Still the best 4x, that I like most is Endless Legend.
Interesting. I have Endless Space (bought cheap on sale), didnt try it. It's worse than Legend?
Endless Space is like Endless Legend lite
Almost everything is great about Endless Legend, but AI is quite terrible It doesn't know how use half of the game mechanics. In AI department Endless Space AI is a lot better, because game mechanics is much simpler.
Amplitude is full of very talented designers and artists, but they really need more engineers. Or they should bring the game completely into PvE lands.
Endless Space due to simpler mechanics could become boring during middle phase as weaker opponents will be conquered by the strongest neighbors and there will be a stalemate. During such phase while pushing for new techs, building ships, improving economy, etc. there is not much to do. So it's mostly clicking 'next turn' button
In Endless Legend during such phase you can explore lands and do quests. As I said before, almost everything is better in Endless Legend than it was in Endless Space.
If you are to treat Endless Legend as PvE game focusing primary on faction's main quest, it's better game than Endless Space.
Both of them while quite good on its own merits are poor sandbox games, there are very slim chances you will play either of Endless more than couple of times, Endless space is poorly designed game, endless legend is just easy and there isnt much to do after you played few games. Both are great games, but they just dont know what it is to be great sandbox game.
I am not sure why, but I found GalCiv 2 extremely boring
It's because all the Stardock Games are boring. It's true, unfortunately.
Fallen enchantress is fun for first 10~ games and sins of solar empire is best space rts ( especially moded, and by modded I mean oldschool big overhaul mods, not what modding turned to now.with 22000000000000 small mods and installing them takes days instead of you know.. download, extract , play..)
Played a little bit, looks like galciv 2.5 Good and bad at the same time.
And seems like the game suffers from severe memory leaks, after about 30 turns starts to swap like there's no tomorrow
Tried the microsoft setup install and the prefs.ini change and still no fonts, no text
FIXED!!!!!
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- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- A "Run" window will appear. Please paste the path below in the box and click OK:
%programdata%\Stardock\Galactic Civilizations III
- Once in the folder, please make sure you have the option enabled in Windows to "Show file name extensions". If you don't, please see the following article:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions#show-hide-file-name-extensions=windows-7
- Find any files that end in ".dds" or ".fontdata" and delete them from the folder.
After you've done that, please perform a restart and try to launch GC3 once again
I delete the 2 files, reboot, but when I launch GC3 again the files are back and there's still no text.
Also I highly recommend you check out Star Ruler 2, it's a 4X that actually tries new things instead of just slightly modifying what MoO did. You can build ships as big as stars, physically move planets around, create new stars, blow up planets, stars and even black holes, taking out half of the galaxy.
Tried the microsoft setup install and the prefs.ini change and still no fonts, no text
FIXED!!!!!
Quote:
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- A "Run" window will appear. Please paste the path below in the box and click OK:
%programdata%\Stardock\Galactic Civilizations III
- Once in the folder, please make sure you have the option enabled in Windows to "Show file name extensions". If you don't, please see the following article:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions#show-hide-file-name-extensions=windows-7
- Find any files that end in ".dds" or ".fontdata" and delete them from the folder.
After you've done that, please perform a restart and try to launch GC3 once again
I delete the 2 files, reboot, but when I launch GC3 again the files are back and there's still no text.
Yea, what you forgot is the step telling you to "verify steam cache" which will probably redownload the files. Which is hard to do with a yaaarrrgh version.
Running gc3_font_setup.exe and deleting ".dds" & ".fontdata" files fixed it for me too
There is a full instruction within a game folder in a file named 'MISSING_FONTS_README.txt'
Spoiler:
If you're missing fonts or not seeing them show properly, please try the following instructions below after exiting GalCiv3.
-Navigate to this directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\Fonts
-Run this EXE: gc3_font_setup.exe
-Start up GalCiv3 and see if the fonts show up properly.
If you are still not seeing the fonts, try deleting a few files listed below in this directory: C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Galactic Civilizations III
K2FontData_Small.fontdata
K2FontTexture_Small.dds
Afterwards try verifying the game's cache files. Open up Steam and right click on the game and select properties, then choose the option 'Verify Integrity of Game Cache' like so: http://screencast.com/t/QwZ9xVyT
After the game files are read/repaired attempt to run the game again in Steam and see if that fixes the issue.
If this did not work for you, please try downloading and installing the font at this website:
And lastly, if none of the previous recommendations worked for you, please do the following:
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- A "Run" window will appear. Please paste the path below in the box and click OK:
%userprofile%\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3
In the folder that appears, find your "prefs.ini" file and open it with a text editor (Notepad for example). Find the following line:
Still the best 4x, that I like most is Endless Legend.
Interesting. I have Endless Space (bought cheap on sale), didnt try it. It's worse than Legend?
Yes, as someone who really fancied Galciv 2, this is how I feel. Galciv 3 is a better version of Galciv 2, but imho not enough innovation.
Endless Legend is currently the best 4x game on market, I have been on an 4x spree these past months, tried everything old and new, and EL is the most fun. It still has some pointless micro here and there, but it's great.
But it suffers still from what most 4x games suffer from: you win WAY, WAY before the game is over. That is the bane of 4x games. There simply is almost no way to turn around a game once you won or lost, and you still might have 60-80 turns left, before the game tells it to you.
Added 2 new difficulty levels: Easy and Incredible (much like my wife)
New cinematic camera system for watching battles, the Michael Bay edition (in that every time a ship explodes I imagine that Michael Bay is on it)
Full changelog:
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Features
Added Steam Workshop support for uploading and downloading ship templates
Added Steam Workshop support for uploading and downloading custom factions
Added 2 new difficulty levels: Easy and Incredible (much like my wife)
Added custom map support for multiplayer games
Enabled Pirates in multiplayer
Added a "No Tech Brokering" game setup option (setting this blocks trading of techs unless you discovered it, ie: you can't trade a tech you got in a trade)
Fixes
Fixed a multiplayer desync when asking for peace
Fixed a multiplayer desync from some battles
Fixed a multiplayer desync when sending a constructor to a rally point
Fixed a crash when two systems both attempted to add notifications at the same time
Fixed a multiplayer crash when being awarded a constructor from an anomoly
Fixed an issue with missing movement trails on some ships
Fixed a crash when updating steam stats
Updated the miles version to fix sound issues and sound memory leaks
Fixed a bug/exploit where if you asked for enough from the AI it would overflow and forget its value, giving you everything it has for free
Fixed an issue where you can offer more credits per turn to the AI than you can actually pay
Fixed game within a game crashes in the ship designer
Fixed an issue where players could use rally points to ignore range limitations
Fixed an issue where ships couldnt explore if you didnt have a home planet (like at the begining of the tutorial or campaign)
Fixed an issue where ship desings would be broken if they were saved with a decimal in the name
Fixed an issue where sometimes game reports wouldn't be submitted to the universe
Fixed a desync when humans were traidng with each other in multiplayer
Fixed an issue where ship movement forecasting times were inaccurate
Fixed an issue where custom race homeworld doesn't display correctly in diplomacy report screen
Fixed crashes
Fixed an issue where the AI wouldn't take over if a human left a multiplayer game
Fixed a crash in the crash reporting tool (this is just a joke, don't send in letters)
Fixed crash if a multiplayer game was abandoned while there were multiple popups in the popup queue for the game about to be destroyed, which would crash once they were unhidden
Fixed several crashes, hangs, and missing UI when a peer would disconnect during a multiplayer game setup
Fixed a crash when loading a save game if a corrupt fleet exists
Fixed crash in race trait tooltip caused by a user making an insanely long list of modifiers in a trait mod, which the fixed string used for formatting the tooltip couldn't handle
Moved awarding the ship until after the battle when encountering pirates at an anomoly
Fixed the Mega Resort for the Drengin
Fixed an issue where the UP chairperson could be listed twice if the chairbeing defies the UP
Fixed ship definitions for missing ships
Fixed a desync when the AI considered requesting peace
Fixed Ranfer, Destroyer and Battleship blueprints
Fixed some issues with the Krynniac Jihad specializations
Fixed a bug with Food Distribution that made it unbuildable
Fixed an issue where you could get blank images after downloading content from Steam Workshop
Fixing a crash if your ship design list changes before you open the ship designer for the first time, like if you are playing a multiplayer game with a custom faction that isn't your own, with custom ship designs that aren't your own
Fixed an issue where the race trait that gives first improvement free was able to incorrectly award an ongoing project as the item to be awarded. Since this is impossible it prevents the item from ever clearing, and it also prevents any other manufacturing from happening. This basically locks out the planet from ever being usable to the AI.
Fixed an issue where restored session custom faction data was getting improperly culled or overwritten
Fixed an issue where govern wheel sliders (player, colony) were not being sent over the wire and saved for non-HOST players in MP sessions
Added 'isLocalPlayer' check to prevent 'you have insufficient resource and cannot build that thing' notification from showing up on other player's notification lists
Fixed a stuck turn after a human planet is invaded by the AI
Fixed a crash merging large groups of ships
Fixed a crash that can happen when encountering pirates in anomollies
Fixed crash in which the AI was able to find a way to get a certain improvement type hub without any neighbor improvements unlocked
Fixed the Merchants ideology trait
The Mutations colonization event is no longer global
Fixed bug with the lobby window where custom faction icons from one player do not appear to other players
Balance
You cannot select food and growth modifiers as a custom faction if you are playing a synthetic race anymore
Rush costs are now modified by the turns remaining
You can no long stack Yor assembly projects beyond your population cap
Request Constructor Button currently builds a basic constructor instead of latest constructor
AI
The AI is now better at building hub improvements in good spots
AI will now make use of preferred defense type when researching and when building ship blueprints.
UI
New cinematic camera system for watching battles, the Michael Bay edition (in that every time a ship explodes I imagine that Michael Bay is on it)
Added a new Medium UI size
Added a new Normal UI size
In the error popups that come up when you fail to colonize a planet or declare war on another player, it now says why you cannot do these things (e.g. UP resolution prohibits this, this player is immune to war, etc.)
You can now get to the Manual from the games main page
You can now get to the Wiki from the games main page
Added the ability to review the game
Added an option to show design that are over mass (for modders to fix their ship designs if we change mass values)
Updated the text in the popup when changing the galaxy difficulty to be more clear
Redid the turn count victory condition to be more clear and have it based on more relevant information (faction power)
Enter/Esc key now closes the shipyard screen like it does for other screens
Added Raw Production entry and breakdown to the planet wnd
Yor colonies show Synthetic Pop Cap instead of Food in the planet wnd
If you don't have resources required for a ship it still shows up in your shipyard, but it is greyed out
If tech trading is disallowed by a UP resolution, the tech category entry will still show up in the interaction wnd, but disabled and with a tooltip saying which UP resolution is preventing tech trading.
While a galactic event is active, the notifications list on the side of the main game wnd will show the name of the active event and how long it will be active for (if applicable). Mousing over the entry will show the bonuses granted by that event
Fleet tooltips tell you how many moves they have remaining
Updated planet textures
When attempting to load a map, it now shows the proper text in the title and delete prompt
Added a new ambient music track
The Snathi have risen from the ashes of their Precursor prison world. They have only one goal: revenge. The Snathi have vowed to put down those who kept them from taking from their rightful place as the heirs of the Dread Lords.
No race is safe from the true face of EVIL... even if it is as cute as a button.
Features:
The Snathi Revenge: The Snathi are an ancient race of extremely intelligent and bloodthirsty squirrel-like creatures. They were created by the Dread Lords as the ultimate weapon, but were locked away… until now.
Revenge of the Snathi Campaign: Lead the Snathi as they break free from their prison world to take their place as the face of evil in the galaxy.
New ships: Completely new Snathi ship styles and ship parts.
Scavenge Faction Ability: The “Scavenge” ability allows Snathi to salvage the ships of their vanquished foes.
CEO Brad Wardell gives a guided tour of the upcoming Crusade expansion. This week’s dev diary details many of our new features - the Civ Builder, Galactic Citizens, Invasions, and more - and focuses on what the expansion adds to overall gameplay for Galactic Civilizations III.
Much needed update, I felt GalCiv 3 wasn't much of improvement over 2, and the DLCs so far haven't caught me yet. With Stellaris around, really didn't have any interest to play this.
After playing for couple of days really like what they have done with the game... With this expansion GalCiv 3 is actually a game now and not just some starship Lego with ability to move your creations on a map
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Galactic Civilizations III: Intrigue Expansion Delivers Politics on a Galactic Scale
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Assemble your cabinet of advisors, choose a form of government, and earn the trust and faith of your people. Politics are here on a galactic scale in Galactic Civilizations III: Intrigue!
Assemble your cabinet
Strategize, synergize, and hire the best people for the job! The new opening screen will let you set up your civilization by choosing who to hire from a list of provided candidates. Choosing characters that work well with your strategy will grant an important advantage against opponents.
Choose your form of government
You’ll wish you’d paid more attention in your high school government classes! Each style of governing has advantages and disadvantages. You’ll be able to choose (and research) various forms of government to determine which works best for your playstyle and strategy.
Establish a commonwealth
Put your colonies on auto-pilot! These subject-states will do as they’re told without you having to lift a finger. The planets will be permanently allied but run by the AI, which reduces micromanagement so you can focus on other things.
Shop in the updated Galactic Bazaar
There’s always a good deal at the Bazaar! Well, maybe not always, but that’s what they’ll tell you, anyway. Mercenaries aren’t the only thing available here anymore. You’ll be able to purchase (and sell!) additional resources now - but, how steep the price gets depends entirely on how much is (or isn’t) available.
New technologies, planetary improvements, weapons, and more
Check out a whole slew of "new!" Awesome new ship modules and devastating weapons, unique planetary improvements, and technologies designed to improve your government are packed in Intrigue. All of these new additions will require galactic resources, which is what makes the Galactic Market so important!
Keep up with current events using the Galactic News Network
In space, there is no biased reporting - that’s because we’ve hired a robot to handle it! Check the news to monitor who’s allying with who, who’s declared war on each other, and many other activities that are going on across the galaxy.
It’s coming! The date is set for Intrigue, our next major expansion for Galactic Civilizations III. On April 11, you’ll get to experience the game-changing additions of politics, government, and much more!
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On the same day, Stardock will release a free 3.0 update to the base game. In addition to support for the new Intrigue expansion, 3.0 offers a number of game improvements and new features for all existing and new players
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It doesn't know how use half of the game mechanics. In AI department Endless Space AI is a lot better, because game mechanics is much simpler.
