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shimmip

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Reply to Why don't missle ships stay out of range. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm just going to throw this one out there for the history buffs as we seem to be focusing more on what the battle resolution engine does and doesn't do. I'm not saying that this is what GC3 should do, but my favourite way of meaningfully representing a battle that you couldn't DIRECTLY control was in the venerable Stars! - a game I first played in around 1996 and dusted off to play every now and then up until a couple of years ago. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.o

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Reply to Suggestions 1.03 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

For me, the must have is wasted resources. The ability to reallocate waste on a planetary level by having tech/military/econ show up as production options, even if these have to be researched. Failing that, simply not drawing from the money pool - surely that can't be hard to implement?? Ideally on this, the ability to override galactic allocation levs on a system basis. And either waypoints, or preferably wormhole/stargate tech. Moving ships in the late game in larger maps is a real pa

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Diagrams/pictures in manual are unreadable. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I decided to download the game rather than purchase a boxed version. I really miss having a "proper" manual - the pictures (e.g. technology tree on page 38) are completely illegible - I though it was my printer having an odd day but looking at the original PDF it too is illegible. Is there any chance of getting these updated? Especially bearing in mind that those downloading the game must be doing Stardock a favour as the profit margins must be way better without having to give distributors, ven

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