One of the things we were excited to add to GalCiv III was more detailed race customization. This time around, we’ve made it a lot easier for people to create their own truly unique civilizations.
You can set your leader to be different from your species
Right now, you’re doing the eating but later, they’ll be eating you.
Of course, when making a GalCiv race you get to play AS that race and then later play against it if you so choose. So when designing them, you also can set up their AI personality. It is in this way that players can
potentially have games with hundreds of players.
Why can’t they just be happy for me?
Unleashed into an unsuspecting galaxy
With your custom races, they can look at good or hideous as you’d like. I suspect there will be a nice cottage industry of modders making cool looking races.
Not sure if the public beta has this yet but the AI is starting to interact more with the player.
More to come!