Oh I've gotta give credit to my team -- they did the hard work.      Glad it's working well.  We've got a few more goodies and a few more folks to bring onboard.  More goodness coming soon!

Error

Failed to delete mod, please release Korean Version. Bad Request

Unable to remove from workshop. Player should be using proper forums to make language translation request.

Apologies, and sorry for the frustration.  I'm looping in our tech team to see what might be causing that.  I wouldn't think it's on your side.   Stand by -- looking into this.

Thanks Ron. I'm just going let you and your team work this out. 👍

*thumbs up*

What's the verdict if someone downloads their own designs based on the races of another publishers IP say AOW Planet Fall. 

Did after I posted this🤦‍♂️

In terms of copyright Stardock would have to pull them from the workshop of course if the brand owner would ask for it i think. But since no brand owner ever asked, we are maybe in a greyzone here right now. At least i have never seen ships being pulled from the Gal. Civ 3 workshop for this reason.

I am personally not designing Star Wars or Star Treck ships right now, because there are allready great designers for this kind of ships at work. A lot them are being ported over to Galactic Civ 4 from Gal Civ 3. But generally speaking i can not imagine someone would want to stop you from uploading your designs.

I think it would be more of a problem if someone would upload one of their desings of the same ship 25 times in a row to spam the workshop. (This is a no no.)

Yeah. I have asked some designers from Galactic Civ 3 if i can port their designs over to Galactic Civ 4. Some of them allowed me to port their ships over to Gal Civ 4. So i am porting small parts of their designs and quote them as the original designer. But of course i can not port one thousand ships over to Galactic Civ 4. And i think it would take away the fun for other designers if i would port to many ships over to Galactic Civ 4.

I am not a great civilisation designer, i have never done that before in Galactic Civ 3. But maybe i give it a try in Galactic Civ 4. But then i would like to design my own civilization with a lot of background.

this is one where i agree with u, but it also doesn't seem to be too important to everyone. the top rated civ for example, the snathi revenge, has a description that doesnt actually say anything about the abilities of the civ other than they're evil. no idea that they're resourceful or paranoid or opportunistic until after u download them, and the citizens for that civ are still set to random instead of snathi, but it's the top rated civ, more than 2x above any of mine that have more inclusive descriptions. ppl often vote for and download stuff based soley on the pic and a very brief description that doesnt really tell u anything about the civ. it's not how i like to rank them personally, but rather than try to foce everyone to add more inclusive descriptions, which they might not want to do, i think that this one should be up to the game to add info on each civ somewhere on the page before u download it. the game already has all the civ and ship info, it just needs to display it

EFF Commander answered to this thread in another thread in korean. (I used google translator). He said he is not writing anything in the description box because his english is not that good. Furthermore you can not copy paste in the box. 

I think you can't fix this problem because a lot of people don't speak english

Maybe an automated generic text for a ship role could be helpfull as Basilisk said. 

If people have to write something in the box to upload their desings then they will write it in their mother tongue. And then only the people who speak this mother tongue will understand it anyway. 

Yes and an update function for the ship title and the description box would be great. And a copy paste function for the text in the description box. Otherwise you have to remove ship designs only to fix a typo or to add the description text. 

@Navinor, Now I understand why EFF-Commander has been so adamant about getting Korean translation in the game. I can and do understand where he's coming from and I do not blame him.

I agree with all of you and as Basilisk and I suggested there should be something put in place that automatically adds short description based on ship roles that the games default core race ships already have.

Maybe an algorithm that detects the empty description dialogue box and automatically applies a default description according to ship role. If that can be done.

This would be satisfactory I think. Just have to see what Frogboy and Kael think and if it's possible to do.

If not we are going to be between a rock and a hard place with empty descriptions in the webpage workshop and in game workshop and that's not going to be fair to any one.

We need to set a good example so it's fair to all players including those who can't speak or write in English and those who can. Otherwise I fear we are creating a monster if nothing can be done about it other than removing the non description submissions and asking them to resubmit with description filled in and possibly alienate the community. Leaving it empty just creates complaints, clutter and sets a bad example for others. I would certainly want to avoid that.

The big question is, how do we do this in terms of fair moderation to everyone including ourselves as moderators? We also need to set a good example.

No offense to you Starmac as I can relate to feeling rushed.