Brad, I'm excited to hear this. It's been a few years since I've logged into the forums to post anything, it's a bit nostalgic. I've added this to my wishlist, and I'm looking forward to something different in both the 4x and the fantasy genre. With the AI you've always had on the bleeding edge it should be a lot of fun and a challange. Good luck!
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I believe I still have (in a box somewhere) boxed copies of OS/2 Warp and Merlin both, as well as the original Galciv for OS/2.
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I disagree it would add a 'lot' of processing considering that it has to calculate the FOW reveal (including newly uncovered artifacts, anomalies, other ships, etc.) on each move. Most of the processing logic is already there. Should have a couple options: 1) Stop movement on non-friendly encounter (with button to resume to original destination); 2) Evade/retreat/avoid on non-friendly encounter.
[quote quoting="post"] Is there a way to allow part of a rush/upgrade: 25%, 50%,75%,100%. [/quote] This is a brilliant idea. I would love to be able to choose to dump a couple million credits into a project to take a few turns off but not have to fund the entire thing at once. Also would be interesting to have the ability to accelerate production (at a cost). i.e. "Fund this project at 120% normal production." But it would come at an efficiency cost, lets say 2
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[quote who="sauronws6" reply="51" id="3814241"] Epic is 50% owned by a Chinese company, who is wholly owned by the Chinese state. Steam is 100% owned by Americans. Good job on being greedy Stardock. [/quote] I doubt very much it is 'greed'. Not saying there isn't a financial component to the decision, but I've been an SD customer since '93-'94 (multiple products) and watched their growth, their development approach, and their responsiveness to consumers. I suspec
I've owned every version since GC on OS/2 and purchased in as a founder for GC3. I'd love to purchase the Alpha/Early Access on Epic but won't do so unless there is a guarantee of a Steam key. Otherwise I'm waiting until it's released on Steam.
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I find this to be somewhat realistic. If this were to happen in real life, especially if the top level government isn't (can't) micromanage every colony, there would be a huge amount of political realignment that takes place and not all of it would be easily intuited. Look at what happened in Africa and southeast Asia vis-à-vis the various European colonizers as regions moved from provinces to semi-autonomous states to independent nation-states. The flow of trade, military forc
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How about purely energy based beings which require a gravity well and magnetic field to reproduce, but can survive on any planet with a mass roughly between that of Mars and Uranus orbiting any B, A, or F type star? They require different colonization technology/life support (obviously), have huge head starts on any direct energy based tech, but might be particularly vulnerable to nuclear fission/fusion, antimatter, or magnetically charged rail-gun type weapons. They fun
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I have absolutely zero to base this on other than a feeling (and having been playing GC since maybe 93 or 94 on OS/2 before big blue screwed the pooch). My gut feeling is that it won't have tiles at all. Edit : Okay, let me clarify. It may have internalized "tiles" which might be one distance unit of measurement, but I don't think it'll have tiles in a traditional/conventional sense. With today's GPUs and CPUs, memory speed and bus transfer rates
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Good morning (for me) Brad, I love a lot of these ideas, especially the 'sponsor' world idea. Have you thought (yet) about competing 'sponsor' mechanisms. Taking a page from from one of my favorite military sci-fi authors there might be several paths of sponsorship available to a world/child world. Government - directly sponsored/colonized via a Bureau of Colonization (BuCol) in which the government gets all of the generated resources, but at a lower ef
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