CANTANATRIX

To the Greeks it was-anyways Spore looks amazinf and even more life-sucking than Gal Civ II-and that's something! I can't wait!

Yeah I get that Y character a lot-its very annoying!

I like the idea of new ships-plus they made a hull designer i reckon that'd be pretty cool-oh plus some more 'building block' like jewllery so we can make more precise designs. I think yeah more information and cultural flavour in the presentation and interaction should be implemented-the races seem pretty identical in character wen you actually play the game-and... I WANT TO PLAY AS THE DREAD LORDS!!! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 AL

True it is bad having some nut clog up the forums with abuse-but isn't that what banning's for ?

People get awfully worked up on the internet-and a lot of you guys seem to forget that the person who is insulting you does not know you or you him-they are just some sad act killing time- so really WHO CARES? Ignore them-they are just trying to get attention and are really not worth you wasting precious energy typing back at them-unless you enjoy winding them up which I admit I occassionaly do. <br/

I was stuck on gigantic with only two planets at the start of my current game -my home and the class 4 in the same system as other planets were out of range-and im now a very dominant power having taken out the arcaens, torians, altarians and drath in that order- I'm now embroiled in a conflict i am winning with the Yor who own the very desirable and dominant cluster of habitable planets in the centre of the map. To achieve this basically i neglected my military for t

Tony Blair of the United Kingdom to Geroge W Bush of the United States: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to research the 'Uranium Enrichment' technology that as we both know branches off later on up the tech tree to 'Nuclear warhead'. His hostility to Israel concerns us in this respect-we should both take firm action against this threat." George Dubyah Bush of the United Steaks to President Ma-moo-mah-jihad of I-ran: Give me 3000bc and stop researching Uranim Enric

I know- STARDOCK! I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE MY FACE IN THIS GAME BY NOON OR THERE'LL BE BEATINGS!

take white and wipe out the Iconians

I know-who thought French would be a good language? Only French people speak it-and who wants to speak to them?!

I am frankly amazed someone would post here saying stardock DO NOT CARE-I haven't been this impressed by a company's customer response since Microsoft- yes I did just say Microsoft!-at least regeards their Xbox-mine went screwy and upon my informing them thus they immediately picked it up repaired it and sent it back for free-quick and painless, plus they send me new safety cables in the post now

true didn't think about AIDS, civil war, starvation, malaria, TB, dysentry, cholera, President Mugabe or indeed syphalis-but for a technologically advanced society I'm still going to have to go for the meat freezers-they must have pretty big ones in the future right?

Yes it does-and also true about the personality. I often ally with the Yor-and win a diplomatic victory even though their racial profile dictates that alliances are fleeting with them and they are in it only for themsleves over everyone else-and therefore if it looks like I'm gonna win a diplomatic victory they should pull out and declare war on me or somesuch to prevent me winning. The Dregin aren't quite evil enough-pretty pally actually -

That is amazing-just think what you could do with a planet like that?! I think the computer is screwed if you get that beauty

they've stopped paying taxes cuz they are currently hanging in meat freezers!

Hmmm..maybe in order to make up the food shortage the population turned to canibalism? The survivors of course would not want to spread word of their 'missing' bretheren now would they? Sounds like a cover-up! 19 millions dead in a week though-I reckon those 5 million people left are very fat......

Hmm...earlier Kingwood made a good point about the A.I attacking you when whilst you had a non-existant or negligible military rating you had a good or great tech and economic level-basically as he said the POTENTIAL to kick their ass. This happens to me a lot as I favour a strategy of economic growth, keeping down spending and growing population before military expenditure. The simple fact is-once a race (often the Torians first- the

I think it is a pity -a properly implemented orbital bombardment would be a useful option. If an enemy is threatening your civilisation's survival-why not wipe him out before he does you when things get desperate: "we're in it for the species". You don't need to kill ALL your enemie's population-too hard and impracticle unless you have a death star-just let the survivors die slow agonising radiation-related deaths-or fight each other f

One reason America built up such a massive nuclear arsenal in the cold war was that it simply worked out cheaper to be capable of wiping out the foe rather than use extensive conventional fighting/occupation forces -much more effective deterrent. Same goes for actually using them-Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked to prevent thousnds of U.S casualties-and well to see if their nuclear technology worked. So yeah-if people do this sorta thing in real life

that would be cool-but its not neccessary the coward's option to decimate a planet-why waste tax paying citizens when you can nuke the slimy aliens instead? Plus some planets can be a burden to try and maintain in certain situations-if you are deep in a strong enemy's space-why risk having them retake the world a turn later when you can deprive them of it for good?

Yeah some interesting ideas -it did always strike me as a bit harsh that when you conquered a world you effectively wiped out its native population -however some of your ideas are a little complex-and as was mentioned would probably invole a lot of number crunching you would not actually see-and would provide a headache for the player. The ethical alignment of your civ could be interesting in converting the alien population-perhaps with