Lavo_2

Personally I have 16 GB of RAM, around 48 GB of virtual memory, and a Radeon R9 280X with 3GB of memory. Yet, I've been getting random freezes ever since I started playing back in beta 2. I highly doubt it has to do with system specs, unless my CPU is too slow for GC3, as I'm running on a stock i7-930. It is worth noting that beta 3 cut down on the amount of freezes I get significantly. They still occur however; they happen anywhere from the middle of selecting a decision, to

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="1" id="3527080"]This is the current behavior of the game, but the game automatically schedules the upgrades as the basic building is completed.This allows you to get the benefit of the base structure while building up to the highest researched level structure. [/quote] There is a problem with this however, if you have the manufacturing capacity to build say, the Xeno Factory, in one turn, you cannot do so as you are forced to build the Basic Factory

Speaking of ideologies, how exactly do the "free" planets work for the Benevolent Outreach line? I'm probably blind and not seeing them.

The peace offers bit is a known issue due to the AI's diplomacy not being modeled at all yet; I wouldn't pay too much heed to it. That said it might be a bit too powerful, perhaps a cap of X ships spawned maximum is in order?

One thing that bugs me as well, is that more advanced versions of factories cannot be built in one turn. One must build the starting factory, and then each turn do a single upgrade. Without production overflow, this is a problem, and truthfully it makes little sense to build an older version of a building if one can build the newest one in a single turn.

I remember experiencing this in beta 2, even after destroying all of the enemy's ships/planets. If you accept peace essentially nothing will happen, though perhaps it's caused by some random star base being alive somewhere?

You have to make a new account there.

That's intentional IIRC. You can unlock other terraforming tile improvements in the tech tree if you want to build more tiles on planets.

From what I can tell to maintain 100% approval you need to have 1 G&S per point of population. I like this new system if not for the sole fact that it makes approval improvements, and approval management in general, an actual challenge and consideration. Though the approval bonuses in the ideology tree might need some tweaking to work well. To use the tier 1 Benevolence as an example; in beta 2 it was a flat 10% bonus, which was great. In beta 3 it's a 10% G&S bonus, which is far

Beta 3 made freezing even worse for me personally, to the point of getting freezes during turn 0 (starting turn). With the most up to date GPU drivers, 3GB of GPU RAM, 16 GB of regular RAM, and around 60 GB of virtual memory, I know it isn't my system. Plus, reinstalling the game, deleting my prefs.ini, and running in window have all done jack.

And Mantle already has the distinct advantage of not being a Windows 10 exclusive.

You actually can add pop to existing transports? I feel stupid now. If that's the case, this thread deserves a good old lock!

This might sound like an odd thing to do, however while one can upgrade colony ships to becoming military transports without issue as they have population on-board, it's also possible to ships without population, ex. scouts, to military transports. However, as these ships have no population, they become military transports with 0 population without a means to shove troops onto them. I'm not sure if there's either a way to allow players to add more people to colony/transport ships,

When you're at war with a race, you can still trade technology with them. While it can make sense in the context of a peace offer, ex. take these blueprints and cash and leave us alone, however being able to trade with them normally does not make too much sense, seeing as you're at war and such. I'd suggest making it mandatory to have a peace treaty when "trading" with a race you are at war with, or something of that nature.

For me when I get the freeze, the game doesn't unfreeze; I have shut it down via task manager and restart it.

[quote who="Tohron" reply="4" id="3509636"]Wait, tourism is weak ??? Thanks to tourism, I've often been able to run 0% wealth and still be making a couple thousand credits per turn. Unlocking tourism generally corresponds to a several-thousand-credit income boost. [/quote] From what I've seen, tourism is nice to unlock, gives you a lot of income, however building any tourism improvements is a bad choice, as one is better off going with po

[quote who="Crastiloowa" reply="7" id="3432208"]...somehow Windows OS is holding back performance - so with a custom Linux OS, theoretically games would perform better. [/quote] This is the truth with many 32-bit games/engines, such as Sins of a Solar Empire, which suffer from the Windows imposed 2 GB RAM limit.

[quote who="Mystikmind" reply="6" id="3427291"]If galciv 3 is not compatible with Vista 64 bit i will have a problem.....[/quote] Vista 64-bit = 64-bit OS While technically Vista isn't Windows 7, it should be fine nonetheless. The bigger question is, what is your video card... While there are cards from 5 years ago that support dx 10, yours might not.

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="1" id="3424286"]Please explain more. I don't see what it is with this that you see as unbalanced.[/quote] Seconding.

[quote who="Stant123" reply="211" id="3421262"]Hope you're not afraid of going really fast and jumping over stuff and through loops...[/quote] If you aren't ready to jump on a dime you aren't ready for this sector of the galaxy!

[quote who="mogthew" reply="4" id="3411891"]The only catch is that you must activate the offline mode when your game is up to date and you're online. [/quote] This is not true. If you get a sudden internet outage, you can switch to offline mode, though admittedly this is somewhat spotty at times, as previously mentioned. Once it is in offline mode however, you don't have to worry about ever putting it back online; you can reboot your computer while Steam is set to offline mode

[quote who="antibor" reply="18" id="3412639"]How do the Thalans know that the Apocalypse happens because of human actions? Do they know it at all or just guess because of the too many coincidences around the humans?[/quote] They know it all, as in their "home" universe the humans caused the end of all things.

[quote who="Tridus" reply="13" id="3410991"]Oh? Well hopefully you don't have Vista now, because the game doesn't support Vista.[/quote] In general, if something runs Win7, it runs on Vista. Even if the game doesn't officially run on Vista, I wouldn't be overly concerned.