[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="15" id="3436788"]I know something of that sort was build for Twilight but the techs and modules for it had to be modded in.[/quote] Actually, the mechanic for it already existed in DL. It's mentioned in the official modding guide, and the example mod for DL even has the repair-module in it (though it is bugged, because it has no value assigned to it).
My first experience was with GalCiv 2, or rather, an ad for it, which I read in a local (i.e. German) gaming magazine. I like space 4X games a lot, so I got curious. After hearing a lot of praise for the first game, I gave the demo a try, and, shortly after, bought the game. It hasn't left my harddrive since then, and I rate GalCiv 2 higher than MoO 2 now. Mainly because it has a much better backstory, and the individual races have a personality to them. Plus, the AI actually know
[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="4" id="3436739"]I have never heard of any speed above 40Mbps, but the speed has been growing faster than I can keep up with.[/quote] Here in Germany, some ISPs provide speeds of up to 100Mbps, but it's not available everywhere. Some areas are still stuck at 2Mbps or less.
[quote]Fleets can now dock at a starbase, much like they can garrison friendly planets.[/quote] Nice! That should make it much easier to defend them. Although, I'm still hoping, that starbases will be able to put up more of a fight this time around. They were rather easy to destroy in GalCiv 2.
[quote who="Veneke" reply="8" id="3436700"]That was my one real grievance. Dhe question specifically pointing out that the Founders edition is rather expensive without an indication of the dlc/expansions we can expect our concerns are treated to an off-hand comment not answering the question?[/quote] I have to agree with this. Weirder still, Frogboy already provided an answer some time ago: [
[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="3" id="3436681"]I don't really understand. What are ex-Drengin?[/quote] Dead Drengin. [quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="3" id="3436681"]That should kill hopes of a non-Steam version.[/quote] Frogboy already killed them: [quote]But there isn't going to a be a non-Steamworks version of GalCiv III because it would require too much time and
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="60" id="3436312"]He's saying that he knows that this game Galactic civilizations will not be tactical combat.[/quote] Not really, no. The beginning of the quote is something I said, and he misquoted. What I originally said boiled down to, that the devs haven't provided any hints in favour of tactical combat, but several against it. It's DARCAs sentence that I have trouble understanding. It seems to say that, because there'
[quote who="ZlothX" reply="46" id="3436041"]On the plus side, we might get to hear some "Microsoft Bob" automated voices being used as filler until some real voice acting gets put in. Those are always a hoot![/quote] Why are you expecting any voice acting in the game? I mean, besides the cutscenes, which are not going to be in the alpha anyhow.
[quote who="jmccrea" reply="74" id="3436193"]Was this the same pocket universe the Dread Lords were in as well?[/quote] Yes, it was. From the Timeline Year 2226: "The First Fleet of the Terran Alliance escapes to the pocket universe that the Dread Lords had escaped." [quote who="jmccrea" reply="74" id="3436193"]Could it be they found some tech the Dread Lords, or something else there as well?[/quote]
[quote who="Tridus" reply="13" id="3436019"]Elemental. This engine is a modified version of the one made for that. [/quote] Not according to Frogboy : "GalCiv III is using a new engine designed specifically for it."
[quote who="jmccrea" reply="71" id="3436042"] About 1;14 into the movie it looked to me as if the Terrans from the pocket universe had landed on Earth and were killing the troops there. Maybe its another planet though. I can see English writing on the advanced Terran weapons...but nothing on the ones they are killing.[/quote] That's Arcea, not Earth. At least, it looks like it to me. The troops, the Terrans are killing, however, are definitely Drengin.
Interesting idea. I definitely would like the ability to add notes to planets in general, not only my own. For example, I'd like to add a note with "build the Manufacturing Capital here" or "turn this into an econ world" to one of my planets, or "there is a Precursor Mine here" or "this is the Drengin's main research planet" to one of my enemy's. This would make it much easier to remember where the special buildings are or what I had in mind with some planets. Espe
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="54" id="3435966"] It's private message time, no more arguing in front of the kids.[/quote] I don't see any reason for this. We are still on topic. If you insist on PMs though, then count me out of this discussion.
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="51" id="3435909"]I paraphrased your quote it's done alot in America.[/quote] Same for Europe. However, you still have to make sure, that the message of what you are paraphrasing remains intact. That wasn't the case in this instance. [quote who="DARCA1213" reply="51" id="3435909"]which is false we have discussed this and you keep defending that statement.[/quote] Okay then. Where did the devs hint, that there'll be tactical comb
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="45" id="3435814"]Something that involves tactics of some sort and the only reason why we are talking now is because you said."tactical combat (whether turn-based or real-time) in GalCiv 3. Rather the opposite." just from the option of the stated by the devs "auto resolve means the above statement is false and they want to make combat more tactical and fun than boring and outdated.[/quote] First off, please stop misquoting me. It gets really annoying. Ther
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="7" id="3435807"]They have identified that they are going to have all the players moving at the same time.[/quote] Where? I don't remember any post from the devs about this.
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="41" id="3435729"]the opposite? How can you or anyone think that?[/quote] Because the devs have explicitly said so? Listen to the podcast I linked to earlier. At around 43:41 min., Paul Boyer (the Lead Designer of GalCiv 3) says: "We want to keep it simply. We don't want the game to become Gratuitous Space Battles. We don't want it to become a real-time tactical game. We're not making Rome:Total War. We're making GalCiv 3." (I'm slightl
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="32" id="3435660"]But when my OP talked about combat ship speeds and rate of fire without knowing what brad said. And gaunathor who sent me a link in those posts where Brad wardell talked about there being those things in the game and then used that as a defense REALLY MAKES ME ANGRY!!!!!![/quote] Please read that part of my post again. I said that combat in GalCiv 3 will be more complex, and then provided some links to where the devs talked about some of
[quote who="jmccrea" reply="68" id="3435681"]Im wondering if that Terran fleet that kicked so much butt is from the future or a more advanced other dimension.[/quote] They are from the pocket universe, where they have been hiding since the end of the campaign in GalCiv 2: DL. It's all explained in the Databanks , if you don't want to play the campaign again. [quote who="jmccrea" reply="68" id="3435681"]You
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="31" id="3435562"] You could add space creatures in general. They are not a big deal on distant worlds they could also not be a big deal on Galactic civilizations.[/quote] GalCiv 1 had space monsters, but the devs removed them in GalCiv 2 for some reason.
[quote who="Extant Faora" reply="8" id="3435505"]That is insane, firstly. I don't understand how that could work, secondly.[/quote] It only works as long as the Dread Lords send only tiny or small hulled ships. Maybe even medium hulls. Anything larger will be too strong against a starbase. Considering that the DL automatically start out with all techs already researched, it doesn't take long for them to start building large and huge hulled ships. In other words, by the time yo
[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="39" id="3435454"]Can someone who remembers find it and put a link here?[/quote] Paul Boyer talked about it in a preview by PC Gamer ( here is the news-post about it). However, the link to the preview no longer works, and I can't find the preview on the PC Gamer page either.
[quote]NO DREAD LORDS FOR NON-CAMPAIGN GAME: I cannot stress this enough, having the Dread Lords randomly appear in the non-campaign version of the game was a poor choice. They're pretty much overpowered and if they appear before you have the technological capabilities to fight them, you're pretty much screwed.[/quote] The Dread Lords appearing in a sandbox game is a Mega Event. The purpose of Mega Events is to be disruptive, and to imbalance the game, forcing the player
[quote who="KingsleytheFox" reply="36" id="3435410"]Or maybe do away with the alignment system entirely but keep the random events (again though, make the choices morally ambiguous).[/quote] They are doing away with it, as mentioned on the first page of this thread (replies #2 and #5).
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="19" id="3435244"]I am curious gaunathor, tridus, if there was ANY form of tactical combat would you use it?[/quote] In GalCiv? Never! I play GalCiv when I don't want to have to deal with tactical combat. If I'm in the mood for it, then I play a game that actually focuses on it, like SotS 1, MoO 1 and 2, JA 2, AoW:SM, or Eador. To put it simple, I like tactical combat, but I don't want it in every game. Especially not, if adding it woul