mrblondini

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="113" id="3805463"] The gameplay changes we have in mind are a little more..substantial than what I'm seeing suggested here. So a lot of this doesn't apply because the gameplay is so different (in a good way). A lot of the things being discussed here are based on fixing features that were tacked onto GalCiv III with Crusade. Whereas, in the future, we get to start with "doing it right" the first time. With regard to

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="84" id="3804372"] That's one of the reasons we are going to end up making alpha versions available rather than Beta. Because the changes are so dramatic. No one is going to be saying that it's just III with better graphics or something. [/quote] From that I get a sneaking suspicion a new, impoved Ship Designer will not be included bright and early in the development phase before actual game-changing ideas like a new mechanic t

Okay, then. Kind of to be expected. Covid maybe has made a fair number of folk change their priorities. Why they'd put anything above GalCiv4 Foundership beats me, but each to their own, I guess. Except I'd have thought Stardock would have jumped on the opportunity presented by the hugely increased number of people - which must include a fair number of us GalCiv3 Faithful - who have had to increase their "work from home" time. "Yes, boss, I was up at and starting work

[quote who="Linklite" reply="68" id="3803963"] Quoting Seilore, reply 66 Quoting MottiKhan, reply 65 I'm not sure if thi

Gauntlet 03, I like your idea of letting a Automatic Resource Generator Planet "upsetting the applecart". Maybe a simple warning every so often "Planet 17 feels you are ignoring them and are considering defecting to the Drengin." So you go to Planet 17, give them credits/build an approval building/schedule a tour there from a Celebrity until the mood improves. Or have Planet 17 (which is Level 5) suddenly becoming more productive than Planet 2 (Level 25) for, say, 10 turns? Which means th

Concur with Publius, $100USD is what I paid when I joined the Founder Elite group sometime in 2014. Got to name a star, got my name on the Credits Roll at the end of the game... And, yes, all DLCs/updates have merrilly downloaded from Steam without asking me to pay a cent.

Just reading through DivineWrath's very detailed report: First thing that comes to mind: Is it possible to make everything that requires a Resource to work/happen reliant not on, say, a predefined Resource like Durantium, but on the most common resource as created in map generation? So, let's say I start up a game and GalCivIV creates a map with Snuggler Colonies the most common resource in my galaxy. Thulium is second or third most common. The system then tells me that to bu

I like the concept of Meh Planet = Automatic Resource Generator and I'd suggest a switch where, at any point, you can decide that the precise resource you want your Meh Planets Population/Citizens to provide is Wealth/Production/Research. I see that as being preferable than each planet proving 1/3 boost to each of those 3 areas. If you didn't want to implement my switch idea, you could scale what they provide with their Level rating - which admittedly would still mean everyone ignore

Here's one I'm sure everyone will hate for various reasons - ruins "immersion", difficult for the AI to use etc etc - but, off the top of my head: Precursor Intelligence Planet: A planet that can be communicated with by a Player via Techs (Races find it deep down in the Colonization Tree, but it takes A. Long. Time to research it). I considered making this Precursor Intelligence Communication an Ability, but it's a bit ridiculous having an Ability you might not get to use if there's n

I use Firefox with: Adblock Plus - For obvious reasons. I exclude it on pages I particularly think deserve support - usually forums I'm part of. Bypass Paywalls - Mainly because a lot of newspapers expect payment for frankly irrelevant stuff like sports, etc. Which can hardly be called Premium/Exclusive. I'd understand paywalling a lot more of it was dedicated to political analysis etc ie "serious stuff" but most of it's actually used to get payment for everyday fluff. <p

I like those ideas, Taslios. It sounds like what you're proposing is that your percentage of power in the UP and/or diplomatic standing within the galaxy determines your ability to propose bills, force or request meeting etc. So: If your race has 60% power in the UP/good standing with 8 of 12 races, you can put forward a bill where your race gets FULL CONTROL of all Resources, Artefacts and Precursor Relics within your ZOC, whether unowned or owned - are you proposing that kin

Certainly lining up to be part of any Founders Edition for GalCiv4. Here's what we said we'd like in GalCiv4 way back in 2019. Just posting that here for anyone's refresher/perusal as I was about to say what I'd like and then remembered this and nope, can't think of any changes to what I said in that thread. The bit about Citizens being Units you can forget about as I've just changed my Citizens picture to say "Gr

Billy Connolly reckoned the desire to ever be a politician should bar you from ever being one. I've tried those political compasses and the questions are just open enough to be interesting but vague enough to not really allow you to say or indicate what you really mean. Personally, I've found one topic that will unite all the Left and all the Right into sitting around the campfire singing Kumbayah. It's means-testing for welfare. The Left hate it because "it demonizes

Fair point, starkers, but another to look at it is that the approval for Pfizer's vaccine did happen very fast in both countries. A whole lot faster than normally happens. There's a possibility - however small - that things have been rushed. Firstly, the vaccine might not work as intended. It might have ugly side effects. It might not work at all. New Zealand won't be getting any vaccines until March, by which time we should know which one is the most effective

We do realise that if this is a sign of alien visitation that it violates, undermines and frankly renders totally invalid Calvin's Theorem? "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Of course, the Theorem doesn't allow for any unintelligent life, so maybe that's what we're seeing here. &nbs

Maybe Brad wasn't kidding all those years ago when he wrote about unclogging Drengin toilets (this was a "fix" when GalCivIII were but a wee Alpha in 2014) and now the Drengin toilets are clogged again and guess what planet has plenty o f toilets!? All those people fighting in supermarkets over toilet paper? Yep, undercover Drengin. And all those people who made that toilet paper? Yep, once again, undercover Drengin. I just hope the Monolith from S.T.A.

If I'm Brad and Co, I'm devoting the vast majority of "GalCiv" worktime to Galactic Civilization IV. Keep up patches for errors and bugs (that is, errors and bugs that S tardock thinks are errors and bugs, see numerous examples of this: bugs that were reported wayback 2016-2017 and have not been fixed, sometimes one person's Bug is another person's WAI/not worth bothering with issue) for GalCiv3 but certainly no more expansions or DLCs. I recall frogboy posting about what he f

Is it a problem of teaching the AI not so much the rules but how best to use them? After all, it's not as if it's not allowed to use the Prime Minister's Starship in a fleet, it's just stupid to do so.

And I guess it's the dogs that come up with all the good ideas? "Great! Let the dog onto the desk for one minute , you hear his paws clattering on the dang keyboard and next thing he's created a new race and a new economic mechanic!"

I think the easiest way to solve this is to contact the person you bought the game from on Ebay and ask them to permanently delete Rebellion from their Steam library, which Steam has allowed since late 2015. Although the way you've worded things, are you actually the game's third - or more - owner?

I tend to focus on whatever type of resource is most common around my starting system, so if, for instance, there's 2 promethion in one system and 1 thulium in another and both systems have no/poor planets, I just build a starbase to cover the 2 promethion. If there's 1 promethion in a cluster of 2 thuliums, obviously I take the whole thing. But it's to get more promethion so other races have less. Obviously durantium gets the priority, I grab all I can find.

You're right. If it's Stardock's intention that you can't change a race's ideology, they should make the ideology tree and ideology events unavailable or by still showing them, but automatically picking the ideological choice that the race - when played by the AI - would make in each event.

Don't The Measured - as one of "The Villains" of Star Control - have Malevolent as their starting Ideology? I guess there might be a "number" on the Malevolent to Benevolent Scale of Ideology (or however Stardock handle Ideology) that effects how quickly you can or even if you can change a Race's Starting Ideology. As I only ever play my own Race, I'm not sure how this works, but that's how I'd be doing it if I was Stardock. For example, playing the Korath as a Benevolent Rac

dkahil, I like those ideas - it's a small thing, but it does seem a bit weird that you wouldn't have your transports well protected...After all, they're the ships that get you the planets that gets you the wins. If Stardock take your idea of acquiring techs through espionage - and if they're going to do that, making it so you can only trade techs with allies seems totally logical - they need to make the acquiring of information via spies faster or more in depth. More

My home computer's fine, but my work computer, which pretty much has the same things installed on it but also has a bunch of Adobe Illustrator/Creative stuff as well and Trend Micro (my home computer uses Winzip Utilities for no better reason than I bought it, liked it and have had no failures with it so see no need to change), throws a screamy hissy fit whenever I launch either Firefox or Internet Explorer 11. Crash after crash after... Microsoft Edge, of course, works fine.