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Galactic Civilizations II

Discussion in 'Playground' started by Sarevok•, May 30, 2006.

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    Anyone played this yet? I've been playing it today, not the type of game I normally play, but it got a good review.. Anyway, it's fun so far, very addictive, what's your opinion of it so far?
     
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    I've only played the demo, but it is very good. Though the "Easy" difficulty should be rated as "retard" difficulty. Tried it a couple times, and they never even built any ships with any fighting capacity. :rolleyes: They just sat there, occasionally building a colony ship which was easy to destroy. No transports, no fighters, no defenders.
     
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    The game is rather amusing for a while. Soon, however, you'll notice that you can get to a point during a game with the computer where your pretty much unstoppable... where your planatary defenses can destroy any attacks launched against them.
     
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    on second thoughts, I actually think it sucks now, when I started a large game, it just gets tedius to look after all of the planets and ships, it was good at first though, different I suppose.
     
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    Tested it in hopes it could be a solid replacement for the age-old Alpha Centauri, but for some reason it just felt too "basic" and lacking. IIRC, I also found the lack of "cancel building" -button and unprofessional writing rather annoying.

    It just lacked the charm. The reviews were more about hype than truth, I think.
     
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    Nothing to do about the writing, but cancelling buildings is pretty easy. Just select the building in the building queue (or on the map), and hit the X at the top of the building queue. Bye bye effort. ;)
     
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    Are we talking about the same version? When I still had this game and played it, I was pretty sure there was no "X", "Cancel", or the like anywhere in the queue, map, or whole screen.
     
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    It was a tiny little thing, right on the bar with "Build Queue" or whatever the title was. I used it several times.

    It was different in the original GalCiv, though. There you'd just select something different to build, since there weren't "plots" to build on.
     
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    I have and enjoy the game though Sarevok touched on a subject that I also hold similar opinions about. In a 'massive' map type (you know, true galactic empires here) there is far too much micromanaging.
     
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