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I totally didn't expect this! Exellent, I can't wait!

Please Stardock, take my money, all of it...

Sounds great, but in my opinion, the last thing we need is a larger Universe with more planets.
The game is already un playable on Gigantic abundant.
I have a high end computer with a 256mb video card, four MB of RAM, and four megabytes alocated to virtual memory.
I just had to abandon a game wich became so slow and impossible to save.

What I would like to see, is some indication of how a save is progressing.
At present, I have to watch the hard drive light and guess as when it is complete.
If I quit too soon, the computer locks up.

omg omg omg omg, i was just about to ask if stardock planned on a new update, instead we get 2 new updates and an expansion pack...you guys never stop to amaze me.
Oh well count on my 25 buck for this expansion pack.

Also...i saw the interview on gamespot and one of the pictures showed that in the scenario editor you can create custom teams....YEEEAAAAHAAAAAAA!

Pre-ordered. Though I must say part of me is a little disappointed they're already pushing another expansion when Dark Avatar still needs some tweaks, particularly with the new ship pieces. Many of them have misaligned hard points, don't attach symmetrically, or could simply use more hard points.

This looks great - what is the chance of a pre.order beta?

And can a pre-order be payed with Totalgaming tokens?

My God, it's full of stars.

It looks like it will, the link just isn't up for that yet.

I would like to say like everyone that I am impressed. I know this will be a top of the line product because it is from Stardock. I will pre-order soon.

Just one request though: please for the love of God do something about ground combat animation. I am very impressed with the new graphics, the ship battles, etc., but can we have more than atari soldiers, crane tanks, and happy meal shaped mega tanks? Is it too much to ask that ground combat animation be brought up to at least MOO2 standards?

It would be awesome if you could actually see your invasion choices in action. For example, if you paid for the asteroid strike, you could see giant asteroids hurtling toward the battle field. It would be awesome if Drath looked like dino soldiers and not humans. Awesome if the Krynn looked like fish head soldiers and not the same atari graphic human soldiers. Awesome if drengin tanks had all kinds of crazy spikes on them to show just how twisted and evil they are.

Also, like if you researched plasma beam weapons, you got to see your soldiers firing green beams against the oppositions pathetic red beamed lasers. If you researched the tech space marines, it would be so awesome if you saw power-armored soldiers like in Warhammer 40K charging the battlefield.

So much could be done with ground combat animation to make it much funner to watch than it is. Heck, you could keep the same crappy graphics. Just put some variety into it so you can actually see your tech, better soldiers, and invasion choices in action.

Unexpected but excellent news.
The lack of polish both of Galciv2 and DA (mostly, minor races sharing same portraits, tech tree and tech description uninspired )was what really pulled out my interest on both game and expansion even if they were really good products.
Making further distinction between races is another think i really appreciate, instead of adding more races which are more similar to others.
This new approach of improving already present feature and polishing the game is what i really wanted, and i'm definitely buying this product to comeback again in gc2 world.

Hella cool! I just pre-ordered and can't wait for this to be available... oh my grades are gonna take a dive come november... if there isn't a beta available via surprise gift from SD here in the next couple of weeks.....

Keep it up SD and you have a lifetime customer on your hands... when GC: III comes out in 2010 I will pre-order that one too!

Awesome news! The amount of effort and thought you've put into GalCiv2 has made made me a lifelong customer. I can't think of another group with as much post-release customer contact or support. Keep up the good work.

Unique tech trees per civ!!!

Preordering ASAP!

Thanks again for continuing to improve an already great game, Stardock!

(Yes, I'm a little excited about this.)