We put up a new build today of GalCiv Altarian Prophecy for those of you who have Drengin.net. http://www.drengin.net.

We implemented some fo the changes we had talked about for being in the base GalCiv 1.21 here.  Let me discuss some of them here.

1) I made it so that minor races no longer build trade goods. This will have a definite change on the game both making it easier and harder for players depending on their strategy.

2) Starbases are now MUCH cheaper to build. I think the base cost is $150 instead of $200. But you get X number of them for free based on the size of the galaxy where X = radius of the galaxy. (12 x 12 galaxy would be 6 free star bases).

3) HOWEVER...certain modules now cost $$ to build. Mainly low level ones that make a big difference early in the game or can be used as an exploit.

4) Modules have also been tweaked so that they're more spread out and mroe orderly (battle stations requires turrets now for instance).

5) Defense modules have been strengthened at higher levels so that they should survive better later in the game.

6) Influence has been changed in how it claculations. THIS WILL NEED PLAY TESTING. Previously it worked as follows:

You had Sector Influnece X. And # of Starbases in sector Y.

It would then go through a loop and say X = X+ X*Starbase[Y].InfluenceModifier

Do you see what that would do? The more starbaess you had doing influence, the more powerful it would get.

Now it changed to this:

We add up the total influence bonuses FIRST and then mulitiply it later. This will dramaticlaly change influence pumping in the sense that you'll want to pump up fewer starbases more rather than have more starbases with fewer cultural enhancements.

Now, for Altarian Prophecy players:

WE NEED YOUR HELP: Please play the campaign. We need to know what works for you, what doesn't.

And as if that wasn't enough, Stardock Central has undergone a great deal of work to try to make it faster and more reliable when downloading and gathering things. But wait, that's not all, a whole new version of SDC is in the works with a much cleaner interface. But hopefully the days of  "I cna't find GalCiv on SDC" will soon be over.

You will probably need to go to tools->Check for updates to make sure you have the latest one. Make sure you have SDC v1.3.

You can resume. It just doesn't explicitly say pause. But you can close SDC and come back the next day and it'll resume.

Believe me, I've used that feature a great deal. I downloaded the whole game over my cell phone connected laptop once over a period of a few days.