SILENCE!!!!!

Any chance in the future of you releasing a tutorial, guide, or commentary on your experiences making the Ai for Gal Civ? As someone who wants to focus on Ai in far future projects I'd love to learn whatever you would be willing to share on developing Ai.

Welp, I guess I'm going to be a out a good chunk of change a couple months down the line. 

Awesomeness, sir. I can hardly wait. There's just one thing I'd like to ask though.

That's great and all that, but does that mean we'll be getting default ship designs that are assigned for their roles in this manner? Or some way of creating blueprints for this purpose?

A long time ago someone suggested creating your own tech trees in the custom faction editor. I like that idea. I still like the idea of combined research. I mean multiple factions working together on the same tech. Maybe adding tech trees that can only be obtained this way. I would like to see all the points put together, and then average the number of ideology selections, so you are given your average choice instead of picking all three ideologies. Right now the only real ideology is pragmatic. Can we have better ideology names, like survival of the fittest, exploitive, religious, atheistic, kind, friendly, logical, environmental, and scientific.

Thanks Frogboy, AI is one thing, but I think the featuring itself should be revamped. Please see charon's post above, this is exactly it! 

Questions.

Can we change the citizens purpose?

• So lets say I assign a citizen to increasing Production (can I do that?) can I then later assign him to espionage?
• Is there dedicated buildings increase citizens? i.e. is it taking away from other buildings?
• Does each planet have it's own citizens or are they empire based?
• If empire based how detailed assignments can there be? Assign to increase production on a single planet (a higher percentage) than increasing for the entire empire, etc.
• can citizens die? (espionage)
• can you assign a citizen to a shipyard to increase ship production. i.e. if I assign a citizen to shipyard I production 1/10 more a ship each round so after 10 rounds I would produce 1 extra ship. or if I assign 10 citizens to a shipyard it would produce 1 extra ship a round (assuming I have production to do that). obviously precentage could change.

Diplomacy questions? (didn't see a dedicated thread started yet)

• Alliances? as mentioned would be nice to provide more support? 
• Different types of alliances, trade alliance, military alliance, other?
• It would be nice to be able to assign minor factions to a default alliance (group), so we can make pseudo sub-nations. This is because when picking races at start of game you can't group minor-alliances. i.e. would be cool to have a pirate alliance built of minor factions. On that note have a dedicated group # for pirates so possible to add a faction to the priates
• Also when creating a faction give it a default group which if selected manually or randomly is set to that group (rather than no group). This should likely be a toggle feature (Keep default group) as some people may not want default grouping. Then factions like the Startrek and such can create federations, without having assign them each time.
• Another nice feature this would provide, is say I say select random factions, 10 from group x, and 10 from group y, without having to manually pick them and/or assign them.

Developers

It looks like a great expansion. Have i got it right that with the expansion it is 

possible to use all the great ship designs from the steam workshop ingame? That truly would be great!

Keep up the good work i look forward to the final result!

Really looking forward to this!  What I most like about Stardock is how they keep developing GC, and not in trivial ways to be sure. 

Also obviously the game is very far along so not much new will be added that wasn't originally planned. But here is hoping that the tech trees/techs will get a pass/added to. Playing with basically the same research grind for years is not as fun as getting new toys to play with in expansions.

Would love for them to be longer and have more cool uniqueish stuff, as much as galciv2 seemed grindy i liked how there was just more to tech up even if upgrades were minor.

And please even in Crusade or a DLC please give/sell us updated unique weapon/defense fx(esp at end game).  End game techs should feel more epic that just basically different colors of starter tier fx and more dmg.

Also OT but maybe someone can give me an idea of where to/how to mod this. Is there a way to make it so when you put a ton of lets say beam weapons on a hull to make it so every single one does not visually fire in the viewer? At end game it is kinda meh when your huge ships just fire all their weapons at the same time and 30+ different beams come out of the ship each round just looks meh.

My current fix is to make own component and just scale up the dmg, capacity and cost so it does the damage, cap and cost of lets say 30 of the item but just is 1 comp and thus only shoots once every X seconds. But it would be really nice if weapons scaled with hull size / capacity. So our end game doesn't look tacky with all the kinetic and beam weapon spam.

Anyways cannot wait for more info.

Once again my faith in Stardock is rewarded.  If these changes are as good as they sound I think Gal Civ III may just have surpassed Gal Civ II.  Can't wait!  

They have stated in the latest dev stream that there will be changes to the tech tree.

Instead of 4 separate ones there will just a big one. 

And now the civilization traits determine what will be in the tech tree.

Looking forward to this.

I haven't played as much GalCiv III as I would have liked, unfortunately. Hopefully with this expansion that will change.

scifi1950

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Once again my faith in Stardock is rewarded.  If these changes are as good as they sound I think Gal Civ III may just have surpassed Gal Civ II.  Can't wait!  

Indeed. Time to replace GalCiv2 with GalCiv3.

Really can't wait for you guys to get your hands on this. I'm enjoying it as a psuedo-beta tester (sorry, not a public closed beta) and think it's really going to make this game significantly b better!

Dude, you're so cruel! Especially to us Founders... The first part of your nick is very appropriate!