Galactic Civilizations Coming Soon

dragonsister writes "Like Master of Orion 3, Galactic Civilizations is a turn-based strategy game involving colonizing and dominating the galaxy - militarily, diplomatically, or economically. Unlike MOO3, GalCiv will (release date March 26th) come without copy-protection; Stardock are addressing the piracy issue by providing a bonus pack and further downloads to users providing a CD key. This 'rewarding the honest' approach is precisely what Slashdotters have asked for ." I've been playing a lot of MOO3, which I love, but this is looking great as well. Ah, the bounty of games.

GalCiv may also be purchased via a subscription to Drengin.net, which also supplies a variety of 'smaller' games which would not sell so well in the normal market.

I have no connection to anyone producing Galactic Civilizations. I'm planning to buy the game because I've been impressed by:

• The developer's interaction with fans, at least on the newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
• The level of beta-testing employed
• The comments from the public beta-testers
• The developer's budget of a year of additional development, including AI improvements (Stardock has a reputation for good game AI anyway!)

Others may not be so pleased to hear that the game is developed for single-player only - no multi-player - but to each their own."

Comments

RPN example

[Anonymous Coward]

e to the power of 6

ALG: exp 6 =

RPN: 6 exp

RPN wins!

Re:RPN example

[Anonymous Coward]

WRONG! On My HP48, it's:

6, left shift, e^x

It's a draw!

offtopic: what happend to slashdot?

[broeman]

seems to be an opposite slashdot-effect happening here :)

Re:offtopic: what happend to slashdot?

[larien]

Yeah, I've been getting Internal Server Errors all morning; hitting reload seems to fix it, though. I can only assume that one web server is screwy and the load balancer makes me hit another one when it works.

Re:offtopic: what happend to slashdot?

[budgenator]

Yess realy strange get front page to load once, find out I have mod points and then server errors, finaly get into a thread with only 28 posts and one of them is already modded up to +5!
Methinks something is realy hockey here; so much for peer moderation on slashdot.

Re:offtopic: what happend to slashdot?

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Yep, somethings going on. Rather than mod points, I found 3 off-topic moderations (only one of which could be remotely considered OT). If someone's stalking me, rather than those scores being a database glitch, They'll be losing mod privledges as soon as M2 kicks in... :)

Anyhow, It took three tries for me to get to each of the moderated posts, due to DB errors...

Re:offtopic: what happend to slashdot?

[Openadvocate]

Yes, it does look like that, loadbalancing on layer 4 would do that. But one could enable server health check on the application layer and would cause the server to be marked offline if a specified page returned an error.
But we all know that how things should work in theory, does not always match the real world. It always gets more complicated. :)

Internal Server Error

[Anonymous Coward]

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mod parent down!

[SegaVegas]

PLZ

Trouble waking up this morning?

[TopShelf]

Is anybody else getting lots of Internal Server Errors from /. this morning?