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September 14, 2023 by Frogboy
Greetings! We are coming to the finish line for GalCiv IV: Supernova! Our once reasonable scope has, of course, exploded over the Summer as we got our hands into making this the best space 4X game we've ever made! The next major BETA update, 1.90 will be focusing on making the game more appealing to a much wider group of people. Galactapedia   This feature is expected to expand significantly in the coming weeks. We're excited about its potential and...
August 28, 2023 by Frogboy
Generally speaking, in GalCiv games there has been three types of players: The first player is the relatively new or casual player who finds the AI ridiculously hard and will post "The AI is cheating" (the AI doesn't cheat unless you make the settings super high).  They say this because the AI is able to expand fairly quickly because it is quite good at scouting (the AI tends to build a lot more scouts than players) and finding planets. It has no idea where the planets are. The second...
July 31, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1543372801/GalCiv+IV+beta+1.66+Test+game[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence]   ______________________________________________________ [confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1543372801/GalCiv+IV+beta+1.66+Test+game...
June 5, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1506607109/GalCiv+Journal+Pretty+vs.+mechanically+satisfying+space+battles[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1506607109/GalCi...
May 30, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1504411651/GalCiv+IV+Dev+Journal+How+people+use+AlienGPT[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1504411651/GalCiv+IV+Dev+Journal+H...
May 24, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1503035393/GalCiv+IV+Dev+Journal+-+A+new+Culture+Progression[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1503035393/GalCiv+IV+Dev+Journ...
May 8, 2023 by Frogboy
Greetings! In recent years, "Early Access" has meant "Game is basically done but with bugs". And while it's true that the engine for this game is pretty "done" we are trying to take advantage of early access to try out a lot of crazy new things to get your ideas and feedback on. GalCiv IV: Supernova is being developed by the GalCiv II team and so some of the changes the team wants to make are things that come from the things we really liked in GalCiv II but in a GalCiv IV game. Some of ...
May 7, 2023 by Frogboy
[Confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1491402816/GC4+The+new+combat+system+discussion+thread[/Confluence]
May 3, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1487372346/GC4+The+first+10+turns[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1489338369/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+First+10+Turns+Series[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1487372346/GC4+The+first+10+turns[/confluence] ___...
April 24, 2023 by Frogboy
[Confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1477869612/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+12+-+Humanoids[/Confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [Confluence]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1477869612/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+De...
April 20, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1477541937/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+11+-+AI+Elephants+in+the+Room[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/...
April 13, 2023 by Frogboy
I'm going to use a number of really dumb analogies to try to explain how these large language models like ChatGPT work. First, you have the amount of training they have done combined with the number of things they can look at at once.  ChatGPT 4 is much better than ChatGPT 3 in that regard.  Think of this as the AI's "hard drive". Second, and often unappreciated, is the number of tokens that the model can handle.  Think of this as RAM.  Tokens represents how much the AI...
April 13, 2023 by Frogboy
I'm going to use a number of really dumb analogies to try to explain how these large language models like ChatGPT work. First, you have the amount of training they have done combined with the number of things they can look at at once.  ChatGPT 4 is much better than ChatGPT 3 in that regard.  Think of this as the AI's "hard drive". Second, and often unappreciated, is the number of tokens that the model can handle.  Think of this as RAM.  Tokens represents how much the AI...
April 13, 2023 by Frogboy
I'm going to use a number of really dumb analogies to try to explain how these large language models like ChatGPT work. First, you have the amount of training they have done combined with the number of things they can look at at once.  ChatGPT 4 is much better than ChatGPT 3 in that regard.  Think of this as the AI's "hard drive". Second, and often unappreciated, is the number of tokens that the model can handle.  Think of this as RAM.  Tokens represents how much the AI...
April 13, 2023 by Frogboy
[confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1477541924/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+10+-+Little+Things[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/1471414278/GalCiv+IV+Supernova+Dev+Journal+Links[/confluence] ______________________________________________________ [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1477541924/...