Feud

[quote]Radiohead - Creep[/quote] Just so everyone is clear, even though he had been listing bands on the right he switched the order for this one, the song is "Creep" by the band Radiohead. Mine (in no particular order): 1) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd 2) Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd 3) Give it All - Rise Against 4) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 5) Welcome to Paradise - Green Day 6) Buddy Holly - Weezer 7) Commando - Ramones 8) Sou

Since it's a single player game it isn't reliant upon a group of people all liking it at the same time. While it might not sell many copies as it once did, the game is designed so that regardless of who else still cares about the game the individual can still enjoy the full experience. I would say that so long as a future OS can run it, someone will be playing it (there are still MOO2 people running about I'm told).

Once I get an empire size that I like I'll sometimes start destroying any planets I take over. It provides a nice "fire break" between the two empires, if I could only get them to stop flying in it once peace is declared I could call it a demilitarized zone...

[quote]Can you create fictional scenarios like Hillary Clinton running around Bosnia while under sniper fire?[/quote] QFT

I suppose the easy, built in answer would be "just don't win". What I would propose is this, play the game in sandbox mode, turn off everything but military victory, and you should be good to go. Since you aren't playing to win it doesn't matter if you decide to quit once you get tired of it, and the only way that the game can end is if you kill everyone (at which point further play is pointless).

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Something of note, unlike many games you do not need to build farms in GalCiv. Your people will feed themselves up to a certain point (usually six billion), farms are only needed to go beyond that point.

Did you buy a new or used copy?

1) A strategy I use when it is a race to gobble planets is to only have a few of them actually building anything. It takes a while for the population to grow sufficiently to support the infrastructure, so building a bunch of stuff without the tax base to support it can create a real headache. I'll build a couple planets up at a time, buying whenever I can, then once one finishes I'll start again on a new one. 2) I usually will only have one or two planets a system with a starbase, and

[quote]99% of people who "pirate" the game would have downloaded a demo / played it elsewhere before buying, and then not gotten the game because its not fun, buggy, and has system requirements that don't match.[/quote] As a professor of mine always asks when we toss out warrants: What evidence do you have to support your claim? ;)

I never colonize them, if I conquer them I just destroy the colony or sell it off.

[quote] "When I was your age..":If I wanted to play a computer game, I had to write my own, in BASIC![/quote] Pfft. [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png[/img] xkcd comics rock.

Something to remember: Idiots like something because it's popular, bigger idiots dislike someone because they don't like something popular. Part of the problem is that GalCiv isn't a social game, it is meant to be played by oneself and enjoyed by oneself, and unless someone else is a fan of it there isn't much to talk about ("..and then I redesigned my ship..."). So, if you are concerned with the social aspect of things, then you might want to learn to enjoy console gaming so that yo

I think that he means that the inclusion of DRM is there to try and force pirates to buy the game, rather then focusing on making a game that those who pay for games are willing to buy.

[quote]*Sigh* - its NOT theft - that isn't anyone's opinion its a fact of LAW. Period. If you are arguing that it SHOULD be considered theft - fine, make your argument - don't just post RIAA's mantra and assume it is fact. Basing one's moral code on what is written in a Thesaurus seems a little superficial to me.[/quote] Basing one's opinion on what is and isn't theft upon what the law happens to be seems a little superficial to me. I never said they were legally the same thin

[quote]I am not talking about me - I don't download movies, I am talking about why a lot of people don't care about Big Content's woes.[/quote] Indeed, I poorly read what you wrote and jumped to a conclusion. My apologies.

[quote]Cause Hollywood slipped the word NET profits, not GROSS profits. And I am supposed to feel SORRY for the industry when a 12 year old downloads ‘Transformers’??????[/quote] So because some people failed to read a contract before signing it twenty-years with one company, you now feel justified illegally taking content from [I]ANY[/I] company?

[quote]The obvious difference is stealing deprives the owned of the object, infringement does not.[/quote] Companies are much less concerned with the actual physical loss then they are with the loss of revenue. A DVD takes a few cents to make and ship, I doubt they care so much about the loss of a few cents in cost as they are the loss of the retail price. [quote]From a moral point of view I don't consider it wrong iff you would not have otherwise bought it.[/quote] S

[quote]Copyright infringement is completely different to stealing, I really don't understand why people try to equate them.[/quote] Ok, tell me what the moral difference is between making a copy of a CD and stealing the CD from a store? Both crimes have the same motive and outcome, the motive being that somebody wants to use the product without paying for it, and the result being that they obtained an illegal copy. In both instances the rightful owner of the material does not receive

[quote]Oh and not everyone is "rationalizing", some people in the world do actually have principles :/ Admittedly most don't seem to though.[/quote] If you are talking about those who pirate, then those who do not rationalize are those who openly admit that they are stealing, in which case their principles are already somewhat dubious.

For years while I was growing up my family survived through a family company we owned and ran. Nothing frustrated me more then when people would decide that they were entitled to our product without paying the cost, or that some perceived issue meant that they were not obligated to pay. As a result I hate pirates (music, movies, games, whatever), and hold them in the same regard as someone who physically stole the item from a store.

Well, Stardock [I]is[/I] based out of Michigan... :D

Trade is huge. Not only does it make them less likely to attack you, but it also makes others much more likely to come to your aid (the bad guys blowing up your freighters makes the other races lose money as well).

Did something change in TA? Like Sole Soul said (say that five times fast), in DA you don't have to pick either side, but can maintain alliances with both.