peregrine23

Welcome! This game can I like too!

This is just good PR, good job guys.

Awesome

It's a combination of both, though I couldn't give you a ratio. You can see the numbers in the trade screen. I usually send trade ships to any very rich planets and to the farthest away.

I think this was a good and fair review, well written. There is so much good about this game it is a shame there are so many little annoyances. Stardock has an excellent track record for continued support though, and the release date on this game feels a little arbitrary as I don't think this is a "finished" game, if such a thing even exists anymore. It's going to continue to get better not just through DLC and Expansions, but through consistent patching as well.

Just put in my review sitting at 81% positive. Good job with this game guys, hope it sells well.

[quote who="Malabolg" reply="17" id="3547372"] I can't help but feel it's a bad sign that working out how to build up a planet is this complicated and counterintuitive. [/quote] I don't know, figuring it out is complicated, but the results seem pretty intuitive to me: If you want a research world, keep your people happy and build research buildings.

just curious, did you try entertainment->hospital, then labs? Is seems like growth should be important.

There are a few consequences for war: 1) It takes population to invade planets. This means you have to weaken one of your planets to take another one. 2) Diplomacy. People will like you less. I have to admit, this matters less when you are killing them all anyway. 3) Approval penalty. You have skirted this, and it isn't that severe anyway, but too many planets can cause some trouble. 4) Oppertunity cost of military force: that production could have been use

I had a very similar experience to OP and agree with most of his feedback. I was a little more active in the beta stages, especially in the short time after each patch was first released. I have found the experience of watching this game develop very interesting. I also liked the ability to "invest" in GCIII by paying a larger sum up front which I am confident will pay off as the DLC and expansions pile up. P.S. I've seen some badges for the new RTSs, but none were

I was going to make a post about this a while ago, but forgot. I think that the first tech in the colonization tree should grant Assembly to any synthetic race. It will still be very hard to grow as a synthetic race using another tree, but it will not be impossible.

You can see all the bonuses to trade routs on the trade routes screen. In general, you want all your trade to originate from the same wealth-producing world as close to the edge of the galaxy as possible.

Yes, though the AI should make this more clear. Influence starbases have their own influence that they spread in the same way as planets. They also grant bonuses to the influence of planets in their range.

Just curious, where exactly is all the micro you guys are complaining about. I tend to do very specialized worlds. I set my slider to some ratio of manufacturing and science/econ while I am building, then switch it to 100% econ/research. I do have to go back through my already optimized planets when I research an applicable tech, but I don't find that that daunting. What are the specific adjustments you are looking to get rid of?

so prolific works even when you're not first settling a world? That's a huge bug.

There are very good suggestions. For a game that lets empires get as big as this one does, the tools for management seem very poor.

I think all buildings that give big adjacency bonuses but do not receive them need to be looked at. Most of them are very weak. Their outgoing bonuses encourage you to place them in a central location, but when you do, you miss out on a lot of incoming bonuses which makes them much weaker than they appear at first.

So, I know it's probably way too late for this, but can't we get rid of food as a stat in this game? We have two different stats in the game that dictate max population, do we really need both? It seems to me that with Approval in a good place, food becomes redundant.

It is a little hilarious that when projects were powerful, people complained that it was better to have diversified planets. Now that projects are weak, people complain that specialized planets are best. Obviously someone is going to be unhappy. That said, SD needs to figure out what they want projects to do and make them to that well. To me they should be a place to funnel excess manufacturing that would otherwise be wasted. With that in mind, I think the best may to do them would be

Production is produced by your population and can be funneled into research, manufacturing, or economy. Your production is modified by buildings, traits, etc. to figure out how much research, manufacturing, and/or economy you get. Manufacturing is the actual points that go toward building buildings and ships and is the result of your production multiplied by your manufacturing bonus. In the over-all economy of this game, production is the most important number and any bonuses/multipli

What's the bug here?

Ahhhh, this should be so simple. Don't do percentages and don't do raw production. Just have the research and economy projects convert manufacturing to research or credits at a loss. So, say, you get 3 research for each 5 manufacturing. This would not be amplified by any research or economy modifiers. This way, you'd be better off never running these on research or economy specialist worlds, but it gives you something to do with excess manufacturing if you don't want to build

I like that GalCiv doesn't (or didn't) punish you hard for expanding. That's the point of the game! Please temper large empire penalties.

I preferred it when starbases had no default defenses, especially now that there are pirates and you get a free module, I think this should be reverted. I think I am outnumbered on that though. The biggest reason for economy starbases is the 10% production bonus. After that, I do agree that manufacturing, research, and economy bonuses could use a boost. I think they should be equivalent to their on-planet counter-part without adjacency bonuses. Military starbases have always b

This has been brought up continually since the diplomacy was introduced, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so +1.