tid242

FWIW, it has been stated that the next big update/DLC will have an emphasis on politics/diplomacy, so your suggests are well-timed..

Thanks for the update Frog, appreciate the work, and I enjoy reading the progress. Also updated my review for you. cheers

Best tactical advice... keep playing it... [e digicons]}:)[/e] [e digicons]}:)[/e] [e digicons]}:)[/e]

This makes me think I should actually go look in the founders vault for once..

there are 2 answers to this. In crusade the tech trees are based upon racial abilities (slaver, synthetic, etc). In the 2.5 base game there's a bug and tech trees are kind of broken at the moment, but I believe they will also be based upon abilities too.. hope this helps..

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="8" id="3689324"] I am sick to death of the mentality humans are unique to having thoughts or feelings beyond "Kill. Eat. Sleep. Repeat." [/quote] Good post. This was not the main thrust of my argument (if this comment was directed toward my post), I'm sorry if it was construed that way. It was more along the lines of dogs live in complex human societies, and have lineages from complex animal 'societies'. </p

Not having enough genocide always puts a damper on the spirit of things...

[quote who="willistuder" reply="16" id="3689258"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 15 Well you spend as much on a processor as me splurging on a computer. It really depends if your going high end or not. I think that amd is winning low end, maybe middle end, and intigrated graphics. Speed is

[quote who="Ticktoc" reply="12" id="3689114"] Quoting tid242, reply 11 As an aside, in the 2+ years it'll realistically be before I'm looking at rebuilding a machine, it'll be interesting to see if the middle of the market (ie middle of the performance gaming market) moves to >4 core chips. <br /

[quote who="willistuder" reply="9" id="3689085"] I have just sprung big bucks for an Intel i9 with a Gigabyte x299 gaming 9 motherboard, 64 GB of 2666Mhz RAM, 2 Samsung 960 Pro 1 TB SSD's (in RAID 0, for a 2TB drive at twice the speed, and in M.2 slots, a newish higher speed bus), and an adequate graphics card (GTX 1050). It will be used for a DAW (digital audio workstation). 64GB of RAM is insane unless you work with high resolution audio (or video, especially). For example, one of my p

As an aside, in the 2+ years it'll realistically be before I'm looking at rebuilding a machine, it'll be interesting to see if the middle of the market (ie middle of the performance gaming market) moves to >4 core chips. If, say, the equivalent to the 7790k (or *cough* 4790k) in market positioning terms are 6 or 8 physical core chips if there are insane i9 monsters with 16 cores on the top end.. It would be interesting to know the business model for selling these kinds

[quote who="starkers" reply="8" id="3689078"] Quoting admiralWillyWilber, reply 7 Tid242 the intel i7 7790k would be this years model not from years ago You are correct. My i7 4790K was from 3 years ago [/quote] Ah yes, just checked, 4790k. You are corre

[quote who="starkers" reply="3" id="3689017"] Quoting Daiwa, reply 2 I never use Google for search. Me, either! Google just isn't trustworthy and has too many shady practices. [/quote] Been using duckduckgo for about 5 years now, google does deepe

[quote who="Jafo" reply="2" id="3682518"] The 'use' for AMD is to keep Intel prices more under control so you can keep on using Intel....[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] +1 my thoughts exactly. On my end, using a i7 7790k (I think is the model number?) from a handful of years back, I really have yet to see any real need for any more power, although if you were streaming and doing all the cool-kid stuff this might be a diff story. That all being sai

[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="3683309"] It takes a special level of incompetence to put a nuclear reactor on the internet. But then this *is* Chernobyl we're talking about... [/quote] Well, granted it's just monitoring stations that are reporting background.. Just like these, mostly just individuals with rad detectors reporting with windows machines.. http://www.netc.com/ It's n

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="3683292"] Witcher 3 with both expansions for 25€. Also may pick up Conquest of Elysium 4 and Renowned Explorers + DLC if the itch grows too strong before the end. [/quote] Oh Witcher, that's supposed to be cool, I'll have to keep an eye out for that one... Me myself... I don't think I've really purchased much, actually. Bought a couple of games as gifts. Purchased 'pony island'

you might be able to if your espionage level against that race is high enough, otherwise you can't. I believe this is intentional so that planet defense has the edge. I could be wrong on these points but this is how planet defense has tended to be in my games. you'll still get the "defeat likely", "victory certain" etc if you click on it. Also if you zoom in, you can at least eyeball the type/size of ships flying around the planet..

I don't think so. Minors are in the process of being removed entirely. What you're experiencing is from their half-removed-ness... You could research the benevolent ideology that ends wars (IIRC one exists) or hope for a UP 'end all wars' resolution.. hope this helps, -tid242

A quick question on Technology Victory.. For those that have played on the more insane-side-of-the-spectrum map sizes. How is the 'technology victory condition' work out for you guys? Can you even conquer the galaxy before someone somewhere completes the tech vic path? Does is scale with galaxy size? I've been playing on the more medium-sized galaxy sizes and it's never an issue, but was curious how it worked on the super-big ones..

[quote who="adamb1011" reply="79" id="3683231"] the frog is exactly correct - people pay for half finished features, not a polished balanced game. [/quote] Well, maybe I can only speak for myself on this one, but... I never knowingly buy a 1/2 finished game. Do half-finished games sell a lot of copies? - sure, but did most people think they were buying a half-finished, or game that's unplayable during the end-game? I would guess not.

Oh wow.. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/92819-is-it-going-to-be-published-by-paradox-interactive/ Does everyone hate Paradox this much? - I was always under the impression that people thought they were reasonably OK..

Case in point (not to beat a dead horse): [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FmOacal6Q[/video] Per the devs, Introversion's new game 'Scanner Sombre' (http://www.introversion.co.uk/scannersombre/ ) sold a total of 5 (five) copies thus far. It came out a month or two ago (not really sure, I wasn't one of the five customers, apparently so I don't remember the launch date).. Also, some mea culpas about messing up the tablet launch

I happen to like the new system much better myself.. That all being said - I suggest that you just lower the difficulty until you have a better feel for the new layer(s) of management, then up the difficulty as needed. The citizen system is much better, and the game is much better balanced overall. cheers, best of luck

I think the consensus is that it will be turned off (and that it would be nice to be able to click a 'repeat the project forever' button, if desired)

So a quick thought or two on Ideology points. I know that with the Crusade changes Ideology is getting a rework, and I've been thinking about how the ideology system could be more deeply integrated into the game. First off, I would like to point out that the Ideology system in GC3 far surpasses the good/neutral/evil in GC2, and that the general trend of making ideology choices meaningful gameplay-wise, rather than the more mechanical process of choosing an alignment in GC2, is t