Turns 41-50. Turn 44: Another alien to put into the Rolodex. Don't let appearances deceive, this woman is NOT your friend and she never will be. Fair to say that the emerald-skinned women and the sapphire-skinned women will likely not be getting along. Of course when you come across any humanoids with blue skin in the Galactic Civilizations universe, you're talking about an Altarian.&nbs
[quote who="DocUppy" reply="5" id="3850799"] The GPU should be stressed only when it's actually doing something - if it's being heavily used for nearly static displays there's something wrong. GPU shaders or not, something is not right here. [/quote] It's quite possible that AI strategy threads are being offloaded onto the GPU and it's actually those that are chewing up all those clockcycles for some reason. Obviously someone who knows a lot more abou
Turns 30-40: Turn 30: Again, just a little crossover with the prior post - a few points to wrap up before getting to turn 31... Before flipping the turn button it seems like I should take another -2% Approval permanent hit to perform the 'Draft Colonists' Executive Order. There are still some decent planets to be had, and all of my Bono wanna-be's still haven't managed to reproduce themselve
I just upgraded and it runs great. Prior to my upgrade I was running a i7-4790k with a GTX 970 and it ran just fine. Although this was also DX11 - I'm guessing you're running DX12 so perhaps this makes the interaction with the video card different and possibly more resource hungry? I had a couple of hard-crashes that I'm pretty sure were video-driver related. But they were few and far between and the resource load was pretty light. I was also basically running
[quote who="SAMarcus" reply="2" id="3850752"] PRISON WORLD! [/quote] Niiiiiiice! - I want to go there! In all seriousness, big planets are big because they have lots of tiles, not necessarily because they have terrific resources - this is what feeders are for... -tid242
[quote quoting="post"] I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this or not, I only discovered these forums yesterday. But I've noticed that, even when set to "rare", there are a TON of space monsters and pirates. Two games in a row I've had both a space monster shipyard and a pirate shipyard within two stars of my home system. Anyone else experienced this? [/quote] It's a known bug that that slider isn't working properly at the moment.
[quote who="Gustafh1" reply="2" id="3850734"] Tnx but thats only getting me an income from the taxes. Let´s say I make a deal, 50 creds per months. I only gets 33% of that cause of taxes. But when I make an expensive offering that I have to pay 50 creds, I loose the whole amount. [/quote] Yea, I mean, it's just the way the game works. Real life is like this also. When the US government has an envoy to country XYZ and then comes back beating its chest becaus
Turns 26-30: Turn 26: It's worth pointing out that I have accumulated two artifacts at the present juncture. One to plop down a robotic Yor citizen on a planet somewhere. And another than can damage any fleet by 25%. Needless to say, I'm just banking both of these. &
Turns 20-25. Turn 20: So there were a few things that weren't quite finished for turn 20 by the end of my prior post. So just a little bit of overlap... Before wrapping up turn 20, I elected to queue up some combat ships in the Savvot shipyard, as I wait for my trading tech to finish being researched. As I mentioned before, I'm getting short of more Bono's to send out into space, and t
[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="3" id="3850611"] Very entertaining so far. Good luck on the game! [/quote] [quote who="TheNightman36" reply="4" id="3850620"] Love it so far, love that you are using the Xeloxi! [/quote] Thank you both! PubliusNV, I always enjoy our interactions. And this is a good opportunity for me to promote an amazing writeup Nightman wrote up on the Xeloxi. It's an absolute MUST READ for anyone wanting to pla
[quote who="Arakuel" reply="5" id="3850646"] Great! Made me play Xeloxi. One important thing I noticed: Going 3 points in Compassion, and taking Charity, which gives -10% Global Crime, will reduce it on all colonies, and completely offset the disadvantage from "Look The Other Way". For Xeloxi leader, little charity is pure profit in the long run... [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] The compassion tree is the one with all the Diplomacy stuff on
Turns 11-20: Turn 13: So my probe managed to find the Onyx homeworld. If it's just the two of us in this sector I'll be really surprised. Notice my two constructors almost getting those sweet Thulium lodes also. My probe will continue to explore the sector, I have to imagine that there's at least one other AI in here with us... <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/31/64/3164446/
Turns 0-10: Turn 0: Galaxy Settings. So it could be said that a picture is worth 1000 words. Oftentimes it's worth much more than that since few people will actually read 1000 words all at once. So here's a picture of my Galaxy Settings - much easier than attempting to describe them. A couple of things to note: I play on "Very Slow" Game and Tech pacing, I feel like this makes the
The Emerald Empress, a Xeloxi Playthrough. Intro: Ok, so this will be my first detailed playthrough, come what may. After 1.00 was released (congratulations to SD on a terrific release, and a terrific game) I wanted to do something a little bit
Someone was just discussing this on the Discord yesterday, I'm not sure what conclusion they came to. I do not play custom races myself at this time... I'll see if anyone came up with a definitive answer to your question.. IIRC it was thought that they were tied to the civ abilities.. -tid242
Personally, I've always liked the idea of a bioweapon line of techs that could eventually target a specific race once you researched it high enough. It'd work well for this type of thing, because you could just neglect to research a cure for a plague that only kills the Festron.. On another note, I feel like this comment will likely be taken out of context and torpedo my future campaign to be elected as Supreme President of the World some day... -tid242
[quote who="CAPSLOCKL0L9619" reply="6" id="3850528"] Agree 1,000%. Currently the only way to play is not have them in the game. Otherwise, they are incomprehensibly powerful by midgame--stronger than all the other factions combined. They need to be patched ASAP. [/quote] I would really like to know what you guys are using for galaxy settings. The Mimot have done fairly poorly in every game I've played so far. &n
[quote who="DerekPaxton" reply="1" id="3850075"] Yeah, the double supply is so powerful. I think I'm going to double the cost of supply ships for factions with that trait as a first step. [/quote] The double-supply ships does seem to me like an unintended consequence of their double-ship ability. This definitely does make sense to me, and strikes me more as eliminating an exploit/loophole than a nerf. I'm guessing most players would agree that double
[quote quoting="post"] I play game after game where the Mimot absolutely steamroll every other player. My last game had the Mimots with 10x the power of their nearest competitor. How do we compete against them? [/quote] Been playing a step or two above "normal" and I have yet to see the Mimots win a game. Honestly I think this may come down to galaxy settings. With my galaxy settings everyone starts in a sector with 3-4 neighbors. I fin
[quote quoting="post"] One race that I have loved playing is the Xeloxi - after all, who wouldn't want to be a crime lord? Unfortunately, the Xeloxi are considered to be kind of bad. [/quote] Great writeup, thanks for that. The Xeloxi have long seemed to me to be obvious candidates of fan-favorites ever since playing my first game with them. I'll have to give them another go at some point now that the game is nailed down a bit mo
[quote quoting="post"] I just read in the PC Gamer review that you win the game by having the most Prestige? Why must I read this in the PC Gamer review to find that out? I know the reviews have been all over the place, but I certainly agree that the game does not explain itself (rules, mechanics, goals, lore) well. [/quote] Some of the prior victory conditions got a bit rolled into prestige at this point (like research, ascension crystal, etc). It's actually a g
[quote who="Draver" reply="4" id="3849738"] In my current game, one of the minor races (the ones that can't be conquered through planet flipping) gave me a "quest" when I interacted with them. Once I completed the quest, I had a choice of rewards and one of them was 0.2 techapods per turn! Lets just say, I'll protect them to the end [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Yes, there are those too. But hard to predict them ahead of time. Well, glad it worked out - in future
Nearest tenth (ie 3.7) seems like a really good compromise between the "exact numbers are confusing" and "rounded numbers don't tell you anything useful" arguments. Personally I would prefer nearest hundredth (ie 3.67), but that's just my opinion and tenth seems entirely adequate and makes the player realize immediately that all numbers aren't expressed in integers, and are probably rounded.
[quote quoting="post"] Noticed that there is only Arena; bought the game mostly to play with a friend (I love 4X games, but I really don't do any games alone haha) any progress/news on "standard" MP? [/quote] One of the devs stated the other day (in so many words) that she is making progress on working out some of the bugs that prevented full MP from being included in 1.0. So the team is working on it, and seems to be making progres
[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="1" id="3849944"] If you have a savegame where this is reproducible it would help a lot if you uploaded it to a cloud service (DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive) and post a link here, so the developers can take a look at it. Savegames are located in \Documents\My Games\GalCiv4\Saves [/quote] Being able to dismiss the would be a nice feature..
