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I'm probably one of the few who played the campaigns and absolutely loves the lore. It's also save to say, that without either I wouldn't have become as invested into the series as I am now. However, I absolutely understand why you'd want to drop the campaigns. They take a lot of resources to make. Yet most players never touch them. So, implementing the lore and story into the sandbox directly (via quests or what have you) would be fine by me. However, it really depends on the impleme

Same here.

[quote who="MortisBlack" reply="14" id="3697064"] i ahve never completed a GC3 game as there is something missing and i believe it is the dreadlords and now they will always be missing [/quote] The Dread Lords are not missing. They are part of the Mega Event DLC.

[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="8" id="3696822"] I was one of those looking forward to more dlc, but I respect your decision. [/quote] Same here. Especially to those two DLCs. I really like the story-aspect of the series, so a remake of the GalCiv 2 campaigns would have been a great addition for me.

I'm sad to say, but there is no German version of v2.2. While working on the new version, we modders changed a lot of text (not necessarily for the better, in my opinion) which all would need to be translated. If I'm not mistaken, the rights to the German edition of GalCiv 2 belongs to Kalypso Media. So Stardock would need to contact them in order to make a new translation. I don't see this happening. Still, if the lack of German version isn't a deal-breaker, you can still get

[quote who="starhunter83" reply="24" id="3693099"] I suppose the most basic way to nerf cities would be to drastically increase their food requirement (like a factor of 2 to 4). [/quote] I would prefer it, if the food requirement would be moved from the cities to the population. Something like 1 food for 1 pop per turn. The cities still serve to increase the population cap. That would make it much harder to achieve those high pop planets, in my opinion. Currently, you o

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="5" id="3689097"] Brad had stated that he did not care for the wheel. I doubt it will return. It was far too easy to cheese production and rubber band back to economy or science. Good riddance. [/quote] I hope you're right, that the wheel won't return. However, Brad did state the following in part 1 of the sneak preview for v2.5 : "In a future Crusade upda

From the schedule on the Steam-forums: [quote] 2018: EXPANSION 3: Intrigue (Political Parties, Cabinets, Protectorates and Apocalypse, the mega campaign)[/quote] So, I'd say, we can expect one.

[quote who="DMF" reply="12" id="3674865"] What's a GOG? [/quote] GOG.com It's an online-distributor like Steam. However, it's focused on DRM-free games.

[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="9" id="3674835"] Well, there's GOG and I think SD still sell from their own store, so I don't believe Steam is your only option! [/quote] Buying the game from SD directly only gives you a Steam-key. GOG is the only non-Steam option available.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3674799"] So as some of you know, I removed the campaign from the Crusade expansion. There were two primary reasons: 1. It was very important to re-emphasize that GalCiv is a sandbox game and NOT a story based game. 2. I would prefer to see the story only given out at the end of the GalCiv III lifespan and Crusade isn't going to be the last expansion. [/quote] That's disappointing, but I understand yo

[quote who="Taslios" reply="2" id="3632853"] Where are you getting that invasions won't be touched until the expandalone? [/quote] Probably from this post by Frogboy: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="62" id="3631567"]There won't be any big changes to the planetary invasions in the base game. We'll be adding it as part of a much larger expansion pack.[/quote]

[quote who="ERIS6" reply="293" id="3626720"] So, are those races no longer minor, or we were used to consider them even less than minor? [/quote] No, they are still minor (i.e., they have restrictions which the major races don't have). The only difference compared to the regular game is, that the minor races now have access to more advanced AI algorithms, so that they can make better use of the few resources they have. Well, and some small changes to their racial abiliti

[quote who="Gascogne" reply="143" id="3625691"] No words yet from the developers if they are planning on releasing the game on other platforms? [/quote] Here is the last official word on it.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="12" id="3625210"] if they were already present than why does it state that this was added in Dark Avatar as one of the new features especially right from the Dark Avatar official page? [/quote] Because custom races were player-only in DL. You couldn't select them to play against. That's what was new in DA.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="8" id="3625181"] Brad will be able to answer this question once and for all, however, there is no documentation out there that the base game included custom factions and there is a whole lot of documentation out there that DA added this option to the game. I remember it coming in one of the expansions as well. [/quote] Here is a link to Frogboy's Beginner's Strat

[quote who="Seilore" reply="6" id="3625176"] Refresh your history, custom factions were added with the Dark Avatar Expansion. [/quote] No, they weren't. DA added the ability to play against custom factions, and provided more options to customise them. However, you could already play as a custom faction in DL. Just start up DL, if you don't want to believe me.

[quote who="Seilore" reply="3" id="3625096"] Galactic Civilizations II also did not have the ability to create a custom faction [/quote] That's not true. The ability to create custom factions was in GalCiv 2 from the start.

[quote who="DMF" reply="291" id="3623363"] Finished July 2231. 148K points, which I gather is pretty good for a three race game. [/quote] Yeah, that is very good. Congrats! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] I haven't been able to play since Sunday. When I left off, my plans for the Torians had been slowed down a bit, because the Korx surrendered to them. This brought the planet-count of the Torians back into the mid 60s. In other words, they just regained the sam

Hey guys, I've finally got a response from Yarlen. Apparently, the delay was due to Stardock being very focused on finishing Ashes of the Singularity (which is understandable, in my opinion). So, the update for the CU will be added to the base game. Though it still might take a while.

[quote who="naselus" reply="50" id="3623039"] He said something like 'in GC2 ship engines used up a % of the hull, I'm thinking that should return' or something along those lines. [/quote] You mean this ? [quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="3608358"] In GalCiv II, the components had a fixed and a % space cost. This ensured you couldn't put on 50 engines and 80 sensor

[quote who="Bruce Sim" reply="150" id="3622800"] Where do I get the 2.20 patch from? It is NOT on my stardock download page. [/quote] If you do not have the Ultimate Edition, then you need to contact Support.

[quote who="DMF" reply="289" id="3622590"] Geez, what density are you playing? [/quote] Immense map, Loose Clusters, Abundant all, Occasional Extreme Worlds, Normal tech speed. [quote who="DMF" reply="289" id="3622590"] Are you playing Yor as Evil? [/quote] Yes.

[quote who="DMF" reply="287" id="3622539"] Spent a most of my resources developing resource bases and non-weapon techs and got behind in shipbuilding. [/quote] Sounds oddly familiar. [e digicons] [quote who="DMF" reply="287" id="3622539"] - Harold Hedd, for GNN [/quote] Seems like you have quite an exciting game going there. My own isn't quite as eventful. Probably because I had already won by the end of the colony rush. Not literally,

[quote who="Kinjiru" reply="2" id="3621828"] Is this a new bug or has it been around for quite a while? [/quote] It's a new bug. Assembly worked fine in v1.5.