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Because you can get more traffic on www.galciv.com, and probably the game doesn't have that many players to afford a lot of bandwidth here. Though there seems to be traffic in MOO3, so maybe I should add that the galciv forum is friendly, people are very responsive over there, etc. so there's really little reason to look for soemthing elsewhere unless you want to make a clan or empire, and the poly empire didn't have many people to submit scores, nor did it need a specific forum since there are already many.Clash of Civilization team member
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^^^Yep.
I'm not sure about everybody else, but I've not played GalCiv for two months now.
May pick up and play again soon...-Sir TComment
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The game sucks. MOO3 has generated more discussion. Sorry, just a personal opinion/observation.
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It doesn't. That's just your opinion. As I said, people are much more likely to talk about it on their dedicated forums than here.
The game certainly doesn't have the replay value of civ, but it's still quite good ans has a much better ai and diplomatic system that makes more sense than civ.Clash of Civilization team member
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How's the traffic on the other forums?
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Too bad we can't zoom in oj the planet surfaces like in MoO2.Comment
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Other games were better: Pax Imperia II and Ascendancy to mention two.Originally posted by Leonidas
Too bad we can't zoom in oj the planet surfaces like in MoO2.
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That would be a welcome addition. Some personalization to the star systems would be nice to.Originally posted by Leonidas
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Maybe this forum should be dumped into Other Games?Comment
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Ascendancy better than GalCiv? That's crazy talk!
GalCiv's one big flaw -- a glaring one -- is all the money you're forced to spend on empty build queues. Forcing you to buy "Nothing" at all of your old worlds just to get development on new ones is very irritating. They could've at least shut down production and not forced you to spend when you've nothing to build. Other than that it's fun, and the games are refreshingly short.
Ascendancy ... I don't know where to begin ... its UI was so crude that once you passed, say, 4 systems and 4 ships, managing your assets became a micromanagement nightmare.
Just getting a ship from the shipyard to where you wanted it was painstaking, never mind keeping track of a dozen.
"Have I fired all the lane destabilizers this turn?" Critical to your transportation infrastructure, and you have to fire each and every friggin' one by hand.
It's enough to drive you to ask, "WHY AM I PLAYING THIS STUPID GAME?" My answer was, "To burn as many xenos as possible in revenge for the sadistic micromanagement torture implied by their continued existence."
Master of Orion, elegant, simple, 15-minute-turns-with-8,000-ship-fleets Master of Orion, has sadly inspired some of the worst strategy games of all time, and Ascendancy is one of them. MoO 3 is another.
(GalCiv falls in the same category as Freelancer: good game with fatal or near-fatal flaw. In GalCiv's case it isn't quite fatal.)
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Build queues are evil! Master of Orion had sliders plus a "stealth queue" for a very select few items, so you didn't have to build a bunch of the same differently-named crap. If I want more factories I don't need to build a Factory then an Automated Factory then a Robotic Factory then a Robotronic Factory then a Nano-version of more of the same. Pointless micro! Down with build queues!Comment
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GalCiv.com is a great place for GalCiv info. Very responsive.
GalCiv is pretty good. It's more like classic Civ but with good AI.
I like Acsendancy, but... it's MM gets on my nerves, and once you discover the optimal strategy, there isn't much a point to playing it different. It works too well. The AI will SHOW you the optimum strategy, but it doesn't follow through on it.-Darkstar
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Perhaps, but the one thing Ascendancy had going for it is that I at least enjoyed playing it.Originally posted by Santiago_Claus
Ascendancy better than GalCiv? That's crazy talk!
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Yeah! Ascendancy was fun.
Umh, as for optimal strategy. Any strategy seemed good enough to get the better of the remarkably braindead AI.
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