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Originally Posted by licker
The AI was terrible at defending them, and terrible at hunting down your ships. So who cares if they have 100 ships and you have 10, they cannot take your planets and you will eventually out tech them (since you aren't wasting credits on ships) and be able to plow their fleets with a couple battleships or whatever you need to make to counter them.
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I'm curious when you played GalCiv2? I didn't even try it until the release of the Twilight of the Arnor expansion, and my roommate bought it and told me I should check it out. It seems to me like now the problems that you describe are not as present as you portray them - the first being that the AI puts emphasis on military might in diplomacy, so not only are they more likely to view you as food if you put off building any ships, but it will cost more to convince them otherwise if you choose to stick with that method. Plus the dynamic between ship capacity, component cost, and engine speed, seems to make it an enormous money sink to go for the fast transport killer concept. At least, in all my tinkering, I never saw it as viable to even get your tech to the point you could have a 20+ speed ship with -any- weapons or anything else at all, without having produced some sort of mobile defenses (read: ships that can actually kill other warships) in the meantime.
I agree with you Omni - AlphaCentauri stands in my ranks of "favorites of all time", and I every time a new Civ version is announced (they made one for consoles? come on.....), I cry over it not being AC2.
For those of you who may not have tried Twilight of the Arnor, my roommate liked GalCiv2 from the beginning, and he says Twilight is an entirely new ballgame (and I believe him). There's tons of new content, and no 2 species play the same, etc. I found it to be a much better game than I am seeing described, where it sounds like dissatisfaction with the base game.
Anyway, my point being that if they apply the things that transformed GalCiv via Twilight, into the first build of Elemental, and then add to it in fun and interesting ways as it looks like they intend to, I think it should be a pretty cool game.
(Oh and I agree that $10 is a bit exhorbitant for a movie, I usually wait til movies hit the local theater-pub, where I can get movie + 2 pints of hard cider for $10.
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