Replayability: YES...Continued Playability: MAYBE

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I wanna buy a beer for the guys that put this game together. It has me addicted for the first time since Ultima Online...but without the $10.00 per month. :CONGRAT:

I love the expandability, the thought into future upgrades, etc. Even the 1.03 patch had me very excited! I can't wait for future expansions...HURRY UP!

My thought for this post is this: the game has many options that allow you to end a game and start a fresh new one different than the last. HOWEVER what about continued play on an already established game that took hours of our lives to attain?

There's a point when you achieve everything, but don't have it in your heart to exterminate every other race. What happens when you have no social projects to build, no research to do...no ships to build...and everything is swell? You snuffed out the annoying little races, made peace with whom ever is left, dominated the galaxy, and you are now bored.

Where am I going with this? My SICK MIND came up with another one. WHAT IF the final technology is a ship, a COLONY SHIP that resembles a FLOATING CITY. This is the LAST item on the list of galaxy domination. What does it do?

This floating city (glorified colony ship) takes you to ANOTHER GALAXY!!! (via wormhole technology) But here, there are a few things that are different. The races are evil, vicious, more difficult than the last. Here...HUMANS ARE THE MINOR RACE. They really want to eat your skin, burn your villages, and ride out on the horses...or something like that.

This colony ship will start you off in the new galaxy on the first habitable planet it comes across, but the PQ will be increased by 50-100% to start. Yeah, you begin with a great advanced civilization, but you're all alone in this harsh new world. Events are tougher, races are meaner and more abundant, habitable planets are more scarce, etc.

You can still toggle back and forth between galaxies, but which ever one you are not active in will automatically be delegated...so you better be paying attention to the NEW one that you travelled to.

It's kinda like moving to the next & harder level in an old Nintendo game. But with this it's never ending.

Alz
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
For a really rollicking good time, play a game of CivIII on a big ass map as the Persians (or whoever your favorite is)...win using the Alpha Centauri space ship. Start up a game of Gal Civ. Name your Civ the Persians and yourself Xerxes. Rename a nearby yellow star Alpha Centauri and pretend your lone starting colony ship is the one you just launched to win CivIII.

Just when you finally wipe out the Romans after 1000s of years of conflict and thought it was safe to back in the water...BAM....Drengins who make the Romans look like girl scouts.

Ok...so I'm sick...sue me. I've got to do something now that Warlords IV has been delayed yet a-freakin-gin.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
"This is Xerxes, why do you persist in your loneliness"

Ahhh System Shock 2..... nice game. Shame I can't get it to work on XP Pro. (:( I love shodan! I'm gonna have to set up a theme for xp for object desktop, got my old win98 about, along with ripped audio from the avi intro to SS2 and other game files.

"Look at you hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone......." Brilliant.

ALzandrion, what's this another good idea? But I'm not sure that I'd play that one, depends on how ramped up the levels get. That and I've yet to advance beyond normal level yet! Saying that, I've pretty much got that whupped now!

What if they put in some sort of mirror universe thing, like MOM had? Imagine having to fight another race that had dominated it's galaxy, and was (potentially) as advanced as you? One of my games had no clear cut winner between me and the drengin that went all the way up to a war with overlords (and that was the most fun game of galciv I've yet had), but the drengin just seemed to give up as I was just getting in sight of excalibur technology. Perhaps that's just the difficulty level though!

And yes Galciv is addictive. It's got a ways to go to beat MOM as my most played game ever though. That said, this is the most that any game has addicted me in years!


~SDC~
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I think the prospect of continuing games like that would be really cool. I don't like going the military route because i'm not good at it, but it's not like i'm exactly "good" at the others.

And Starvald, what is the problem you have with SS2 exactly? The game works with XP with the latest patch and such, unless this is an installation issue.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
It just doesn't work, installs fine, but then just doesn't work after that. It's been a while since I've tried though, so I might give it another go. Any special setup stuff?

Where did you get the latest patch from? Seeing as Looking Glass are no longer operational.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Continued playing is what I'm missing in the game. Especially for learning the possibilities
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
For most things Looking Glass, try Through The Looking Glass http://www.ttlg.com/ -- you can probably find help for your XP troubles on the System Shock forums there.

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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
There's a point when you achieve everything, but don't have it in your heart to exterminate every other race. What happens when you have no social projects to build, no research to do...no ships to build...and everything is swell? You snuffed out the annoying little races, made peace with whom ever is left, dominated the galaxy, and you are now bored.
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try and get the aliens to kill each other. like bugs in a jar.