Draver

Draver

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Reply to 1.70.495224 Orbital Prison still not working in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Perso, I bee line for Security Lights and Colonial Laws to get rid of crime when it gets out of hand. I used to use the precursor orbital prison you got from Ship anomalies, but alas these kinds of anomalies are so rare now that its no longer an option. Maybe a compromise would be to have the orbital prison reduce crime on all worlds/colonies by 2% or some other value ? So you'd still have to build at least 5 of them to get the full impact. Else it would be trivial to get rid of crime with on

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Wishlists for July 27 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Not sure if these are realistic or not for a week works, and some you may already have planned or working in your internal builds, but here it goes. 1. Balance suggestion: Increase the range of the starbase missile and beam volleys: a. to be as big as the Area of Effect (which btw can be upgraded with the proper techs) and the beam volleys to be half of the Area of Effect OR b. twice as big as the current range OR c. have the starbase techs that increase the Area Effect of the starbas

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Reply to Just bought Supernova - some observations in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Welcome to Supernova! Yah, that discount is awesome. Feel free to leave a positive Steam review if you end up liking the game. Every positive review helps a ton. To answer a couple of your questions, starting with the last one, Multiplayer is suppose to be coming in next week patch, so very soon. As of today there is no tech to be able to build survey ships; there has been talks of adding it as a late game tech though. In the mean time, you can get Survey Ships/Flag Ship throu

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Reply to Galactic Troublemaking on Memorial Day in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Yah, I've ran some games with Archaeologist before, paired with spore for more of a sandbox gaming experience. I didn't in my current game because I wanted to try something else and went with explorer instead to give me some extra moves/sensor range; considering it was bugged I should of just went archeo! ;)

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Reply to Galactic Troublemaking on Memorial Day in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

That's an awesome list! Thx a lot for all this hard work, on your holiday no less. Speak about dedication! I concur with scifi1950, I haven't seen the pollution reducing artifact either in my current very long game. On the other hand I was glad to get a couple of +2 tiles artifacts as I love those the most and actually wish it came up more often!

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Reply to 1.55 - Cultural Trait Feedback in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Another way of putting it would be: how many tress should you expect to be able to maximize throughout an entire game on the largest maps ? 2-3-4-5-All of them ? Depending on how you answer this question, you could calculate the amount of points needed to reach that goal and set the pacing of culture gain according to this amount. Personally, my preference is to be able to max most of them in the longest games. I understand that this might not be the goals here, but that's what I like

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Reply to 1.55 - Cultural Trait Feedback in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

As it is now I preferred the old system. The pacing for once was so much better with the old system and there was interesting and very useful perks to pick all over the place. A lot of them are now gone: starbase range increase, increase in culture point generation buildings, pollution reduction, etc. The old system was relevant for the entire game. Now you pick a couple of good perk in one tree and then that's it. In all my years of gaming I usually go down the research route. In thi

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

That's a hard one to answer. As a veteran, I'd say it would be much better to focus on the base game now and get it all fleshed out. Furthermore, it will be much easier to make a DLC campaign interesting while using the various game systems, with these systems in place and working as expected. Looking at this from a new player perspective, a campaign could be a great way to get exposed to the game and learn the basic gameplay elements. Maybe a compromise for Supernova release

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Preview for May 11 in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="mrblondini" reply="25" id="3888630"] Not sure how I gave Draver 4 Karmas, because while his idea is a good one, it's not that good, Draver! [e digicons]:)[/e] Even if I do concur with your conquering mechanic. [/quote] Hehe, Thanks a lot!! ;)

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova - Experiments we're trying in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="peterh1979" reply="8" id="3888325"] I do like the idea of not being able to colonize in other Civ's zone of influence. However 1 important consideration is that if a civ is has blocked off the space around entry point to a sector and you cant build starbases or colonize worlds in their ZOC than your effectively blocked off from that sector unless you go down the military route. Not sure I have a good solution to this unordinary. [/quote] It

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Preview for May 11 in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Experiments We are going to try out a pretty big change this week: We are going to make it so that colonies can’t be conquered. Only the core worlds. If you take the core world, you automatically get all the colonies that sponsor them. We haven’t decided if that will be a permanent change but we want to see how that affects pacing. Let us know in the comments what you think. Scratch tha

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Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Dev Journal #15 - Thinking about planets in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

Yah, that's also what came to mind reading this: in the early-mid stages of the game there's already a scarcity of citizen to use up for constructor and colony ship; this idea would require a rebalancing/rethinking of the concept of needing citizen for those ships imo. It could be as simple as having two pools of citizen: specialists (which are put on the planet tiles) and grunts that can be used for ships. Or just remove the whole citizen requirement all together and tie it up to another num

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Reply to Could FSR be supported as a sidestep way to support lower resolutions (like for the Steamdeck)? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

As a side note, (and I don't want to derail your thread but this seems relevant to what you're saying), the game FPS tend to slow down a lot when it starts to get busy on the map. Even with a 4090 and a 5950x, the game ends up around 60 FPS and sometimes below in 3440x1440; with that hardware I'd expect to stay in the high 120+ at all times. So yah, anything that can be done to improved overall performance would certainly benefit the Steamdeck as well.

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Reply to Could you enable AutoHDR via Windows 11? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

I had the same request and I went looking around for how we can make this happen. Seems like we can give Microsoft a heads-up on their feedback hub according to this article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/exciting-additions-to-your-auto-hdr-experience-on-pc/ "If you notice issues in these additions to Auto HDR, or your favorite DX11/DX12 titles don’t work yet, or y

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