Galactic Civilizations III Beta 1 Patch Notes

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Galactic Civilizations III Beta 1 Patch Notes

For more on Beta 1, click here.

New Features

  • Updated ideology system adds lots of new ideologies with unique benefits
  • New Terran tech tree, for balanced gameplay
  • New Altarian tech tree, for better access to mysticism, defense and influence
  • New Drengin tech tree, for when you just want to kill something
  • New Iridium tech tree, for earlier access to economic and production abilities
  • Added shipyard construction queue
  • Added black holes. Black holes are impassable but the only source of antimatter
  • Added the approval system. Now your people judge how you are doing, which affects their productivity and growth
  • Added terraforming, to optimize your worlds and open up new areas to build improvements and give adjacency bonuses
  • Added improvement upgrading
  • Planet generation finalized: Planet traits finalized, planet features finalized, planet light map is now working with population
  • Ships can now be upgraded
  • Added huge ships to give players more weapons in the late game
  • Added 30 more colonization events
  • Added the antimatter resource. This is needed for some of the advanced missile and point defense augments
  • Elerium resource can now be harvested. Elerium is used for advanced beam weapons and shield augments
  • Durantium resource can now be harvested. Durantium is used for advanced kinetic weapons and armor

Balance

  • Complete rebalance
  • Map generation pass: Better randomization, more clumping, and players start further from each other

UI

  • Tons of new art (starbases, icons, lighting and ships all look much better)
  • Rendering system finalized
  • Lighting finalized
  • Added a new starbase screen
  • Added the ship and fleet detail screens
  • Updated planet screen
  • Added lots of tooltips (even more will be coming)
  • Added the faction power list so you can see how well you are doing compared to other players
  • Added a "Research Unlocked" popup screen that displays the results of the tech you gained, and what it does

AI

  • The AI knows how to upgrade ships
  • Added difficulty levels (Beginner, Normal, Heroic, Genius, and Godlike)
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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just downloaded this, looking forward to playing it tonight :D

 

With the difficulty levels...I know the AI hasn't been worked on much yet, are those difficulties just giving the AI a bunch on bonuses at this point to try and even it out a little?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

When will be available for beta Founder standard  (40$) ?

 

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

My internet is slow but it will be finished by the time I wake up!

in fact, over the next two weeks I may be walking stable again and go to the state fair and play galciv and ride my bike* and be really happy again. Thanks guys!

 

DARCA. ;)

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Patching! *droll*  "(ships are so shiny now!)" i'll pass even more time to design ships *Q*

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Why was linking star bases to resources removed?

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Nogodexist, reply 7

Why was linking star bases to resources removed?

I'm getting the same thing. Was the mechanics of this changed? Maybe a pre-requisite tech I'm missing?

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting satoru1, reply 8


Quoting Nogodexist,
reply 7

Why was linking star bases to resources removed?



I'm getting the same thing. Was the mechanics of this changed? Maybe a pre-requisite tech I'm missing?

I have all research tech tree unlocked and I can't work out how to get resources any more.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Nogodexist, reply 9

I have all research tech tree unlocked and I can't work out how to get resources any more.

A lot of the UI has changed so maybe we're just missing what's going on?

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting satoru1, reply 10


Quoting Nogodexist,
reply 9


I have all research tech tree unlocked and I can't work out how to get resources any more.



A lot of the UI has changed so maybe we're just missing what's going on?

We are meant to add the mining ring module to the starbase. But all modules are greyed out and not usable.

Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Looks like happiness was added to the planets as well. Love the extra stuff added. My only criticism in a quick run before going to work was it seems there are an awful lot of black holes. There were 4 in my area of 12 or so explored stars! Perhaps it was an aberration.

 

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Nogodexist, reply 11


Quoting satoru1,
reply 10






Quoting Nogodexist,

reply 9



I have all research tech tree unlocked and I can't work out how to get resources any more.




A lot of the UI has changed so maybe we're just missing what's going on?

We are meant to add the mining ring module to the starbase. But all modules are greyed out and not usable.

 

Dock another constructor at your starbase and you will be able to add a mining ring.

Reply #15 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

What is "Population Pressure" does that mean my population is too high or too low?

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Population Pressure means your pop is nearing your food cap, aka your planet is getting more crowded, which lowers approval.

The idea as I understand it is to create some tension between building up your core worlds and settling new ones (building colony ships to ship some of those people offworld).

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting abiessener, reply 16

Population Pressure means your pop is nearing your food cap, aka your planet is getting more crowded, which lowers approval.

The idea as I understand it is to create some tension between building up your core worlds and settling new ones (building colony ships to ship some of those people offworld).

The problem with this mechanic is that eventually you will run out of planets to colonize and nowhere to send extra population.

 

 

Reply #18 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Rhonin_the_wizard, reply 17


Quoting abiessener,
reply 16

Population Pressure means your pop is nearing your food cap, aka your planet is getting more crowded, which lowers approval.

The idea as I understand it is to create some tension between building up your core worlds and settling new ones (building colony ships to ship some of those people offworld).



The problem with this mechanic is that eventually you will run out of planets to colonize and nowhere to send extra population.

 

 

 

But your pop will cap at some point, it doesn't keep growing forever.

Reply #19 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting charon2112, reply 18
But your pop will cap at some point, it doesn't keep growing forever.

I mean that Population Pressure will keep affecting approval and I have no way of minimizing it's effect, as I can only build the Entertainment Network once per planet. Granted there may be some other tech and I haven't researched it.

Another thought on approval. I noticed that selecting Economic Stimulus improved approval more than Festival.

A small complaint, I noticed that after I started building a unique building like Restaurant of Eternity, it would still appear in the improvements list of other planets. I'd prefer if it was removed after starting to build one.

Reply #20 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

launches the opening video then crashes. If you press esc or click the mouse button during the videos it goes to a white screen and crashes.

Reply #21 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ship Builders Back up your files and read post about it 

 

Nasty!

Reply #22 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Installing now! After the look wait, I can finally play the game!

Reply #23 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

So I down loaded Beta, Is this post about an 'additional' patch to the existing beta I downloaded or its just 'Beta'?

 

I ask because I downloaded at 5am pacific time and left for work. Was there an additional patch to game?

Reply #25 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting thejamus, reply 14


Quoting Nogodexist,
reply 11






Quoting satoru1,

reply 10










Quoting Nogodexist,



reply 9





I have all research tech tree unlocked and I can't work out how to get resources any more.





A lot of the UI has changed so maybe we're just missing what's going on?


We are meant to add the mining ring module to the starbase. But all modules are greyed out and not usable.



 

Dock another constructor at your starbase and you will be able to add a mining ring.

Thank you very much. Please add that to the release notes as many people won't know this new feature.