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Reply to Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Basically, opportunity costs. If you lower on-planet building bonuses you'll also need to lower off planet starbase bonuses as well.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

The AI is actually doing ok. Noticing the 5 planet AI is expanding, now the average number is 12-15. Still, I'm on 62 planets.... Of course I specifically designed my race so it can expand a lot. With a more "normal" race I'd probably be on 40 planets.

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Actually this is working out quite well. Managed 60 colonies, economy running -500 deficit on 100% research despite Krynn maintenance temples and -20% maintenance buff. Keeping afloat economically by trading for money from the AI. Currently have 14 turns of non-bankruptcy. Turn 40-50 or something like that. The AI is expanding slowly. Average of 15 colonies each. I'd like to expand more but I'm not sure I want to. AI needs to value mo

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Some of the AI are on 5 colonies by turn 31 on God-like difficulty The AI should be aggressively building colony ships in the early game until the number of colonies + number of colony ships = 40. In other words, the other strategies shouldn't kick in until this happens. After hitting that trigger, THEN go into build-up mode followed by another wave of colonization. Diminishing returns for colonization only starts to kick in around the 40th colo

Reply to [Bug] Awe 3 reduces taker's health rather than enemies (1.12) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Oh. That's sort of funny. I guess there's a downside to being evil.

Reply to Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

But some of the races don't have "men." How could they have "man-hours?" Ohohohohohohohoho. (Runs away).

Reply to Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Make population to total production multiplier significantly lower (easy change), lower automatic production from colony capital, increase bonuses for higher tier buildings and suddenly the AI economic strategy isn't as bad. Instead of increasing research and manufacturing costs (which is pretty difficult to do) just make everyone's empires less productive across the board. If we cut total manufacturing by a third, that's equivalent to

Reply to Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

How about lowering the bonuses of the initial factory and increasing the bonuses of the later version? Instead of changing the AI to fit the game (which we can't do) how about changing the game to fit the AI? It's like what you did with terraforming.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

In the latest I chose the Krynn tech for obvious reasons. Wealth + Colonizer. Colony spam is still doable... up to a certain point. Key is getting accelerated growth +0.1 pop with Growth trait bonus so all colonies gain +0.3/turn. Playing suicidal btw, though I gave myself two initial techs at the beginning and changed colony modules back to normal size.

Reply to Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Is there a way to easily change all second age techs quickly without having to change each tech individually?

Reply to Please....please.....please stop coding aggressive colonization behavior without incorporating consequences in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

Instead of planets culture flipping, they instead "shut down" and are unable to produce anything.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Also, your mod does include Vid's changes to the AI, correct?

Second Age Techs and Buildings Should be Significantly More Powerful and Also Cost Significantly More Than First Age in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It will add a lot more strategic diversity and interest to the game. The problem is the techs in each line right now are all roughly the same. The different "ages" are arbitrary and meaningless. This should be changed. By providing significantly more powerful buildings in the second age, and increasing the tech and production costs of such buildings, it would force the player and the AI to CHOOSE and PRIORITIZE according to their strategy. For example

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Opportunity costs. Starbase spam becomes much more important with the nerf to higher tier buildings. You'll also have to reduce the power of starbase manufacturing modules to bring it in line. Also, are you sure you want to keep the "build everything in 1 turn" possibility? The problem is the initial factory gives too big of a boost. A better idea would be to nerf factories downwards to 10%, with each upgrade +5% (the last one in the

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Never mind. Figured it out. Not a bug. Interesting.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Bug: can't change production in the economy screen. When I use the slider to change planets to research, all of the planets continue producing manufacturing.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Also, with the changes to pop growth from techs (+0.1 instead of +10% to growth), the Yor needs cheaper assembly to balance that out. As it stands, synthetic races remains severely nerfed.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

I would dramatically increase the costs of larger hulls, advanced weaponry/defense systems, and later-game research instead of changing upper tier building bonuses. As things stand now, there is effectively NO REASON to get a tier beyond level 1.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

Does this mean the other tech trees are viable?

Reply to Need your saved games in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yeah. All of my games now are with the various AI mods. Talk to Naselus. He's done a good job modding.

Reply to Severe problem (Game Breaking) with Large Empire Penalty for both players and AI with conquest on insane map in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

The base game as of right now is pretty pointless to play. Much better with the mods.

Reply to [MOD] Insane-Abundant Balance Mod in GalCiv III Modding GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="naselus" reply="138" id="3574103"] 0.9 sneak peak: * Hives now give +50% food and +50% approval. * Mother Hive is now empire-unique; gives +100% food and +100% approval to the planet it's on. * All manufacturing, wealth and research hub buildings now give flat bonuses rather than modifiers. * Removed preclusions from tourism buildings so they can be repeat-built * Massively

Reply to The core of galciv3 is currently customization options. in GalCiv III Future Ideas GalCiv3 Forums

YES.

Reply to Severe problem (Game Breaking) with Large Empire Penalty for both players and AI with conquest on insane map in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Get one of the mods that changes it to -0.2 Money/Planet.

Reply to GC II changed my life. This game is a low-quality mess. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Stop playing the game for 6 months and come back.