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Lastly, you may say that you didn't like ascendancy, but saying it's a "crappy" game is pushing it. I liked it... for the atmosphere Whoah...you must have been young, gullable or both when ascendancy came out. Just for the sake of my sanity...and because I loave denegrating this crapy excuse for a game at every oportunity as a kind of repayment for my wasted $39.99 @ eb games. Ascendancy, the game that let your h

After over a decade of complaining when a game has space lanes, I have come the the conclusion that I have been wrong all these years. I used to complain because I felt the space lanes thing restricted movement in an unrealistic way, and I was dead set against them. I think I may have been put off becasue so many crappy games had them (like ascendancy), and my favorite space game MOO didn't. I now realize that for the most part, these restrictions are not on

Now if only Stardock could get the rights to Spore, DCS Black Shark and a few other games I want to play in between GalCiv sessions without infecting my system with burdensome DRM Why is it that no other publishers "get it" ?

I am happy you were able to get out an prepubescent sillyness worked out away from the Stardock community. Thank you ;)

So in other words.....the proverbial...'2 weeks' is your answer LOL

I didn't at the time. I would think it would be a good idea if the Total Gaming section showed that Stardock Central had the full game and not just the beta. I delayed buying the game by a day because it looked like SDC was still only having ver 0.7 (the beta) Once I got the reg key for Sins, then it showed the full 1.01.12 version. On the plus side, I played chicken shoot while the thing downloaded :CONGRAT:

Yea, I used my CC and got shipping at $10.00, but FWIW paypal is still showing $20 to ship today...and unless they moved Florida :LOL:

Continental US order and its twenty dollars...tell me this is a mistake! Is there some paypal tax cause the evil ebay take too big a cut? Review the payment details below and click Pay to complete your secure payment. Visit Funding Sources to learn more about PayPal policies and your payment source rights and remedies, or to change debit card processing options. Item Unit Price Qty Total Sins of a Solar Empire (Collector's Edition DVD) Item # SSD-SDS-W237 $4

Launch day +2 and still only version .7 (:(

Will someone PLEASE make Brad the King of all that is software development or something. Why out of all of the game making companies in the world, do so few hold my ideals? Ive been a supporter of Stardock for many years, and I am constantly amazed at the customer focus that oozes out of every cubicle there. Even the drastic transition they made with total gaming dot net when they went from a subscription gives you everything to a tokens format was handled in such a way that I honestl

I'd like to change my vote to RELEASE IT NOW...LOL Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. Theres plenty of content to keep me busy, although I cant wait to get my hand on the fancy tech editor thing to make my own silly games.

[B]"Mobile bases of death that can destroy entire star systems"[/B] That sounds strangely familiar somehow. Anyway, I really like the was the new 'Bases of star death' are being done, but do have a question. Ive only built one (and that crashed the game due to the know bug at the time), so do they all look the same, or very similar, or are there big differences like the ships?

I hope this beta includes the "mike sucks less" option...cause Ive been geting my rear handed to me :SURPRISED:

I'm a little confused about research starbases. I build one, and didnt see an change, so I upgraded it so it shows the base 4% and the upgrade 5% research bonus. Where can I see this effect on my empires research?

WOOT!

GalCiv is a space 4X game...yeah, I get that. What I think would add a lot to the game with a minimum of recoding (easy for me to say) is having the ground attacks for each race show a little diversity. Nothing overtly crazy, just have each races units, and jawa trasnports (thats what they look like to me) be unique looking. I know its a small part of the game, but Its been stagnant for far too long IMHO ;)

I've said it before, probably for at least 10 years. Adding 3D adds nothing to gameplay, but adds terribly to complexity and frustration. As has been said before, the only way to make 3d a do-able thing is to use 'space lanes'...and then what is the point of the 3d again? Look at it this way...there have been 3d interfaces for windows machines for a decade now....how many of you use one.

Thats no moon

Yea...animate after your done...BUT DANG! I didnt know this level of eye candy was being completed

While Ive always admired the quality of your work, what is up with this cludge of a system to obtain the files? Your asking people to email you or register or something?

I say do what YOU think is best...however, if given my option, I say release it in January, this puts you in the position of being one of the only new games in January...and give you a shot at GAME OF THE YEAR 2008 ---- Mike James NewsCastLIVE.com (347)Bug-Mike

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In the headline section "Best games for any platform", guess what game pops as #1 on the PC.....over Oblivion no less....and while I havnt ever played oblivion, its the 400 pound gorrilla of the PC gaming world right now. :CONGRAT:

The idea behind eliminating the 'number', while it may seem defendable at first glance, but in the end it is pretty much a bone headed move.....and I didnt even realize CGW was owned by Sony So now instead of telling me what a game is like to play, a reviewer is going to spend endless hours contemplating how to target his review if they want me to know how they really felt. There is just TOO MUCH WIGGLE ROOM between "OK, GOOD and VERY