AdamMG

nice update, thanks

You don't really need to understand any backstory. Just the civilization traits, and what each trait unlocks in the tech tree. Knowing who the Drengin are is unimportant, but knowing what Slavers can do for your planet IS important. Gameplay will fix that. There's really nothing much to read up on (other than helpful posts). EDIT: to reiterate, knowing any story from any previous GalCiv is not at all necessary. And the other game that they put a cro

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="3" id="3755819"] The interface is way ahead of 2. I tried it's hard going back to two. The features are light years ahead of two. More factions. A bigger map. [/quote] I agree with this.

Go to the communications screen, click "talk about something else", the option is there.

Personally, I find tourism to be much better balanced in the recent updates. Are you up to 3.7? Even with Popular, tourism doesn't seem to get out of hand until later in the game.

[quote who="tetleytea" reply="4" id="3754469"] Build Port of Calls on every planet and max tourism. You don't have to research Interstellar tourism. It's obviously a serious balance bug, but you can fight fire with fire--the Port of Calls will give you 1 million credits, too. [/quote] Um, if you don't research Interstellar Tourism, you don't get the Port of Call. And then, you only get one per civ, in the latest version.

Seconded

The ones you listed are the biggest imbalances, IMO. The social construction should be more like 250 (having it 1/4 what a supply ship gives is ridiculous). The FoW one should be larger radius. And the influence... 10,000 isn't too bad later in the game, on longer games it doesn't seem overpowered) but maybe that could be a percentage of current influence (e.g., add N% to planet's current influence). I'd love to have artifact frequency settings as well, that wo

It is not a hardware issue, nor is it difficult to reproduce. It specifically has to do with the area of the mission clicked. I experience this all the time. Sad that, while they do address many bugs, they don't give any time to others.

[quote who="charlando" reply="13" id="3752648"] If you want to start with a shipyard but not ships, take the constructor options and build a shipyard turn one. Boom, problem solved. [/quote] Exactly, but people love to complain. Logic makes no sense to them.

I almost always (but not every single time) rush the shipyard. So what? Let us all complain about something that really means nothing after turn one, ok?

I do agree that prototype weapons need rebalancing with the rest of the game. They are currently not at all useful. I was responding to a specific post (which I failed to quote). EDIT: just as I failed to quote yours. So what. I think I'm done trying to help out on this forum.

Prototypes should be surpassed by "regular weapons". Prototype literally means "first pattern" from the greek.

Starbases built by Vigilant races will also slow down ships moving through their area of effect (though generally ships will pathfind around them)

EDIT: deleted. I was wrong.

Regarding transports: As previously stated, you can scrap a transport ship and get back your legions. I'll leave the strategy for how many to load up to others, but there is no way (other than scrapping the ship) to take legions off a transport ship. However, if there is only 1 troop on a transport ship in orbit, when you eject said ship from orbit, you can fill it. I find this to be a bug, IMO a transport should be more malleable with respect to the troops it carries.

Sadly, there don't seem to be any up-to-date manuals or wikis. Probably this forum is the best place to ask questions for current mechanics. Feel free to ask away, responses may not be immediate, but usually someone chimes in when they can.

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="19" id="3751860"] I started a new game with this version and tested the current change. I think the movement of ships near hyperlanes is just about perfect. Every path they took seemed to be the best one. They entered and exited hyperlanes to take the least number of moves. All my complaints in Replies #4 and #6 no longer exist. I think the problem is fixed. Thanks very much. [/quote] Haven't h

Effect - what bonus the building gives on its own, with no adjacency bonus Adjacency - the number of levels given to buildings next to it, of the appropriate type Level - the number of levels given to that building, by adjacencies (or special tiles)

awesome. Hyperlanes were being given far too much weight, according to their actual movement costs. Will let you know.

It happens a lot where civs from across the galaxy will declare war on you, even if they cannot reach you. This may not even be an issue, if you grow some fleets and attack one of their scout ships, they may ask for peace. Or, they might start building starbases to reach you. Don't be too annoyed by the graphs, fleet strength is often no true measure for how well they will hold up to an actual war. I have found, the best way to up your fleet graph is to go for Kinetic

This is something which is pretty easy to replicate. If nobody gets you a save game for this issue, I can start a game for that purpose. While we are on the topic... Making an upgraded Architect or Supply from the ship design screen gives it an "intrepid" design, which means it does not have the icon of the basic ship. This is specifically an issue, because AI does not design ships with Hyperdrive Plus or Warp, since they have the same speed as their older designs (H

true enough, the AI seems to undervalue hypergates

well obviously you'll need 3 gates to create a triangle... that's the definition of a triangle (3 vertices, 3 lines)

Your first hypergate doesn't have anything to connect to when first built, so doesn't bring up the destination screen. Click on it, it'll give you the option to redirect. Redirect it to the last gate you built.