Great to see GC4 will be a thing and the changes sound great so far! I love the added focus on the people of your empire. A little bit of Crusader Kings in GalCiv sounds awesome! The new mapping system sounds like it could create some truely humongous maps! Very interesting. Looking forward to reading more.
Will GC4 have a similarly detailed ship building editor to what we have in GC3? If so, then I’d love to see more reason to spend a lot of time creating ships from a tactical viewpoint rather than from an art point of view. I feel the current situation offers creative people a superb editor to make awesome ship creations, but there is a disconnect between the actual combat gameplay and the custom ships.
First I want to point out that every time I see the ship preview with the awesome lighting it puts a smile on my face. Colonial government is nice for when you want to thread the middle ground and don’t mind being dependent on other entities to hold up their end of the bargain. In stable clusters of relatively peaceful worlds this works. If, however, you want to be the hand that forces others’ hand and just dictate how and when things happen an Imperial gover
Very nice post! its's inspiring indeed and fun to read. thanks for sharing, Frogboy
A boarding system would be awesome. It could even be carried over into the combat module instead of just being an ability on the main map. +1
Great project, SD! I am in for the ride!