OT: SE4 players thoughts on OTHER games - Page 3

Noble713 · #21 February 13th, 2003, 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by Aloofim:
I bet my toilet paper that MOO3 its not gonna be playable or fully featured untill 6 months after released.

If you had taken a few minutes to investigate WHY the game has been continually pushed back for the past few months, you would know that it's because they've been trying to squash virtually EVERY game-stopping bug they find. From what I've read just glancing over the MOO3 forums, the single player mode has functioned pretty much perfectly for months, and they've spent all this time trying to fix late-game multiplayer problems. This personally annoys me, as I have no intentions of playing multiplayer, and could care less if the game crashes on turn 789 when the fleets of 8 different players numbering exactly 361 ships arrive in one system at the same time.

Puke · #22 February 13th, 2003, 09:17 AM

I will buy MOO3 when it comes out, in a couple weeks. I will buy GalCiv when it comes out, a few weeks after that.

I will finish the Grit Tech mod.. I will play more SE4.. I will find a new job.. I will make more reasonable resolutions..

rextorres · #23 February 13th, 2003, 09:29 AM

Are there other strategy games that have something similar to PBW? Once you play humans AIs just aren't that fun.

Wardad · #24 February 13th, 2003, 08:06 PM

There are only two games...
SE4 and STARS!

gregebowman · #25 February 13th, 2003, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by Lemmy:
In case anyone is interest, Freelancer went gold
http://www.microsoft.com/games/freelancer/

And i tihnk GalCiv has a lot going for it, off course, you can say they've stolen ideas from SE4, but any game steals ideas from previous games, especially if they are good ideas
The strong point of GalCiv is it's AI, and the dedication from the developers. They already scheduled 1 year after the release, to work on updates and such, now you may think they're just releasing a glorified beta then, but imo, if it doesn't have any gamestopping bugs, and you get what it says on the box (*cough*CIV3 MP*cough*), then it's a full game. All the updates that will be added are bonusses.
Plus, the hardware requirements aren't that high, probably similar to SE4's reqs.

What is this GalCiv you're all talking about? I read PC Gamer, but I can't recall a game by that name. I hope the game reqs are similar to SE4, but in my experience, most games coming out now are appealing to all of those who want super duper graphics and 3d. I can live without all of that as long as the game is good and is bug free.

Puke · #26 February 13th, 2003, 08:49 PM

actually, it looks decent for a 1 player game. www.galciv.com

moderate graphics, fairly low system requirements. I think the beefier your computer is, the smarter the AI will play.

Ruatha · #27 February 13th, 2003, 08:53 PM

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Originally posted by Wardad:
There are only two games...
SE4 and STARS!

Well, VGA Planets was pretty good, Winplan was OK.
Havent tried VGA 4 yet.
But SE4 is more fun than VGA P and Winp.

Lemmy · #28 February 13th, 2003, 11:44 PM

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
What is this GalCiv you're all talking about? I read PC Gamer, but I can't recall a game by that name. I hope the game reqs are similar to SE4, but in my experience, most games coming out now are appealing to all of those who want super duper graphics and 3d. I can live without all of that as long as the game is good and is bug free.

The company making it is relatively small, and thus has trouble getting previews printed. There are a decent amount of previews Online, most of them, if not all, are linked from www.galciv.com.
The sys reqs are around 600 Mhz, with 128 MB RAM, and 8 MB video, now don't run away yet. I know there are steep requirements, especially for the SE4 crowd.

The reason it asks for so much Mhz is the maximum galaxy size. At the max galaxy size, an avg ship takes 240+ turns to cross the map.
Compare that to SE4, with 255 systems, let's assume a square, 16x16 systems, and ~2 turns to cross a system. That makes it crossable in 32 turns. So i think you could still play a SE4 sized galaxy, and have the game run fine on a slower computer.
There are reports that larger then medium galaxies also play fine on a 400 Mhz machine, and i suppose that in theory it could run on a 200 Mhz machine, just don't play the big galaxies.

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Originally posted by Puke:
....I think the beefier your computer is, the smarter the AI will play.

No, the AI will take as much time as it needs, not more, not less. So if you have a slower pc, the AI will still do all that it needs to do, it will just take longer to finish thinking. But with the multithreaded design, that shouldn't be as annoying as it is in standard TBS games.

KirbyEF · #29 February 14th, 2003, 03:02 AM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:

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Originally posted by Wardad:
There are only two games...
SE4 and STARS!

Well, VGA Planets was pretty good, Winplan was OK.
Havent tried VGA 4 yet.
But SE4 is more fun than VGA P and Winp.

Let us not forget the classic MOO2, eh?

If you play it on Impossible and win, then I got some suggestions for you to continue playing.

KirbyEF