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It does indeed look a lot like Elemental. I wonder if they're trying to be cheeky?

Megastructures would be pretty awesome, but possibly beyond the timeframe in which the game takes place. I think the closest we'll have to megastructures will be those Precursor worlds. Although GalCiv 4 could possibly introduce megastructure type stuff left behind by Precursors.

Fixing bugs before they even happen is my guess.

I will add my voice to the anti-scorched earth chorus.

Solid state drives are the way to go for sure. All of those categories will be improved.

Such a thing already existed before, can't remember when it was removed. Sometime around Crusade maybe?

Get yourself WinRAR if 7zip is not liking it.

I can't say for sure, but Retribution might be predicated on the presence of one or more DLCs.

It becomes money now.

These artifacts, are they an expansion on the idea of the Precursor relics from the Lost Treasures DLC?

Could have been a real contender with Valve and Steam had you not sold it.

It's weird. Each successive post you make in this thread makes less sense than the one before it.

The manual is for the base game I think. A lot of stuff was changed in Crusade, so the manual might not be the best source of information.

Probably they would meet at the other end and undergo fusion.

Holy mackerel is the video card encased in a giant heatsink? Pretty nice setup indeed.

Yeah, it's like we're denied permission or something.

Did you... did you create an account specifically for this thread? Anyway, there's always Peter Thiel's method of crushing "journalists" with lawsuits.

Whereas I reject that nonsense. I shall promptly disable all of that on my phone.

Definitely shall refrain from updating to this version.

If you're the bad guys, won't everyone else just gang up and take you down? Certain real life bad guys were taken out in such a manner.

Well drat, that does seem to be the case. A pity, that leaves me with a tech victory.

So, I'm playing as the United Federation of Planets, and every time I form an alliance with another empire I get the defeat screen. No mods, only UFP, UFP TOS workshop races for this particular save. Save is here. EDIT: DLCs installed are everything except Intrigue.

Analytical Engine!

Maybe it's a Stellaris situation, where everyone invariably wipes themselves out in a nuclear war.

There's quite a bit of process bloat with newer OSes. Hell, even WinXP was bloated compared to what came before.