Raynor, I'm with you. I too bought Imperium Galactica a while back but never finished my first game. I was bored to tears by it. That and I just couldn't stand what they called "tactical combat" (shudder). It left my hard drive not long after and never returned. Another $45 wasted.
I actually find the graphics of SE4 strangely appealing. So what if the planets don't rotate and the ships aren't animated. Give me depth of gameplay any old day instead. Heck, I even still like "Begin" (one of the best Star Trek tactical games ever made in my book). Now, *those* were crude graphics. But the gameplay was great.
At least with SE4 we can make our own graphics and futz around with the game's innards. Something that would be difficult at best if everything was animated & state of the art. Plus, I do like the fairly small install footprint on my disk. BG2 eats enough of that, thank you very much.
I do love this game. And this forum is great too. Truly some class A folks here in my book (Jeeze, what a lovefest).
