DrTemp

DrTemp

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Guys. I have really tried to love this game. The concept and the game design are superb. But the programming is so incredibly, titanically incompetent beyond description that I cannot stand it any more. The program eating away tons and tons of RAM so as to make the whole PC unsresponsive for minutes. The program eating resources even when it has been exited (but the process is still in the task list and eating RAM almost half an hour later). Crashes. Cheating AI (in 2016 - I a

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[quote who="Go4Celerity" reply="28" id="3616683"] [...] BUT, [e digicons]:([/e] My last session with GalCiv3 ended in a rage quit when a vanilla AI colony ship with stacked engines snatched up a planet in my ZOI that I was 1 turn away from colonizing. I don't stack engines or sensors and I can no longer bring myself to play the game as is. If and until it's addressed I won't be purchasing content for GalCiv3. [/quote]

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GalCiv3 has a extreme performance issues with long games on big maps. Play a game on an extremely large map with many opponents, and eventually, the game will fill your RAM and make your CPU's busy to the point that you cannot play the game safely any more. It will even struggle to move your space ships without interrupting the music. Time between turns increases, the game will stutter all the time, and eventually, it will crash. This needs to be fixed. Apar

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