charon2112

Stardock is the only company that could get my $100 for a game two years away based on a few screenshots. I bought early and I'm really glad I did.

As much as I agree with not releasing the combat viewer until it's great, can we not get some kind of screen shots to see what it will be like? Maybe put them in the founders vault?

A whole year!! ...uh, wait that's only like 2 weeks. carry on. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Another separate point, I wish we had a mini map more like GC2's, showing the whole galaxy.

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="7" id="3511728"] if you're up for a quick mod this really makes the map much better Quoting Thecw, reply 1 In the GalCiv3MapDefs.xml file: 0 Do NOT put a value above 9

I agree. It's also annoying when you have two survey ships (through an anomaly) set to auto survey they both chase the same anomalies.

Although espionage in GC2 had many flaws, I liked being able to plant spies on the other races planets and build up knowledge about what they were working on and such. I haven't heard anything about espionage in GC3, does it even exist? I'd like to see it there in some form.

I agree with the OP. GC2 did diplomacy screens better.

How much do you build before you set the planets to pop growth? Do you set new colonies immediately to growth?

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="29" id="3511385"] Familysharing is a nice feature Valve implemented. Somebody else can use your account when you're not. [/quote] Can't someone else use your account when you're not anyway? Why do we need this special 'familysharing' thing?

[quote who="mrblondini" reply="2" id="3511470"] On 0.60 the gang's all there from Turn 1 - complete with their respective Influence %. On the last game I played it was all academic as the UP never met - and I didn't have Never as the setting for UP... [/quote] They need to fix that.

Something's up with galaxy generation in GC3, the star layout is still way too uniform. In the images below, I try to illustrate what I mean. In GC2 the galaxies were much more organic. Both are the same settings, loose clusters with occasional stars.

Only races that you've met should be in the UP.

When I set the grid to hide outside my borders, I can still see it. In fact I can see a grid covering the entire galaxy.

Personally, I don't want to see it until it's great.

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="10" id="3511253"] Quoting charon2112, reply 9 What if another race takes over Iconia, they'll get no food? were not talking about getting rid of food for iconia what we are asking for is appropriate information show up for people playing a

[quote who="Rand Johnson" reply="56" id="3511269"] Quoting XWerewolfX, reply 53 Quoting Rand Johnson, reply 52 <br

[quote who="Xsifilad" reply="55" id="3511215"] Please add the ability to zoom in and out in tech tree, it frustrates me to no end that i have to constantly sweep left and right too see what leads where. Also its simply just nice to see the whole picture. [/quote] Agreed!

[quote who="abiessener" reply="4" id="3511186"] Annihilation Sphere. Holo-murder-simulator. Pwn-view. Pewpewvision. DRADIS. (worst acronym ever, for the record) Laz0rwatch0r. [/quote] We're missing the obvious..Thunderdome.

Where is the youtube video?

What if another race takes over Iconia, they'll get no food?

[quote who="Rand Johnson" reply="49" id="3511166"] Well once AGAIN a beta update has broken all my custom designs. Upon looking for see what the YOR ship parts looked like I saw more than half my custom designs not showing up in designer and had been overwritten to duplicate the few custom designs that did dhow up. So I look this over and I see two ships of the same designs. Several designs where overwritten six times to duplicate another

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="2" id="3511180"] The game was designed with specializing planets from the start. You can still create planets that do 'everything' but you get better results by specializing them. Many folks here love that aspect of the game. I will find that Veiled planet (50% research, 25% economy) and just pile it up iwth a few farms and labs and ONE factory. It becomes my research base for the empire. One or two specialized research and prod

Was there no larger map in beta 3? It seemed there was from the screenshot. :( I haven't downloaded it yet.

Is the combat viewer expected to be in the next beta release?