You know, maybe 1.5X would be enough...

[geoschmo]

aiken said:

Both of these items are scored as 1X for me. As in any strategic game SE4 players could be divided into 2 faction: Warriors and Builders (and various mixes of them). I'm a Builder, so both exploiting and expanding are important for me.

That's a good point. And I'll admit when I first started playing this game it was all fun, even what I now consider the boring empire managment stuff. I guess it's just that I've been playing this for what, four years now? Or maybe I've gotten into somewhat of a rut. I still get a huge kick out of the tactics and strategy of the wars, it just seems like the 30 turns at the start of the game have gotten too predictable for me. That's why I was saying it would be cool to have the option to fast-play through those turns and get to the good parts.

It's also why I enjoy taking over abandoned games on PBW.