Space Empires Vs. Galactic Civilisations

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

You mean to say you actually designed your ships? just kidding!

As for your question, well, right now you can't buy SEIV IIRC - you'll have to wait until Strategy First starts selling them. However, there might be stray SEIV or even SEIV Gold CDs on sites like Ebay.

I've played the GalCiv1 demo once and lemme tell you one thing, that set the record for the game that survived longest on my HD! That game just sucked..... A counter-intuitive research screen, a mysteriousness about ship construction, bad GUI - in fact, the only good thing about it was that you had to research Universal Translator to be able to communicate with other races - but since you could only play as humans, that pro was pretty much negated.

SEIV:
-Is great for modding. You can make it into anything you like.
-Has got an excellent online community.
-Can be learned in just fifteen minutes but you keep discovering more and more strategies as you play the game (and talk on the forums).
-Comes with a slew of great mods. (Well, SEIV Deluxe will be - Strategy First is going to release (or so I've heard) SEIV Gold with multiple much-played mods, including but not limited to the Star Trek Mod, Adamant Mod, Pirates & Nomads etc.)

Need I say more?

[Quitch]

By ship design I of course meant graphics

[Atrocities]

Gal Civ is NOT a 4 x game. It does not have the depth that SEIV or even SEIII had. GalCiv you limited to ship pre-designed ships, plants are not system based, they are just scattered about randomly, and the focus is more on bases than on colonizing. Its a good game, but boring after the first time you play it.

Now SEIV on the other hand has demonstrated that it has infinate replayability. After nearly five years it is still going well and is being re-released in stores with Septemenber.

Now don't get me wrong, GalCiv is a good game in whatever nitch genera it has carved out for itself. I have the game and thought it was a really nice looking game, with some awsome features, but simply put I found it boring as hell.

[ironman]

Moo 1&2 was a great 4x game, so was stars (stars supernova) looked good too.

I have played the demo of GalCiv it was so so
GalCiv2 will be nice to try