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[quote who="trims2u" reply="15" id="3470612"]In fact, we already have powered suit armor/mecha in GC2. It's the Drengin/Drath tech "Ultimate Shock Troops". [/quote] 1. "Ultimate Shock Troops" is a Drengin/Korath tech, not a Drengin/Drath one. 2. No, it isn't. Here is all it says: "Our shock troops will provide the ultimate shock and awe in our enemies." What you are most likely thinking of is the "Mechanized Warriors" tech from the Thalan. Here is what it

If you mean the Battle Viewer from GalCiv 2, then no, that's not in yet. If you mean space combat in general, then yes, that's already in. However, there are no combat effects at the moment, and destroyed ships simply vanish.

[quote]-The GC2 "silliness". Listen, I know GC2 had a really funny thing going on with the descriptions for ships, facilities, etc. It worked with GC2 very well. But it doesn't fit for this game. All the silly descriptions don't fit the amazing graphics, excellent tech tree's, and overall engine improvement. This is GC3, not GC2. Drop the silliness. It worked at one point, but it doesn't work now.[/quote] I have to disagree. The humour is a big part of the series. Also

Carriers have been confirmed a long time ago. The devs have talked about them in a bit more detail during the live-streams (either the first or the second one, I don't quite remember), but anything said is still subject to change.

[quote who="MichaelCoenen" reply="45" id="3470490"]Have them be a resource for building a ringworld or dysonsphere around a star of your choice.[/quote] The last official word regarding dyson spheres is this : [quote] Could be cool... ;)[/quote]

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="15" id="3470227"] I do remember some sort of a revenue from sectors I controlled, but I don't remember the mechanics of it. Was it tourism?[/quote] Yes, it's tourism.

[quote who="EleventhStar" reply="3" id="3470226"]-heard some rumors about a colony adjacency system coming too.[/quote] Do you have a source? I haven't heard of anything like this. [quote who="EleventhStar" reply="3" id="3470226"]-rumor that espionage won't be in the initial release but not 100% on this[/quote] Paul Boyer said so explicitly in this <a href="http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/featured/sgj-podcast-41-gettin-galactic-civilizations-iii-on-fire/" target

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="1" id="3470103"]I want separate cultural and political borders, none of this BS with culture equating to territory control.[/quote] Agreed. This was already the case in GalCiv 2: DL. As stated on page 16 of the original manual: "Influence is not the same as the borders of one's civilization. In Galactic Civilizations II, borders go only as far as ones planet." Of course, this got changed, and the statement is now completely absent i

[quote who="perigrine23" reply="12" id="3470102"]That said, at one point Paul was on a sci-fi game podcast (can't find the link right now) where the hosts were not particular fans of GalCiv II, and their big complaint is that they thought it felt sterile.[/quote] Do you mean this one ?

[quote who="trims2u" reply="3" id="3469975"]creating a shipyard in (or moving one into) an place where you don't have open borders, should be an IMMEDIATE act of war. No time delay, and should get you a big negative modifier with other Civs, too.[/quote] The problem I see with that is, that borders change. One turn my starport is within neutral territory. The next turn, the borders of a race expand, for some reason, and encompass my starport. I'd be quite pissed, if that race

[quote]ZoC needs to mean something, and the idea that someone can sent one constructor into your territory and then suddenly build an entire fleet in your territory feels to me like it violates the idea of a Civ having control over an area.[/quote] Based on my look through the game-files, there are going to be open/closed border-treaties. There are also going to be relation-penalties for having ships and starbases within the ZOC of a race you don't have open borders with, and anot

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="35" id="3469837"]There's a technology that references Mass Effect in ToA, and it describes mass reduction. There's only one mention of it I believe, and it's relatively obscure. I'll find it if I have time.[/quote] The tech, that comes the closest to what are talking about, is Expert Gravity Channeling from the Thalan tech tree. Here is what it says: "Every interstellar civilization has some form of artificial gravity. Artifi

Here are some (old) posts by Mormegil that seem fitting for this topic: Minable planets [quote]There will be rings and moons, and they are planned to give Bonuses. There will also be two minable planet types.[/quote] From the same thre

[quote who="satoru1" reply="11" id="3468080"]Personally I always thought the alpha time window was a bit too short.[/quote] Same here. So it's not a problem for me that the beta got pushed back.

To add to the section from the FAQ Crocell44 quoted, here are two posts by Frogboy where he talked about the AI. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3419903"] One of the biggest changes you'll see in the AI is data mining. Simply put, player ship designs and tactics are going to be stored on the cloud so that the AI can do data mining on it. I don't plan to actually design the ships this time around but instead look at the stats of the global player force and pick from tha

[quote]“Teddy bears.” Desjani pointed at the chubby, furry image. “We were attacked by teddy bears?”[/quote] The Snathi are squirrels, not teddy bears. Those people are actually under attack by the Ewoks.

Eventually, I guess. From Frogboy : [quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3464583"] Export won't be in this build so 3D printing of ship designs isn't ready yet.[/quote]

[quote who="Mascrinthus" reply="69" id="3465345"]What will be the starting population of newly colonized planets in GalCiv 3?[/quote] Depends on how many people are on the colony ship. However, a single colony module can now transport up to 2.5 billion people.

[quote who="EleventhStar" reply="2" id="3465259"]Really? No espionage in the base game? Do you have a link to that for me?[/quote] It was mentioned by Paul Boyer in this podcast .

[quote who="econundrum1" reply="21" id="3465041"]Then again the UP seems to require Galaxy wide real time communication from the start of the game and I wouldn't want them to loose the UP.[/quote] Why would they loose the UP? The Yor have subspace communications for about 225,000 years, while the Arceans (and through them all the other races) have it for about 1000 years. In other words, instant interstellar communication already exists at the start of the game.

[quote who="Avatar137" reply="4" id="3464972"]I still haven't figured out how to rotate the camera around the ship/rotate the ship to see it from different angles.[/quote] Hold the middle mouse-button and move the mouse.

[quote]I'm not over-the-moon about having to use "Steam", the site mainly wants to sell games that I don't want or choose friends that will play on-line games in which I have no interest.[/quote] You can disable most of that in the options. That's what I did. [quote]It doesn't appear to want to update GalCiv3 or allow me to use the 'official' feedback channel.[/quote] Steam should automatically make sure, that GalCiv 3 is up-to-date (current ver

[quote who="SF1 Raptor" reply="13" id="3464927"]Tell me I can make a carrier![/quote] You can (eventually). Carriers have been confirmed for months. Mormegil even talked about them in one of the live streams (either the first or the second).

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="6" id="3464797"]How can you dislike the merciless slaughter of hundreds of billions of people? That's usually the highlight of my day.[/quote] I don't. Heck, the Yor are my favourite race, for crying out loud. I can't wait until I'm able to play them again, and complete the extermination of all biological life in the universe. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] [quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="6" id="3464797"]Seriously though,

[quote]planet destroyers (if they ever come)[/quote] I have the strange suspicion they will, and I'm not exactly thrilled by the idea. While I did (sort of) like the Terror Stars, I really don't want a return of genocide-runs. That was the worst aspect in the MoO-series. Anyhow, Mormegil mentioned here and in the last <a href="http://www.quartertothr