Ahh, thanks for both answers. The loss of "Farm" for Terrans is harsh. I hadn't thought that saved templates from the older Beta might carry over. I appreciate that nugget. I will use templates more often now. It also means that the templates are stored at the Steam Mothership, because mine followed me to China where I'm using a computer that never played GCIII in the States.
[quote]Quite often I am encountering star names that are ALMOST okay but a slight modification would make it acceptable for me i.e. 'Shazbot 19512014' to just 'Shazbot' for instance [/quote] Or, you could just post all the names you think are ALMOST okay and see if one of creator notices, and follows up with you in the forum. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [quote]I also do not want an option to just 'turn them off' as the majority in the list. are
[quote who="joeball123" reply="21" id="3501392"] The issue with this line of reasoning... [/quote] It's not a line of reasoning. It's the direct translation of the Latin. It's a fact that an act can be benevolent or malevolent without knowing the actor's intent. I can wish a million dollars to you, and that is benevolent, whether or not I am your heir. And whether as your heir I plan to terminate you later, or not. [quote who="joeball123" reply=
All of my Terran starts lack the Basic Farm. So Earth starts with 99% approval and goes downhill from there quickly without near-constant slider adjustments, which kills productivity and research. I have to research to get Xeno Farms if I want a farm. I always start with three colony ship designs: M1, M2, and M4(?). Sort of odd not to see an M3. The Constructors are M1-M3. Is this the same for everyone?
Playing as the Terrans, I found that the game starts me with both a single and double constructor. There were actually two singles, a short-range, and a long-range.
[quote who="Hamilmac" reply="5" id="3501349"] Quoting Blaze of Glory, reply 1 First time to start the game took forever, I thought it was locked up. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
"Benevolent" and "Malevolent" are antonyms. No change needed. Benevolent means literally "to wish well", to be a "well-wisher". Malevolent means "to wish ill", to "wish evil". There is nothing here that is Darwinian. It is all about one's intentions--one's wishes for some other thing or being. The reason or motivation behind the wish has nothing to do with whether or not the act itself is benevolent or malevolent. One's action may
[quote who="Larsenex" reply="4" id="3501104"] 3. On the map let me scroll out farther. (you love supreme commander don't you LET ME OUT!) [/quote] This please.
I agree, the performance improvement is glaring. Probably due to the integrated graphics card support. I didn't quite get a quintillion-fold increase. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
Hi Failsafe, I think the purpose--the Use Case--these are for typically is when your colony has nothing it wants to build on-planet, and it doesn't need or want to direct 100% of production to building a ship. Instead of wasting that production, you choose one of these instead: money, babies, approval, or war. Wiser folks here can tell you what the conversion cost is, I do not know that. Happy Conquering!
First, thank you for posting these bugs. I am especially impressed by the dangling participle reference. (Not sarcasm.) Second, I like the idea of putting the version number in the title in brackets. It makes it easy to distinguish [0.50] comments, which I'm extremely interested in, from those about version [0.42]. Why, if there weren't brackets, I might have to read a lot of posts only to discover, too late, that the post is about 0.42. And it just isn't proper English to d
Can't keep a network connection open long enough to download the update to China. Sigh. Might have to wait to be back in the States. Pity me.
[quote who="Avatar137" reply="9" id="3500400"] All you have to do is just capture the last remaining planet of your last remaining enemy and you win! [/quote] The going-in assumption here is that capturing the last planet of a race is what turns the ships white, and I have captured the last planet of all (both) races, at which point all of their fleets and shipyards are white. So, no planets to conquer, no ships in-play to destroy. Not sure what ne
Thank you for the pre-release information, but most especially, thank you for the will to put an anticipated date out there, too.
[quote who="Avatar137" reply="7" id="3500306"] Not at all. The ships that are left over aren't able to be attacked, same for the startbases and shipyards, but you will still win the game without problem. [/quote] OK. That's good to know; however, it isn't clear how that can be accomplished. If no other race in the game has colonies, and no other race in the game has ships etc. except for the white, immobile, invulnerable ones, then what deed will end the g
[quote who="aaronofely" reply="4" id="3500138"] GalCiv is possibly the best 4x space game out there since MOO 2. [/quote] Off-topic, but I want to agree with you on this. And based on 150+ hours with the Beta, my hopes are high.
1. What specific features of diplomacy do you traditionally like the most? I want you to be as specific as you can be. Which parts of diplomacy from any game do you like the most? What parts do you remember long after playing the most? Trades should be fairly valued. (Unless it is a race's makeup to never deal fairly.) Deals should be possible always. (Unless it is a race's makeup to hold a grudge.) Pragmatism and practicality shou
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="1" id="3499024"] In fact quit putting EVERYTHING in brackets. [/quote] Do you mean, do not do this? [EVERYTHING]
It seems obvious your post wasn't just about putting the word "suggestion" in brackets. You are also explaining that the mere presence of the word suggestion is in fact redundant. Although I appreciate your quest to make us all like you--"be more like me"--it would make the world and this forum less interesting. It's also possible, I suppose as I'm trying to be tolerant here, that some people who are very busy might appreciate a quick indication that a post rep
Deleting double-post.
Basically, I'm trying to learn if my game is essentially over (unwinnable) if I knock off the last planet of a race without first destroying all of its ships and shipyards and probably starbases.
Taking out the last planet of another race causes remaining existing ships and shipyards to turn white. These ships/shipyards never move again, and they cannot be attacked or destroyed; the race retains points, and it seems the game will not end with a conquest victory.
Anyway, more to the original point, I don't think measuring productivity "in the future" in terms of population or widgets produced per unit time is any more anachronistic than measuring work done in horsepower is today.
I use mine-able resources as places to put a starbase near, and I don't bother hooking up the mining right away, saving a constructor. I just use it as a way to extend the range of my ships into that area. Mined elements should eventually become depleted. After building so many ships with Elerium, your Elerium deposit runs out, and you need to secure another one. That's both realistic and makes mine-able resources quite valuable. It doesn't really matter if the
133 hours. (!) It sure didn't seem like 133 hours. Kinda worries me.