Yskonyn

Yskonyn

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #18 - Should there be a campaign? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I would say to leave the campaign for a DLC. Like others, I rarely play campaigns or story scenarios in 4X games. Events, Lore snippets, etc, should emerge as you play. A 4X playthrough is, in fact, a story in itself. If you add enough storytelling content that can make interesting stories (You are already using AI to generate art, perhaps it can be harnessed to create coherent variable stories too?) each playthrough will be an interesting ‘campaign’ automatical

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Reply to New PC Hardware For GC4 in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv4 Forums

Let’s simplify the question to what matters in practical terms for you as a buyer, e.g. what you can control with your wallet. :) I think its safe to say that GalCiv is CPU bound more than GPU bound. So a modern CPU coupled with ample DRAM will benefit you far more than a top of the line GPU.

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Reply to Q: Ship Design / Ship Dimensions / More Hull Types in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

For me the ‘problem’ remains the disconnect between the expansive ship editor vs the application of your creations in game terms. In other words: why have such a glorious ship editor only to reduce ships to simple rock, paper, scissors in combat in the game? GalCiv would benefit so much from a little more depth from the way components and ship elements have impact in gameplay.

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #16 - The Battle Viewer in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I don't think balance must be the focus here. Balance in singleplayer games is not a priority. I'd even go as far as saying certain imbalance provides even more fun. And if we do want to take multiplayer into consideration there is always the option to houserule out certain imbalances. The Dominions 5 comparison flies well again here.

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #16 - The Battle Viewer in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

Hehe its probably an englishification of something from my language. :) Fall over was meant as ‘have a problem with’. Still, I think it’ll be a mistake to release without meaningful combat. I do agree that detail might be improved upon with patches / expansions in the form of more options for tactics, but the fundament should stand on release.

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #16 - The Battle Viewer in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I disagree. Its pretty important to have GC4 ship out as a great initial product with all main game features already in. GC3 showed that simple combat and a pretty obsolete ship editor with regards to combat dynamics is something people fall over. I’d rather spend another year in beta to release as a wholesome game than pushing to release with lackluster combat, but a functioning strategic overall game. Just my opinion of course.

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #16 - The Battle Viewer in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

Good suggestions here. I am not a fan of getting tactical combat in the greater scope of the way Gal Civ is built, but like mentioned earlier I do miss the validity of making cool ship designs in the extensive ship editor translated to the way battles work in the game. With so much detail available to us creating the ships themselves I feel the combat system should be upgraded from a rock paper scissors system to a more detailed system. Improve on the choices players h

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #10 - Do we need a battle viewer? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I am not sure a pop-up will be the best way to go once we’re late game with more battles. Perhaps a hotkey and a prominent UI element showing its status of on/off or a options menu toggle might be more comfortable and less frustrating. I would not be looking forward to have to keep clicking away a popup telling me a battle is about to start and wether I want to see it or not. On the other hand, if the popup would present valuable statistics about the battle upfro

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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #10 - Do we need a battle viewer? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

I really like the ship editor that GalCiv is known for. So that's the fundament from which to tackle this question, in my opinion. The question is how we can still keep all the time a player spends in designing his or her ships relevant in the game? The battleviewer wasn't very interesting to me personally, but there also wasn't an alternative to viewing my designs in glorious battle. So the first few battles I often watched, but as the game went on I started to ig

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Reply to GalCiv IV Info Guide in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Great to see GC4 will be a thing and the changes sound great so far! I love the added focus on the people of your empire. A little bit of Crusader Kings in GalCiv sounds awesome! The new mapping system sounds like it could create some truely humongous maps! Very interesting. Looking forward to reading more.

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Reply to GalCiv: What's next? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Will GC4 have a similarly detailed ship building editor to what we have in GC3? If so, then I’d love to see more reason to spend a lot of time creating ships from a tactical viewpoint rather than from an art point of view. I feel the current situation offers creative people a superb editor to make awesome ship creations, but there is a disconnect between the actual combat gameplay and the custom ships.

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Reply to Intrigue Journal #4: So you say you want a revolution? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

First I want to point out that every time I see the ship preview with the awesome lighting it puts a smile on my face. Colonial government is nice for when you want to thread the middle ground and don’t mind being dependent on other entities to hold up their end of the bargain. In stable clusters of relatively peaceful worlds this works. If, however, you want to be the hand that forces others’ hand and just dictate how and when things happen an Imperial gover

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Rally the community, join Discord (voice) chat! in Ashes Community AshesoftheSingularity Forums

In order to make it easy for people to get into contact with eachother and discuss game and non-game related stuff while away from the game or your computer, I've taken the liberty to setup a Discord server. Discord is a free application for all mobile devices as well as your desktop and it enables the use of voice chat in custom assigned channels, text chat, roles for members and bot support. Feel free to join and share a join link with others from the community.

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Reply to RTS Concepts in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

clearly there are pro's ans cons to either minimaps or strategic zoom. So why not have the option for both? if we would be allowed to have several windows which we can then configure how we see fit we might have an option that is super flexible aNd allows the player to get his info the way he prefers. windows filters could then further specify how the info is displayed; for example one big view for your main window where the action is. One zoomed out view window for a stra

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