Soooo Crusade.

1) Thanks to some headbanging, relearning, trial and error, and the timely assistance of Horemvore, I have successfully rebuilt a single shipset... not using the fleetbuilder mind you. So the work of rebuilding GRM now begins in earnest.

2) GRM ship designs will be re-saved, up/down animations are being removed on ships of Medium size and up... due to popular demand, and frankly, my own distaste for the "jitters" effect it produces. So for those of you who've said "this taxes my system too much" well, you are finally getting a little relief!

3) Its not going to be a quick fix though, so I'm focusing on 6 Races, fully customizing them, and then I'll move forward from there.

4) Next release will not have advanced abilities... but if I can find a way, I'll increase the race picks to 3 or 4 which would really help with identity.

Sooo in other news what do I think of Crusade? Well I haven't been able to play a game yet (the modding comes first) but I here are a few things:

A) The new designs/command ships/etc. are a fun addition and add some more variety to shipsets. I like.

The fleetbuilder is incomplete and by my standards, not workable yet. As such I'll not be uploading shipsets to Steam. This is sad. But oh well.

C) The new civ builder is wonderful, and they added the much need citizen customization, so I'm confident that I can use it to build out unique dialogue and leaders and that this will really enhance the user experience. Really nice addition.

D) The out of game ship designer is great... except... the portrait icons that are generated for ship designs have a default white border... sometimes that is nice, but if you already have a set with blue borders... well you can't pick your border color, so if you want to maintain consistency, its back to loading a game and using the Unlock ability and designing away (which OMG is slower than ever).

E) I personally disapprove of the new "early game" having to build your first shipyard is simply nonsense when you also have a starting ship (IMO). I don't like it. I do like admins, and I don't mind leaders... but...

F) The leaders are a better thought out system than the Morality/ideology tracks... however, they both suffer from a sort of instantaneous gratification factor... its simply not sensible or satisfying to me that we now have so many "rabbit out of a hat" or deus ex machina solutions to our problem. "That fleet got you down? Just create a Martyr and take it out!" Don't get me wrong, you are spending something and making a choice... but I just don't care for it.

I look forward to taking a stab at ideology again one day... making it more of a playstyle choice than what it is now. Who knows.

At any rate, Crusade adds a ton of content, and while I'm a little disappointed with how rough around the edges the fleetbuilder is (it lacks so many blueprints I don't bother using it), I'm quite happy to see GC3 get such an interesting facelift and I'm sure I'll enjoy playing the heck out of it... ya know... after I put in like 30 hours repairing/rebuilding GRM lol.

If you have content on steam and someone else takes said content and uploads it as thier own they are in breach of SSA (Steams Subscriber Agreement), you can then contact Steam to have said content removed and or even get people baned from using Steamworks.

I think you will be adding abiilities at some point, you can link so much stuff to them now , you can make races extremely unique with them. I have started this process for GST (just unique weapons atm).

GRM 6.0 BETA now available for Crusade!

This beta version only includes 6 races/shipsets so far, but includes all the logos, backgrounds, race portraits, has citizen portraits, and applies the various features of mines, mercenaries, and pirates. So essentially this is the GRM framework and 6 shipsets/factions. I'm working hard on converting the remaining 20 or so factions, but wanted to get this out to you guys ASAP.

GRM 5.0 is available for those without Crusade!

If you'd like to support me, please do, GRM takes a great deal of effort to add and maintain, so if your enjoying it and feel comfortable contributing, you are much appreciated. You can do so via Nexus and Paypal or by supporting me on Patreon.

Visit my Patreon Page here:

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4834743

YAY!!!

Thanks Gauntlet!

Hi all, been following this mod from the wings for a while and can I just say from watching many of the Youtube clips it is an amazing piece of work/art that seems to give huge character and flavor to an already legendary game! Kudos to you Gauntlet for your creativity and labor of love!!! I finally bit the bullet and downloaded the Crusade version this evening but am yet to install it as (1) I am still worried my old budget rig won't be beefy enough for it (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, Nividia GeForce GTX460, 8GB DDR3 RAM), and (2) I quite like ticking off Steam achievements (yeah, I know, "get a life!") and suspect it impedes Steam achievements but would love to be told otherwise... thanks.  

Just finished Starbases for the ZR (bugs) set and dialogue for the Fulgar...

... and then decided to play and of course, needed to a make a ship, so here is the latest... an experimental Kinetic battleship (large hull) for the Terran Sovereignty. Uses the "Mk3" lighter battleship hull I rolled out for support craft. Its inspired by the DropFleet Commander miniature game, specifically the "Atlantis" battlecruiser, which has the underslung turret array.

Don't get me wrong, some of my variant ships are total cop-outs. Some people don't like that I just switch turrets at times (though personally I think the worse cop outs are the non-unique uses of hulls for transports/cargos at time)... but this is a really good example of using a base hull and applying modifications for variety... the underslung structure is unique (you can't see the extra engine on it either) and the rest of the hull was shortened to maintain scale, with changes in communication gear.

The reason for that, being that the "Mk 3" hull by default has a suite of expensive communication gear, this was removed for cheaper gear, whilst making room and saving power for the increased weaponry. The idea of this ship is to fulfill the battlecruiser concept, its not as heavily armored as a standard TS Battleship, but has increased weapon load out maneuverability and speed. My standard kinetic battleship has 9 heavy turrets and I think 4 "PD turrets", this has a whopping 13 heavy turrets and 8 PD turrets, but clearly lacks the super structure to take a pounding equal to its own vociferous firepower.

That is odd. Try manually moving over the faction files individually? Just to make absolutely certain they copy over.

I also assume you do have "enable mods" checked right? Because that will definitely cause issues otherwise.

Just a reminder that after any update from Star Dock you may need to reapply the files of the mod that go into your game directory. 

GRM 6.1 for Crusade now uploaded!!!

This is the first FULL version of GRM for Crusade... so that means ALL 22 Shipsets have been remastered for Crusade! You'll also note that I've started building out custom dialogue and many, many citizen portraits! You'll also note that "float" animations for ships of medium class and above have been removed to enhance performance.

You'll also note the new Dalek race has arrived!

Things to do: 
More dialogue for the races I really like!
More Portraits!
MOAR EVERYTHING!

I'm looking forward to getting into building NEW things instead of just fixing stuff!

Go get it here!

http://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/addfile/?id=18&go=go

This is awesome! Love the four ability limit, offers more space for defined personalities.

The Daleks will be tons of fun in-game, especially now with custom dialogue!

Minor issues:

Three of the factions have "the" in the name, which causes some text to cause the old "the the" issue. It's also a bit odd seeing it. Aren't other factions... themselves?

The Orion Star Republic seem to have no points used.

This is part of the mod immersion as conceived by Gauntlet. Mercenaries are people not ships so he has chosen to use portraits to represent them. You should still be able to see the ships at the bottom of the screen when you select one of the mercenaries. If you can't see the ship there is something wrong.