Publius of NV

Reply to Destroying my starting planet capitol does not allow me to rebuild it in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

Are the buildings that "magically" show up the ones that normally can't be built on your starting planet? I wonder if there's a bug where there visibility is being determined by the presence of the capitol building instead of a check for the planet being your starting planet.

Reply to Mass war declaration? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

It's not a faction perk. You have to earn culture points and choose it from the right culture tree.

Reply to 1.7 Orbital Improvements Don't Function Correctly in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="CaptBeefheart" reply="2" id="3900834"] The question is what is an orbital prison on a colony world supposed to do? Is it supposed to only reduce crime on the colony world? Is crime on a colony world something the player needs to worry about? Does it have any effect on the game? [/quote] It's been a few weeks since I've been able to play, so this may have changed, but I believe it accurately describes what the original poster was talking about. Crime on colony wor

Reply to Experimental Technologies in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Yes, it's on the manage planets window. It appears in the "Available Projects" list. And my mistake, it's now on the lower right. Unless it's been changed recently it should appear on all your core planets until you scan enough of them, then it will disappear.

Reply to Experimental Technologies in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

There should be a button in the lower left part of the planet window that says "scan planet".

Reply to GalCiv IV: Video Dev Blog #4 - The History of Galactic Civilizations Games in GalCiv IV Dev Journals GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Avatar137" reply="3" id="3900556"] I’ve been along for the ride since the beginning!! [/quote] As have I. I remember how excited I was to get the Shipyards expansion for GC for OS/2.

Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Wishlists for July 27 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="ops862" reply="15" id="3897771"] No effect. [/quote] Strange. The keys 1 to 5 along the top row of the keyboard are supposed to adjust the viewing angle of the map, with 5 being the closest to a top down view.

Reply to GalCiv IV: Supernova Wishlists for July 27 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="ops862" reply="13" id="3897763"] Please include an option for a top down map view as distinct from the default tilted/perspective view ? [/quote] Have you tried hitting the number key 5 (on the top row)? That gives you a view that's pretty close to top down. It's how I play.

Reply to Recommend me a book 2022 in Movies & TV & Books GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3896388"] I need a new series. [/quote] Have you read Gene Wolfe? I really enjoyed his Book of the New Sun series, the Book of the Long Sun series, The Book of the Short Sun series, and The Soldier series.

Reply to Greyed out buttons in GalCiv IV Support GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="ReneTS" reply="12" id="3896345"] Where do you write a support ticket to stardock? [/quote] Try emailing [email protected] That's worked for me in the past.

Reply to Roundup of more odd issues and bugs in 1.6 in GalCiv IV Feedback GalCiv4 Forums

[quote]Seems like some of the 'chieves aren't working. I've definitely had a ship reach 5th level, and I've played for more than 100 hours, for example. Also "discover a nebula", "hyperspace", "complete a minor civ quest", "recruit a leader" and probably several more. [/quote] I've been documenting these achievements that don't work since the base game went live on Epic, but so far none of them have been fixed. Take a look

Reply to AI generated art? How? in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

As I understand it, from what Brad Wardell has said here on the forums and in the Discord chat, yes, the art is generated by AI, but the AI they are using is trained only the art produced by Stardock artists, in order to avoid any copyright claims. In the months since Supernova was released I've noticed the variety of portraits produced has improved, and I hope it will continue to do so.

Reply to Some more random issues in 1.6 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote]Is there a way to see when my treaties are going to expire with the various civs? If so I haven't located it. Nice to have? [/quote] I would really like to see this. As far as I know, the way it is now, you have to carefully watch the notifications and/or periodically check the other civ's opinion of you (at least for open borders).

Reply to Epic/Steam Achievements, those working and those that are broken in GalCiv IV Bug Reports GalCiv4 Forums

I've updated the title of this post to indicate it's for both Epic and Steam, since I noticed that having played Supernova on Steam for more than 100 hours, the achievements that I noted weren't working on Epic are also not working on Steam.

Reply to Orbital Prison Issue Under 1.60.417998 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="PaulLach" reply="4" id="3894367"] Publius, that would be a reasonable explanation except that Zhang IV is the only colony that Zhang II had so even if Zhang IV had over 10% crime and Zhang II itself had over 10 % crime, the total crime reduction would only be 20%. Therefore, I think something else is going on here. [/quote] In that case I think you're right.

Reply to Orbital Prison Issue Under 1.60.417998 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

As an example, my homeworld here is getting 6% crime from all of its colonies. An orbital prison would reduce all of those to 0.

Reply to Orbital Prison Issue Under 1.60.417998 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

I've seen this from other crime reducing techniques also. Your world Zhang II is a core world, which means that its crime rate is increased by crime on all of the colonies feeding it. Typically, the crime rate on colonies is less than 10%, so deploying the orbital prison would reduce the crime rate on all of the colonies whose crime rate is 10% or less to 0. That means your core world crime drops dramatically. Could that explain what happened in your game?

Reply to Mining Starbase Issue Under 1.60.417998 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

I pretty much agree with Paul. The first improvement to take advantage of ascension crystals and precursor artifacts takes one turn to take effect, but subsequent improvements take effect immediately. Should be consistent.

Reply to More than one diplomatic message but it skips past them in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv4 Forums

I haven't played GC3 since GC4 came out, but I remember that when I was playing I'd often see a message from, say, the Arceans on one turn, then a turn or so later I'd get another message - the message window would open, it would display my last message from the Arceans, then the message would be overwritten by a new message. It's like the game engine was was opening the message window without refreshing its contents, then overwriting whatever was there. So I was really just getting one messa

Reply to Trade Routes vanishing? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="sleepnplay" reply="4" id="3893816"] Is it possible, by any chance, that the trade route vanishes because the relationship with another civilization deteriorates (so they cancel the trade agreement)? [/quote] I have not seen that happen. By far the most common way I've seen trade routes vanish is when two AIs are at war and one takes over a planet of another that I've had a trade route to.

Reply to Interesting Universe Under 1.60.388302 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

That's all it took for me. But I don't have Supernova on Epic.

Reply to 1.60 - sometimes i lose prestige points in GalCiv IV Support GalCiv4 Forums

In every previous version of GC, Influence took a couple of turns after loading a save to be recalculated correctly. I've not verified that for GC4, but it might be that or something like it.

Reply to Cannot Load Citizen Onto Transport Under 1.60.388302 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Since the job of the citizen changes when loaded onto a transport or constructor, perhaps this was an unintentional side effect of the change to require 5 control to retrain workers? Anyway, I'm not a fan of any control requirement for changing citizens jobs, it wasn't broken, didn't need fixing.

Reply to Support Field Stabilization Added To Mining Starbases Under 1.60.388302 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Agreed, another oversight fixed. Thanks.

Reply to Training Citizens Under 1.60.388302 in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

[quote who="scifi1950" reply="1" id="3893202"] I agree with you that 5 control is way too much. 1 would have been plenty. [/quote] One would be plenty if the game was smarter about how it initially trained them. I don't need a barren world producing multiple farmers or a world with 96% approval producing multiple entertainers. I have better uses for control than fixing the AI's mistakes.