Thanks again for all the interesting replies. I might buy B5 soon. It only costs about 60 British pounds for all the episodes, movies, etc. That's nothing if you calculate how much it is per hour watching.
Did you see the out of eight review, it got 8/8!
Wow, I didnt know about this issue. Is it less ocurring in Dark Avatar? Perhaps the developers should fix this in a future patch, if there would every be a new one. The game still sells well, so they should consider some additional effort?
Mambaman, I think a lot people play different games nowadays. Competitors for Galciv2 are all around, think about Sins, Sots, Armada 2526, Lost immortals, and now Distant Words. Nevertheless, I'm convinced that many people will keep trying this game as it is really good (AI and graphics are very good compared to other games). I really like it still since ship design is very simple and ship combat is automated. I woundt mind a new story [e digicons]*_*[/e]
Good initial review Martok. I also don't like the music too much, but you'll get used to it, slowly.
Scoutdog I agree that especially the final seasons of DS9 are great. Gabberkooij, I like that, so I dont mind. It was the same with BSG (which is also great btw)
I agree with most of your points, although I still have challenges with the AI so far. I dont like the ship designing by the automation at the moment. But I also dont like to design them myself, so I guess I have to live with it, or the developers may improve it in a future patch. This weekend they will be releasing a new update. Despite some issues, I'm having epic games with many empires waging wars and betraying each other. Very fun to play. Steals a lot of my
I agree, this is an AAR and suggestion post in one. I like the way your game went, but I can see it was frustrating. I have a similar problem now in which many races start to get jealous on me. However, my power difference is not as big as yours with the other empires. Indeed a good suggestion to improve relations early on in the game. I also have some performance issues. But playing on a "smaller" map (not 500 stars and 5000 planets/moons) helps ;). I've read somewhere that this game plays b
Lol. Good to see that people still play this game and think about strategy! I'm currently playing a new game distant words, also a 4x space game. But at some point I will play GC2 again!
Waiting for Reviews on Distant World, Cause if its good im getting it! You should really get it. It is a fantastic game. The support is also stardock like, with patches in the weekend after the release. It is not so much rts as you might think from the game's website. It is much more like EU3, but then without the complexity. The game automation is great (although there are some issues with fleets, but I believe they will be fixed soon). It also gives you
It is quite easy actually. You need to have a military rating at about 100, otherwise you will be played by the other races. It is just how the game works. You dont have to use it, but otherwise you are considered as weak and will be attacked. Having a good diplomacy rating also helps to avoid trouble.
I will report back soon. I have only played the game for an hour or so now.
Distant Words (although with some minor issues), which is a pretty interesting and innovative game. The game MOO3 had to be ;). Take a look at the movies and the forums.
I think we're drifting away from the topic ;). Apologies for some of the errors I made. Some of the games I mentioned I didnt play (or only a demo or saw some videos). However, my preference are not changed.
Galciv2 has open space (as has the new 4x space game Distant Worlds), while other games such as Sword of the Stars, 2526 Armada, SINS and MOO2 have starlanes. I prefer starlanes as they provide natural choke points and planets are usually the only interesting things in the galaxy to fight about. Why would you fight in the middle of space? Unless your attacked en route I suppose. I wonder what Galciv2/Sins/Homeworld/(insert your favourite game) players prefer?
Release will be early next week. I will keep you informed about my impressions. The race art is amazing.
Good question. Some time a go Frogboy was working on it. Perhaps he has been busy with Elemental. I hope he finds the time do it as there is still some low hanging fruit (see the topics on this). I believe Galciv2 is still selling well and that Stardock would find new buyers as a result of keeping some resources devoted to this best seller.
In the case of a private company without a profit maximising motive, the company can still get competition/into trouble due to fierce competition from other developing firms which do follow profit maximising goals and as a result have the retained earnings to invest in new design/technologies.
Cool!
How do you get 24 SBs in one area? What is this MSBA anyway?
I sense mixed impressions and thoughts
Which ini file do you have to adjust to change the bloom? What is bloom anyway?
Me 2! Did you see the art on the various races. It looks very cool. I'm very curious about the AI. I hope it is even better than in Galciv2. I hope the graphics are not too bad.
Have you found the answers on the wiki?
@Maiden, can you really get only 4 starbases per sector? I never knew this. I guess I never tried this before.
