General comments on Beta 2

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Ok, I've managed to play a little with Beta 2.

My general toughts.
1) this way the game is prone to a constant war. No way to win in other ways. No peace. I suppose they'll get back later.
2) anomalies for research: please add back some 100% of current.
3) anomalies: good mix and unpredictability now.
4) starbase: cost like a battleship but is meaningfull only if not at war
5) have to go now...

5) in current game AI cannot invade any of my planets because of my soldiering advantage (180 vs 30). need to be balanced.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Gherardo,

I have won with alliances and tech research.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
ive won by alliances no problem. Just wait till everyone else is at war and then start giving them ships.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I agree with gherardo, Aliens always pick fights when you are weaker than then, even when you are good and select good Aliens.

Must take many hours to go right through the tech tree.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, but remember that currently if you select "good" aliens they actually are "evil" in the game because of that bug...
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
'1) this way the game is prone to a constant war. No way to win in other ways. No peace. I suppose they'll get back later.'

The AI currently doesn't do much but war because most of the game functions are only partially in, and coding the AI to use some of them would involve rolling it back and recoding them when the complete versions are in. That is perportedly the reason the AI doesn't use Starbases right now. The AI code was pending the implementation of resources.

As for winning by other methods, I've won by alliance before, and tech and trade wins are possible.

'2) anomalies for research: please add back some 100% of current.'

100% of current is horribly unbalanced. 100% of a random available tech might work though. I do find the 25% annoying at times, mainly because I tend to have high enough research that one turn results in more than 25% of the tech being researched.

'3) anomalies: good mix and unpredictability now.'

But only until you save the game, because of a bug.

'5) in current game AI cannot invade any of my planets because of my soldiering advantage (180 vs 30).'

Mainly because of the bug above turning alot of the anomolies into soldering anomolies. It is fairly balanced otherwise.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
...and speaking of alien races declaring war...the last three games I played, no one declared war on me. But there are a million different ways to play, with a million different combinations of setups (different intelligence levels, different alignments, etc).

--Mark