Yskonyn

Thanks guys for this service! Supernova firmly placed in my Steam library.

I would say to leave the campaign for a DLC. Like others, I rarely play campaigns or story scenarios in 4X games. Events, Lore snippets, etc, should emerge as you play. A 4X playthrough is, in fact, a story in itself. If you add enough storytelling content that can make interesting stories (You are already using AI to generate art, perhaps it can be harnessed to create coherent variable stories too?) each playthrough will be an interesting ‘campaign’ automatical

I find both your posts to contain quite well written suggestions. Thanks both for taking the time to do so. +1 from me on both accounts. :)

That would definitely help making the ship editor be more than a vanity tool.

My 1080 isn't able to consistently play 4k at 60hz, so I very much doubt your 8k claim on a 1060, but its besides the point I guess. :)

This site is very handy to gauge the effect of various hardware combo's: https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator

Let’s simplify the question to what matters in practical terms for you as a buyer, e.g. what you can control with your wallet. :) I think its safe to say that GalCiv is CPU bound more than GPU bound. So a modern CPU coupled with ample DRAM will benefit you far more than a top of the line GPU.

For me the ‘problem’ remains the disconnect between the expansive ship editor vs the application of your creations in game terms. In other words: why have such a glorious ship editor only to reduce ships to simple rock, paper, scissors in combat in the game? GalCiv would benefit so much from a little more depth from the way components and ship elements have impact in gameplay.

I don't think balance must be the focus here. Balance in singleplayer games is not a priority. I'd even go as far as saying certain imbalance provides even more fun. And if we do want to take multiplayer into consideration there is always the option to houserule out certain imbalances. The Dominions 5 comparison flies well again here.

Hehe its probably an englishification of something from my language. :) Fall over was meant as ‘have a problem with’. Still, I think it’ll be a mistake to release without meaningful combat. I do agree that detail might be improved upon with patches / expansions in the form of more options for tactics, but the fundament should stand on release.

I disagree. Its pretty important to have GC4 ship out as a great initial product with all main game features already in. GC3 showed that simple combat and a pretty obsolete ship editor with regards to combat dynamics is something people fall over. I’d rather spend another year in beta to release as a wholesome game than pushing to release with lackluster combat, but a functioning strategic overall game. Just my opinion of course.

Good suggestions here. I am not a fan of getting tactical combat in the greater scope of the way Gal Civ is built, but like mentioned earlier I do miss the validity of making cool ship designs in the extensive ship editor translated to the way battles work in the game. With so much detail available to us creating the ships themselves I feel the combat system should be upgraded from a rock paper scissors system to a more detailed system. Improve on the choices players h

I am not sure a pop-up will be the best way to go once we’re late game with more battles. Perhaps a hotkey and a prominent UI element showing its status of on/off or a options menu toggle might be more comfortable and less frustrating. I would not be looking forward to have to keep clicking away a popup telling me a battle is about to start and wether I want to see it or not. On the other hand, if the popup would present valuable statistics about the battle upfro

Excellent news @frogboy. Looking forward to testing it.

Yes more options to tweak the clutter definitely would be appreciated.

I really like the ship editor that GalCiv is known for. So that's the fundament from which to tackle this question, in my opinion. The question is how we can still keep all the time a player spends in designing his or her ships relevant in the game? The battleviewer wasn't very interesting to me personally, but there also wasn't an alternative to viewing my designs in glorious battle. So the first few battles I often watched, but as the game went on I started to ig