[Yimboli]

It sounds like you're treating the purchase of both games as mutually exclusive... but people can buy both games. I see it like this: joe's never heard of se4 and he buys the galciv2 expansion (which is now more like se4), and he loves the modifications... and then he sees someone on the galciv2 forums talking about se4, so he checks out se4. He likes it, finds the forums and awesome mods, and becomes another SE junky.

I suppose I'm not too concerned about galciv2 decreasing SE revenue because SE4 is such a better game all around with more repeatability (sp?)... by the time joe is tired of se4, galciv10 will have come and gone.

Perhaps what I'm trying to say (and failing to do so succinctly) is that games similar to se4 will increase our userbase. Everyone that buys galciv2's expansion might not find their way here, but *some* will. Even if galciv2's expansion makes much more money from Aaron's ideas than Aaron does, he's still better off than he was with a smaller userbase.

does that make sense to anyone else??? i've been in such a philosophical mood lately...