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Reply to Steam Achievements in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Okay cool, I got my first crisis. Space monster. So how does one complete the crisis? I have never seen this space monster, and it has been awhile. thanks!

Steam Achievements in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Hi, So, the last Steam sale made me bite. Got a good price on Retribution...Civ6:Gathering Storm was not on sale...and so here I am. I noticed a bunch of new Steam achievements to be had. Particularly all these ones about surviving a crisis. I don't think I have had a crisis yet. What's the best way you recommend to try and scoop up all these crisis achievements? thanks! p.s. Also, any good way

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution Journal #9 - Campaign in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The final Retribution campaign map spanked me on godlike. I know you have to just make a run for it with the Valkyrie, but I just couldn't keep my starbases alive long enough to give the Life Support it needs. In the end I just lowered the diff to Genius and was done.

Reply to Minor Races not so chatty in Crusade? in Stardock Games GalCiv3 Forums

I've found them extremely useful for...taking the malevolent approach....

Reply to Exciting times for 4X games are coming! in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

That would be true. That's my takeaway about this. You'll get faster single-threaded performance--not just parallelism (and the new AI/machine learning hardware coming out, though promising as well, constitutes parallelism. And you don't need a cloud for that).

Reply to Exciting times for 4X games are coming! in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

I never said anything about Qubits.

Reply to Exciting times for 4X games are coming! in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

Brad and company, I am under NDA as well, but I must implore you strongly to keep up that effort on farming computing out to the cloud. YOU WANT THAT MARKET. I am on the hardware side of things, and there's some technology coming out for data centers that will blow your mind. It's no secret that superconductors require lots of cooling, down to the single-digits kelvin. You can't just pack a freezer that cold under your desk. But once you get down there, superco

Reply to Elemental Extractor-M doesn't add to Revenue in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I browsed by here as I was contemplating plunking down $15 for Intrigue. When I played Crusade awhile ago, I distinctly remember the ethical choices were sometimes broken and sometimes crashed my game--even reproducibly. In fact I distinctly remember the Elemental-M issue. This OP is dated back in June 2018. Yet I see no response from a Stardockian, or any indicator of a fix (or explaining why it's not broken) at all. This has swayed me not to buy I

Reply to I just love dogs in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

I do like the Milk Thistle. Even if the root cause is allergic, I found that my allergies are better with it. It's like the liver better processes "foreign agents" if it functions better, and that includes false enemies, like ragweed, cats...yourself... (autoimmune). Also works for hangovers (which for dogs is when they eat too much bread). I'm glad I wasn't in Melbourne when that freak storm happened, and all those allergy deaths.

Reply to I just love dogs in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

I think you had better check for liver shunt. It's not a death sentence.

Reply to I just love dogs in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

Where is the itching? The ears are commonly a problem. Sadly, for small dogs, so is the liver. If it's a generalized itching with no visible irritation beyond the dog's scratching itself causing it, you need to look into possible liver issues. Milk Thistle is one of the more awesome herbs out there, even if the root cause is allergic. I've taken it for decades, and look how I turned out. Don't answer that.

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing GalCiv3 Forums

Switching the CPU to hypervisor mode is not necessarily slower. AMD maintains separate copies of the register file, so they can switch back-and-forth between user and hypervisor instructions all day and not even care. If the privileged-mode switch was all it was, then yeah--no big deal. 1% performance hit it is. Except... File I/O operations are very expensive, but so are cache misses. That's why you speculatively execute instruction streams ah

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing GalCiv3 Forums

If speculative execution only sped up CPU's by 1%, Intel wouldn't have been doing it the last 25 years. And that's what the software workaround for Meltdown is: squash speculative execution, so that it doesn't expose kernel memory in the invalidated cache line. 1% my foot.

Reply to I just love dogs in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

Funny thing: I did an online search for "it's me or the dog.". On the men's forums, there is this expectation that you love the people in your family more than your dog, I.e. if your kids can't allow you to have the dog, you have to re-home him. But you go to the women's forums, it's pretty unanimous: " if my husband ever told me it's me or the dog, I'd tell him to get lost.". Nope, no double standard there. As for me, family is family.

Reply to Upcoming patches will slow down all Intel CPUs? in Personal Computing GalCiv3 Forums

To be really accurate, this is not Intel's fault so much as it is a very specific set of specialized verification folks at Intel. I would be very surprised if they got fired, either, because the skill is so specialized. You can't just replace them. Their annual performance reviews might not turn out so good, though.

Reply to Explorminate covering... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The whole article involves two people, front to back: interviewer, and interviewee. A brief mention of Derek Paxton in the middle, but no quote from him. I would love to visit Stardock HQ next time I'm in the Detroit area, mind you, but if I went all that way--yes, I would want to meet Brad. But I would also want to play some ping-pong or VR games with more of the staff. Go out to happy hour. How's life, man? I had a job interview on

Reply to Why Sid Meier's Civ is the best 4X game and others fall behind and what GalCiv could learn (let's talk 4X) in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]While the ideas of the Crusade expansion are good ones, they were implemented very poorly. [/quote] This.

Reply to Why is the reputation of GalCiv III so bad at the moment? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

MHO. Peeling the layers of the onion, I think one of the roots is--and I have expressed this before back during Galciv2--but too much of Stardock rides on Brad Wardell. It is a company of 200 people. Where is Cari or Derek as the face of Stardock? Why isn't it their company, too? Whenever somebody has a request or criticism, they address it to Frogboy. Okay okay I get it, Frogboy made Stardock. It's his baby. But one can get a little sensitive

Reply to GalCiv III: Beyond version 2.6 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I'm saddened by some of the goings-on here. I will say that I will probably not pick up any expansions until Christmas 2018, but that is for personal reasons. My 2018 is already spoken for--the whole flippin' year. Anyway, at the root of it, IMHO, is that the free fixes/patches, etc., have been incomplete. Several on here would even be okay with a paid "fixes/rebalances" DLC, if one were available. Some here would not be, but they are basically not okay

Reply to ST:D in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

Season 1 of ST:D has ended. It starts up again in January. In the meantime, over Thanksgiving or Christmas break, you can sign up for a free trial of CBS All Access, and watch the entire season in one week. I was able to cancel my trial with no issues.

Reply to Weekly Discussion - Best Moments in History in Star Control GalCiv3 Forums

My best memory of Star Control is hearing about it on the Stardock forums. Well okay, that is my ONLY memory.

Reply to Weekly Discussion - Planet Wishlist in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Aurorus Arboretum is totally Avatar. I think it would be cool to have a planet that could be co-colonized (in the spirit of Orville last night). It's a mad dash to build as many tiles as you can, before the other guy does. But you take a big diplomacy hit by co-colonizing with that guy.

Reply to The Orville in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

Or in Wally. I was thinking more for the robot and alien roles. For the human parts, I don't care about realistic. I expect shallow, walking human viagra for all the actresses. This may be a show for nerds, but we're still nerds with pheromones.

Reply to Tab Atkins Jr. is a creepy little man in Personal Computing GalCiv3 Forums

The short time I was in DC, the culture was interesting. The media really is just a tool, and you really are just a number in all the lobby games they play. It's like sure, there is free speech and free thought in America--just that you're being manipulated every step of the way. The NSA and CIA are even developing these elaborate machine learning algorithms to anticipate exactly how you will behave in such-and-such a scenario. They only need to be 90% right--it's just

Reply to The Orville in Life, the Universe and Everything GalCiv3 Forums

They built Isaac's character pretty well last week. Then again, they built the doctor's character well last week, too, as a strong woman, but then this week she's giving whole new meaning to, "sleeping with a slimeball". I think it makes more sense for an obese actor to play the part of an anthropomorphic robot. Actually, I'd like to see more obese actors cast in general. You've got so many aliens--make their species more heavy-set. If they're a bit TOO human-