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Very true. However, that doesn't stop people from going in those areas if they think they can get away with it. Or if they're tired, hurt, or otherwise preoccupied.

You could have a field with giant signs saying "DON'T GO IN HERE! LAND MINES!!!!" And if it didn't have fences you'd probably have a few people killed every year because they took a "short cut" through the field of land mines and got blown up.

Not that I'm against the idea of "forbidden areas", I'm just pointing out that just saying something is forbidden doesn't stop some people.

Hmm...thought. If dwarves had the improved self preservation ability that was mentioned previously, they'd automatically avoid things like lava, carp infested rivers, Dragons, and so on. What if we could put in Danger Totems or something that told dwarves that this area was dangerous, and would prompt them to avoid it unless they absolutely had to go into that area for some reason.

Here are my rules, with a few more personal ones thrown in.

Traps : Generally limited to cage traps, because I like arena fights. I may use a few weapon traps in specific locations, but usually only one or two in a row to protect areas temporarily until I can get proper defenses set up.
Player Traps : Just rewards for hard work and ingenuity.
Atom Smashers : Garbage disposal only, mostly to remove clutter and lag.
Quantum Stockpiles : Generally unused, since I don't like the physics breaking aspect.
Quantum Dumps :Only under the atomsmasher, since stuff there doesn't last long anyway.
Crossbows : Usually less then half of my military, sometimes only a third.
Modded Races : Tons of races, but no real changes to the dwarves, which is the only race I play.
Modded World : Fairly heavily modded world, some powerful new metals in place. But I have more powerful enemies, so this is more of a balancing measure.
Perpetual Motion : Generally unused
Trading oddly high value items, like Roasts and decorated Ammo: Not used
Moats: Generally unused
Killing off annoying nobles: Unused

80 Dwarves will trigger it. I'm also fairly sure that a high enough wealth can trigger sieges even without the 80 population, although it's unlikely that you'd get that high without a large population without some very expensive artifacts.

For my part, I'd rather not see swearing, especially in the topic titles. Why? Because I like to look at this forum at work, and the last thing I need is to get in trouble because someone else saw "I HATE &@#%! CAVE SPIDERS" or something over my shoulder and complained.

You can say I just shouldn't browse this at work, but I end up with a decent amount of down-time, and I'd be horribly bored otherwise.

That, and, really, there's no reason for it. It adds nothing to the conversation, and mostly shows a lack of creativity. If you really want to cuss, be creative about it. Then at least we can all be impressed by your use of the English language.

i kinda know what you mean...galciv ...i admire galciv... i bought galciv...i just don't play galciv...it feels drab and lifeless...laser I is not in a gameplay sense any different from laser X...all that research and design but the game play does not reflect it...it's not enough to say i'm a donkey...i need to be a donkey...you could argue that it is a limitation of 4x games...but that is exactly the limitation that desperately needs to be overcome..transcended...personality, immersion, bemused awe...."WTF?!" moments...

Well, in galactic civ 2, at least, the difference between Laser I and Lazer X is the size of the component. You can fit a lot more of them on the ship. Later types of energy weapons do more damage. If your argument is that there isn't enough interesting and different stuff in the tech tree, that I'll concede that. Stuff like graviton beams should actually do more then simply "more damage" I'd like to see ship parts ripped off, stuff like that.

But, it all comes down to abstraction. Damage is abstracted out, planetary life is more or less abstracted out, etc. I'd like less abstraction, but it does make the game a little less complex.

For me, I like it and have played hours upon hours of it. And still occasionally go back and play it again. Is it the best game ever? No. But it's a good solid 4x game. I don't expect their new fantasy game to be the best turn-based fantasy civ game ever, but I expect that it'll be a good solid game that'll be well worth the money spent on it.

Well, I guess the exploration and territory claiming, for one. Although the flagship gets boring, so I always end up automating it. But the whole territory thing is fun, especially when you get all of the cultural domination techs. The diplomacy is decent, if not amazing, and there is enough interesting random stuff that happens to keep the games interesting.

There are things that I wish they'd added in that the Master of Orion series had, like conquered planets keeping their original races whose abilities you can use. But over all I found it to be a satisfying 4x game. Especially the fact that you have a number of very viable ways of winning that don't rely on combat.

Considering how much I like Galactic Civ 2...I'm looking forward to this.

It's been too damn long since anything like Master of Magic came out. Although Age of Wonder was pretty fun.