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Reply to [5.83] - The AI apparently counts Starbases and Shipyards as military units in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Sure, but when number of shipyards is the only thing the AI seems to care about, it's a little silly. Number of shipyards doesn't translate well into how fast you can build units, since it's far more efficient to sponsor a shipyard with 3-4 planets clustered together. If the game really is considering potential, rather than just assuming shipyards are units as I'm guessing, it's doing a very poor job of it.

Reply to [5.83] - The AI apparently counts Starbases and Shipyards as military units in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Just confirming that this IS the reason. I built 3 shipyards in a single turn and immediately shot up to 2nd place in Military power (up from dead last).

[5.83] - The AI apparently counts Starbases and Shipyards as military units in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The way this game calculates military power is a little strange. Like, as soon as I meet any of the AIs, they all immediately declare war because of how "weak" I am compared to them, even if I actually have a military, and they don't. Today, I took a closer look at this by going full military and conquest right off the bat. Even though I have a free frigate, as soon as I met the Krynn, they declare war. I met the Altarians, too, and even they give me the minus for being weak. No matter ho

Reply to [.83] [Feedback] Pirate protected anomalies are a might overpowered right now in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Hamilmac" reply="5" id="3539169"] I second that I like the way it is set up now. With the addition of pirates and pirate bases, I'm arming a lot of ships I didn't arm before. I noticed that even a little defense on a ship can help it consistently win against pirates even if the total attack is less. Not sure why, but it's working for me. <span style="font-fa

Reply to 3 questions from Stardock to you in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]Greetings! Today I would like to ask you guys some questions about strategy games. 1. What specific features of diplomacy do you traditionally like the most? I want you to be as specific as you can be. Which parts of diplomacy from any game do you like the most? What parts do you remember long after playing the most? 2. Looking back, how many turns do your favorite games last? This is important to know the specific number of turns the ga

[Request] More Descriptive Tooltips / a "Civilopedia" where we can look up the game mechanics in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

If you asked me to give an example of a very simple thing to add to the game that would improve it leaps and bounds, I'd have to say better tooltips. Right now, the game is very basic, and I understand that not all the mechanics are in place yet, but in its current state, GC3 has very poor conveyance. Say there's a plot of land with a symbol on it. It says it improves X and Y in the tooltip. What's the difference between the upward green arrow and the yellow carets pointing in 4 d

[bug] Automated Survey Ships are ignoring the range limit in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

I noticed this when I spotted a graveyard just past my borders -- if I was manually controlling my ship, it would not allow me to move it past the maximum range, but if I then told my survey ship to automatically survey, the game would plot a course directly towards the anomaly, and would then grab it despite being out of range. As far as I can tell, this means AI ships also ignore the range limit as long as something they want is within viewing distance. Naturally, this is a very ear

Starbases: Make each Base's first module free in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Having to build 2 constructors to do anything with a Starbase is annoying. Yes, generic starbases are indeed useful for extending the range of your ships, but having to build two constructors just to get them to do anything else beyond that is very annoying and time-consuming. Constructors are expensive, and basic Starbases are not exactly well-defended. If this is a matter of balance, then the way Starbases are balanced needs to be retooled so this can happen, because right now, building Sta

Reply to Brad Wardell Talks to Strategy Informer about Galactic Civilizations III in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Starhawk11" reply="17" id="3415849"] Honestly Satoru1 that's one of the things about a lot of the "hard core" gamers, is they are basically career whiners. What I mean by that is if a game is released that is below their specs they go "Oh they dumbed this crap down for the "casuals" and their crappy rigs!" But if a company makes a game that actually stresses THEIR rig then it's "OMG These f-tards don't know how to make a good game!" while the OTHER-oth

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Nah, I got all of that. Thanks. I'm into programming, but I like knowing where to look. Your response is appreciated, especially since I couldn't make paragraphs. A lot of your reasons do make sense, but I still like the idea of having ultimate weapons. It's just a personal pref, and since it's your mod, you're within your right to make it however you like. Oh, one more thing: Arceans getting Recruiting Centers from War Rooms is great, since my custom race uses the Arcean tech tr

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Sorry about the wall of text, but no matter how many times I edit it, paragraphs won't show up. EDIT: There we go. It wasn't working in FireFox.

Reply to Twilight: Tolmekian's TechTree Fix v3.51 Release 05-10-13 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I completely disagree with removing the Ultimate weapons on the basis that the Evil weapons weren't good enough. Last game I played, I had the damned Evil Missiles, the weakest one, and I owned face because no one else had anything close to that kind of power, despite the trade restrictions the UP put on me. I won the game, having the most powerful military in the galaxy by an order of magnitude. One of the big reasons I disagree with removing the ultimates is it screws anyone whose w

Reply to Why can't I build farm? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Not a bug. Farm buildings require Xeno Farming. Technically your initial colony *has* basic farms, which is what allows you to grow your population to 8 billion in the first place. In general, you don't want to put Farms on Farm Bonus tiles unless there's at least one Approval tile there as well, because growing your population also drastically reduces your approval rating, and as you upgrade the farms, they will soon provide far more population than you can please, since the more people you

Reply to Why the hell are the Thalans so powerful? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Thalans have always been strong in my games as well. In the current game I'm playing, they're number 1, practically neck and neck with Krynn, but Krynn have far and away the most influence, owning half the votes in the UP all on their own. The Thalans don't like me very much, but they're on the opposite side of my Immense galaxy, so war with them is unlikely to do anything. Krynn and I share borders, some of our planets are right next to each other and we're fi

Reply to homestar colors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Nah, it didn't work. I opened StarTypes.xml and added a new entry with the values I wanted, saved, then opened GalCiv and started a new game. Star was still yellow. I placed a copy of the file in the TA Data folder, then modified the vanilla StarTypes file the same way, and the result was still the same, yellow star. I made sure the star's name was exactly the same as the star in my custom system, which does work.

Reply to homestar colors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="4" id="2897884"]Check out StarTypes.xml - if you give a custom star the same internal name as the race's star, you can pretty much set it to any of the defined colours. You should find the default file in your Dark Avatar install folder. You'll see that Sol is already set up.[/quote] Aha! I knew that was there for a reason. Thank you. I'll try that out as soon as I get back to my Game computer.

Reply to homestar colors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, that works, but now we still need to know how to change the homestar color. So far, I've had no luck figuring that out.

Reply to homestar colors in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Anybody know? I'd like to know as well. My custom race is supposed to have a Blue home star, and I'd like to know how to change it. While we're at it, anybody know how to name the other starting planets and not just base them on the name of the home planet?