Or, if you're not a doctor, patience. Sorry. But the point remains: Frogboy said 1.5 would be available in December. There's still 25 days to go... (Sound of fingers drumming on keyboard as GalCiv3 player waits for GalCiv3 1.5 patch to come available, drumming becoming faster as time goes by)
The number one thing I would say about 4X, and GalCiv games in particular is that if you like making every move, doing everything yourself in combat than this is not the game or maybe even not the genre for you. You may order that Fleet 4 attacks Enemy Fleet 3, but after that, your shipmen/soldiers are on their own. They will live and die on their wits, not yours. Be grateful you've joined after the planetary wheel was removed. Feel free to search the for
Thanks for the replies. Interesting reading and certainly food for thought. Ziddim, as I take your argument: In GalCiv3, everything you do is coercion and therefore whatever you do, you'll be punished by the implementation of a coercion system that makes your population less happy because you're coercing them. Which you can't avoid so you're constantly being punished whatever choices you make... joeball123, I gave up on realism a long, long ti
[quote who="Seafireliv" reply="28" id="3604033"] A rebate would`ve been nice for wasting £35 quid on the Steam version, but i doubt that will happen... [/quote] Yep, no chance. I wouldn't offer you one, either. It's your choice to do the re-download from GOG. Good on you for doing that if you choose to, but you are choosing to. GOG wouldn't give a rebate to a Steam user who bought Game A on GOG and then when it was subsequently released on Steam re
But, Ziddim, if you were living in Austin and didn't like doing tech (50%) and all the jobs in manufacturing and wealth (30% each), you could look on-line/off-line for a job doing what you wanted in, say, Phoenix and move there. In GalCiv games, there is no volontary emigration. It's controlled by the "government": A Hey, you! On to that thar Colony Ship and go colonize that new planet and probably end up doing the same job you were doing here! or B: Hey, you! On to t
Yes, but isn't it almost inevitable in gaming that there will ultimately be One Best Way - ie with "FTL: Faster Than Light", missiles might be cool and everything but ultimately anyone who wanted to do well stuck with Lasers. How can developers create 3 pathways without - in some way - favouring one? (which, as I've posted previously, reflects the way they would play the game) Nerfing is probably the most likely option the developers would take, but making the huge advantage
So what's the deal with GOG? I'm using Steam and while it's not perfect, I don't - yet anyway - see any reason to give it the heave-ho. '
[quote who="Seafireliv" reply="8" id="3603123"] @OP Well they should be rare or it would look weird. Also it`s a little meglomaniacal getting upset because your planet hardly shows and when it does it`s not good enough. It`s probably randomised. You seriously didn`t expect YOUR name to come up all the time? be happy to know it is in the ... list. [/quote] Well, no. But since there's some people on here upset because frogboy and co won&#
Frogboy is well aware of this problem. It's an annoyance rather than an embarrassment and he's acknowledged that embarrassment is a bigger motivator than annoyance (he's annoyed that the AI does the Park My Ship In Your Space, was embarrassed that the AI needed to learn Planet Development For Dummies 101).
Starting a new thread because the old thread: https://forums.galciv3.com/453553/page/1/#3484190 appears to be closed. Well, I did finally see my star in game last night (I was sandboxing, Immense size map and it took 30-something turns - fair nuff). BUT. One stinking lousy 0 Level Planet. I mean, WTF? Has anyone found their namestar and has it been halfway
Given the ranting and raving this has caused, One can only tremble in fear at the melt-down that's going to occur when Stardock announce that they've dealt with the OP sensorship by allowing it to be shot down by any ship (whichever size, whatever weapons) in any part of the galaxy at any time. Oh, sorry! Was that not public knowledge, Stardock? Oopsie. Sozz. My bad.
I like what you're suggesting. Except I sometimes have a habit of re-starting games where I've picked Random options because I didn't like what Random gave me (ie I really deep down wanted my Setup a certain way and was expecting by picking Random the game would just by chance give me what I wanted)... :)
Playing a game on Insane map, 6 gifted Random Majors, abundant Minors. When you pick the number of Random Majors you want in Game Setup, a number of logos equal to that picked are turned inwards so you can't see them. Does that mean that, for example: You pick 6 Random majors and 6 logos are turned in. The remaining ones that you see are the logos for the Terran, Drengin, Yor. Does that then mean that you will not have the Terran, Drengin and Yor as opponents? Has
Was it ever considered to keep the planetary wheel (for everybody), just make it less grunty? ie Make it totally impossible to, as frogboy mentions, churn out massive hull ships in one turn (which does sound ridiculously overpowered unless you decide a turn is worth a quarter of a year at least - OT but did we ever get an official definition of how long a turn is?) Obviously this is moot pretty much, just wondering. It reads to me like some on here started using the planetary
The idea of retreat, as joeball123 says, would be an absolute PITA unless there was a mechanic by which you could only retreat from a battle situation before you took a certain amount of damage (10%, say). The game makes it so that any enemy that attacks you - and you attacking any enemy - takes out your navigation etc first, so that yep, you can fire your guns and stuff but you can't maneuver to actually shoot too accurately. Agree with No 2, especially. Really
I'm having issues with the Snathi. Boy, they get upset really-really easy. And declare war fairly soon. Too soon to really do anything with it. I'm hoping this will be sorted with 1.5, as that's where diplomacy is going to get a purdy makeover, according to frogboy. I don't mind being threatened by the AI early - ie "we'll undermine you/stop your freighters/harass you/slander your name throughout the galaxy!Look at those disgusting photos of you a
Fair points, but I think there needs to be differentiation between decisions that only affect a colony (building placement, starbase improvement around a particular colony etc) and decisions that affect the entire empire (ship design, fleet formation and so forth). It's the colony level decisions I can't be really bothered with. I've always liked the idea of being able to design templates for planetary construction, then telling the Governor for tha
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="56" id="3598758"] Actually, no, they don't. I don't get paid and haven't in years. And like I said in the post, if you bothered to read, I said it is my game and ALSO your game. I am motivated to make things the players like but not at the cost of turning something I've spent much of my life on into something I dislike. [/quote] And of course making the game do something that you like is eas
I wan't going to reply as I don't like the Colony Wheel but: [quote who="Dracul_JOSHI" reply="11" id="3598411"] So much this. I want to either have the wheel or my money back, because this isn't the game I bought anymore. [/quote] https://forums.galciv3.com/455831/page/1/#3478389 Are the two of you related, by any chance? I accept you want the Colo
[quote who="naselus" reply="6" id="3598364"] I think it was the right choice, tbh. Improving diplo is nice, but would've been pointless if people were still walking away because the game was too easy. We can cope with the placeholder-y diplomacy as long as the game's actually a challenge. [/quote] This is the thing. We all want GalCiv3 to be a challange in some area. Probably even several areas (war, diplomacy, trade etc). Making the game difficult in the easie
That's the same for all ideology "gifts" (cough) as I understand it. Timing seems important in choosing which path to take: For instance the "No one declares war on you for 50 Turns" option. Why would you waste time getting that when it's only Turn 25 or so and no one's capable of attacking you anyway?
I prefer the idea of this being a game mechanic. To me, this is something that makes the UP more than just a "every so often, all us races get together and we vote on stuff.." As I've already stated when it comes to Espionage, the UP and it's inner workings or inner not-workings would add an extra layer to GalCivIII to those like me who prefer espionage/propaganda/etc to violence as a first option. Essentially, I think the UP should be more like the UN: Maybe not so far as to
Except if it is DNA, than population wouldn't go down on the original planet, would it? Unless the whole "population" count is a count of the number of DNA pieces available on any given planet?? Essentially what you're suggesting is there could theoretically be 2.5billion DNA pieces (how big do these pieces need to be? How long do they last? Skin flakes, hairs, etc ) from a man named Colin going to that new Colony. So the new Colony is getting Colinize
Does something like this need to be a bug - Ie why shouldn't a Race within the UP defy a resolution? That leads to resolutions where a Race is somehow punished for defying that resolution.
I do like the idea of expanding the Diplomacy scale to 100 as naselus suggests - I think something that has a negative effect on your relationship with Race B should eventually lead to them putting you on their Shit List but it shouldn't be a linear "Every Turn, they get this much more pissed off that you're doing this thing" . There should also be a modifier in Diplomacy based not on what the relationship level between you and Race B is but on what Race B kn