No Metaverse for GalCiv3? That would cetainly take away a significant potion of the appeal for a lot of people. Being able to (indrectly) compete with other players, and to be a member in or run an empire adds quite a bit to the game in my opinion. I think having a metaverse for GalCiv3 would be a wise choice.

That said, I am really looking forward to the fantasy TBS/MoM remake!

Sentient species taste better...

That would definitely be a IE7 issue or something on your end itself as FF is doing that fine post new forums.

Just for 'fun' have you already tried clearing your internet cache so that the forum would be able to do a real good reload of all the data? I remember the forums looked different Monday morning, but after I cleared my cache and came back here things looked better. Perhaps something from the old forum and the code for the new are conflicting for you?

I'm seeing you're icon for Suicidal with FF 2.0.0.10

I just tried it out in IE7 as well (was trying to put off loading that thing up for another few weeks) and got the same bug with the fast scroll. So we've eliminated "it's just you" out of the equation.

Personally speaking, I tend to avoid things with "fantasy" anywhere in the description. I generally don't read fantasy titles or watch fantasy movies. Conversely, I really go for anything involving space travel making GC2's theme attractive to me. I'll be interested in a GC3, assuming it has a similar theme.

I would think any feature requests or improvements made in this forum could be directly applied to a "GC3" site.

Anyone else finding that pinned posts aren't showing up in Opera? They work for me in IE but clicking on the +/- sign in Opera does nothing.

I reproduced this problem, latest Opera, latest IE.

Anybody else remember HTML as this great idea for interoperability? Ten thousand curses on the Browser Warriors, one and all.

Not going to the last page in a thread, and apparent forum gremlin hijacking of "view all recent posts" on many instances are the two irksome changes. Overall I understand it was a lot of work, and I know Brad made mention before you implemented it that "so of course, everyone will hate it". Sometimes familiarity doesn't breed contempt.

As for TA being the end of the road for GC2, its not the first time I've seen this mentioned, but maybe we should start a different thread to really talk about it. My guess is that the "tail" for very active membership will last about a year after release, and then slowly diminish to just a very few dedicated people. All good things come to an end. Hey, we will always have this great game to waste our time!

As for Mumble's remark on how long till GC3, in How radical should expansion packs get? Brad mentions that a "best case" scenario for GC3 would be 2010, and I think that is... highly optimistic. Realities of development being what they are, 3 years is probably the soonest we can realistically expect the next in the series, and maybe longer depending on how much they implement in the next one. I'm sure it will be worth the wait. Will be interesting who is still around when that gets released.

I know the Metaverse left a bad taste in several of the developer's mouths... even fairly early on in the life of DL... score exploits, screaming over minor building tweaks, etc. Its hard as a developer to want to put up with. All that taken into account (and as a proud member of the MetaVerse Council) I would hate to see the MV go. I've never been close to the highest scoring player given my play style (map size), but learning to play for score as well as the win added a second layer of challenge when I might have otherwise decided to shelve the title.

~ Wyndstar

Are you sure about the pinned posts showing up at the bottom etc? I think it's just that pinned posts are showing up in recent posts if they've been updated. Like they should have all along. I don't really mind not having the stickies show up, they shouldn't be included separately with the new posts anyway if they haven't been updated. I wish there was an feature (like every other forum has) to go to new posts for a given forum, and see only the new posts. Not the stickies, and not the recent posts I've already read. If I mark something as read, I don't want it cluttering up the screen next time I view new posts.

Speaking only for myself, I'm not spending less time per day here on the forum, but because I do have a limited time for forum surfing, and because the efficiency has gone way down, I'm not reading as many posts or interacting as much. Here's why... just to reiterate problems mentioned in this thread:

The VLINK color is set the same as LINK color, so on the index page I can't tell which threads I've already read. That's a major time-waster. I have to either track the post times on the right, or just see if there's a new post in a thread by trial and error.

The forum no longer sends me to the newest unread post (and to the last unread page, if it's a multi-page thread). That makes me less interested in reading posts that go over one page, since it requires extra mouse clicks to find the last place I left off reading. It's doubly annoying because the index of messages doesn't indicate when it's a multi-page thread, and there's no shortcut link to the last page in a thread.

Finally, I have to manually increase the font size with Ctrl+ (in Firefox), since they're now using this tiny font, and I have to make sure I'm not applying that to other sites, just this one. If the devs actually like this new font size, then they must be using awfully low screen resolutions.

Unfortunately my free time didn't automatically increase to compensate for all this new inefficiency. So I'm reading less, posting less, and looking mainly for basic info (like when the next beta update is due). I'm hoping the person(s) in charge of the forum are just busy with other things at the moment, and these changes aren't intentional or permanent.

I can imagine.

How about the png alpha transparancy issue as demonstrated by the white background for medals and the real pain in the butt which are all these "operation aborted" errors. A single edit of my reply turns into the following sequence.


You can see how painful this can get.



[edit] I added the picture of my medals to show an example and I couldn't use Ctrl-V to paste it in. I had to type in http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8290/medalsse0.jpg by hand. Another pain. [/edit]

The web team should check out the following thread https://forums.galciv2.com/post.aspx?postid=167924&p=11.

Starting with reply #267 which seems to have a {quote} tag that is not terminated with a {/quote} tag.

This seems to result in the following replies being considered as part of reply #267.

In any case regardless of the cause suddenly that thread has an "extra" indentation along the left edge of the thread that appears to be permanent. I tried editing my reply to start with a close quote tag but that didn't do anything.

Is this something Kryo may be able to fix? Perhaps simply adding the end quote tag in reply #267 could restore the thread.