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[quote who="androshalforc" reply="2" id="3476418"] The people come from the primary sponsor on your first starport this is your home planet i assume on any other it will be the first planet you add there is a major balance issue here i could send a constructor to the far edge of unexplored space build a starport add a high populace planet as primary sponsor and quick buy colony ships each turn "magically" transporting the colonists all the way across the galaxy[/qu

Very helpful thank you!!! I had always played Terrans. I figured it was an early tech but it was late and I didn't want to futz around. Now I am am colonizing like a bandit and taking notes as I go. I like the Iridiums - having great fun with the Alpha 3! As far as space junk goes - how does it factor in? it says star base effect but I cannot see clearly what it does.

I may be overlooking something very elementary but I am playing as the Iridium and when I go to construct more colony ships they are not on the list. When I try to build one from scratch the colony modules aren't available as a part at all. So my initial reaction was I needed to research something - but I have (quickly) looked over the tech tree and cannot find a tech to research something that will grant me colony ships that also has a tooltip associated with it for the colony module. I

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="1" id="3474975"] If something like this is implemented, could it be optional for lower skill levels? It sounds like a major game element that may take time to learn how to deal with. This may also be a good idea for any major part of any game like the GC series that has a lot of major parts.[/quote] I think it would be alot easier for lower skill levels (like myself lol). I suppose it could be automated if you didn't w

I was posting something in another thread about boarding parties and had a thought about espionage. What if there was some sort of Espionage Tree. This is a fleeting idea that may not be a very good one - but whenever I play GalCiv2 and other games like it I feel kinda disconnected from the espionage. You activate it and something happens every now and then - it's not very engaging. What if there was a Espionage Tree for each alien race that had branching paths you could s

Hell, the ability to have units in your fleet board other ships and then have those boarding parties take control of the enemy vessels turning the tide of an important battle is epic!!! I think it would be alot of fun. You could pre-program the boarding vessel to either self destruct, ram into stronger enemy ships or commandeer them as your own. It would be nice to have a tech tree option for 'Understanding Alien Crafts/Technology' before the commandeering can occur. Y

As I am playing GalCiv3, I have also been replaying GalCiv2. This has helped me get through to the next patch (I hope it's sooner than later - I can't wait). In playing GalCiv2 I am seeing things I like, some things I don't like (not much), things that I feel could have more depth and little things that would be cool if they had been added. I am using GalCiv2 to help me with my comments and suggestions for GalCiv3. One of these things is Race Logos. Could it be pos

Star Control DLC Race and Ship Packs for GalCiv3!!! I can dream... :)

I can't wait for the stream!!! I got a couple questions: Do you have any plans for moons? I see them orbiting the planets and wonder if one day they could be colonized or used for some other purpose. When can we expect to see the minor races? Will they be animated or still pictures like GalCiv2? Will they have their own ship designs? Keep up the great work!!!

[quote who="EleventhStar" reply="4" id="3473264"] being able to see planets, and especially what class and type they are, should not be available early without sacrificing something else. Exploration is important, having stars visible as a guideline so your not going in completely blind is good, but having some unknowns makes it more exciting when you find a good planet. If you want the advantage of seeing where all the good planets are, it should come at the cost of a few ot

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="2" id="3473358"] Yes, I know. Currently we have Circles, and a fog of war. What would be nice is a change that has that but does not look like that. This engine makes the COOLEST Stars. Also the background is simply breathtaking. Why cant we have that at start up but not show planets. What I mean is, I want to see a 'revealed' back ground with Just the stars. Then as you expl

I agree that the fog of war should look better or different. Something about it looks flat and unfinished. I am not sure how it should change but the overlay seems too opaque to me. Maybe if they make the overlay more translucent/not as much a light gray but more a subtle dark gray it could work. Or if they made the edge between the fog and visible space a gradual transition and not such a sharp dramatic edge. I suppose they could make no overlay/translucency to the sp

I like the idea of flagships a lot. I think they should have a larger role in the game. Perhaps they can improve your stats and chances in combat if it in in one of your fleets. Also, maybe they could hold some diplomatic purpose later in the game: Basically I think Enterprise NCC-1701-D and everything it did for it's Federation... Mediating Wars and/or tensions: Send your Flagship unit to enemy space to negotiate peace. First Contact:</str

Recently I have been playing the Ur-Quan Masters. It has brought back tons of awesome memories of playing Star Control 2 when I was younger. I loved that game and the aliens contained within it. With the recent acquisition of the Star Control rights have you guys at Stardock ever considered (down the line) offering the Star Control races (perhaps as DLC packs) for GalCiv3? If they were rendered in the GalCiv style to match the game aesthetics (but based on their SC2 looks not their SC

[quote quoting="post"] While reading some forums I got this idea from a few different posts and wasn't sure which one to post it in so I decided to create my own. On the topic of dead planets: There is a ton of them around and it is aesthetically pleasing cause it adds a certain amount of reality to it considering the Goldilocks zone etc. This seems to me to be about the extent of their usefulness. With this in mind I think that Dead planets could become someth

[quote who="Aparthesis" reply="33" id="3464473"]I'm no expert but couldn't a compromise be made in this situation. Making a globe like feature would for me seem like a huge undertaking for the number of planets that would be in one map and it might draw to much work away from the actual game play which in my opinion is more important. At least draw attention away from more features or ways to play etc. Is it not possible to have a 2D map with 3D obstacles (maybe a tilted v

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="2" id="3464208"] id like to take it up a step a ship that ends its turn in a nebula has a chance of getting lost (10%) a lost ship will choose a random direction and travel in a straight line for that turn if it is still lost at the end of the turn it will choose another random direction and travel until the end of its turn etc when it gets out it rejoins your ships as usual for small nebula's t

[quote who="Haydun" reply="1" id="3464133"] I wish there was some possibility to spend unused production from the beginning. I always get to the point, where i cannot build anymore, very fast, and then all my production is wasted...[/quote] I don't know if this would be feasible (or even fun) but what if ships and planetary structures degraded over time. Similar to how RPG's treat armor and weapons. Thus your infrastructure would degrade from 100% through usag

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="15" id="3430980"]Any sovereign race could close its airspace for anyone. Even now there are certain areas no one allowed to fly through, and those zones are closed even for country's own citizens. You can offer certain corridor to other races, should they request one (or offer it as a "good will gesture"), and make it either free, or take some toll, like I said above, especially if you will allow use of your services, like starbases, and their modul

[quote who="econundrum1" reply="25" id="3463697"]A problem that is mostly in the eye of the beholder I’m afraid, it seems obvious from most responses in this thread that few people think this is a “problem” worth the effort and resources needed to solve it. What I’m saying is that most people have no “problem” with the flat map view of their colonies in this type of game and while alternatives may be interesting it adds nothing of great value to

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[quote who="trims2u" reply="17" id="3463584"]And all of that goes against the "realism" factor that having a globe in the first place is supposed to support. Because attacking an arbitrarily 5-sided terrain space should be more difficult that an arbitrarily-sized 6-sided terrain space? Huh? Where's the playability improvement in that?[/quote] Mountainous terrain could be a 5 sided tile. And why are you getting so angry and confrontational? It was just a suggestion/i

[quote who="trims2u" reply="14" id="3463447"] Also, as noted above, there is no way to make a globe out of a single regular polygon beyond 20 faces (a regular icosahedron), which is smaller than the game maximum. In addition, there is no way to make a globe out of even IRREGULAR polygons of the same shape in a sufficiently large size. You're always going to be stuck with the Soccerball problem - inserting a couple of different-shaped polygons amidst the others. It&#

[quote who="Wer900" reply="8" id="3463021"]I like this idea a lot. Perhaps for more realism and to eliminate pentagons, we could make all tiles on planets triangles. These tessellate perfectly to form a geodesic dome. [/quote] Even though the bulk of people dislike the notion of a spherical planetary view, I still contend that it would enhance the game. I have recently been playing GalCiv2 again and I do not see how this would detract from game play at all. Plus you could theoreticall

The old Star Control races had the perfect mixture of humanoid and non-humanoid races. I loved all of them! I would like to see GalCiv3 get some variety and weirdness like those classics. Some were truly alien. Great ship designs too. The Mycons were creepy.