hello and help

Strategia_In_Ultima · #1 February 13th, 2005, 10:21 AM

btw check out this while you're at it:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...c=1#Post331698

Combat Wombat · #2 February 13th, 2005, 11:02 AM

Well personally I would go for Space Empires IV Gold instead of Galactic Civilizations. SE4 has this great community and alot of mods so its a game that your going to be able to play for along time after you buy it.

Also welcome to the forums

Gandalf Parker · #3 February 13th, 2005, 11:15 AM

I played both. I really wanted to like GalCiv 2. Ive been following it since GalCiv 1 a long LONG time ago on OS/2. Its primary fame is supposed to be its AI which is what Im most interested in. It probably is great in AI but unfortunately the rest of the game was so flat that I got bored and dumped it. Maybe GalCiv 3 will have Brad improving the REST of the game. Just my humble opinion.

DeadZone · #4 February 13th, 2005, 11:43 AM

Space Empires without a doubt

Reason why GalCiv community is larger, due to that GalCiv is more widely avaliable (being that SE is brought only over the net)
Also, you tend to find that the community around here is closer and friendly than communities for other games

TheDeadlyShoe · #5 February 13th, 2005, 12:26 PM

this is hardly the place for unbiased opinons! However, even ardent GalCiv partisans will concede that Space Empires has far deeper gameplay. I suppose it really depends on how much time you want to invest in the game whether GalCiv or Space Empires is better. SE really is rather complicated...

The demo shows off the gameplay decently well, though.

Damn, now I'm remembering just how very, very long i spent playing the SE II demo before i realized there was a full version.

Slick · #6 February 13th, 2005, 01:46 PM

Welcome to the forum!

editted cause i kant spell.

Renegade 13 · #7 February 15th, 2005, 01:06 AM

Sorry to derail the topic (slightly) but:

Would it be worth it to buy MOO II?? Cost would be about $10 US.

Arkcon · #8 February 14th, 2005, 11:23 AM

I played GalCiv in the OS/2 days as well, and I gotta say, the AI wasn't that great. I found the game compelling, working out all the ins and outs of the rules, but it was easy enough to build just enough to not alert the AI, and then counter attack when the AI declared war. That's what some people gripe about SE4 -- the AI seem s unpreditable, declaring way when friendly, and not giving up when all is lost. That's just to avoid falling into the trap of the crafty human player, with his gigantic fleet, offering trade deals.

The big thing was that OS/2 was multithreaded, so the AI could do so much more in the background, but like the Imperator says, the game is so abstracted, it could all be an algorithm, and wouldn't make much of a difference.