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[0.793] Random island, Archivist/Onyx, Endangered Hamlet very not weak, some typos in Founders Innovation SorcererKing Forums

0.793 = Beta 3 + opt-in. 1. Random map generator started Athica on an island! SK can't touch me, except by paradropping monster rings onto my tiles. OTOH, I had to twiddle my thumbs and research the cheapest spell each time until I finally got Summon Ship. And SK got a head start on trashing shards and allying minors, all of whom are on the mainland. Now I'm roughly Australia invading China ... 2. The 2-part abandoned village quest

Reply to BUG - Spell Warrior's Aura in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

My Athica has: 9 essence Aura of Grace (+18 initiative!?) Warrior's Aura (+2L) and my riders come out naked.

Reply to Starbases are uneffective vs ships??? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

It's Stardock's way of saying we should ... spam escort ships too [e digicons]:blush:[/e]

[Beta 3 opt-in] Ceresa quest -- accidental overstack created 2nd Wraith? in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

Beta 3 + opt-in. New game, Wizard, random, small. Turn k ~ 3. South of Athica, I ended turn with a diagonal move across the south of a mountain. Hence I had no cloth-map sight to the landing hex until I actually arrived in it. Turn k +1. The garrulous Wraith with Ceresa's Circle quest was standing in that hex! Tandis + Wraith are now overstacked in tha

Reply to [BUG BETA 2.1] - Guardian Army Expansion having twice the effect in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

It's just +2 per copy of Varda in the group [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to Competitive Manufacturing Tech Does Nothing in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The -20% may be type-restricted to only certain types of buildables. You'll have to peek into the XML to check that, though. This is a known UI incompleteness: Tooltips do not display any type restrictions on buildable cost modifiers. Just looking at a "-20% Manufacturing Costs", the player cannot tell which subset of buildables will get the -20%. c.f. Industrial Specialization, which has said since Alpha 0.31: <l

Reply to What exactly is a research specialization as opposed to a regular tech? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Both of you are correct! A specialization tech (rounded tech bubble) gives a choice of 2 or 3 options. You need to complete only 1 of them to unlock deeper techs in the tech tree (except across an Age boundary). You can research as many as you like (even all 3), but there's tech cost inflation to consider. See below. [quote quoting="post"] Once I complete a specialization, can I later change to another of the three? [/quote]</

Reply to Double Bonused Projects Make the Govern Sliders Obsolete in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Except that Rush buying costs (15 bc/1 mp), on top of Economic Stimulus's (4 mp/1 raw bc). Multiply that out, and you get (60 mp => 1 mp). Whoops! Suppose 1 bp (billion pop) create 1 raw mp. At +300% manuf, 1.0 raw mp => 4.0 mp. So 60 bp = 60.0 raw mp => 240.0 mp. 240.0 mp / 4 (per Economic Stimulus) = 60.0 raw wealth. Suppose you have +0% wealth. Then 60.0 raw => 60.0 bc (billion credits). Note tha

[0.61] After Artifact rushes an Economic Stimulus project, queued improvements never update in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Ticket #WAF-808-95594. 0.61, Terran, huge map, 5 godlike. Fairly early, turns 60-65. I am still alone in my corner. I surveyed an Artifact that gave the nanoprobes that finish 1 random planet's current improvement. It randomly chose Earth, which had only Economic Stimulus (project), with the slider set to 100% military (shipyard). For ~5 turns thereafter, Earth's social queue appears as "Economic Stimulus - Rushed", in gray. Hovering ove

Reply to Double Bonused Projects Make the Govern Sliders Obsolete in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Correct, and as intended. The deeper issue is: does such a planet beat an all-research specialist planet? i.e. is your civilization's upper bound +mp% bonus four times greater than your upper bound +rp% bonus? I think it can't be. So it still pays to specialize all 3 separately. What you do gain is flexibility. All of your forgeworlds can agilely shift to rp or bc each turn, whichever one you need more.

Reply to B3 bugs noticed in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Game-mechanism bugs: Benevolent tier 2 Mindfulness still gives the +25% G&S bonus to all friendly planets , not just your " first 3 planets ". Yaay! (Cause: The "first k planets" restriction game mechanism is not implemented?) XML bugs: Terran, Colonization tech. Research Optimization / Efficient Research</s

Reply to First impressions, galciv2>galciv3 0.61 in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]It would be great if you could cheat a bit by locking in a one way trip to friendly planet for a resupply similar to how taking a wormhole can result in a survey ship across the galaxy taking a locked straight path back to your space. [/quote] You can already move ships freely between your disconnected island ZOCs. Just click within any friendly ZOC and the ship will go straight there. You're at the mercy of the path generator, tho. You lose fine-grai

Reply to [Suggestion] New Ship Command - Do Nothing in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Hehe ... here comes another cautionary lesson from a totally unrelated game. Unix Empire again, dumb terminal alphanumeric text output. You can build planes (discrete units) and fly them as bombers over enemy airspace. Quasi-realtime, which means everybody stays up around each update time and hopes to catch their foe away from keyboard on vacation or real life. (Unix Empire is absolutely brutal that way.) How shall your fighters auto-defend aga

Reply to B3 bugs noticed in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Ideology Breakthrough et al. worked fine through Beta 2. There's just no decent UI to display it, so you must be on your toes through the dizzying cascade of screens. If +300 rps (yah, it used to give 300! not 150) finishes your current tech, then exiting Ideology goes straight to the Tech newsbot, you pick a new tech, repeat as needed [e digicons]:bebi:[/e] (I think only once max), until finally your 2nd or 3rd new tech so

Reply to Sorcerer King Beta 3 Patch Notes in Sorcerer King Support GalCiv3 Forums

That's awesome! She should be able to pair up with her clone, and both of them still get their lone ranger bonuses! Two fiery breaths per combat, egad ... I think you just won.

Reply to Sorcerer King Beta 3 Patch Notes in Sorcerer King Support GalCiv3 Forums

The Warlord starts with Varda, Maya, and Ben the bear (who re-uses the ice lieutenant's flavor text). Varda's middle skill names her "Verda". A weak quest gave me a Scout. He collects treasure chests. Later, he found an empty monster ring, and cleared it! Monsters hit for more damage. They now show you how much melee damage they do (if you select or hover over them in combat). Trog archers have 10 hp each</stro

Reply to Map size, balance and the scaling problem. in Sorcerer King Discussion GalCiv3 Forums

I don't see it as much of a (new) problem because we already have this problem on tiny maps. The first few area-effect spells you get instantly turn all Trog archer groups into knock-knock jokes that you've already heard. More to the point, somebody is getting paid to solve that design problem, and it isn't me. So I won't bother to expend effort on designs that will get swept away like crackers on a soup. Step back a bit, and consid

Reply to How the hell do you play this game? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

It depends greatly on the size of the map, but generally: Mainline (manuf/research, eventually strong military). A conquest-type path (or defense against the other guy's conquest of you). Phase 1. Build up planet tiles. Plan ahead for hex and adjacency bonuses, but generally go for some +manuf (to speed up the build-out), then the planet's specialization (whichever you choose). Your homeworld probably must split between manuf an

Reply to Map size, balance and the scaling problem. in Sorcerer King Discussion SorcererKing Forums

... if you can outrace Genius Dungeon Master to all those shards, and keep them ... you deserve them?

Reply to Sorcerer King Beta 3 Patch Notes in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

So we take the armor off before fighting a Shrill? Codeslinger with a Microwave Mortar ... or aquatars (rust monsters) in Rogue

Reply to Dev Stream (Friday, December 12th) at 3pm EST, Noon Pacific in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

They're hard at work on Sorcerer King Beta 3, due Tue 12/16 [e digicons]^_^'[/e]

Reply to Combat Viewer Preview? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Heck with the Combat Viewer preview ... can we get a preview of a ship blowing up ? Say, a Ship Designer Contest winning ship [e digicons]:grin:[/e] . The Klongins have boarded, and we must engage self-destruct. Make it blow.

Reply to [0.60] Bugs and feedback in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

#17 may be as intended. Innovation Complex is a sneaky branch on the Cultural Influence path, not the Tech You To Death path. #19 is also not strictly 1 pop to 1 g&s. At low pop (e.g. new colony), you can easily exceed it without immediate penalty. We must deduce the rule for those 300-point saucers ...

Reply to How the hell does morale work? in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="eviator" reply="2" id="3511654"] Take you G&S points, apply your G&S bonuses. That tells you the max population your world will support at 100% approval. Once your population crosses that threshold, every 0.1 population beyond that max equal 1% less approval.[/quote] So I thought, as well (based on my homeworld Earth). But at low pop, you can exceed G&S without penalty. c.f. a colony with pop 5.4 and G&S 4.4 still has 100% Approval.

[0.61] Gilmoy's Bugs and Grumbles in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[0.60] Beta 3, no patch, no opt-in. A. Fun, fun, fun A1. Black holes are black . They no longer twinkle through the fog. Grumble. (Yaay!) A2. Sound effects. No problems yet. (As others have noted, some sounds are too long.) B. Major mechanism revisions B1. Approval is micro-free Approval is now