What I don't understand is why they felt growth needed to be increased in the first place??? If you used growth bonuses and e.g. colonial hospital buildings line it seemed reasonably fast already to me, you don't need to now. I haven't decided if I like the change or not yet, but it seems like there's a lot less decision making when it comes to population, it's not important anymore as it takes care of itself.
[quote who="eviator" reply="2" id="3610637"] I also need simple identification of which techs are specializations [/quote] I knew I'd forgotten something, that wastes a lot of time for me in diplomacy as well. Definitely needed! I think Constructor/Starbase what has been previously mentioned you only need constructor to set up initial starbase then modules will be handled similarly to how production to shipyards work. I may be miss-reme
[quote]#1 1.6 which is going to feature a lot of UI improvements. Now, UI isn't glamorous. It makes for a bad screenshot. But in a game that you may play for many hours, good UI makes a big difference between fun and tedium. [/quote] Well well well, color me happy. I probably shouldn't get my hopes up patch titles have been pretty misleading/not reached expectations before but glad to see nonetheless. I was considering making a YouTube UI video with my b
Thanks naselus :) [video]https://youtu.be/gdlsrMS_PaE[/video] Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHMuUHsmNFlQ2RsbbYSrh4_W9k6bxB1zk Let's Play started the other day DCvsMarvel Patch 1.5.1 latest DLC, will be 1.5.2.1 from Vid #6
[quote who="eviator" reply="61" id="3609748"] Quoting Empress_Fujiko, reply 60 Because to be honest, most of the problems I see with the UI seem to be caused by designing it for only small maps. This is a terrific observation. I inquired about this myself a few months ago. According to their stats the vast majority of games are played on smaller maps, and it makes sense to tailor improvements toward the greatest number of players. The interpretat
[quote who="leiavoia" reply="52" id="3609529"] And if you want word-of-mouth buzz, it might be worth it to motivate the biggest and loudest mouths you can find to help sell your product. [/quote] Well if YouTube videos count, my 3 most viewed GC3 videos have about 53,000 views between them and they get considerably more views when Gal Civ 3 is on sale... I would have made a lot more GC3 videos if I was happy with it. [quote who="eviator" reply="54" id="3609536"]
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="50" id="3609492"] My view is, if you don't like GalCiv III, find another game. [/quote] There really aren't many good space based 4X games brought out every year though are there.. or decade. Hopefully that's changing with Stellaris and Endless Space 2 supposed to be out in 2016. For all your games flaws it's one of the best space 4X games out in in recent years. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="50" id="3609492"]<br
[quote who="a0152570" reply="47" id="3609388"] Quoting eviator, reply 40 And there seems to be a huge difference between me and Stardock about micro and automation. I don't want to reduce micro by having the AI think and decide for me (as they did with planet governors). I want to reduce micro with automation systems that execute my decisions automatically. I don't want AI automation, I want mechanical automation. The latter is what the game needs. But the former is ea
NEW Galactic Civilizations 3 Let's Play first episode out minutes before I'm posting here. SNATHI and PRECURSOR WORLDS Godlike/Suicidal Huge Loose Scattered Galaxy with a few xml balance tweaks. Patch 1.5.1. [video]https://youtu.be/gdlsrMS_PaE[/video] Check out my channel https://www.youtube.com/user/MacsenGaming/ for future updates more Galactic Civilization Let
[quote who="naselus" reply="34" id="3609115"] Or me, apparently. I love how eviator can make a post saying the UI is crap, SD are ignoring problems so they can milk more money from DLC, and that he's sick of this and will walk if it's not sorted out PDQ, and Frogboy 'loves' that, but I have an attitude problem and should piss off and go find another game because 90% of my posts are well-reasoned discussions of balance issues and list various options that could be use
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="32" id="3609023"] In terms of updates, it's the "OH? Will we have it by the next patch?" sort of thing that makes me irritated. No. Of course you won't. The next update is already well underway. [/quote] Probably the vast majority of requests in this thread in the recent stream and on the forums, especially concerning UI have been asked for frequently and previous to 1.5 and a lot of them well back into the early betas. I
Is mormegil Pauls's alias? I didn't want to have a go at Paul though his blase, laid back responses in stream can be frustrating. I've no idea if he has a choice on what parts of the game he gets to work on or not. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="23" id="3608832"] And the answer is simple: What bothers one person a lot may not bother another person much at all. [/quote] There are ways Stardock could be more tran
[quote who="mormegil" reply="14" id="3608673"] Some of these concerns are simple UI tweaks, which we will try and address. [/quote] Problem is you haven't addressed these issues and the fact that many of them are simple is why so many people are frustrated. I used to think it was because there wasn't enough people working on the game, just one man and his dog, but we're 5 patches and over 7 months down the line and it's more than that. It's as
There isn't a games company that makes me want to pull my hair out... except Stardock. At this point I wish you'd smash this game out the park or turn it into a dumpster fire you don't seem to be able to make up which direction your going towards it's one step forward one back. I've read the patch notes fired up the game and taken a look at some of the new features thought I'd give my first thoughts/impressions, I'll know more once I
Life after the Wheel... If you're struggling with how to manage your economy after the removal of the planetary wheels this video should help you. [video]https://youtu.be/d32Vh6tTbKw[/video] I'm still able to win on Godlike very easily after the recent changes a bit slower perhaps with the loss of being able to focus production so easily previously, the AI changes haven't made a great impact on my games yet. Future Let's Play coming... ev
It seems to me the coercion system will penalize the player for adopting the correct strategy. That is to focus their production and specialize their planets. It's going to be a double whammy as well since it affects the bonus received from happiness. I think this system will cause a lot of frustration for players, they won't know how to manage their economy. With the removal of the wheel that's the case already, I've had people message me asking me t
[quote who="RGee" reply="42" id="3598862"] As for the Ayn Rand comment...there is no need to inject politics into this discussion. [/quote] I don't see how anyone who has the faintest knowledge of e.g. Ayn Rand, American Libertarianism, Laissez-Faire or Neoliberalism philosophies or economic systems along those lines can not fail to see the first post is dripping in politics it's so saturated. I do intend to actually comment on the game mechanics mentioned in
Did I just read a post on game mechanics or a love letter to Ayn Rand? ;)
[quote who="Surge72" reply="10" id="3595859"] But of course nothing happened. I was ignored. And I can't see any big changes like these occurring now. [/quote] Yeah I get that feeling with Stardock a lot as well :) The wikipedia article on nebulas states they can be 100's of light years in diameter, who's to say they couldn't be 1000's out there in the universe somewhere, so making them larger would satisfy realism. There's plenty of Sci
I'd make nebulas larger and nearly impassable without tech. It would make the map a lot less open, military starbases might actually become useful GC3 could really benefit from some sort of genuine "terrain" features. I realize in reality space might be vast and empty but since when is most of the taken for granted features of Space 4X games limited by reality...
Loaded up the game, two things immediately put me off from trying the opt in, though a lot of your under the hood changes sound pretty good. 1. The Focuses can only be changed by entering each and every individual planet screen. You need to add focus switches on the colonies list on the main screen and on the colonies screen on the govern civilization screen and global (all planets) focus switches somewhere as well. You could save players from a l
[quote who="naselus" reply="81" id="3593508"] As I say, there's nothing mechanically wrong with the diplo interface. [/quote] Agreed a two menu approach is fine. [quote who="naselus" reply="81" id="3593508"] When two humans seek to barter together, it does the trick. [/quote] Yes, but they are "bartering" that isn't really what's going on with human to AI. An AI can't assess things as far as I'm aware. [quote w
Hi Naselus, glad you made up with eviator :) [quote who="naselus" reply="77" id="3593382"] I don't think that diplo model is fundamentally broken. Sure, it's not very innovative, and it's presently very imbalanced and quite possibly bugged or incomplete [/quote] The thing is can it ever be well balanced? Resources, Techs and ships all have different values depending on different circumstances within the game. (e.g. purchasing
[quote who="eviator" reply="68" id="3593207"] Macsen, the new system is now much like GC2 in that there are global settings and planet focuses. So are you saying even that system is too much micro? I agree they should work on a way to mess with focuses on a planet list, like the colonies tab, like they did in GC2. [/quote] Hmmm, because I'm so unused to using the global wheel I think I forgot you could use that as the 100% focus like in GC2. I was writing under the
I guess I'll say my thoughts on the 1.4 changes in Fridays Stream... I'm glad the planetary management wheel has gone it will reduce micromanagement (fiddling with a wheel takes much more time than clicking a focus switch) but Stardock could do a heck of a lot more to reduce unnecessary micromanagement and time saving if this is the economy system they decide to use. If Stardock are going to use a focus system we should be able to switch focus without havi