GC4 EA Feedback Test Branch | VERSION 0.70.274685

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How To Handle Space Bugs

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galciv iv early access feedback
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Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Likes:  the updated tech tree pushes back 1 government advancement, new techs in general are nice, especially the increase in ship modules.  Super smooth zoom in/out very nice.

Dislikes: late game no matter how much science you get you are limited to 1 tech/turn (perhaps this is a balance thing, which is ok, it just doesn't make sense otherwise).  Hostile units should be more noticeable, especially if zoomed out mid/far, perhaps a halo.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

A comma is needed after the name.  This is in FlavorText_Old.xml.


slavestoday should be slaves today.  There is a strange character between the two words that isn’t showing in the game.  The character needs to be removed and replaced with a space.  This is in FlavorText.xml.

Reply #4 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Sometimes I get a drone bay in my list of upgrades.  None of the anomalies I had investigated indicated I got it.  I checked the quest files and found the reason.  The first choice for the Pirate Scrap event (Quest_PirateScrap) gives a drone bay, but the text doesn’t mention it.  The event and text also show it gives 2 durantium, 2 modules and 2 nanobots, which it does.  Is the drone bay a leftover that should be removed?  Should the text be updated?

This is in QuestEventDefs.xml in Gameplay\Events.

Reply #5 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

New anomalies are spawning at the exact same places that previous anomalies existed.  If an anomaly is already there, I don’t know if the new one spawns on top of it or doesn’t spawn at all.  I don’t think it spawns somewhere else.

Reply #6 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

A scroll bar is needed to show all the text.

Reply #7 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I have three suggestions for this screenshot for Opponent Settings

The yellow box shows Players.  My testing indicates it is Max Opponents, not Players, so Players should be changed to Opponents.

The cyan boxes outline what I think in wasted space.  I think that careful adjustment of the spacing will allow the Available Opponents section to be expanded to have three per row instead of two and the other section expanded to have five per row.  This will reduce the amount of scrolling needed to get to the bottom of the list.

Something else that would be useful is to have sorting and filtering in the Available Opponents section to make finding a specific opponent or type of opponent easier.  This will be useful once players start making new races and downloading races made by other players, which could result in a very long list.  Sorting could be by name, type, ability or other attributes.  This will still keep the list long, so filtering by the same attributes would reduce the list.  Maybe combing sorting and one or more filters could be done.

Reply #8 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

The current map size is way too small and predictable in layout.

Previously the second highest galaxy setting would give 30 sectors or so so there was plenty of space for 15 ai races and minors with a lot of empty sectors as well. Furthermore, the layout was random with hyperlanes going off in various directions. 

Now everyone is clumped together in five or six sectors and they're all attached like pearls on a string so it's very predictable where all the other races are. 

Reply #9 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

There is not enough space for the text.

Reply #10 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

The notification doesn't have enough space for the text.  The tool tip does.

Reply #11 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

The spacing can be improved for the summary near the bottom of the screen.  The Available Trade Licenses values need to be moved to the left to so there is more distance between them and the next text. The Total Weekly Revenue from Trade Routes: text can be moved further to the right.  There should still be enough space after it to allow for large values for revenue.  The number will probably be big late in a game with numerous trade routes to and from all the races.

Reply #12 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Quoting Old-Spider, reply 3

A comma is needed after the name.  This is in FlavorText_Old.xml.

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slavestoday should be slaves today.  There is a strange character between the two words that isn’t showing in the game.  The character needs to be removed and replaced with a space.  This is in FlavorText.xml.

Reduced 43%
Original 1920 x 1080


End of Old-Spider's quote

 

Thanks.  I just verified that these got fixed.