We're all playing a game that has apes that want to take over the galaxy, a robot empire that took ove their masters' homeworld, and our "navy" has shields and flies through space blasting stuff with lasers and there are people out there that are saying a week is "unrealistic" gah...

This point has come up several times already and will continue to as new people buy the game and are baffled by the "week" long turns.

You are right, at least in the sense of civilization growth, etc. The view on this seems to come down to whether people are "movie" sci-fi buffs or more "book" sci-fi buffs who are looking at it more realistically and historically. The "book" types are looking at it more like the era of the historical european colonization period, rather than the battlestar galactica episode of the week.

It is supposed to be moddable, and I or someone else who cares will have to do a mod for it. If only so our friends who we show the game to will stop laughing at it right away when they see things like "ion drive takes 4 weeks to develop" when we finally just launched our first ion drive ship 2 years ago, after working on the idea since world war 2.

Ugh, whatever. The time unit in question is irrelevant. It's just a video game. These aren't real people. These aren't real spaceships. Fluid dynamics don't work in space so ships won't loop around as if they're airplanes. Plasma weapons are impractical. Lasers don't make "teeoo-teeoo" noises. Real-world buildings don't just suddenly appear after spending weeks with an orange arrow hovering over it. You're not really in command of an entire civilization, much less your own personal life. And time dialation would prevent you from enjoying this game in its entirety.

It's...a...video...game. Use suspension of disbelief and tell yourself that the time unit that the game uses is actually "flaknarns" but gets mis-translated when converted to a Terrestrial language since we all maintain our time table by our revolution around our primary star and that we haven't yet converted to Galactic Time...

See? All better now.

Lasers don't make "teeoo-teeoo" noises.

Here you are mistaken. The laser my shark has strapped to his head makes that noise exactly.

Everything else spot on though...

Ugh, whatever. The time unit in question is irrelevant. It's just a video game. These aren't real people. These aren't real spaceships. Fluid dynamics don't work in space so ships won't loop around as if they're airplanes. Plasma weapons are impractical. Lasers don't make "teeoo-teeoo" noises. Real-world buildings don't just suddenly appear after spending weeks with an orange arrow hovering over it. You're not really in command of an entire civilization, much less your own personal life. And time dialation would prevent you from enjoying this game in its entirety. It's...a...video...game. Use suspension of disbelief and tell yourself that the time unit that the game uses is actually "flaknarns" but gets mis-translated when converted to a Terrestrial language since we all maintain our time table by our revolution around our primary star and that we haven't yet converted to Galactic Time... See? All better now.

Woo hoo!! I want to join the Crazyhawk fan club!! My thoughts exactly...

Anyway, I posted a thread a couple of weeks back along these same lines when somebody griped about the fact that once the star map was generated for a game, "Alpha Centauri" wasn't revealed as the closest star to "Sol", and that Stardock should really fix this. I re-iterate Crazyhawk's statement... "IT'S JUST A VIDEO GAME"

Ugh, whatever. The time unit in question is irrelevant. It's just a video game. These aren't real people. These aren't real spaceships. Fluid dynamics don't work in space so ships won't loop around as if they're airplanes. Plasma weapons are impractical. Lasers don't make "teeoo-teeoo" noises. Real-world buildings don't just suddenly appear after spending weeks with an orange arrow hovering over it. You're not really in command of an entire civilization, much less your own personal life. And time dialation would prevent you from enjoying this game in its entirety. It's...a...video...game. Use suspension of disbelief and tell yourself that the time unit that the game uses is actually "flaknarns" but gets mis-translated when converted to a Terrestrial language since we all maintain our time table by our revolution around our primary star and that we haven't yet converted to Galactic Time... See? All better now.

Woo hoo!! I want to join the Crazyhawk fan club!! My thoughts exactly...

Anyway, I posted a thread a couple of weeks back along these same lines when somebody griped about the fact that once the star map was generated for a game, "Alpha Centauri" wasn't revealed as the closest star to "Sol", and that Stardock should really fix this. I re-iterate Crazyhawk's statement... "IT'S JUST A VIDEO GAME"

Brad already did address it in a big article he posted..."Realism in Space Strategy Games"...

Link

Basically, Realism always takes a backseat to Fun. Get over it. (He said it nicer than that though )