first game: campaign or personalized game?

Since, I like to start a game, and play by the seat of my pants. I'll be doing a personalized game. Then later, after I've gotten a few of my own stories played out. Then I'll play the official campaign.

I'm quite excited about the campaign. ( I'm a sucker for a good story. )
But I think I'll play a few sandbox games first just to get a hang for the game ( after the tutorials off course. )

The first time I ever played Moo2 I played it on easy in a big galaxy I won the game the same day and it was awesome!

Hopefully the campaign and sandbox versions in the game will add extra excitement.

Question though... Do the drealords turn up in the sandbox versions of the game as well like the Antarians from MOO2 to cause you pain and grief?

J

No, the Dreadlords have not shown up on any of my "sandbox games". However, there is a custom scenario that pits everybody against the dreadlords... in essence you -can- play a sandbox game with the DL...but they dont just randomly join your games.

Sandbox mode, definitely study the races, good odds (75%) I will play the Prydean Race, Suralle Straykat the leader of the Pryde of course.

Than again, if something really really catches my eye that has changed since beta the 25% may kick in.

W/R
Suralle

hehehe I am such a dork sometimes!

Ill be going campaign first. Im fairly new to the 4x genre and I havent played GalCiv2 yet. I heard that playing the campaign was the best way to get a feel for the game. So ill probably play about halfway through the campaign..till im comfortable with it.. then move over to sandbox for a little while.. then finish the campaign.

Metaverse game, to get the ball rolling. I'll probably get my butt kicked first game, so I'll have to play it again.

Regardless of where you get the game, definitely make sure you download the BonusPak though. The guys are really putting in some awesome stuff in there and I've been tweaking the AI further and further as well.

I personally don't play campaigns in strategy games. But the Dread Lords are pretty neat.

Personalized game all the way baby. I know you guys put work into the campaign but i never liked campaigns much

I love campaigns and will certainly play it, but not first. Set up a nice little galaxy then mercilessly take it over. Once I have figured out how I like to play and what works for me I will hit the campaign.

First, I'll make several custom games to tackle the learning curve and most of the game's mechanics. Then I'll make the campaign at least once before being comfortable enough at playing the scenarios eligible to the Metaverse - for the latter, starting this spring or summer. If GalCiv II offers the long term replayability we all expect, it will be a lengthy affair. I hate sleepness nights.

2-torial baby!!! Then I'll dip into a 'sandbox' game (random universe stuff)

Tutorial first, then personalized. I would never bother with the storymode in a 4X game.

Probably the Campaign (after the Tutorials, of course) unless it seems like the Campaign just throws you into the fire, so to speak, without a decently gradual buildup in difficulty to let me get acclimatized to the game. In that scenario, I'd play some Sandbox games before taking a serious crack at the Campaign.

- Ash

My reasoning is to 'study up' on the game before going "all-out" on the campaigns.

I never play campaigns until I think I've got a handle on how to play the game itself.

I'll play the campaign first for the story.I hope the Dreadlords also appear in the sandbox mode.

Campaign!

I lust for the storyline. Then tutorials, because I'll get my arse handed to me. Then campaign, then sandbox.

lol

I just watched the tutorials using rad tool player, lol.

I'll play the campaign first for the story.I hope the Dreadlords also appear in the sandbox mode.

Brad has said the Dreadlords *currently* do not show up in sandbox mode. However, a number of people have requested the ability to "toggle" them so that they can appear in sandbox mode (kind of like how you could choose whether the Borg appear in Birth of the Federation), and Frogboy said he would look at including such an option in one of the updates later on. So keep your fingers crossed!

As for myself, I think I'm actually going to play the campaign first (after going through the tutorials, of course), and then go into sandbox mode. As long as the difficulty for the missions are scaled properly, I almost always play the campaign in strategy games before anything else. It's become sort of a tradition for me.

Tutorial first, then about 50% of the campaign before I decide to try out the sandbox/skirmish/personalized/? mode and completely forget about the campaign until a year or more later. That's my typical pattern at least.

Tutorial first, then about 50% of the campaign before I decide to try out the sandbox/skirmish/personalized/? mode and completely forget about the campaign until a year or more later. That's my typical pattern at least.

LOL. Don't feel bad, Crustacean; I've done the same thing myself.

Regardless of where you get the game, definitely make sure you download the BonusPak though. The guys are really putting in some awesome stuff in there and I've been tweaking the AI further and further as well.

I personally don't play campaigns in strategy games. But the Dread Lords are pretty neat.[/quote

I tend to play sand box modes because, I'm often more interested in my own sci-fi fantasy setting. My own enemies, and what not. But, if I know there supposed to be a fantastic story involved.. I'll also try it big time. The reason why I've avoided the stereotypical campaigns.. is because they expect me to keep playing their scenarios... when I'm usually wanting to just get on with my own style game.

I'm looking forward to this mythical Bonuspak.. (Ya gotta give us some extra hints on whats inside!)