I'm a bit disappointed to see that the Thalans still have a conflict between their tech tree options for manufacturing and the Super Hive ability.

I don't have a strong opinion on which part I'd rather have changed, but the current combo is frustrating for this long-time Thalan player. The Thalan starbase situation is also still problematic, IMO.

I appreciate that the new Thalans were the most ambitious part of the unique trees effort, but I still hope we can get some substantial changes before the last major update is finished.

While I'm sure that most of the bugs will be fixed in the upcoming week, I'm bit weirded out that they weren't caught before release. Maybe it's because of the lack of a CD/gold version and the multitude of files running around. I put it to the fact that Stardock is overworked and needs a holiday. However, because I trust them, I'm sure they will deliver.

Yep. I thought I was stuck in a loop the first time it seemed to do it about 5 times.

Honestly, the campaign could have had more thought put into it. Too many of the maps are just 'take a ship over there and/or take a single planet' then you win. Given the high cost of the 'supporting' ships, there's no other real option other than to do it really really fast, since you can't build an economic capital in most of the maps.

A better balance between the good/neutral/evil event options would be nice IMO. Some of the options don't make sense for the weightings. Ie, in one of the ship production events, the difference between neutral and evil is 1%. It would also be nice to see some events that benefit 'good' alignments. Or at least offer some balancing factor to not always choose the evil option. (like -%morale/production/something 'cause your population is noticing that you are willing to feed them to x thing for a small bonus)

A new Neutrality learning Center icon would be good.

Path planning needs some work. It shouldn't be that hard to flag the asteroids as 'don't go through here', unless one is directly chosen. This is mainly an issue for short paths. Too many troop transports became front line fodder in the fight for want of a trinket from the mines...

Otherwise overall I've seen much better AI responses to various tactics.

One exception though is that the AI seems willing to ignore/dodge a military base/extra strong ship that they normally couldn't defeat, unless a ship which they could defeat was also occupying the tile. It seems that the attack choice doesn't take the strongest ship/fleet/base of the tile into consideration.

The Korx, bizzarly, do not have the first market improvement or a technology for it.

I have to sadly echo the sentiments of a few others here. Software is never perfect you should expect some bugs on release time. but, although I love the new features of TA it seems like it really needed a month or two of extra development to iron out.

Oh Oh, I've got another Idea If GalcivIII were to develop in to the previous idea I had in mind multiplayer can be implemented for the battles part, man that will be way coooool )

finally, I have a little complaint about the speed of download from the stardock central, I know I'm way far in Egypt, Africa & it all downplays to the darn intercontinental connection but an overseas europian mirror would be nice. Thanks 4 GalCiv man it's really the closest game to a my dream genere that never came to life whether it's in a Sci-Fi, fantasy, history...etc setting

Overall, a good expansion. Increased playability for sure.

A couple of notes:

Can we get a fix when you send a fleet of constructors to a resource/starbase? This seems buggy. For example, if there are 5 modules available, and you send a fleet of 5 cnst, everything works fine and you are prompted 5 times as to what modules you want to add. But if no modules are available, your constructors move into the starbase instead of being prompted that no modules are available. Then you have to click on starbase, reselect your ships and move them out of there. Sometimes, the fleet is disbanded and you need to select them individually. Also, when sending a fleet to a new resource, a new starbase is created, but the other cnst's in the fleet aren't prompted to add new modules. Building starbases is already annoying (IMO) and these features just add to the hassle.

I should've saved the game for more details, but in my last game (custom race using Arcean tech tree), all of the sudden I couldn't build any factories on my planets; the factory disappeared from the build list (under all three build list views - new, all, old). I was previously building these with no problem, but for some reason they all disappeared and there were no buildings in my build list that increased production. I researched mfg centers and those appeared with no problems, but my lower level factories never showed up again.

Maybe it was a matter of AI settings, but the Altarians in the same game did not build any warships. They had about 5 planets or so, but late game they did not have any military (military timeline confirmed that they never built a ship with weapons). All other races were fine and built militaries as expected.

This may be hard to implement, but I would like the build list that shows only the best tech to be improved (I think it is called New). When you trade for obsolete alien techs, they still show up in the New list. E.g. even though I had discovery spheres, the puny 4 rp drengin slave lab was still showing up in my build list.

I posted this issue elsewhere but this looks like a good thread to repeat it...

I am playing my first official release game and noticed something strange. I am about mid-game, have some lasers, guns etc researched. The AI is autodesigning ships I reckon because I see things like Battle Axe M6 with a good mix of lasers and missles.

I decided to upgrade my Battle Axe M6 (option to remove components is not checked). When I do this I see something really strange....

It says that the ship has 85/67 components installed!? If I select and item to remove then select a new component to install the bar then turns red and and wont let me install the item even though its' size is less than the item I removed.

It seems as if the auto ship designer is being allowed to add more items to a design than I could.

I think much of the problem lies in the huge amount of content and such changes that were made for the final release but no the beta. The point of a beta is to test all the things in the software to ensure there are no bugs. If you then add tons of features/content/changes (or even just a few) after the beta period and then release it, you just wasted that beta testing phase. I usually beta test my software until no bugs can be found and then, when there are no more bugs, it becomes a release candidate (which is then the release).

Just a thought.

Some query images don't show up in the pop_general_warning_GNN box!

Krynn had just built the "super-spying project" and all there was is a big black emptiness... others didn't show up either, but can't remember exactly which right now. I'll try keeping track of this strange behavior and post some comprehensive list later.

All of these pictures are properly into their usual folder, btw.
32b, perhaps and its tricky alpha channels?

Great feedback guys.

We're looking through the reports. Some people are reporting running into bugs. The thing is, as you all know, this wasn't rushed. We were playing it tons and tons before release and haven't run into the kinds of problems some of you have run into.

I think the main thing is that people are playing it differently than we are I think.  Also, we did release one update that took care of the various string issues that some of you ran into.

That said, as others have pointed out, Stardock's an indie. We can release updates to you essentially indefinitely. We are closely reading the forums.  The more specifics we get, the better.