marigoldran

marigoldran

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Getting Rid of Planet Production Wheel Is Going to Make Game More Repetitive in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If there's one production wheel for all planets, all of my planets are going to end up looking identical: Build 3-4 factories initially (for expansion and production). 100% manufacturing. Use extra production and build research labs. Change economic wheel to 100% research. Hit the "end of turn button 50 times and research up to what you want." And that's it. Every planet will have a farm or two, 3-4 factories, and the rest r

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Reply to The Only Fun Part of the Game Was Planetary Economic Optimization and Early Game Colonization in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

1. Blowing stuff up is a little graphic that goes poof. 2. Exploiting is only fun if it is a challenge. 3. You can only expand so many times before it gets boring. 4. Exterminate is boring because the AI sort of rolls over and says "kill me." The problem is all those features you're mentioning is fluff. The core game is unbalanced, the tech trees are all roughly the same with the exception of the Thalans which are

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Reply to Here's What The Developers Should Do: Free Market vs Command Economy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="hedetet" reply="5" id="3585632"] marigoldran: Have you tried Offworld Trading Company? Sounds like it's more up your alley given your economy optimization fetishism. [/quote] But the point of creating a massive economy is to create a giant military to cream your opposition into fuzzy pulp. I just wish the AI would put up some resistance along the way to "fuzzy pulp-ness." Otherwise it gets boring.

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Reply to Here's What The Developers Should Do: Free Market vs Command Economy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Point is: economic micro management should be punished, but not removed. It's realistic. The more you micro manage, the less efficient the economy becomes. On the other hand, with a free market system every planetary governor would want to do their own thing regardless of what the civilization as a whole needs. The goal then would be to balance between the needs of the few vs the needs of the many, giving the game the economic depth it needs.

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The Economic System Should Be Changed to Be Like Dwarf Fortress. Fun Comes from Challenges. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

It would also be more realistic. And add flavor to the game. Instead of trying to specialize and min-max your planets to 100% efficiency, the goal instead would be to stop your idiotic people from creating economic crashes every 20 turns or so. To quote: First devised by its two obsessive creators in 2002, Dwarf Fortress involves taking a band of dwarves and building them into a miniature civilization. This includes all the implied strategy and resource

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Economic Mechanics Should Be Designed to Punish Micro Management But Not Remove it All Together in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Planets that run with automatic planetary governors build everything faster and provide massive bonuses. Planets run without planetary governors allow you to control things, but you don't get the bonuses. The amount of control/bonuses you get depend on the civilization and the amount of resources you're willing to spend on propaganda/press and listening to the whims of the planetary governors ("useless" pork barrel projects that drain your Treasury, for e

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Here's What The Developers Should Do: Free Market vs Command Economy in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Your options are either: 1. Command economy. You can micromanage everything on a planet to planet basis. 2. Free market economy. Where you micromanage NOTHING and let planets develop as they wish according to the planetary governors. You can set guidelines as to focus more on research or money or production, but the planetary governors will only follow your guidelines only as much as it benefits their OWN SELF INTEREST (I'm sure there a

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Reply to 3 questions from Stardock to you in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

1. Civ IV had good diplomacy, but it got predictable and so it could be exploited. The AI is never good at hiding its intentions like the way a human would. 2. I like massive games between massive, evenly matched empires. Almost never finish my games because by that the where I realize I've won it gets boring. Several hundred turns each game, but they can take 50-60 hours to play due to the length of the late game turns. Each turn in a Civ IV Re

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