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Legions in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hey everyone, Had a basic question I guess, am I right in assuming the only way to create legions is to either train a citizen as a general for 5 legions or create the military academy and train legions that way? I've made a military academy and it looks like you can only have one of these per player, so does this mean that only one planet can train legions or will this enable the train legion option for all my worlds? Just wondering if I'm missing something here

Reply to Incompatible Faction Detected in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi Airmaster, Thanks for your reply and thanks also for all the great work and advice. You've put alot into your factions and ships. Very impressive and kind of you to do all that work for the community, greatly appreciated.

Incompatible Faction Detected in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hello my Galactic Civilization friends :) I recently installed Airmasters trek addon from the steam workshop and it's pretty awesome. I am however getting an Incompatible Faction Detected error message for the Xindi Faction. It says "unknown ship style". So the game does this whenever I start it up, I click ok and it carries on with no problems. Was wondering if anyone else has encountered this error and if there is a way to disable it? Thanks for

Reply to Met a new race, want to send my freighters to their worlds but... where are they? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi and thanks for your reply, yes I was thinking something similar too. I was thinking something like in the Civ games, I believe you can exchange maps with other civs through the trade window. Something like that would be really nice.

Reply to Met a new race, want to send my freighters to their worlds but... where are they? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Sorry didn't mean to make the same post twice. I couldn't find a delete post option

Met a new race, want to send my freighters to their worlds but... where are they? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi everyone, Newbie question here, when meeting races in the galaxy they always seem to know where all my planets are so their freighters just come on in lol which is fine but how can the AI know this without exploring my territory. Am I missing something? I want to trade with them but have no idea where all their planets are. Is there some diplomatic or easy way to have the AI reveal where all their planets are and the vastness of their borders. I don't want to

Large massive map sizes and AI starting locations in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi everyone, just starting playing Galciv 3 and am loving it however I notice when playing on even really huge maps, I could start in the corner and the AI players all surround me so I get boxed in and there is the rest of this massive map that goes un used. <br style="color: #dbdbdb; font-family: 'Motiva Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px

More than one diplomatic message but it skips past them in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi Everyone, New to the game and am playing Galciv 3 with Crusade expansion. I'm well into my game but notice at times when I enter a new turn I will get more then one diplomatic message now and then but the game flashes by them by me and I can never read or choose anything and simply goes to the last message I have. That one will display fine however I never get to see anything that came in before it. Has anyone encountered this before? It

Reply to Trade Routes vanishing? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Ok thanks guys for your replies :)

Trade Routes vanishing? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi All, New to Galciv 3 and still learning the ropes but did have a question about trade routes. I currently have 10 / 17 trade routes active but after a couple turns I checked and then I had 9 / 17 and turn later it went to 8 / 17 so I don't understand why that would be happening, I can't see the trade ships getting destroyed or if that's happening I'm not getting told about it, and not at war with anyone I'm trading with. Do trade routes just end after so many turns?<

Border Tresspassing in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi Everyone, Sorry if this topic has been discussed before, I'm new to the game and was wondering if there is a way to warn of alien ships in my space without starting a war? I've used the diplomacy and most of the time this works but sometimes I get ignored and they just head deeper into my territory. At this point I want to go and shoot them down but I have to start a war to do so. Anyway to blow the invader away on the down low? :)

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well guys it's been a slice, I'm going to stop visiting this post as I feel I've said everything that needs to be said. I really think everyone is not getting full service, not just me. You may agree with me or not agree, of course that's your decision. I think stardock has created a very good game and yes I agree that impulse is not as evil as steam BUT it's still a bad thing. I don't appreciate being treated like a criminal when I've bought the game and too many

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="ansury" reply="45" id="2567989"] But it's not just a matter of Stardock "working a little harder". More work means employing and paying someone to do the work, which means a higher price for the end product, a longer wait for patches, or a longer development time, and so on. Extra work is always something that should be avoided, as long as there's other more important things to get done. (And there always will be, in the case of any duplicate pat

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="foxfire1234" reply="42" id="2565990"]Just fyi, In your Cabin with no internet example... You install your standalone patch and then you can not play until you install inpulse and verify it... But... you have no internet... NOOO! [/quote] Exactly, So you see the problem then and yet here you are defending them? [quote who="foxfire1234" reply="42" id="2565990"] Sadly most DRM is getting very very evil. Like the many games that are out and com

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="40" id="2565362"]We may have another candidate for getting a refund here. As I've pointed out, the CEO/majority owner of the company has said this isn't going to happen. Deal with it; if your method of dealing with it involves boycotting Stardock, they and the community here are better off without you anyway. [/quote] It just shows the arrogance of the ceo and company, they can't argue their point and they in fact they are in the

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="38" id="2564985"] Had I known that they were going to do this I would never have given them my money. They've lost my confidence until this is resolved and I know I'm not the only one that thinks this way. This discussion has happened several times before, most notably when Sins stopped getting stand-alone patches during the Impulse roll out. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but Brad's overall answer to this was that Stardock was better off losin

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="36" id="2563502"]njareg, one thing you really aren't getting is the fact that, Impulse makes Stardock's putting out of patches 1) faster, 2) cheaper, and 3) seamless. [/quote] Whiskley I do understand these things but what your not hearing my friend is that everything you've mentioned is really in stardocks hands. The bottom line is when impulse goes down and if you don't have a backup then you're only method of updating your game is totally gone

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="33" id="2563463"]@njareg- Rosco IS an employee for Stardock. Just check below the avatar. In fact, Rosco is with the support component of SD. [/quote] Well I'm not surprised, I suspect that was the case. He's arguing for this radical new approach idea which in reality is nothing of the sort. The idea is we buy the game but get a lower level of support, wow what a ground breaking idea that is. let's see how many customers this works on.

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Netriak" reply="31" id="2563009"]So your question is, why does Stardock use internet activation as copyright protection? [/quote] No that's not my question, my question is why is stardock refusing to give us something every other game company gives you. [quote who="Netriak" reply="31" id="2563009"] Stardock is primarily a non-game software company. Most commercial software, such as Microsoft windows or Photoshop, uses online activation as DRM, an

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="30" id="2562956"] Impuse is not 3rd party. It was created in-house, by Stardock. Basically, take Stardock Central, modify the GUI a bit, upgrade the behind-the-scenes, and add useful features, and you've got Impulse. And what is intrusive? It's designed to be as unintrusive as possible. It's only required to download, install, and update our software. When you're done, feel free to uninstall it. It's not re

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DauntlessAnsible" reply="26" id="2562705"]good points to all in the discussion. ultimately it comes down to a difference in opinion. impulse to me is a tool to manage my games and software. i have all my registeration in one place. i can print those out, download full offline copies of the games, and use the tool to install between my home systems as needed. if i rebuild a machine, i reinstall from the web and dont have to deal with scratched cds my k

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Netriak" reply="25" id="2561561"] First of all, after patching, the game requires online activation. Impulse handles that silently and invisibly. A standalone patch would not help you if Stardock's servers are down or gone, since they are required for activation regardless of how you acquired the patch. [/quote] test Secondly, Impulse patching works by checking the check-sum of every installed file against the one on the server, and downloading any that

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Netriak" reply="25" id="2561561"] First of all, after patching, the game requires online activation. Impulse handles that silently and invisibly. A standalone patch would not help you if Stardock's servers are down or gone, since they are required for activation regardless of how you acquired the patch. [/quote] Yes but that again is stardocks doing, all the games I own I can download the patch and install the patch _without_ an internet connection. That's

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="joeld1212" reply="23" id="2561435"]njareg: You're beating your head against a wall. For better or worse Stardock has made up their mind on this. I argued this point a year or more ago and it got me nowhere. While many of the Stardock moderators are polite in their defense of their policy they are also quite firm when saying " it's our way or go away". On the other hand, some of the forum posters can be quite rude in alluding to your lack of computer skil

Reply to No stand alone patches? Have to use impulse/stardock....am I missing something here? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DauntlessAnsible" reply="21" id="2561077"]i suppose i personally dont understand why you wouldnt want impulse to handle the update process. i would much rather impulse handle my updates than have to plug in some serial number every time. impulse doesnt blast you with ads. on startup it checks for updates for you so you are always current. if you dont want impulse it can be uninstalled. i suppose if you didnt buy w/e game you are trying to update and a