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Galactic Civilizations III - Patch 1.01

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Galactic Civilizations III - Patch 1.01

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–RELEASED 05/21/2015–


The first post-launch patch for Galactic Civilizations III is live, bringing custom faction support to multiplayer, adding several Steam achievements, and fixing high-priority bugs.

The upcoming 1.1 patch, due out in the coming weeks, will add Steam Workshop support among other things.

See below for the full patch notes, and thanks for your support!

 

Features

Enabled Custom Factions in multiplayer (with fixed to make this stable)

Added new Steam achievements for:

Survey an anomaly in a dust cloud/nebula
Declare war before you have Universal Translator
Destroying an enemy Faction
Using a wormhole
As the Iconians, take back Iconia (the Yor homeworld) from the Yor
Control all relics on the map
Survey 15 anomalies in a game
As the Yor, destroy the Iconian faction
Have 12 or more trade routes
Use Core Disruption invasion 10 times in one game
Be at war with 5 different factions at the same time
Win a battle
Destroy more than 15 enemy ships in a battle
Destroy more than 7 pirate bases
Unlock all the Benevolent ideology traits
Unlock all the Malevolent ideology traits
Unlock all the Pragmatic ideology traits

 

Fixes

Fixed the malevolent Mining Accident colonization event choice (it was giving +50% growth instead of -50%)

Fixed a bad adjacency bonus on the Preparedness Center (it was giving +95% resistance for each level!?!)

Fixed a crash if you hover over an out-of-bounds tile while using the teleport cheat

Fixed the "Win the Campaign" cheat

Fixed an issue causing ships to go off the screen in the battle viewer

Upgraded the version of Miles (the sound system) to fix sound issues and memory leaks

Many multiplayer fixes around lobbies and restored sessions

Fixed an issue where multiple simultaneous invasions would show the wrong info in the results window

Fixed a crash when attacking a planet with two fleets in the same action

Fixed a crash if a transport tried to invade a planet at the same time that it was joining a fleet

Fixed a crash if you fought 2 battles against one defender with spawned fighters and canceled the first battle in the same turn

Fixed an issue that would cause you to not be given ships by ideological events and anomalies if you obsoleted those ship designs in your ship lists

Fixed an issue where the planet keeps spinning in the battle viewer even if the simulation is paused

Fixed an issue where the old minimap border stuck around if you started a game within a game (only noticeable if you changed map sizes between those 2 games)

Fixed lots of typos

Didn't add any new typos!

Fixed an issue with ridiculously wide monitors (we were scoffing at the 3000 x 1080 resolution until we got a monitor to test it on, it looks pretty awesome)

Fixed an issue where you could build infinite resource requiring ships by using continuously build (When a ship is set to continuously build in a shipyard, and it requires a specific resource, it now checks if the player has enough of that resource before building. If not, it gets removed from the shipyard's queue and sends an Alert/Notification to the player to let them know)

Fixed a crash when going from the campaign to a multiplayer game

Fixed a stuck turn when the AI invades 2 planets at the same time

Fixed weekly treaty income not showing up in the production sub window

Fixed an issue allowing the player to get peace with the AI in scenarios (like the campaign) where peace isn't allowed

Fixed the jitterbug (AKA ships no longer wiggle when moving on large maps)

Fixed the Kinetic Accelerator to correctly boost the range of Kinetic weapons

Fixed the Quantum Leap ideological trait (it wasn't applying its +5 research per colony bonus)

Fixed the missing icon for Barrier System Focus

Fixed an issue allowing Food Distribution to be buildable while Xeno Irrigation was already built

Fixed the High Output Mining techs

Fixed the prereqs on the Biomass Resequencer

Fixed an issue where decay wasn't being applied for synthetic life. Decay is the process where population shrinks if you have more people than your population cap supports.

Fixed an issue where if a players faction power got high enough it would overrun and flip to 0, causing the AI to surrender

Fixed an issue where lobbies were only looking within your region for other players (now they look globally)

 

Balance

Canceling an improvement rush will now refund the player the cost of rushing the item and re-enable the Buy button.

 

AI

General AI strategy improvements

Reduced bonuses given to the AI due to the AI being smarter

 

Performance

Removed some release level debug

Major late game turn time improvement on large maps (from the AI calculating paths across the entire map for pirates)

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Reply #76 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting CoffeeholicCielo, reply 68

"Features

Enabled Custom Factions in multiplayer (with fixed to make this stable)"

I just downloaded the opt-in and tested the multiplayer.

This is great and all but my buddies still can't see imported custom 1920x1080 pixel leader foreground/background and imported 128x128 leader profile picture and custom faction emblem in multiplayer. All of these show fine in singleplayer and I can see them fine on  myself in multiplayer despite my buddies saying that they can only see "X" marks.

I am at least glad that that I can show off my custom designed ships but please make it so that in multiplayer games to share the data/pictures of the My Games/GalCiv3/Factions folder between players so that they can all see our wonderful imported custom alien leader, not to mention Captain Picard, Darth Vader,ect...

If you are using external game assets then you are playing a mod, not just using a custom faction. The other player doesn't have your local assets (your pictures in this case, though it could be custom music in the diplomacy screen, custom race traits, a new tech tree, etc). Our plan is to use Steam workshop to share files for that functionality, which we are currently working on but won't be in this patch.

Reply #77 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting econundrum1, reply 75


Quoting Fangorm,
reply 57

maybe i will just avoid recent releases from stardock and any other company for a few years so i don't have to waste time waiting for patches and loosing progress from beta issues...will not be the first time i have avoided something for a few years....



Probably wise if you lack the patients for dealing with bugs, generally with PC software I'd suggest buying things about a year post release and only from companies like Stardock who have a good record of aftercare in their games.

Moo3 is still almost unplayable and certainly little fun and that's after the mod community actually made a patch to stop it being completely unplayable after quicksilver went bust.

 

my biggest annoyance is i will be working for the next 28 days with no breaks and no chance to play play anything  so this past 5 days was going to be the longest i i will have off for anything in the next 6 months and then everything goes to hell(for me) with the game...and i can see that Gal civ 3 is going to be one of if not the best 4x strategy game ever released...yes i can see all the good things about the game...BUT bad experiences tend to strip the gloss from anything especially when they happen so soon after release and with a program like gal civ there is every likelihood i will never have an empire that worked as perfectly as the one i lost...

 

i see moo3 as a cheap knock off inspired by the two previous titles..of course that can be said about space siege,sacred 3 and several other games..

i also hope some of the joke system names will be toned down as the game is improved and expanded(but that is a different topic entirely) 

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Reply #78 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok, i tested the new patch and game crashes when i want to leave a running game to main menu... i tried to go back to 1.0 but the problem remains... on weekend i didnt had this problem no matter how often i quit a running game. the other problem i have discovered today is when you reach traits the free ships you get dont appear. not the three constructors or the fully loaded colonyship nor the frigate... your points just vanish and you get no ships. on weekend it worked. anyone else experiancing the same?

Reply #79 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok, i tested the new patch and game crashes when i want to leave a running game to main menu... i tried to go back to 1.0 but the problem remains... on weekend i didnt had this problem no matter how often i quit a running game. the other problem i have discovered today is when you reach traits the free ships you get dont appear. not the three constructors or the fully loaded colonyship nor the frigate... your points just vanish and you get no ships. on weekend it worked. anyone else experiancing the same?

Have you submitted a ticket about this?

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/default_import/Knowledgebase/Article/View/496/161/general-galactic-civilizations-iii-troubleshooting 

 

Reply #80 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have a VERY nice game going on but I am going to restart a new one wit RARE & RARE planets. Also i seem to have a bit too much Relics laying around the map. Ill prolly start this tomorrow after this goes live. 

 

Thank you Dev team!

Reply #81 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

lol @ Didn't add any new typos! :rofl:

Reply #82 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting econundrum1, reply 74


Quoting Fangorm,
reply 53

I assume you've run a check on the disk to avoid this happening again.

 

These forums are no place for logic!!!

 

Quoting Larsenex, reply 80

I have a VERY nice game going on but I am going to restart a new one wit RARE & RARE planets. Also i seem to have a bit too much Relics laying around the map. Ill prolly start this tomorrow after this goes live. 

 

Thank you Dev team!

 

What I have been doing is random on almost every thing. Makes the games very interesting when you don't know what state the galaxy is gonna be in. The only ones I leave on normal are I believe, difficulty, and the pacing settings. Rest all random!

Reply #83 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

@Nimrod:

my 3 constructors did appear when I got that trait.

 

Reply #84 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

  Second 10 meg patch today?

Reply #85 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Nimrod13, reply 78

Ok, i tested the new patch and game crashes when i want to leave a running game to main menu... i tried to go back to 1.0 but the problem remains... on weekend i didnt had this problem no matter how often i quit a running game. the other problem i have discovered today is when you reach traits the free ships you get dont appear. not the three constructors or the fully loaded colonyship nor the frigate... your points just vanish and you get no ships. on weekend it worked. anyone else experiancing the same?

We had an issue in 1.0 where if you obsolete the ship design that is being given out you wouldn't get any from anomalies and ideology traits. The player who submitted it had made a custom colony ship and constructor and obsoleted the existing colony ship and constructor. But we fixed that in 1.01, so if you are opted into 1.01 and your game was started on 1.01 you shouldn't see this issue.

Reply #86 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Derek, reply 76

If you are using external game assets then you are playing a mod, not just using a custom faction. The other player doesn't have your local assets (your pictures in this case, though it could be custom music in the diplomacy screen, custom race traits, a new tech tree, etc). Our plan is to use Steam workshop to share files for that functionality, which we are currently working on but won't be in this patch.

Thank you for the quick response Derek, I will excitedly await your steam workshop release!


In the meantime I will attempt to trade custom faction data from the MyGames/GalCiv3/Factions folder with my buddies via Skype or email and see if the imported images work in multiplayer if we both have the imported foreground/background and emblem pictures in both of our local assets for our seperate computers.


We're going to try this without giving each other our custom faction data however, only the pictures/consmetic .Pngs.

Would you happen to know in advance if doing this would work for us to be able to see each other's custom leaders in multiplayer?

Have you yourself tested something similar to this???

Reply #87 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

i tested it with both versions. 1.0 and 1.01. the problem is on both versions. now that you mention it i deleted some of my own shipdesigns. i didnt made them obsolete i deleted a colony and a survey design... but i dont see how this would affect the game since custom designs are ignored by the game if it comes to spawning... at least i had a crash everytime i tried to choose my own designs as standard designs.

Reply #88 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

New Achievements are now live! :)  For this opt-in user at least. ;)

Reply #89 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Fangorm, reply 77

Quoting econundrum1,
reply 75






Quoting Fangorm,

reply 57


maybe i will just avoid recent releases from stardock and any other company for a few years so i don't have to waste time waiting for patches and loosing progress from beta issues...will not be the first time i have avoided something for a few years....



Probably wise if you lack the patients for dealing with bugs, generally with PC software I'd suggest buying things about a year post release and only from companies like Stardock who have a good record of aftercare in their games.

Moo3 is still almost unplayable and certainly little fun and that's after the mod community actually made a patch to stop it being completely unplayable after quicksilver went bust.



 

my biggest annoyance is i will be working for the next 28 days with no breaks and no chance to play play anything  so this past 5 days was going to be the longest i i will have off for anything in the next 6 months and then everything goes to hell(for me) with the game...and i can see that Gal civ 3 is going to be one of if not the best 4x strategy game ever released...yes i can see all the good things about the game...BUT bad experiences tend to strip the gloss from anything especially when they happen so soon after release and with a program like gal civ there is every likelihood i will never have an empire that worked as perfectly as the one i lost...

 

i see moo3 as a cheap knock off inspired by the two previous titles..of course that can be said about space siege,sacred 3 and several other games..

i also hope some of the joke system names will be toned down as the game is improved and expanded(but that is a different topic entirely) 

Son,I've played GC2 for 7 years I had over 100 custom races with all custom ships about 400 ship templates that due to my wife not backing up her laptop and getting a virus on it I had to wipe The LOT! as to GC3 I've been a beta player since November 2014 (6 months) and every time there been a new beta eg going from 3 to 4 I've had to wipe/delete all my save games and I even had to wipe games for the 1.0 release! I feel your pain about not being able to play for awhile 28 days will seem along time and will make it all the more sweeter when you comeback to play the game.when my old comp blew I had to wait a year before I could get back to playing any of my games and had to start from scratch again.

At least when you can play again their might be more patches release and some of your problems/concerns may have been fixed? :grin:

Reply #90 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 79


Ok, i tested the new patch and game crashes when i want to leave a running game to main menu... i tried to go back to 1.0 but the problem remains... on weekend i didnt had this problem no matter how often i quit a running game. the other problem i have discovered today is when you reach traits the free ships you get dont appear. not the three constructors or the fully loaded colonyship nor the frigate... your points just vanish and you get no ships. on weekend it worked. anyone else experiancing the same?



Have you submitted a ticket about this?

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/default_import/Knowledgebase/Article/View/496/161/general-galactic-civilizations-iii-troubleshooting 

 

It's not crashing here, but it does take a while longer than it used to.  Windows reports the game as "unresponsive", but it eventually goes to the main menu, maybe 30 seconds later.

Do I need to report this?

Reply #91 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

So the game is loading still redviper37?

Reply #92 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

curious what is in the last little mini update. 

Reply #93 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Dumhed, reply 92

curious what is in the last little mini update. 

Wanted to ask this too.

Reply #94 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

In another thread Derek said he was slipping in a fix for the 5000 point power reset problem.

Reply #95 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Someone said his savegame now works properly and that the 6000 power bug is no more.

Reply #96 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Publius, reply 94

In another thread Derek said he was slipping in a fix for the 5000 point power reset problem.

Doesn't look like any XMLs were changed, so sounds about right. 

Reply #97 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Maybe it was just the beta going public?

Reply #98 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Total production and manufacturing mix up typos still not fixed.

Reply #99 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Great, but still waiting for 'rename star' button within ZOC, same for dead planets (allows for greater immersion for those who care about it, doesn't change anything to those who don't)

Reply #100 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting NotAnUser, reply 99

Great, but still waiting for 'rename star' button within ZOC, same for dead planets (allows for greater immersion for those who care about it, doesn't change anything to those who don't)

 

Huh? I'm not really sure what you're asking for. You do know that you can change any star/planet name you want at any time within the game, whether it's within your ZOC or not. You can either do it from the Governing tab/screen (if it's your planet) or just highlight the star/planet in question and then in the lower left click on the name and a pop-up window will come up where you can type in what you want.