[quote who="ojdrew" reply="5" id="3592050"] I'd love to see short tutorials on the different aspects of the game like: - Trade - Diplomacy - Ship Combat - Ground Combat - Research - Planetary Tile placement strategies [/quote] All of that's basically covered in my Let's Plays, not in concise form I guess but it's in there. If/when I get back to making guide videos there'
[quote]3. Host the best YouTube 'how to play' and 'tips' videos on the Stardock website. [/quote] My experience/belief is Stardock have little to no interest in YouTubers other than with reviewers like Total Biscuit and Angry Joe to sell their games initially. That being said they do have a "Pinned Post" for "User Created Videos" (they are not Nintendo luckily) in the GCIII General Forum. Took me a while to find the thread myself actually.
[quote who="CWDIGAMES" reply="4" id="3590310"] Nope not a parody post. [/quote] So have you even played the game? Perhaps you should wait until you have, before making claims about a game that your beta experience on a different title gives you no credibility to make. These forums have enough fanboyism imo. Enough smoke has been blown up Stardock *** as it is. Praise where praise is due is fine but Stardock needs to act more on the constructi
[quote]I haven't bought the game yet but hopefully I know what I'm talking about. [/quote] [quote who="Larsenex" reply="2" id="3590091"] This post is well said. I will be linking to it on the very hostile steam forums. [/quote] I thought it was a parody post???
[quote who="peregrine23" reply="60" id="3588316"] Protecting the integrity of the score isn't dumb or ridiculous. [/quote] If you want an accurate meaningful score you want as many unbiased reviews as possible, from a broad range of consumers who have purchased that game. Companies encouraging the most biased people to review games, people who have perhaps been fans of a game or series for years, people who have preordered and invested in a game and its future are
[quote who="leiavoia" reply="50" id="3588082"] Quoting Yeller123, reply 49 So far my hundred dollars has gotten me 152 hours of entertainment and I'm still enjoying the game. That's how i look at it, too. People spend $20 for an IMAX movie which is over in 2 hours, then absolutely freak out over $5 DLC. If you bought the game at $50 like most people and got 5+ hours of enjoyment out of it, you're doing great (at IMAX movie rates, at least
[quote who="a0152570" reply="53" id="3588094"] Can someone post the link, i looked but couldn't find the video [/quote] [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Vx4_prmvo&ab_channel=TotalBiscuit,TheCynicalBrit[/video]
[quote who="peregrine23" reply="43" id="3588040"] Oh, and the complaint about asking for reviews is patently ridiculous. Pretty much everything that has a rating system attached to it asks you to rate it. SD never asked its community to review it dishonestly, they just pretty much said "Hey, there's this rating system, so if you like the game, please go rate it." There is nothing even remotely wrong with that. If a company is involved in a rating system and isn't encouraging thei
[quote who="naselus" reply="29" id="3587878"] I think you're being extraordinarily harsh, tbh Macsen. [/quote] Possibly Naselus, I'm not going to be as well informed as some with certain things. I wouldn't have brought up the 3D thing if it hadn't have been mentioned. There have been improvements in the patches I'm not saying there hasn't been I'm just disappointed certain things haven't received more attention and I question Stard
[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="27" id="3587875"] I get cynicism, but I do not think on this matter that such a presumption has standing. [/quote] I'll put it more bluntly if you want, they are asking people to review their game specifically on Steam in the hope of positive reviews and potential financial gain from a higher user rating. These forums are perfectly fine for generating feedback, their not asking people to review their game on Steam for feedback. &nb
[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="23" id="3587868"] even if I disagree that we haven't seen some good improvements since launch [/quote] I've not said that, we have. Just that certain things have failed to be prioritized that should have been imo and that the progress has been slower than I expected.
[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="23" id="3587868"] I have never, nor have I seen the company ask people to write 'positive' reviews, and I have been lurking around here and following news quite cloesly. [/quote] I had a popup in the game trying to take me I presume to the Steam review page I chose the temporary decline option (this was 1.3 opt in) They have asked via their Friday streams numerous times as well. Perhaps they have never specifically asked
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="3587845"] I have a lot of criticisms of GalCiv III too. But what really irritates me is the lack of awareness by some in our community that their desires are not remotely universal. Re micro management. Most people play on small galaxies. We're not talking about finished games, we're talking that >50% of people who start a game of GalCiv play at small or smaller. The constructor spam stuff isn't an issue on maps be
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3587836"] Very disappointed with the attitude I see from some people. [/quote] [quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3587836"] I spend a weekend working on AI updates to 1.3 and WAS planning on working on AI for 1.4 (I doubt I will now). [/quote] With that response the feelings mutual... [quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3587836"] The base 1.0 of this game was already good. [/quote] There was a s
[quote who="eviator" reply="10" id="3587809"] This patch here is an inch of micromanagement progress with a mile to go. [/quote] This! I read your review on Steam recently Eviator, it was really good thinking of doing one myself.
[quote who="Yeller123" reply="7" id="3587783"] DLC and expansions are what will keep development going. [/quote] I agree, but you've got to start with a strong foundation a base game that people are happy with, why would people who aren't happy with the game buy mega events and squirrel campaigns. it's pretty clear where development time is being spent currently... on DLC's first base game second. There was an excellent video by Total Biscuit (Y
Extremely disappointing patch Stardock. Perhaps you need to hold off on DLC until you've addressed the many numerous flaws in the base game that the forum threads and reviews on Steam are littered with. A few extra buttons on the planet queue, governors that most competent players won't care to use and a destination window that's probably harder to use than clicking on the tactical map in most circumstances is not the progress I was hoping for. It's been
[quote who="marigoldran" reply="21" id="3587758"] Once again, to summarize the major points: 1. Gal Civ III provides too many economic bonuses. 2. Gal Civ III lacks economic maluses. 3. The AI is unable to take advantage of either. But the human certainly can. 4. The exponentially growing power curves that a human can create means balancing it is extremely difficult. Either the AI gets too many bonuses
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="3586856"] When we do replace the per planet production wheel, we're not going to just take it out and not put something 3else there. Instead, you'll have a system that will allow you to emphasize a particular focus for the planet. [/quote] I'd be worried that this still means competent players will be inclined to micromanage the focus of every single planet frequently, it wouldn't be as fiddly as the wheel but surely there i
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="65" id="3585143"] But the per planet microing is all going to go away. [/quote] Hi Frogboy To clarify, does that mean it will no longer be possible to change an individual planets production in any way other than through the existing global page? No wheel, sliders, buttons, etc. anything to do with changing production on an individual planets screen?
[quote who="naselus" reply="60" id="3585111"] I'll still be forced to go back to every individual planet when I research an upgrade and switch them to 100% manu, then set them back to 100% research one at a time afterwards. [/quote] That's still a lot quicker than entering each planet screen and dragging the mouse to the right location on a wheel. One click each planet is a lot quicker, or much better yet they could also add planets building X e.g. research cen
[quote who="Petri Kokko" reply="57" id="3585093"] You are changing the wheel-shape into buttons and moving its place in the UI. [/quote] It's a percentage system with all the fiddlyness taken out so if that's not removing the wheel, it's still a bloody big change I'd say :) My initial response to naselus is post #55. If I get what your saying you think that there is going to be zero ways to select individual planets production your interpretat
[quote who="naselus" reply="52" id="3585067"] Oh, let's just drop the 'it'll reduce mico' rubbish, because it won't. You can bet that if we're stuck with just the global wheel, we'll be microing it every turn to make sure we're not wasting any more production on econ or research than is absolutely needed [/quote] I'd scrap the Global Wheel as well it's part of the same problem. It's not just the amount micromanagement it
Getting rid of the wheel system is a massive step forward in reducing the crazy micro management in the game and shows that Stardock are able to make tough decisions, encouraging signs at last! It's the right decision for a game of this scale. 10 planet empires the old system works ok, above that and the the game increasingly bogs down. I've posted about getting rid of the wheel previously (even requesting it it to be set on fire since I hate it that much, which di
I'm re-posting my economy solution below "A Suicidal difficulty Let's Players proposal..." I've posted it it elsewhere but I'll add some additional requests here. I could right an essay on what needs to be improved in Gal Civ 3 but I'll just cover the top of the iceberg. Others have mentioned similar to these but here's my 2c. Sorting: All the queue's in the game lack sorting options shockingly poor currently can't believe it's s