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Reply to Galactic Civilization III v1.5 Metaverse Feedback in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="1" id="3606092"] The first problem is that the scores for the two ranked games are 0 and 8. I think that 0 + 8 = 8, but my total score is shown as 7. How does 0 + 8 = 7? [/quote] The overall score algorithm isn't a straight up average. It prefers players with more games so your overall score is being reduced slightly for having played only 2 ganes. [quote who="Old-Spider" reply="3" id="3606179"]I wasn't as clear as I

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Reply to Galactic Civilization III v1.5 Metaverse Feedback in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="1" id="3606092"] The first problem is that the scores for the two ranked games are 0 and 8. I think that 0 + 8 = 8, but my total score is shown as 7. How does 0 + 8 = 7? [/quote] Good question! Please post or private message me your Steam account name and we'll investigate. [quote who="Old-Spider" reply="1" id="3606092"] The second problem is that the ranked and unranked games with a score of 0 indicate the the Victory Cond

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Galactic Civilization III v1.5 Metaverse Feedback in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I've had the chance to discuss the Metaverse with some of you in past months. GalCiv3 v1.5 is the first release of our overhauled design that will be shared between several of our upcoming games. I'd appreciate any feedback (good or bad!) about the navigation, ease of finding information, what additional information you'd like to see, and anything else I'm forgetting! The Metaverse webpage will also be gett

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Reply to Well that 1.5 opt in is a bummer in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Then it wouldn't launch and crashed steam. I restarted steam and the game will not launch until such time as it crashes steam. [/quote]Consider having Steam validate files for GalCiv3 as well. With Steam crashing it may have left the game in a bad state. -Adrian

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Reply to Star Control - Introduce yourself in Galactic Community StarControl Forums

My name is Adrian. I'm the lead for Stardock's Metaverse team. For those that don't know: Metaverse is our term for ranking, stats, and leaderboard info for our games (single and multiplayer). I was a very early fan of Paul Reiche III having played Mail Order Monsters on my Commodore 64 as a kid. <

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Reply to Important Multi-player connecting requirement please. in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="legacyone" reply="22" id="3602698"]Got you. I said YeSe lets Quote me “lets say I would be happy to do port forwarding the problem is their is no way to know what port that might be it can be 49152 to 65535.” HaPpY or do you think port forwarding 49152 to 65535 UDP ports IN is in a word acceptable to you? For a game? [/quote] If there's nothing listening on those UDP ports on your computer there's minimal risk to having them forwarded. Many other non-ga

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Reply to Important Multi-player connecting requirement please. in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="legacyone" reply="20" id="3602673"]So sorry stuff is never done right its why we can't have nice things because its not down to people like me it is the order of things along with ones ability and the position your in to ack or be listened to.[/quote]You decided you don't want to use UPnP, the standard solution for this sort of thing. Furthermore you decided you won't forward the UDP ports to your computer, which is the standard backup solution. Finally, you don&#

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Reply to How do I set an in-game avatar? in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

If your Steam profile is set to private in your Steam privacy settings we're not allowed to show your avatar picture. You can modify your Steam privacy settings following Steam Support's instructions here: link Once you set Steam's profile privacy to "Public" Ashes will show your profile picture in game. In the next release of Ashes you'll also be able to filter leade

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Reply to Important Multi-player connecting requirement please. in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="legacyone" reply="18" id="3602652"]Its not Valve problem the game sends the port to Valve wait...let me say that again The Game Sends The Port To The Valve Server...am I make that clear there is nothing, Nothing, NoThInG Valve can do the Game setup the port.[/quote]Using the Steam API, games can simply say "Send this data to this Steam ID". Networking details - IP addresses, NAT traversal, TCP, UDP, and port numbers - are completely abstracted from the developer. It is very c

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Reply to Important Multi-player connecting requirement please. in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="eviator" reply="16" id="3602492"] Legacyone, he seems to be saying Ashes uses the Steam connection methodology. If you want to complain to someone about the insecurity of UPnP, maybe you should complain to Valve and ask them to implement UDP traversal. Then Ashes would support it. [/quote] Yes, Ashes uses the Steam API for its network layer. If you want fixed UDP support you'll need to talk to Valve about it. As for my security suggestion I was saying

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Reply to No Hall of Fame Score? in Galactic Civilizations III AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="insomniatrist" reply="2" id="3600437"]It's reproducible; I can create a game with no AI. Then put my friend and I on team 1. Naturally when the game starts it's an instant victory.[/quote]They are recorded but not scored for the various leaderboards because, well, they're not competitive. :) [quote who="The Sisko" reply="3" id="3600443"] Reading this I thought I'd have a look at my metaverse and I've found that it hasn&#

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Reply to Important Multi-player connecting requirement please. in Ashes Bugs and Ideas AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Here's some specifics from Valve on what ports are required for Steam's networking to function: Link I'm security minded as well so I sympathize with what you're trying to accomplish. Unfortunately UPnP is the standard almost every game expects to have available. One solution would be to get a second IP from your ISP and put a separate "low security" router in place where you enabl

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Reply to Single Player Leaderboards in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Thanks for the heads up. As far as missing data goes: there have been builds - including the current release - which haven't been reporting data to the backend servers correctly. Consequently some games have not been recorded. The next build fixes reporting. Note that you can view the same information in-game by clicking on your name in the top right of the Ashes main menu. The next build of Ashes improves the in-game profiles. The website will also be updated with these impr

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