Ship design has been part of Galactic Civilizations games for many years. However, with Galactic Civilizations III, the designer has reached the point where user creations are starting to rival what you would see in movies. The ship designs we included are wholly original creations based on the lore that's been developed over the past 25 years. The ship designer itself lets people put together thousands of parts to create whatever they want. A new design For the serio...
Explore. Expand. Exploit. Exterminate. This is where the term "4X" originates. The granddaddy of our genre is, of course, Sid Meier's Civilization. Where Sid Meier's Civilization leverages our common history from the dawn of agriculture to the moment we leave the Earth, Galactic Civilizations begins at the moment we leave our home world. In Galactic Civilizations, players create their own histories. Each game is a different possibility. When we relea...
Greetings! Welcome to the first season of Galactic Civilizations III AARs. Long ago, I used to write stories regarding Galactic Civilizations II . With the release of Galactic Civilizations III 2.0, I am proud to bring you a new generation of stories based on Stardock's epic 4X strategy game. This is just one story...your story will be completely different. We have detected something... Just beyond Jupiter's orbit, something was noticed. Somethin...
We are currently working on additional units for Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. The T4s and more T3s are not units you will run into in the competitive multiplayer games but on the bigger maps, late game, we run into a lot of cases where the existing units just aren't powerful enough to distinguish between one civilization and another. Below is a list of some of the units we are considering. Feel free to suggest your names: Name Level ...
We are currently working on additional units for Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. The T4s and more T3s are not units you will run into in the competitive multiplayer games but on the bigger maps, late game, we run into a lot of cases where the existing units just aren't powerful enough to distinguish between one civilization and another. Below is a list of some of the units we are considering. Feel free to suggest your names: Name Level ...
I'm enjoying my time back on Galactic Civilizations. The team is working on lots of neat things for the upcoming version 2.0 update which is due this month. Here are a few highlights: Administrators There's a new resource called administrators. Your capital world provides N of them where N is based on the size of the map. Building a starbase consumes one. You can get more by researching government related techs but that means you're not res...
So I did a lot of changes on Ashes balance over the holiday and the team was asking for those changes to be checked in. I said, "Sorry! I forgot to check them in, they're at home..." Then suddenly, I realized, I had taken my work machine home to do those changes and brought my work machine back to the office after break. So I do have them here which means my balance and AI tweaks can go in the upcoming update after all!
So I did a lot of changes on Ashes balance over the holiday and the team was asking for those changes to be checked in. I said, "Sorry! I forgot to check them in, they're at home..." Then suddenly, I realized, I had taken my work machine home to do those changes and brought my work machine back to the office after break. So I do have them here which means my balance and AI tweaks can go in the upcoming update after all!
**RELEASED 1/26/17** Balance Eliminator Turret damage increased from 1000 to 2000 Starburst Turret damage increased from 80 to 200 Artemis logistics cost increased from 6 to 8 Thantos sight radius increased from 500m to 800m Athena HP reduced from 2000 to 1200 Engineer build time increased from 25 to 26 Strategic Bomber cost increased from 120 metal to 480 metal Strategic Bomber cost increased from 800 rads to 1200 rads Drone Hive shield recharge reduced from 2 per se...
We have an opt-in of GalCiv III v1.9 already out. We continue to update and respond to feedback on it. Here are some changes I made: Diplomacy tech affect to diplomacy ability increased from 0.5 to 1 InfluenceMinToClaim increased from 0.33 to 8 InfluenceRadius root reduced from 3.25 (^0.325) to square root (^0.5) Eliminated the Influence Bell Durve target divsor Influence fall off is increased from -0.3 to –10 Capital Influence per turn i...
It’s amazing how much Ashes of the Singularity has changed in just a few months. It was only released back in May and here we are in December as I write this and it’s undergone a lot of changes. Below I want to outline some of things we have on our plate for 2017: T4s Next year we’re going to introduce Juggernauts. These are T4s The T4s will be to the T3s what the T3s are the the T2s. They will be substantially bigger...
It’s amazing how much Ashes of the Singularity has changed in just a few months. It was only released back in May and here we are in December as I write this and it’s undergone a lot of changes. Below I want to outline some of things we have on our plate for 2017: T4s Next year we’re going to introduce Juggernauts. These are T4s The T4s will be to the T3s what the T3s are the the T2s. They will be substantially bigger...
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Disclaimer: For the first series of these I’m going to put these up so that those of you who have no idea who I am don’t get too concerned that there’s this guy endlessly criticizing the game (and other people’s games) in the most unprofessional way. Who I am: I’m the founder and CEO of Stardock. I wrote the original Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 back in 1993 largely as an AI simulator in which humans were allowed to interact. It took off from th...
So tomorrow is my first day on GalCiv III. It’s been a long break for me. It’s very nice returning to my baby. GalCiv III is the first GalCiv game I didn’t design or get to spend much time on. A few observations The engine is fancy I basically have unlimited memory to work with. However, it uses a lot of memory. This isn’t terribly surprising given how complex the ships can get. But it is still a problem. I spent a l...