Lucky_Jack

[quote who="Starbound_Dust" reply="45" id="3410466"]Sectors will look something like this, but a little bigger:[/quote] Stsrbound_Dust, what you show here would force a great deal of sector overlap between adjacent sectors. It would make a lot of the mathematical aspects of the game difficult, especially of the "what sector am I in" kind. That being said, the only way I can envision sectors of hexes is as a hex of hexes. After drawing some diagrams on paper it looks to me that

[quote who="Illauna" reply="6" id="3410352"]Leave it to the devs to look through the forums to find what they need. [/quote] I wish i had veto power on this one sentence. As a retired programmer, I know the value of being able to track bugs effectively, and forums are too random in the extreme to make it work. Also, didn't we have several tools for reporting errors of several types during the Alpha and Beta of both GC1 and GC2? While we are talking about bug reporting, one

[quote who="mormegil" reply="36" id="3410402"]Currently a hex sector, has a 12 hex radius[/quote] Envisioning a 12 hex radius is a bit difficult. Could you restate this as xx hex tiles on a side?

[quote who="Voqar" reply="1" id="3410423"]Variety and diversity are good.[/quote] Is it? If done well (I have faith SD will do it well), then yes. But absolute statements such as this one always is an extreme temptation for Murphy. Also, don't forget the boundaries imposed by the physical nature of our universe. I contend that, simply because of the physical nature of our universe that the variances of tech trees between the many species in GC should be sm

Fantastic. Will the planet combat be as rich and have as much depth and be as interesting as the trailer had?

[quote who="Tridus" reply="250" id="3410271"]You mean other than: 1. It would significantly increase the cost of developing the game 2. It would draw development resources away from other parts of the game 3. It would change the focus from a clash of empires to a clash of fleets[/quote] 1. Yes, or maybe not so significantly, depending on how simple they start with its first iteration. 2. Yes, or No, depending on how well staffed they are and ho

OOOpppsss. That last post comes from seeing the last post on a page and not checking to see if there are more pages. Sorry.

[quote who="jim_viebke" reply="25" id="3409067"]With 12*12 tiles (?)[/quote] Wasn't it 15*15 tiles per sector? Just a minute, let me check. --- Yep. at least on GC2: Dread Lords, it is 15*15.

GC1 and GC2 Moo2 -- But -- just got a new PC with Windows 8, and was using the Moo2 from "GameStop" on Vista with a "DosBox", but since getting my new PC it doesn't work any more. The game comes up and kinda runs but many of the mechanics in it are crippled. I have Moo1 and Moo3 available, but I really dislike them. WOW (World of Warcraft) Civ 1 through 5. Not so much of 3 and 4, which I think were very poorly done. 1 and 2 through a DosBox, but now 2 doesn&#

So I have two questions. 1) what does this have to do with CalCivIII? 2) Is StarDock seeing this? Is it legit? Or is it a joke? or a scam?

Didn't we discuss this in a previous version's development? I have difficulty seeing the "reality" of there being greatly divergent tech trees. Some things, based on a Civ's physiology might be believable, but most of it would have to conform to basic physics, which is not just a galactic condition, but a universal condition.

[quote who="Gaslov" reply="19" id="3406122"] Sigh. Why does every game have to be a role playing game? Isn't there anyone else who just wants a competitive turn based strategy game? I hate feeling so alone in this world.[/quote] Don't feel alone. I am with you.

"Impressive. Most impressive."

I think someone in a previous post mentioned products that allow licenses for multiple PCs. I think up to 3 was mentioned and I think I have seen one app that allowed 5. So I have to ask, does Steamworks have support for this? Since GC3 is going to have Multiplayer support, it seems to me that there would be great testing benefit in having 2 or more players sitting in the same room on their own PCs testing the playability of the MP aspects of GC3. Couldn't SD encourage this is some way?</

OK, guys. Yes, I made a serious misstatement. I am sorry for the confusion I caused. I was trying to point out that the Ram on any PC was an OS resource, generally not directly an app resource. A lot of people get confused when we try to talk about Ram requirements. The discussion was getting too deep into the grey area in this thread (for most users) of how Ram, Virtual Memory, Swap file space, and Real Memory are allocated, used, and fit together. I do trust that GC3 will be using the "Avai

One of the things I think would enhance the game would be to allow enemy ships to be captured during space fleet battles and planet fleet battles. Also, all of that scrap metal from ships that are destroyed and no longer operable should be collectable and reusable (perhaps just reducing the time to complete ship building projects). Maybe some sort of a scrap metal collection ship type would be needed that can collect the scrap and then be sent to one of your planets to supply its ship

I like it. But I think I would like a variant of it better. Suppose you wanted to ally with said under-dog with the intent of conquering same under-dog later? While this may sound like a no-brainer, if you think about it, you may approach the alliance differently. Or perhaps you would like some reward for your efforts on their behalf, perhaps you would like half the planets you capture, or half the scrap metal from the ships destroyed or half the ships captured (another featur

[quote who="Zydor" reply="238" id="3409984"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 237Zydor, I am beginning to think that much of this discussion is based on individual definitions of "tactics" or "tactical battles". I think you hit the nail on the head .... I await the initial Alpha Rushes with interest[/quote] Zydor, I have a suspicion that, if a tactical battles feature does get included that we won't see it until rather late in the Beta. I haven&#39

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="236" id="3409977"]Abstraction is such a nice thing in gaming![/quote] Well said. But please remember that we individually are quite different people with differing wants and needs. As I said earlier, I am a control freak (perhaps I should have qualified that with "in certain ways"). The use of toggles to allow players a choice between "control" and "abstraction" was used well by GC2 for fleet battles, and in both previous versions for other features. I b

Zydor, I am beginning to think that much of this discussion is based on individual definitions of "tactics" or "tactical battles". With that in mind, I think that both Charon2112 and I are correct. GC2 did have very minimalistic tactical battles from my viewpoint (although at a totally auto-resolve level) and that GC2 didn't have any tactics from Charon2112's viewpoint.

Yes, we are like kids anticipating Christmas. Isn't this fun?

I wasn't going to weigh in on this, because I feel rather neutral about it, but, lets face it: 1) GalCiv is a strategy game. So is Moo2. The tactical combat is only a feature, not the end all of either game. GC2 had tactical combat, although it was more of an illusion because it was always more of an auto-resolve, perhaps one could say a pseudo-auto-resolve. 2) A master strategy plan has to include tactical actions. No real life strategy plan will survive without tactical

[quote who="Seilore" reply="1" id="3409832"] quoting post Utilize more Ram if the system has it (3 to 6 gigs?) Why stop at 6? My new system will have 32 gb if you have it use it lol[/quote] I don't understand this one. My understanding is that GC3, just like 1 and 2, will be using Virtual Memory, while the main Ram on a system is Real Memory that holds part of the Virtual Memory. I.e., what I expect to happen

Are you talking about multiple play lists? At least one version of Galciv allowed the player to create and use playlists. Was it GC1? Maybe it was GC2? Both? I will have to check next chance I get.

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="14" id="3409298"] Does Stardock have us fans reduced to kids staying up late on Christmas eve trying to sneak a peek under the gift wrappings to see what we get? [/quote] Yep. And this kid has seen 74 birthdays and 73 Christmases.