Galciv latest offering - anyone actually played?

Has anybody here actually gotten and played the last offering
in the Galciv series? I've made it as far as Dark Avatar, and I
am still playing and enjoying that, but I haven't shelled out
for the newest expansion mod.

Any experiences? In particular I'd like to know what truly
earthshattering novelties and improvements are contained
therein. If any. Frankly, I am a bit sick of buying the 'latest
and greatest' installment of a game only to find out it's
barely more'n a patch with a new skin and one or two bon-bons.

B.t.w. I am kind of glad I didn't top up my Totalgaming.Net
creds for this --- for some mysterious reason Stardock have not
enabled buying this game for 'tokens'. I just bet a few people
went 'doh'(or worse) at that. I would've.

-Peter

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Peter Huebner <no.one RemoveThis @this.address>'s wild thoughts were
released on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:56:22 +1200 bearing the
following fruit:

>
>Has anybody here actually gotten and played the last offering
>in the Galciv series? I've made it as far as Dark Avatar, and I
>am still playing and enjoying that, but I haven't shelled out
>for the newest expansion mod.
>
>Any experiences? In particular I'd like to know what truly
>earthshattering novelties and improvements are contained
>therein. If any. Frankly, I am a bit sick of buying the 'latest
>and greatest' installment of a game only to find out it's
>barely more'n a patch with a new skin and one or two bon-bons.
>
>B.t.w. I am kind of glad I didn't top up my Totalgaming.Net
>creds for this --- for some mysterious reason Stardock have not
>enabled buying this game for 'tokens'. I just bet a few people
>went 'doh'(or worse) at that. I would've.

One thing I do know is that I've yet be able to complete a
game without it crashing, after several hours play it
consumes huge amounts of memory. As a result I've gone back
to play regular CivII for now.

On the plus site it does have a lot of nice little features
that make the game a little easier to play and looks a lot
better.

I like the way the AI will automatically improve ships for
you creating a v2, v3 etc. What I don't like is that it
seems to continue doing this even after you've told it that
a particular ship design is now obsolete.








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