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Quote from: MrWiggles on September 04, 2015, 05:18:18 am

Subscribe to the twitter for the beta test?

Not necessarily, just post a PM that you are interested.

Thank goodness!    I never used twitter.

Wow ...... Those Sharatars look so intimidating, just like the Narns in Babylon 5 (or even more).  I bet their ships must be tough to crack.

Quote from: titaniumsub on February 23, 2015, 01:11:38 am

Wow that looks a lot of fun.  Hopefully it won't slow down the game by much for large-scale fleet battles 

No. This requires a bit more memory, but everything within 1GB of RAM and 256-512MB of graphic card RAM that is now standard even for low-end PC...

That news is a blessing!  Great work.

Some update on art - this is how concepts translate into in-game models:

Wow, great for my projected Gemini Tribe (or Cancer? with 2 claws). 

I love the new arts too, but later I will still replace those alien portraits with "12 Zodiacs" pretty faces. 
The new ship designs are superb.

Please keep up your good work.  This is a solid and interesting game worthy of fans' time.

You can add a new race even now.

This is done by copying some of racial .a files (like "r_hum.a") under some new name, then adding '#include ' to this file into "rtq.a" file, adding new race ID into "const.a" file then changing internals of this new file. You can simply erase all phrases that has Russian letters inside - it will use default phrases then.

Wonderful!  But is it possible for me to add new units (or replace the existing ones) corresponding to that new race?  If so, which directories shall I put those unit files into?

So far, during the early stage of play-testing, I am totally fine with using existing shipsets for new races; but in the future, I might become "greedier" and want to give each new race a unique set of units ...   So, in the future, please also consider the possibility of allowing players to add their own unit designs for their newly created races.  Thank you in advance!

(Space Empires IV and V have the most superb moddability for adding races and units, which greatly enhance their replayability.  Unfortunately they are turn-based, not real-time.

Master of Orions III and Birth of Federation do not have much moddability, and they are also turn-based.

Galactic Civilizations II has fine moddability, but is still turn-based, and fighting scale is so-so.

The other space 4X games are typically 3D, so they require a beefy machine to play and fight in big scales. Even the 2D and real-time "Distant Worlds" is rather difficult to deal with large-scale operations.

So, from my point of view, this Galaxia will be a unique gem that can fill in quite a few vacancies of the space 4X game list: as simple or as flexible as the players' wish.)

Up to 30 races are possible, up to 64 resource types and up to 128 building types...

Wow, that sounds superb!  Does that mean we can add our own customized races in your future versions of the game?   

I have got an idea ......

If possible, Ufnv, when you update those races in your game, please consider extending the number of races into 12 ...... Why can't have 12 zodiac races fighting each other for fun?  In previous space strategy games, I have never seen anyone ever incorporating the "12 zodiacs".  That might make this game even more attractive and popular (I myself, is a Leo, and I have been dreaming of conquering the whole universe under the banner of that wild kitty, though my kids firmly disagree --- "Why you? Why can't be us, Aries or  Gemini?" )