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I need some help from anyone who can share. I love Gal Civ II and other strategy games but the game I really want to play just does not exist and i am tired of waiting for it. As a result, i have decided to start down the long path of learning how to create my own game. This will be a huge project in that I do not program and really have very little experience in 3d art. However, I have time and really look forward to actually creating something of my own...regardless of how my first tries r

I thought that at first but after getting into it for awhile, over 80 turns, I am starting to see that it may be worth it. I would love to get some feed back from more people out there and see what the general feeling is.

Hi all. Just checking to see if anyone has heard of a game in development called Sword of the Stars? Looks to be pretty interesting. It includes real time Home World-like fleet battles with turn based 4x type gaming. Any opinions on this game yet? I think the demo comes out on 7-25

My 14 day trial is about to end. I have had fun so far but have had no contact with any real people yet. I am almost afraid to since I am such a weak player that I could be destroyed in a heart beat. I think I will pay for one month and see how it goes.

Aggiekev, Worst I have been in so far is a .4. I fly a Frigate at the moment and am trying to convert it to a stealth missle ship. This looks like it will take some time but my goal is to do covert ops type stuff and perhpas find a good corp should they need my services.

Frumph...you have a deal!!! Thanks!

Has anyone here played a game called Eve online? I have been playing for a few days and I must say it is a great experience. It can get quite detailed and involved but if you want the feeling of unending space and want to carve out your own little part in it...this is it. It has actually taken time away from my Gal Civ II playing time!

Geeze...I can't get past Challenging on all settings set to random and AI intensive moves. I am such a wimp!!! Challenging is enough for me. I get over-run by mid game. My ships are always better but I can not keep up with the economy and planet grab in the beginning. I may try tough just to see how bad I get beat up.

I guess no one likes this idea.

I would like to suggest, if it is not too late since there are already two new races in the expansion, that a contest be held where people can describe in some sort of essay their custom race. The winner gets to have his or her race to the expansion.

While some people have valid concerns not to include Tactical Combat of which some I can very well understand, I think a lot of people are chronic nay sayers. If the world would turn accordin to them, we still would live in the stone age because every improvement might disturb the balance. People: Be open to new things, sometimes stuff that appaers odd turn out to be

How is this one coming?

Skyjack...I may be wrong but that is what we are talking about here....GalCiv III

Reach for the Stars and Sword of Arogon I believe it was called.

Regarding the tactical battles. I entered this on another thread. It's just an idea but would love to get feed back. This would be for GalCiv III NOT GALCIV II: I was thinking of a limited tactical combat as well but would take it a bit further. Most people who are gasindt tactical combat say it would be either too long to play or that the AI could not be cha

I was thinking of a limited tactical combat as well but would take it a bit further. Most people who are gasindt tactical combat say it would be either too long to play or that the AI could not be challenging. I would propse the following: Add a tech in the tech tree called War College or Tactical Command. Once that has been researched, add tactical battle planning module much like the ship designer. Here you would actually create battle formations and battle assignments for each

I think you guys are selling the devs short on what they could do with tactical combat (does anyone really agree on what that term means anyway with regard to THIS game and how it would be implemented?). Many of the features we have today people did not think possible on the first GALCIV so all of this "the sky is or will fall" if tact ical combat is added in the next version is a bit premature.

My vision of tactical battles would not be he micromanagement that so many of you are afraid of (which laser to shoot, which gun to shoot at, etc.). I think the best tactical model I have ever seen is in Combat Mission. It allows you to plot your moves and then play a 1 minute movie play back. The system, in most cases, will shoot and defend on it's own based on where you order your troops to move. The AI in that game is pretty good and uses the system very well IMO. I think that type of batt

Yeah I know...I noticed that once I put it up....oops! Although the discussion is about the "Poll"...I am almost afraid to ask about others "pole" results.

I for one would love to see tactical battles and voted so but I must admit that so far at least, others seem to be voting that way as well. My assumption, based on the threads I have read, was that most people did not want that feature.

I agree. They are the only race not in the regular game play

I play as the Ichtarians, a humanoid/fish race. The Ichtarians are naturally aggressive as they constantly identify their own territories and defend them to the death. They are not hell bent on taking over the entire galaxy but they like their room. Every so many years when spawning occurs, war is declared on any race who seems to get "too close" to our spawning planets. The Ichtarians believe that large "schools" of smaller ships provide the most security but the ruling family owns several

So do you guys not worry too much about spending most of your initial cash in building colony ships? I have been having the same type of problems in terms of getting beat up early because I have no real defence. The reason is that I spent most of my cash building colony ships so I can get as many planets as possible in an attempt to jump start my economy and then build a massive fleet. That has been my plan anyway...I have only won once doing that. Most of the time I end up living hand to m

Just an update for me...i tried again this AM and it downloaded fine but only if i clicked on the update buttons on stardock. If left to update via the update button from the game (which initiates the auto-update), i got the error.

same here. can't update. says my serial is wrong.