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Can anyone comment on Beta 3D? No rush, I'm just curious about my favorite race...the Altarians. :) I can't wait to see how they've been upgraded.

I just posted in the TA Suggestions section about precursor ships. I'd really like to see them get unique models and a slight increase in strength...especially the corvettes. Is this something other folks would like to see too, or is it just me? I'm curious...

Precursor ships.... Could they be remodeled to look unique? The pirates, dread lords, escaped convicts, etc. all have unique looking ships. Woould it be possible to make the precursor ships more unique? It'd be nice if they got an overhaul too. They seem a bit underpowered, especially the corvettes. They usually never see any use in my games. The "light cruiser" is nice, but it too could use a slight bump. The odds of getting the event could be decreased if there is a play balance issue.

Heh, good point econundrum1. Actually, I've played more completed games than I care to admit with MORE bugs than this beta. Thanks Stardock. You have a good thing going here. I'm definately going to be a repeat customer. :)

I'm not so interested in being able to "steal" other ships, but I'd like to be able to "disable" a space station and be able to send a troop ship in to attempt to capture it.

I'd like to see an option added that would let you buy a ship from another race, decommission it, and have a % chance to obtain some of the techs used in it's contruction

I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I sure wish the game could be altered to allow us to choose to play with all of the races. The current limit means that we must choose to leave out some races, and they are just so darn good I'd love to be able to play with them all at once. Is the limit based on something concrete, or could it be lifted?

Ok, I've heard this sort of thing before, but I just have to chime in. After playing along all three ethics lines I really believe things are a bit out of balance. I would love to see the individual events mean more, in that the in game effects really don't mean much once you get past the first few turns. Increase the numbers involved. Make us really have to think about what choice to take. Once you've gone down the tech tree and can finally pick an ethics route, make it much more

I'm seeing a bug pop up now and again where I'll get a new ship, go to upgrade it wiht the latest techs I've researched that are better than the base design, and I'll see a few squares at the top that are blank. When I go to remove the blank squares it'll remove a component off the model. These components always have an associated square at the top too, so for instance if I removed a blank that took a troop pod off the model, there will also be a square at the top that is a troop pod. Removin

So is this still true in TA? Just making sure.

Anyone else notice a glitch with the "fog of war" in that when a ship is deep in enemy territory and gets destroyed, but his sensor reveal of the fog remains? It hasn't happened often, but I've noticed it a couple times. Anyone else seen this? It might just be a problem local to my rig and not in the code.

This could be interesting... The first thing that comes to mind is the plague event. It's always bugged me that the Yor are effected. If this were implemented the plague event could be taylored so only certain races are effected. Other events, such as a computer virus for the Yor, could be created to spread the love...so to speak. Another example might be an event that stalls military production for a time. For some races it could be a worker strike, for others a raw material short

I noticed this a few times myself. After some testing around, I noticed that turning off the setting that shows you enemy combat has really cut down on it. I've only had it once since disabling this, and it was one of my constructors. I decommissioned him and the turn completed. Also, in this last case the camera view was stuck to the constructor. I could move away, but it would pan back to the ship.

Ah, I didn't notice the effect difference. Cool! I LOVE these special components. They are very powerful, as you mention, and they add flavor. So far I've played as Terran, Acrean, and Drengin with the new enhancements, and it looks like each race has some sort of similiar item. Some provide powerful defense, others provide power attack so I think it'll all balance out in the end. :CONGRAT:

I noticed last night that the Drengin Kill Zone Computer tech gives the same component as another tech....the preceding one. I don't recall the name just now. The component involved is the Weapon Amplifier. Is this the desired behaviour, or should there be an "enhanced weapon amplifier"?

Would someone mind posting a list of the techs you get for each alignment choice? I'm thinking I'm missing some of them, but I can't be sure without knowing what's supposed to be there. Thanks. :)

This is true of the Drengin as well. I even went as far as to research them to see if something popped up that wasn't indicated in the tech tree...but no dice. I'm at Beta 3b...the one that introduced the Krynn. It's TA version 0.91[b].001

I'm not sure if this is too out of scope for TA, but I'm going to post anyway. Maybe it'll be remembered for GalCiv III. :) I'd love to see destroyable ship components. As a ship takes damage it really would be cool if it could loose it's capabilities. Couple that with a basic targeting system where you could say, order your ships to target specific main components like engines, weapons, life support, etc. You could reduce the % chance to hit when such orders are given based on the

It would be interesting if the player could make proposals to the UP. Even if it was just to have the UP re-vote on an existing policy. Of course there would have to be some kind of limiting factor to keep the player from continually making proposals until they got what they wanted. Maybe it could cost the player's civ in influence points to make a proposal? What do the rest of you think? Would this mechanic add that much to the game?

Bah...never mind. I'd never played as Acrean and I thought the ships looked differently. I guess the devs ships looked unique enough to make me think they were using different parts. :)

I'm running 1.80f of TA beta 3. I've noticed that as the Acreans, when I go to make a new ship I only get Terran hulls. Is this a bug or do I have something messed up locally. Can anyone else replicate this?

There must have been a set back. Ah well, it'll come. Better come late than come broken or incomplete. :)

I've already posted this, but it was kinda buried in with a lot of other things. This one shoudl be simple... I'd like a toggle at game setup that would let you enable or disable starting ships. In my head it would be more fun if everyone started off with nothing and had to build everything from scratch. Might not float everyone's boat, but I'd love to have the option. :)

I'd like to see the minor races get a little more flavor too. Right now they are an annoyance, but not much else. I'd like to see them colonizing worlds, for one. Basically, I'd like to see minor races do everything that major races do (even be able to create influence zones), accept I'd like to see them with a slightly modified, shorter tech tree. Make them get a more generic one. They can trade for or steal the advanced stuff they don't get. In fact, let there be a few generic tech trees

Bah, forgot to mention that I'm running TA version .87[b].003