A warless game would be interesting, but I'm not sure the AI is set up for it at all. Sometimes I think the AI goes for war because it's the most straightforward - "i have more stuff than you, now I take what I want."
IMO - I will ALWAYS pay for a game, if it's worth it. But so many games don't put out proper demos - a TBS game that the demo lasts for 5 mins is a good example. Stardocks game is so killer - i played it over at my g/f's house - it sold me the first day and I've remained hooked. Bought the game for myself no less than 24 hours later. The real way to stop piracy? Release good games.
Yeah, this is one of the best games I've played in a long time, and I've passed it around to everyone I know in high recommendations.
IMO, tech victory is mostly the victory for "I'm tired of this galaxy, time to play somewhere else." The tech victory is the only victory you can get that doesn't REQUIRE aggressive expanding or interacting with other races - for military you have to wipe everyone out, for influence you have to expand to the point of controlling 75% of the galaxy, and for diplomatic you need to make the surviving civs love you, but research is something you can do totally within your own shell.
I'd like that, except it'd force me to keep more military units around than I already have to stupid warmongering AIs.
I have to admit, sometimes it's hard to be anything more than a military juggernaut. You have to have such a large military to keep the rest of the galaxy from whaling on you, sending them over to whack a neighbor isn't that much of a big deal. Also I wish they'd un-nerf diplomacy. Just because the AI is dumb in diplomacy doesn't mean you should take it away. It means you should make the AI smarter. I think it'd go a long way if they separated "trade value" and "research value" or so
Wow, never realized there were so many other people with Asperger's here. Or on forums in general. Hullo thar! But anyways, yes. I think the only defects that should be screenable are life threatening defects. Aspergers is not life-threatening. Autism isn't either. Down Syndrome can be, so I'm iffy on that. But hair color, skin color, etc... shouldn't be touchable. And I would much rather be born the way I am now, with defected eyes and Aspergers and who knows all the other thing
Mine doesn't work either. Neither does my girlfriends (another copy on another pc, same issue.)
Mind you, the autopilot move happens at the END of the turn you click to end, not at the start of the next turn. You don't REALLY go slower.
Heh, the easiest way to fix most "weird" problems like that is to reset your pc. Helps a lot.
Yeah, even with a killer rig, I get slowdowns. This is something I'd classify as a bug or at least a problem that needs to be fixed because it adds nothing to game play that a "stacked ships" icon wouldn't, but it slaughters frame rate. I dread the Drengin going to war not because of the power (lol, right) of Super Dominator, but because of the massive clumps of corvettes.
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