Published on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 By
Hey guys!
Lots to talk about here. Last month I was at Stardock headquarters in Michigan, USA all the way from Australia. I had an incredible time, and while I was there we crafted up a roadmap for the rest of 2017. Here's a dorky photo of Brad (Draginol) & I.
##Upcoming 2.4 Update##
Check out the video below to hear all about the update! If you crave more detail, keep reading.
Published on Sunday, July 16, 2017 By
Microsoft Surface Pro love
I got GalCiv III to run on my Surface Pro 4 by manually updating the video drivers to the latest ones by Intel. The official drivers from Microsoft are a year old and those drivers claimed to be DirectX 11 capable drivers (they were not) and so the game would crash when trying to do a DirectX 11 specific call.
If you have an embedded Intel video adapter, do yourself a favor and head over to Intel's site and download the drivers. I had to download the ZIP file and then extract it and then manually install the driver as it isn't digitally signed.
The biggest issue I have with my Surface Pro 4 is that it throttles. Badly. It would play GalCiv III like a champ if it weren't running at 860Mhz.
Balancing Thoughts
There is no perfect balance because what is balanced is in the eye of the beholder. That said, we are looking at adding more options (such as disabling espionage) to allow players to customize their game experience further.
Population is going to be tweaked so that 1 point of population = 1 raw production. This will require some balance changes on morale and farms and such but this is the most elegant way to make population be more powerful. Planets will tend to start with 1 population.
Ultimate asteroid field: Don't hate the player, hate the game (please don't hate the game!)
Tourism will eventually be tied to your cultural influence. We are starting to keep track of how many tiles you control and how many are congruent to your capital world.
Minor races are going to be getting friskier in the future (as in, provide opportunities for early game limited wars).
AI won't offer to trade with you if they don't like you (results in weird offers)
AI generated offers are awesome when relations are decent.
Cultural conquest is coming along nicely.
Polish Polish Polish
Right now, much of our work is on polishing the UI, making quality of life fixes and fixing bugs that we get reported. We are also trying to make modding a lot easier so that people can enable subscribe and unsubscribe from mods more easily.
Your Civ's racial abilities will show up on the stats screen
AI
The AI is something we continually update as we get new saved games from players and just play test over and over again. Each time we play, we see something that we think can be improved on.
I'm in the debugger now. So more to come. 
Published on Monday, June 19, 2017 By
The v2.3 update for Galactic Civilizations III updates both the base game and the recently released Crusade expansion. This update brings AI improvements, new missions, and more!
To read more about what's new in v2.3, visit here.
Published on Monday, June 12, 2017 By
GalCiv III: Crusade + the GalCiv community = unlimited strategic replayability.
In preparation for v2.3, I'm testing out the various new gameplay features and improvements. And what better way to do that than to put myself up against 9 random civilizations from the Steam workshop...
Published on Sunday, June 11, 2017 By
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade is the future of Galactic Civilizations but we haven't forgotten about the hundreds of thousands of players who play the base game. We are busy working on version 2.3 which should be coming out soon as part of a major update to both the base game and Crusade. This article details some of the highlighted areas we're focusing on.
Published on Sunday, June 11, 2017 By
With the Steam Summer sale coming up, we wanted to make sure that the base game of GalCiv III gets a nice refresh. It's proving difficult because while GalCiv III: Crusade is sold as an "expansion pack" to GalCiv III, under the covers it's more like a sequel.
Published on Friday, June 9, 2017 By
Managing Designer, Callum McCole of the Generals Gentlemen, is here in Plymouth all the way from Perth Australia where we're working out the roadmap for Ashes of the Singularity.
Version 2.3 just arrived which includes Juggernauts and Episode 3 (yes, all for free). It's an exciting time so let's talk about what's happening...
Published on Thursday, June 8, 2017 By
Dominate the battlefield in v2.3 of Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation! With two brand new tier 5 Juggernaut warships (Leonidas and Nest of the Queen), a fully voiced "Genesis" campaign, and updates for the existing campaign, the game is better than ever before.
To read more about what's new in v2.3, visit here.
Published on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 By
This is a response to the excellent article over at one of my favorite sites, Explorminate. In the article, author Oliver Kiley laments on what he sees as the current unpolished state of the modern 4X market.
Published on Thursday, June 1, 2017 By
Greetings!
We are working on version 2.3 for Crusade and the base game simultaneously. We don't have a final date but I expect you will start seeing opt-ins very soon.
I want to make you guys aware of some important changes happening on Steam that will affect you.
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