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WOW the origional poster is a noob an a idiot. What a chickelittle the sky is falling post. hahahaha Why is it when something is FUN others who don't play it or don't like it call it an Addiction? lol Addiction is something you are if you WANT to be. I used to smoke and I quit cold turkey just like that because I WANTED to. I didn't need any cigarest or patches or any support groups. I smoked for 35 years and just quit on my own because I WANTED to not because it was an ADDICTION. lol Some peopl

Let's put it this way if you "hesitate" you lose. That enough information for yah? :)) SotsE is for KIDS just like TRIX are for KIDS. ;)

You want to get GCII as SotsE is just another kiddy clickfest RTS game. Though slower than most it's still what it is. It's not a 4x like GCII by any means. You couldn't get me to play a copy of SotsE if someone gave it to me for free. GCII will offer you hours and hours and years and years of gaming pleasure and be sure and get the GOLD PAK so you get everything.

I don't trust the origional poster, did you notice how he changed his story when someone brought up occassional planets or rare planets. Then all of a sudden, yeah that's how I played it, I meant to mention that. He's clearly just trying to destroy the game for "multiplayers sake". Go back to Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic where they cater to mp's over single players. You lost any credibility after your 2nd post and certainly after Froggie showed how the

When you turn off a feature of the game you can forget expecting it to play like it was meant to be played with all the features turned on. The trade off feature option was added for the whiners that didn't find the game challening enough with it turned on. Well, now you have your challenge and it will be a warring challenge, hell, what else did you expect? With trade turned on the AI hardly ever went to war, now with it turned off and it becomes a war

OIC now so turning off tech trading which was one of the features to help keep the AI at least on a neutral or better relationship with you, you now expect the game to be the SAME without it? lol When you turn off a feature of the game you should expect it to change and wars are going to be more common without trading with the AI. Not saying it's impossible to get a decent relationship with the races without it, but, it's certainly going to be harder and you should expect and accept that. I cert

You guys just don't know how to play it as I don't have issues with war the way I play and I play on tough with intelligent opponents. Obviously you aren't setting your sliders correctly enough to tech up very fast and apease the AI with trades as I do. It's rare there is anything I haven't already teched first except some of the extremely long ones which I will eventually buy and then trade to the other races. Also I "custom" build my civilization, I

Just depends on how one plays whether it turns into a war or not. Basically there are two things that will keep the AI off of me indefinitely and that is military power and political power. Influence goes a long was as well. I can get the entire map on friendly with wheeling and dealing and trading low techs when they are 1 or 2 turns away from completeing them anyways. Makes them like me better and eventually I get to sit back and watch the AI's just

Something else I'm findout out about the Military power rating is it isn't tied just into how many ships you have, but, how much power those ships have as well. In one game the Drengin had over 240 ships to my 120 or so and I moved ahead of them into first place with just 28 more ships at 148. I had been building up medium hulled ships with heavy lasers and fast engines, no armors of any type. When I went to war with them it was a massacre. They had al

Haven't you learned by now that magazines and review sites are owned by Microsoft, EA, Activision, Atari and any other major mainstream companies I missed? Advertising dollars equate to excellent reviews even if the games are crap. Oblivion is horrendous for the PC because of it's UI, plain and simple it was made for the console first and then ported to the PC with an identical UI. POS if you ask me. Rome Total War had almost the worst AI in gaming his

@ WTF Chuck : Paragraphs are our friends....use them if you want anyone to read your long posts.

The AI in "The Godfather" does learn. If I kill too many of a familys members they declare war on my family and come bombing my stores and rackets. It's called a Vendetta. And you can decrease this Vendetta value by paying the FBI large amounts of cash or blowing up a few of their shops and rackets before they get to yours. I love that game almost as much as this one I keep jumping back n forth now playing both. Gang Wars/Mafia has always been fun to m

I would rather an option for AI always surrenders to AI. I like challenge in my games and I'd rather see the AI give their stuff to another race and keep the game challenging than give it all to me. Make me work for what I gets. So instead of just AI surrendering off add AI surrenders to another AI too. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.g

Tech trading with the AI is an exploit and you shouldn't be doing it if you're really that good.

Lol I planet rush every game and am always in 1st on economy and technology. You're just not working with your economics and taxes and research settings correctly. And to keep the AI from attacking all you have to do is keep at least 1 ship at every planet and keep your military growing when you spot the AI's start to make their first warships. Also rush the diplomacy techs, it's one more plus to keep the AI off of you when they see you have a diplomatic advantage, plus you get better trade deal

Double post due to this website having terrible problems and issues, great game guys but your website/forum is rated F haha

I've noticed this in every game on every difficulty. Single troup transports trying to invade my territory and I have long range sensor ships spiderwebbed around my territory with 1 measly weapon on them. It's a turkey shoot if any transport ship tries to come through. Perhaps a new programming to move transports like I do always shadowed by a fleet in the same square as them. Course I also have long range transports that can move 12 squares

Yeah there needs to be some kind of "need permission" to cross borders or it's an act of war. In my lastest game I put fleets of 7 ships at every planet of the YOR (16) of them, had my transports within range of attack (12 spaces) and the AI did declare war before I attacked, BUT, he accepted peace the very SAME turn. And the next turn I slaughtered it. I even bought all the other races to attack it also. The poort YOR just got smeared and cremated wit

I've found that one entertainment center and 1 or 2 stock markets will support a 17 population with a 59% tax setting quite easily and not drop below the 45% popularity rating. Works for me and I get great income and a lot less chance of losing my planet because my population is only 5. In multiplayer I would roll over your planets so fast you wouldn't know what hit yah with low poplations like you have.

You probably got trojans and spyware out the ying yang cause my system sounds identical to yours and I have seconds for loads and even when I minimize the screen it back up within 30 seconds or less. Don't blame the software when it's your system that can clearly be the culprit with your issues. Specially when many others aren't experiencing this with same specs. I suggest reformatting your drive and getting it nice and clean again. <img src="http://im

You can get on peoplepc.com for $5.47 a month now for 3 months. If you can't afford that you shouldn't be playing games. And don't come back and give us you don't have a telephone. lol That's just a matter of "standard computer gaming" you MUST have internet access to get patches and register your games. Otherwise SOL baby.

It doesn't matter Terrans suk anyways.

Lol he must be playing on some ancient system like a 486sx25 hahaha 40 minutes is goooood for those ancient machines. Time to stop being stingy and upgrade.

What a complex pain in the ass suggestion to have to deal with. I like the beer and pretzels way the game plays as it already is. Don't need all this engines and power cells and combinations of applications and mathematical conglomerations mucking things up.

Where can I find the preview link to what's gonna be in 1.1 patch? please thank you...you're so kind whoever tells me .