After reading this subject I had to come in and say... get a room!

Agreed!

It's way too easy to succumb to the feeling that the negative outweighs the positive, but the forums are full of people helping out with issues and improving the gaming experience together. Perhaps that means we should be a little clearer about how appreciative we are for the work Brad and the team put in to this.

Hear hear

Yep this is a pretty good game already, and I know from previous experiences with the other Gal Civ games that this one is going to continue to get even better.  It is definately worth the 45ish bucks I payed for it.  So good work Frogboy and all the other Stardock crew.

And Frogboy, I realize it is easier said than done, but don't take crappy posts here so personally.  Just remember, there are a lot of idiots in the world.  Those idiots become highly concentrated on the internet.  And idiots really aren't worth wasting your breath (or typing) on.  There are many discussions I have stopped responding to or looking at simply because the stupidity level was getting too high.

Have a great day !

+ a google (or so...might be underestimating).

I myself am playing both Galciv 2 Ultimate and Galciv 3 on alternate days.

The more you get into both, the more you realise both are quite unique yet with similar addictive mechanics.

There is just something drug-like induced into Galciv. I need a doc.

Agreed !!! Great Job guys

Ill chime in. I think all the developers are doing a fantastic job. 

The very fact that Frogboy takes time to actually post on someones thread is pretty telling. I consider him far ahead of the pack in terms of game Ai development! Please keep of the GREAT work and know that hundreds of us back you and your work!

/signed....

Agreed, thanks for the game.  I am having much fun!

Props to Frogboy and the entire Stardock team. I appreciate what GalCiv3 already is, and I thank all of you for the commitment you've made...putting yourself out there with the promise of things to come. I am anticipating the game I'll be playing in 6 months, almost as much as I anticipated the initial release.

It's lunch and I decided to read on the forums. Good post. I was disappointed to see Frogboy "check out" the other day. Hopefully, the rest of the SD team will let him know about this thread. 

Like Frogboy, I own and run a software development company. We have about 30 employees but we focus on business software. I wish I had decided to write game software in my youth instead of just playing them and doing business software. While we get to do some cool things (Genetic Algorithms) and even use the infamous A* for routing of real world people and objects, I would have loved to been on his the fence.  I play games to keep my mind fresh and to get ideas. Often times, I see a great interface idea for presenting data in the business environment.

I appreciate all the hard work the SD team does more than they know. I know how hard it can be to get everything my customers want in the software we write and it is NEVER done. Someone, somewhere will always find a new creative way to break something, or have an awesome feature or take on things, or find a typo, or external factors will force a change to something that was previously stable. (like a video card not telling the truth about it's capabilities)

I find it amazing that people believe that small investment of $50 to $100 gives them license to be belligerent, hateful, obtuse, and unreasonable.  Do you really think that I would enter into a trade with you for a mere $50 that then somehow entitles you to act all Drengini to me? 

Keep up the good work, I know that Stardock will uphold my faith, they have been doing so since I was running OS/2.  I know most of the things that bug us, bug you also. I know that you have plans and no amount of me complaining, or hoping or wishing, can suddenly make all those plans come true. Only time will do that. 

Best Regards. 

You guys are doing a great job with GC3 and yes there is still work that needs to be done on it but you guys are getting there and I do believe that this game will grow into one of the best Space Turn-based 4X games to date.  Keep up the good work.

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