Actually, your ship should utterly crush those two ships just by cocking one eyebrow at them, because their stats are way negative. They'll actually repair you as they hit you [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] ... oh, are you the Drengin? whoops -- I mean, congrats, you found a bug!!
Note that Beta 4 greatly increased all ship "module" components' masses. They went from mass 5 (ridiculously light) to mass 40-50 each. You can't even build an early double-ctor any more because the 2nd ctor module doesn't fit. So maybe a "survey module" also got huge(r) in mass, and no longer fits the old survey ship designs. Maybe that causes the ship-generator function to just omit the survey module.
[quote who="jhanglyn" reply="2" id="3518448"]... even at turn 160 my initial surveyor will have a scanner range dwarfed by all other surveyors i have in my fleet despite having hit the most anomalies and hitting that bonus many more times.[/quote] Click on your initial survey ship's Details, and look at its components. It probably has the default sensors with range 1 each. By the time you have tech high enough to build new surveyors, your sensor modules could be rang
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[quote quoting="post"]I usually will not pick the Benevolent Research bonus boosts until I start a NEW tech in fear that Ill lose those 150 or 500 points.[/quote] The placeholder UI for Ideology rp grants actually works fine; it's just clunky and utterly non-informative. Summary: You don't(*) lose any rps. (c.f. baseball has an arcane rule governing a baserunner who homers but tears an ACL while rounding a base. To simplify, just remember: "it is
[quote quoting="post"] The research Screen. Trying to find a prerequisite tech for what I wanted to research long term was impossible "Specialization" Techs. If we are allowed to research all of them what is the point of making them sub techs? Just make them top level techs [/quote] 1. When staring at the tech newsbot, click "Tech Tree" in the extreme lower left. It shows you the tech tree like a (draggable) w
So noted. Good test! The most likely cause is that the numbers simply aren't balanced yet. Remember that planetary invasions, AI valuing its own ships way too cheaply, and (apparently) 0.70 influence are similarly out-of-tune. (Also, Combat Viewer II will add more detail, which likely would have changed carrier math regardless.) In modern Earth tech, carriers do absolutely rule a radius slightly less than their planes' round-trip ranges (although we don
I could envision some races (more generally: biomes) that would naturally skip the wheel. The wheel makes sense wherever you have a need for speed, and flat solid terrain. Right away, we can violate each word of those requirements: Geological life, e.g. smart rocks that think via diffusion of minerals through silicates, or something. Smart trees, e.g. Orson Scott Card's piggies in Xenocide. No movement, no need for a wheel. They could still
[quote who="Larsenex" reply="1" id="3517843"] ... vcredist\2012 Run the 'vcredist_x64.exe' ... [/quote] Aha! My "gaming" laptop is also my (planned) dev laptop, so I do have the compleat, entire Visual Studio 2013 installed. Which surely is a superset of the 2012 Redistributable. Geeks of the galaxy, untie!
Gosh, I envy your specs I started an Immense, played 18 turns (in 1 hour), zero problems. I can zoom all the way out and drag the map arbitrarily, with only momentary pauses. Alienware M17X R2, 8 GB, ATI Mobility Radeon 5760x1 or 2 (the Crossfire may have failed), with DisplayPort output to a Dell UltraSharp at 1200p, and HDMI output to a Sony soundbar. Windows 8.1, 240 GB SSD.
The Release version will come with a manual booklet/PDF. For Beta, it is not yet written, and so we just learn as we go. Some things are not intended to take you hours of trial and error, but they can. Don't be afraid to ask. Beta games should churn quickly (which means you play many different ones). Don't invest too much effort trying to play the "perfect" game in your first 5 (or 50) games. Just use them as throwaway trial-and-error experiments,
Carry-1 My Wayward Sum ... me, I just micro-manage it by pixel click-hell :p
Um ... send another constructor and choose Repair Starbase? :D
Because today is Thursday? :)
Of course. New Beta, start new game. It's Always Been That Way. Your Beta 3 Ideology high-water marks don't even fit into the Beta 4 Ideology grid. Also, costs were changed, and tech Ages were simplified. Map generation was changed, so an old map might not even make sense using the new data structures. It Is Just Not Compatible.
[quote who="androshalforc" reply="43" id="3517649"]this is what i get from the mapsizedefs tiny 30 small 40 a tiny map is 31 tiles to a side and a small map is 41 tiles to a side [/quote] And since a hexagon = 6 equilateral triangles whose base is one hexagon side, the area of a hexagon must be 6 * (1/2 n^2) = 3n^2. Edit: The above is correct for geometric hexagons on the plane, but inaccurate for discrete hexes. Any area will ob
At the end of today's Wed Jan 21 SK Dev Stream, [edit] the stream host leaked the news that GC3 Beta 4 ships tomorrow Thu Jan 22 [e digicons]8(|[/e] Yaay! And much productivity shall be lost this Friday.
[quote who="Bamdorf" reply="24" id="3517219"]I remember a LONG time ago there was a tabletop game in which travel by warp was initiated, and the ship(s) then could not be given orders until they appeared at the target destination X turns later.[/quote] Metagaming's Stellar Conquest (later acquired by Avalon Hill) had this mechanism. You can order a fleet to jump to any star you've already explored (only a scout can jump to an unexplored star, which explo
A nice idea for GC4+. Probably beyond the scope of the GC3 AI. This could be the First Compromise in (new) 4X game design: How do we make it tractable for the AI? Hex connectivity with adjacency bonuses is already an interesting and challenging problem, and I'd like to see Stardock solve that first, and then use that new expertise to branch out into other hex-map games. Me, I would love irregular region boundaries ... bec
[quote quoting="post"]Some get the balance right between pacing, tension, story, and pretty, and others don't. ... Then I played it, and I was left feeling like I'd wasted my time. I of course understand that this is Beta, but if this is where Beta is then I'm afraid it's failed.[/quote] Not really; it's right on schedule. Stardock is wrapping up the phase in which they pour 100% of effort into implementing new game mechanisms, which means 1-5% toward playabl
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[quote who="erischild" reply="12" id="3516755"]Maybe a cable TV channel. Think of the cable channel as a 24 hour battle viewer of fleets you can't control.[/quote] In South Korea, there are pro leagues of video games such as Starcraft and probably WoW. Every week, two local champions advance to the televised final, where they sit facing each other on a stage wearing headphones, and there's a complete pbp crew of 3 persons who give a full pre-game show, in-game comm
[quote who="peregrine23" reply="2" id="3516757"]Ships are currently targeting defensive ships before they target what those ships are protecting. Maybe this should be reversed so interceptors are targeting the support ships and the guardians are trying to wipe them out before they can destroy the support. This seems more interesting to me than the interceptors having to eliminate the guardians before moving on to what should be their primary target.[/quote] There is historical precede
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[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="10" id="3516641"]I am seeing no interaction at all in the battle viewer.[/quote] Correct. GC3 Combat Viewer is pause-only. The battle itself is deterministic; there is absolutely zero for the player to control. Hence the result can be computed within a few milliseconds, and the rest is just a nice display using quasi-3D models. You can rewind, replay, pause, choose different cameras, and otherwise treat it as a frozen movie sequenc
You can beeline up to an Age boundary, but then you must research something else until you actually finish the previous age. In Beta 3 and earlier, it takes 22 AoE techs to enter AoW. You can beeline the 3 techs along the way to Planetary Invasion, but then you must research 19 others elsewhere in AoE before you can actually take PI in Age of War. Other tech-braking mechanisms include: Multiple prerequisite techs, creating a complex web or graph. (
Ages prevent beelining. There are other mechanisms that could also do it, but they're also tougher for the AI to handle. It's a compromise.