tid242

Sorry if I missed the post somewhere, but Brad had mentioned in the last stream that Crusade Beta's were up now for Founders, but I don't see one listed as a beta on Steam - it still lists the "opt in beta v2.00" - is this the new crusade beta, or was that a holdover from the December (or whenever it was) v2.00 beta that's done with now? Also, any discussion at all on the "Generate Random Faction" option on game-start? I would still love to just be able to fill a

Thanks for the Feb 2017 Update. I always like hearing about how Stardock is doing. It's good to hear that Ashes is doing well, and I'm looking fwd to the GC3 updates. Too bad it'll be coming out the same day (?) as Torment: Numenera !! Cheers, keep up the good work.. -tid242

Hey! Thanks for the update Brad. GC3 hasn't really been on my plate to play much since about a year ago, but I'm excited about the changes and the work and it's definitely on my list of games to get to. I had a blast playing it about a year ago when I had several weeks off and am looking fwd to the changes. Don't let anyone hassle you about DLC vs expansions vs whatever. Consider it a compliment that people can personally heckle

Thanks for the update Frogboy. I haven't been around the SD forums much lately, but I appreciate the updates and plan on spending more time with GC3/Ashes/et al in the future. Appreciate the continued work on GC3 - it means a lot to me as a founder. cheers, -tid242

On a related note, Forbes is crap anyway and no one should read them. Every article on there is pretty much an ad that someone wrote masquerading as a story.. http://www.poynter.org/2012/what-the-forbes-model-of-contributed-content-means-for-journalism/173743/

Seriously... YOU IDIOTS!?!?! No one mentions Torment: Tides of Numenera?? j/k about the idiot part, but it does look like it's shaping up to be damn awesome.. Also looking fwd to "The Mandate".. I'm pretty casual when it comes to games tho, I'll try stuff as it comes out but generally don't know much about what's coming out ahead of time. Everyone mentions Ashes - it'll pro

poor Torians, makes me feel bad for them ... great pic... The Korx pic is alright except the nose seems out of place. I don't recall them really having noses, or even really faces, for that matter... Am I mis-remembering them?

[quote who="Lord_of_Void" reply="2" id="3609167"] Funny enough the AI could be bought out of existence as buying the colony ships from AI eliminated the faction on the next turn - [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] They must've had a neoliberal ideology, no? Edit: They're nihilists Donny..

In no particular order: Video Games: Street Fighter 2 Phantasy Star 2 Neverwinter Nights (specifically the Avlis/CoPaP persistent worlds) QTF Diablo/SC GC2 Sim City franchise RL Games D&D D&D D&D Chess Risk Did I mention D&D? I might edit this post later if I can think of anything else

[quote who="erischild" reply="1" id="3609372"] The best way to find out is to try. There have been definite improvements in AI and added features since launch. version 1.5 represents 5 full passes of development and balance. A lot has changed. Whether it is enough for you is a question only you can answer. [/quote] +1 Since you've asked specifically about AI - it is better. Like you I played a bit in beta and a small a

[quote who="MyViewsAndMuse" reply="2" id="3608818"] lastly, it is unfortunate that steam platform is impacting business/gam decisions such as this. [/quote] http://www.wired.com/2008/09/drm-opponents-a/ This sort of thing isn't new - although, in the case of EA/maxis those guys really were jerks and deserved it, IMHO.. [quote quoting="post"] 6. Unified res

After listening to your explorminate interview I thought I might just mention that I consider MP to be something I'll try after everything's all locked down far later in the game dev/evolution. It was a bit depressing to hear that it was ~30% of your dev budget and <0.5% of people have even ever clicked the MP button at all (I, for one, have not). But I do feel like this may turn out to be a core feature later.. That being said, MP wasn't high up on my

[quote who="The Sisko" reply="1" id="3608679"] So we're not going to get a proper invasion system until 2017...wow. Not only that, but it isn't part of the base game but will be sectioned off as part of a standalone expansion. Brad was right, it is not something I'm terrible pleased to hear. [/quote] Well, I'm actually not sure if this was off-the-cuff or a hard date as that "2017" was pretty conversational within the context of having to basicall

I'm just going to put this out there. I've been pretty happy with GC3. SD has generally produced evolving products and this is what I expected. GC3 has generally met all of my expectations and has been a blast to plug around with. There are definitely elements that can be both refined and expanded upon - but the degree of either of these really isn't expectation-breaking for me. I've probably logged just under 100h on GC3 (most of

great interview, thank you for sharing..

https://forums.galciv3.com/474047/page/1/ or this one..

https://forums.galciv3.com/473756/page/1/ the above thread would be my guess. Apparently there were some issues with one of the latest w10 patches. Don't run it myself, so I can't say personally...

So many complaints about the star names. I've yet to come across one that bothers me at all. Cheers for the default ones I say...

just another example of why one should just not run any flash at all....

1.5 or 1.5.1? 1.5 is no longer opt-in, there is an opt in after 1.5 tho..

question: Is there a straightforward way to using the ship designer to add a "family" of ships? And by "family" I mean what you can pick from when creating a custom race such as "iconian" "krynn" etc that present themselves as the default visual 'style' of the race? Thanks!

+1 It would also be nice to have minors not use pictures/logos that are used for a major (like just auto-sub them out or something). I would be really happy with just a big "alien stuff DLC" pack for one of the dlc releases, with pics/vids/logos and a bunch of ship themes that maybe didn't make the final cut... I find that I conjure up quite a few custom races and there really ends up being a lot of asset overlap..

[quote who="VladelMC" reply="5" id="3607714"] Some of the anomolies are just bonkers overpowered. [/quote] I almost feel like there should be an "anomalies power" slider where some of the really OP ones could be turned down. I honestly don't feel like this is as big an issue on single-player game - although I recognize that finding some epic anomaly could really ruin the tenner of a really large map that a player has invested significant time i

you're not adding it up correctly. They don't appear to stack (all of the bonuses are from base and bonuses don't apply to bonuses). so you have .05 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 1.29 = 1.54 So the calculation would be 1.54*5.3 + 5.3 = 13.462 Not sure where you got 15+ but I can only imagine that you're making the bonuses exponential, which they are not... (also, mega factories are +43% I can't remember?) hope thi

[quote who="The_Engenieer" reply="13" id="3607236"] Kazzerigian when i arrive home, from work i will benchmark a Gtx 980 ti with same settings you have on your test, so you see the diference. [/quote] No, he wants his own GTX 980 Ti is what I was gathering...