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fatty · 02-11-07, 09:05 PM

Gave this one a try because I dig geopolitical simulators. Initially it seems very impressive. I love the globe setup and the military macromanagement.

I played a sandbox game as Canada. I was disappointed firstly with the lack of diplomatic options; you can make treaties but there's no fun bargaining like in GalCiv II (e.g., give me this technology or we attack). Domestic economic management seemed kind of cool, I noticed I was hemmoraghing money through trade so I increased production and things evened out. I was secondly disappointed by the world events that whizzed by. Japan had a massive earthquake that left tens of thousands dead but I felt extremely helpless as I could do nothing beyond offering economic aid - no medical supplies or rescue workers or anything. Kind of makes me wonder why the game bothers to tell me that these events happen at all. The earthquake probably made my trade income drop like 0.1% momentarily but who would care?

Warfare is fun, I like how they don't bog you down by organizing divisions and stuff, it's just simple drag and drop.

I do NOT like how easy it is to declare war. Pakistan decided to cook off some nukes over India so I declared war on Pakistan and deployed some troops. After a few minutes of fighting I was very confused to see lots of bad guys heading to Canada. Apparently I accidently declared war on India somehow and the international community was not happy about that. So I reloaded to my last autosave, being extra careful this time where I sent my guys.

Now, China was feeling opportunistic so they launched their own invasion on India, simultaneously nuking the jesus out of Taiwan. Now PRC guys are crawling all over Taiwan. Well, that won't stand so I request military trespass rights from Taiwan so I can help them defend. Oddly they decline. After a few minutes they send their request for trespass rights, weird. So I sent some guys to fight off China. Lo and behold I ended up in another accidental war, this time with Taiwan. Again the international community was upset, so Russia et al all ganged on me.

There really needs to be a "are you sure you want to go to war with them?" dialogue like in Doomsday.

02-11-07, 09:05 PM	#10
fatty The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,448 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Gave this one a try because I dig geopolitical simulators. Initially it seems very impressive. I love the globe setup and the military macromanagement. I played a sandbox game as Canada. I was disappointed firstly with the lack of diplomatic options; you can make treaties but there's no fun bargaining like in GalCiv II (e.g., give me this technology or we attack). Domestic economic management seemed kind of cool, I noticed I was hemmoraghing money through trade so I increased production and things evened out. I was secondly disappointed by the world events that whizzed by. Japan had a massive earthquake that left tens of thousands dead but I felt extremely helpless as I could do nothing beyond offering economic aid - no medical supplies or rescue workers or anything. Kind of makes me wonder why the game bothers to tell me that these events happen at all. The earthquake probably made my trade income drop like 0.1% momentarily but who would care? Warfare is fun, I like how they don't bog you down by organizing divisions and stuff, it's just simple drag and drop. I do NOT like how easy it is to declare war. Pakistan decided to cook off some nukes over India so I declared war on Pakistan and deployed some troops. After a few minutes of fighting I was very confused to see lots of bad guys heading to Canada. Apparently I accidently declared war on India somehow and the international community was not happy about that. So I reloaded to my last autosave, being extra careful this time where I sent my guys. Now, China was feeling opportunistic so they launched their own invasion on India, simultaneously nuking the jesus out of Taiwan. Now PRC guys are crawling all over Taiwan. Well, that won't stand so I request military trespass rights from Taiwan so I can help them defend. Oddly they decline. After a few minutes they send their request for trespass rights, weird. So I sent some guys to fight off China. Lo and behold I ended up in another accidental war, this time with Taiwan. Again the international community was upset, so Russia et al all ganged on me. There really needs to be a "are you sure you want to go to war with them?" dialogue like in Doomsday.