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keith.lamothe:

--- Quote from: BobTheJanitor on February 01, 2012, 10:07:42 AM ---Although that can be done poorly as well, SoaSE forcing you to research something before you can colonize an ice or volcanic world just felt like pointless delay.
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For a long-form 4X that kind of planet-type-colonization-tech thing can actually be really helpful in limiting the optimal-ness of the early game colony rush and infinite-colony-sprawl, as well as working in the idea of multiple "phases" of colonization and leading to more interleaving of borders, etc.

I forget exactly how SoaSE did it, though.  It may have been a bit too fast-paced for that.

BobTheJanitor:

--- Quote from: keith.lamothe on February 01, 2012, 10:29:21 AM ---I forget exactly how SoaSE did it, though.  It may have been a bit too fast-paced for that.

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To be honest, my experience with it might be too limited to judge. It felt like it wanted me to expand fast and tech fast and build more and more units, lest I get overwhelmed by the constant pirate threat. I was looking for something more 4x-ish and I wasn't quite getting it. But I may be getting the wrong impression and should just put more time in before I complain. I've got too many other games distracting me. Not to mention that whole real life thing.

Shrugging Khan:
I'm not really up do date on most shiny new space games, but one thing needs to be said:

Distant Worlds is crap. There is really nothing redeeming to say about it; and don't get me started about the disadvantages. It's actually fairly outrageous that they charge money for it at all; they ought to pay people to waste their time looking at that abomination.

eRe4s3r:
Care to detail? Haven't really played Distant Worlds, but i hear a lot of people dislike it.. and i just can't get myself to try something that expensive.

Shrugging Khan:
Something that's especially disgusting to me is the writing. It's not just low-effort, amateurish or gracefully absent, but actually directly and insultingly the worst I have ever seen in any game. It's like they made a concerted effort to offend absolutely anyone with even a remote semblance of intellect. It's painfully stupid, blatantly research-free, unintelligent yet overbearing. It deserves to be deleted from any data storage device ever, and to have all those behind it burned at the stake.

The gameplay itself is boring, bland, unintuitive, unintelligent (again), uninteresting and badly designed and implemented.

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