Lucky_Jack

[quote who="satoru1" reply="45" id="3413138"]) For some unknown reason, neither EA/Gamestop/Activision/etcc decide to swoop in and buy Steam even if its JUST to get a 60 million account user base. Note THIS assumption is really really unlikely. Companies buy other companies to buy 'customers' all the time. If someone could buy up the #1 PC user base for a fire sale, they'd be stupid not to.[/quote] I think Brad said GameStop is already gone.

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="37" id="3413132"]I want civilian ships! Let them dart around in real time, since they would be cosmetic. [/quote] All of those cosmetic ships running around like that would be very distracting to me. If this is done, I will desperately need a toggle switch in the startup options to turn it off.

[quote who="Xsifilad" reply="22" id="3413053"]And to Jack; I was talking about colony list, i would like colony list to be half a screen or be moved to a secondary screen, or include a minimap to indicate planet location.[/quote] Ah. Big difference. Maybe it could be done with the resolution you are using, but it might be rather poor on smaller resolutions.

On the other hand, I would like to see the function keys to be toggles, not to just bring up its window.

[quote who="Xsifilad" reply="18" id="3413036"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 17 So, like in GC2, clicking on a planet in the planet list taking you to the location of the planet is too much effort? If by that you mean clicking on the colony list taking me to the colony screen then closing the colony screen to see where it is then clicking on the colony to see if i want to do something with it once i have received the missing information that

[quote who="Xsifilad" reply="16" id="3413002"] I want and need 3 things: planet location what it does and what it has, planet list gives me no idea where the planet is without me doing something[/quote] So, like in GC2, clicking on a planet in the planet list taking you to the location of the planet is too much effort? And the ability to sort the planet list by sector isn't close enough? And the big "X" in the top right of the planet list window that closes the planet list window

Joeball123, I agree with you about the tactical combat. It won't affect whether I by the game (I already have) or whether I enjoy the game, but it would certainly add to my enjoyment. Part of this is that I like to play long games, the maximum sized galaxy with lots of habitable planets, etc., and I like to set the victory conditions for conquest only. Having tactical combat would add intermittent changes in play, making the game more fun.

The Influence boarders are part of what goes into influence victories. If you build up a high amount of influence over much of the galaxy, you can win an influence victory. I don't remember what percentage of the galaxy it takes, but I think it is up in the 80s or 90s. I hope someone can find where the different types of victories are explained. It should be in one of the databanks. The hows and whys of each should be illuminating reading.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="6" id="3412719"]I don't want windows 8 or 8.1, please no,[/quote] Not to worry. It can be done so that it doesn't matter, as shown by Civ V.

So what happens if one of their planets gets isolated into your space when your space suddenly expands to envelop it? And vice versa.

Strange, I would have expected a "server not found" error. Didn't impulse vanish?

[quote who="chuck1es" reply="4" id="3412660"] A dollar says they're making it touch-screen based, too.[/quote] Only for Windows 8. but I wouldn't be surprised. I hear that the mechanics for touch screen are rather minor in the overall scheme of programming.

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="27" id="3412073"] Oh, WOW. Is this discussion getting philosophical fast. I can remember lots of articles on the mechanisms of earth that minimize heat loss into space, so I suppose the idea that heat gets propagated into space has to be a given. That said, I have seen a lot of scientific misinformation that so many of us have unknowingly learned get propagated, so I think we all have to be very careful about the credibility of the source of our

Has anyone noticed that no economic bonuses ever appear?

[quote who="Mac2411" reply="17" id="3412584"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 16 I always saw the food tile/morale balance problem as a challenge. I think it was put there deliberately. If the AI was unable to handle it, well, Brad has made some comments about the difficulty he had programming the AI in 1 & 2, and about how that is going to be different in GC3. I just didn't use the 300% tiles at all because to me having such a large population

I can see it now. "You have just exhausted all of the approval resources you were mining. All of your planets' morale has dropped below 30 and they are all at risk of rebelling."

[quote who="Kantok" reply="28" id="3412570"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 25 All I got was music (except for the Yor ships) when I told FireFox to use Windows Media. Is there another app I should have used to get the imagery with the music? They are just audio tracks. No imagery or video with them. [/quote] In Reply #21

I am merely boiling the statement down to its roots. I am noticing that Brad is saying that there will be no fleet battles in GC3 that look or feel like the MOO2 fleet battles. I am taking that statement very, very literally, and recognizing that he is not saying "there will be no tactical combat in GC3, but saying "there will be no MOO2 like tactical combat in GC3". Other comments about MOO2: MOO2 was turn based, not real time. Also, I remember a lot of controversy ove

Frogboy, in your post #12 you say the human crusade destroys the universe, in post #13 you say it destroys the galaxy. Can you clarity this please?

That is a really difficult question for me to answer. I guess I could use my name. Or maybe "pot-o-gold". Or "streets paved with gold", or "crock-pot", or ...... Maybe I will just have to surprise myself (and everyone else).

All I got was music (except for the Yor ships) when I told FireFox to use Windows Media. Is there another app I should have used to get the imagery with the music?

I always saw the food tile/morale balance problem as a challenge. I think it was put there deliberately. If the AI was unable to handle it, well, Brad has made some comments about the difficulty he had programming the AI in 1 & 2, and about how that is going to be different in GC3.

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="4" id="3412404"]Is current technology capable to creating high quality speech without voice actors?[/quote] Actually, I think the technology is there, or at the least, very close, although I wouldn't expect to see it on a PC for a while.

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="311" id="3412279"]I'm pretty sure "if you're expecting to control individual ships as in MOO2, you may be disappointed" is officially stating it. The door has certainly been left open to some kind of additional player involvement in combat, but it sounds like all-out tactical battles of the sort some people want are definitely not happening.[/quote] When I see "if you're expecting to control individual ships as in MOO2, you may be disappointed",

[quote who="Mac2411" reply="49" id="3412207"] If not for anything else, I would think fighters would be very handy for ground support actions when invading a planet. A lot less mass destruction than orbital bombardment by large capital ships, which means less collateral damage and fewer friendly fire incidents.[/quote] Sounds good if you include the need for fighters to be designed for both space and atmospheric use. For an example, look at the Star Wars series. The books