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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="3661584"] I made the maps smaller but with more stuff because I preferred it that way. But I am okay making the larger maps back to the way they were. But medium and lower are going to go with the way I like it. [/quote] Perfect, you're the boss. Main point to the post was just to draw attention to the points of posts in the past that stated that most players don't play MP by a huge margin, play smalle

[quote who="Badbonez" reply="6" id="3661577"] 1.9 changed the map sizes, made them smaller with more stuff in them. Is that what you have in mind? [/quote] Not specifically, Just a general post to bring attention that a lot of people may play those other ways and complete games or multiplayer games but, something is holding them back and that's why the stats don't show the whole picture.

[quote who="Badbonez" reply="4" id="3661571"] I don't understand the point of this post. What do you want us (players) or them (devs) to do with this information? It's long and detailed, nicely organized too! But what do we take away from this? [/quote] Adding to the points of why players don't play MP games and, why it's not necessarily an issue with want to play but, reasons of why this hasn't taken off and why players don't p

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="21" id="3661567"] Anyway, I am sure Frogboy knows far more about marketing than I do. I sell plants/trees and the uh, uniformed folks I deal with are a pure joy! [/quote] Don't you know all of your customers are experts in your profession and know better than you :D

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="1" id="3661556"] Well to be honest my main reason I play single player is because I can play the game when I want. [/quote] You can play MP and still play SP when you want, for instance, erischild and I have a set time each week to continue our game, so we meet up then, otherwise any other time I just play my SP game.

I have not had any issues with the game with the new patch... I would suggest you submit a ticket, please see the following post if you have questions on how to do this. https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/

[quote who="Mike Joe" reply="36" id="3661535"] Getting stuck on wait all the time with a new game with this latest patch. The current game i can only go 1 turn and then it's stuck yet again. [/quote] I would suggest you submit a ticket, please see the following post if you have questions on how to do this. https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/

[quote who="dlapine1" reply="11" id="3661532"] Hmm, no reversion for the other galaxy sizes? . The new small map sizes are significantly less supportive of exploration strategies. Good thing we have a patch to restore the old values. [/quote] [quote who="mmdrew" reply="12" id="3661534"] It feels more like we're in an overcrowded ghetto than a galaxy. [/quote] If the maps are too crowded, attempt to change the galaxy settings instead of abundant everythi

My argument against the whole more people play SP or more players play smaller maps or even most larger game maps never come to completion are the following... More players play SP vs MP by 95% or more... First off MP was very unstable at launch which turned people away from MP, it has gotten better but, haven't tried more than 2 player MP in a long time, that is were most of the stability issues were with 3 or 4 players. Turn Times - At first the

[quote who="harmonic42" reply="60" id="3661262"] Still crashing on game load... 5 hours into an epic game and now it's gone. Gives me the standard windows crash message. Tried loading the previous autosave, it doesn't even give me an error message. Just bam, crash to desktop. GalCiv3 is like the hot but crazy ex girlfriend. You keep thinking you can go back to her, and it's really sweet for a little while, but then she crashes on you just like before and

[quote who="mortili" reply="6" id="3661461"] You do realize that you can just take the next bigger map? [/quote] Except for Multiplayer maximum there is either Huge or Gigantic (forgot which one) but, I was more concerned with the SP Insane map thank you.

I do see an update is queued for me as well, maybe the fix to the insane map size?

[quote who="Chris FFZ" reply="5" id="3661385"] The 'map' size is also all wrong, you are right on top of everyone no matter what size is selected. [/quote] The map sizes were changed in the update, please review the change log... They are returning the Insane map size back to the original but, the others that is the new size with the patch and is working as intended. As far as being on top of everyone they also increased the object count so the galaxies w

[quote]But we live in an age where people 4+ CPU cores. The AI should be doing your taxes while crushing you. So while the 1.9 AI doesn't do your taxes, it does make a lot of use of your CPU cores. Those playing the game no doubt noticed the pretty massive perf differences. I didn't optimize anything. I just made the game use your hardware a lot better. [/quote] Yes, more please :D [quote]Like I said, it's basically a quasi-sequel disgui

[quote]I noticed in the 1.9 opt-in patch and also in the 1.9 official patch that ship movement on the map is very, *very* choppy and slow. Since that was not the case before it can't be my machine (Intel Core i7-4720HQ, 2.6 GHz, 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M) or operating system (Windows 10 Home). [/quote] It's been choppy since the beginning, truthfully it's better since they killed the exploration treaty and reduced it to only one faction, however as the

Stardock, I've asked this in the past, with not much response, why do you continue to answer more on Steam and, less and less on your actual forums. I just went to the Steam forums to see that you have replied several times to peoples concerns about the map sizes there but, have said very little if any here on your forums. I know maintaining 2 forums can be a chore especially when receiving the same types of feedback, however, here is where you have your more loy

[quote who="Philocthetes" reply="28" id="3660947"] And now, after many years of haranguing that mods are annoying distractions that 'pollute' the game [/quote] I may go that way as well, I normally dislike mods and wish to play the game as intended but, with Stardock quiet on why this was a good thing to pull back the map sizes 18 months after release may require me to go for a mod.

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="14" id="3660858"] Second line under balance. Reduced the size of maps while keeping the same number of objects, effectively increasing the galactic density. [/quote] Thanks Rhonin I missed this... I still don't understand why but, thanks for pointing this out.

[quote who="EnormousD" reply="7" id="3660842"] By contrast, the Immense galaxy in v1.83 felt vast and spread out, with the Insane galaxy size being that much more ridiculous (which is a good thing). In v1.9, Insane is pretty big, but it still seems smaller and inferior to its v1.83 counterpart. Has anyone else noticed this as well? If so, perhaps there is a way to change the XML settings to get back to the v1.83 map generation behavior? [/quote] [quot

First off thanks for all the hard work on making these changes. I look forward on continuing to play this great game. On a different note, I don't see anything on this patch related to galaxy sizes? Does this mean that did not end up getting put into the update? If that's the case thank you.

[quote][updated 12/12] Reduced the size of maps while keeping the same number of objects, effectively increasing the galactic density. [/quote] Don't like this option making the game smaller this far after release is like a slap across the face. I understand you are attempting to make the game work better and perform better but, isn't this something that should have been covered in the beta process not 18+ months after release? Are we going to get the "i

1.9 Feedback on SP Game (normal AI, abundant everything, very slow tech rate and game pacing) AI Behavior Turn 140 (ish) I had 6 AI all declare on me of approx 25 factions that I have met, all stronger military than myself. However, I am ranked 1st by 4x the nearest faction. Turn 155 (ish) All 6 AI requested peace after I've now doubled their military, however, I am still ranked 1st however, now only about double the nearest faction. &n

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="80" id="3660452"] ...JK.. I went into and out of the screen and that seemed to do the trick. [/quote] I wish it was this easy for me, I tried that, adding other things to queue, going to other planets/ star bases. Nothing worked until I went back in later :( good to know I'm not alone.

I have a comment but, it would not be productive so I'm going to leave it as this.... I know it's frustrating and it's a very frustrating issue for many of us, however, it's a known issue in which Stardock is hard at work to make this game great. This as well as many other issues I'm sure will be addressed in the weeks/months ahead. :) . Also I don't think you need to post this issue as a reply to the 1.9 forum post as well as creating it&#3

[quote]There used to be a suicidal difficulty level in the game, which marigolden has taunted about a year ago. This level has been since removed/renamed a few updates back. [/quote] The most difficult level in the game for AI is Godlike and always has been? However, I do agree game speed is just something to delay the start of the game. As far as buildings I don't wait 46 turns for a building to be done I purchase it for 300 credits or whatev