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Reply to Unit selection, grouping, and armies - serious problems in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="jeskeca" reply="6" id="3630279"] Agreed.... I feel like I can't even begin to play this game because unit selection and grouping is so busted. Here are problems I see: 1) shift-# doesn't add units to group (what?!?1?) 2) when a group has two types of structures (factory and armory), I only get the factory panel.... I don't see any way to switch to the armory subset (in starcraft this would be TAB) This makes managing p

Construction menu for frigate based armies in Everything Else AshesoftheSingularity Forums

So I watched a few games of 2v1 (standard AI vs standard AI with me observing in the corner) to try to figure out how the heck the AI is so aggressive in the beginning, and I learned a ton about their opening moves. I also learned that the AI creates armies with a single unit (something I cannot seem to do as a player, I need to have at least two units to create an army) and that they also can use the 'request reinforcements' feature with that singular unit without having to fir

Reply to Please Please let us complete multiple buildings/ships in one turn in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

You can put out more than one ship per turn from a single planet by juggling production to multiple nearby shipyards. It's annoying and tedious, but it is possible within the confines of game mechanics. You need 1 extra research or wealth planet per spare shipyard that you can 'attached' from any distance to provide ~1 production so that you don't get stopped by the 'orphaned shipyard' prompt, but I was able to successfully use a 500 production planet to ma

Buyout and upgrade balance in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

So with the 1.02 beta patch, buyout costs got changed to 10 BC per MP, but upgrade costs weren't changed. This isn't really important for my observation, but I just wanted to mention it since it is related to this... 'exploit'. If you buy out a ship, it costs 10 BC per MP. If you upgrade a ship, it costs 30 BC + 6.6BC for each extra MP worth of upgrade you're doing. So would you rather design a colony ship, that costs say ~100 MP to build, or

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III - Patch 1.02 in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Nice patch! There are few items that I was hoping might get some attention in the future, if you don't mind receiving a bit of feedback! :) 1 ) Production Related A ) Stored production tooltip took me 34 hours of playtime to *notice*. It is very obscure, but very important information. Could this be brought out of a tooltip and put in the planet UI? Also note that this tooltip is inaccessible if

Reply to Synthetic play - question in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="bxrobson" reply="8" id="3555401"] Assembly starts at 2 for approx. 150 manufacture cost, then you can research +4,+6,+8 in each of the three ages, the cost grows by approx 50% for each tier so it becomes cheaper per population. Also birthing subsidies project, I don't know if it is intended or working as expected but you get a 10% bonus for every approx. 10 social manufacturing. So for each 100 manufacturing birthing subsidies gives 0.1 faster growth as I

Reply to Synthetic play - question in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Afaik synthetic can grow at 6/turn, not just 2. The advanced assembly techs are mid-late game, but they are very very fast.

Reply to A Few Buggy Things From Turn 436 of My Game in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The multiple preparedness center bug is that if you delete one it removes the token from every planet, not just that planet. Build them all up, delete 1, build another one on every planet, delete 1, build another one on every planet, etc.

Reply to Kinetic weapon damage in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

So two armor mods that add up to 10 wouldn't be as good as a single mod that provides 10 damage, simply because you can't roll as high on the two smaller rolls?

Reply to Kinetic weapon damage in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Vidszhite" reply="13" id="3554616"] Quoting Arumba, reply 12 Could you go into more detail here please? How exactly does armor work, and what is the salvage ratio I saw in the xml file? If a target has say 10 kinetic armor and I hit it for 1 damage does it go down by 1? Do I need to do 11+ damage to

Reply to Kinetic weapon damage in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Vidszhite" reply="8" id="3550131"] Quoting dulsin, reply 7 Considering how massive they are raise the damage to 2 and lower the cool down to 2. Oh hell no, that would be extremely overpowered. Keep in mind that Rapid Reload doubles its Rate of Fire, so you'd get 8 shot

Reply to ideology building coordinated in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Looks like the penalty by default is 2.5% per tile after 6, so a 50% reduction doesn't extend the range without penalty, it just cuts the penalty to 1.25% per tile after 6.

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It seems to me like sometimes the armor doesn't degrade even when hit.

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

This was my basic experience with it as well, hence my question about how armor values are working. It seems like fast rate of fire 1 damage mass driver hits don't really remove armor.

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I tried modding weapon cooldowns and it didn't seem to work, I copied over the GalCiv3GlobalDefs file into my Weapon Rebalancing\data\Game directory and it doesn't seem to work. How did you make it work thegory1? Also, can someone shed some light on what this means? ShieldEfficiency Faction <

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

thegory1 this stuff is awesome, I really wish you would keep a link available to test out your current modifications.

Reply to The purpose of a game is to be fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Keep in mind production is never wasted, it is stored. You can find it in the completely idiotically (argument A) hidden tooltip by hovering over the production area. Note that if the production area has a full queue you can't see the tooltip. See argument A for how smart this is. Also keep in mind that if you have stored production, and enough production per turn to finish a project in 1 turn, but without the stored production it takes more than 1 turn, it will in

Reply to The purpose of a game is to be fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Some players have to play as efficiently as they can, and when they learn of a new way to play they can't NOT play that way anymore. Saying "Just don't do that" doesn't work.

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Interesting, well I made a mod using your values OP, but now that Gaunathor has pointed out how to mod rate of fire, I'm wondering if it might be interesting to adjust kinetic firerate a bit. I really feel like they should shoot faster, far faster than lasers and missiles. Even just cutting the damage and firerate in half would feel better, but then I have to wonder if half points of damage are tracked or not. Can you do .5 damage, or is it only integers?

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

How did you make your changes by the way? Manually, with a script? I am really impatient, I see something I want and I want it now. I am tempted to just try to make the changes myself >.

Reply to The purpose of a game is to be fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I really dislike how when you use the commands interface to update ship production from an old version to a new version on shipyards that are building ships on repeat it will just queue a single ship of the new design and then continue creating the old design. I am specifically telling you that if you are building THIS ship, you should now build THIS ship. So if you are building ship A on repeat, it is only natural that if I tell you to stop building ship A and instead build ship

Reply to The purpose of a game is to be fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I think that part that is tiresome about it is remembering when you need to make changes to planets. For example, you get access to some new terraforming tech, so on a research or wealth planet you go and change your slider around so you can terraform a tile, and then place down another building. This means you have to take it off of its focus, and then after X number of turns (dependent on your overall production capacity, which varies on damn near every planet) you have to *reme

Reply to Weapon balance & values in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

So I guess I'll be the first to ask for it then, where is the mod post associated with this? Your logic makes a ton of sense, and I find it silly how ineffective mass drivers are in this game. I really want to make some gun boats! Can I has mod now?

Reply to projects and micromanagement issue in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Why should it be otherwise Azunai_? The purpose of those projects is not to give you more overall research/wealth/X than a specialized planet. The purpose is to turn a heavily manufacturing colony into something else. It's about flexibility. You *always* want production, whether its for building ships or upgrading tiles, and its *nice* that you can then turn that production into research or wealth through use of a project. But yes, if you have a 100% research

Reply to projects and micromanagement issue in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote] Alternatively, the benefits of any project could be proportionate to the manufacturing points being spent on that project. [/quote] Have you guys actually tested this? You're talking about it like there's no scaling factor.. but there is! .01-9.99 manufacturing will give you ONE of the listed bonus. 10.00-19.99 will give you TWO of the bonus. Just load up the game and try it. I agree t