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[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="7" id="3473447"]3). Not able to see what kind of planets are orbiting a star? Again, I think this is an outdated idea compared to what we are just beginning to accomplish today.[/quote] Not to mention that the older races have been sending out probes to explore the galaxy for millennia. They know where all the planets are. This has been a big deal in the previous games. [quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="7" id="3473447"]I can't remember whether i

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="47" id="3473217"]-2 enemy speed for bieng in your influence -2 for being near your starbases +movement of your fleets and finally that UP proposal that pushed all your enemies ships back out to beyond your borders[/quote] The Super Isolationist ability doesn't reduce the speed of enemy ships by -2, but sets it to a maximum of 3 pc/wk. Also, the Slow Enemies starbase modules don't work for Super Isolationists. At least, not anymore. They used t

[quote who="perigrine23" reply="16" id="3473128"] From a game-play perspective, I don't like stargates or jumpdrives because they remove the need for a balanced military presence and increase the incentive for maintaining just a few super-powerful fleets. [/quote] Not necessarily. Any smart player will try to find out where you've build your hypergates, before going on the attack. Once he knows where they are, he can go straight for them, preventing you from

[quote who="trumpeter87" reply="20" id="3472922"]The more you specialize, the costlier it becomes to gain the other ideologies.[/quote] Exactly! Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my last post, but that is what I meant with "That's how it works already." The exception is, that, if you specialised in malevolent up to this point, switching to benevolent won't cost more than switching to pragmatism. They've become equally more expensive.

[quote who="trumpeter87" reply="18" id="3472842"]The more benevolent a society, the more expensive it is for that society to access pragmatic ideologies, and even more costly to access malevolent ideologies. So for those who diversify, everything becomes more expensive. But for those who specialize, the cost follows its normal progression.[/quote] That's how it works already. Except, the cost increase is the same for all ideologies.

From a pure gameplay perspective this might be interesting. However, I don't think it will work from a lore perspective, considering that hyperdrive isn't capable of travelling between galaxies . Still, I think you might be able to create something like this once we have access to the map-editor. Just make a gigantic map (or whatever they call the biggest size) with lots of star-systems on two sides and

[quote who="Schaefespeare" reply="28" id="3472748"]1. You do that because building a fleet of warships to protect a starbase unnecessarily hikes up your fleet maintenance costs permanently, rather than just temporarily while your Constructor travels to the Starbase to be consumed by the starbase upgrade.[/quote] You need 19+ constructors to adequately defend one of your starbases. For the early-game those defences will be pretty good. In the mid-game, however, this changes

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="13" id="3472438"]For real? Like, you mean, 100 billion ? No exploits? No cheats?[/quote] Yes, as long as your planet had enough space for all the improvements, you could do it. Granted, getting to the 100b still took a loooong time, even with ferrying people from one planet to the other. There was no Super Breeder that could help speed things up.

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="9" id="3472340"]I'm not a fan of soft caps on things[/quote] And I'm not a fan of hard caps: "I'm going to build a huge trade network. My bank account will grow bigger and bigger, and I'll buy planets left and right. And there is nothing anyone can do to prevent it, because nobody will dare to declare war on me, for fear of ruining their economy. Mwuahahaha! What, I can only have 12 trade routes? Damn, foiled again!" Seriousl

[quote who="trims2u" reply="6" id="3472402"]The fluff even says we had hypergates before the hyperdrive was invented. So can we have them back again, please?[/quote] We had stargates, not hypergates. The reasons we no longer use them are, that they are massive, city-sized space-installations with huge power-requirements, that you can only travel between two existing and functional stargates, and that they are slow. Sure, they are faster than using thrusters, but they are much sl

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="7" id="3472309"]When a game dev says "It shouldn't be an issue" when it comes to 'exploits', expect it to become an issue. :3[/quote] He didn't say "It shouldn't be an issue". That's just my interpretation. In any case, you should take a few things into consideration: 1. We are currently in alpha. The amount of Ideology-points we can get at the moment is probably much higher than what it will be in the final g

[quote]As it stands, you can select whatever you want from the trees so long as you have the requisite amount of points from random events and stuff, meaning that theoretically, you could have all three ideologies maxed out with no repercussions.[/quote] Didn't Paul Boyer already address this in one of the dev streams? I think it was in the third one, but I would need to check first to be sure. Edit: Yep, it was in the third one. First question answered, no less. Based on

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="4" id="3471861"]Will we be able to build starships from Starbases?[/quote] No, that's what the shipyards in the next build are for.

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="2" id="3471739"]Is that in the game?[/quote] No, they'll be added in the next alpha-build.

[quote quoting="post"] Can you build a starbase outside your influence?[/quote] Yes, you can. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to increase your range, mine certain galactic resources, or spread your culture to foreign planets.

[quote who="Schaefespeare" reply="22" id="3471584"]building an Economic Starbase out in the middle of nowhere just to get a partial use [being able to increase trade revenue when a tradeship is within its area of effect] is a wasted opportunity because you're not going to need any of the Economic enhancement modules for increasing production/wealth/science output for a non-existent nearby planet[/quote] Sure, but you're not pissing off your neighbours either. Unlike military a

[quote who="UnleashedElf" reply="409" id="3471368"]Any idea if this will be available in the beta? I have not been following it, so I am not sure what the Founders have access to.[/quote] Fleet combat will be available in the beta, but when exactly is still unknown. Based on the tentative schedule , I expect it somewhere between late summer and fall. If you haven't yet, take a look at the <a href="https

[quote]Will Steam download the most resent Alpha[/quote] Yes, it will. Unless you disabled auto-update in the options. [quote]Is there something I need to do to get my forum badge?[/quote] You don't need to do anything. It's already there. Edit: ...and ninja'd. Again.

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="6" id="3471343"]That's not the only way. There's also a "Zoom to cursor" option. With that turned on, you can zoom out with your mouse wheel, place your cursor where you want to be, and then zoom back in.[/quote] Or you could use the cursor-keys to scroll the map.

[quote who="Schaefespeare" reply="17" id="3471292"]And yes, the only non-aggressive starbase to build, out of a range of 3 types, was an Influence starbase.[/quote] The purpose of influencer starbases is to cause cultural insurrection. This makes it very aggressive, in my opinion. The only starbase that doesn't has a negative effect on other races is the economy one. [quote who="Schaefespeare" reply="17" id="3471292"]The implication is that you have one already built near

It's already possible to rotate the ship. Just hold the middle mouse-button and move the mouse.

[quote who="enkidoe" reply="1" id="3471128"]btw, anyone who can give me more info about the future map. Will the huge one be huger than in GC2?[/quote] Yes, it will. Frogboy mentioned a estimation of the biggest map size when talking about the new starport mechanic: [quote who="Frogboy" reply="3" id="3457705"] The idea is that a shipyard could pump out multiple ships per turn. So you build

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="17" id="3471118"]Lets all keep a watch for inconsistencies as the newer builds come out.[/quote] I suggest you take a look at the DiplomaticModifiers.xml. Several of the modifiers seem to indicate, that the devs intend to equate cultural borders with political borders.

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="14" id="3470810"]These are NOT territorial borders.[/quote] Except when they are. To give you some examples, here are a few of the UP proposals in GalCiv 2: AnomalyOwnership01 "Throughout the galaxy, we've discovered a vast number of oddities. While many of them have little worth, others have proven quite advantageous. With that in mind, we come together now to vote on allowing territorial ownership of anomalies. Under the new proposa

[quote who="perigrine23" reply="8" id="3470656"]This is interesting and I had never seen it or never noticed it before. If this indeed is Stardock's vision of how borders work in GalCiv, I think they should make it more explicit, as the way area's of influence are depicted on the game screen strongly suggests territorial borders on a political map.[/quote] As I said in the rest of my post, that statement no longer exists in the later manuals. The devs must have changed their m