Regarding visible functional parts. A button for that would be perfect. If it didn't matter, make it a button for each part. IG I can have that engine invisible but have the rail gun nice and obvious at the front. You already do animation and scaling by the part.
Awesome. I figured it would be so, but I am glad to hear it all the same.
Hello guys. I have hit some difficulty with the shipyard. I think it is best to describe what I was intending to do first. I am a fan of the Star Carrier series, in that series the ships are characterized with a large shield cap and resemble mushrooms. The shield cap is the front of the ship. My Avatar has one of my GC2 renderings of a ship from that universe. In order to make a ship like that I try to setup a spine of some sort and build off that. Le
[quote who="logan0178" reply="3" id="3458940"]A major concern here is the fact that since Shipyards are now attackable one can simply gain slight military superiority and "camp" the enemy and destroy each and every new shipyard they attempt to build so they can never build any new forces and never recover. Previously each planet was an indestructible shipyard unless you defeat it in an invasion which prevented someone from being camped and make it possible to make a comeback. But with the new
I would suggest listing one line descriptions at the start and then filling it in later. All the the following are real observations but I think SD already knows about them. For example: 1) Some colonizable worlds are not. 2) Ships that are just "ejected" should be in focus right away. 3) There should be a GC2 style box for newly constructed ships. 1) I came across a world that was a class 11. Two different colony
I had the same issue. Also the AI attempted to colonize the world, but the ship just parked one move short.
[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="5" id="3449708"] Im not saying it would be a bad idea or useless but I still fail to see enough benefits to justify this arguably complex Fleet group system. In a RTS like Starcraft you really need groups to react quickly. But in a TBS, its all about microing. Even in late game I do not have all that many fleets and I micro them carefully. I also typically do not have my fleets come back to where they were. They just carry one as the fron
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="2" id="3449701"] The ability to group things is always a great idea. My original Shift-click idea was pretty sexy though if I do say so myself :3[/quote] No reason why we can't have both. Shift click a bunch of planets from the colony list screen and add to a new group. Or just adjust them as if in a group. Very sexy.
No, I didn't know someone already suggested something similar for planets. In regards to fleets, it is a matter of how you play. Lets say that you have all your fleets on sentry or strategic locations. War breaks out and you need to move many fleets over to the other side of your empire. You would have to click on each fleet and tell it go. Even if you have a rally point you have to click on each fleet. Or if you have your fleets in groups, you can
In the "GalCiv III Economy 101" thread, part of the discussion focused on multiple colony management. This lead me to a fleet management idea and because of this I posted my ideas to a new thread: From GCIII Eco 101 thread: "Yes, it's per-world currently if you want -- there's a checkbox for "use civilization-wide settings" that you can override. My bad on research example, thanks for catching that. Fixing." From reading, the only thing explicitly
I brought this issue up in a earlier post some time ago. (Thread was something like: Galciv 2 features that should die) I suggested these alternatives: Scout Ships when set to scout would give the option of 1) Going to random locations in unexplored space, or just random locations is space was explored. 2) Going to random locations. Also I suggested that Survey Ships would default to these if there were no anomalies in reach rather then j
GUI suggestion: Multiple monitor support! I made a thread about that a while ago and I would like to shamelessly plug the suggestion here if I may.
I had never thought about it before. Have you seen any of the GC3 screenshots? GC2 wasn't always clear even to those with normal vision, but GC3 looks like it might be better. Everything looks well defined and with good contrast. But of course I have no idea what it would look like to the various forms of cvd and I don't know how to tell from an OP if you have a founder elite tag and therefore access to the various screenshots we get to see. I don&#
Hmm. No new information at all. If you have kept up with all the previous interviews there is no point in reading this. Not that there is anything wrong with this. It is good to get the news out that a new version is in the works. The more people that know the better.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="35" id="3435696"] Added new music today.[/quote] [e digicons]:D[/e] Danke very much!
Sigh. We are off topic. Though if they did release the alpha to the founders vault, I think I would squeee like a little girl. Right now though I am hoping for a screenshot or something tomorrow or something.
It has been almost a month since the founder's vault has had any new content. [e digicons]:'([/e] I would like to take this opportunity to point out that some of us are suffering from withdraw symptoms and will need another hit soon. [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] A picture of colony management or government management or something. More music. Concept art. *beg*Please please please*beg*
Being able to pin the spending on that line or a percent thereof should also be possible. So if I set the spending at 10% above the line it should go up and down with the line. (OR 10% deficit spending for that matter) It would be nice to get a notice if the "governor" that does that is unable to maintain the spending. In regards to making it so that I would need to drag the pip twice to cross the line, I am not sure I like that idea. If I use CTRL to drag below
I see there is a new picture of the production wheel. It took a while to spot the differences. Anyway, one simple quick suggestion that I think you guys might like to know about... Regarding the dashed line, it represents where you are profitable. I imagine it moves as your economy changes. I also expect that you can select deficit spending if you want to. Now here is the suggestion, make it so that if you are holding ctrl or if you have a readily avail
I would like this a lot. I think the 5% is too steep a curve though. It doesn't take long for that to add up to the point where there is a practical cap to the tree even if there isn't an actual one. On the other hand as I think about it, I could see the possibility of 5% not being enough. It would be something that would have to be calibrated during beta. I also wonder what system they are already designing. They have already said the lasers N
[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="32" id="3424988"] I found the pod cast difficult to understand at times. It almost seemed like the host was asking the guest about morale in GalCiv 2, but then the guest answered with how things will be in GalCiv 3. Similar stuff with other questions. At least, I assume one was talking GalCiv 3 otherwise the guest is out to lunch as to how GalCiv 2 plays. Probably confused the host in the process. The guest practically needed a GalCiv 2 veteran to keep hi
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="28" id="3424937"] If your wondering what happened to Michael Whittaker he died and was replaced with a clone named Willy Wilber, and he now is a admiral of the galactic armada. Are you asking for an easy setting on the game with an easy interface. I never had a problem using the interface even in the beginning. Granted I didn't know everything off the bat. I learned everything I needed to know, and gradually learned some of the unnee
I haven't played WOM for a long time. I guess that is because the game was just MEH. Having said that, a hex map, not being automatically at war with everyone. (I don't know if you guys fixed this, but it seems to me that every one of the handful of times I played everyone declared war almost right away.) Well you guys know how to make a game. Besides WOM they all rock. And this is basically a WOM reboot you are talking about correct? I would sa
[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="23" id="3424703"] Quoting michaelwhittaker, reply 22 Oh yeah this was miner, but I noticed things like when I made something like a research facility I didn't get the research or manufacturing points it promised. I assumed that this was called becaise the civilization screen worked of divying up whatever. Maybe I'm not clearly explaining this. All I'm saying is how come I never got all the points for stuff I built when I built
+1 No to tactical combat. As has been posted many, many times before this isn't an RTS. It is a grand strategy. While I agree the system in GC2 was too simple, we already know better is coming. I so don't want to spend hours on hours micromanaging battles just because auto resolve isn't as good. Nor do I want to auto resolve every battle because I can't compete. And if auto resolve does just as well, then whats the point? This has