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+1 for choosing capital area. Any other option, anyhow it'll get choosen by code, will cause people to ask for other game mechanics.

Just a reminder how 'collapsing' tech-tree could get worth thinking about: In StarDrive2 specialization is a pick out of three options form a branch. The other two options disappear, but you could certainly trade-in the collapsed tech from other empires as well. Other option is to earn it by invasion of enemys colonies. It'll enhance diplomatics or overall strategy and forces you to think about a proper research path.

Ah, ok, thx the notice. BTW, regarding custom races...do they break the mod, or do they just have head-start by getting the usual starting ships? Would be quite cool to determin it like this by choice in later versions. Update: Yes, custom races are playable and you get the head-start with colonizer and survey ship. Very nice!

Great ideas so far. Limiting colony module to a certain tech, same as the ships range brings game much more into 'eXplore and eXpand' then before. Looking forward to get Workshop integration for mods, as I do not like to have total conversation of the game by installing a single mod.

[quote who="ForesterSOF" reply="3" id="3533140"] I put them in My Games/GalCiv3 and all is fine. [/quote] Then I do presume, that you won't be able to use those builds for multiplayer. The 'faction' folder seems to be used to store your in-game custom races. But, probably you'll be able to test it and give response about. [e digicons]^_^[/e]

BTW, another minor error: If one changes the galaxy view with RMB, the minimap stays in it's direction. Very confusing...

Is it offered as a mod? If not, i'd not recommand to just include it in the usual buildup. So far I understand it, the limitation of pictures offers the possibility to use your custom designed races for multiplayer. ...as for the picture... Have you tried to Insert/Edit image the raw picture instead of your mediafire html link? Nice images btw...

I am able to colonize BARREN worlds by picking 'colonizing level 1 extreme worlds' as custom racial trait. Probably it is reserved for traits?

+1 for the idea to show and 'brand' regions on map

[quote who="charon2112" reply="1" id="3531289"] This basically means that no single race has true weaknesses and advantages. This is exactly how it should be. No one race should be better than the others. [/quote] I do accept this term to get equality for multiplayer. On the other side...why do all races have to be like one another? Plus, racial diversity doesn't ne

Well, if we reconsider GC3 is a 64bit portation of GC2, you may not need designing from scratch. This cuts out 1/3 up to 1/2 of development time I guess. They sold how many founders edition for ~90 bucks? I am pretty sure they had basic revenue before they coded a simple line. Otherwise they would not accept 50% off pricing on Steam the other week. So I do assume your calculation should be cutted down to 1/3 to get near to realism. Not prooving your pre-calculation, I'd say

Thank's for asking Frogboy... #1 The diplomacy in Civ 5 is quite ok, but I'm using some mods which enhanced it quite much with adding more steps then the usual war/neutral/peace you found in most games. There are many many steps in between which levels this part into a challenging machine. I also do support a setup where all races in a sci-fi surrounding could shoot each other without decleration of war at first contact. They should

Don't forget Steam workshop to distribute those new modded civs. ^^

[quote who="Zuigert" reply="1" id="3526252"] Well.. thats a slap in the face for us founders.. Guess Galciv 3 is the last game Ill ever pre-order/kickstart/etc.. [/quote] Exactly my thoughts!

Currently there is no goal about having racial diversity as mentioned here . All we have are some extreme planets you may gain accessable in the future when your superpower allready reached a certain level of research. Also it is not possible to just draw a galaxy map with only a few habitable planets and a huge amount of extreme planets. Those extremes seem to be a percentage of

I totally share your oppinions about GC3 at the current state. '+' for it! Have the game now for a couple of months and testing it. Till last patch 0.70 it was a rock of stability and turned now into the opposite with unexpected CTD's. #1, if you watch how far Stardock is advanced to offer programs to organize Windows...why they aren't grabbing some of those ideas to use it for GC3? A different UI color for each alien race...well t

Did some testing with the new patch (v 0.70) and the immense maps. Unfortunately the game engine turned into a CTD-monster...no matter which size of map I use. Also the 'extreme planets' I deeply waited for...are no good. Targeting to crate a galaxy with only rare habitable planets and abundand extreme planets shows, that those extreme planets are only be a percentage PART of habitable planets. So, when you have habitable planets at rare...you'll find

Great job. Congrats!

The idea to have planetary invasion quite early is a good point from my view. Probably a basic choice between predators and eXpanders at early stages might bring a solution? Like predators get invasion quick (2.5M invasion modules) and therefore only core colonization modules with which you only could colonize small ammounts (max. 1M) till you reach a better tech stage. While eXpanders do get invasion systems just to bomb enemy planets early till they reach the full invasion mod

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Cool one, Thecw, gigantic space crab!

In GalCiv3 there is no way for a multi-civ-system. Ok, you can divide planets, but instantly the most populated civ will take over the others. Before we could think about different enviromental planets, this part should get fixed. I'd suggest to denie takeovers till the diplomatic situation is worse then 'neutral'.

+1 from me too, current system is nothing more then just factions in competiotion

Finaly I made my entry for the contest, coming with a brand new engine of a yet not encountered aquatic race: Singularity Drive YouTube Video: [video]http://youtu.be/xse2AUjA-Us[/video] You see a scout ship, made with the internal designer tool, equipped with the Singularity Drive. Ship and engine are only concepts and designed for Stardocks Ship Designer contest. Currentl

A lot of very interesting designs so far. At most I was impressed by Seilore - Borg ships erischield - Orbiter concepts memoryofadream - blue something <span style="font-family: