tid242

They spent the Ideology Points to prevent it x100 turns I'd guess.. -tid242

I believe the embargo is lifted now? (if not let me know, and I'll fix this post). Anyway, I haven't played this for a while now. I hopped on very early in the alpha/beta though the "more expensive" tier pre-order option. Played it quite a bit for the better part of a week or two immediately when it was released to the people who had opted to do the alpha/beta test - which was maybe last summer or thereabouts... It's pretty cool and definit

Out of curiosity, how much physical RAM do you have? Also, it can sometimes be useful to install high-use game files on an SD card if there seems to be a bottleneck with HDD throughput (since the SD card slot on laptops and the like don't use the SATA chain). This was something people were doing to get Diablo 3 to be less laggy (which worked with varying degrees of success). Unsure if GC3 is ammenible to performance improvements with this type of strateg

[quote who="kestlstw" reply="4" id="3518307"] I thought the higher levels of the AI were just bonuses to well everything, not free techs and even then it seems excessive, ... It could be they were following the enlightened path and got some help from artifacts too. [/quote] The difficulty settings aren't finalized yet. Right now there are no strong AI functions that the higher difficulties can draw upon (such as Gal Civ 2, most of

[quote quoting="post"] Scary- No penalty from sharing borders with another civilization. [/quote] Sorry if I missed it, but could anyone fill me in on what the "sharing borders" penalty is? cheers,

"GA3" = "GC3" ? Otherwise, having read your post - I really like it. Not because I necessarily agree with most of what you said (which isn't to say I specifically disagree, I'm just not that opinionated about most things), but because it's an excellent summation of what needs still needs work for it to be presentable to non-GC2-veterans (which most of the people on this forum are). A lot of what you mentioned are known issues (an

The one thing that I really noticed that could be improved, functionally on ships - and this is really brought out by Paul's Titan battleviewer demo is the inefficiency of they way that weapons fire and are prioritized. I used to notice this quite a bit on GC2 where your ship would "waste" a lot of firepower to blow up a ship with only 1 hp. Note that the Titans took a complete volley of 3 separate weapon types to wipe out a fleet of minor ships. I'l

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="3515737"] You will need DirectX 12 or Mantle to get much out of the demo. Your Nvidia card will make use of DirectX 12. But DirectX 11 is kind of crappy. [/quote] Oh, that's good to know, that is helpful... Also: you might be interested to know that the Oxide forums really need to be cleaned up. I hopped over there after posting the above and they were all filled

So... Haven't heard much about this since the original demo splash when this post was made. I didn't realize until today that it was available via steam, so I loaded it up and gave it a try. On the one hand, it's quite nice. On the other hand, I'm a bit underwelmed. So.... I have a latest gen i7 4790k, and a GTX 970, my framerate prob averaged 60, but would bog down to the mid/high teens during th

[quote who="Gilmoy" reply="2" id="3513910"] Steam shows total game time per game you own, without subdividing it for each separate instance-of-game you've played. I've played 296 hours of GC3, but that's either one long game or 540 very short ones, I don't remember which ... [/quote] That's because you probably fell asleep fool! Anyway - would be an nice touch. Maybe along with the end-of-

[quote who="erischild" reply="4" id="3513789"] I'm an old geezer who just went through a quintuple bypass. At this rate, my GC3 deal may outlast me. [/quote] That's terrible... Best to you. On a topic-oriented note: They've stated that an awesome Espionage system is one of the already planned expansions. The ambitions/ideas that they had for it were too big to fit into the original release (recal

wish-listed (is that a word?) for now, tsm for the recommendation! -tid242

That's interesting, I wonder if this is a problem for others as well. Many laptops are set up like this, where they use the Intel HD graphics chip for regular stuff, but then will switch-over and use the Nvidia/Radeon/whenever when the user needs more horsepower (like firing up a game).

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="3511980"] Quoting jmccrea, ... hear the lamentations of their...umm...females. People are really unforgiving about visuals these days. Even Conan approves. [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] post pix here plz.. On a more serious

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="9" id="3510008"] In reference to Paul's question from the stream: Yes, "Gummisternchen" is a real word. It's German for "little gummy star". My best guess is that it's meant as a pun on "Gummibärchen" (little gummy bears). [/quote] I was honestly a little miffed that Paul hated that star name so much - I quite like it (and I don't even speak German). And, needless to say, it's a far cry from a star n

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="19" id="3509607"] I saw that deal, which was a great one. I picked up on a previous Steam sale for around $20 and have enjoyed it a lot. [/quote] Yea, I have to agree. I grabbed it a while back via HumbleBundle and immediately regretted not buying a cp earlier. It was on my radar as "compelling" but I've purchased so

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="4" id="3509515"] Did you not see anything you wanted, or didn't go on sale? Just curious when dealing with sales. [/quote] Bought a couple of copies of Prison Architect for some friends, otherwise I wouldn't even know what to want for myself (which is why I work at Initech to begin with...). -tid242

[quote who="psychoak" reply="3" id="3509406"] Plenty of reasons to get Trinity instead of Rebellion, you're after a mod from Entrenchment or Diplomacy that never got updated, or you're getting it to play a buddy that doesn't have Rebellion. You might just not like Titans, I don't. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Really? ---- Heretic! - You must be purified by PAIN! Well, I guess those are legit rea

Good sales, if anyone left in the world doesn't own them all already... I am legitimately curious though - why do you guys even still sell the Sins franchise stuff in addition to the "rebellion" expansion??? For anyone thinking of buying them, it's just confusing, and if I were to buy, say "Trinity" and then later found out that "Rebellion" is like 2x the game that Trinity is and that I should've gotten that one instead, I'd just be really pissed

Thanks... Should've known not to buy that extra copy of start8 last week. ;\ Agree w/ above post though, good time to pick up SK.. -tid242

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="15" id="3507285"] I'm not talking about anticipation but catogorising as much stuff as possible and averaging how you played over all the previous. This won't predict anything new it would do what you have done on a regular basis on your previous games. This would look at game mechanics. Instead of actual stradegies. This is more like surveying instead of predicting. It would only implement when it's tactics fail against yours. The only

This was from the old GC2 manual. There was a better breakdown from Brad a looong while back somewhere IIRC, but I'm having trouble finding it... In short the AI performs more complicated tasks at higher difficulty settings. Also, worth of note: it does not cheat, (apart from economic bonuses?), it has to scout blindly for planets/resources, has to scout other AI and the human player's assets, etc. It does not "know" anything that a human player wouldn't kn

Yea, sorry about all of that. Proper documentation is something that Stardock has said is a goal of theirs for this game. Most of the people in the GC3 beta are old-school GC2/1 pros, thus most of us "know" how to play intuitively already, and there hasn't been a big community push for better documentation. However, as stated above, there will be better documentation before the final game ships. I'm sorry to say, but GC2/1 has even worse docume

[quote who="Tohron" reply="8" id="3500334"] ... Event Frequency & United Plants Frequency Plants of Galactic Civilizations! For too long have we been oppressed by the terraforming of the major races! Now is the time to unite, to rise up and throw off the yoke of our non-photosynthetic masters! [/quote] <p style="padding

I'm really confused about what you're talking about. If you look "Resource Based Economy" up on wikipedia (which I did, because I've never heard of this specific definition of the term) the definition is, it states: "A resource-based economy is the economy of a country whose gross national product or gross domestic product to a large extent comes from natural resources " Ie, it is the same as what's termed an "extr