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Hey all, nice idea :)
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19-Jan-2015 20:18:11

Daeve
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Sani btw said :
The news feed in the lobby can be very useful if there are some problems with the servers in the future. You could keep everyone up-to-date easily then :)

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I for one am so glad they did this :P Least now people won't have the excuse of not being bothered to load the homepage to read news before whining about not knowing :P

+ Hey peeps :)
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19-Jan-2015 20:37:16

Tiber

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Mod Cuppa said :
New Sid Meier game popped up, somehow managed to stay under the radar until it was right under my nose, excited for that.!
If it is beyond earth, I wasn't too impressed despite loving civ 5. If you haven't got yet, I would wait for a steam sale or something and pick it up then :P (or wait for dlcs to flesh it out :P ).
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19-Jan-2015 22:12:00

Ryanc360
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I love Civ BE. Then again I love Civ 5 and BE is almost identical to Civ 5 only with a tech web instead of a tree. Major bonus if you ask me. I also kind of like the affinity feature. It adds some pretty awesome late game bonuses.

19-Jan-2015 23:25:25

Tiber

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I just couldn't get invested in Beyond Earth, the civilizations didn't mean as much to me, nor the technology.

Like for example, In civ 5, I feel you could become more invested in playing as your historical (or existing) nation, utilising and racing through (mostly) known technologies to reach your own goal. Having to upgrade units over time and mostly knowing without major research what is better (i.e. Warrior > Swordsman), rather than Apostle > Brawler for civ BE.

The nations in BE are a also a little under-developed in my opinion (perhaps to allow the nations to adapt more depending on your affinity decisions), whereas the civ 5 leaders had defined personalities/ behaviours you know to expect.

I did enjoy fighting/ exterminating the alien bug thingies though :P I wanted more of them though :@ (would of like a horde of them like in Starship Troopers, if you've seen it :P )

I suppose I was maybe either expecting too much from BE or I'm just not as interested in the genre as much as a historical game (which is probably true).

Perhaps I will enjoy it more when extra dlcs are added, but sadly it only kept me interested for 7 hours (or so steam stays, I thought it was more). Perhaps I just haven't spent enough time playing it... (in comparison i've clocked 520 hours into Civ 5, which also feels a little low tbh lol).

Probably went overkill with this post, but oh well lol.
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20-Jan-2015 01:12:39 - Last edited on 20-Jan-2015 01:13:15 by Tiber

Ryanc360
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I agree and disagree. The way I see it, Civ development could only go so far continual remaking the same game with different mechanics (which is essentially what they did, not to talk down the game series as they were all great). I think it was evident that they had to take it further and Alpha Centauri was probably the best option. By this I don't mean a different game with a different story line but rather a game with similar mechanics but instead of playing from the past to the present they are taking you into the future.

It's like a continuation of Civ 5 almost with a couple different tweaks. You leave off Civ 5 with your scientific victory and launching your colony ship off towards the star, and pick up in Civ BE upon your arrival. The old civilizations are still there just hidden beneath a corporate veil, and they behave similar to how you would expect their counterparts in Civ 5 to behave if it were more modern. (with the exception of india, because we all know Gandhi is a nuke happy bastard...)

An example would be Washington in Civ 5 usually is loyal and forgiving to allies but is known to build a large army, which is how most people depict Washington but for the army which is more representative of America's military today (depending on your point of view). Suzanne Fieldings in Civ BE is a ruthless corporate leader who heavily utilizes spies, and in fact the ARC receives an espionage bonus. This could be seen as representative of the way many people feel America is moving towards in the future (for better or for worse).

I always did wonder why you were capable of space travel but couldn't find oil from the start, but I guess sacrifices had to be made for the sake of balance.

So it's all there but hidden beneath different characters and difference mechanics.

20-Jan-2015 01:53:56

Ryanc360
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Tiber said :
Also, I've noticed a lot of my members don't play strategy games in general, wonder if clan/ guild leaders are more likely to play them (due to perhaps us wanting to take charge of stuff :P ).

That's actually a fair point. I guess we just like thinking a few steps ahead which is what draws us to strategy games and allows us to run our clans =P

20-Jan-2015 01:55:53

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