Galactic Civilizations II...

err.....it depends on what you're expecting from this game. granted it's a very sophisticated game, with 4 tech trees combined to provide hundreds of researches, a shipyard that allows you to design your own ships ( coz the default ones suck pretty badly :p ), and 4 possible ways to gain victory. BUT, you cannot research more than 1 technology per turn, and some tech requires more than 50 turns to research ( less if you build more labs, but still alot ). as a result, the actual playing doesn't always seem to be as engaging as it sounds. Jinroh_basic

Please refresh my memory. I can't think of one 4x game that allowed you to research more then one item on the tech at one time.

err.....it depends on what you're expecting from this game. granted it's a very sophisticated game, with 4 tech trees combined to provide hundreds of researches, a shipyard that allows you to design your own ships ( coz the default ones suck pretty badly :p ), and 4 possible ways to gain victory. BUT, you cannot research more than 1 technology per turn, and some tech requires more than 50 turns to research ( less if you build more labs, but still alot ). as a result, the actual playing doesn't always seem to be as engaging as it sounds. Jinroh_basic

[QUOTE="Jinroh_basic"]err.....it depends on what you're expecting from this game. granted it's a very sophisticated game, with 4 tech trees combined to provide hundreds of researches, a shipyard that allows you to design your own ships ( coz the default ones suck pretty badly :p ), and 4 possible ways to gain victory. BUT, you cannot research more than 1 technology per turn, and some tech requires more than 50 turns to research ( less if you build more labs, but still alot ). as a result, the actual playing doesn't always seem to be as engaging as it sounds. ChocoKat

Please refresh my memory. I can't think of one 4x game that allowed you to research more then one item on the tech at one time.

err.....it depends on what you're expecting from this game. granted it's a very sophisticated game, with 4 tech trees combined to provide hundreds of researches, a shipyard that allows you to design your own ships ( coz the default ones suck pretty badly :p ), and 4 possible ways to gain victory. BUT, you cannot research more than 1 technology per turn, and some tech requires more than 50 turns to research ( less if you build more labs, but still alot ). as a result, the actual playing doesn't always seem to be as engaging as it sounds. Jinroh_basic

One of the best turn-based strategy games ever. Be prepared to lose a lot of sleep. ChocoKat

Yea, I am not huge on turn-based games but this one is truly awesome.  A lot of good humor in it, too.

Its up there with Alpha Centauri (my favorite turn-based game).

50 turns? That guy must suck =P Stuff I research generally takes anywhere from 5 to 10 turns, and this is the "long research time" setting too. This is one of the most addictive games ever and the expansion makes things even more addicting hehe. Get the gold edition so you can have both the game and exp.DethZero

you mean you can get to planetary invasion in 10 turns? that's odd....coz i can't, not even with 8 research labs.

you can listen to the fervent fans all you like, folks....but the fact is, whichever tree of technologies you choose to go down to, your investment would only start to yield benefits at its 3rd, sometimes 5th tier, and each tier takes increasingly more amount of turns to research. take the planetary invasion i mentioned for example. Deth, you wanna enlighten us as to how many turns of research to reach there, starting from the very first tier? and oops, you need to build transport ship after that. aww jee.....and another 8 turns to get that ship to the nearest planet. if you can point us to a faster method, be my guest.

the expansion is great for people who dont have the game at all cause it has lot of improvement in the original game - get the gold edition galciv2+add oncrapdog

[QUOTE="crapdog"]the expansion is great for people who dont have the game at all cause it has lot of improvement in the original game - get the gold edition galciv2+add onxenophone

[QUOTE="DethZero"]50 turns? That guy must suck =P Stuff I research generally takes anywhere from 5 to 10 turns, and this is the "long research time" setting too. This is one of the most addictive games ever and the expansion makes things even more addicting hehe. Get the gold edition so you can have both the game and exp.Jinroh_basic

you mean you can get to planetary invasion in 10 turns? that's odd....coz i can't, not even with 8 research labs.

you can listen to the fervent fans all you like, folks....but the fact is, whichever tree of technologies you choose to go down to, your investment would only start to yield benefits at its 3rd, sometimes 5th tier, and each tier takes increasingly more amount of turns to research. take the planetary invasion i mentioned for example. Deth, you wanna enlighten us as to how many turns of research to reach there, starting from the very first tier? and oops, you need to build transport ship after that. aww jee.....and another 8 turns to get that ship to the nearest planet. if you can point us to a faster method, be my guest.

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i am pretty sure that Civ4 only lets you research one tech at  a time.. I was playing it 5 mins ago by the way.