[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="38" id="3452195"]265930 [/quote] Well we're all just waiting till April1. GalCiv3 is just somethting to bide the time till that games comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0
Did you know stardock has an IRC server? Join in the GalCiv3 frenzy and chat up with other like minded fans. irc.stardock.com #galciv Use an IRC client or ChatZilla which is a decent Firefox addon that allows for IRC. See you online! :)
[quote who="beason4251" reply="36" id="3452184"] Quoting satoru1, reply 34 When you register the game please pay attention to the appid it shows up as, because when you register it, it looks like "Steam appid xxxxx". we can watch the steamdb to see when it gets published. Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention and didn't record the steam appid. However, looks like we'll be able to see when it goes live here: <a href="http://steamdb.info/
[quote who="scruffitude" reply="25" id="3452185"] I activated my key on Steam and it didn't say "Galactic Civilizations 3" or anything like that. I'm going to assume for the moment that this is because the thing isn't technically available. But did anyone else have something like this happen?[/quote] The actual depot has not been published yet so there's nothing for you to download just yet. Once the depot is updated and published, you will be able to download it
[quote who="Island Dog" reply="16" id="3452169"] Quoting satoru1, reply 15 .... I'm in the steam client beta but it doesnt show up there either after a restart. It's likely that the appid hasn't been published yet. If anyone has the AppID when you registered the game it would help to sneak around in the SteamDB to find out what's up The alpha hasn't been released yet. [/quote] Oh I know I'
When you register the game please pay attention to the appid it shows up as, because when you register it, it looks like "Steam appid xxxxx". we can watch the steamdb to see when it gets published.
.... I'm in the steam client beta but it doesnt show up there either after a restart. It's likely that the appid hasn't been published yet. If anyone has the AppID when you registered the game it would help to sneak around in the SteamDB to find out what's up :)
https://twitter.com/GalCiv/status/449160399976669184 At least someone's in the office :P
[quote who="Borg999" reply="5" id="3452041"] I've got 64 bit, but the big question in my mind is - will a PC with an i5 processor, 8 gigs of RAM and a low end AMD graphics card be able to run GC3?[/quote] The only real hard requirements as far as I understand 1) 64-bit oS 2) DX10 card
[quote who="ngcsubutterbar" reply="147" id="3451882"] I want to know about release time too....................Thing is Steam has like a noon release time EST[/quote] This isn't a steam store release thing so it won't necessarily follow the normal 10am PDT/1pm EDT release time.
[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="144" id="3451870"] Anyone know if it releases at midnight? I work a graveyard shift job, but have Wednesday nights (into Thursday mornings) off. I'll be asleep Thursday afternoon, and have to work Thursday evening :/ Would be nifty (as in bragging rights ) to use my nocturnalist life to have first crack among my fellow Elite founders to catch the first wave of alphabugs.[/quote] Kinda unlikely. I'd expect sometime during th
[quote who="The Real Veon" reply="7" id="3451819"] How are things like copyright handled? I remember in GalCiv II coming across a star named Hoth. So would Arrakis or Minbar be acceptable? Or not? Thanks[/quote] You'd have to refer to the Trademark office for that. Hoth has a few trademarks but they've expired. Arrakis/Minbar have no trademarks to speak of. But its kinda hard to say how those would work. I'd say if anything &#
[quote who="KingBingo" reply="21" id="3451671"] NDA are enforced through the courts using lawyers. Outside of mega-mergers I have never heard of an NDA actually resulting in sanction of any kind. [/quote] If you're in the industry there are vast consequences for breaking an NDA. If you're a journalist, you can be denied access to future betas, interviews, you can be black listed for pre-release review copies for games, etc.
One more day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddP8AAIGTQ Sorry can't resist
Did you guys ever figure out how to filter the depots on Steam for 64-bit only?
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="138" id="3451581"] Quoting Lucky Jack, reply 137 TWO MORE DAYS!!!!! MY HEART CAN'T TAKE THIS STRESS. ARGGHHH *dies*[/quote] Get the paddles! CLEAR! Again! CLEAR! DONT DIE ON ME! Do it ag... wait what? The Alpha's out? Ah screw it, text the time of death to the coroner. I'm otta here.!
[quote who="androshalforc" reply="2" id="3451592"] im not sure i like the comment on squarish shaped galaxies i mean it makes sense to put it into the mini map but why does the mini map need to be square? from my understanding most galaxies are roughly circular or spiral i could be wrong though wouldn't this mean that the hex shape is a better fit? if you're just making it square because the mini map is square and that's the way its always be
Just a few days to go and Frogboy brings us a few more tidbits in the Founder Vault. A few highlights * The "This is an Alpha" message is nice. Though for some god forsaken reason, despite a similar even more obnoxious warning, this has not made everyone playing DayZ and Planetary Annihilation any better. One can hope that GalCiv3 fans will heed this warning! * Some broad talk about how the tech tree. This will likely be a hot topic of debate in the Alpha! * Apparently
[quote who="bornloser" reply="30" id="3451513"] The solution is that big empires should have internal problems that smaller factions don't have. Corruption on planets far from the capital, rebels from defeated factions, attempted military coups, etc. This would also give you a chance to catch up if you're lagging behind another player because his home system was close to a a green resource or whatever. .[/quote] Civ4 had corruption and by
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="135" id="3451320"] Haha wow I'm not that obsessed with the game!!![/quote] Yet :)
[quote who="Goudeau42" reply="110" id="3450728"] cant wait! And another question....at what time will it be released? I intend to skip school, need to know when to set my alarm for [/quote] Look skipping school is not cool. Here's what I do since I usually ahve to be at work for these kinds of situations 1) Have some way to remote into your PC, something like TeamViewer works great 2) Lurk on the forums until the alpha is live 3) Log in
This is a problem in many strategy games. "Solutions" to this problem are difficult and controversial Shogun2 has "Realm Divide" which effectively made the game 'gang up on you' after you reach a certain threshold EU4 has mechanics that effectively make it impossible to conquer the world Civ4 had 'corruption' which tried to control gigantic sprawing empires The problem mostly that these mechanics feel like 'rubber bandin
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="97" id="3450404"] Will the elite founders editions be sold after march 27 ? My dad was wondering? DARCA[/quote] Stardock has indicated that they'll give some pretty advance notice before things 'disappear'. Given that a good week or so was given for the 'standard' edition pre-order thing was removed, I'd assume that when the elite founder goes away we'll get some notification.
Well GalCiv3 is supposed to be a lot more modable given that 'most' stuff will be XML based and thus editable. Hopefully someone will be able to use that infrastructure to give you the "Star Trek Mod" you desire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_KNYNzN6A One of us! one of us!