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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="97" id="3446241"]But I used the exploit myself all the time and didn't want it to go away. [/quote] This is why I love Stardock! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="91" id="3445990"]I prefer the damage-and-rebuild model over permanent damage. How believable is it that we can terraform swamped planets, desert planets, toxic planets, even planets where everything is radioactive, but invasion tactics damage the planet beyond reclamation? What possible degree of combat damage could be worse that what we already face on a regular basis?[/quote] Our highest level weapons in present day are already capa

[quote who="Tridus" reply="89" id="3445828"]Scale is often going to be off, because the game requires me to be able to conquer planets without depopulating my own by making 10 billion soldiers.[/quote] It's really almost too far the other way, if I was invading a lush planet of 8 billion people then I'd use 2-4 billion troops in GC2 depending of the tech disparity, which is one soldier to every four inhabitants in the minimum scenario..... That's a crazily s

[quote who="Tridus" reply="3" id="3445849"]At which point we'll instead have people complaining about how small ships are useless once larger ones are researched.[/quote] Really when you think about it, they should be. X-wing's only beat Death Stars in movies! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="7" id="3445662"]Fate is Sovereign, the word is almost holy to me. [/quote] Hahaha out of context, this made me chuckle for a solid minute! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] [e digicons]|-)[/e] I like this idea as a separate game type, like Sins has the Flagship victory option, implementing the same thing in GC3 as a toggleable victory option except being able to change which ship is your flagship as your techno

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="81" id="3445756"]But really, what was the alternative?[/quote] [quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="85" id="3445779"]Better IMO than both the existing and your proposed plan is removing permanent damage altogether, and replacing it with something like the terraforming mechanic.[/quote] So you had an alternative all along? Both interesting ideas, although yours extends a bit too far towards

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="81" id="3445756"]That "exploit" has been around a loooong time. It's pretty common knowledge. But really, what was the alternative? Applying the PQ loss even on losing invasions would have led to exploits the other way, using multiple one-person transports to fail at invasions and wreck really tough worlds down to PQ1 without ever even attempting to take them. 5-6 empty transports would reduce any planet to uselessness. And since the AI would

Max shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, promise me that when you find exploits like that in GC3 you won't write them on the forums! That's how things get patched haha! In fairness though that became a lot less useful in TA, as most of the improvements would be destroyed because you don't have the required tech anyway. Fate,:beer:

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="56" id="3445693"]It's just awesome.[/quote] Damn straight it is! Fate,:beer:

Gal Civ 2 already has a mechanic for displaying the technological disparity of two races in a ground invasion, you can already use less troops when your technology is vastly superior, thanks to the baseline soldiering skill buff applied with most of the planetary invasion techs. Fate,:beer:

[quote who="qrtxian" reply="21" id="3445497"]A bit surprised that "Iridium" is actually their species name, as I had assumed it was referring to the element.[/quote] When you think about it Iridium is just the name that we give to the element with 77 protons, Iridium could mean an entirely different thing in their language and the translation happens to pan out like it has. It could mean benevolent sentient being for all we know in their language! Just my five cents.</p

[quote who="EPiC98" reply="203" id="3445383"]Oops . Didn't mean for that happen.[/quote] Haha it's all good mate, we can be Spartan bros together! [e digicons]B)[/e] [e digicons]k1[/e] Fate,:beer:

All we know so far is that the minimum requirement is a 64bit processor and operating system. I imagine these forums will have a good idea of what the ideal system requirements will be after the alpha comes out, late next month! Fate,:beer:

Oh EPiC98, this has just become awkward.... Fate,:beer:

I like this, I suspect that these guys are going to be massive early expansionists backed by their uniquely strong economy, then cash up and simply buy allies if they ever get into a war ala the Drath. This could be a very fun opponent! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="odoniel" reply="193" id="3444744"]but both are neither childish nor offensive ...[/quote] I struggled quite hard with wanting to make something childish haha, settled on the ego trip of naming it after my handle to get past it! Fate,:beer:

[quote who="SailorBob" reply="188" id="3444648"]Has anyone heard when Stardock will officially request our star name inputs?[/quote] Negative on that one Ghostrider. Fate,:beer:

For the record, I have zero issues with your planned change Frogboy, this discussion was too one sided to stay quiet. Fate, [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

[quote who="Misaniovent" reply="7" id="3444422"]Second to that, the Arceans are interesting. Many racial tech trees change how you develop, but the combination of their tech tree, their super ability, and their movement/speed system makes them fundamentally different. It promotes a different design philosophy than you might take and it further rewards planetary specialization. Being inherently neutral is a major boost as well, since Neutrality Learning Centers are so outstanding. They have we

Less freak out guys, this is Stardock we're dealing with here. Trust that if they've taken away something, they've given something far better in it's place! I would be very surprised if they take away individual planetary approval ratings without putting something better in, the result being a better, less exploitable (because we did all exploit it) gaming experience - remembering that it is a multiplayer title now! Fate, [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

The recently released to founders first impressions PDF by Brad mentioned that the dev team is aware of this issue and will be looking to make sure the steam pop ups don't cover up anything important by default! Fate, [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="2" id="3443592"] Of course, if you wait five years you'll be able to get it on the winter Steam sale for five dollars plus all DLC :3[/quote] Hahahahahaha I laughed so hard at that!! That'd be great, except waiting the now weeks for the alpha is excruciating enough!! Fate, [e digicons]:beer:[/e]

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="2" id="3443014"] The few. The proud. The elite founders.[/quote] When other people start swarming over our lines with their "Join Date 2014" accounts, I suggest just referring to Elite Founders as the 'Elite Guard' or something else suitably bad ass, so that when we drop into their noob question threads everybody know's who we are and are in awe haha! Can we do signatures underneath each one of your p

[e digicons]:drool:[/e] The bonus's for adjacent buildings is all I can think about from that, that is going to be amazing! Fate, [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="14" id="3443379"] If there is no morale anymore, then what is keeping your population in check (besides the amount of farms, I mean)? [/quote] I see what you did there [e digicons]^_^[/e]