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Reply to Large colony population seems counterproductive in Crusade in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I just put up "Population to Raw Production at 0.75 exponent" on nexusmods now- http://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/117/? Have fun.

Reply to Large colony population seems counterproductive in Crusade in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

um, I haven't put it up on Nexus. Yet. Maybe I should...

Reply to Crusade, Planet Morale in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

In the planet screen, just mouse over the approval line and you'll get a detailed breakdown of what approval items you have (base and percent adds/minuses). Anything that reduces approval should show up there. Basically, if the population exceeds the current approval level, they become less than 100% happy.

Reply to Large colony population seems counterproductive in Crusade in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I have been using the raw production = pop ^.75 mod and I would note that the initially you get an extra, small boost (about +1 raw up to 4 pop) which is very helpful in getting started, and the later boost of about pop/2 from about pop 10-24, and slower increases above that. Doesn't seem to unbalance the game, and given that crusade pretty much forces you to grab any planet with a needed resource (read "at least one of each type"), those 8 and under can still build some things in under 20 tu

Reply to Starbases too hard to destroy now? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

I see now that shipyards are at 25HP and starbases at 50HP, so changes the prospects quite a lot. The high attacks & defenses are less painful to deal with mid-game.

Reply to Devs: One thing that always bugs me about Pirates in Scifi Space games- Killing everything. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Pirate interactions should take notice of ideology- they would interact with good, evil and pragmatic in different ways, both in the "bribe" stage and "attack" stage. Can't really see any non-stupid pirates asking the Deregin for a bribe to not be attacked... A bold set might just raid the Deregin if opportunity presents, but negotiate with them? Not going to work out well. I do like the idea of disabled ships and possible capture during a pirate fight. Actually, as a p

Reply to Where is 'Aid Ship Production'? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Based on tech research, race and what you have access to for crusade do this for decent production: Stage 1 Build your space elevator adjacent to the capitol city. Build your core mine and starport adjacent to the elevator, add a factory adjacent to the space elevator/core mine if possible Stage 2 Build your space elevator, core mine and starport adjacent to a new city for the +2 bonus to all Stage 3 Build your space elevator and core mine adjacent to the new cit

Reply to Population in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

As a compromise, I've modding the defs so that population produces raw production at X^.75 for crusade, instead of the default x^.5. The curve on X^.75 is such that it levels at about pop/2 once you get past 10 population, so you're not outproducing the galaxy with a single planet, but you get a boost early, when that extra +1 is really important. At levels below 10, it's about pop/1.3. I use this with the expanded cities mod. Now, I have real reasons to spend some research on growth

Reply to Scientific Accuracy Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

This looks interesting. Any chance you might put out an alpha version of the mod so that others could provide feedback on the non planetary data portions of your work?

Reply to Starbases too hard to destroy now? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

If the starting attack/defense numbers for a starbase were along the lines of A2/2/2 D2/2/2, the current amount of hitpoints in a starbase would still necessitate a fleet, but at least it'd be doable during the midgame. It would still require sufficient effort and would not make removing a starbase/shipyard trivial. Currently, I look at starbase attacks as if I starring at the gates of Mordor, wondering if I can get the rest of the army to show up. And I don't feel like that at all for

Reply to Starbases too hard to destroy now? in GalCiv III Founders GalCiv3 Forums

The problem for game balance is that I can create starbases with a single 50pt constructor, that a 10 ship fleet worth 1K construction can't touch. And a shipyard is dirt cheap as well. At this point, my priority during an offensive war is to kill any constructors I see first. Maybe if the starbases/shipyard had lower starting attack/defenses with upgrade options for bases where you needed a fortress, and not just a commerce station.

Reply to Lack of Administrators in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Great. I find that in a long game with about 20 BoL buildings, that provides sufficient admins to handle the stations I might need for planet groups, resource capture and a few forward stations. Not enough at all to station spam any planets. Sounds like Crusade will change the whole system and that's ok.

Reply to How's the ai at fleeting up in 2.0? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Immense map, fighting the Deregin (Gifted), late in the game (turn 160) Both of us have had plenty of time to fleet up. We are separated by quite a distance (120+ hexes) and I'm attacking them with a few mixed fleets of 5-8 ships (escorts, capital, carriers guardians). Clean off a planet, land transports and move on. Use the new planet to extend my range and refit as necessary. Deregin planet defense is 8-12 medium ships, all assault, and a few fleets of 8-12 ships with a

Reply to Lack of Administrators in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Syrkres" reply="5" id="3666531"] yep, that makes Bureau better (which I never build anways - Antimatter is so much better). but this would make it more likely to build one. PS: can you put it on Nexus? [/quote] Um, I haven't done that before. I'll look into that.

Reply to Lack of Administrators in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3666453"] I like this idea. I wouldn't mind having some late game tech that allowed the player to do what you describe. But I wouldn't want it early game. [/quote] Thanks, I didn't think that I'd could be the only one who depended on starbases. :) As this was my first mod, I didn't want to go for anything all that complicated. I would note that a Bureau of Labor costs 151, once you have

Reply to Lack of Administrators in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

No replies at all? Maybe I'm the only one interested in this. It was really annoying me, so I created a very simple mod to include +1 administrators for each Bureau of Labor you build. It doesn't do anything else, just adds the extra administrator. I think that all the tech trees have the BoL improvement, so it should work for any race. Why the BoL? Well, it's a unique planetary improvement, and if you're the type to build one for wheel control,

Lack of Administrators in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Guys, help me out here. With the 2.0 announcement about starbase administrator, it was noted that we could build planetary improvements to add starbase administrators. I'm not seeing any Improvement (well, not in the Terran or Yor tech trees) that adds administrators or ups the percentage, just some tech adds that provide a boost for the whole empire. And the only integer add is an early option in the Diplomacy tree. Everything else is a 20% boost. In a gigantic map, start

Reply to Clock in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Seconded. I asked for this back in 2015. The lack of which hasn't stopped me from playing- but that's the problem! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Reply to Stacking ship to attack. in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

Once you have multiple ships in the same hex, you can choose the "manage" option and decide exactly which ships should go into the fleet. Note that you need to shift/ctrl click on each individual ship or sub fleet and then select "create fleet". You can disband entire fleets on the manage page as well. As noted above, your logistics limits come into play here. Also, once you have a fleet, if you select an individual ship from the mgmt window (on the bottom left of the screen), you can

Reply to Which mercenaries are actually worth buying? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The Scow can be helpful if you have room in a war fleet for it. Shoot, you get the 250 credits even if participates in an anomaly fight. There are a few that flip planets and combined with range extenders, they are very powerful. Other than that, there are a few that stack defenses on the whole fleet, and those are particularly useful at the right times. Remember that you pay no maintenance on these ships, so the fighting ones save you credits you'd otherwise

Reply to Upgrading ships with a unique part to a more modern version with identical unique part not possible? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Try upgrading the current ship to another design without the unique part. Then do your new design and try upgrading the experienced ship to it. Costs 2 upgrades, but should work.

Reply to HOW do i find a recently built ship design ????? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

By default, new designs go to the bottom of the designer list. There is a toggle at the top to just show your own designs, which helps to reduce the clutter. If you are still not seeing it, it's possible that you have enabled the "allow ship designs with more than the current capacity" option, and I'm not sure if those will show up if you do add a new design beyond what your empire currently has the tech for.

Reply to Heavy stability probs in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

immense, 100+ turns, started on stock 1.90, reloaded and played fine with the last hot fix. I would note that I needed to remove some mods when I first went to 1.90, as it wouldn't startup correctly. If you are having issues, I'd remove any mods (or clean install) before sending a ticket.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III 1.9 Hotpatch (UPDATED 12/21) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Nice, I hadn't considered that option, but that should work just fine. Thanks for your quick and reasonable response

Reply to Galactic Civilizations III 1.9 Hotpatch (UPDATED 12/21) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

There is a mod to revert the galaxy size and I do use it. That's not unreasonable. The simple fact that the game can be easily updated and modded is one reason why I'm a founder for GalcivIII. What would be excellent is if the game options now included a "crowded" and 'normal" toggle so I don't have to grab a mod. Of course, that assumes that there is no driving reason to make crowded mode the default style of gameplay. That's why I inquired; if there is some funct