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[quote who="tid242" reply="2" id="3850017"] Some of the prior victory conditions got a bit rolled into prestige at this point (like research, ascension crystal, etc). It's actually a good system. Alliance victory is incoming in a soon-to-be-released update, and you can always blow people up, as Schism said.. [/quote] I don't think the criticism was on the Prestige Victory itself, but on the lack of knowledge explaining it to the user. That much I can agree with.

[quote who="Old-Spider" reply="6" id="3850014"] Being able to dismiss it shouldn't be needed. They normally vanish after about 4 turns. It's the occasional bug that causes the problem. See my Reply #3 above. [/quote] Well keep in mind, if the exclamation point is on the stardock, it blocks its use from the main screen....forcing the user to use a separate UI to keep building. Even if only for 4 turns, that is still a poor user experience. <div class="q

[quote who="kosmoface" reply="18" id="3849980"]Oh Boy, THIS exatly this. I am really baffled that nowadays gamers are unhappy if they don't know each and every formula. Where is the fun in that? [/quote] So coming from a strong boardgame background (which Brad already alluded to was the demographic often "unhappy" with not knowing things), I'll throw in my 2 cents. A common idea in game design is the notion of a "meaningful choice" in a strategic game. Many boardgames asc

I want to challenge the defense explanation a bit, based on my own watches of the battle log. Its only one man watching 5 large battles, but I have never seen defenses lower damage all the way. It seems that the defense will never get higher than 1 less the attack result....no matter how much defense I actually have. The only exception could be when the log says it "missed", though I thought that was a true accuracy miss and not lowering by defense, but could be wrong there.

So there is currently a bug where sometimes when a unit is killed, the exclamation point that says "click this to watch the replay" will never go away. Normally this is a minor inconvience. However, it gets worse when this occurs on the stardock itself. Now I can no longer click on the stardock to build (see right in the middle of the screenshot below). Thankfully I can do it through the stardock and starbases screen on the upper right, but its a terrible inconvenience.

Quoted inline: [quote who="Arcean_Endgame" reply="7" id="3849904"] ...then it would have to be admitted that there is--in this strict sense--no Tall play in GC4. But why does this even matter? . [/quote]As people look at 4x offerings, one of the things they look for is variety of play. How many ways can I play the game effectively? The simple answer to your question, a lack of a tall style is one less play GC offers as compared to other 4x games. So this could be considered

[quote who="Panos4860" reply="4" id="3849893"] Yeah. Had a game like that but was hunting 1 bug to replicate so didn't played well. By turn 60ish had 6 Culture points, 4 from missions, 1 from leader, 1 naturally. Other games I will be lucky if I get 2 in 60 turns. [/quote] This I think highlights the greater issue with culture. Its not the lack of points per say, its the randomness of it. Culture feels like a core yield that should be something you work for and acquire

A good post, a agree with some points and disagree with others. [quote quoting="post"] Galactic Civilizations 4 is disappointing because it is directed toward players who like "wide" empires and doesn't support "tall" play. [/quote] While your definition of wide and tall are mostly correct, it doesn't speak to the heart of tall play. For that, I will go back in time to Civilization IV (maybe 3 I just didn't play that one).</p