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Reply to Tactical combat. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="NorsemanViking" reply="380" id="3425258"] It seems some people have a hard time accepting that tactical combat means less strategy. I guess it's the same people that would argue Europa Universalis 4 would be a better strategy game if it had Total War-style combat. They would write posts in the forums there saying: Wouldn't that be awesome to combine EU4 and Total War? Wow, it would be the best game ever made dudes...." They don't seem to understand tac

Reply to Tactical combat. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="charon2112" reply="374" id="3424804"] If the GC3 system is pretty much like the GC2 system, but with some enhancements, I'll be very happy. I want to: 1. Design ships. 2. Arrange ships into fleets. 3. Watch my fleets do battle with enemy fleets using a (hopefully much better) combat viewer. If people want ship by ship, and gun by gun control, there's other games for that.[/quote] Actuall

Reply to Tactical combat. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Personally I try to avoid to use Wikipedia by itself as a source of information, like an encyclopedia it is a good way to get quick facts but you still want to verify these facts with an outside source, However, since you yourself are using Wikipedia, I am just going to stick what they have to say on the matter: "A "shoot 'em up", also known as a "shmup" or "STG", is a game in which the protagonist combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them while dodging their

Reply to Tactical combat. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I agree with what you just said except for one major point: [quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="370" id="3424712"]5. A shoot-em-up, by common usage, is a game where you directly control what units are shooting at what. It's going back pretty far, but both PTO and PTO II were completely turn based shoot-em-up games. Maneuvering individual ships (and in PTO, air wings) and choosing what they shot at and when was the defining characteristic of the combat system.[/quote] Commo

Reply to An idea on how to develop planets in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Question, what is the violet cylinder tanks at the bottom right; if that is the space port, than what is the little purple thing to the middle left that just takes one square? Also, if you had planet squares to develop I would think you would need a selection to choose from, not just Farming. Perhaps Farming, mining (industry needs a lot of resources), and private/rural (boost population (thus taxes too) but drains food supply less than urban residential).

Reply to What 4x game are you playing while we wait? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Martok pretty much covered the AI in Armada 2526. It gets the job done and done well, though you won't be writing home about it either. As for the question of the OP: I been playing: FE:LH Civ 5 (with both expansions) Armada 2526 (with Supernova), though I have started a game of GCII since the announcement of GCIII.

Reply to Fighters/Drones, Command modules and carriers in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="23" id="3411432"]Those bullets fired in space that missed their targets? No trace of them flying free forever...[/quote] Now I got this mental image of a nice post-industrial civilization (not too different from our own) minding its own business when suddenly this large near nuclear sized explosions rocks one of its nation-state countryside. At first being thought it was a meteorite, they later discover that the object is a near indes

Reply to Suggestion for Founder's Elite Edition in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

What Wintersong said, also I think there has been someone who confirmed they were able to 'upgrade' (as in the old one was cancelled so they can do the Elite Founder Pre-order). So I don't think you will have much of a problem and they will be happy to help. From a business perspective, why wouldn't you let your customer buy the more expensive package after the initial fact. The: "no you got to buy it again and keep the other one," is definitely not a smart b

Reply to Gal Civ III Founders in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Despite I did get Elite Founder, I don't think I will name a star. For some reason I don't think I can come up with one that would sound good and make Stardock happy at the same time ;).

Reply to What 4x game are you playing while we wait? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="GJDriessen" reply="32" id="3411397"] @Martok, how difficult to master is the tactical combat part of Armada2526? To what extent is this a clickfest? That is something that I found less appealing about the game. Is there an auto resolve option and how does it work? Are the outcomes consistent/fair?[/quote] I am not Martok, but I am can answer! (Also nice to see another Armada 2526 fan *brofist Martok*) It is very none clickfest.

Reply to Farms or Factories in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Thanks for the responses, now I know what I am building on my colonies and why.

Farms or Factories in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I know population increases taxpayers (and in turn revenue), give more people to send on colony ship and make excellent cannon fodder... I mean soilders for troop transports. But how do they figure in production and stuff like that. What generates more money 10B people with 2 Markets, or 20B people with 1 Market (not neccessarily those numbers but you get the image). And more so, how does research on production play out (again, the x people to y factory/lab or 2x people 1/2y factory/l

Reply to STICKY: Having an IN-GAME problem? Here are some tips! in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I keep getting crashes ruining mid to late game sessions. I downloaded Smart Exception but I do not know how to use it. I have it running when I reproduce the crash (I have save files that I can go to for reproduction of the error), and it makes an exception log. When I hit the email exception and generate it says "SDCZip is missing". However I have 3 files for each crash that gets logged in my C:\ folder: A DMP, CRA, and a text file. I stil have the original save files ingame aswell.

Game Crashes in Play in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have been playing the game for most of the night, an easy simple game so I get used to it. Three times the game crashes when I hit the turn button. Usually if I load back from a previous Autosave that was far enough I can keep going (I need to load back 10+ turns to usually avoid a crash). I did not have a nearby save for the first and second one. But now I actually have a save file on the turn which the game crashes, loading that file garentees the game will crash when I hit the turn button.<

Reply to Stardock Central Really sucks in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I think the Download Manager and SDC is pretty nifty, I admit I couldn't download the last bit of the game and had to do a fresh download from scratch. But it is working fine and decent clip too despite the overtaxed servers.

Reply to Downloading the Last Bit in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Well I did not know there was zoning. I live East Coast. Oh well it is too late now. Don't worry I am not miffed at Stardock or anything. I usually am unlucky with PCs and downloads. I buy a 1K PC that did not have a AGP or PCI-X port... in less than 1 year I had to buy another PC. I knew there was something fishy about the 1K model and the 1.2K model, and the salesmen pulled a fast one on me making me think it was only the Harddrive space and initial RAM in the system. Saved 200 dollars to loos

Reply to Downloading the Last Bit in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Thanks for the response, was not there when I started to type my post. No that is a fast response.

Reply to Downloading the Last Bit in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Actually, I think that is what the second poster said he did. I am having the same problem. I clicked on run, got the autolauncher with the option of Preload Info, Manual, and Update. I hit update, the launcher minimizes, Stardock becomes the top item and nothing happens. After of 15 minutes of apperant nothing (I even checked if more files appeared on my Harddrive, my harddrive has as many files as did before), I am even diagnostics mode now, the only data spikes I am getting is my A