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the pain of downloading was worth it.
first the problems:
the music needs fixing. i get two songs playing when there should only be one and other music gets cut off when it should be playing over the background music.
would really like to have hot keys.
some technologies are too easy to research early on and later ones are too long to research.
now for the overall game views.
wow! this is so much better than i'd ever imagined. i want to be the first to say it, this is going to be the new 4x champ. as a masters of orion fan i initially saw galciv as kind of a nice independent attempt to tide me over until moo 3 came out. my how things change. galciv is the best strategy game i've ever played. it's like having the best parts of heroes of might and magic, masters of orion, civilization, space empires all combined.
i've only just started with the star base building. i think that the sb's are the ultimate feature now. they make you feel like you are really building something. i wish there were more space structures you could build. i think that would be fun. maybe in galciv ii you could have the things a star base does split up so that there is more differentiation in the look of them.
no crashes so far. the performance is good but not great on my pentium ii 600mhz.
i noticed that you can change back to an imperial form of government. i lost control of my senate and just swapped back to imperial and the penalty went away. there should be a vote before being able to change.
great job. it's gona be a late night!
first the problems:
the music needs fixing. i get two songs playing when there should only be one and other music gets cut off when it should be playing over the background music.
would really like to have hot keys.
some technologies are too easy to research early on and later ones are too long to research.
now for the overall game views.
wow! this is so much better than i'd ever imagined. i want to be the first to say it, this is going to be the new 4x champ. as a masters of orion fan i initially saw galciv as kind of a nice independent attempt to tide me over until moo 3 came out. my how things change. galciv is the best strategy game i've ever played. it's like having the best parts of heroes of might and magic, masters of orion, civilization, space empires all combined.
i've only just started with the star base building. i think that the sb's are the ultimate feature now. they make you feel like you are really building something. i wish there were more space structures you could build. i think that would be fun. maybe in galciv ii you could have the things a star base does split up so that there is more differentiation in the look of them.
no crashes so far. the performance is good but not great on my pentium ii 600mhz.
i noticed that you can change back to an imperial form of government. i lost control of my senate and just swapped back to imperial and the penalty went away. there should be a vote before being able to change.
great job. it's gona be a late night!
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