We're nearing the end of the pre-release development of Galactic Civilizations III. While dev will continue on this game for at least the next 7 years (hence, the choice to require 64-bit, etc.). I want to make sure you guys are happy with the 1.0 launch!
To that end, let me know what your bugaboos are. That is, things in the game that you would like to see fixed before release.
Below is MY list of bubgaboos I've already started working on:
What are some of yours?
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I was able to translate GC2. I want to translate GC3. Please.
I translated FactionText.xml Japanese. But the letter was not given.
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Go to a planet to build a ship. Click User, then select. Go to the next planet; click User, then select. Go to the designer. Click User, then select.
Can't the darned thing remember that I've selected User every single time for the last 100 clicks and use that as the default?
Oh, and you kids! Get off my lawn! [e digicons]|-)[/e]
Thanks Brad, a few of things I'd like to see:
1. Proper stardates. I know it might not make sense for all races to have a January and a February, but it was nice to see the passage of time through the months and years. It added to the immersion.
2. More hot keys. Ctrl-S to quick save, Ctrl-G to toggle grid, ctrl-N to regenerate map.
3. More options. Such as grid opacity (it's pretty distracting as it is) and the distance that the ships and planets turn into icons.
4. I'd like to be able to have the mini map default to zoomed out and stay zoomed out, it's nice to see the whole shape of the galaxy.
5. I always like how the GCII mini map showed the starting positions and current boundaries of all of the races (toggle-able of course).
6. I'd like to be able to zoom out in the tech tree (also in GCII).
7. In GCII you could enable tech trading, but disable tech brokering, so the AI could only trade techs that they have researched themselves. I don't see this in GCIII it just shows tech trading on and off.
Thanks!
1. There already is a pop up saying "Week x Year 2xxx" on each turn. Did you mean something a bit more prominent?
2. Agreed. Not sure what you mean by "Ctrl-G to toggle grid", because the standard "G" key already does that.
1. There already is a pop up saying "Week x Year 2xxx" on each turn. Did you mean something a bit more prominent?2. Agreed. Not sure what you mean by "Ctrl-G to toggle grid", because the standard "G" key already does that.
Thanks about the G key, I didn't know that. As far as the dates, I mean like in GCII, the turns showed calendar dates passing by...january 1st, january 7th, etc.
My list;
Firstly if you make a custom race and change colours and materials the small pictures of you ships will all be in the colours and materials of the race whose ships you’ve copied. If you make custom ships this is not an issue.
Secondly colonization events are broken for synthetics, some of the bonus and penalties have less impact on synthetics and the flavour test suggests they should not be dilemmas for synthetics at all in many case. I suggest adding tags to allow the game to filter the events based on faction attributes presence or absence. But if this can’t be done before release remove events that don’t make sense for all races until it can be done.
Third can we have the ability to customize the scientific advisers using pictures rather than video for custom races and mods much as we can currently with leaders? Forgive me if you can already do this through mods but it doesn't look like you can.
Finally more modding options like being able to create custom ships outside the game for easy inclusion in mods.
The game needs sorting of lists. much like GC2 had.
Some examples:
List sorting. Planet list by name, class, manufacturing points, population, current project, etc. -- much like GC2.
Ship list by name, class, etc. -- much like GC2.
Star base list by name, owner, etc. -- much like GC2
List filtering, Unowned discovered planets, sortable by class, habitation conditions, etc. -- again, much like GC2
there are many things but here is one: please show uncolonized planets in the planet list (filter for free planets) and maybe even a filter/tab for enemy planets. So you could see a list of all found planets and see the best/biggest to capture.
The Iconian and Thalan tech trees need another pass to improve their flavor text. As they are now they are too similar to the Terran one.
Terraforming improvements should be more spread out, and not just have one that can fill half a planet.
Thanks for asking. My one bugaboo is to have a resynch option for MP. (see how endless legend does this.) Apart from that thank you for asking and I wish galciv3 all the best.
Edit: oh and a key for setting where ships should launch would be great. (if not already in the game, cant seem to find it?) and updating the que build time on planets after changing the governor settings would be cool as well.
I miss ship launch direction, too. Or shipyard placement.
in ship yard or planet click on ship the click where you want it to launch to.
The lighting bug in ship editor... I literally can't close the game or save and load and expect to make new designs.
I'm pretty sure they all just pop up randomly occasionally. I named mine after my daughter and she's waiting "patiently" to see it in the game.
Just tried it in v0.97 but it does not seem to work. I selected a defending ship on my home planet and when I click on a tile next to it it gets deselected and when I hit Eject after selecting the planet again its in the usual spot in the upper left. :-/
I`m not in the game right now but,... it maybe my fault,.... try right click it should work it works for me. left click ship right click launch. see if that works.
A few of mine:
This!
One more:
No separate end turn button. Sometimes I just don't care that a colony is idle or that I have idle ships, and I don't want to bother going through setting them all to do something. I suppose it's nice of you to try to prevent me from inadvertently wasting production, ship actions, etc, but it's my own fault if I leave something idle and come to regret it later on. Provide me some kind of notice, don't force me to respond to every last one.
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