As I understand it, management looked at the Steam reviews and lowered the number of people working on the game because of the negative rating.

I agree with the lack of feedback: For me, I dont expect everything I complain about to be fixed pronto - or in some cases, fixed at all.

But I'd like to know what Stardock's plans are regarding those things and why.

Wow. That's pleasantly surprising! Now if we can just get 10-20 more bugfixes in addition to that, I might even be able to play it again... After another month of modding of course... *wistful sigh*

Unfortunately I don't use Discord except when I absolutely have to. Be nice if the devs weren't totally silent on their own forum (*cough* Paradox communicates really well! *cough*), but that's just how it is. I gave up ever expecting any info or help from these devs when they refused to answer about the XML .bin files back when Crusade first came out, even though they easily could've. Talk about feeling betrayed...

And of course, as I've said before, a majority of these bugs look/sound/smell (to me) like things that should've never happened in the first place, fancy 64-bit architecture or not, but whatever; that pattern is obviously not going to change, and a working game is more important than beating a dead horse. So, thank you for the info, Horemvore.

Yeap, SD should concentrate more on bug fixing and improvements (like invasions, space battles) and then add DLC's.  Not the other way around.  Unless they have a reason to do this, which will mean there is a problem.

While some complaints are design decisions (negative food for example, which does not bother me so much as it could be made better)

others are actual bugs.

Frogboy, for the record, the bug I was concerned about is apparently fixed in 3.02 (about to test now)

thank you for your attention and a great game

Guess I'll weigh in on this.

• 3 Weeks is NOT a long time in my opinion.
• The forum is likely not the best place to comment honestly... I imagine the Discord server is actually more effective (sadly).
• The game is a lot of fun and while these bugs are "annoying" I wouldn't class them as game breaking at all.
• The weapon's graphic bug has been reported since the first month of the game's release... I am constantly telling people about it, as they think its a problem with my shipsets (its not). This means its over three year's old. But it hardly makes designing ships "pointless". It only impacts the game's preset ship designs (which... well... I would never use).

Thanks, just needed to get that out.

It don't really breaks the game, sure. But its like you buy a new car and a door is missing and the customer support won't repair it.

It feels incomplete and broken but you can drive

Its my opinion and only my! Nobody is forced by me to have the same opinion

I wrote all the things not because i hate the game. If i would hate it i would just stop playing an buy another game.

I play Gal Civ since Beta ever and ever again! I never loved a game more than GalCiv 3. That is the reason why i try to fight for it.

It looks like all decisions of the devs based on steam reviews. Thats ok and i understand this.
But exactly this topic you find very very often in those reviews... "Games feels incomplete but new content comes out without fixing things"
So i know I'am not alone with that.

And the decision to stop DLCs for this game because negative game reviews was a shock for me! 

So i try to help in my way because i want to play this game a couple of years and want more content and not only one times a year...

(9 month ago frogboy told at steam that people whos write negative reviews will have no influence on game development and now in every threat in that reference you can read "Oh we cant do this because negative steam reviews"...

So i hope you understand a little bit what i do.

..Discord, GalCiv Homepage, Steam ... i don't like to manage my thoughts at 3 sites.. 

@Gauntlet: I play GRM 8.5 and a have the Weapon Graphic Bug... Only red dots in every fight

Thank you 

Thank you for the feedback guys. We're working on updating GC3 and fixing issues, as Frogboy previously said there is a 3.02 opt-in right now to try on Steam.

We also compile feedback from our Discord server. We keep an eye out for as much of this stuff as possible and hope to deliver a better GalCiv with every patch we make.

Thats amusing "very quickly", 1 year later....

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

They already get more flack for apparent lags than they'd prefer; this is obvious from their lackluster forum response percentage rate which has been notoriously subpar with few exceptions. Imagine the increased flack that would follow if they were forthcoming, straightforward, and honest, especially regarding your latter "we are never going to fix".

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If a pattern such as this has been going on for as long as it has, it's logical to at least begin to conclude that it's never gonna change.

The pathetic 3-years-outdated manual is a prime example. Eight months ago on this forum I directly asked Frogboy about potentially updating the manual. His reply?

<crickets>

And the only mention of the manual since then that I've been able to find is (job posting January 27, 2018) "we have to rewrite the GalCiv III user manual, largely from scratch, to handle the base game, crusade and soon Intrigue". And guess what. In that thread, once again, followup questions were asked about the manual, and, once again, Frogboy's response, friggin' crickets.

Bottom line you're never gonna hear crap about crap Frogboy's ashamed to tell ya. Take that or leave that, your choice.

I've documented, I think pretty comprehensively, the issue of ships spawning all clumped together making for a really ugly spectacle in the battle viewer. I sent of a ticket with a whole bunch of files and steps for replication, as well as video documentation. It has become my pet issue, and I find it pretty detrimental to have what is an otherwise beautifully detailed and presented game saddled with a really flawed combat viewer. 

On a more positive note, on the steam wishlist one of the devs has updated its 2018 listing with a item that includes a revamp of the battle viewer, so hopefully we will see some significant improvement. While there were some visual elements added with Crusade, there was also something that fundamentally broke the camera when Crusade launched, and it hasn't been fixed since.