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Reply to New copy protection comming for Spore and Mass Effect (EA) in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Oh well, looks like Spore and Mass Effect will be number 2 and 3 on the list of games I was thinking about getting but won’t due to overly zealous copy protection (No. 1 being Bioshock). I understand that by buying a copy of a game I do not 'own' it and have to use it in accordance with whatever rules they put down, but what they have to understand is that there are plenty quality games around, and I only have so much time to play them, so unless their game is something truly amazing I

Reply to Must-Read Article in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Personally I think more game publishes / developers (if they have control over this sort of thing) need to use a model similar (or even exactly the same) to what Stardock does, and I’m not just saying this because this is the Stardock forum. That is: 1. No disk based copy protection 2. The ability to download it straight from a trustworthy source. Also no BS ‘you can only download it once’ or anything like that should apply. It is also good if you can download it a little bit a

Reply to Post your TA suggestions here in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Is the U.P. being redone in TA? If not, then I think it should at least be tweaked to farkas' idea of the votes for and against change being weighed up, and if there are more votes for than against, then at least some small change is implemented. Right now it just seems wrong that most civs can vote for say, the implementation of war taxes, but because 1 votes for 5% another votes for 10% and another votes for 15% (I forget the actually values) and 2 vote for None, that it is the None

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire... in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not a big fan of Sins, even though I love both RTS and 4X games, which is not to say that it's a bad game (though it could certainly use some work, especially in the diplomacy department), but for me the problem is that it lacks the best parts of both genres; namely the action of an RTS (Rise of Nations, which is basically RTS Civilization, has a lot more action) and the depth of a 4X (Civilization, which I consider vastly inferior to GC2 in a lot of ways, has more depth). From read