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[quote who="ForesterSOF" reply="10" id="3446899"] go to your download at their store and if the word elite is in it then you have the alpha[/quote] Big thanks to you both: Looks like I'll be able to download it later this month. That will be nice: March 27th just happens to be my birthday...
Er...this is embarrassing, but how can you tell just what kind of "founder" you are? I threw money at SD for GC3 so long ago I completely forgot what I paid for it.
Regarding expansion, I think the three of us are dancing around the same concept: Balancing expansion with costs. There's a lot to be said for the shameless land run that should begin any game of GC, but it certainly shouldn't be entirely without cost or limitations. What if those concepts were combined into a single one like... an "Administrative Point" system? You can expand and settle all you like...you're just flinging people out into space. But you can only *govern* a
My ideal 4x game would come with an option to delegate. Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to "cut up" your empire into smaller districts and spawn AI to run them (using the same AI mechanics as your own race)? Something like selecting a group of systems and bases (and fleets that are homed thereon) and spawning them off into independent domains, almost at-will. You could have a mechanic to quantify that action, too: Larger empires tend to be harder to govern, possibly making them less