Chibiabos

Adding in support modules to ship designs, the support modules list under "Abilities" and hovering over the various ship stats, the ship designer lists the point or % increase to a particular stat thanks to the support module. However, the "Beam Magnification Array" whose tooltip reads "Increases the Beam attack of all ship [SIC] in fleet." does not list in ability, and does not reflect in the ship's beam attack (yes I have a base beam weapon in there that it should modify).

Peacekeeper definitely sucks. I was playing a Benevolent, peaceful civ when the Drengin decided to declare war on me after the Peacekeeper event. The Peacekeepers destroyed every freighter and starbase I had. Their name is ironic, and the AI seems to ignore them in deciding to declare war on you.

I'm in the same founder-now-out-of-step boat as you. Don't have an answer because I just came back to the game after a long spell, too, trying to re-learn. Guess that update e-mail from Brad prompted a few of us to dust off our Drengin. :P

CBS teaser of new Star Trek series (set to debut in 2017): https://youtu.be/xXpPweAooeE CBS has previously said it won't be related to the upcoming Star Trek film, and I thought I read it was generally not supposed to be related to the JJ films at all, but judging from the art style, they're pretty much going with the style of the JJ films. Two elements of the teaser indicate this for me despite not actually seeing a starship: the crazy roller-coaster-planet run similar to the

Link to the full review: http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/galactic-civilizations-iii-mercenaries-review/1900-6416389/ Essentially their reviewer condemns the expansion for breaking the core premise of GalCiv -- they skip the normal means of acquiring a ship (developing the tech you need, designing and building it) by providing a must-have nuclear option for get

[quote who="Misfire_Bot" reply="28" id="3622375"] MOO will be up there, if its 2016. [/quote] MOO is available now as Early Access. AI is weak, there are several features yet to be implemented, but it looks nice and it has that familiar MOO flavor. Its a bit more fun and lighthearted than MOO3 was, especially with the voice acting from several well-known voice actors (Worf and Q from Star Trek, Wash from Firefly, etc.)

As with so many things, the new Master of Orion now in Early Access (I insist on referring to it as MOO4, I /detest/ remakes that seek to supplant originals, even terrible predecessors in this case like MOO3) is a love it or hate it. A lot of things remain true to the first two games ... MOO3, by contrast, seemed to turn its back on the first two in a lot more ways than MOO4 does. MOO3 seemed to try and take a darker tone versus the lightheartedness (relatively) of the first two

Something gamers might fail to consider is the fact that, for some gods-forsaken reason, the Steam client uses IE. I know because if a Steam page fails to load in the client, it throws an IE-branded error page about not being able to find the site, etc. So when you are browing Steam games with the Steam client, you help boost IE's market usage share. :/

A lot of driving influences behind game developers (game /makers/) comes down to the philosophy of the lead designer to push a specific vision. A difference I'd like to discuss between Galactic Civilizations II and Galactic Civilizations III, for instance, are 'terraforming' improvements -- in GC2, unlocking the tech for a particular level of terraforming would let you build that terraforming improvement to allow more tiles on a planet to be used for colony improvements (f

I have yet to be able to delve in with the Mercs expansion added today, but its my understanding the Korx /are/ the Mercs -- or more accurately, the Mercenary tradesmen, roughly analogous to the Ferengi in Star Trek Armada II -- a 'neutral' faction somewhat similar to pirates, but not really in it to 'steal' so much as deal with everyone with no loyalty or diplomacy.

I almost forgot I had pre-submitted my question on the Gamer's Bill of Rights. I am kinda disappointed, but not surprised Brad no longer considers them relevant given its just kind of faded over the years. It feels very much like a lost cause ... publishers still push the evilest of evil DRMs, the "always on DRM" which has killed my longest-loved game franchise, SimCity. Sheeple gamers are to blame for rewarding such crap as much as the publishers ... though to be fair,

[quote who="dbsev7" reply="53" id="3618823"] I've got Mercs! [/quote] Mercs are a DTD -- Diplomatically Transmitted Disease :P

[quote who="starkers" reply="18" id="3618612"] Not in my world it isn't! I have no intention of being corralled in MS' version of a walled garden, or of copping forced updates up the arse, having everything I do on my PC recorded for whatever purposes MS chooses. No, and Apple is no better. Both companies have agendas that consider not the user, and neither can be trusted, less so now that MS has adopted Apple's business model. [/quote] &nbsp

Yeah, the badge appearing or not appears to be very glitchy. :/

[quote who="BuckGodot" reply="18" id="3618533"] Quoting Chibiabos, reply 15 Wait, there's no Founder's badge on your profile I see. Were you still able to get the code to work? I would think that's a bug to Founder's early access, unless Brad intended to go by the honor system o

For those too young to remember ... In 2001, Microsoft was indicted and CONVICTED of antitrust practices by bundling in MSIE with Windows as an anti-trust means of dominating rivals (Netscape Navigator, Opera, etc. -- this was before Firefox or Chrome) in the latter half of the 1990s, and caught -THREATENING- OEMs (computer hardware builders -- Dell, IBM, etc.) by making them pay more for Windows licenses if they didn't do as Microsoft demanded in forcing IE as a browser and not s

[quote who="BuckGodot" reply="11" id="3618522"] That looks to be the 1.6 beta. It doesn't appear to include any of the files directly related to the new Expansion. [/quote] Wait, there's no Founder's badge on your profile I see. Were you still able to get the code to work? I would think that's a bug to Founder's early access, unless Brad intended to go by the honor system on a public forum post with

Yeah, in the game now, there's no new intro or splash screen/main menu, and none of the Mercenaries races (Torians, Arceans, etc.) appear to be in as races you can pick starting a new game. Version number does say 1.6 from the main game menu.

Is it against the rules to suggest we all give wizisi2k +karma points on his winning post in this thread to commemorate his victory?

Working ... Though just in case anyone gets confused as to how to actually do this (I'm sure some will): 1. Open Steam, go to your Library 2. Right-Click on Galactic Civilizations III 3. Click on "Properties" 4. Click on "Betas" 5. Type in the password Brad gave (or copy+paste -- BUT BE SURE to delete any wayward spaces that might get caught before or after the password when you paste) 6.

I'll put my non-money on Brad pull a Bill "Drengin" Lumbergh on his team, forcing them to work over the weekend. I'll say Sunday, Feb 7, 8 AM Central time.

Roadmaps change. :P

We should start a petition to force Brad to change from calling himself "Frogboy" to "Catboy." :P

I imagine 1.6 will, yes, coincide with Mercenaries, both in beta and final release. Long tangent, somewhat ranting (but really more observation-rambling) commentary: The delineation between new version, DLC and expansion seems to have gotten a bit muddled over the years. In the early days, before the Internet was ubiquitous, it was vanilla release, then maybe an expansion. Updating the base software when most customers did not have Internet access me

Heh. Unfortunately they were humbled several years back by WoM. I think that was kind of a hard lesson. The farther we go, the more lines of code goes into each game and the more likely bugs will manifest. Its no longer a matter of whether there will be bugs, but how many and at what severity levels.