I sometimes think it's one guy who has many different names and goes on all forums because they seem to have the same background. Ooohh, it's a conspiracy... (insert X-Files theme here) Maybe you should give Mulder and Scully a call? Don't you find this "theory" a bit paranoid? Or is this just a diversion? To think that someone would go to all the trouble...
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Bonus Units is just a display matter, telling the game what to append to the bonus values displayed on the ability pick screen. Last time I checked, all ability bonuses in the Civ Manager and the Civ Creation screens were displayed as %s, regardless of what the xml sets them to be.
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And of course, you can still rush-buy projects. As long as they're not factories, you'll be fine.
New Engine tech = speed +10 .. This is as easy as it gets to fix, yet it's still there. As for the Galactopedia, the Wiki (some personal opinions there too...), and the forums, that's all fine, but I imagine that not all players will have access to these forums. Havin
2) The text descriptions are a real weakness. Yep. If for experienced players they're really not an issue, for new players they can be a turn off. And new players are really important. 3) I do think we should get some props on the new manual in GalCiv II Gold. I mean, come on, that manual is pretty awesome I think compared to most game manuals. Actually there's some info that is wrong in the manual. It
At the minimum, if you hole up with the "select group" of testers, you lose any input whatsoever from dolts like me. Not true. The majority of players will point mostly at UI issues, and comprehension/learning issues. Those can be posted to the regular forums, no prob. Part of the point is that a lot of *useful* reports may get lost in the overwhelming number of not-so-useful or misunderstood-rules or inexperienced-player reports. Sure it's great to
Unnecessary response. To an unnecessary comment. but I don't hear anyone saying that moving diagonally is an exploit. Diagonally? That's the way to move, according to Pythagoras. I don't get the point. What is wrong is precisely NOT moving diagonally. Remember we're talking warp displacement here. And perhaps you haven't read the threads about distances and the map representation? <div cla
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What you are seeing is that the AI Planning thread starts as soon as the player turn starts. All the AI is doing at this point is choosing social projects, choosing ships to build, etc. So what's so difficult about fixing it? If the AI is only getting 2 Planning phases. It can, at this time, decide to purchase social projects, which isn't any different than if you were doing it while the AI was moving their ships.
I really don't understand why some people have a problem with the idea of research going forward without any labs. That's silly. Was Newton in a lab when the apple dropped on his head? Was he in a factory? This is the perfect example of a nonsensical example. He didn't *research* gravity under the tree. You should think hard about the issue before posting no
I'm more than a little tired of any time someone decides to maximize a game mechanic everyone cries "exploit". I don't think it's so much a matter of being an exploit as the game having bad mechanics. Why is there a set of sliders if ultimately they're not really "needed" to play the game? Why are there different building types if they're not really "needed" in a certain perspective? Etc etc. The fact is there's plenty of stuff that's not well thought o
Well, at least you just showed you didn't read the rest...
Rolling the dice to decide on the accuracy of a gunner to hit his target makes a certain amount of sense, so a "0" point hit could exist. I'm not sure there will be gunners in the true sense in space battles. But I cannot see the logic of rolling the dice to determine the effective strenght of the shields. Direct
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I haven't seen anyone come out and say it's NOT a true full turn. And explain how the AI can have a production ONLY bonus turn. Since the AI uses the same spending sliders... Actually I haven't seen a detailed description of what the full consequences of the bug are. That would help determine its priority.
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You may as well drop it, this is not going to go anywhere. Only SD knows how much work would be needed to fix this bug, and if they say, "well we could, but you'd have to give up other cool new features", then the conversation is over because SD has declared a preference, and they've also given enough incentive to ensure other players won't agree enough to change their mind by comparing a single bug fix to "new features". Yep, like it was told to me, I
Some superpower or master defense program? Don't forget that the Thalans came from an alternative future to stop the humans from destroying the universe. They just forgot to bring all their fleets and techs... Maybe they were just trying to not look suspicious, they even joined the UP and all, hehe. I'm JOKING!
That would imply that when you research better milestone engines, free space would be different. It's not. Same for costs. The "hidden" point however, was that the "bonus" components are what actually kill the usefulness of the actual components. Removes some of the attractiveness of building ships, and the actual sense in some of the techs.
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However, I am informed enough to know that Kryo suggested some settling down was in order and I have enough respect for his opinion that I have no doubt it was warranted. You see, Kryo made 2 posts, this one for me: At any rate, ToS, you really need to settle down if you want your complaints to be heard (here and on other threads). "You'll get more flies with honey than vinegar" and all that. Taking such an adversarial (and often nitp
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PRETTY TIME-CONSUMING. Do I need to define this for you, moron. Yes please. If you can. Frogboy already defined that. Any other fix will take hours, the point was which should be done. Grammar school. I haven't been paying all that much attention to the thread but the supposed attitude that you mention can certainly make a difference between someone wanting to help you or not. Helping *me*?! You're not
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The 'triviality of fix/bug' argument, for one thing. You're stretching out minor semantics in Brad's post, trying to argue the opposite of what he meant. Well, I think semantics are important. Else how do you know what was *really* meant? Anything else? Game related stuff too? The key difference between fixing it now and then is that GC3 is not restricted by the post-DA updates budget and manpower allocations. </d
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@Kryo The triviality of the fix itself is NOT to be equated with the amount of work that may need to be done to complete it; tiny bugs very often do not have tiny fixes. I think you're trying to obscure the whole triviality of the fix vs triviality of the bug thing. The amount of time to fix it doesn't change if it's fixed in GC3. As with any other thing, the sooner, the less problems later. Work is typically
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Hey, you're back! And to your assinine self I see... No surprise there. Look braindead, that's not what it says, if you can't read go back to school. And there are no *subsequent* comments in that post, it's the *last* sentence - except for the "it's your call" lame remark. Now, the time thing, he said *hours*. You can relate to such concepts, right? You must have a watch and all. I guess. But then again... Go buy a brain or something. You like the strawman remark, don't you? I wonder i
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Personally, I would prefer to have new features, updated AI, new graphics, etc. over some relatively trivial fix that the AI is cycling through planets at turn 0.
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I'm baffled! How can the playing field be level if there are so many unbalances in the game?! If it's a trivial fix, why is there a "choice"? Why is the time it takes to fix this being compared to adding new features, updating the AI, new graphics AND etc?! Why is someone saying it's not a bug when it clearly is, and claiming the *entire* game has to be rewritten (and the dev says it's trivial to fix)?! Recurrent, that's all I can think of...
Cool down man, I was *joking*. I don't prefer either, like it's been said in another thread neither one makes any real sense. It's actually a funding slider of sorts, you choose how much money you'll pour into production. But this is a global problem with the economic system, not just the sliders. The taxation doesn't make much sense either, the tourism income too, etc. But these are seen as minor details that don't really affect gameplay - only how you perceive the system.