charon2112

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="30" id="3485161"] I look at starports as specialized constructor ships. [/quote] Although, looking at starports in game, they definitely look like huge stationary "starbase-y" structures. Not ships. I'll say again, all the pluses to having mobile starports that you list, can easily be solved by using constructors and stationary starports. Even better, because you can upgrade the constructors engin

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="30" id="3485161"] I look at starports as specialized constructor ships. [/quote] I can understand this view. I tend to see starports as starbases that build ships, like the Utopia Planitia shipyard in Star Trek.

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="28" id="3485157"] Quoting dmjung, reply 26 In any case, since stardocks are so cheap or quick to build I'm not sure what the utility is for making them mobile. What's the game play reason? (There may be one, I'm just not seeing it.) The reason is not

[quote who="FROOKIE" reply="16" id="3485131"] hell even Mr Wardell is one of us [/quote] [quote who="FROOKIE" reply="16" id="3485131"] Galciv is the true spiritual successor to MOO2 [/quote] To quote Mr Wardell..." Galactic Civilizations is not Master of Orion " <a href="http://draginol.joeuser.c

The TC whining just has to stop. Moo2 was a tactical game to begin with, X-com was also...Galciv was not. They aren't changing or watering down GC by removing TC. It was never there, and shouldn't be.

[quote]Steamworks Workshop to allow players to share their custom made players and once approved have automatically added as additional AI players into games where a player wants to play a game with a truly insanely large galaxy. [/quote] This would be great. [quote] So your skill is about how you design ships and assemble fleets. Looking closely at what your enemies are designing with their ships and organizing them and countering it will

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="22" id="3484895"] Quoting charon2112, reply 20 This isn't really true, a starport is built by a constructor like any other starbase. You just start the game with one already built at your home planet. No, if you build a starport from the planet screen

[quote who="thetechangel" reply="17" id="3484684"] [I do hope they migrate the 'anchor' -> 'unanchor' -> 'move' -> 'reanchor' functionality to the 'general' starbase class - it adds a tactical wrinkle that should/could be interesting] [/quote] absolutely disagree. moving starports (and possibly starbases) has to go away completely. They are not ships. Thinking ahead about where to put them is the strategy.</p

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="5" id="3484580"] Quoting charon2112, reply 2 Not a fan of Blizzard. I hope he doesn't try to turn my beloved SD games into some zerg rush horse crap. Read the articles. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] As an exclusively SP player

Not a fan of Blizzard. I hope he doesn't try to turn my beloved SD games into some zerg rush horse crap.

I do love Nimoy in Civ. I'd support a similar thing in GC, a good voice that reads the techs when they're done researching.

I can't wait for the battle viewer. I want to watch my designed ships lay waste to the enemy! [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]

Agreed. Just because SD gave us access to the alpha doesn't make us SD employees. They're going to make the game they want to make.

a little voice acting goes a long way.

[quote who="Wizaerd" reply="2" id="3484173"] Star names are in a text file within the system somewhere, so in reality even non-founders can edit that file and put any star names they want in the game. Not so much of a special perk after all... [/quote] but the founders star names appear in everyone's version of the game...unless modded out.

[quote who="Grathocke" reply="36" id="3484144"] Quoting parrottmath, reply 2 But really, that will be a PAIN to see stupid things like "IslandDog" or "Tassadarpaladin"... You realize that IslandDog is the screen name of an employee of Stardock, and doe

I believe the tech tree will be completely different in the beta.

Is Econ 102 coming soon?

[quote]I tried to play before on the last alpha patch and the game was just not fun yet for me. [/quote] Did you miss the big pop up disclaimer saying that the game is definitely not fun yet...?

Will the different tech trees be just a re-labeling, or will the branches be shaped differently like in GC2? Random question: in GC2 once a star was in sensor range you could click on it and it would show the number of planets and the number of habitable planets, I miss this. Is it coming back?

[quote who="Z-74" reply="7" id="3483439"] Question: How long in TIME is a turn? [/quote] A turn is a week, and 1 tile is a parsec. Obviously solar systems aren't to scale. But really, what would making the planets move around the stars add to the gameplay?

It always bothered me that the Korx were evil. A trading race should really be neutral, willing to trade with both sides as long as they make money.

How do you take a pic of your ships without any UI elements on the side of the screen?

So why not just keep the Korx?

[quote who="SF1 Raptor" reply="13" id="3483352"] ( with me being a Christian creationist) [/quote] Allright, I'll take the bait. You're certainly not a young Earth creationist right?