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Galactic Civilizations III v1.4.1 Changelog (Released 11/5)

Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2015

***Released 11/5/15***

Summary

In response to your feedback, we are allowing you to optionally use the old planetary production wheel through a pref.ini setting.  In addition, this patch addresses an issue with old save game and fixes other game play bugs.  

Please read Brad Wardell's thoughts on the production wheel and where we are headed:

https://forums.galciv3.com/472815/page/1/

https://forums.galciv3.com/472865/page/1

To enable the wheel:

  • Start the game once to get the new pref change

  • Quit the game

  • Go to My Games\GalCiv3

  • Open Prefs.ini

  • Change UseColonyProductionWheel from 0 to 1

  • Start GalCiv3


Change Log

+ Players can enable the old style planetary production wheel from 1.3.  After running the game once, open your My Games\GalCiv3\ prefs.ini and change UseColonyProductionWheel from 0 to 1

+ Players with older save games can now use the new foci UI

+ Players will no longer be able to game the diplomatic trade screen to get millions of credits

+ Players will no longer start with the assault fighters starbase improvement.

+ Fixed a problem where the AI would sometimes display the incorrect conversation dialog.

+ The AI will no longer gift specialization techs to the player.

+ Addressed an issue that caused the game to sometimes crash when ships were destroyed

+ Added missing icons