[Arkcon]

GalCiv comes up on these forums once and a while, it has a few fans who like both for the different reasons you mentioned.

Now, I played it back in the OS/2 days, and really enjoyed it back then. But when Stardock came out with the shipsyards expansion pack, I was really excited -- it allowed you to design ships, instead of accepting the prefab ships the game came with. They didn't remove that function for the latest Version, did they? At any rate, color me too interested in ship design to get bored -- yes, its repetitious at times, but that just means you have to vary the design, even if it seems useless. You may discover an improved design you hadn't thought of.

The diplomacy model in the new GalCiv is much better than SE4. But I remember, in the old days, how you could just barely appease the AI, then whenever you wanted, quickly ramp up production for the kill. SE4's "suddenly mad at you for no reason" model at least keeps you on your toes.

[ June 28, 2004, 12:33: Message edited by: Arkcon ]