Thanks! Could someone please tell me if setting up a custom game for the purpose of checking these out is a fairly simple matter? Like, in order to set it up so that I would encounter space monsters very early on, would I simply adjust a few settings or have to edit an xml file? Would the editor dlc (which I don't yet own) let me create a map with a sp
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Thanks for the replies. :) I wonder if anyone has ever posted images of them anywhere. Haven't been able to find anything yet. What kind of attack/defense do they have?
Still wondering about these. Sorry, I haven't really played the game much since purchasing because it just seems like it would be a much better experience after it has matured somewhat. However, I do recall buying some dlc a while back that added space monsters or some sort of "space monsters event" type of feature. Could someone please explain how these are implemented and what they are like?
Thanks, BuckGodot!
Btw, is it Brad who is "lead designer" of GalCivIII? If so, then it would be great if he's the one who mentioned liking space monsters a lot in the stream.
Someone in the Steam forums in October said this regarding space monsters: "Its been talked about in the dev streams but nothing certain yet. The Lead designer loves the concept though. " So I guess it could be in one of the dev streams from around that time. If it's accurate and they do really like the idea, hopefully they will make it in someday!
Thanks for the replies. That is hopeful then, if it has been mentioned by a dev. I seem to recall reading somewhere a long, long time ago someone mentioning that they were being considered, but I don't know where it was. :)
Since I began following this is EA I've been hoping something would be said about having space monsters as an eventual feature. It would seem that ship captains are coming soon, which I think might be made to work very well with space monsters as they would be something for captains to hunt and collect bounties on as quest rewards. Mainly what I'm picturing here are enormous creatures along the lines of the ship-eating Budong from Farscape, the Crystal Entity from ST:NG th