You can't "say the same" without saying more. The quote chunk you include talks about both GC2 and Sins. I have no sure idea whether you dislike one, the other, or both games.

I can guess you don't much like either of them because you say "too little micromangement" about Sins, but if that's seriously your take, I'd rather you'd started a series of threads long ago. I have a pretty serious set of conflicts between my interest in detail and my aversion to repetitive clicking, and I have some hopes that the Stardock folks can give me satisfaction in the long haul. I think someone like you could help me get more of what I want if you were more specific about what you want.

Too little micromanagement?? I've just played the demo, and it kept my mouse very busy. Having to figure out technologies, planet improvements, building perquisites, etc all in real time is a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of stuff to keep track of, and I have troubles trying to figure out what improvements I want my planets to have and which technologies I need. It's actually a lot of stuff.

Well, here's sorta how it feels to me: You use the scroll wheel, and the zoom follows the mouse cursor. You zoom out, place the mouse over where you want to zoom in, and zoom in. That is what I think the designers intended the primary form of navigation to be.

In addition, the camera seems to automatically "snap" to the nearest unit. Which is nice, except it's easy for it to snap onto the wrong unit.

In addition, The middle mouse button pans the view, and edge scrolling works.

The biggest thing I think would help is if the currently selected unit(s) is outside the view, that an arrow near the edge of the screen point to where it is located. I've seen that in other games, and it's something I think Sins should have.

I dislike GalCiv 2. Haven't tried Sins yet (must upgrade first) but from Brad has said and showed the focus is on macromanagement just like SupCom which makes micromanagement like in Company in Heroes and Dawn of War not worth it.

Haven't tried SupCom and CoH either but will when I have upgraded (yeah, my computer is pretty old....).

If you've tried Majesty, then imagine the ability to spend a little gold to be able to manually control one hero for a short time. That would be awesome.

As you may see by now, I'm more of a Dawn of War, Diablo 2 and Age of Wonders guy instead of GalCiv 2, Civilization and SupCom guy so I'm not the typical 4x guy but from you said about "I have a pretty serious set of conflicts between my interest in detail and my aversion to repetitive clicking, and I have some hopes that the Stardock folks can give me satisfaction in the long haul" I think we like the same type of games.

I guess that a modern Master of Magic with great depth is what we're both looking for

We did the same thing with GalCiv. Things seemed to have turned out there.

In the meantime, let me finish washing your wind shield...

I had expected to find a Demo button in my SDC interface.
Neither I like to give my data to websites. Hope you'll add it to SDC.

Great to see a demo finally released. I am really impressed by how much you can scale the graphics to suit old machines. I know Brad talked a lot about this before the game was released, but it is amazing to see it in action, basically being able to change a planet from a very finely detailed model down to a pixellated blob if required. It's shaped up pretty well on my 4 year old machine with rubbish GeForce 5200 graphics card. The AI seems fine as well despite what certain whiners have said, the computer players developed varied fleets and I managed to get destroyed within the 90 minute time limit on one of the scenarios, with two Normal difficulty players.

Overall, seems like a great game. I still want to hold off on purchasing until my computer is upgraded later this year so I can experience the game in all its glory. Will look at PM 2008 in the meantime since it seems to have very low required specs.