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You can use Template ship designs and skip straight to Equip mode, where all components are functional. There will also be a Design mode, where you can design ships based on existing hulls, or even build them from scratch. We Very much want to make sure players do not feel overwhelmed by the ship designer, or feel they have to custom design every ship they use. That said, for those of you who want go crazy, will be able to do amazing things.

Someone had to say it.

[quote who="CyberGoblin" reply="3" id="3409335"]So am I right in thinking that instead of the hull and extras system there is a module system? I have probably described that horribly but you get my point [/quote] There will still be "Hulls", they are needed as the primary stat holder, capacity, hit points, etc. The big difference is the hulls will be built using components, we will include many base hulls per race, but ship design aficionados will actually be able to create there

Are you telling me there will be no more Margaritas :(

In fact, Cari was on GC3 and helped us get the new engine going, before she left us to have a life. ;) She is still here in spirit, and sometimes on skype, when i have a hard core GC2 question.

I am loving this thread. First off, as the designer, this is perhaps my biggest challenge. Keeping the soul of Galactic Civilizations II, but making it better sexier, and feel new. I can't really roll out a big list of what has chang

I think you are safe. ;)

This is all good stuff, i started another post on Events in general, please check it out, all feedback welcome.

In reading responses to the post on my Gameranx Interview i was surprised to see the one thing that got people talking was my comments on Random Events. Which got me thinking, this is something people feel strongly about. GC2 Events, and Mega Events, in particular are something players either love or hate, I have read countless post where people praise them for keeping the game interesting, and many more were people claim they break the game comp

I will admit the "Mega Events" in GC2 could be quite a kick in the head. Which is one of the reasons we had an option to turn them off. Events are something players love and hate, sometimes both at the same time. We have some ideas on how to push that more to the love side in GC3. Thanks for the feedback.

And they are sick o[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="5" id="3407028"] Strange. How can the Snathi become a major race when in every game I played, I wiped them out? [/quote] And they are getting sick of it. ;)

I have my own dark plans for the Snathi. [e digicons]}:)[/e]

Great Stuff, we have some new great stuff up our sleeves, more details to come. ;)

Resolution will not be limited on the the game side, if your video card can push 4k you will be good to go. The UI will have several scale modes to make sure it stays crisp and clean even on crazy Retina like displays, we want to make sure the game is as future proof as possible.