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Reply to New Rise of the Terrans DLC Now Available in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

Yes, you can play as the United Earth in sandbox, and make custom races with it's new Ability. Though it can be a bit confusion if you play against the Terran Alliance. ;)

Reply to [Bug] [1.8 opt-in] Military Alliance giving Culture Alliance bonus and description in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The good news is that the treaties are giving the correct bonuses, the military alliance dose seem to however be pointing to the wrong description text. I have fixed it, and it will be in the next patch. Thanks for the report.

Galactic Civilizations III is having its 1st Birthday! in GalCiv III Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

Galactic Civilizations III turns a year old this week. I'm both shocked that it has already been a year, and surprised it has only been a year. When GC3 shipped I was very proud of what we had done, but I am even prouder of what the game has become over the last year. As a designer, I know that a game is really never done, so it has been a pleasure to continue working on GalCiv3 with such a great group of people. Lets look back at Galactic Civilizations III’s first year...</

Reply to Please bring back shipyard shutdown in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

We have addressed the shutdown issue internal, and it should be in 1.71. An opt in should be coming out shortly.

Reply to Creeping mass on modules in 1.7.0.17 (opt-in 2) in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Thanks for the report, I will have to make a another balance pass on hull capacity modifiers and the hull mass scaling, in 1.71 and 1.8.

Reply to Iridium Infulence Problems in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Thanks for the report, the issue with the star base modules has been fixed, and will be in the next build. I am leaving the Freemarket as is, since you can build as many as you want and they also boost wealth, I believe upgrading them would boot them into OP territory. I will continue to play with them, they may get re-balanced in the future.

Reply to Q: Intentional that Military starbases lost 2 range? in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Thanks for the report, This should be fixed in 1.7.

Reply to Possible Bug with AssaultFighterModule in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

This is fine, and dose not cause any problems, it just brakes naming convention.

Reply to Massive Starbase Update for GalCiv III is now available! in GalCiv III News GalCiv3 Forums

We are working on a new XP system, once we are happy with it, we will be bring back ship levels. Don't want to promise when yet. But it is on the top of our list, after fixing some outstanding diplomacy issues.

Reply to Suggestion: Write code that prevents AI from colonizing Mars in Galactic Civilizations Series GalCiv3 Forums

I think the idea of having an influence threshold the AI looks at before colonizing is good, this is really an edge case since most colonizing is done early on, but if you do not colonize mars, i can see how this would happen. Thanks for the feedback.

Reply to Any chance Stardock will make modding shipsets for AI custom ships easier? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Yes, we are looking into the best way to let people share entire factions, Including tech trees, ship sets, and ship designs. We will let you know when it gets close.

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The Sisko Those modules are all exploitable in some way or another, i see what i can do with them, but i wanted to fix the Bane issue ASAP.

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Strategist Do this with caution, but you should be able to add the command line ATLASGEN to your startup, and it should re-generate the atlas every time it changes. Keep in mind it will slow down startup each time it has to do this.

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

I’m not sure that there is a bug per se that would stop you from using custom height maps, so much as they have to be baked into the surface atlas, and be in the proper format. I will ask to be sure, but I think you can force the atlas to regenerate, but I’m not sure how that would work with a mod, I ill look into it. That atlas gets really big, so it’s not something we want the players to have to generate each time thy play.

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

My opinion on the stacking bonus is that that it is fun, it’s fun to try and get the most out of your planets. I think the problem comes in balancing the bonus, to both be useful if there is only one and to not OP if they are several. If they did not stack there would never be reason to have more than one starbase in a system. While this is appealing from a management and balance perspective, I think it would take some of the fun out of building up your worlds.

Reply to [Updated Bug in 1.7 stable release] Precursor Satellite fix in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Just checked on it, in 1.7 it has been changed to 10%, 25%, and 50% depending on the planets unlock level.

Reply to [Updated Bug in 1.7 stable release] Precursor Satellite fix in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Ill check on that, i thought i had tracked down all the sensor modifiers, but that might have slipped by. Thanks for the report.

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

Publius The merc sensor boat has been balanced, it is still pretty powerful, i think the range is around 15 depending on map size. I was going to tweak it more, but i found that even that range on a relatively cheap merc ship is very useful. I’ll be curious to see what you guys think, <a class="hand" title="Click user name to v

Reply to What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

The prediction is not absolute, it has pretty large manger of "error" built in, we mostly just want to let you know when you are about to bight off what more then you can chew.

What's new in Galactic Civilizations III 1.7 in GalCiv III Dev Journals JoeUser Forums

It has been a few months now since I have have been able to do the weekly GalCiv Twitch Stream, and I find myself missing the weekly GC3 progress report and Q & A. I thought I would take a page out of Brad's book and try and start doing some more regular Developer Journals. This week I’m lucky because we are going to release 1.7, and there are lots of new features to talk about, and a few questions that I can preemptively address. </

Reply to 1.7 Patch Change Log (Release 4/21) in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

The point of the Basic Constructor is that it is “The cheapest possible Constructor” so putting drives on it would be kind of contrary to its purpose in life. This is why we have we give the option to set the constructor to any valid constructor type, and as of 1.7 you can even globally assign that constructor to all your starbases. Hopefully that will meet your needs. Thanks for the suggestion.

Reply to Lore question regarding ship designs in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

For the most part the Difference in the designs was an artistic decision. Artists tend to like to do new stuff, and we wanted to make sure that the new designs looked good and constant. The end result was new ships in the same design language, but not the same ships. We figured that the 10 years that had passed between games would give us some leeway for the designs to changes. That said I have always wanted to get the GC2 designs into the game, (This is dear to me since I made

Reply to Ancient race trait not giving 10% per each relic? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

This sounds like a bug more than a data problem, I will make sure, and get it looked at by someone if I can’t fix it myself. Thanks for the report.

Reply to [1.7 opt-in 2] Several ideology traits need their description updated in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

neilkaz I will take a look at those, i will be doing a balance pass in general, but in particulate i was referring to the improvements. I am trying to find a way to make all ideology traits and awards, scale better with map size, and planet count.

Reply to Rare Habitable Planets in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

What type and size of Galaxy are you playing? Also what are the start and planet count set to? Balancing planet count is always a challenge because there are so many moving parts. Let me know what your settings are so I can reproduce them.