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[quote]The initial release of 1.96 had that weapons bug you mention. CariElf had posted a .zip file to manually fix things that night since everyone who could post the update to SDC/Impulse was gone for the day. Yesterday there was another update that was the official fix for the weapons thing.[/quote] Cool. Can anyone open this map I made? It crashes when I start the game after selecting opponents (which should already be selected by the map): http://planetidiot.com/temp/c

Oh and most recently all weapon components became available in the ship editor even though I didn't research the techs, which of course meant the ships I put them on weren't available. This was the 1.96.025 update. Didn't fix crash on switch to desktop either.

[quote]I think his issue with it, is that the auto-pilot is sometimes thinking that the asteroid field is the shortest route...and it's horridly wrong.[/quote] The issue is on entering, and even after leaving, the asteroid field, my ships can only travel one space per turn. Permanently. That's their max moves left: One. Forever. Until you do the fleet trick I described. More bugs I've seen: -Korx show up on my stats legend, but they aren't even in the game I'm play

Same deal happened to me, I was just ranting about it in a bug thread. Same dea, the Krynn going culture happy and no one (but me) doing anything about it. But lucky for me the Krynn are all suffering from a degenerative brain disease because they can't wage a war to save their lives. Literally, because I'm slaughtering them with my flailing economy, weak science and the 3rd most powerful military in the galaxy (they're #1). The other AIs are worse I guess because as you say, they do nothing

I've noticed the game is fairly glitchy. Or am I the only one where if a fleet of ships enters an asteroid field suddenly it can only travel 1 space per turn until I break up the fleet through the fleet manager and rejoin them together? Once even this fix didn't work and I was forced to sell the ships. I loaded my game where I was researching advanced barren planet colonization or whatever (I had about 5 turns left) but when the game started I had ALL the various planet type colonizat

We're a minority I'll admit. Some people play chess by mail. I like to play Civ 3 by e-mail. I would very much like to play GalCiv 2 by e-mail, but it's clear that will never happen.

Well if the AI isn't building ships with survey modules, it's probably because it's assuming it has one from the start, but also this proves my point. If you start with one, there's no point in building any. This is the problem with the current set up. The AI never builds them, the player never builds them, and all the anamolies are gone by the time you can actually build the ship. Oh, on top of the fact that you start with a ship you can't build. It makes no sense.

Sweet. The game is MUCH more interesting without starting survey ships. I researched it first and currently have 3 survey vessels (built on cargo hulls) zipping around trying to nab all the anomolies before the computer decides to catch up. I never build survey ships in the normal game... this has added a whole new exploration phase. The colonization part was interesting too without that fancy ship you can't even build exploring everything for you. The computer focused on little

If not a multiplayer can we atleast get hotseat? Hotseat is multiplayer. If we got hotseat, it could very easily be play by email (just save at the end of the turn and send it off to the next player).

True play-by-email multiplayer is the only thing I think I'd pay for at this point. And yeah, I missed the survey again for this. But my friend would buy it too, and possibly this other dude we play Civ III multi with. I don't care about scenarios, and the things I think the game is lacking should be free updates (like an option to disable starting ships).

So does that mean you can remove them? I'd rather it be an in-game option than a mod... I'm guessing modifications don't allow metaverse submissions.

I would really like the ability to turn off the starting survey ship. It makes no sense... you can't build survey ships at the start of the game, so why would you have one? Plus I think it would make the tech race more interesting because you'd actually have a need to build exploration ships.

Arg... I always miss these polls. Well, add two yesses to it, me and my buddy would get this. We do ongoing play-by-email games of Civ 3.

If I didn't like a game as much as they said, the last place I'd be is the fan forum for the game! It just doesnt make any sense to me whatsoever I'm pretty sure it's not because they don't like the game, but that they see areas for improvement. And they are posting here because the developers of the

There are some techs that are just pointless. They are just gateways to other techs. I forget which exactly, but look along the larger ships line (medium/large scale building) and you will see at least one tech that does nothing at all. Just get rid of it and make the next one take longer to research. I don't mind all the weapon upgrades, it's nice to get smaller ones and squeeze more stuff on a ship, but why do the old crappy ones stay

If you ships don't have any defense/attack, the ship modules will not 'assist' (Your Frieghters/Colony Ships/Constructors won't magically get any defenses...but your 2 beam/ 2shield Heavy fighter should get some assistance from the correct modules.) I don't see how it's magic that a nearby starbase eq

I brought this up ages ago, but nothing came of it. I'd like to see different sized moons at different orbit speeds/directions, and even the odd inclined orbit (rings too). It would give a little more graphical spice to the game. And it would not be "hella stuff for the computer to calculate". I could program it. It's easy. But I'm sure we'll get major bugs ironed out before anything like this ever happens.

Another solution would be to have an assimilation period after trading. You can only use a tech you got through trading after x% of the time it would take to reasearch it. It still saves you having to research it yourself, but prevents you from turning around and selling it, or even using it right away. I would like to see the ability to trade ahead of what you've researched (skipping techs) removed. It doesn't make sense that you could

The Scottilingamoids were getting their butts handed to them, so to keep some balance in the galaxy (and a nice trading partner) I thought I'd help him out without getting involved in the war. So I gave him a nice medium defense vessel... which he left hanging around my planet. I thought maybe it was a glitch, so I flew a medium fighter in range of the fleets that were harrassing him, but no, he just left it floating there to be wiped out a few turns

Those don't seem like real lights, they seem like colored orbs decorating my ship. Aren't they supposed to be real lights? Just checking.

My one interface complaint at this point is that I'm never exactly sure where a planet is when I'm picking the next thing to build there. In Civ III it's easy to tell, because the city screen is basically the map of the surrounding area. At the start of a turn you get a column of alerts that tell you what's finished being built, and if you double click, it opens that planet up. But where is that planet? Where the planet is is a big factor in what I want to choose, and it's a hassl

All useful items in the ship designer (engine, weapons, etc) disappear when upgrading a ship. I've reported this before, but it's still broken. The items cannot be selected on the 3D model. They are blank squres in the list of things on the ship. There's no way to delete them, and therefore no way to upgrade a ship. Is this only happening to me or what?

I've been complaining about this for a while. I'm not saying they should all be class 10, but if I say abundant, I'm thinking abundant, as in no systems with 5 class zero planets. It's like a continent with nothing but mountains on it in Civ 3. you don't see it, because it's useless to the game.

I've been playing trying to get the game to crash, but it isn't cooperating. But I did notice a weird issue with upgrading my ships. When I click upgrade in the ship designer, the important parts that I would want to upgrade (like weapons & defense) are missing. There's a space for them in the boxes, but I can't select it to remove it. Clicking on the part on the 3D model doesn't work either. Also, obsolete upgrade components are still present in the parts list. If I have a smaller

I noticed all the moons in the game are orbiting planets in the opposite direction of the rotation of the planet. I was just curious if this was pretty universal with moons in real life, and if not if we should see some variation in the game.