DivineWrath

I suppose I could elaborate on my general strategy. I build lots and lots of tiny ships, and later cargo hull carriers. Neither tiny or cargo hulls have any maintenance so I can build as many as I want. Tiny ships can hold at least 1 weapon and use up only 1 logistic point, which gives them the best weapons to logistics ratio of any ship. Cargo carriers don't have that advantage, but as carriers, I don't have to worry about replacing or upgrading ships (upgrading 20 to 40 ships 1 b

The Retribution DLC only allows you to build 1 military academy. You are expected to make supply ships to deliver construction points to that planet to speed up legion production. You can get more military academies by conquering enemy planets. They are not destroyed (unless you destroy them) when you take the planet.

Q1: What are your settings? A: Few DLC except those that add new civs to the game. I keep UP off (I find it annoying). The last few maps I played were huge maps with over a dozen other civs. I recently finished my last one in 209 turns. I'm going to add Intrigue next, but I expect that I'll quickly regret that. Last I recall, Intrigue makes large empires difficult. Q2: Have you noticed that the AI avoids Precursor worlds? A: I have not. I don't have

I have played just Crusade quite a bit. Its enough of a game to be entertaining. Not the greatest game, but it works. I'm only just starting to warm up to the various DLC. Don't play the base game without Crusade. The base game is different enough that you will need to relearn how to play. Nearly all the DLC is built for Crusade. I like the DLC that adds new civs to the game, such as heroes and villains of Star Control. I have activated nearly all of those DLC without a

I find it hard to justify building military starbases in general, even back when they didn't cost admin points. My fleets already outpower my foes, so a military starbase might only see use a few times before I take the planets and move on. Maybe if military and economic could be used together on the same starbase, I might be more inclined to use them. Alternatively, if it were easy to packup a military starbase and deploy it elsewhere, that too might get me more interested in using them

In GalCiv 3, fleets don't defend other fleets. I think you get to target the weakest fleet first, but I haven't had many opportunities to test that theory. In general, its a good idea to put transports into fleets that can defend it, and to give transports sensor range and speed to evade hostiles.

By the way, I intend to be around for GalCiv 4. I want to push hard for features that would make the game good. I don't think I did a good job of that for GalCiv 3. I thought everything was going to be alright if I let the game develop on its own.

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="9" id="3795467"]In the latest DLC there's an improvement you can build, one per planet, that gives you 2 admins and some decent adjacency bonuses. It greatly reduces the need to devote citizens to administration. [/quote] I was thinking more along the lines of how legions are made. Pay 5 durantium and 250 construction points to get 1 legion. Maybe admin points should use promethum instead. I don't know about the latest DLC, but in c

Unfortunately GalCiv 3 is a mixed bag for me. It seemed like every feature added was to turn me off: resources, planet tile adjacency, admin points, mercs, governments, limited ability to build some buildings (why can't a galactic empire build multiple military academies?), and so forth. Then there is the fact that the game changed substantially many times, rendering a lot of what I learned obsolete. Its like a different game that I can't play anymore. Got removed because of a patc

Can you turn off auto-turn? I find it a annoying, but I can't seem to find it in options or Prefs.ini .

I find promoting a commander to be a waste of resources. I'd rather have the commander than an admiral. I find having +25% larger fleet to be as helpful (if not more so) than having a +25% bonus to attack and defense. Plus a speed bonus is always helpful. I don't employ very many commanders these days. I try to build a lot of ships, much more than what I could ever hope to fill my commander fleets with. Now a days, I save those citizens for other jobs. [quote who="Falkon

Try starting a new game. GalCiv 2 saved details like the tech trees and other data to their save files. GalCiv 3 might be doing the same. In that case, then the only way to fix this is to start a new game. The presence (or absence in this case) of planet improvements will travel with the game save file.

There is a problem with rally points. When I try to use them, I keep getting notified that there are idle ships. This seems to be caused by 2 problems. First is, ships don't tend to make fleets when they move to the same destination. If there are no ships at the destination, they don't seem to realize they can or should join fleets. They need a ship to be there in order to join a fleet, otherwise they go to the same square and idle. Its like "move to destination", and "move to dest

I discovered that both xeno irrigation and high yield farms use the same picture. This left me confused on multiple occasions because I could not build food distribution centers (the early version of xeno irrigation) on many of my worlds. I only saw a bunch of farms. Left me really confused until I figured it out. This is a problem for Crusade (I know that retribution is a little different so this might not apply).

Very strange. The tech "beam weapons" bestows a weapon system that needs resources. The equivalent techs for missile and kinetic weapons do not. Not very fair in my eyes. Also, elerium is often rare in my galaxies so this fact would often deny me beam weapons when at that tech level. I tried to go down the kinetic weapon line, but my assault carriers didn't take to them. I'm pretty sure at this point that assault carriers are missile weapons only. Why do planets I conque

Turn off auto upgrades? That might work. Not an ideal fix though.

Unfortunately, you can't build arable land. They are a valuable resource that you upgrade. If you destroy it, you lose it and can never get it back. Technically you can build hydroponic farms, but thats a 1 per planet improvement.

There needs to be some way to stop spending Durantium (and other resources) on planet improvements. There are times where I don't have the resources needed to build better mining modules (to get resources faster) because the darn planet improvements keep taking it all. This bug will also affect troop production, assuming you make an effort to train them. There needs to be a select all button for selecting all ships orbiting a planet. Sometimes I want to control which direction I la

I mentioned these elsewhere (I think), but I mention them here to make sure they are all accounted for. Import ship designs. There are many instances where you don't have access to all your ship designs. Obsoleting a ship, reloading an earlier save... loading a save from another game... err... I guess that wasn't very many instances. Back to my point, the game normally loads all your ship designs when you start a new game. From there on, there is no way to add ship designs short of

[quote who="AdamMG" reply="16" id="3789305"]I do not have this experience. No matter what sort of carrier module I use, they become interceptors. And they are sometimes missiles, and sometimes lasers. Never mass drivers. I don't really understand how carriers work, though I do understand how they are "supposed to" work. They are just very, very broken.[/quote] Considering all the changes switching DLC can cause, I suspect that could be it. I'm currentl

Quick summary: Don't use interceptor drones. They don't upgrade. Both assault fighters and guardian drone will upgrade as you gain tech. Interceptor drones use beam weapons. Assault fighters use missiles. Guardian drones use mass drivers. All 3 seem to have a different design philosophy (like the ratio between weapons and defense).

Whats the deal with carriers? At first glance, the 'normal' carrier module carries assault fighters and seem OK (at first). Interceptor drones however, seem to use the weakest beam weapons, and will not improve them as you improve your tech. They also seem to use armor techs you don't need to have. Improving beam weapons or armor techs does not have any effect on them. Guardians favors mass drivers and seem to be balanced between defense and attack. Back to carriers and assault fighter, they

When you load a saved game, how you view a tech tree resets. I find that I have to change the view on the tech tree every time a load a save. Colony ships should not keep a civilization alive. I was playing against an opponent that seemed to have no planets but were still alive. It was a bit confusing because I charted most of the map. Then I remembered that if a civ has a colony ship, then they are not defeated when they lose their last colony. The colony ship in question was one

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="4" id="3788855"] Nice to see you back. The game have gotten a lot better. [/quote] Thanks, but I don't expect to stay that long. [quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="3" id="3788853"] Ship construction used to go to social if you didnt Sponsor a shipyard. Then a lot of people complained that didnt make sense, so now the production gets wasted if you dont have a shipyard [/quote] Thats a shame.

This one grinds my gears. Early in the weapons tech, you get to pick a specialization that affects all 3 weapons types. The equivalent set for defenses does not affect all 3 defense types; you get to choose to improve 1 type of defense.