GalCiv2 Expansion

[Wade]

SEIV sort of has a simplified "Epic Generator" with the "History" in the diplomacy screen.

It seems that much of what Stardock is trying for GalCiv is from SEIV.

[rdouglass]

Wade said:
SEIV sort of has a simplified "Epic Generator" with the "History" in the diplomacy screen.

Yeah, I knew that. "Epic Generator" just sounds ... well, more 'epic'.

[frightlever]

GalCiv2 NEEDS to be more like Space Empires. The GalCiv2 campaign is painful and the scale of the game is pretty wimpy compared to the vast fleets we can have in Space Empires. Slick and pretty though and the devs are bending over backwards to give players more of what they want.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

frightlever said:
GalCiv2 NEEDS to be more like Space Empires.

SEV NEEDS more competition so that less people will buy it.
Also, Aaron NEEDS people copying his ideas and making more money off of it than he.

[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...

[Warshed]

I bought GC2 and I will buy SE5. I was disappointed with GC2 since it is extremely constrained strategically when compared to SE4. I played GC2 for about a week and then put it away to collect dust and then busted out my copy of SE4 again. Graphics is nothing compared to gameplay when it comes to 4X games. I still play Master of Orion to this day.

[Atrocities]

that is the same thing I did with GalCiv I and is why I chose not to buy GalCiv2.