So...Impressions?

[thorn]

Not much activity in here since release? I think this is like Civ4 Colonization was to Civ4. It's clearly the Civ5 engine but with new changes. I'm liking it so far. It's not going to be as good as Alpha Centauri (for me) but it is fun. What is everyone else thinking?

[BlaneckW]

It took awhile to come to, but I actually hate fun.  I play AC for pain.  The pain of doing it wrong.

[Buster's Uncle]

And because being a SMACer means never having to admit to sarcasm.

[BlaneckW]

And because being a SMACer means never having to admit to sarcasm.

I'm never gonna buy Civ 5....

[Buster's Uncle]

Me either.  I'm content being a gaming luddite.

[Green1]

I personally am on the mandatory waiting period to listen to issues.

I will dl the demo tomorrow, though.

I think it is going to take a week or two (maybe a month) for the info and modders and general rabble rousers to come around. War gamers tend to be very resistant to change.

[Ford_Prefect]

There's a demo? Oh wow.  I'll try it out.

(A minute latter)

Gah... its windows only. (I'm on linux right now)  I'll have to try it out latter.

[BlaneckW]

Gah... its windows only. (I'm on linux right now)  I'll have to try it out latter.

There's good news.  You can play the original StarCraft.  Or age of wonders.

[Vishniac]

After having found a website full of hundreds of (well-done) drawings of elfs being raped by orcs, demons and so on, I have finally downloaded...World of Warcraft!

Sorry, Guys, but I'll come back to BE after its first patch...

[Geo]

Managed to get native life into blue icon mode, on the demo and within 80-90 turns.

[BlaneckW]

After having found a website full of hundreds of (well-done) drawings of elfs being raped by orcs, demons and so on, I have finally downloaded...World of Warcraft!

I was going to ask for source, but meh.

[Yitzi]

Gah... its windows only. (I'm on linux right now)  I'll have to try it out latter.

There's good news.  You can play the original StarCraft.  Or age of wonders.

You can play the original Starcraft on Windows 7 as well, with just a bit of scripting to avoid the color problem.

[sisko]

My complaints so far:
- Trading stations are under-powered compared to a normal trade route (great idea with bad implementation).
- Worker icons on the city screen are way too big. They cover the resource yields and you have to zoom in several times to be able to see them.
- No "who's who" screen. Just a faction score, so you have no idea how you stand against the others on different power stats.
- There''s no way to sticky the zoom level, so every time i change between screens my zoom level changes, which is very annoying.

[Yitzi]

My complaints so far:
- Trading stations are under-powered compared to a normal trade route (great idea with bad implementation).
- Worker icons on the city screen are way too big. They cover the resource yields and you have to zoom in several times to be able to see them.
- No "who's who" screen. Just a faction score, so you have no idea how you stand against the others on different power stats.
- There''s no way to sticky the zoom level, so every time i change between screens my zoom level changes, which is very annoying.

Any sense of how strong ICS is?

[Geo]

Well... native life can be quite a deterrent for ICS.
I just tried to settle a third colony in the wild lands (first time I got sofar to get a second colony pod out), and all of a sudden my third outpost and its marine defense were attacked by hordes of drones and a manticore.

They didn't last long.

Not content with that, native life kept surrounding and attacking any unit trying to go beyond the ultrasonic fences.
The last couple of demo games, I tried that method to get my military units experience (to the 30 xp cap), but this demo for some reason native life was literally overabundant and, if no fences would've been present, I'd been obliterated.

Looks like my desktop might be on the minimum side of things. The Raptor Bugs had graphical glitches from turn 50 or so on. Don't know if that is because there was so much native life, or because I had graphic settings on high.