The possibility of partnership.

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HoneyBadger said:
... if the community as a whole think they'd be a good company for Illwinter to work with to possibly bring the Dom series to a larger market, and to help expand the game and improve it in good areas. ...

I've not had much interest in GalCiv due to the nearly non-existant combat system. So I've not enough experience to know much about their developers' strengths. However having programmed game AI myself, it seems to me that while the GalCiv AI apparently has made a very good impression, the game it's playing isn't nearly as complex or detailed as Dominions and its database. It's far easier to make a convincing AI for a game with fewer detailed decisions and game systems to master.

Also, I think IW benefits greatly from being developed with money-making being a tertiary consideration at most, and with a mass-market audience having near-zero influence on development decisions. So, I'm hoping IW stay centered on interesting "hard-core" game design, and remain ambivalent to the "larger market" and investors who would want them to change their priorities.

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