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Originally posted by raynor:
In space-based 4x games with tactical combat, designing ships is a lot of fun because you can actually see and hear the different weapons and so forth. In a terra-based 4x game with no tactical combat, IMHO, a primary advantage of designing units is to tweak the unit cost to suit your individual strategy. So, instead of building one unit that is strong in both attack and defense, you can instead build a couple of good defenders with no attack rating and a whole bunch of units with a strong attack. So, I would say that SMAC is going quite well in the unit design arena. Given that SMAC doesn't have tactical combat, I think they did quite, quite well with their design choices.

So? You get the exact same thing in the Civ games. Units with high attack and low defense, and units with low attack and high defense. It all boils down to the same thing. The unit design choices are not much of a choice at all in SMAC.

Oleg:
SMAX has nothing on SE4 for the best 4X game ever. And, I would have to disagree that it is the best Civ game. Civ 2 ToT is a much better game in almost every way. Now if Civ 3 had been ToT + SMAX, it would have been a good game. Hopefully Sid Meier gets shot or something so he can't destroy any more classic game titles...