help us if they evolve them...[/quote] Who says we are not slaves to our pets??? I say we are. They really don't need thumbs. They use mind control. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

[e digicons]:beer:[/e] [e digicons]:w00t:[/e] [e digicons]5*[/e] Happy Anniversary to StarDock.

Yes, GC2 also has bonus tiles for morale. It always seemed odd and unbalanced to me that there were no bonus tiles for economy.

Since we can already scan our own planet today, I see no reason why any ship with even the minimum default scanners shouldn't be able to already support this idea.

[quote who="joeball123" reply="91" id="3418121"]A large part of the usefulness of mines comes from that there is no easy way to disable or detect them. An IFF transceiver which disables the mine against certain targets is therefore an inappropriate component to include on a mine for two reasons: first, a transceiver is an active component which both transmits and receives (hence transceiver rather tan receiver), which basically paints a big target marking the location of each mine in your min

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="16" id="3418108"] Quoting Ashbery76, reply 2 No tactical combat means boring unimaginative weapon tech.GC2 combat will not fly in 2013. People don't want quality anymore, or to think a cm deeper then the nose reach? I forsee a dark future for us all if this is true.[/quote] See reply #7 in this thread. It should be better than GC2, but that's about all anyone from SD has said. They love giving us

[quote who="Tridus" reply="87" id="3418004"]In open space they just conceptually don't make sense[/quote] I think you fail to see the possibilities future R&D (real world) can produce. Just because we can't see what current tech can give us doesn't mean someone won't discover some new way of doing something. [quote who="Tridus" reply="87" id="3418004"]Putting them around a planet also walls the planet off from trade[/quote] Part of a mine's elec

[quote who="Ryat" reply="6" id="3417997"] Gasous aliens. Clouds of gases brought together by electro magnetic fields and that have developed intelligence. [/quote] But how do they communicate? Another tech for translators for each new form of communication? Electromagnetic? Telepathic? Chromatic?

[quote who="RedDwarf999" reply="7" id="3416697"]And this 6300 is unlocked like all FX processors so you can overclock if that's what you are into. [/quote] Don't forget that most CPUs and GPUs manufactured these days protect themselves from overheating by underclocking themselves.

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="12" id="3417865"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 11 Quoting Tyrantissar, reply 10 Quoting ParagonRenegade, reply 9 I like this idea, but using missiles and point defense is problematic; it would make PD much more powerful than shields and armour Agreed, however who said it could only be missile based, perhaps there would be hyper drive assisted beams/mass driver projectiles Beams are

[quote who="Tyrantissar" reply="10" id="3417783"] Quoting ParagonRenegade, reply 9 I like this idea, but using missiles and point defense is problematic; it would make PD much more powerful than shields and armour Agreed, however who said it could only be missile based, perhaps there would be hyper drive assisted beams/mass driver projectiles[/quote] Beams are strictly energy (hence, light speed) weapons and mass driver projectiles are un

[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="5" id="3417274"] Indeed, I was talking about measuring performance. Even in alpha it might be usefull to compare systems with eachother so you can more easily find out where your bottlenecks are. Or for fun; to try and find the worst performing hardware that can still run the game [/quote] Performance measurements during the Alpha and most of the Beta are likely to be useless. Until the last few builds during the Beta we can expect SD to put i

[quote who="The_Tsurani" reply="2" id="3417160"]Do they even look on the forums?[/quote] They most certainly do. Just look under their avatar and you will see a symbol with the Stardock logo and the word "Stardock". To see an example, go to the thread https://forums.galciv3.com/forum/1061 and look at reply #5. Brad's replies have the same thing, but it used to have something <a id="ctl00_ctl00__Content__Content__RepeaterR

How about having the battle camera with an option to watch the battle from within one of your ships, then have the sounds of the ship's activity and impact of weapons hitting the ship play. Add a device to the chair to shake it so that the environment also feels authentic. Then let the player toggle an option to have all space sounds or only the sounds from the ship that the camera is viewing the battle from. The chair? The technology for that has been around for decades.

[quote who="jecy99" reply="56" id="3417052"]Take crusader kings, that game is a major strat game, but has tons of RP flavor as well.. seeing GC II was single player, i would think GC III is as well..[/quote] GC3 has already been announced as having multiplayer. Scroll to the top of this thread and click "Game" then "GalCiv III Features". Under the heading "Multiplayer" you will find: " Multiplayer For the first time, players can compete against each other in

[quote who="The_Tsurani" reply="6" id="3416926"] It would be nice to pick and mix techs, like the dark energy 'magic' techs of the Altarians or Drath with a different tech tree, I'd especially like the ability to add penalties to my race's stats so I can get better bonuses in other things - a lot f my custom races would, in-universe, have several powerful weaknesses but several more powerful strengths, like the aforementioned crippling population growth problem - limitin

Bad post. Sorry.

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="54" id="3416661"]I read an article early this year where physicists had claimed to record a temperature just below absolute zero I believe they claimed it was so cold it was infinitely hot therefore cold is hot[/quote] That is a very interesting article. However, it looks like it is way too early to put much credence in the results of this experiment. I was unable to track down any peer reviews, any attempts by other phys

[quote who="michaelwhittaker" reply="58" id="3416534"]if i declare war then I'm the bad guy while your the one trespassing and telling me to shove it or building your influence star bases next to my home-world[/quote] Personally I think this is really a matter of point of view. Some AIs, particularly allies, would have to be taught to recognize this as potentially a defensive action and some AIs, particularly belligerent ones, would have to see you as being a bad guy. But then, th

I think a modification to the original post is needed to include how some CPU manufacturers are providing some CPU chips with integrated GPUs. I think these chips do some sharing of the system RAM between the GPU and CPUs, so an investigation needs to be done about how much RAM one needs to add to satisfy the game's needs in such a configuration.