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Reply to Galactic Civilizations III v1.3 Update Released in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Yeller123" reply="7" id="3587783"] DLC and expansions are what will keep development going. [/quote] I agree, but you've got to start with a strong foundation a base game that people are happy with, why would people who aren't happy with the game buy mega events and squirrel campaigns. it's pretty clear where development time is being spent currently... on DLC's first base game second. There was an excellent video by Total Biscuit (Y

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III v1.3 Update Released in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Extremely disappointing patch Stardock. Perhaps you need to hold off on DLC until you've addressed the many numerous flaws in the base game that the forum threads and reviews on Steam are littered with. A few extra buttons on the planet queue, governors that most competent players won't care to use and a destination window that's probably harder to use than clicking on the tactical map in most circumstances is not the progress I was hoping for. It's been

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="21" id="3587758"] Once again, to summarize the major points: 1. Gal Civ III provides too many economic bonuses. 2. Gal Civ III lacks economic maluses. 3. The AI is unable to take advantage of either. But the human certainly can. 4. The exponentially growing power curves that a human can create means balancing it is extremely difficult. Either the AI gets too many bonuses

Reply to The Gal Civ II Economic Model Worked because it was based on LINEAR growth. The Programmers Screwed Up the Math Behind Gal Civ III in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="3586856"] When we do replace the per planet production wheel, we're not going to just take it out and not put something 3else there. Instead, you'll have a system that will allow you to emphasize a particular focus for the planet. [/quote] I'd be worried that this still means competent players will be inclined to micromanage the focus of every single planet frequently, it wouldn't be as fiddly as the wheel but surely there i

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="65" id="3585143"] But the per planet microing is all going to go away. [/quote] Hi Frogboy To clarify, does that mean it will no longer be possible to change an individual planets production in any way other than through the existing global page? No wheel, sliders, buttons, etc. anything to do with changing production on an individual planets screen?

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="60" id="3585111"] I'll still be forced to go back to every individual planet when I research an upgrade and switch them to 100% manu, then set them back to 100% research one at a time afterwards. [/quote] That's still a lot quicker than entering each planet screen and dragging the mouse to the right location on a wheel. One click each planet is a lot quicker, or much better yet they could also add planets building X e.g. research cen

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Petri Kokko" reply="57" id="3585093"] You are changing the wheel-shape into buttons and moving its place in the UI. [/quote] It's a percentage system with all the fiddlyness taken out so if that's not removing the wheel, it's still a bloody big change I'd say :) My initial response to naselus is post #55. If I get what your saying you think that there is going to be zero ways to select individual planets production your interpretat

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="52" id="3585067"] Oh, let's just drop the 'it'll reduce mico' rubbish, because it won't. You can bet that if we're stuck with just the global wheel, we'll be microing it every turn to make sure we're not wasting any more production on econ or research than is absolutely needed [/quote] I'd scrap the Global Wheel as well it's part of the same problem. It's not just the amount micromanagement it&#3

Reply to GalCiv III v1.4 Preliminary Discussion in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Getting rid of the wheel system is a massive step forward in reducing the crazy micro management in the game and shows that Stardock are able to make tough decisions, encouraging signs at last! It's the right decision for a game of this scale. 10 planet empires the old system works ok, above that and the the game increasingly bogs down. I've posted about getting rid of the wheel previously (even requesting it it to be set on fire since I hate it that much, which di

Reply to The GalCiv III v1.3 Preview Thread in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm re-posting my economy solution below "A Suicidal difficulty Let's Players proposal..." I've posted it it elsewhere but I'll add some additional requests here. I could right an essay on what needs to be improved in Gal Civ 3 but I'll just cover the top of the iceberg. Others have mentioned similar to these but here's my 2c. Sorting: All the queue's in the game lack sorting options shockingly poor currently can't believe it's s

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="64" id="3576971"] It's important to have a sense of humor about these things. [/quote] [quote who="erischild" reply="63" id="3576970"] playfully call you names? [/quote] In the spirit of "playfulness"

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Darkscis" reply="65" id="3576979"] I quite like the fact that if I need 15.1 production to finish a building, I can get 15.1 production [/quote] I do as well to an extent up to about maybe 10 planets but when you've got 20, 30, 50 planets the level of micro you have to do is beyond ridiculous even if you're pretty casual with it. The scale of the game is too big for the existing system imo. [quote who="Darkscis" reply="65" id="3576979"]<br /

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Darkscis" reply="60" id="3576748"] As I have already said, I am not adverse to having solutions presented for the vast majority that do not play the way I do, eg Macsen's idea of the quick set buttons. [/quote] The thing is I probably do play similarly to you do I've just come to a different conclusion. You say you're a 9-10 mark I'd say I'm the same, people can actually watch my videos to judge, see if they agree too though I cut a lot

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="57" id="3576734"] then how can you claim you're trying to win the game as quickly as possible? [/quote] In game turns, not actual minutes and hours.

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="52" id="3576717"] I am not trying to insult you. [/quote] Calling someone a hypocrite and saying they have OCD probably qualifies whether it's true or not. [quote who="marigoldran" reply="52" id="3576717"] I am merely making the observation that microing as much as you claim you do while admitting that the AI can be beat without having to micro is a pointless exercise. [/quote] I respect and understand your opi

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="51" id="3576715"] You're trying to convince them to do it, right? [/quote] Yes, thought that was pretty obvious :) But as I said they probably don't even read these threads let alone change something based on them. There's not been a lot of evidence in the past that they have that I've heard or can think of.

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="MacsenLP" reply="46" id="3576708"] ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE AWAY MY WHEEL? IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE. [/quote] I don't believe I said I wasn't going to "try" I said I wasn't "going to take your wheel" for the simple reason that I don't work for Stardock and have the power to make that decision.

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="45" id="3576703"] In other words, you're a hypocrite. [/quote] How exactly? So I'm an OCD hypocrite, marigoldran anything else you're going to call me before this thread gets locked? You accused me of not having self control earlier as well...

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="42" id="3576698"] SO WHY WERE YOU TRYING TO REMOVE SOMETHING THAT OTHER PEOPLE LIKED? [/quote] [quote who="MacsenLP" reply="43" id="3576699"] There's probably not a way to introduce one system without removing the old, that would work imo [/quote]

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Darkscis" reply="39" id="3576686"] I still honestly have no idea how you call yourself a micro manager when you are asking for quick click buttons in the overview to blindly set your production/research/income. The whole point of being a micro manager is that you go in, analyse and use exactly what you need, every turn. That is micro management in a 4x to it's very core. [/quote] Because the scope of the game is so big, for the same reason there's no tact

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="38" id="3576681"] Why are you trying to get rid of something that only OCD people have trouble with? [/quote] Your apparent lack of imagination on why someone may choose to play a certain way or want a certain feature changed I'm guessing is because it would damage your argument that the feature is "fine" but of course they must have OCD... I'm not taking away your wheel you can relax, seriously.

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="35" id="3576675"] The AI is sufficiently bad that you don't need to micro at all to win the game easily even on Suicidal. [/quote] A retarded chimp probably could you're missing the point.

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="34" id="3576674"] What I think I'm hearing from you is that because you lack the self control to control yourself you want to change the game in such a way that will ruin it for other people. That's very selfish. [/quote] Look, I got the fact you're fond of your beloved wheel, if you can't handle a different opinion without resorting to name calling perhaps you shouldn't post. Stardock probably won't even re

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="marigoldran" reply="32" id="3576663"] So to fit your preference you want to change a feature that other players think is fine because you lack the self control to not micromanage? [/quote] You can't not micromanage with this system unless you use the Global system which isn't fit for purpose, your playing a different game if you use it, one where any meaningful planetary specialization goes out the window. If you use the individual planetary wheels

Reply to Frogboy, Allow Grouping of Planets for Production Wheel Purposes in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="erischild" reply="30" id="3576583"] I don't get this. I keep trying, but it makes no sense to me. The game allows you to get down to detailed focus, I don't get that it "forces" you to do anything. If your gameplay style is such that it becomes no fun, then why are you doing it? If squeezing one more hammer or cutting off one more build-turn isn't a satisfying experience in itself, why bother? Part of me wants to say people need to ow