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Has anyone noticed this. https://www.galciv3.com/game The icon for the media section looks like a screen shot. (I can't figure out how to get the image alone.) At first I thought it might be a place holder from GC2, but it has a hex grid. It still could be an image concept and not a screen shot, but I don't know. Looks nice though.
Looks like GC2 stuff, but on a hex grid. My guess is it is pre-alpha with GC2 artwork acting as placeholder graphics.
Are hexes confirmed? I thought Brad had said in the past that he didn't like hexes for 4X games.
They are confirmed to be in. https://forums.galciv3.com/449010/page/1/#3405279
All the more reason that I think Jon Shafer designed this game. He loves hexes.
Here is a small picture of it from the website:
And here I made it larger and used Paint to write and emphasize some obvious landmarks. The quality is awful, sorry.
I don't know enough about the ships to ID the two larger ones east and south east of earth, nor the ones in the Altarian? space. There seems to be a minor fleet above the A in my written "Altarian."
Feel free to point out other little things that you can find.
Looks like a good vision to me. enough said, unless any of you want to argue that squares are the way to go?
Though I feel like Brad has been convinced of the benefits of hexes.
Maybe it's just the low-res, but that screenshot really just looks like galciv2 with hexes. 
Frogboy already said that when the first screenshots roll out (someday...), people will say that it looks like GalCivII but prettier.
I'm more interested in seeing some of the newer UI stuff. To me the 'strategy map' part is a bit ancillary from a purely gameplay perspective. I need to interact with my empire, other empires, ships, planets etc. HOW I do that, can more or less make or break the game, even if the core concepts are solid. I mean I love SMAX, but lord the UI sometimes makes me want to burn the floppies.
I'm sure it looks much better than that screenshot suggests. I'm not really a graphics whore anyway, I mean I love Distant Worlds. 
I saw that image almost the first day i visited this site and assumed it was concept although now that its enlarged i do see some more info
that ship in the bottom right between Terran's and economics looks like a carrier from starcraft i think
but there's some kind of gas nebula on the bottom right corner that seems to be limiting the influence range from both the Terran and Alterran's.
as for the "economics star-base" it looks like its linked to the asteroid belt on the left in some form possibly a mining colony or using the asteroids to make components
while speaking of the asteroid belt the asteroid top right in that belt is highlighted red some kind of danger? its been identified as being on a collision course with earth?
I agree. It looks this way. I hope it works this way. It would be great way for upgrading starbases. And just some asteroids in planet system would be enough to make system usable .
Am I seeing things, or does it look almost 3D? It looks to me as if the view is like it would be if seen from a particular point in space, with what was a flat view GC2 curving away from the viewer as it approaches the edges of the view.
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