The main difference in the Free Stars version is that it includes the 3DO content, which I take that Stardock could not include. That makes the better version for modern times as hardly anyone these days has the patience of reading the dialogue. Also, it is freeware. 🆓
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Adds a race long time gone called the Orionites. Their abandoned homeworld of Orion has a planetary quality is out of this world. However, it is guarded by a Huge class vessel called 'The Guardian'. The civilization that acquires the planet gains a few Ascension tier technologies. Available o
[quote who="GMOrz" reply="712" id="3727029"]I don't know about you, but I drink soda because I like the unique mix of brown sugar within the water, not because I'm impressed by the words "Coca-Cola™".[/quote] I wouldn't care about your taste. What I would care, is how many people you would be able to convince drinking sugar water. This is what it is all about. Brand recognition of Star Control. So far, SC fans seem to be are adding SC:O to the list of genuine SC games, strengthe
They were very sure of what they had. But somehow still had to ask Brad what he got when buying the IP from Atari. Afterwards giving the excuse that they didn't buy it then because Atari had nothing really of value... besides THE, one and only, "Star Control" TRADEMARK! No, what they seem to care about is the brown sugar within the water of Coca-Cola®™.</em
Currently the only way to create maps is either to use the built in generator while changing XML settings or by manually doing it with the Map Editor. The maps are saved as GC3Map file along with a thumbnail image file: A GC3Map file is binary . 90+% of the content always changes on save even if you only change the map name. (compressed?) 7Zip recognizes
*fine*
Learned about the gofundme page only recently. Almost a year has passed since Ghost of the Precursors(GotP) announcement. and Fred and Paul have not shared a shred of GotP Work In Progress content. If avoiding having the game called, at worst , Stardock's Star Control: Ghost of the Precursors is what really matters to them, then I hope they lose the court case. 2 million. Still can't believe that ta
So far, Paul and Fred have proven only that they own all technology/tools(+code) used to create SC1/SC2. They think they own more due to their involvement in the Atari-GOG contract re-arrangement. But let's get real, we are talking about a company that went bankrupt two years later. Mismanagement of Atari was a main part of it. IMO they will lose if they go in a legal battle with Stardock. Their punishment for making Star Control lay dormant for 20 years. Though after the case is
You can still do this? That is just great. I had reported this way back in Jan 2017 through support. It was about upgrading your ships with a colony module and being able to colonize with 0 pop. Both would be fixed if zero would deny colonization. Normally minimal population limit denies this. But I found an exploit in that upgrading a ship to a colony ship still allows it to colonize planets even though it has 0 population on board. Also such a
Sad to hear that this is still an issue. I sent a bug report about this in March 2016, ticket #TEZ-932-31274. [edit] Then again don't get your hopes up as in January I got the following response on another Modding related (crash) issue: Hello, We don't support mods here in support. You can choose mods still but we don't actually support them. We point everyone to the forums to obtain community help for modding. Brad Ather Cus
If you make it as a scenario, then use the following in CampaignDefs: [code="xml"] true [/code]
Scenario creation is not documented very well. Hard to debug as well. Though through hacks I have been able create scenarios. There is the Game.bin for each scenario which is created with CampaignCompiler.bat within Tools. It does NOT create Game.bin file for Mod Campaigns. That is what CampaignCompilerMod.bat is 'supposedly' there for, though GalCiv3 never seems to run it on its own. @Stardock, CampaignCompilerMod.bat has a typo for a variable (docsdir vs DO
Strangely, the Stardock Launcher can be skipped using the same method as with Fallout 4's launcher. See: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=567149803 Updated the launch options on Wikia: https://galciv3.gamepedia.com/Launch_options
You used the logo I created for the Syreen of Star Control. This makes me happy. Star Control races don't have logos, so I had to make them up. [edit] Race in question within Steam workshop . You may also look at the <a title="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=624186211" href="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f
Whups, then I mixed up ship designs with blueprints. AI will use player created designs. But it will not use obsolete or newer components for those designs. So yeah, we can't make blueprints while ingame. Currently the only way to create new Blueprints is to add new ones through XML files and enable them as mods.
Ship Designer being available from the main menu was planned from the near start by Stardock. As you can see the option between Load Game and Options in this Beta 1 Dev stream: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnb6hfWdfQw[/video] The option along with other main menu options were removed in April 2015. So it was never available to the Beta community as far as I am aware of.
In case Gerry Martin sees this, there is a typo: Hegemonic universe for Star Control (released back in 1996). Hegemonic universe for Star Control 3 (released back in 1996).
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[quote who="mormegil" reply="50" id="3654370"] This is pretty amazing. [/quote] You know what would be more amazing? Paul Boyer keeping his promise and releasing GalCiv 3 editor tools. @treborblue, please add Sublime Text alongside Notepad++ for opening tech with editor, all you need to do is add: : : Keep up the good work.
You can check what uses what stats using ' liststat ' cheat on a selected entity.
What? Administrators? But I was just starting to love my Starbase Manager 3! /sarcasm http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=841991203
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First the obvious. Are Mods enabled? GalCiv3/Prefs.ini file has "EnableMods= ". Everything within Mods gets included. You can see that in GalCiv3/debug.err file, where it shows it can't find files matching *.gc3wsdata within the Mods folder. I don't want to mess around with the orginal files OK, but do you want to override or make new races based upon them? If it is the latter, you have to have a different filename an
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This means that you will SUBMIT to the will of the Ur-Quan! [video]https://youtu.be/vTBKr64luHg[/video] I did not only get a custom video as a background movie. I also used an transparent 2x2 Bink video as a foreground with audio added. I will make new commit to my mod's Git repository so that others can look at it: https://github.com/StarControlGalCiv/GalCiv3StarControl <a href="h
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The first time I tried replacing a Bink 2(.bk2) video with a Bink 1 video(.bik), the video played, started to glitch and then GalCiv 3 crashed. It might have been due to an incorrect resolution. I can't remember. Just to see if anythings changed or I was doing it wrong. I just tried replacing the Galaxy Spinning video by converting the .bk2 to .bik using the official RAD Game Tools. Then I renamed it to .bk2 as GalCiv 3 will skip files ending with .bik. It worked. No crashes in ei
Is there a launch option(command line argument) for skipping the Stardock Launcher?
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