Bamdorf

Bamdorf

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Reply to My thoughts on GC4 Beta in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

I agree with your discussion for the most part. The pirates being more aggressive if not dealt with is a good idea. I have already been in a situation in which I try to decide if it is worth it to clean out a pirate nest, which might cost me some casualties. It should definitely be worth it! It shouldn't be something you can just ignore for a long time without it causing you any difficulties. On the question of ship design I think your

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Reply to My thoughts on GC4 Beta in GalCiv IV Early Access Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

My impression of the module vs weight system is very good. It simplifies what was a tedious part of the game. I don't agree that just using standard ship models is just as good as designing your own ships. But of course it took me an inordinant amount of time to figure it out because I have played so much GC3. I kept thinking that the weight was hidden somewhere and was still controlling things. To the list of pet peeves I think that fir

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Reply to Planetary edit screen is cut off (does not fully roll out from the left) in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

Curiously, it seems to be behaving better today. perhaps the update helped. Haven't seen it today at all, although I have been focusing on figuring out the ship designer. I made a breakthrough which I think could be made much clearer on the designer. In the upper righthand corner is a total of modules used. You have so many modules allowed per size of ship. It doesn't go by weight as GC3 did, just by how many. So you can compare wh

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Text Error in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

A survey result called 'Experimental Technology' talks about it being capable of 'enervating' the population. 'enervate' means weaken. I think 'energize' is the word you want.

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Reply to Debug Help in GalCiv III Support Stardock.net Forums

after getting a black screen with music after the initial intro screens, I validated files then I got a crash after the input screens. I found this in debug.err: Debug Message: ERROR: CreateD3D11Resources failed to create Direct3D 11 Device and Swap Chain (desiredMode): 4294965376 x 1080 : (80070057) The parameter is incorrect. Debug Message: DirectX Feature Level: DirectX 11.0 Debug Message: Device SUPPORTS raw and

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations III: Map Sizes and Memory in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I have played on ludicrous with my home built system (roughly 2 years old now) successfully (no horrible lag I mean). It is ludicrous, though, to be sure. I haven't tried it with a large number of players though ---- I figured the idea of a very big galaxy is to make the distance between habitable stars very big also, sort of like I think the Milky Way galaxy is arranged (and why we haven't had daily contact with other intelligent life). I have 16 gb, 4 gb GTX 960 vi

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Reply to Commonwealths? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I tried a commonwealth just to exercise the mechanic. What happened is that my friendly neighbors targeted the new commonwealth for attack, and my fleet was too far away to prevent invasions. Looks like all I did was create low hanging fruit for the AI. Oh, and I could locate my fleet that way because people didn't want to attack me considering my total strength, and also because I had developed good relations with enough of them. And has been mentioned,

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Reply to Shipyard (button) "Last Ship Built" in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

@admiralWillyWilbur perhaps I misunderstand your comment, but if I click the button at the bottom of the shipyard display (don't notify me when queue is empty or whatever) and empty the queue by cancelling the builds, it effectively shuts down the shipyard.

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Reply to Clock in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Cell phones have audible alarms. The 8gadget tool package has a digiclock with an alarm. A grandfather clock (not necessarily full size!) that chimes on the hour and half hour. I admit that one has to think relativistically about this, as time obviously moves about three+ times faster when the game is being played. (Oh, I have a half-hour, I can get in a couple of turns.)

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Reply to Ascension Victory and map settings in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I just managed to win an ascension game on excessive, but it did take a bit of planning (mostly so as not to win by another method, as I had everything turned on) and the last 100 moves or more weren't exactly spell binding. I think the biggest thing to me is that if you have the power to get control of 50+% of the crystals and hold them you can switch and win by just about any other method more quickly. This brings up the problem of why anyone would play a game that way oth

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Reply to 1.82 Update (Released 8/22) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Any chance I could hope this (1.82) is save compatible with the previous? Just thinking of trying the game that was giving me trouble (and I submitted stuff on). Is there any point? Not a big deal, but whatever. Love to see you guys keep banging away. Why didn't I join early. Need brain surgery. (I did pick up the new DLC immediately, didn't even look at it fir

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