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[.80] Feedback

Posted on Friday, April 3, 2015

GalCiv 3 .80
It is possible some of these have been addressed in .81, I haven't seen it yet. Here are my observations, feedback, and bugs found.

Trade

  1. BUG - Trade Screen shows that I have 2 routes in use. 3 Foreign routes coming in. My trade details shows -1/4 trade routes. However, I have +4 trade from [Xeno Commerce, Designatd Trading Partner, Interstellar Trade]. When I cancel the foriegn trade routes then I can use the rest of my licenses.
  2. Launching a freighter from a ship yard with multiple sponsors. It is unclear what the numbers next to the planet's name means.

Planet Screen

  1. BUG - Placed Port Of Call a tile with Ancient Wonder(+1 Tourism). the building is still level 0 even though it is a tourism improvment.
  2. Building's tool tip obscurse the Available Project names. Consider offesting the tooltip.

Map Screen

  1. At full zoom, I can't tell what ship has been selected.
  2. Magenta stars look weird. It doesn't look like a natural star color.
  3. Ability to rename ships, fleets, and starbases would be great.
  4. In beta 3, Joovian planets were called Gas Giants, not dead worlds. This was a nice touch that made the universe seem full and diverse.
  5. Some of the new resource appear to spawn in place of planets. I love this idea and woudl like to add a few suggestion to expand on this theme. Could there description have a planet name and class assigned to it. Jupiter class P (Promethium)

Starbase Screen

  1. It would be nice to see what resource a start base is collecting.

ShipYard Screen

  1. Add the ability to upgrade equipment attached to a ship design, without removing the component. Good for those complex designs that you want to keep "just so".
  2. Components are grouped by sub category. Could the samething be done with existing ship designs. 
  3. BUG - Rapid Reload and Kinetic Accelerator are in separate Kinetic Augment sub categories.

United Planet Screen

  1. It would be nice to see what percent of the vote comes from my civilization.
  2. Could a pie chart, bar chart, or both be added to show the voting break down?

Combat Screen

  1. Cannon fire graphics look more powerful than rail gun graphics.
  2. Laser fire animation looks like the ship firing the laser has been hit by a laser instead.
  3. Technology Screen 
  4. Only displays research progress on Tech Tree View.

Ideology Screen

  1. BUG - Icons do not distiguesh between unlocked, available, and selected.

Crash To Desktop

  1. Won on a Small map by influence.
  2. Started new game as Thalan on medium map. 
  3. Crashed on initial loading step.

AI

  1. BUG- Races that are Furious with me, always vote for me in UP meetings. Galactic Games Fund for instance.