Fate

I won't even have the internet when the alpha drops, so my point is moot :( Fate,:beer:

This ^^^ Fate,:beer:

[quote who="Galactic_Prophet" reply="59" id="3448502"]I know Stardock isn't that big of a company and yet you're devoting resources to prototyping SIX games at the same time? To me that makes no sense. Not even the huge "AAA" studios do that. GalCiv has got to be one of your biggest sellers, so it seems like you'd want to throw all your guys at it, knock it out of the park, then use those proceeds to fund your other games. Slow-and-steady does NOT always wi

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="5" id="3447793"] I would say you deserve whatever Fate comes to your Empire. Muwhahaha![/quote] You caught me napping, your fate will be the same as all the others... crushed by my fleets. Fate,:beer:

I'm in! My steam display name is Brentoski, I like to keep it simple so that it's not complicated to figure out who's on my steam list, although in this case that works against me because you all know me as Fate, ironically my old steam handle! I'll probably just change it to Fate if we're playing alpha games [e digicons]B)[/e] Fate,:beer:

[quote who="MottiKhan" reply="47" id="3448425"]Hopefully, the vocal minority won't have an impact on the game. [/quote] Stardock has a pretty strong history of figuring out what's the vocal minority and what's actually a player consensus, I think the Snathi are safe :D [quote who="Tridus" reply="45" id="3448389"]This is what she'll look like if you use the ship designer to make something that's ugly.[/quote]

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="43" id="3448327"]It's a reference to the Sins of a Solar Empire forums, where everyone demanded that space ponies be in the game. They were! [/quote] I always wondered if that achievement in Sins had anything to do with that show.. now I know. I never went onto the Sins boards, probably should have! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="12" id="3448270"] be Fated to have a[/quote] Now I just think you're summoning me on purpose Darca! [quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="13" id="3448272"]and pony up a hundred dollar[/quote] Have you got something stuck on your mind Paragaon? Ponies by chance haha? Fate,:beer:

[quote who="Tridus" reply="32" id="3448176"]When you get right down to it, this game has a shocking lack of ponies.[/quote] [quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="38" id="3448277"]We need Space Ponies![/quote] [quote who="sleepyx732" reply="39" id="3448279"]and space ponies..[/quote] Ponies seem to be a bigger thing than I thought... You crazy kids hahaha [e digicons]^_^[/e] Fate,:beer:

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="209" id="3448222"]Yep.[/quote] I can confirm this confirmation. Fate,:beer:

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="56" id="3447869"]Just mark the text, click on the Insert/Edit Link button, and add the link.[/quote] Ah, I see. Cheers mate! My apologies for that brain fart! Fate,:beer:

Beat me to it Max :( Fate,:beer:

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="22" id="3448016"]We've opened the door to DLC consisting entirely of dialog updates, haven't we? D'OH![/quote] GNN Weekly News: "Today Stardock announced the first DLC for it's critically acclaimed success GC3. Entitled 'The Cringe Pack' the DLC contains a host of new minor races to populate the galaxy and stems from a surge of support for GC3 to have more of its trademark cheesy humour and fun. Reportedly incl

If you look at Stardock's publishing record also you'll see that they have a habit of putting out several expansions per major release, even the original Galactic Civilisations had an expansion, the second had two, and Sins of a Solar Empire had three large expansions and several DLC packs. Looking at that trend I can only assume that GC3 will have at least two full blown expansions, plus a lot of DLC. And most importantly, with the Founders Elite you never have

The music in this thread is sufficiently epic to have made me suddenly overwhelmed with excitement for the alpha! Two weeks is too long to wait now!! But really, how does one imbed a link like that Gaunathor? Fate,:beer:

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="19" id="3447992"]Actually now that im thinking about it there should be a minor race that tries to throw a major pun in every time you talk to them. to the point that you're sitting in your chair groaning just because you need to talk to them and are dreading to see what the pun is this time.[/quote] They should be called 'The Punklemans', but whatever you call them that would be my favourite race in the game!! I'd talk

[quote who="Strategist" reply="52" id="3447825"]May this be transmitted to all the Drengin forces, during humankind's counter attack. [/quote][quote who="Gaunathor" reply="53" id="3447835"]I think a variation of this at the start of the battle would be better.[/quote] I'm quite fond of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTwBF7dM7g as the theme for the Terran fight back, it has t

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="23" id="3446971"]I do artificially slow down the colony rush by kneecapping the AIs pretty harshly early on. And that's without keeping research planets for myself: I build them and sell them to whichever AI I gave my econ treaty to, so I can get whatever techs they research. Once one AI starts researching tech victory, I kill them off and give the econ and research planets to the next AI on the hit list.[/quote] You slippery gyps

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="9" id="3447707"]How many do you have?!?! "A mate of mine" are you Australian[/quote] One of us. One of us. One of us. On topic, the Gal Civ franchise humour is fantastic, I'd very happily see it expanded upon, not reduced! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="alfandtot" reply="16" id="3446695"]Thank you for your for your opinions (and the kind words you put them in)[/quote] No problem mate, I hate threads where people are uncivilised! [quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="17" id="3446699"]I played with the sliders very little, at the very beginning of each game. Once I got more than 2-3 colonies the sliders were set in stone until I was close to finishing the tech tree.[/quote]

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="35" id="3446701"]So yeah, I'd rather not see "bigger is better". Bigger should give more tactical options, but combined arms, consistency of strategy, and adaptation to the situation should be the key elements. [/quote] Of course strategy should be at the forefront of the thinking, but in a space environment a fleet of purely small hulls at the same tech level and logistics size as a fleet of purely larger hulls shou

That's a really cool idea mate, I can tell you've put a lot of thought into it! Personally though I wouldn't want to see it implemented, as it takes the game too far into the deep ends of realism for me and I don't think that I would find it fun, more annoyingly real worldly. Thanks for putting your idea out there though, that takes gut's and it's great that we have such a supportive community that comes up with, and welcomes, new ideas from play

Cheers! :beer:

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="28" id="3446398"]The battleships, battlecruisers and cruiser class ships are almost extinct nowadays (only Russia has battlecruisers), while planes are pretty much the keystone of combat. In other words, it essentially depend on a lot of factors...[/quote] Those are two completely different types of combatants that operate in different mediums haha, to use your example correctly would be to say that RIB's are capable of taking down b

[quote who="Renney77" reply="74" id="3446432"]I think it was fate that put that GC there[/quote] Shit, he's onto me! You're most welcome buddy [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Fate.:beer: