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The Advance Wars and Fire Emblem series are further counterexamples to the lack of TBS games on consoles; that said, the offerings are not as good as they are for the PC. RTS games are historically very weak on consoles, to the point of being nearly absent. GalCiv2 would be fine with directional pad + 4 buttons after an interface change; it would be nearly immediate with the touchscreen of the DS. The only real problem is fitting the gobs of text. (I am assuming the sprite graphics t

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For a ship with speed Fast to be better than a ship with speed Slow we need (Distance/Slow - Distance/Fast)*Value - EngineCost > 0. Value is actually the average value of the route over the most distant (Distance/Slow - Distance/Fast) squares but can be estimated as the average value over the entire route (generally an underestimate). We actually need the result to be reasonably large positive number as "interest" to overcome the fact that money now is better than money in the future. A lit

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I believe I have spotted a flaw in the sorting of planets by social production; double-clicking the column header to sort lowest to highest leaves one planet out of place. An example screen shot is below; the planet named "Dither" is out of place. I also copied the quicksave I took before taking a break to post this, so I can send it to someone if I need to do so. I apologize if this is posted incorrectly, bu

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