NiknudStunod

I wouldn't call getting new content a open beta. Beta is the testing a game for bugs, glitches, errors and what not. I have called some of the games I have bought open beta but let me assure you it wasn't meant as a compliment. Games that give away free content are pretty unheard of now. So this patch is a big kudos to the dev team here at stardock. I remember waiting for unit and map patches for T.A. back and this was a lot like that.

The only legit complaint I am seeing is the people that can't get impulse to work. Yeah impulse is a bit slow but really who cares. The game patched fast and it didn't require me to stay logged onto impulse in order to play. I was originally against impulse as well but honestly I just look at it like a fancy patcher. I only turn it on to check if my games need updates.

Maybe I am just stuck in the old way I played the thalan race but it is really hard for me to change the way I like to play them after 100's of games as the old them.

I have not talent when it comes to modding but I am sure I am not the only one that feels this way about the thalans. As for them being a front runner in your games what difficulty are you playing because I think as you go up in difficulty so does there social, military and research percentage which will naturally ease the handicap the player thalan has.

I have dabbled in trying to do that but in reality it isn't the same. It is funny that I bought the expansion but still find myself playing dark avatar.

I really had high hopes for this expansion but for me I really think they tried to hard to make it different. I have a love affair with the thalan race and I really feel they are getting the short end of the stick. I am not sure how different the other races play compared to there former selves but this is not the race I use to play. I have a super ability that is only half useful (super hive gets to build factories faster....wait we don't get factories until later in the game)

So I have been playing GC2 TOA now fow about 5-6 days and mostly been playing the thalan empire. I first tried them on the easy setting to just give them a test drive. It took me more then a few games to figure them out and I really feel they are under powered. The first thing I want to talk about is there "super ability". The super hive Starts out with a significant range bonus and factories are produced faster. The race doesn't get factories until much later

Just to make sure I am not doing anything wrong here. Does the thalan empire not have some basic buildings like factories and economic buildings anymore?