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Old-Spider

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[quote quoting="post"] Fixed an issue causing the Universal Translator tech to not come up as frequently as it should. [/quote] This also occurs with the research Kaxx Cryptography tech that comes from a quest from the Kaxx minor race.

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Lots of good stuff here, followed by more good stuff, then by even more. I hope I can wait until it's released. I also hope it's before Christmas. [e digicons];P[/e] Has anyone on the dev team seen the post on Discord by Dogmar about a long-standing bug? My two following comments confirm that he is right. I'm not sure how to make a link to it. It's in #bugs-typos-goofs for GC4 on November 23.

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I'm glad you found them. When you're making a mod, you don't need any folder that doesn't have anything in it. I find it easier without all the empty folders cluttering up the folder for the mod.

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I also use abundant for both, and I see see pirates, space monsters and enforcers all the time. I think there are only six minor races in the game, so they won't appear very often even on abundant.

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If you start with a Galaxy Size of Singular, there will be just one sector. That sector will be the largest sized sector in the game.

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I wonder if you are looking at Documents/My Games/GalCiv4. That is your personal directory and has nothing to do with the game files. The game files are located where Epic installed them. I'm not sure where that is for a standard install because mine are installed in a non-standard location. Perhaps they are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games. If not, you may have to do a search of your computer for GalCiv4.exe.

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The alpha has always been moddable. It works the same way it did in GalCiv3. The full game is supposed to have something similar to the workshop in Steam so that mods can be used no matter where the game was purchased. Editing the xml files where they exist doesn't work. A folder for a mod must be created in the Mods folder, the xml files need to be copied into correct sub-folders in the folder for the mod, then those xml files can be edited. Mods must be enabl

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I understand the confusion now. Only the starting sector is visible at the start of the game, which can be Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large in size. Once you do the research that allows you to see and travel the subspace streams, the rest of the sectors in the galaxy will be available to you. There can be a lot of sectors in a very large galaxy, depending on your choices at the start of the game. All the sectors fit in a "galaxy" that is made like the galaxies in GalCiv

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I don't know where you got that information, but it is competely wrong. The current 0.60 alpha has the following galaxy sizes: Singular Local cluster Galactic Arm Galactic Ring Galaxy Spanning The recommended number of players are: 4 6 16 24 64

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What about a tech that allows us to make a vaccine to protect our kind from the eggs they lay in us? Or a tech that allows us to make a biological weapon of some kind that can be deployed to exterminate them? It can be something that can be added to a ship to attack a planet or deployed somehow to attack a planet. The last one seems like genocide, but is that so bad? They are doing genocide also by converting most races to their kind. We have no defense now, so

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Pirate ship breaking its tether and chasing my probe all over the sector. In GC4 pirate ships are “tethered” to their shipyard and can’t go too far from it. Shortly after loading a save in my current game in 0.60.208431a I saw a pirate ship that was well beyond its tether. It looked like it was chasing one of my automated probes, so I took control of my probe and began moving it to verify the pirate ship knew where my probe was at all

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[quote who="ckhenson" reply="58" id="3824363"] I meet a alien civilization and am getting the choice to research the translator tech, but it never comes available to research. Is this happening to anyone else? [/quote] It does become available for research, just not immediately like it did in earlier versions. It may take a long time before it can be researched. I haven't tried any of the options to change the research choices to see if it will appear soo

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I have a stuck turn in a new game with version 0.60.208431a that is repeatable. It is the type of stuck turn that can be "fixed" by going to the main menu and opening the Victory Status. It happens twice in the same turn. The second time is after the first has been "fixed". The save that shows this problem is available here . To see the problem, do the

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[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="42" id="3823577"] Are the Enforcers (or whatever they're called) supposed to be building colony ships? [/quote] They can and do capture colony ships instead of destroying them. That ship is a Manti Cluster Ship (M.C.S.) they captured. I'm not sure if they use them to colonize planets.

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There are some small but noticeable formatting problems in the information boxes that appear when clicking on notification icons on the left side of the screen. Text cut off below the line; the “y” and “py” Text cut off on the right side.<img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/24/51/2451921/abc45615-6e7a-4f7c-b4a0-e2edfc

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When I finished researching Artificial Gravity, which allows small hulls to be used, the list of ships I could build included three Iridium_CommandShip types that ended in _01 or _02 or _03, but they weren’t real ships. They are all empty hulls with incomplete names. A save just before this happens is available <a href="https://www.dropbox

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I was moving a probe along the edge of my starting sector. Suddenly, I got the movie for “first subspace stream travel”. I don’t have any of the techs that allow me to see or travel on subspace streams. I think the probe traveled onto a tile that contains one end of a stream, but I can’t see it yet. Later, when I researched subspace scanning, I found one end of a stream where I got the movie. That movie seems to know where the streams

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[quote who="PaulLach" reply="3" id="3823021"] I just started a new game using version 0.6 and I have already run into an issue with anomolies. I can accept that it now takes multiple turns to examine the anomalie, but when the examination is complete I no longer get a dialog telling me what was found. If I look in the upper left-hand corner of the screen and hover over the icon that shows the results of the examination I get a popup describing what was found. As you can

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I'm playing as the Xeloxi. This screenshot shows how much I can see without exploring that much. The area seems to be expanding every few turns like it's influence. I do have no FOW in my territory, but I don't have full visibility in those areas that I can see objects. I certainly haven't explored them. When I automate a survey

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A ship that can make a ranged missile attack has these possible moves: Use all its moves, then make the ranged attack. Make a normal attack, which is the same as using all its moves, then make the ranged attack. Make the ranged attack first, which uses all its moves, so it can't do anything else. A ship that can make a ranged antimatter bomb attack has these possible moves: Same as the ranged missile attack. Same as t

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