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Reply to PREVIEW GUIDE: Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I only get the feature comparison in the small version that is unreadable when clicking on the table? That being said I'll be happy to get my hands on Crusade in may :)

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Is a commander still somehow assigned to your own fleet when doing a "martyr" attack? Even if only pragmatic civs get to use that option I'm wondering if there could be rare occasions of two fleets plus commanders meeting eachother, deciding both to act as martyrs. Would that mean those two fleets take out eachother?

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 6: What kind of Civilization do you want to build? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Thx for the DD, it sounds excellent! I'm curious how the "privateer" function will play out in a bigger game - sounds like you could essentially wage an "undeclared war" for a while to weaken your opponents...tho I guess they might do the same to you....

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 5: Spies & Saboteurs in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Darkchaser" reply="42" id="3670272"] Well, this looks promising, but...and I hate to ask for this, but When will this little gem come out? [/quote] The only info out on this is that release will be in spring. When exactly we do not know yet.

Reply to More Camera Options in the Battle Viewer in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

I'd like it if the existing cinematic mode would be a tad more spectacular. It seems to be keen to shows explosions, which is fine, but they look all similar, regardless of hull size. Weapon types could use some variation too (where are those nice photon torps from GC 2 Ultimate?). And yes - cue "but it's not realistic" replies here - small/tiny fighter types rolling or turning like winged aircraft at least *sometimes* would be

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 5: Spies & Saboteurs in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Horemvore" reply="34" id="3670193"] Im a bit dubious about spys also, not espionage, just the spys. "Lets place this "Human" spy on this drengin world, they wont notice him!" Seems odd tbh. [/quote] Lol :) But hey, I have watched enough Star Trek to know that you just need to visit the Doc for a bit to completely alter your appearance ;) As for the dev diary - thanks for the comments about economy and spies.

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I certainly recall attacking freighters from GC 2 -- IIRC attacks could cancel a whole trade route there so you had to establish another one.

Reply to Waiting for Crusade Diary 5 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If there's no new dev diary let's hope it means release is close.... (he, one can dream) ;)

Reply to Designer Part Symmetry Texture Issue in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Just a thought, are gfx card drivers up to date?

Reply to Possible Reason for 'Wait hang' in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

If you submit a ticket you can attach files.

Reply to My list of grievances I have with GalCiv 3 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="24" id="3668714"] -I don't like the specialization techs. I don't like how I can only pick one. [/quote] I agree insofar that it feels "artificial" to rule out certain research completely just because you researched something else before. However personally I don't have a huge prob with those specs, and the player can often trade for specs he did not pick.

Reply to My list of grievances I have with GalCiv 3 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="16" id="3668626"] Why do colony ships fill option start at 2.5 instead of the full 3? [/quote] At least in the way colony rush works now I find it much better to send way less ppl, like 0.5. Because early on I mainly want to grab planets so the AI can't, while not hampering the pop of my homeworld that cranks out those colony ships too much. So currently the option to decide how much guys are in the ship helps to out

Reply to Animated characters, rendered 3D or video clips in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Afaik: This stuff is in .bik videos (Bink 2 format). That is not real-time rendered, but pre-rendered into a vid format, then converted to .bik as this allows optimized compression (from what I know). edit: just had quick look into the files - file names end in .bk2 (not .bik - IIRC that was previously in GC 2)

Reply to [WIP]Leader gfx project - updated Feb 25, 2017 in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Thx guys. I posted the Dropbox link to the updated zip in the OP. It contains all the previous gfx plus the reworked one depicted above, and two new FGs:

Reply to My list of grievances I have with GalCiv 3 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I agree with a number of pts., like upgrading should be handled better IMO. Others I disagree with - I do like adjacency bonuses, for example Also: [quote]Ships auto eject from shipyard when built. You can't store them for later. You have to deal with them before you can end your turn.[/quote] Why not set a rally pt. for that shipyard onto itself? Then you don't have to worry about this. Works for me. e

Reply to Painfully bad performance in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Using only 8 GB RAM myself - it *should* be enough to run the game fluidly (got a GTX 960 gfx card) - it does run fine for me. I do not play the most biggest map size though....

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 4: What is a 4X strategy game? in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

This sounds all extremely cool. Love the Drengin guy! :) One thing I'm wondering about is how games using various resource settings will play out in Crusade (that seems to go esp. for those interstellar resources needed for weapons, bigger ships).

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 2: The Civilization Builder in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Re editing appearances: it would be cool if there are some more color schemes included. Dunno how other players feel about it, but right now I think there are so much shiny, very bright, high contrast color combinations, but not enough toned down or even darkish themes (like ocean, bloodstone etc. - which are quite cool IMO but too rare).

Reply to [WIP]Leader gfx project - updated Feb 25, 2017 in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I'm preparing a small update for the next days. The main reason is that one of the recent aliens didn't work well in all screens - if you set this up as your own civ it's too much down in certain reports. Also I made aspecific BG for it, as the vanilla GC pics did not fit IMO. The pic below shows the new BG: Other than that I'l

Reply to Money to burn in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

What to do with the money: Throw the galaxy into war by bribing the AI into attacking eachother ;) But yeah, even this is only fun to a certain point...

Reply to Windows 10 in Personal Computing GalCiv3 Forums

Got 10 as free upgrade last year. Generally it runs fine, if it only would not look so ugly... (otoh lead me to get WindowBlinds - good for Stardock I suppose)

Reply to [GC3 2.0] War with Favored Civilization penalty? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Yeah, but the q' is what exactly counts as favored civ. Or is it any civ you had very good relations to right before the war?

Reply to [GC3 2.0] War with Favored Civilization penalty? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Never knew there is such a thing as a favored civ. But otoh maybe it's just any civ you explicitly declare friendship to? That's just a guess, but declaring friendship does improve relations a tad, so maybe the penalty in case of war is the ther side of the coin (if there's no downside, then you could just declare friendship to everyone). That being said of course it would be better if stuff like this would be displayed...

Reply to CRUSADE DIARY 3: Galactic Citizens in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Noone jumped on that screenie that is showing the resource bar on top? It seems there is a "food" resource? I mean there's a small symbol looking like a green apple, what else would that be....

Text editing for custom civs - does this work correctly for you? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I mean when I go into the game, select a civ from the menu, then "edit race", and want to enter custom descriptions, leader names etc. When typing the text into those windows my "spaces" are somehow lost? So instead of "The XYZ are an evil and warlike species" I get something like "TheXYZareanevilandwarlikespecies". It does not happen always, but quite often. When I mouse-click into this kind of "multiword-chain", I can put in spaces manually again, but often when typi