Re: pirates. I think Pirates would be cool as kind of a minor race, without a planet. A travelling fleet where a dialog could be opened and they potentially could be reasoned with or traded with. Or bribed to attack another race. I just think a lot could be done with them beyond a civ barbarian role.
StarLife sounds like my kind of game, I'll keep a close eye on it. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
Everyone needs to realize that probably 65% of the game isn't even in yet. The release game will be very different than this early beta.
There's so much that can be done with black holes. For one thing, I'd make them much rarer. Also create a way to build research starbases that could reap great rewards from studying them. Maybe even make them slowly pull in all nearby galaxy object, planets, suns, asteroids, everything. Maybe one hex every 50 turn or so.
Actually, I believe the release game will have pirates. That should change the early game.
" ^^Its a old mechanic without player support that needs a update to be modern." If SD changed their game every time someone whined on the forums, GalCiv would be unrecognizable, and horrible.
" Inherently, the OP is correct. There really isn't much of a penalty to rushing pop and colony ships and taking every bit of dirt you can. Other factions can't invade you for a looooooooong time. By then, your colony is built up. Bingo. The main thing that should slow expansion is danger . MOO2 for perspective: Rapid expansion in MOO2 was dangerous because newborn planets with no defences w
That Defiant class is awesome! [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]
" I understand why colony ships get gobbled up considering they are used to create headquarter shelter for new colonies. Yet I don't understood why constructors get gobbled up in construction" I think the idea is that the raw material of the ship is also broken down and used in the construction of the starbase.
There should definitely be notifications for losing a planet. One for when your planet is in danger of flipping, and then another after it flips.
" Master of Orion 2 had sommething similar as well. It was not more than some units firing at each other and one side eventually winning, but it is better than having only a text popup." We're going to have something a heck of a lot better than a text popup once the combat viewer is finished.
I agree with the below. Plus, and maybe most importantly, most people want GalCiv combat to remain as it is. Why change the nature of the game for a vocal minority? " @Timmaigh: I explained my feelings on this in another thread but people like DARCA seem to be incapable of understanding my points. I'm not saying you have to agree, but I do expect people to at least read what I say and counter it rather then just accusi
I very much enjoy reading AAR's and gameplay examples for turn based strategy games. I haven't seen many (if any) for GC3, so I thought I'd throw one together. My plan isn't to create dialog or real story, just to go through a game, posting screenshots and talking about my thought process. A few things…one, I'm terrible at 4x games. I mean I really suck, I will make the worst decisions possible, will probably lose at the most basic and dumb A
In GC2 it was population. I assume it's the same in GC3...?
" Its still massive and contains resources right?" Nope...that's the point of a class 0 planet. It contains nothing of value.
" I wish there was more to be found on the map, except planets and resources, like abandoned outposts, alien space ships or some space creatures. right now it is kindy boring when you go exploring." I feel like the main map is pretty cluttered as is though. When you zoom out, it's a mess of stuff.
Dyson spheres or Ringworlds would definitely be cool. They'd be major undertakings though.
I agree with the OP. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]
" These days we are able to find planets from our home planet. It makes me think it is silly to produce a game that takes place over 200 years in the future that is so far behind in technology to what we can do today." You're talking about getting rid of one of the 'X's from this 4X game...eXploration. If we knew the status of planets around stars right off the bat, that would hurt fun. Although in GC2, some races could at least see how many p
I giggled when I got the "Infinite Shades of Infra-red" galactic event..
" Remember, you are suppose to build only the basic versions and then it upgrades. There is still some debate as to the value of this arrangement and I wouldn't mind having a choice but currently this is the way the devs have it set." The more I think about it, the more this bothers me. By this logic, in 2014 if you wanted to build a modern building, you would first have to build a teepee, then maybe an adobe hut on top of it, th
It would be cool if one or more civs could call for a UP meeting to ask for something based on current game events.
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In GC2, the main map was completely blanked out but the mini-map showed where stars were and also where the other races were. Choosing blind exploration removed the other races colors from the mini-map. It seems that in GC3, they've moved the star visibility from the mini map, right onto the main map in the form of those blue dots. I really hope they plan on adding a 'galaxy map' that shows the whole galaxy along with all civs borders (wit
I'm all for more options in setting up the invasion, but as far as tactical control over the combatants, no way.