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Reply to Brad's life philosophy, for what it's worth in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I very much enjoy like the fact that here we get straight, honest responses from the CEO. Seeing discourse on these issues, even if it's with the typical hyperbole of forums, makes me feel more connected with the products. It's refreshing not to receive misleading distilled information from fear motivated spin doctoring PR people, if we receive anything at all in other places. I'm lucky to be an engineer working in a company owned and run by an engineer. The environment is vastly be

Reply to The existence of for-pay stuff doesn't hurt you in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

I think the addition of for-pay stuff is always a good idea in single-player, and under certain conditions, for multiplayer. To me, in competitive multiplayer, balance is of utmost importance. The best example of where the line is for me is the difference between Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2. I bought BF1942 and both expansions, and enjoyed the game for years. I bought BF2 and only played until the first expansion. The difference is that for the 1942 expansions when

Reply to Thinking of buying, few Questions first. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like elements of both tech tree designs. I can't say for sure which is "longer". Overall I give the edge to the tech trees in C4 and its "first person there" bonuses of some of the techs, and the clear separation between the ages. Bear in mind GC2 isn't multiplayer, if that's important to you. I feel diplomacy is much better implemented in GC2. There are many more options for manipulating your opponents, in my opinion. I've played winning games as only a diplomat/manipulat

Reply to The perils of multiplayer in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I hope for multiplayer support in my 4x strategy games not because I enjoy them competitvely, but because I have friends that I like to play them with cooperatively. I bought Sins for that reason alone, to play team games with my friends against teams of AI players. Heh, funny thing is we talk about our GC2 games while we play Sins. I'm not under any illusions that people like me comprise a large market, but personally I very much enjoy co-op multiplayer support and am not

Reply to The Good, the bad, and the neutral in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The score difference I believe is because of the multiplier from the conquest victory type and the number of planets that will entail. Personally it's more important to me that the game is fun playing it than what score it gives me at the end. I think I'll play them all eventually. My first half-dozen games have been as a good Civ, and I play it as good (no unprovoked wars etc). It seems to have intuitive advantages to me, where it's easy to make alliances and people who like me typi