I won't be able to make it, but this is something that drives me bananas!

PLEASE do something with the resolve conflict dialog. It may as well not even ask me and do the combat because on a large map where the enemy does an ambush from out of sensor range, I have to clue what happened anyway. The same for faction encounters. Can someone please address this in the discussion?

If I can get a second one in...

Can we get something about the combat formulas? There seems to be a lot more than just numbers of attack/defense. Tactical speed and apparently range improvements and other stuff seem in play, but we have no idea to weight everything has. Same with planetary invasions.

Thanks

Can we get a bit more information on the math for combat and a combat log/report on (who/where and when)?

Range, rate of Fire and other stats seem to be in play and a 'combat effectiveness viewer' would help even as a second page to the designer. 

Also can we talk and address the planetary one time ship improvements?

Hyperion shrinker, logisitics and such are not working. 

I can't Reach the Stream today, and will have to watch the replay tomorrow. So a few questions from me.

1) Base movement of units in GalCic3 is now between 3-5 tiles a turn, depending on race. In GalCiv2 it was less. My consern now is I can build a Constructor With nothing but a Constructor module, and it will be way off cheaper then one wth an engine, but not be hindered in a meaningfull way by lack of movement. This is so efficient it's a non-brainer hoice in the Beta compared to Gal Civ2. What's the reasoning behind increasing base speed of units, and are you concidering to change it back to something more like GalCiv2?

2) Multiplayer is fun already, but still abit unstable of course. I was doubtfull to no simultanous turns, but it works great when you can do whatever you please between turns, and in Gal Civ there is plenty you can do/check between turns (designing ships too). Up to 4 human players is at all no problem, and I could even have tackled the waiting time to play with 5-6 humans, I believe.

I just hope we will be able to add more players to MP in the final game, at least more AI players. Please say I will be able to play with for instance 4 human and 4 AI players (+ full pot of minors), 8 or more majors in total (or more), so we can have some real epic MP games on huger maps. 

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Quoting NorsemanViking,

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I can't Reach the Stream today, and will have to watch the replay tomorrow. So a few questions from me.

 

1) Base movement of units in GalCic3 is now between 3-5 tiles a turn, depending on race. In GalCiv2 it was less. My consern now is I can build a Constructor With nothing but a Constructor module, and it will be way off cheaper then one wth an engine, but not be hindered in a meaningfull way by lack of movement. This is so efficient it's a non-brainer hoice in the Beta compared to Gal Civ2. What's the reasoning behind increasing base speed of units, and are you concidering to change it back to something more like GalCiv2?

 

2) Multiplayer is fun already, but still abit unstable of course. I was doubtfull to no simultanous turns, but it works great when you can do whatever you please between turns, and in Gal Civ there is loads you can do/check between turns. Up to 4 players is at all no problem.

I just hope you can add more players in the final game, at least more AI players. Please say I will be able to play with for instance 4 human and 4 AI players, 8 or more in total.   <<<<THIS!!!

 

Playing a CoOp game with someone against the AI is my ultimate Gal Civ dream game. Put the AI on Godlike and let two humans work to defeat it!

Yeah, that can be cool as well. 2 humans vs 2 humans teamer games might be fun as well. But my preference is FFA-games.

My dream game is all vs all with as many players as possible. Since no simultanous turns system limits the fun factor of having too many human players (but it has other benefits), my prefered game now would be 4 human players FFA-games, all vs all, and the rest of players being AIs on a though difficulty, and a large/huge map.

Just be playing the game like I do in singleplayer, but with a human player added here and there.

regarding governance and generally and the talk about adding some automation to assist in larger empire establishments (from last time). would it be possible to have ship yards be able to build a fleet (based on max logistics at the time) then have that fleet patrol influenced space. this would mean auto attacking enemy ships in the zones?

some balancing ideas. possibly the fleet which the shipyard builds for this patrol could be drone ships which are destroyed when the shipyard is destroyed. (even cooler if they would just randomly attack anyone who gets in range). in addition when fleet is patroling from the shipyard there can be no defending fleets for that ship yard present.

Can you give us more information regarding invasions? The information is very bare bones right now. 

More importantly will there be planetary bombardment module added in t be future? Since the local population is already all killed why not have big siege ships that can rain death upon planets?

Thank you!

Actually base movement is 2. Drengin and Terrans have the Fast +1 trait increasing it to 3, the Alterians have the fast+2 trait making it 4. 2 was also the base move in GalCiv2.

Is there any possibility of a fortify command, or something like it? In GalCiv 2, it was one of my most wanted features (that I never got). With fortify, there would be no conditions that would cause the ship to wake up and ask for orders. There are times when what my enemy ships are doing has no relevance to what I want my ships to be doing.

Without a fortify command, I had to leave my ships idle (which opened a risk of accidental orders). It also meant that I couldn't use commands like sentry or guard because I already had many idle ships. It was time consuming to cycle through all the idle ships that I couldn't fortify, and those who were given sentry or guard and just woke up.

In GalCiv 3, I think this is even more important to have, as you no longer have the option to ignore idle ships. If you have idle ships, you can't end the turn. I don't like the idea of having to manually pass the turn for every idle ship every turn.

Can we discuss the possibility of an option to increase the size of solar systems?  Basically increasing the number of planets, and how far they will spawn from a star in conjunction with decreasing the density of stars, would create a interesting and more realistic game map.

Please see post for more detail:

https://forums.galciv3.com/457132/page/1/#3488809

Great Stream, thanks!

Glad to hear, the step wise vs continuous bonus system of planet approval got brought up! Please make it gradual and not with those crazy big steps and thresholds in between.

Also relieved, that the problem of planets' excess production at the end of a planetary improvement or ship got mentioned. After fixing it, please make that transparent to the player: The progress bars on the main screen (right side) go all the way to empty once a new building starts - carried over production should be displayed there in the form of partially filled bars.

The same should also apply to research projects: Take excess research to the next project and make it visible in the research progress bar on the top right side of the main screen.

-> Those three adjustments would reduce micro management anxiety tremendously  

Suggestion for upgrade all ships: give the option to "upgrade all ships of that type in this fleet" - halfway between upgrading one ship at a time and upgrading 40 at a time.