Citizens are probably the best added new feature to any 4X game in recent memory. Good luck topping that ;) That being said, hyperlanes and artifacts are two things I'm enormously excited for. The supply ships will also add a layer of strategy that I don't think any other 4X game has. These features are all just bloody fantastic. Well done, Brad and team!
When Stellaris drops, will GalCiv 3 still be relevant? I am only sort of kidding.
Meh. Okay, I'll come back in a year when the standalone is out.
I understand the point youre trying to make by saying it's "too risky", but there isn't a single 4X fan that I know of that would prefer this system over ANYTHING that you guys have or might come up with. It is rather sill that the existing system was scrapped in beta to begin with, but he fact that you're nearly a year out from release and there's still not an invasion system is extremely disappointing.
[quote who="Larsenex" reply="4" id="3620565"] Done, I gave a thumbs up and a good review... [/quote] Of course you did ;)
I personally can't recommend it, Brad. I'm sorry. Still respect you and your company, but this just didn't do enough for me.
First, I deleted my post on the Steam forums as I realized that it wasn't appropriate to post about the beta in the Steam forums. Secondly, I thought this WAS in the Founder's forums. My apologies to Stardock for putting this in the general forums. Doh! However, if it bothered SD, they would have moved it. I appreciate how civil this conversation has been, despite my accidental forum placement. The blind white-knighting is expected,
I really like Stardock and its games. I've been playing them for years and despite the Elemental disaster, I consider them among my favorite developers of all time. Legendary Heroes is still among my most-played games on Steam and I sunk 500+ hours in to GalCiv 2, not to mention all the others that I've enjoyed. Mercenaries is a disappointment and an underwhelming "expansion" for Galactic Civilizations 3 and the only reason I'm writing this is because I f
Bravo! Well written and informative! I really appreciate your willingness to highlight some serious gameplay issues!
Feeling a bit underwhelmed right now... Let me play more, but this doesn't really feel all that great as it stands now. Played the last hour and really don't see much that mercs does to make the game better...just different.
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="35" id="3618645"] Hi all - Apologies, we ran into some Steam config issues on the new expansion pack. I hope to have it worked out with Valve tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy the version 1.6 update. [/quote] First, what is in 1.6, exactly? Second, were you able to fix it yet? :-)
What exactly is the 1.6 update doing? I know there's an AI update, but what else?
The problem might be that it does not appear that Mercenaries is on my account. Plenty of other developers have been able to do this, so it's not a matter if "can you", but rather "how you" add it. Has Mercenaries been submitted to Steam yet?
February 15th at 2pm EST.
a little disappointing that we were told early this week and now...nothing....
It would be nice to know since we've been led to believe we'd have it by now :-(
I'd love to see GC3 adopt a diplomacy model like Beyond Earth: Risind Tide or Star Ruler 2. Just something that was different, very hard to exploit, and made the game better, instead of a joke (in this regard).
I'm going to bet all the money I have that it's not happening this week.
[quote who="tilyas89" reply="6" id="3616776"] Quoting The Sisko, reply 4 In the interview Wardell stated that due to the way some people responded to the planetary wheel changes they are not gun shy about making major overhauls to existing systems in the base game. As a result they have decided that invasion won'
As was stated in this podcast: http://explorminate.net/2015/12/16/strategic-expanse-interview-with-brad-wardell-2/ It won't be arriving until the first "full blown" expansion that will end up being a standalone. Straight from Brad's mouth. Can't say I agree with the decision, though.
Don't bother; I've tried asking every way I can and...crickets.
I know of another game site that would like to show off what you have, too... cough cough eXplorminate cough cough ;-)
Time to finally talk about the expansion? Maybe? please...
These games are called 4X games and there are lots of them! Check out eXplorminate.net for a bunch of others and some coverage of GalCiv3 and other Stardock 4X games!
Looking good, but I just want to now what the expansion, COMING NEXT MONTH, is and what it entails... pretty please?