bradzoob

was this ever acknowledged?

The click blockers are a bit of a nightmare, particularly when things get a bit laggy and the framerate drops. And those lists keep resetting their vertical scroll position on every click and the list filtering is terrible. Trying to use the UI for any practical ends isn't possible. In a game with only 3 worlds and 5 ships it's fine, but that's the first 20 minutes of play time, after that the UI becomes useless. I'm uncertain why scaling the universe was a goal but not scaling the UI control

OMG just noticed I can repeat build modules now in starbases. MASSIVE PLUS. *activates "hugs every stardock dev immediately" trait*

4k screen, with UI Size: Large 4k and above Enable Gel UI Are you inheriting from Windows 10 UI adjustments or something? It's either that or nobody tested this game in 4k, which would be very odd in 2022. It's been like this since the first alpha i tested.

Howdy there, just playing around with this again. I think i'm missing something, when i create the file ShipHullStats_Tiny.xml and put it in the modName/Gameplay/ directory it throws an error. >>>>>>> E:\Documents\My Games\GalCiv4\Mods\BradsMod\Gameplay\ShipHullStatDefs_Tiny.xml(6,16): error: no declaration found for element 'ShipHullStats' E:\Documents\My Games\GalCiv4\Mods\BradsMod\Gameplay\ShipHullStatDefs_Tiny.xml(147

Thanks!, I'm looking at this file but i can't figure out how you'd use this to make an alteration. It just seems to be a list of rows like this; As an example how would i alter the the parameter EngineTrailWidth value defined in Data\Gameplay\ShipHullStatDefs.xml with InternalName=Small, changing the value from 3 to 2 for example? Thanks! Brad. &nbsp

Thanks! sounds like ModDataDefList is what i want. Where might i find those docs? Can't find that ModifyDataDef.xsd file in Data\Schema, in either GalCiv3 or GalCiv4 ? are you able to provide me that file please so i have a basis to work from? Cheers!

So i've been trying to get some info on GalCiv modding, which i presume is based strongly if not entirely on galciv3's modding, as the instructions there work, but I wanted to know if you do an XML merge as there's no mention of it. Copying an entire file to change one value means constantly having to replace the changed values on a new copy of the XML on every update, when a simple XML merge should work, even if you have to do it with a manual iteration of the XML data because you're n

Oooh these look good. +100 to table filtering / sorting, i've only colonized 3 clusters and it's an absolute chore to find anything. Pretty sure GC3 had this solved, so can you just cut n paste that code for each of the list headers ? :P also filters for features would be amazing. Since we're starving the player of resources it means locating them is pretty much the entire game. so uncolonised worlds filter for resources would be incredible, may as well make

You're talking about strategy on a per front basis, but this is just to unlock the tech that enables building of vessels, which is something we already have. Otherwise we'd be researching this tech every battle which I guess is the whole 5 months invasion thing, which for some reason is a standard length of time regardless of the number of troops you send; ergo we already have our strategic planning cost per battle. Naval battles of Earth are difficult because they're in the ocean and t

I'm getting per turn CTD's now, turn 237, seems to be random, but i persevered in the hope i could narrow it down. I think it _could_ be when a pirate ship attacks a survey ship in a hostile region. It also happened just now when i used one of those same survey ships to attack a pirate ship manually. Can happen either automatically or manually. I tried looking for game logs so i could figure out what scripted event was the last to emit but can't seem to find them.&nb

Graphic settings still make no sense, i'm on a 43" screen in 4k and i've set the GalCiv GUI setting to 4k but the icons / text over planets completely obscure any ship building facilities that happen to randomly spawn to the side or above the planet, any that spawn below are generally ok so long as another planet isn't also there. If i set the GUI to mid range the text / planets are much better but then the rest of the actual management GUI's are wrecked in a multitude of wa

@mrblondini I'm just actively avoiding trading tech now because it creates holes all over your empire that you can only solve with a tech search, a google search and repeated tedious dice rolls, sure there'll be a fix soon :) Yeah i think it's just a jolt in pacing, keeping it personal while on a galactic scale, but at the expense of coherent evolution, that old game chestnut where it has to play like a game because sadly it is a game and you are not an actual space warlord

navigation markers would be awesome still :)

Oh wow just noticed they DO have a sort of ghosting system with the StarBase builders, the resources cast a line out to the star base when they're in range, nice.

[quote who="Commander4X" reply="41" id="3840914"] Before it was: line covers/touches less than 4 corners = out. Now it is: line covers/touches less or equal than 4 corners = out [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] OH GOD wait yes i DO know what you mean now, yeah it's always been if the radial line INTERSECTS (corners was an idea i had a hard time understanding, cell/hex intersection is fine tho) the object hex then it is considered OUTSIDE the AOE. That's how it was for GC3

You can't do the resource runs now without durantium :( even with the new mining upgrade i can only get 1.54 durantium per turn in the starting cluster, there's only 7 pieces of durantium. There's just no way i can ever justify sending one of those "yet another RNG" resource missions out there. So that leaves only the shop as the place to get durantium. Unless this is a way to get me out of that starting cluster, oh you sneaky beaks... it is isn't it. :P

Ah ok, yeah i don't understand what you mean then :) but i did notice the starbases changed a bit and the bonus is on culture star bases but not on mining :)

Just thinking out loud here - why not have a two tier system for builds, active and deferred, most of 4x is really about planning and less about doing, things take multiple turns to play out, so to cut down on micro if you allowed people to start build a thing as a "deferred build" without having the resources then it can inject them into the queue once it has the resources, and usually that's the next turn anyway. Just let the queue handle it first come first served. This would prevent

@Commander4X ah ha it's now globally accessible under Liberty > Mobility Rights in the Ideology tree, +2 starbase range, and it definitely works.

It's a bit telling i didn't notice until now, but where is the minimap? is it because the whole map is the minimap now? You know what would be simply _amazing_? to have tags you can add to the map that form a little list of nav points so if you're doing a campaign in some area you could tag it up "remember to murder all Drengin here" "don't believe their lies!" etc.

Once i have a great deal of ships i rely on the ship list as a way of knowing where my new ships are, there's no sort by ship age so you have to scroll to the very bottom of the list - then you click the ship and are taken to that ship and can control what it does but as soon as you click a destination for that ship the ship list resets. It means all I'm ever doing with that list is scrolling to the bottom of it every time, a weird repetitive action that grows more noticable once

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[quote who="aerez4546" reply="37" id="3840893"] Under the Creativity ideology, the "Resourceful" option does not give the .1 increase to mining it says it does. [/quote] Every damned time i get this i roll a dice. is it gonna work? how will i know if it's worked? I hate it so much lol. It's the single most teasing aspect of this game, a game in which you are doomed to get 0.1 resources per rare-as-hens-teeth deposit. I think we have a sadist on the dev team, probably gets

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="36" id="3840877"] I'm trying to think like a Drengin here. I think a murder should be what you call murder . warriors should be warrior since only Zurgoz is involved. vengence shuld be vengeance and there should be a comma after it. thier should be their . I think to should