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I thought as much, especially as most were in effect in GalCiv2, but I wanted to voice them. Don't want anyone forgetting them!

I don't know how everyone else is doing, but I'm having a really hard time managing colonies and ship building. We really need to have some sort of notification as to when a ship is completed or when a planet has completed everything in it's queue, even if the planet is doing an economic, growth, or whatever boost. The thing I hate the most is that I never know when my ships are completed . I have to check all my planets (which gets old when you have

[quote quoting="post"] (3) The Ship view takes up the whole screen, and it's pretty darned hard to make it go away. You have to click all round outside the box to get it to disappear. Just delete the Ship Preview here. That's what the Ship Builder thing is for. I can gaze lovingly at the models over there; here it just make the UI less efficient. [/quote] YES. I accidentally click on a ship and about have a heart attack with this gia

This sure is something, being that it is still a year out, but here is what I believe will need fixing: 1. The text on the right side of the screen hurts my eyes to look at (at 1080p), perhaps because the resolution is not quite right. 2. I like the sound saying that my turn is complete, but it is a little to much. Maybe too loud? 3. Music changing when pulling up menu's is a little disturbing. I would like the music to fade when opening menu's but not change.<

[quote who="nanl00127" reply="131" id="3451650"] Just finished this computer like...a few weeks back. Technically, I use this computer not just for gaming, but also for video processing and some mathematical processing stuff (I have a lot of hobbies). OS: Windows 8 64-bit CPU: Intel i7 4960X 4.2 GHz CPU Cooler: Corsair H100 Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Memory: Corsair 1600 Mhz 64 GB (8 x 8 GB) Hard Drives: 2 2 TB Western

[quote who="treborblue" reply="104" id="3450834"]I bit the bullet and ordered a new PC Windows 8.1 Intel i7-4770k 3.5GHz 8MB Cache ASUS Z87M-Plus 8GB Kingston hyper-x Dual DDR3 4GB Geforce GTX 770 120GB INTEL 530 SSD 1TB SATA III HDD I don't even know what half the techie stuff means, but I hope its fast. [/quote] This will pretty much blow away anything that is out

[quote who="Yaskoydray" reply="65" id="3449979"] Would it be possible to build a good box with about $500? I noticed OS (Win 7 Pro) and a decent LED monitor would together add another $400-600. I have friend who is a GalCiv freak and he is in the same boat: needs a new system -- he saw online Alienware units from $799 to $2499. Catchy brand theme, but I'm not sure about them; I prefer to build mine and help my friend with his too -- we have several PC shops in town

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="50" id="3449861"] Try and get an NVIDIA card in the "GTX 700" line. The 760, 770, 780 and the Titan are all great choices, with the earlier two being pretty affordable for their cost. Alternatively, if price REALLY isn't an issue, you can wait a bit for the "GTX 800" line of cards or buy a Titan Black. These cards should be able to handle most, if not all, games at their maximum settings without breaking the 50% usage mark. ASUS is a good vendor to

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="39" id="3449724"]If you have the money and the will to do so, I could help you build your own desktop computer. They're a big step over laptops when it comes to gaming.[/quote] It really is the only way to go these days. If you want a decent desktop computer, building it is the only way to make sure you get what you want and for cheap. I am looking into getting a new laptop or tablet to carry around and can't find EXACTLY what I want. I coul

[quote quoting="post"] I joke, but changing the mess of sliders for overall/research/manufacturing into the unified production wheel (we really need a better name for it. The Production Palette?) is a huge improvement over the individual sliders of the past. [/quote] Perhaps the MRAWW (mr-aww)? The Manufacturing, Research, And Wealth Wheel? Excellent article though. It helps to see exactly how things work and understand where your resources come from.

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="31" id="3449570"]Still, I would gladly give up a testicle or two for a chance to use that bad boy! [/quote] This made me chuckle. Heh.

[quote who="Shamrock1232" reply="23" id="3449396"] Case is a Cooler Master HAF-XM, with two Corsair high performance 120mm fans. Motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 Antec 1200W PSU AMD FX-8350 with a Corsair H100 water cooler(Over clocked to 4.5 GHz) 32GB 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance Two-Way SLI GTX Titan Blacks 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD 1TB Samsung 840 Evo(SSD) 120GB Corsair Force Series SSD(F

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="16" id="3449332"]Good choice going with asus. I have stuck with them for years and its the first time i buy a gigabyte mobo in a long time. So far so good but I had a few weird glitches in the bios and the software support sucks donkey balls. I think ill be back to asus next time [/quote] I agree. ASUS has been a very good brand for me also. My mobo, graphics card, and tablet/laptop are all ASUS. [quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="14" id="34493

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="10" id="3449314"]You must bow before my processing power! Bow! :3 Rest assured I paid through my teeth (~1500 w/ rebates, sales and the like) for that kind of gear. But the payoff for doing so... OH THAT PAYOFF MAN. (Seriously though my computer's specs are mostly superfluous, you can get by perfectly fine with far less)[/quote] Well you do know that you have a 50 foot tv... [quote who="ParagonRenegad

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="4" id="3449293"] Windows 8.1 16GB Ripjaws RAM Haswell i5-4670k @ 4.5 GHz Nvidia GTX 780 TI 1 TB Seagate Hard Drive 750 W Power-sourcey thingy-majiggy 50' LCD TV My setup annihilates pretty much everything except stress tests, but I still need an SSD :c[/quote] [e digicons]8(|[/e] Holy crap.

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="6" id="3449286"] another option would be a supporting a resolution if through diplomacy i can convince enough other civs to support my proposal for a resolution then it gets pushed forward in the U.P. meeting[/quote] I like this, but how do you get the AI to 'support' your proposal? Is it just based on your influence with them? How much they like you? Or if their type of civ likes the type of proposal you propose?

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="2" id="3449213"] ...they had a bit of great news with other stuff about Galactic civilizations 3 you are able to propose bills in Galactic council in the new game. They didn't mention how we are going to be able to do this even though I have ideas on how this can be done.[/quote] This is good. I always wondered if the resolutions were random, and a lot of the time they were quite useless to me. What are some of your

Since the alpha is only a little ways out, I was wondering what everyone was planning on playing it (or the beta, or the final version [e digicons]:grin:[/e] ) on? My specs: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2GHz 8 GB Kingston 1600MHz RAM ASUS P8Z77-V LX ASUS Geforce GTX 670 4GB OC +20MHz (1000MHz) Raidmax 750W 80 PLUS GOLD CoolerMaster Storm Scout 2 Case 128 GB Samsung 840 Pro (OS) 1

I'm glad that you sent this out! It brings into perspective what this alpha is all about and tells people what to expect. I (and I believe many other people) thought the same way. It's good to clear the air and let people know what's up!

[quote who="sulley1" reply="65" id="3444693"]- Planetary defenses will also make the game much more interesting. Bombing? Improved defenses for orbiting ships? Invasion screens?[/quote] To answer my own question, I found that the PlanetScreen-alpha01 in the vault clearly shows a "Defense System" that looks awfully like a gun pointed toward the sky. Can you say PLANETARY DEFENSES?

My complaints (and compliments): - I know this is the alpha and the UI will likely go through great changes, but I would also like it 'bottom' oriented, possibly because Gal Civ 2 was like that. The UI also seems very 2 dimensional and would like it to 'pop' more. - I don't know if I like the thickness of the travel lines of the ships. It is nice to see where they are going and how many turns, but Gal Civ 2's and even SOSE's were better. I like thin

[quote who="EvilMaxWar" reply="32" id="3443830"] Sounds like you are playing in lower resolution than 1080p, which is what I do too. And honestly its looks fine despite the upscaling. If I set the resolution to 1080p though everything becomes too small and it strains me eyes![/quote] I am actually at 1080p and the words are somewhat small, but I sit fairly close to my monitor. I do notice at places like the start screen that there are texture glitches, but that isn't a proble

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="1" id="3443150"] The planet economy is more sophisticated, we got rid of the ambiguous morale system and replaced it with adjacency bonuses.[/quote] YES. Most of the time I have to mod the tech trees to give me morale bonuses so that I can finish a game! It will be nice to actually be able to have that 32b population planet and not have it have a 15% approval rate. That doesn't even make sense to me. If I can provide enough food these people should

THIS GAME. Explosions everywhere. Feels like a lot of other games rolled into one. The beta is pretty sweet!

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