Tetrasodium

do you know an XML tag that can be edited to alter the research cost of all techs without manually editing the costs one by one? If so, what tag & which XML file?

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="1" id="3512681"] after re-reading your post i like it i thought you were asking for research speed controls at first not just better controls for it [/quote] Correct they are't in beta right now & it's pretty expected that things not be finished in betas :). With that said take the example of a larger galaxy with tons of planets because someone enjoys managing them, compared to an even larger one with fewer planets b

it doesn't seem strange, but with thewar tax option for 25% tax on warring nations, I'd like to see two other potential entries 1: allow any race to bring an approved declaration of war for them to start a war with $race 2: a smaller tax on all nations used towards a galactic peacekeeping force under the control of the most powerful race where they are obligated to come to the defense of any victims of unapproved declarations of war with a portion of the pr

[quote quoting="post"] I know that, having picked them, all the Races in the game I'm playing are going to exist and that I should meet them at some point. Therefore it's logical I can't have diplomacy with a Race I have yet to say Howdy to. But it's not logical that although I have yet to met the Drengin, I can see they are part of the UP and that they have 22% influence. If I know that then it makes sense I should know how they have that 2

I'm going through the xml files raising the costs to hack in a slower speed, but it's a huge pain going through each race's and doing it tech by tech and it strikes me that there could be a better way that works to improve different galaxy sizes and different planet densities. Currently there are t3 technical epochs (ageofexploration/war/ascenscion) & all techs are noted where they fall. It strikes me that a better way t

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="5" id="3512476"] i dont mind engine speeds but in i believe mapsizedefs ( could be wrong since im at work) there is a series of lines for combatmods which atm serve only to increase ship range for larger maps which i removed i might play around with making that smaller [/quote] Very nice, I changed the globalcombatmods section for huge to this: ShipRange <Ta

I actually kinda the wide spacing, but agree that 2-3 is better with the star frequency bumped up a notch for huge galaxy, tight clusters, common stars makes a nice clustering witstars in the clusters about 6ish hexes apart from each other & individual clusters seem to be anywhere from 3-5 to more common 15-20ih hexes apart from each other I think it will give a more interesting flavor to borders than just oh it's $GonnaStartWars on that border" but borders can still sometimes b

I like this idea

I'm at 82 benevolent, 166 pragmatist, 10 malevolent& got locked into bringing up the ideology trees. I have pragmatism, free trade, [reasonable locked in beta], arbitrator, builder. [neutrality locked in beta], caution, efficiency, mediator, [traders is 169.1 to my mere 166]. Under benevolence I have Benevolence, mindfulness, pioneering, breakthrough, empathy, prominence. everything open there is either disabled in beta or 100+ benevolent points to unlock. I had to endtask

initial thoughts on galciv III the galaxy sizes beyond huge (gigantic/excessive/insane) are great sign. I say this because I'm one of those players who enjoys the challenge of building at a sustainable stable pace & playing the long game where I get to enjoy maintaining that base while managing diplomatic/trade/militaristic bits & bobs with a significant number of other species but gigantic often felt a little cramped onc